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Hacker Menu

Hacker Menu stays on your menu bar and delivers the top news stories from Y Combinator news aggregator, built with love by @jingweno & @lokywin. It's powered by Electron and Node.js.

Website: https://hackermenu.io.

Screenshot: Hacker Menu Screenshot

Installation

Download the latest build for your platform from releases. We only have OSX build now, and we're working Windows and Linux builds. Feel free to contribute if you can't wait :heart:.

Development

You need to have the latest io.js or node.js installed.

$ npm install # installs dependencies
$ npm start # starts the app in the electron wrapper

Other useful tasks:

$ npm test # runs tests
$ npm run build # builds the app
$ npm run watch # watches and rebuilds the app
$ npm run package # packages the Mac app
$ npm run release # packages and zips the Mac app, it requires a cert to sign the app

Roadmap

See issues.

License

See LICENSE.

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