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I discovered 2 new apps this week.

• The first one (which I discovered from the app wiki) is called <strong>Search for Reddit</strong>. You can share a URL to it and it will tell you if there were any previous reddit threads for that URL. It also acts as a Reddit search box. All in all quite nifty.

• The second is the <strong>BuMP Music Player</strong>. It has a great design. Basically a music player in a facebook style chathead with Spotify integration.

Both are free and without ads. The first one has an in app purchase for a dark theme.

Search for Reddit: Nifty companion app which lets you see if a link has been posted to Reddit. You share a link or text to the app and it shows results as a popup so you don't have to leave your current app to use it. It is open source and has a light and dark theme. I use it along with Relay for Reddit every single day. Discovered a number of new subreddits this way.

I made this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chaitanya.im.searchforreddit

Plis to take a look. It's an app called Search for Reddit. It is (unsurprisingly) a search app for reddit. It let's you do these things -

• You can share links/text to my app from your share menu. It will return past reddit threads for that link as a pop-up over the app you shared the link from.
• You can filter results by post time and sort by relevance/votes etc.
• You can also open the app from your launcher and search for whatever.

The app is open source. Code is here (I'm not proud of the code quality just yet and there are no testcases. So don't look too closely :P) - https://github.com/chaitanyanettem/searchforreddit

Feedback and feature requests are most welcome. If you like it please leave a rating on the play store. If you don't like it let me know here :)

I made an app a while ago. Its called Search for Reddit.

• When you share a link to it, it will search reddit and find any threads that were created with that link.
• You can share text to it and it will search for posts that match that text.
• The results show up as a card over whichever app you are using at the time so you need to leave your current app to see the results. For example if you share a video link from YouTube it'll show results without pausing a video.
• You can also open the app from your launcher and use it for doing a reddit search.

The app is open source and free. There is one in-app purchase if you wish to support development which will enable a dark theme if you want one. Check it out :)

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but you could use your current RSS-reader and share the articles to Search for Reddit.

If you're on Android you can use - Search for Reddit (full disclosure - i made it)

For chrome there's an extension i use which is no longer on the webstore - https://github.com/agschwender/reddited-extension

There isn't a way to do this in RiF, but you might want to take a look at the app Search for Reddit, as it seems that this is one of its primary purposes.

Search For Reddit - Share a link & find Reddit threads about it while never leaving your current app.

Hello /r/android. I'm an indie developer here to show you my first app. You might have seen my post about the app yesterday.

First the name and links.

The app is called Search for Reddit. It is completely free and open source.

There will eventually be an in app purchase to donate and unlock some extra features (like themes). But the base app with its current features will always remain free.

What does it do

The app shows you which subreddits a link has been posted to. IT will show up in your share menu. You can share links or text to it and it will show past reddit posts as a popup over the current app. Images for demo - <strong>1</strong> <strong>2</strong>.

You can filter these search results by post-time/ relevance/ comments/ upvotes using the big blue button on the side.

The app can also be opened from the launcher and given a search query; that works just like you'd expect it to - <strong>3</strong>.

I started learning Android development a few months ago and this is my first serious app. I had a lot of fun making this product. Much coffee was had and many sleepless nights spent fixing bugs :)

TL;DR / Links -

<strong>Download from the Play Store!</strong>
<strong>Fork/Star the project on github</strong>

Feel free to ask any questions about the app/ point out bugs/ poke around the code (It is not well commented at this point, but I intend to change that very soon). If you like the app please consider leaving a review. It is very very helpful.

For example, this one

search for reddit

I just made an app - https://github.com/chaitanyanettem/searchforreddit

PlayStore link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chaitanya.im.searchforreddit

Its called Search for Reddit. It shows up on the share menu in your phone allowing you to share URLs and text to the app. The app will then search reddit to find out if the URL/text or anything similar has been submitted to any subreddit previously and show you results in a popup dialog over the app you are currently on.

The app is still in active development. There are a few bugs which I know of (some urls wont be found in this search because mobile and desktop urls are often different. I'm working on building some kind of fuzzy search to minimize this issue.)

• If you discover any other bugs please let me know here or on Github by creating a new issue.
• Feature requests are extremely welcome. (one thing I have in mind is integrating Hackernews within the app)

I just pushed the newest build to production and it should show up here - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chaitanya.im.searchforreddit in 30 minutes or so. If you don't want to wait, you can also get it from here - https://github.com/chaitanyanettem/SearchforReddit/blob/master/app/app-release.apk?raw=true

Edit - Screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/7KqeGya.png

Edit 2 - damn! I forgot to change the min sdk down from 21 to 16. This means you'll need atleast Lollipop to download this app. I'm out right now. Will fix this in an hour.

> The current design for Thredd is so focused on Reddit that it might be tough to integrate other sources of data.

This is a logistical challenge i think, you'll just have to figure out an acceptable UX and backend solution. It is not a show-stopper. Because the pros outweigh the cons.

The pros being your product's wider potential and minor con being limiting it to just 1 platform/corner of the internet even though the product's core principle is bridging people in communities and Internet has many communities/platforms.

Thread's value is that it is the middle-layer between the end platform and actual user & content. Currently this happens by accident mainly (people just directly going to platforms and finding something is there and then engaging, they are rarely going from random given content to platform), Thredd is a catalyst.

This principle can be applied to other platforms like TW and HN because the fundamentals are the same, just the execution/process might differ, though the technical tools are necessary as well, like the API and its capabilities. TW search for example is notoriously bad (as was/is Reddit search), if you can make something which brings users to twitter on a certain topic, i don't think such a thing even exists currently. Similar extensions in principle did exist for Reddit.

> How do you think Thredd should look if it included sources like Twitter, HackerNews, Slashdot (this is still around, the reddit hug of death was first attributed to them, it was called slashdotted), etc?

Not all will be feasible, like FB but Reddit was, HN, Tw might be in principle. Or even YouTube in a way because YT's comment system was horrible, it is a bit less horrible now but still not great for parent-child chain comments. YT is also a platform which in communication terms is a more of a 1-to-many system, the many often like to have a talk among themselves as well.

Check this interesting extension Tune by a sister Google company.

For reddit it works on Redesign only, it principle of it is sounds very impressive, it can be made to learn to tune the filter as well. It works though not perfect but it does sort of work. And it integrates multiple sites with a tick-option in settings. So if someone doesn't want TW feature, it can be turned off.

You can also make multiple extension but that might be harder to maintain but it definitely has some pros as well.

For UX solutions, I may not be of much help. Maybe a tab like approach, like Reddit | HN | TW | SD tabs. Or something using the Logos of these platforms in some way to reduce clutter and increase information-digestion/consumption bandwidth.

You may need to go after it 1 by 1 though to avoid overloading yourself, Reddit feature-set is pretty stable, it just needs more exposure which for a niche product does take time in the absence of a lucky break (which can be many things but often on reddit i find it is those threads asking for recommendations of products on massive subs like AskReddit and the like which can really drive a growth spike which then generates self-sustaining momentum). But these can't be manufactured, these things happen on their own.

Edit: There are also similar mobile apps for reddit like
Search for Reddit and i think there may have been one for HN (not sure if its part of the above app or it existed elsewhere but I do have it on my mobile in share-menu but there is no app for it on its own, so maybe it is part of above app)

Hello people! I'd appreciate it if you could check out my app -

First the name and links.

The app is called Search for Reddit. It is completely free and open source.

There will eventually be an in app purchase to donate and unlock some extra features (like themes). But the base app with its current features will always remain free.

What does it do

The app shows you which subreddits a link has been posted to. It will show up in your share menu. You can share links or text to it and it will show past reddit posts as a popup over the current app. Images for demo - <strong>1</strong> <strong>2</strong>.

You can filter these search results by post-time/ relevance/ comments/ upvotes using the big blue button on the side.

The app can also be opened from the launcher and given a search query; that works just like you'd expect it to - <strong>3</strong>.

I started learning Android development a few months ago. I had a lot of fun making this product. Much coffee was had and many sleepless nights spent fixing bugs :)

TL;DR / Links -

<strong>Download from the Play Store!</strong>
<strong>Fork/Star the project on github</strong>

Feel free to ask any questions about the app/ point out bugs/ poke around the code. If you like the app please consider leaving a review. It is very very helpful.

Can't you do just that by clicking the normal share button and selecting reddit Sync? That's what I do.

I found this app for checking if the link you want to share had already been posted to reddit, if you are interested.