Hacker News: hookey

New comment by hookey in "Show HN: ClankerView – AI agents browse your web app and give UX feedback"

hookey — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:24:09 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by hookey in "Show HN: ClankerView – AI agents browse your web app and give UX feedback"

hookey — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:40:31 +0000

Currently you can simply add a username/password to log in with under "+ Instructions" or log in yourself and paste in a JSON exported from the Cookie-Editor browser extension under "+ Cookies".

I'll look into HTTP 402 + macaroon tokens, thanks!

New comment by hookey in "Show HN: ClankerView – AI agents browse your web app and give UX feedback"

hookey — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:23:48 +0000

Hey HN! I'm Andri, the guy behind ClankerView.

About a month ago I was experimenting with giving Claude Code access to a browser. I was surprised by how good it was. AI can now both write apps and use a web browser to see if everything works. I thought this was huge. We can now digest data, write specs, implement features AND get feedback on them in a matter of minutes with AI. And I couldn't find much work being done on the last part. Why not build a product around AI UX testing?

A week later, ClankerView was born.

You enter a URL to your product and spin up 1-6 agents to review it, then watch as they get personas based on your target audience, open up a browser, click around, scroll, fill forms, and react to screenshots of what they see. They then write structured UX reviews that you can use to make improvements to your product.

You can even review behind authentication. Give the agent credentials in the instructions or skip the auth by pasting session cookies to the agent (they are deleted after the review).

I naturally tried it on all of my side projects and found plenty of useful insights, similar to what people who tried them told me.

I then tried a bunch of other products. For example, Framer's onboarding review found some useful actionable issues: the onboarding survey answers are ignored, it bothers you with the desktop app before you get to the web app, you land in a blank canvas after choosing a template, and a bunch more. The verdict was "Framer's marketing says it's for everyone. The product says it's for designers." 5/10 https://clankerview.com/share/UVCSqrBipcsxfxJh

Here's an agent reviewing HN because why not: https://clankerview.com/share/sv20WB2Ssd8h8Q9a

I genuinely think ClankerView can help everyone working on any sort of product that is accessible via a web browser.

I'm happy to answer any questions. Please let me know if you would use this and if not, why not?

Show HN: ClankerView – AI agents browse your web app and give UX feedback

hookey — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:23:38 +0000

Article URL: https://clankerview.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022228

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

New comment by hookey in "More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey"

hookey — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:20:16 +0000

My P14s Gen1 AMD (very similar to T14) with Debian still has this problem. 2 days unplugged will drain the whole battery and turn off. Maybe it's because I kept a Windows partition around?

New comment by hookey in "Writing down what I do in Obsidian"

hookey — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:53:19 +0000

I used to use Logseq with Syncthing, but I ran into a bunch of sync conflicts that were annoying to deal with and sometimes it would just stop syncing for no reason. Luckily, they've just made Logseq Sync available to all backers on OpenCollective and it works quite well. I'm very happy with the setup now. I think they're making Sync available as a paid monthly service soon.

New comment by hookey in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

hookey — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 05:56:30 +0000

Honestly surprised by how much support this is getting, despite the devs' absurd views on open source[1]. Why anyone would choose this instead of Logseq is beyond me.

[1]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/2...

New comment by hookey in "Six programming languages I’d like to see"

hookey — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:05:11 +0000

There's GuidedTrack[1], which is a simple way to program complex surveys or tests, but can be used to create apps as well. It has been used to create Mind Ease[2] and UpLift[3].

There is a quick demo[4] on the site to show how it works.

Full disclosure: I'm a developer on GuidedTrack. Any feedback is appreciated.

[1]: https://guidedtrack.com/

[2]: https://mindease.io/

[3]: https://www.uplift.app/

[4]: https://www.guidedtrack.com/demo

New comment by hookey in "Absurd Trolley Problems"

hookey — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:49:16 +0000

I took the Giving What We Can Pledge[1] and donate 10% of my income to effective charities for this reason. It barely makes a difference to me and it saves more than 1 life a year. They also have a really cool How Rich Am I calculator[2] to put it in context.

I still chose to pull the lever though because I don't have $18000 in my life savings yet.

[1]: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge

[2]: https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

Quicksplain – A free party trivia game for 2-8 people about explaining things

hookey — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://quicksplain.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27873441

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hookey in "Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says"

hookey — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 14:55:55 +0000

They should replace all their men with women and reap the profits

Emoji cipher

hookey — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:48:59 +0000

Article URL: http://andri.io/emojicipher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049400

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hookey in "4chan discusses HN"

hookey — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:12:17 +0000

Here's the first one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

Some really good ones in there.

New comment by hookey in "[meta] 4chan technology board satires hacker news, hilarious"

hookey — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:07:54 +0000

Archive link in case someone is reading this in the future: https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S48696148

Also, there have been a bunch of threads like these. I believe this was the first one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

New comment by hookey in "To Apple, Love Taylor"

hookey — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 12:21:01 +0000

Are there even any artists that agree to this? The first three months of Apple Music will essentially be “free music from artists who would give away their music for free”.

New comment by hookey in "42 as a Service"

hookey — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 01:02:25 +0000

text/html for this?

New comment by hookey in "Go Koans"

hookey — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 19:42:56 +0000

Is there an order I'm supposed to be doing these in?

New comment by hookey in "Please stop at-ing your friends"

hookey — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:09:46 +0000

This (among many other things) ruins YouTube comments for me too. Whose magnificent idea was it to put shares and comments in the same category?

New comment by hookey in "Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen"

hookey — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:22:11 +0000

“I don’t want to fight old battles, I want to fight new ones.” - Satya Nadella

New comment by hookey in "Inside the world of longsword fighting"

hookey — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:09:50 +0000

Inside the world of having a video player that doesn't let you adjust the volume.