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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Hacker News - Latest in Tech's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#F4F4F4 bg
#D6D6D6
#FC5404 accent
#111111 text
- #1AR Read 8 © Favorites 0 ER Programming 3
- #3version of that insight. & blog.timescale.com How percentile approximation works and why
- #4conspired to violate such laws. Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
- #5COMMENTS FT Tap to Collapse = Look & Feel
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Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 5 headlines, 9.8 words on average (longest 13).
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About this app
The Ultimate Hacker News App! Dive into the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news with the ultimate app for browsing Y Combinator's Hacker News. Built for Speed and Customizability Designed from the ground up, this app offers a fast, seamless reading experience with extensive customizability. Optimized for iPhone and iPad Carefully crafted for both iPhone and iPad, the app is packed with features to enhance your reading experience: - Fast and Simple: Browse Hacker News feeds and threaded comments swiftly, ensuring you stay updated with everything happening. - Sync Across Devices: Favorite, read, or hide stories and keep your activity in sync across devices, thanks to iCloud. Your data stays private and secure. - Organize Your Way: Create custom groups to easily save stories by topic. Keep all your programming topics together, and all your science topics in one …
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What you can learn from Hacker News - Latest in Tech
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 18 screenshots above are Hacker News - Latest in Tech's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Hacker News - Latest in Tech runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #F4F4F4) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #FC5404, is the one to reuse for badges, arrows and highlighted words if you borrow this look. Hit Use this style to open the editor with these exact colours and drop your own screenshot in.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
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