Product Hunt for Windows 10

With the Windows 10 March Preview SDK release, I thought it would be good learning experience to build a simple hobby app that showcases some of the Windows 10 features.
Windows 10 development platform introduces the concept of a Universal Windows Platform (UWP), where developers can code against the Windows platform instead of individual device types. Unlike Universal apps that has each of their own projects for desktop/tablet, phone and a shared project, with Windows 10 you can build a single project that developers can deploy to desktop, tablet, phone, and other Windows platforms (such as HoloLens and Xbox).

If you are not familiar with Product Hunt, Product Hunt is a platform and community where you can find out about latest products, and have discussions with makers of the featured products and other community members, with a similar upvoting system like Reddit or Hacker News. You can find out more about it at: http://www.producthunt.com/about

Since Windows 10 is still in development stage, right now there is no Store you can submit to. (Of course you can still submit to Windows Store for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.x apps)
So I thought I can make this app available for anyone who can sideload the app.
Here is what it looks like on Windows 10 desktop/tablet:

And for Windows 10 phone:

Adapts to window size changes:

Here is how it to go to a certain date and displays comments:

This is meant as a work-in-progress community app for enthusiasts and developers, app will be available in Windows Store when it starts accepting Windows 10 apps.
You can download and sideload it at:

Right now, app has the following features (similar to any 3rd party PH app):

  • Browsing posts
  • Reading comments
  • Ability to go back to a certain date
  • Pull to refresh
  • Sharing content
  • Full Screen
  • Dark mode
  • Live tiles
  • more coming soon 🙂

Known issues/upcoming features:

  • PH doesn’t provide write permissions to apps by default so you can only view posts and comments
  • App doesn’t run on user context, so you can’t login or see notifications
  • Product list doesn’t list the dates yet
  • HTML in the comments are not parsed yet
  • You can’t get information about specific users yet

If you are interested in learning some of the Windows 10 features that was used in the app, I’ll briefly go over them and then direct you to resources where you can find out more. I think this can be beneficial to developers to learn about insight when developing the app.
Part 2: Building Product Hunt for Windows 10