HackCast 🎧

Hacker news in audio format

This project is a full-stack application that brings Hacker News articles to life by converting them into audio files and providing a seamless listening experience. It uses a Node.js backend to manage the articles and audio streams and a React.js frontend for a user-friendly interface.

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🚀 Features

• Fetch and display Hacker News articles.
• Listen to audio versions of articles directly from the browser.
• Modern and responsive UI powered by Chakra UI.
• Robust backend using MongoDB and GridFS for audio file storage.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend: React.js, Chakra UI Backend: Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB (with GridFS for audio storage) Agent: Python to scrape hackernews

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🌐 API Endpoints

Posts API

GET /posts: Fetch all articles with metadata.

Audio API

GET /audio/:id: Fetch the audio stream for a given article.

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🎉 Acknowledgements

• Inspired by Hacker News.
• Chakra UI for the beautiful frontend components.
• MongoDB GridFS for efficient file storage.