Hyperion Update: The Curation Inbox Lives Again
Hyperion Is Back
It has been a while since I posted about Hyperion.
As projects often do, things took a backseat. Hive evolved, dependencies grew older, APIs shifted, and browsers became more demanding. Rails continued to progress. The curation workflow I envisioned remained valuable, but the app needed a more thorough update.
So, I’ve given it a fresh start!
This wasn’t just a simple update. Hyperion is now running on a modern Rails platform, back on Heroku for production, linked to HafSQL for indexing, and equipped with a new React-based curation inbox. The older Rails views are still available as a backup, but the main experience is now a speedy SPA that focuses on what Hyperion was always designed to do: help curators streamline the seven-day Hive payout window into a manageable collection of posts to explore.
And Codex.app helped this all happen quickly.
What Changed
The most noticeable change is how the curation inbox is presented.
Hyperion now launches into a packed, keyboard-friendly post list with a preview pane. You can easily navigate through posts, mark them as read, filter them by tag or author, search for keywords, check out ignored, deleted, or blacklisted views, and still keep the list’s context while you’re reading. The idea isn’t to replicate another general Hive frontend; PeakD, Ecency, and others already handle that pretty well. Hyperion focuses more on curation.
The app now gets a better grasp of the signals that matter most to me when I’m curating:
- read state
- ignored tags
- favorite tags
- muted authors
- author reputation
- Hive blacklist subscriptions
- Hivewatchers blacklist status
- deleted and edited posts
- payout estimates
Why Bring It Back?
Well, I was paying for the domain anyway. And I just like the inbox model + keyboard navigation. There were (are?) other projects that did some of this. And I thought it'd be fun to see if there were any ways to use HaF-backed accelerators, which there are. But most importantly, I had the Codex credits available and GPT-5.5 is a great coding buddy.
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