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Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites
- SheinhardtWigCo 7y agoThis is cool, but seems ripe for abuse. Do you have a plan to deal with that?
- garysahota93 7y agoYeah, I had a question around how to stop people from claiming "legit" brands and bashing them? I could easily see someone take a brand like Uber or Airbnb and start creating content that could get the actual brand in legit trouble. Cool concept though! I like the simplicity.
- unfl 7y agoGood question and it's definitely a concern. For now, I'm just monitoring things manually, but certainly would need a more scalable system if the site grows.
- garysahota93 7y agoAwesome! As long as you're monitoring it. Keep this going!
- conception 7y agoOr worse like paste in, Bitcoin and other public places people will post urls to terrible/illegal things on the internet. People always find a way to ruin the public commons.
- erklik 7y agoHonestly, a more scarier concern is that there is likely to various illegal things posted on this as soon as enough people get on it.
- irrational 7y agoSo how many of the images that have been linked to are child porn?
- hermanradtke 7y agoIf the brand has no affiliation with the person who posted the content, how is the brand getting in trouble? I for one am not too worried about "legit" brands being squatted. No sane person thinks https://sdnotes.com/facebook https://sdnotes.com/facebook was made by Facebook.
- mLuby 7y agoFacebooks' lawyers are not sane. ^__^
- lensopra 7y agoI understand the concern, but I wonder if it's real. I can bash Facebook in this comment right now, lie, but is HackerNews legally responsible for this comment? I honestly don't know the laws. Seems like I should.
- nessunodoro 7y agoEphemera. I miss living in New York City because of the street art. The web would benefit from open air ephemerality. Real ephemerality, not "your photos and videos disappear to our digital vault, probably forever." Also: > Passwords are optional. This makes me happy.
- Loughla 7y agoThis sentiment is actually what originally drew me to places like 4chan on the internet. If you miss it, you just miss it. I felt like I legit HAD to be on the board or else I would miss the best joke or thread. No idea what that's called. Maybe hipsterism? I liked to know that what I'm seeing is authentic, real, and limited (even if it was technically available to everyone in the world).
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- unkulunkulu 7y agoImmediacy?
- nessunodoro 7y agotemporal uniqueness. Art in a museum is locked in a gated vault, like a website is locked to a version number. Ephemera is when you walk past your favorite street art and a piece of the pasted image was scraped or defaced, or when another artist or rando with a pen or a can added something in response. An ephemeral website is one that you hope will be different when you refresh it. There's an element of chance and the content is the reward. To an extent, aggregators have long embodied this characteristic I feel.
- sp332 7y agoFOMO - Fear Of Missing Out. Edit: I was going to add "gnostic" but I can't find a dictionary to back up my definition. What I mean is a hierarchy based on secret knowledge.
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- amplecooz 7y agoI really like this concept, and you've done a nice job stripping away everything except the bare minimum essentials. That being said, are there any plans to support markdown? Also it may prove helpful to be able to download posts before the site is destroyed.
- garysahota93 7y ago+1 .. Markdown would be awesome!
- unfl 7y agoGood idea! Currently it supports some HTML elements using Rails' simple_format (<b>, <i>, etc), but Markdown would definitely be an improvement.
- garysahota93 7y agooo! Good to know it supports HTML elements. Might be worth adding this into the FAQ!
- amplecooz 7y agoNot really related, but I just browsed through all the projects on http://unfoundedlabs.com/ http://unfoundedlabs.com/ and really enjoyed it. You have a unique voice and an artists sensibilities which will now serve as an inspiration to me.
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- hoki 7y agoThis is cool for blog posts.
- flockonus 7y agoA feed with latest posts would be cool (after adding markdown support)
- gucciTheWizard 7y agoI actually love this, hands down amazing for blogs
- 52-6F-62 7y agoSo does it persist all of the posted content if the page is updated within every 30-day window?
- unfl 7y agoCorrect. Perhaps I can make that more clear in the FAQ
- indigodaddy 7y agoopen/GitHub/self-hostable?
- unfl 7y agohttps://github.com/eri-b/mini https://github.com/eri-b/mini
- mrspeaker 7y agoI really love ideas like this (and this one is so nicely done!). Reminds me of when "wiki wikis" first started, and many were publicly editable (ah, simpler times!). I'd love to see a real-time chart of the number of active pages... watch how it ebbs and flows over time. Also, I started to make a "choose your own adventure" game, but I realized that would be the end of my day's productivity!
- shadowsock 7y agoreminds me of https://itty.bitty.site/ https://itty.bitty.site/
- Porthos9K 7y agoThis reminds me of http://txti.es/ http://txti.es/ (made by the people behind http://motherfuckingwebsite.com http://motherfuckingwebsite.com).
- stebann 7y agoOh man, I laugh with that one!
- bbx 7y agoHalf of the Show HN websites I see use Bulma. Thanks for using it!
- mendeza 7y agoThis one is my favorite: https://sdnotes.com/facebook https://sdnotes.com/facebook
- shkkmo 7y agoI prefer https://sdnotes.com/scavenger https://sdnotes.com/scavenger
- JacKTrocinskI 7y agoHaha, that's great. This --> https://sdnotes.com/deadmau5 https://sdnotes.com/deadmau5
- broth 7y agoBe careful when perusing various names. Not all might be SFW.
- brenden2 7y agoThis is cool! It's like a wiki, but there's no structure imposed and everything's ephemeral. Would be interesting to see what happens over time. Some feedback for the author: it might be interesting to add a "I'm feeling lucky"-type feature, kind of like StumbleUpon. Or some other fun discovery technique.
- napolux 7y agoMan you should really ad "nofollow" to links, otherwise you'll soon get spammed.
- unfl 7y agoah yes thanks, will add shortly
- firefwing24 7y agohttps://sdnotes.com/reddit https://sdnotes.com/reddit >tfw when someone doesn't have a strong password.
- irrational 7y agoI assume a lite site like this doesn't having any kind of rate limiting feature so it would be simplicity to brute force a page's password.
- rfeague 7y agoWhat password is assigned if you inadvertently click "add password" with the password box still empty? If you click "add password" without first entering a password in the box, the site is locked behind an unknown password. You can't login with an empty password, nor with "password"...
- quickthrower2 7y agoThis would be nice for paywall workarounds.
- jfk13 7y agoApologies for nit-picking, but you might like to fix the typo "defintion" in the FAQ.
- unfl 7y agofixed, thx :)
- AlexDragusin 7y agoLove this, particularly that you can view the content without JavaScript as well. If you can solve the "potential for abuse" problem while maintaining this format, you've got something!
- artur_makly 7y agolovely idea. really hope it catches on.
- fuzz4lyfe 7y agohttps://sdnotes.com/index https://sdnotes.com/index damn beat me to it
- iCarrot 7y agoLove all the XSS attempts
- superasn 7y agoThis is actually very nice. I think discovery can make this site really catch on, like most active, featured, etc.
- NickNaraghi 7y agoLove this, really fun idea. It would be nice to have a setting that prevents a password from being added to the page. Right now, all it takes to end the fun of an unpassworded page is for a bad actor to add a password (see: https://sdnotes.com/index https://sdnotes.com/index)
- shtack 7y agoA similar idea that we're working on: https://pocketweb.io/ https://pocketweb.io/
- Max840 7y agoYou can now use it as a chat room! https://sdnotes.com/chat https://sdnotes.com/chat
- kalium-xyz 7y agobut is it as good as pastebin at being a command and control for you botnet :p?
- mikro2nd 7y agoAt last, a contender for the title of Twitter-killer.
- rss-spoof 7y agoThere may be minor security problems with some choices of site name. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20190924064831/https://sdnotes.com/feed https://web.archive.org/web/20190924064831/https://sdnotes.c...
- JacKTrocinskI 7y agoWould be cool if people could comment posts as well, great idea!
- mrdobelina 7y agoReally cool