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Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required
- hacker256 6y agoHey HN! I worked hard to make this so that everyone, even Grandma and Grandpa, can now blog, make a website, or even learn to code with JavaScript! You can send an email to anything@hackerspring.com and it will automatically create a post based on your Subject and Body of your e-mail! You can also attach javascript, css, or html files to make a full website that is hosted free by just sending an email! I hope you guys like it!
- gshdg 6y agoI assume each blog is distinct FIOS he’s by the sender’s email address? What happens if someone sends an email spoofing your FROM address?
- hacker256 6y agoA spoofed email will just be ignored because it won't pass the checks!
- gshdg 6y agoWhat checks?
- generalpass 6y agoSaid the spider to the fly.
- gshdg 6y agoHeh. I’m just curious, and the answer might affect my decision whether to use something like this, but you have a point.
- hacker256 6y agoThe checks have changed significantly since we last spoke! Right now there are ~30 conditionals as it relates to determining if an e-mail is legit, and I imagine this will increase and be tweaked over time!
- MaxLeiter 6y agoIt’s a great idea. I think it would be a lot nicer to read without the typing animation for blog text. It seems like a fast site - show that off!
- hacker256 6y agoThank you! The animation site was actually just to show that you could attach a javascript file and embed it in your e-mail! https://hackerspring.com/p/protonmail.com/hackerspring/5ec06c8f/hello-world https://hackerspring.com/p/protonmail.com/hackerspring/5ec06... Is an example without the javascript!
- plibither8 6y agoBut... why? Giving a user complete control over JS code that will run directly off the site is inherently an unsafe idea, for you and for the user.
- generalpass 6y agoDo your grandma and grandpa know css and js? Kidding! Although if they did, that would be cool. How much do you hate me if I spoof email addresses? Is the source published anywhere? I noticed a minor typo in the header: 8 <meta name="author" content="Podesta Pizzeria, LLC 9 ">
- hacker256 6y agoI fixed the typo! Thank you! It was because of an issue where saving a file included an extra \n. I wrote a script to trim the files and it's fixed now!
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- arkitaip 6y agoDamn, I really like the concept of creating blog posts simply by sending email. Solves a lot of UI problems.
- hacker256 6y agoI agree! I really hope this takes off and also sparks a revolution of making things easier for people!
- samstave 6y agoThere was a service a while back - I cant recall what it was - but it would send you a question via email asking what you did today and you would reply to it and it would keep a history... I cant recall what that was now though. I really like this though. --- Custom URLs? I am going to try this right now. What happens.... WAIT A MINUTE. HOL' UP. SOMETHIN AINT RIGHT. This exposes your email to anyone on Hackerspring. and allows you to effectively non-anonymously post to a forum, whereby your post is intermixed with everyone elses? No thank you. Here is a feature request I would like: TO: join@hackerspring.com Subject: Join, "PHLUX" SEND --- From: Join@Hackerspring.com Subject: Join, "PHLUX" Hello, Your new page has been created under Hackerspring.com/phlux! Any emails you send to phlux@hackersping.com will now be visible at hackerspring.com/phlux Please enjoy your nano blog! Also, your email will never be visible, unless YOU put it into the body of your email-post sent to Hackerspring, so pllease be careful of signatures. If you wish to delete a post at any time, simply send an email - just as you would a post with "Delete [POSTID]" as the subject of your email! Please be sure to adhere to our TOS regarding harmful content posts. ---- I dont want all my posts intermingled with others. Thanks
- hacker256 6y agoMakes sense and I think that creates a different dynamic and community. You can delete emails by just sending $DELETEME. There are more commands available in https://hackerspring.com/faq https://hackerspring.com/faq It was considered to do 'unlisted' posts, but in the end, what's a blog if it's not for worldwide publication?
- samstave 6y agoIm confused - so my collection of posts is contained under "category +me" Does it post inline images from within the body of the email? I must have missed that part. And I didnt say not available to the world - I said not intermingled among everyone elses posts. That is a forum. By your definition, HN would be a blog - as I can post to HN, and it just shows up under /new I just happen to be the poster... Am I missing something?
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- sillycube 6y agoSimilar to Posterous?
- andrefuchs 6y agoThis reminds me of a blogging by email service I used called Posterous. Loved it but got shut down after Twitter bought it.
- chrismatheson 6y agoI was just thinking the same. It was the first platform I actually used for quite a while.
- hacker256 6y agoNice! I hope you'll give this a shot too! :-)
- AnonC 6y agoAs pointed out by samstave in a comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23209348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23209348 : You send an email to this service to post a blog entry, and this service exposes your name and email address (as obtained from the email headers) to everyone! That’s a huge privacy disconnect in a world where exposed emails can cause a lot of problems, and more so for non-technical people, which this service intends to make things easy for. One look at the homepage of this service shows all the email addresses used by the users to post. Since the service also claims (in another comment here) that spoofed email addresses won’t work, users must use a non-personal address and name if they don’t wish to expose their information publicly.
- hacker256 6y agoThis site isn't an anonymous posting forum. If you want to be anonymous you can use an anonymous e-mail account, but for everyone else it's to speak with your name and your voice. What you're looking for is a different service with different goals, and that doesn't make this one worse at what it is trying to do.
- AnonC 6y agoNo need to get defensive. You have basically created a spam attractor for non-technical users by saying that this is suitable for “Grandpa and Grandma” and making them a lot more vulnerable to email scams. Writing in one’s voice doesn’t need to have an email address attached with it. I can understand using the person’s name. You could do better by not displaying the email address or obfuscating it. Or you could remove that “Grandpa and Grandma” part from your description and say that it’s for those who understand how email addresses in public can get misused.
- hacker256 6y agoThis isn't defensive. I'm simply stating that anonymous posting is different from named posting. That said, I will be adding a way to do anonymous posting and unlisted posting today. :-) Thank you for your suggestions!
- godmode2019 6y agoFrom tos page "PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY, AS THEY ARE A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND Podesta Pizzeria, LLC."
- n8henry 6y agoOP is Q
- hacker256 6y agoYou found me.
- quickthrower2 6y agoDo I get pepperoni?
- pcdoodle 6y agoLegit
- rubatuga 6y agoThis is a repost of a banned submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=podestapizza https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=podestapizza https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=podestapizza https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=podestapizza
- hacker256 6y ago> This is a repost of a banned submission: Wrong. It's a repost of a flagged submission that was flagged due to the nature of its name and reposted. The real hacker community loved the podesta pizza name. HN not so much so I renamed it to Hacker Spring! Good find though! Keep it up Sherlock! :)
- vertex-four 6y agoThe real hacker community doesn't exclusively hang out on 8chan (and wherever people wound up from there), you know. Honestly, in Europe, it's largely a bunch of antifa types.
- mcintyre1994 6y agoWhat on Earth is the real hacker community? I feel like I’m missing out!
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- hacker256 6y agoIRC! :-)
- dang 6y agoCan you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something different than that here, and we need you to get on board with the intended spirit of the site in order for that to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We don't look at this as a moral issue, by the way. It's just necessary if HN is to achieve its original purpose, which is to remain interesting as it grows. The alternative is to burn to a crisp, and we'd prefer not to: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20scorched%20earth&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- forgotmypw17 6y ago>Just e-mail [email protected] to post or pick your own topic@hackerspring.com.
- loks5 6y agoNice concept and cool animation!
- hacker256 6y agoThank you!
- loks5 6y agoI have typed my website URL wrong. How do I edit?
- hacker256 6y agoThere is no edit, but you can delete and repost! Just go to your sent mailbox and find the email, click on the mail you sent us, and hit reply. Then type "$DELETEME" as the first text in the body. https://hackerspring.com/faq/ https://hackerspring.com/faq/
- larl 6y agoSome of this strikes me as a bad idea...
- generalpass 6y agoOn consideration, I would prefer if it worked without js. Since the whole site requires js to load content, clicking on someone's post that has js that effs with my computer is something I prefer to avoid. At the very least, label a post that has js so I don't click it, if you are going to require the site to function with js. Is it really necessary that every link opens in a new tab?
- hacker256 6y agoIt now indicates that there is a script by putting [JS] next to the title. Links that redirect elsewhere have an arrow in the post title appended! Thanks for the suggestion!
- hacker256 6y agoI just added a dark mode toggle (no cookies still)! Hope you like! https://hackerspring.com?darkmode=1 https://hackerspring.com?darkmode=1