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Show HN: Kvak.io – Online Notepad
- vishnuharidas 6y agoPassword for editing is not worth it, but a password for reading will be totally worth it.
- levmiseri 6y agoA lightweight online note-pad for any quick text-sharing needs. Let me know what you think or if you find any use for it!
- breck 6y agoNeat! I like how it's lightweight, not enough lightweight stuff on the web nowadays (except for HN). Allowing the option to set human readable permalinks might be useful.
- maelito 6y agoWhat what the name of the similar service launched a few years ago by telegram ?
- holdn 6y agohttps://telegra.ph/ https://telegra.ph/
- ffpip 6y agoAny article published on telegr.ph renders beautifully on Telegram apps. The apps have a 'instant view' feature. It loads insanely fast for most news websites
- dgellow 6y agoExample of an article published on telegra.ph, if someone wants to see how it looks with content: https://telegra.ph/Why-Using-WhatsApp-Is-Dangerous-01-30-4 https://telegra.ph/Why-Using-WhatsApp-Is-Dangerous-01-30-4
- tomw1808 6y agoI like the unintrusive UI, but what I would really like is markdown support. I am not sure if that fits _your_ initial idea, but I'm a tech person, so, for me that's a must. Also, add https, because google will punish you. Otherwise, well done.
- stevekemp 6y agoI created https://markdownshare.com/ https://markdownshare.com/ to allow anybody to create/share/render markdown. Unfortunately these kind of sites are an abuse magnet, so it is in the process of being retired. I think any sustainable site/service like this has to be self-hosted, or come with a subscription. Because otherwise dealing with all the bots, spam-submissions, and other abuse is just too depressing.
- tobeagram 6y agoMarkdownShare looks like a pretty neat service, I'm sorry to hear that people took advantage of it! Interesting that you mention a subscription service would more sustainable. I'm actually building a markdown note-taking app [1], that is based around a note-card format. We are currently developing a way to share a markdown card with a secure link. [1] https://supernotes.app https://supernotes.app
- tealpod 6y agoI know exactly what you mean. I made https://Write.wtf https://Write.wtf majority of it is just junk.
- abi 6y agoNeat. Have you implemented any anti-spam controls? How much does it cost to keep it running?
- putsjoe 6y agoWould a captcha have helped?
- phelm 6y agoThere seem to be some SSL issues https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=kvak.io https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=kvak.io
- mobilemidget 6y agoyes, please enable https for this. Looks nice and simple
- levmiseri 6y agoThanks! Will address this today.
- donmb 6y agoThis is amazing. As simple as it can be. Good job!
- monkeydust 6y agoThis could be handy when you post on a forum or underneath a new article. Sometimes you want to go into more depth but technically limited on space or frankly it would be too much. You could have a link to note for those that wanted to read more. Would like it if I could host on my server, and had markdown (as said) plus some basic tracking info - # clicks etc.
- zserge 6y agoThat's cool! Reminds me of old notepad.cc and https://onthesamepage.online/ https://onthesamepage.online/ with very similar mechanics and philosophy, but for visual drawing.
- andrewinardeer 6y agoDown? > Not Found on Accelerator > Description: Your request on the specified host was not found. Check the location and try again.
- tleb_ 6y agoLooks nice! You seem to be missing an about page and a privacy-related page though. What tech stack is behind?
- skapadia 6y agoCan you describe the tech stack behind this?
- levmiseri 6y agoThe entire thing is just a vanilla HTML/CSS/JS connected with Firebase.
- donmb 6y agoWhat would help a lot, if you could customize the generated parameter in some way. Together with the password feature noone could "hack" into it anyways.
- donmb 6y agoAlso you could easily get rid of the "?n=" param I guess and just build a slug like http://kvak.io/fsf2o1r6yw5 http://kvak.io/fsf2o1r6yw5
- ian0 6y agoThis is really good, extremely simple.
- scott31 6y agoWhy should I use this when there is HN for collaborative discussion?
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- grandpaa 6y agohttp://kvak.io/?n=lef2o1r142f1i6 http://kvak.io/?n=lef2o1r142f1i6
- natpalmer1776 6y agoNewPassword1
- leokennis 6y agoThis is a great way to quickly share text between my personal phone and my work machine :)
- quickthrower2 6y agoNot great for secrets tho
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- rammy1234 6y agoIt doesn't work for me after I enter a password to lock it. I cannot type in anything.
- ellis0n 6y agoWould be great with client side encryption
- ahstilde 6y agoreminds me of shrib.com/
- andrewla 6y agoA possible security concern is that this can store arbitrary HTML, including script. http://kvak.io/?n=f9f2o1r2pd64 http://kvak.io/?n=f9f2o1r2pd64
- natpalmer1776 6y agoIronic how you posted a note without a password so anyone immature enough (me) could just tamper with your example.
- andrewla 6y agoThat breaks the visitor counter, since it relied on updating the underlying document to update the counts! I was going to go ahead and hide the lock button entirely to avoid this attack, but decided I would get some work done today instead. EDIT: after a bit more hacking, I removed the password and hid the lock button. Nothing that would stop a determined adversary :) (Also, I kept the Khajit change in your honor)
- levmiseri 6y agoGreat. Thanks! Fix for this incoming. I don't want to limit HTML insertion in general, but I'll make sure scripts are not possible.
- nurettin 6y agoI can't help but notice that this was done in django.
- baxtr 6y agoVery interesting tool. I wonder what the business model behind this might be. How do you intend to make money? Do you even want to make money with this?
- levmiseri 6y agoI don't intend to make money out of this. A happy little side project that's easy to maintain and improve over time.
- benrbray 6y agoHave you considered using ProseMirror [1]? It's a nice wrapper around contenteditable that makes things like inline math editing [2] much easier to set up. [1] https://prosemirror.net/ https://prosemirror.net/ [2] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math
- g105b 6y agoHow I yearn. http://kvak.io/?n=bpf2o1s1jn1u0 http://kvak.io/?n=bpf2o1s1jn1u0
- davidcollantes 6y agoWill love to self host something like this. Would you be willing to open source it?
- useless_foghorn 6y agoadding a QR code generator would make this super mobile friendly.
- berkas1 6y agoCould you make it redirect to https automatically please? Will the source code be available?
- soared 6y agoDoes anyone know of a replacement for the chrome extension papier? Made a new tab in chrome into a persistent notepad. I built all my note taking around it and my only option seems to side load it from now on.