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Coming soon: TaaS API. Don't own your own metal, rent it from the cloud. Get a block of text professionally typed on a classic typewriter and FedEx'd overnight.
by breckenedge 5y ago
Coming soon: TaaS API. Don't own your own metal, rent it from the cloud. Get a block of text professionally typed on a classic typewriter and FedEx'd overnight.
- mherdeg 5y agoOh yeah I can totally see Lob adding this to their API as an April Fools thing.
- travisgriggs 5y agoThere needs to a specific "up vote for humor" on HN.
- cogburnd02 5y agoI mean, this would be doable if one happened to own a daisy wheel printer or IBM 2741 terminal (which is basically a Selectric typewriter plus the circuitry to turn it into a terminal), that would actually be pretty easy to set up.
- Igelau 5y agoAirKey&Key: Book a room with a typewriter in it KeyLift: Someone will drive you a typewriter Jammable: Instead of an actual typed page, you get a hosted JPEG of your typed page and an NFT
- breckenedge 5y agoAlternate for KeyLift: http://type.taxi http://type.taxi. You’re welcome.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoAirKey&Key actually sounds kind of interesting. Rent a place that's set up as a writer's retreat. (I mean, that's not so different from Airbnb where you just bring you own laptop, but the idea seems interesting.)
- Igelau 5y agoTaking the We out of WeWork.