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"Oh By".[1] It's a "universal shortener".[2] You can take any block of text and condense it to a simple code that you can chalk up anywhere. It's the same id
by rsync 4y ago
"Oh By".[1]
It's a "universal shortener".[2]
You can take any block of text and condense it to a simple code that you can chalk up anywhere. It's the same idea as a QR code but you can just quickly write it out with a pencil or chalk it on the street ... or verbally state it.
I'm convinced there is some use-case that this elegantly solves and would be genuinely valuable to people ... but beyond mentioning it here on HN I have never marketed it in any way.
[1] https://0x.co https://0x.co
[2] https://0x.co/examples.html https://0x.co/examples.html
- danbulant 4y agoHow do people find 0x.co to get the data out of the code? Maybe the code should be written like 0x.co/something instead of just 0xSOMETHING?
- rsync 4y agoYep. Chicken and egg problem. The idea is that they come into such broad usage that everyone just knows what an 0x code is.
- jacobsimon 4y agoOr make your SEO good so that when people inevitably Google search, your result is first.
- danbulant 4y ago0xSOMETHING is just a single word so that will usually not find something unless they have an index with all the generated codes, which is something they probably don't want.
- brk 4y agoI love the idea of this. It seems like your major hurdle is just getting enough traction for the "Ox" prefix to become as well understood as "@" or "#".
- rsync 4y agoYes, I think that is the crux of it. Maybe a superbowl commercial ...
- aaur0 4y agoI would recommend blacklisting a few words while generating the URL. This is what was generated for me https://0x.co/done.html?code=632CUM https://0x.co/done.html?code=632CUM
- rsync 4y ago... and the latin word for "along with" should be on that list ? But seriously ... We did, in fact, disable certain outputs but they were all related to legibility and mistaken transcription. For instance, no O/0 and no l/1, if I remember correctly ...
- hoyent 4y agoThis is just a pastebin, isn't it?
- rsync 4y agoI don't know what it is. It made me happy to build it and I hope that there is some emergent use-case for it that organically comes into being. Surprise me :)
- quickthrower2 4y agoYou are on a Malwarebytes blacklist, just FYI. It says: "Website blocked due to phishing"