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Ask HN: What simple web apps do you wish existed? Seeking ideas for sample apps

45 points by zainhoda 4y ago

Hello! I'm looking for ideas for simple web apps that people wish existed. I plan to select some of those ideas and implement a “v0” or prototype version of the idea using PyCob, a Python project that makes it easy to create web apps using just Python. The easiest types of apps to implement would be Python libraries that you wish there were a front-end for. I’ll post the demo and code here: https://www.pycob.com/ If you have an idea for a simple web app that you think would be useful or fun, please share it in the comments below. These are some examples of demo apps we’ve made: PyPi Analytics: Show trends of how many downloads PyPi packages have over time HN Analytics: Find the best time to post on Hacker News Dataframe Explorer: Choose fields from a dataframe to pivot and graph the results App Wizard: Generate Python code for a CRUD app Book Summary: Choose a book and get a 10 bullet point summary AI Regex Generator: Give the app 3 examples and have AI (try to) generate a regex pattern Warranty Claims: Allow users to submit warranty claims and track status of replacement parts These are just a few examples – feel free to suggest any kind of app you can think of! Thanks in advance for your ideas. I'm excited to see the ideas, and I look forward to implementing some of these apps using PyCob. Thanks!

paddy_m 4y ago
I am working on something similar to a dataframe explorer called data cleaning framework. Would love to talk to some people about it. The idea is that everytime I start data analysis with pandas, I run through the same adhoc data cleaning commands in many configurations. I'm building a graphical UI that lets you quickly try different commands AND it outputs python code to accomplish the same transforms. https://github.com/paddymul/dcf-server https://github.com/paddymul/dcf-server
patelaayush1810 4y ago
Great Idea. I have a usecase where I have more than 15 API's and several Postgres tables. I want to quickly create a Web UI with form for support teams to perform GET/POST/DELETE/PATCH requests. And also show the table contents. Web UI with a form + Table Exploration from Database would be great.
ashishsingal 4y ago
the pypi analytics one is cool. what about doing something similar for github analytics? i find it more interesting and expansive than pypi.
graderjs 4y ago
System Info I want to open up a webpage and see, for my local device: - CPU (core count, manufacturer) - Memory - GPU present - Disk size, free space - IP4 and IP6 addresses - Ping to different countries main providers - My geolocation and altitude - A pin point of that on an embedded (free, ideally SVG, global) map that doesn't need to specify layers/metadata/cities/countries just show me the projection of lat long onto the globe of the earth and the contours of continents - My current velocity - Any sites I'm logged in to or identified by - My browser version and known exploits against it - My OS version and known exploits against it - Connection speed ( link capacity, actual up and down, and rates per second ) - Screen dimensions and capabilities - Output of any other accessible sensors: gyro, bluetooth, wifi, whatever I created as much of this as I could lazily so far at https://mycapabilities.me https://mycapabilities.me (github pages is borking HTTPS for me tho)
- ashishsingal 4y ago
  are there any good python packages that get you these (at least some of them) already? that don't have a good front end that pycob can leverage?
- zainhoda 4y ago
  Thanks! Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm trying to figure out how much of this can/needs to be client-side vs. server-side
  - graderjs 4y ago
    I just thought it was cool. You know, you can open up : about this computer on Mac and windows. Why not on web?
- mattbgates 4y ago
  jeeze... wrong house, but you got me right down to the street location.
  - graderjs 4y ago
    Glad you could use it! I thought the GitHub pages was having an issue
cobritra 4y ago
Cool idea, I have some medical ai applications
- ashishsingal 4y ago
  interesting, like what?
RollAHardSix 4y ago
Markdown articles to JSON and/or JSON upload to websites. That's a soft JSON not a must-be JSON. I'd kill for an all markdown workflow where I could build content/blog posts in my markdown app (Logseq) by selecting a layout template, writing the articles and selecting pictures, and then I could kick off a simple upload process to my web server.
- zainhoda 4y ago
  That's a great idea! Is there a specific JSON format you'd need?
  - RollAHardSix 4y ago
    The candle shines the light on my ignorance, JSON is JSON to me. Use whatever you deem best if you decide to pursue this!
    - zainhoda 4y ago
      How does this look? I'm happy to make changes to suit your needs: Live App: https://markdown-to-json.pycob.app/ https://markdown-to-json.pycob.app/ Source Code: https://github.com/pycob/prototypes/blob/main/markdown-to-json/main.py https://github.com/pycob/prototypes/blob/main/markdown-to-js...
      - ashishsingal 4y ago
        holy! 42 lines of code - love it!
      - RollAHardSix 4y ago
        Slick nice!
    - k1t 4y ago
      This one smells a bit like something I run into at work sometimes, where a non-technical person makes a technical decision and the technical people don't sufficiently challenge it. If you're trying to convert markdown documents into webpages, the most likely output format would surely be HTML, or perhaps something custom to the site like MediaWiki markup. It's totally possible that a site would allow for new documents to be uploaded in a JSON format, but the format would have to be specified (e.g. which keys are used for the post body and subject) - so "whatever you deem best" is unlikely to work, it would need to be "whatever my webhost expects, which is documented -here-" I'm happy to be wrong here, and zainhoda's markdown to JSONified HTML is interesting regardless - but I suspect you really wanted a markdown to HTML converter. ex: https://markdowntohtml.com/ https://markdowntohtml.com/ or something more extreme like a static site generator: https://www.getzola.org/ https://www.getzola.org/
adamrmcd 4y ago
I've always wanted to build an "I told you so" webapp. Something that would store phrases associated with people with an incremental counter. Obviously the list of phrases, people, and counts are unique to the user. This way I can say to my daughter, "I've told you <checks webapp> 46 times now to clean up your room!" Dumb, but fun :)
- zepolen 4y ago
  Try this approach: Don't clean your house ever, start leaving your dirty clothes outside her room, don't wash the dishes, don't take out the trash, let it smell. Make your daughter be the to tell you "I told you 46 times to clean up the house!".
  - tomcam 4y ago
    This is getting dark
  - kylecazar 4y ago
    Why not just burn the house down while we're at it
- malux85 4y ago
  Maybe also - Add an immutable time stamp to the phrase, so I can say “Alice warned Bob about that problem on DD-MM-YYYY” so that when Bob gets hit with it 6 months later, exactly as Alice predicted, Bob can’t say “You never told me that” As someone with a near perfect verbal memory (I can recall conversations verbatim from my whole life) it’s incredibly frustrating to have people deny that I told them something, when I can recall the exact date, time and words, when I did :P
r721 4y ago
Here's a thing I always wanted: Show big Twitter discussion with loads of subthreads/replies in Reddit/HN "comment tree" format.
- python273 4y ago
  I have twitter thread reader webapp. Currently it requires to run scripts locally to load the thread, so not quite as convenient. https://github.com/python273/twitter-reader https://github.com/python273/twitter-reader
- halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
  I looked into doing this a while ago and it’s near impossible due to how Twitter classifies/organizes threads (conversationId) and limitations within the API to derive the full tree.
752963e64 4y ago
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edmundsauto 4y ago
An interface to preferentially compare and choose between 2 objects, using a Tinder like interface (swipe left/right mechanics). Every year I do a stack ranking of baseball players for my fantasy league. If I had this interface, I could easily setup an ELO comparison function to create my complete list out of a series of easier comparisons. I have at times also wished I had this for just about any sort of data tagging. Give it an array of json objects, it displays the data and then lets you swipe super quickly through all the objects in the array, semi-randomly choosing which objects to compare. Would need to write the data out as well - that's the product. This is probably worth a couple hundred bucks to me if anyone wants to build it and open source under a commercial-reuse allowed license. Every year I spend dozens of hours doing this and don't feel like I have done a great job of making the correct comparisons.
- sussmannbaka 4y ago
  Check out https://github.com/antialiasis/favorite-picker https://github.com/antialiasis/favorite-picker The favorite Pokémon picker is based on this and I have used it (and similar ones, based on Tōhōsort) to do similar sorting.
- ashishsingal 4y ago
  any luck on implementing this one? would be cool to see if pycob can do it.
- zainhoda 4y ago
  How's this? The home page is a setup where you setup your dataframe. If you already have some csv or something, you can read that rather than getting user input. The app will randomly select 2 rows of the dataframe and display them as side-by-side VS cards. You then pick the winner from the two. Then the app will repeat random selection/winner as many times as you want. There's a results page that shows the ELO ranking of all the "players" as well as the history of all the "games" between the players. I implemented not with a "swipe" interface but just with side-by-side cards and you click on one. It wasn't clear to me how swiping would work when you're choosing a winner between 2 objects rather than making a yes/no decision. If you have an idea for how swipe would be useful, I'm all ears. Live App: https://compare-and-rank.pycob.app/ https://compare-and-rank.pycob.app/ Source Code: https://github.com/pycob/sample-apps/blob/main/compare-and-rank/main.py https://github.com/pycob/sample-apps/blob/main/compare-and-r...
lukew3 4y ago
https://pypistats.org/ https://pypistats.org/ tells you about pypi fownload stats
- ashishsingal 4y ago
  oh this is cool
nosmokewhereiam 4y ago
Voice activated calculator that allowed me to rapid fire simple math from across the room. If it did math while people were meeting and conversing and spat out an answer, that would be pretty cool. I also like counting apps: take a picture of a bowl of Cheerios and it counts the 'O's, or the number of pipes in a rack at a hardware store. I'm sure they've been engineered already or at least thought of before, but so far voice calculators seem slow and clunky like voice assistants, and counting apps lack surety and I wouldn't bet anyone's job on them that I've found so far.
- ashishsingal 4y ago
  can't google assistant or alexa do this? why would you need a web app?
abdullahkhalids 4y ago
Youtube channel or playlist to RSS feed, that I can then add to my podcast player. The link should point to the audio version of the youtube video. There is already one out there that I use, but its very badly designed.
- pablo24602 4y ago
  I was looking for something similar, but figured the use case was so narrow that nobody else was interested- what are the issues with the solution you found? Thinking of building this out.
  - abdullahkhalids 4y ago
    Its something someone wrote a long time ago, and it seems to be on its death bed. It doesn't create feeds out of playlists iirc. Sometimes on a large channel, you just want to listen to one particular series. It doesn't let me choose the feed icon/image. Instead, the image is the text of the service name. This is very annoying because scrolling through my subscriptions on my podcast player, I primarily use the image to identify the one I am looking for.
- ashishsingal 4y ago
  how would you implement this? just take in a URL that has an RSS feed and then link each item on the feed to the podcast player?
  - abdullahkhalids 4y ago
    Each item in the RSS feed links to the audio of a single episode (with the item title/description set as well) of the podcast. Podcast players can subscribe to the RSS feed, and display episodes as usual.
- yurishimo 4y ago
  Would you pay for something like this? Sounds like a fun weekend project but saving the files would get costly after a while. I’m imagining you want to use this for channels that don’t offer traditional podcasts but maybe operate in that long format (multi-hour)?
Hadriel 4y ago
The book summary! But curious around costs for that
arglebargle123 4y ago
I have two that I've been thinking about that I've been too lazy to cobble together myself: A page change tracker that A: pumps the page through uBlock origin before each snapshot and B; produces an RSS feed with a summary of changes. A web page to epub converter that A: sends the page through uBlock origin or similar, B: sends the result through the postlight parser, and then C: gives the user a chance to customize the result before packaging it up as an epub. Customisation would include setting a cover image (or none,) setting a title and other metadata, choosing to include a TOC or not, renaming any chapters if a TOC is included, etc. Currently my workflow for this involves someone's "web page to epub" converter personal project that isn't entirely designed for single pages and a bunch of time on Sigil cleaning up the resulting output.
- ashishsingal 4y ago
  what do you mean by uBlock origin? what's the use case here?
clnq 4y ago
Something with LLMs that uses sanitized data so it’s useful and not jailbroken and shut down within a month. For example: - an app that forecasts the weather where you are in 1 sentence. - an app that summarises user reviews of points of interest around you. - an app to summarise YouTube videos based on their transcripts. - an app that describes your address in 1 sentence as you would to an emergency service (“26 miles West of Placename on E25” or “on the corner of Eve drive and Redmond Avenue”, or “at Trafalgar square”). Shown with a map with all used place names for confirmation. - an alternative history daily news generator with several settings (cyberpunk, soviets won space race, world peace, world war 3, Nazis won WW2, the Earth is flat, brave new world, etc). - an endless text based adventure game where AI gives you some story and a verb each turn. You can set a theme in the beginning in 40 characters. - an app to transcribe and summarize voice recordings, for lectures and journaling (should be sanitized for jailbreak instructions but would be a useful app). - an API or app to generate long memorable pass phrases (based on semi random context like a random Wikipedia page).
- sudhackar 4y ago
  > - an API or app to generate long memorable pass phrases (based on semi random context like a random Wikipedia page). Somewhat close - see https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net/ https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net/ for relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/
  - clnq 4y ago
    I was thinking along these lines, but we could remember much longer passphrases if they made semantic sense - the words were not random. For example, here's what ChatGPT comes up with when asked to create some short rhyming passphrases with symbols or numbers: * "Not all who seek, find." * "Speak with kindness - inspire greatness." * "Wise to listen 1st before speaking." How about this entropy? These are the final bosses of passwords.

45 points by zainhoda 4y ago

paddy_m 4y ago

I am working on something similar to a dataframe explorer called data cleaning framework. Would love to talk to some people about it. The idea is that everytime I start data analysis with pandas, I run through the same adhoc data cleaning commands in many configurations. I'm building a graphical UI that lets you quickly try different commands AND it outputs python code to accomplish the same transforms. https://github.com/paddymul/dcf-server https://github.com/paddymul/dcf-server

patelaayush1810 4y ago

Great Idea. I have a usecase where I have more than 15 API's and several Postgres tables. I want to quickly create a Web UI with form for support teams to perform GET/POST/DELETE/PATCH requests. And also show the table contents. Web UI with a form + Table Exploration from Database would be great.

ashishsingal 4y ago

the pypi analytics one is cool. what about doing something similar for github analytics? i find it more interesting and expansive than pypi.

graderjs 4y ago

System Info I want to open up a webpage and see, for my local device: - CPU (core count, manufacturer) - Memory - GPU present - Disk size, free space - IP4 and IP6 addresses - Ping to different countries main providers - My geolocation and altitude - A pin point of that on an embedded (free, ideally SVG, global) map that doesn't need to specify layers/metadata/cities/countries just show me the projection of lat long onto the globe of the earth and the contours of continents - My current velocity - Any sites I'm logged in to or identified by - My browser version and known exploits against it - My OS version and known exploits against it - Connection speed ( link capacity, actual up and down, and rates per second ) - Screen dimensions and capabilities - Output of any other accessible sensors: gyro, bluetooth, wifi, whatever I created as much of this as I could lazily so far at https://mycapabilities.me https://mycapabilities.me (github pages is borking HTTPS for me tho)

ashishsingal 4y ago
are there any good python packages that get you these (at least some of them) already? that don't have a good front end that pycob can leverage?
zainhoda 4y ago
Thanks! Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm trying to figure out how much of this can/needs to be client-side vs. server-side
- graderjs 4y ago
  I just thought it was cool. You know, you can open up : about this computer on Mac and windows. Why not on web?
mattbgates 4y ago
jeeze... wrong house, but you got me right down to the street location.
- graderjs 4y ago
  Glad you could use it! I thought the GitHub pages was having an issue

cobritra 4y ago

Cool idea, I have some medical ai applications

ashishsingal 4y ago
interesting, like what?

RollAHardSix 4y ago

Markdown articles to JSON and/or JSON upload to websites. That's a soft JSON not a must-be JSON. I'd kill for an all markdown workflow where I could build content/blog posts in my markdown app (Logseq) by selecting a layout template, writing the articles and selecting pictures, and then I could kick off a simple upload process to my web server.

zainhoda 4y ago
That's a great idea! Is there a specific JSON format you'd need?
- RollAHardSix 4y ago
  The candle shines the light on my ignorance, JSON is JSON to me. Use whatever you deem best if you decide to pursue this!
  - zainhoda 4y ago
    How does this look? I'm happy to make changes to suit your needs: Live App: https://markdown-to-json.pycob.app/ https://markdown-to-json.pycob.app/ Source Code: https://github.com/pycob/prototypes/blob/main/markdown-to-json/main.py https://github.com/pycob/prototypes/blob/main/markdown-to-js...
    - ashishsingal 4y ago
      holy! 42 lines of code - love it!
    - RollAHardSix 4y ago
      Slick nice!
  - k1t 4y ago
    This one smells a bit like something I run into at work sometimes, where a non-technical person makes a technical decision and the technical people don't sufficiently challenge it. If you're trying to convert markdown documents into webpages, the most likely output format would surely be HTML, or perhaps something custom to the site like MediaWiki markup. It's totally possible that a site would allow for new documents to be uploaded in a JSON format, but the format would have to be specified (e.g. which keys are used for the post body and subject) - so "whatever you deem best" is unlikely to work, it would need to be "whatever my webhost expects, which is documented -here-" I'm happy to be wrong here, and zainhoda's markdown to JSONified HTML is interesting regardless - but I suspect you really wanted a markdown to HTML converter. ex: https://markdowntohtml.com/ https://markdowntohtml.com/ or something more extreme like a static site generator: https://www.getzola.org/ https://www.getzola.org/

adamrmcd 4y ago

I've always wanted to build an "I told you so" webapp. Something that would store phrases associated with people with an incremental counter. Obviously the list of phrases, people, and counts are unique to the user. This way I can say to my daughter, "I've told you <checks webapp> 46 times now to clean up your room!" Dumb, but fun :)

zepolen 4y ago
Try this approach: Don't clean your house ever, start leaving your dirty clothes outside her room, don't wash the dishes, don't take out the trash, let it smell. Make your daughter be the to tell you "I told you 46 times to clean up the house!".
- tomcam 4y ago
  This is getting dark
- kylecazar 4y ago
  Why not just burn the house down while we're at it
malux85 4y ago
Maybe also - Add an immutable time stamp to the phrase, so I can say “Alice warned Bob about that problem on DD-MM-YYYY” so that when Bob gets hit with it 6 months later, exactly as Alice predicted, Bob can’t say “You never told me that” As someone with a near perfect verbal memory (I can recall conversations verbatim from my whole life) it’s incredibly frustrating to have people deny that I told them something, when I can recall the exact date, time and words, when I did :P

r721 4y ago

Here's a thing I always wanted: Show big Twitter discussion with loads of subthreads/replies in Reddit/HN "comment tree" format.

python273 4y ago
I have twitter thread reader webapp. Currently it requires to run scripts locally to load the thread, so not quite as convenient. https://github.com/python273/twitter-reader https://github.com/python273/twitter-reader
halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
I looked into doing this a while ago and it’s near impossible due to how Twitter classifies/organizes threads (conversationId) and limitations within the API to derive the full tree.

752963e64 4y ago

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edmundsauto 4y ago

An interface to preferentially compare and choose between 2 objects, using a Tinder like interface (swipe left/right mechanics). Every year I do a stack ranking of baseball players for my fantasy league. If I had this interface, I could easily setup an ELO comparison function to create my complete list out of a series of easier comparisons. I have at times also wished I had this for just about any sort of data tagging. Give it an array of json objects, it displays the data and then lets you swipe super quickly through all the objects in the array, semi-randomly choosing which objects to compare. Would need to write the data out as well - that's the product. This is probably worth a couple hundred bucks to me if anyone wants to build it and open source under a commercial-reuse allowed license. Every year I spend dozens of hours doing this and don't feel like I have done a great job of making the correct comparisons.

sussmannbaka 4y ago
Check out https://github.com/antialiasis/favorite-picker https://github.com/antialiasis/favorite-picker The favorite Pokémon picker is based on this and I have used it (and similar ones, based on Tōhōsort) to do similar sorting.
ashishsingal 4y ago
any luck on implementing this one? would be cool to see if pycob can do it.
zainhoda 4y ago
How's this? The home page is a setup where you setup your dataframe. If you already have some csv or something, you can read that rather than getting user input. The app will randomly select 2 rows of the dataframe and display them as side-by-side VS cards. You then pick the winner from the two. Then the app will repeat random selection/winner as many times as you want. There's a results page that shows the ELO ranking of all the "players" as well as the history of all the "games" between the players. I implemented not with a "swipe" interface but just with side-by-side cards and you click on one. It wasn't clear to me how swiping would work when you're choosing a winner between 2 objects rather than making a yes/no decision. If you have an idea for how swipe would be useful, I'm all ears. Live App: https://compare-and-rank.pycob.app/ https://compare-and-rank.pycob.app/ Source Code: https://github.com/pycob/sample-apps/blob/main/compare-and-rank/main.py https://github.com/pycob/sample-apps/blob/main/compare-and-r...

lukew3 4y ago

https://pypistats.org/ https://pypistats.org/ tells you about pypi fownload stats

ashishsingal 4y ago
oh this is cool

nosmokewhereiam 4y ago

Voice activated calculator that allowed me to rapid fire simple math from across the room. If it did math while people were meeting and conversing and spat out an answer, that would be pretty cool. I also like counting apps: take a picture of a bowl of Cheerios and it counts the 'O's, or the number of pipes in a rack at a hardware store. I'm sure they've been engineered already or at least thought of before, but so far voice calculators seem slow and clunky like voice assistants, and counting apps lack surety and I wouldn't bet anyone's job on them that I've found so far.

ashishsingal 4y ago
can't google assistant or alexa do this? why would you need a web app?

abdullahkhalids 4y ago

Youtube channel or playlist to RSS feed, that I can then add to my podcast player. The link should point to the audio version of the youtube video. There is already one out there that I use, but its very badly designed.

pablo24602 4y ago
I was looking for something similar, but figured the use case was so narrow that nobody else was interested- what are the issues with the solution you found? Thinking of building this out.
- abdullahkhalids 4y ago
  Its something someone wrote a long time ago, and it seems to be on its death bed. It doesn't create feeds out of playlists iirc. Sometimes on a large channel, you just want to listen to one particular series. It doesn't let me choose the feed icon/image. Instead, the image is the text of the service name. This is very annoying because scrolling through my subscriptions on my podcast player, I primarily use the image to identify the one I am looking for.
ashishsingal 4y ago
how would you implement this? just take in a URL that has an RSS feed and then link each item on the feed to the podcast player?
- abdullahkhalids 4y ago
  Each item in the RSS feed links to the audio of a single episode (with the item title/description set as well) of the podcast. Podcast players can subscribe to the RSS feed, and display episodes as usual.
yurishimo 4y ago
Would you pay for something like this? Sounds like a fun weekend project but saving the files would get costly after a while. I’m imagining you want to use this for channels that don’t offer traditional podcasts but maybe operate in that long format (multi-hour)?

Hadriel 4y ago

The book summary! But curious around costs for that

arglebargle123 4y ago

I have two that I've been thinking about that I've been too lazy to cobble together myself: A page change tracker that A: pumps the page through uBlock origin before each snapshot and B; produces an RSS feed with a summary of changes. A web page to epub converter that A: sends the page through uBlock origin or similar, B: sends the result through the postlight parser, and then C: gives the user a chance to customize the result before packaging it up as an epub. Customisation would include setting a cover image (or none,) setting a title and other metadata, choosing to include a TOC or not, renaming any chapters if a TOC is included, etc. Currently my workflow for this involves someone's "web page to epub" converter personal project that isn't entirely designed for single pages and a bunch of time on Sigil cleaning up the resulting output.

ashishsingal 4y ago
what do you mean by uBlock origin? what's the use case here?

clnq 4y ago

Something with LLMs that uses sanitized data so it’s useful and not jailbroken and shut down within a month. For example: - an app that forecasts the weather where you are in 1 sentence. - an app that summarises user reviews of points of interest around you. - an app to summarise YouTube videos based on their transcripts. - an app that describes your address in 1 sentence as you would to an emergency service (“26 miles West of Placename on E25” or “on the corner of Eve drive and Redmond Avenue”, or “at Trafalgar square”). Shown with a map with all used place names for confirmation. - an alternative history daily news generator with several settings (cyberpunk, soviets won space race, world peace, world war 3, Nazis won WW2, the Earth is flat, brave new world, etc). - an endless text based adventure game where AI gives you some story and a verb each turn. You can set a theme in the beginning in 40 characters. - an app to transcribe and summarize voice recordings, for lectures and journaling (should be sanitized for jailbreak instructions but would be a useful app). - an API or app to generate long memorable pass phrases (based on semi random context like a random Wikipedia page).

sudhackar 4y ago
> - an API or app to generate long memorable pass phrases (based on semi random context like a random Wikipedia page). Somewhat close - see https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net/ https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net/ for relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/
- clnq 4y ago
  I was thinking along these lines, but we could remember much longer passphrases if they made semantic sense - the words were not random. For example, here's what ChatGPT comes up with when asked to create some short rhyming passphrases with symbols or numbers: * "Not all who seek, find." * "Speak with kindness - inspire greatness." * "Wise to listen 1st before speaking." How about this entropy? These are the final bosses of passwords.