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Listable: create and share lists with JSON, SQL, and plaintext output

20 points by bd 18y ago

andrewljohnson 18y ago
In the words of Crocodile Dundee. "That's not a knife... that's a knife http://www.trailbehind.com/park_index/0/ http://www.trailbehind.com/park_index/0/" Here's a big list that does something... allow Google to index my 3000 park maps :)
- tdavis 18y ago
  The second part is actually "This is a knife!" Because he's holding it. Sorry.
bprater 18y ago
Great concept, I hope it grows teeth. I'm curious if they are going to allow general web applications to draw data continually.
- teej 18y ago
  I can't see why not. It seems incredibly straightforward to cache effectively.
jacobscott 18y ago
the MYSQL escaping seems broken: http://www.listable.org/mysql/random-stuff http://www.listable.org/mysql/random-stuff
Blaksheep 18y ago
Pretty cool concept as bprater pointed out. I would like to see a special split character or something so you could generate comma separated lists and thus, multi-column SQL Tables and more complex JSON objects.
gstar 18y ago
I've had an idea to build a list app for a while, but the devil is in the details. My mental list (ahem!) of features went like this: - It needs to hold lists of key/value pairs of any size (bit like memcached, or a list of dicts in python) - It needs to have RPC access to add/insert/delete/update keys and values - There needs to be pub/sub access to the RPC interface, replication needs to be instant, and it needs to be able to advise you if the replication is degraded. Some sort of MQ service. - It needs to have client libraries in a few languages, and some example apps - It needs to have a web front-end for inspecting and managing lists and permissions Imagine the possibilities! - you could have a desktop/web and iphone app that monitored stock prices, your server status, or other arbitrary figures - you and your wife could have the ultimate shopping list (delete butter on one and it's instantly gone and deleted on all devices - fantastically useful) - you could re-invent irc - you could make hypertwitter 2.0 - you could make a message queue service - you could build a CDN or cache on it. Has this been done? I know Google Spreadsheets is about 5% of the way there.

20 points by bd 18y ago

In the words of Crocodile Dundee. "That's not a knife... that's a knife http://www.trailbehind.com/park_index/0/ http://www.trailbehind.com/park_index/0/" Here's a big list that does something... allow Google to index my 3000 park maps :)

tdavis 18y ago
The second part is actually "This is a knife!" Because he's holding it. Sorry.

bprater 18y ago

Great concept, I hope it grows teeth. I'm curious if they are going to allow general web applications to draw data continually.

teej 18y ago
I can't see why not. It seems incredibly straightforward to cache effectively.

jacobscott 18y ago

the MYSQL escaping seems broken: http://www.listable.org/mysql/random-stuff http://www.listable.org/mysql/random-stuff

Blaksheep 18y ago

Pretty cool concept as bprater pointed out. I would like to see a special split character or something so you could generate comma separated lists and thus, multi-column SQL Tables and more complex JSON objects.

gstar 18y ago

I've had an idea to build a list app for a while, but the devil is in the details. My mental list (ahem!) of features went like this: - It needs to hold lists of key/value pairs of any size (bit like memcached, or a list of dicts in python) - It needs to have RPC access to add/insert/delete/update keys and values - There needs to be pub/sub access to the RPC interface, replication needs to be instant, and it needs to be able to advise you if the replication is degraded. Some sort of MQ service. - It needs to have client libraries in a few languages, and some example apps - It needs to have a web front-end for inspecting and managing lists and permissions Imagine the possibilities! - you could have a desktop/web and iphone app that monitored stock prices, your server status, or other arbitrary figures - you and your wife could have the ultimate shopping list (delete butter on one and it's instantly gone and deleted on all devices - fantastically useful) - you could re-invent irc - you could make hypertwitter 2.0 - you could make a message queue service - you could build a CDN or cache on it. Has this been done? I know Google Spreadsheets is about 5% of the way there.