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Ask HN: Why does this product exist?

• janandonly 7mo ago
  This is a serious question. Someone paid for a webdomain and build a whole product around base64 conversion. That is something 3 lines of pure JavaScrit with no library dependencies could do. Who would build such a website and company and who on earth would pay for it? Context: at Zapier this is the standard App for Base64 conversions. One can easily just add a JS codeblock so it’s not forced on users, but still. It’s weird.
  • Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
    To be honest, I am not familiar with thebase64 but I have personally used https://www.base64decode.org/ https://www.base64decode.org/ sometimes I am not really familiar why a company might pay for an api though? Maybe for geolocation purposes but I am not familiar why someone might not want to do this client side or similar
• FrankWilhoit 7mo ago
  People running on mainframe emulation, using back versions that are only seven-bit-clean.
• deleted 7mo ago
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