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Show HN: I Made a Web API for Textual Data
- skrebbel 13y agoQuite honestly, I don't get it. Why would anyone want their product to depend on a third party (= point of failure) for something as trivial as storing a string in a database and calling a markdown processor?
- ihodes 13y agoProbably wouldn't for that, but there's quite a bit more going on there, not the least of which is XPath and JSONPath querying. I'll be posting more on this later, but this is just a part of another project as well. But since it has some uses as is, I thought I'd post it now.
- skrebbel 13y agoHmm, still, with Postgres supporting XPath queries natively, I feel that your added value is rather slim, I must admit.. It doesn't have JSONPath, but it does have something else that comes very close (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-json.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-json.htm...)
- leokun 13y agoUnencrypted basic auth as a means to authenticate REST API access is a bad idea. Acquire an SSL certificate.
- ihodes 13y agoYes, that is in progress.
- nathancahill 13y agoAfter subscribing, I get redirected to http://www.healthtracr.com/ http://www.healthtracr.com/. Another project of yours?
- ihodes 13y agoSorry about that! Yeah, that's something a few people use to track & graph things (either y/n questions, 0-n question, or numeric questions) via scheduled emails.
- himbeere 13y agoI actually am searching for a service like this. But I'm very concerned about privacy, IP logging and stuff.
- ihodes 13y agoPing me at isaachodes at gmail.com if you have specific questions (and I've love to hear about your use-case as well). Encrypted data at rest and transit are upcoming (SSL is very soon, encrypted by the secret key (as an optional measure) is coming later, if there's demand for it).
- alexchamberlain 13y agoOffer a full text search instead of encryption at rest.
- d--b 13y agoWhy?
- robotmay 13y agoI actually rather like it. I had a similar idea a year or two ago which became something more like a text snippet site, but I originally had ambitions along these lines.