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Show HN: Storing my variables online (variabl.co)

• tarr11 12y ago
  Sounds like a (very) simple version of Parse. Here are some more similar concepts: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9024819/free-cloud-data-stores-that-use-get-post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9024819/free-cloud-data-s...
  • heshamg 12y ago
    awesome! I wish I saw these earlier.. however the idea of "hosting" is really interesting, and that's what everyone who uses it gets excited about.. You could upload an html page and link a domain name to it in 10 seconds :D Also having links to other variables within yours.. do you think that is available elsewhere? eg. try entering: this is a link to [dQtOFV7HXt6] then go to the link of the real variable. I find the possibility of having these references quite powerful.
    • pmx 12y ago
      It would be really awesome if you could link to a value in a json object in the variable. For example: http://www.variabl.co/var/ysM14XkmAEP http://www.variabl.co/var/ysM14XkmAEP you could link to http://www.variabl.co/var/ysM14XkmAEP/first-name http://www.variabl.co/var/ysM14XkmAEP/first-name and have it return "john"
      • heshamg 12y ago
        wow! that is an awesome idea! i'll try to get it done when I catch some free time.. i'll let you know thanks!
        • pmx 12y ago
          Cool I'll look forward to trying it out! What stack did you use to build this?
• stevekemp 12y ago
  Also reminds me of a toy server I use for storing JSON-encoded secrets. I use this when I need hosts to have passwords, but don't want them to be stored in public (github) repositories. https://github.com/skx/sss https://github.com/skx/sss