Cleargraph
Dev tools
blockchain api gateway
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
3 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Privacy: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea to put GraphQL over blockchain data
From 1 comment
I don't think I get it... It lets you query the state of the blockchain using graphql? -- which is actually a good idea.
UncleEntity on HN
Graphical transaction explorer and todo-list with staking ideas welcomed
From 1 comment
I think it would be great to have a graphical transaction explorer. It would really educate people on how the blockchain works. I think the todo-list with staking would be…
zitterbewegung on HN
Objections
Not decentralized: contact discovery and endpoint rely on a central service
From 2 comments
Alex, could you clarify more? From initial glance of it and the blog it looks like either (A) We have to go through your service, which clearly isn't decentralized. or (B) This…
marknadal on HNOkay, I think I understand more, you are saying you can run Cleargraph locally, and have things proxy to it rather than anybody else's server. Good, glad to hear that!!! Yeah,…
marknadal on HN
No documentation; playground unusable without schema
From 1 comment
Is there any documentation at all? I couldn't find any. The playground[1] isn't useful without the schema. 1. https://api.cleargraph.com/
anonfunction on HN
Requests
Documentation and schema
From 1 comment
Is there any documentation at all? I couldn't find any. The playground[1] isn't useful without the schema. 1. https://api.cleargraph.com/
anonfunction on HN
Fully peer-to-peer design
From 1 comment
Alex, could you clarify more? From initial glance of it and the blog it looks like either (A) We have to go through your service, which clearly isn't decentralized. or (B) This…
marknadal on HN
Ideas for dApp templates
From 1 comment
Author here: we noticed consistent sources of duplicated code when designing cross-platform dApps and built Cleargraph out of necessity. We thought it would be broadly useful as…
alexkern on HN
Questions
How is it decentralized if it uses a hosted endpoint?
From 1 comment
Alex, could you clarify more? From initial glance of it and the blog it looks like either (A) We have to go through your service, which clearly isn't decentralized. or (B) This…
marknadal on HN
How do ENS and contact names relate to GraphQL queries?
From 1 comment
Okay, I think I understand more, you are saying you can run Cleargraph locally, and have things proxy to it rather than anybody else's server. Good, glad to hear that!!! Yeah,…
marknadal on HN
Alternatives named
graphql-gun (P2P GraphQL layer on GUN)
From 1 comment
Alex, could you clarify more? From initial glance of it and the blog it looks like either (A) We have to go through your service, which clearly isn't decentralized. or (B) This…
marknadal on HN