Shortly
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pastebin
SHOW HN2012
58points
30comments
#398of 1,677 in 2012
Top 24%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.27.
Idea: 2 for, 7 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever, catchy idea
From 4 comments
Shortly is catchy. Brilliant idea, by the way.
b2spirit on HNInspired by ZeroBin I started to wonder whether you could create a pastebin service with no server side component. Shortly (yeah I'm not really sure what is with the name) is the…
lucaspiller on HNThis could be extended by adding file upload support. What impact would this have under a SOPA-world?
xiaomei on HNThis is cool! I think you should implement the hash-based encryption key support from Zerobin, though. That way you could send around the message or the message and the key, as…
vessenes on HN
Objections
Not truly serverless since a server serves the HTML and JavaScript
From 1 comment
I'm being pedantic, but this is not a server-less pastebin. A server must still serve the HTML page and the javascript used to decode its content. A truly server-less pastebin…
SeoxyS on HN
Hashify.me and similar services already exist
From 3 comments
Someone made a service like this last year (http://hashify.me). HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213
johtso on HNIn the same vein, http://hashify.me/ stores markdown documents in URL and uses bitly for "persistence". Previous discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197/
nigma on HNHashify.me lets you store an entire webpage in a url. As I recall it links bitly addresses. This lets you store up to 22500 characters. Now you combine that with this in a…
lsiebert on HN
Japanese text is not displayed correctly
From 2 comments
Nice service, I like the idea very much. One problem I noticed with it though: It does not work correctly with Japanese text. I can input & "save" Japanese, but upon opening that…
replax on HNJavaScript's stuck with UTF-16, so apps assuming bytes not shorts will mangle text.
TazeTSchnitzel on HN
Requests
Add encryption or key support like ZeroBin
From 2 comments
This is cool! I think you should implement the hash-based encryption key support from Zerobin, though. That way you could send around the message or the message and the key, as…
vessenes on HNSweet hack. Would be cool if there was a way to make it secure as well...
aba_sababa on HN
Add file upload support
From 3 comments
This could be extended by adding file upload support. What impact would this have under a SOPA-world?
xiaomei on HNso, basically you are abusing link shorteners for data storage :) i would like something like this for binary data, with the option to specify a filename, as that is something…
_quasimodo on HNI use the same method for share links in http://padhacker.net, a server-less JSFiddle-type of tool. The data is just JSON, but I've been toying with adding arbitrary binary…
alecperkins on HN
Automatic short URL creation via shortener APIs
From 1 comment
Great idea. Most URL shorteners offer APIs. Why not automatically create a short URL?
NameNickHN on HN
Questions
Whether the same approach could share other data formats
From 1 comment
Inspired by ZeroBin I started to wonder whether you could create a pastebin service with no server side component. Shortly (yeah I'm not really sure what is with the name) is the…
lucaspiller on HN
Whether encryption adds value for a pastebin
From 3 comments
What kind of security risk do you have in mind?
kijin on HNAnd what benefit do you imagine that conferring?
Ralith on HNWhy would you want a pastebin app to encrypt your stuff for you? A pastebin is a place where you just post something for random folks to view. It's like imgur for text. Yeah,…
kijin on HN
Alternatives named
Hashify.me
From 3 comments
Someone made a service like this last year (http://hashify.me). HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213
johtso on HNIn the same vein, http://hashify.me/ stores markdown documents in URL and uses bitly for "persistence". Previous discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197/
nigma on HNHashify.me lets you store an entire webpage in a url. As I recall it links bitly addresses. This lets you store up to 22500 characters. Now you combine that with this in a…
lsiebert on HN
ZeroBin
From 2 comments
Inspired by ZeroBin I started to wonder whether you could create a pastebin service with no server side component. Shortly (yeah I'm not really sure what is with the name) is the…
lucaspiller on HNAs I understand it this is exactly how Zerobin works. The server stores the encrypted data, and the key is passed in the URL only.
lucaspiller on HN
Data URI scheme
From 1 comment
why not sending this directly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme ``` data:text/html;charset=utf-8,Hi HN ```
est on HN
ezcrypt.it
From 1 comment
Kinda like how ezcrypt works? https://ezcrypt.it/
prurigro on HN