copypastecsv
Dev tools
csv sharing
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.35.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean look and nice design
From 2 comments
Nice clean look. Just FYI, newlines aren't properly formatted in the output: ``` a,b,"c c",d,e ``` Also, what is the privacy policy as for data we paste into your site?
mholt on HNThis is pretty nice, but it would be better if you could edit the columns - also, can you post this csv data to a url via ajax after it is formatted?
misiti3780 on HN
Interesting idea for hackers
From 2 comments
To be honest, there is not much need for a CSV host as most would just use Google Docs. It's a cool tool for hackers though. EDIT: typos
dyscrete on HNNice. I had a an idea for something similar. More like a library that takes in markdown formatted CSV and outputs well-formatted XLS/Pages document.
laex on HN
Objections
Little need, Google Docs does this
From 1 comment
To be honest, there is not much need for a CSV host as most would just use Google Docs. It's a cool tool for hackers though. EDIT: typos
dyscrete on HN
Privacy concerns about uploaded data and no privacy policy
From 2 comments
Nice clean look. Just FYI, newlines aren't properly formatted in the output: ``` a,b,"c c",d,e ``` Also, what is the privacy policy as for data we paste into your site?
mholt on HNI was about to mention the bad security of uploading personal documents to some guy's Heroku instance. Instead found this a very unprofessional and destructive way to handle a…
dyscrete on HN
Newline handling in CSV output is broken
From 1 comment
Nice clean look. Just FYI, newlines aren't properly formatted in the output: ``` a,b,"c c",d,e ``` Also, what is the privacy policy as for data we paste into your site?
mholt on HN
Page too large and crashes browser
From 1 comment
Just a warning - that page is ~7MB and crashed Firefox for me. Still pretty sad the browser can be halted via zerg rush.
voltagex_ on HN
Requests
Add a privacy policy
From 1 comment
Yeah, this was a very quick project and that slipped through. All fixed now. If people are interested I'd be happy to put due diligence in and put up a privacy policy! Edit:…
heynk on HN
Allow editing columns
From 1 comment
This is pretty nice, but it would be better if you could edit the columns - also, can you post this csv data to a url via ajax after it is formatted?
misiti3780 on HN
Post formatted CSV via ajax
From 1 comment
This is pretty nice, but it would be better if you could edit the columns - also, can you post this csv data to a url via ajax after it is formatted?
misiti3780 on HN
Questions
What is the privacy policy for pasted data?
From 1 comment
Nice clean look. Just FYI, newlines aren't properly formatted in the output: ``` a,b,"c c",d,e ``` Also, what is the privacy policy as for data we paste into your site?
mholt on HN
Alternatives named
Google Docs
From 1 comment
To be honest, there is not much need for a CSV host as most would just use Google Docs. It's a cool tool for hackers though. EDIT: typos
dyscrete on HN
Gist and Pastebin
From 1 comment
Couldn't you say the same thing about Gist/PasteBin? Last I checked those were pretty popular...
nostromo on HN