patchbay.pub
Dev tools
http messaging service
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
16 positive, 35 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 58 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 10 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 3 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple and powerful concept with useful examples
From 3 comments
Well this is amazing, it's simple and functional, solves a wide variety of problems with a very simple approach. Congratulations for shipping it!
lsferreira42 on HNThis is a fantastic idea. Great useful examples, the little chat client is such a novel use of a simple concept. Well done!
moose333 on HNThis is incredibly interesting and super clever. I love all the little examples of what you could do with this and am definitely going to play with this.
timvdalen on HN
Scriptable via curl, good developer experience
From 1 comment
This is excellent - a big fan of its scriptability via curl. I think you have the beginnings of a truly amazing developer experience here. If you're interested in monetizing…
zomglings on HN
Objections
Security concerns about open endpoints and anonymous abuse
From 2 comments
Noticed someone working on a rather interesting exploit in the logs: POST /.well-known/acme-challenge/huhn2?mime=text%2Fplain Plugged that one. If anyone thinks of similar holes…
anderspitman on HNIt would be nice to have read-only endpoints.
qbaqbaqba on HN
Name confusion with Secure Scuttlebutt Patchbay
From 2 comments
The name (including the .pub part) made me think this was related to the Secure Scuttlebutt client Patchbay: https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay
fenwick67 on HNSame, I was super confused and I was trying to find out the relation the entire time and there is none.
tylerchilds on HN
Requests
Release the source code
From 2 comments
I like this. Have you considered releasing the source so people can run it on their own servers?
whois on HNAnders, please, opensauce it!
mathfailure on HN
Authentication and persistence of messages
From 1 comment
This is excellent - a big fan of its scriptability via curl. I think you have the beginnings of a truly amazing developer experience here. If you're interested in monetizing…
zomglings on HN
Read-only endpoints
From 1 comment
It would be nice to have read-only endpoints.
qbaqbaqba on HN
Questions
How does the peer-to-peer model work versus routing through the server
From 1 comment
How does this technically work? Is this a server which just tunnels through tcp traffic? So does all data pass through your server or is it a rendezvous server, which uses ICE to…
thojest on HN
What does 'poor man' mean in the name
From 1 comment
The term 'poor man' isn't very informative to me. Does that mean it has all the functionality but is free or does it mean has basic functionality and is free, or is cheaper?
billhathaway on HN
Alternatives named
IFTTT
From 1 comment
^^^ This. The kind of people who use this are power users who want to run this on their server. Or use IFTTT otherwise.
dnpp123 on HN
Tor hidden services
From 1 comment
Yep everything goes through my server (see the security and privacy sections at the bottom of the page). It would be awesome if someone could figure out a peer-to-peer way to…
anderspitman on HN