Textdb.dev
Infrastructure
data sync service
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
12 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, useful tool for prototyping and sharing data
From 3 comments
Whoever made this, I love you. I do a lot of prototyping in Framer, and this just make simple prototypes that communicate with one another hell of a lot easier!
josefrichter on HNThank you for making this it's super handy.
jrott on HNI really like simple tools like this. Well done; I can see lots of uses for this, especially with the Serverless/Jamstack surge. I love the idea of Hashing and read/write keys…
redm on HN
Fun ideas for using it (bots, Turing machine)
From 2 comments
I'd already been pondering the paperclip-machine universe that could be created by a Twitter bot that just pipes tweets to bash and posts the output. Now it could just trawl…
abathur on HNI'm pretty sure you could build a Turing machine with textdb as tape and a Twitter bot as the tape head.
lou1306 on HN
Objections
Security through obscurity concerns with UUID URLs
From 2 comments
It's a cool idea, but the old anti-pattern about security through obscurity applies.
TedDoesntTalk on HNRight, but in the context of this application, there is NO OTHER security except the obscurity of the UUID or it’s hash. The mantra applies quite well here since an attacker…
TedDoesntTalk on HN
Rate limiting by IP fails behind NAT
From 2 comments
Really simple cool! One minor thing on the IP rate limiting side.... LOTS of mobile/cell users might end up NAT'ed behind a single IP. Just an FYI.
sreekotay on HNI don't think it's possible to correctly rate limit IPs behind NAT, at least with NGINX. > Note that IP addresses can be shared behind NAT devices, so limiting by IP address…
lioeters on HN
Abuse risk with large objects or high volume
From 2 comments
I really like simple tools like this. Well done; I can see lots of uses for this, especially with the Serverless/Jamstack surge. I love the idea of Hashing and read/write keys…
redm on HNThis seems to be in a similar spirit to https://patchbay.pub/. I love these small services, but I still don't have an idea how they can be scaled up: If you want to use them for…
ximm on HN
Requests
Read-only hash access to data
From 1 comment
It would be cool if it was possible to read the data not just by the ID, but also by the hash of the ID. That would let us serve stuff like version information and links to the…
miki123211 on HN
Dashboard with usage stats
From 1 comment
Very cool! Do you have any sort of dashboard displaying stats for the service? Simple totals would be interesting, of course (size, # of buckets, # of edits, etc.), but I'd find…
webmaven on HN
Link to GitHub on website
From 1 comment
Can you add a link to your GitHub from the website? I usually star things instead of bookmarking and others probably do too.
mkoryak on HN
Questions
Maximum data size limit
From 2 comments
Is there a maximum file size limit?
rendall on HNIs there an upper limit to the amount of data that can be stored on an endpoint?
gmemstr on HN
Whether data expires
From 1 comment
One more question: Does the data expire?
josefrichter on HN
Alternatives named
patchbay.pub
From 1 comment
This seems to be in a similar spirit to https://patchbay.pub/. I love these small services, but I still don't have an idea how they can be scaled up: If you want to use them for…
ximm on HN
jsonbox.io
From 1 comment
Alternative service except there is no live update: https://jsonbox.io/
unixfox on HN
u.instacrypt.me
From 1 comment
Similar service https://u.instacrypt.me/
known on HN
reg.t0.vc
From 1 comment
Great work! I wrote something similar at: https://reg.t0.vc It's useful if you set up bash aliases like "push" and "pull" so you can quickly move snippets of text across servers.
tannercollin on HN
stavros.io messaging post
From 1 comment
You may also like this super simple MQ I wrote a while ago: https://www.stavros.io/posts/messaging-for-your-things/
StavrosK on HN