Kvak.io
Productivity
online notepad
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
8 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 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.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Lightweight and simple UI
From 4 comments
Neat! I like how it's lightweight, not enough lightweight stuff on the web nowadays (except for HN). Allowing the option to set human readable permalinks might be useful.
breck on HNThis is amazing. As simple as it can be. Good job!
donmb on HNThis is really good, extremely simple.
ian0 on HNI like the unintrusive UI, but what I would really like is markdown support. I am not sure if that fits _your_ initial idea, but I'm a tech person, so, for me that's a must.…
tomw1808 on HN
Objections
Missing HTTPS / SSL issues
From 3 comments
There seem to be some SSL issues https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=kvak.io
phelm on HNI like the unintrusive UI, but what I would really like is markdown support. I am not sure if that fits _your_ initial idea, but I'm a tech person, so, for me that's a must.…
tomw1808 on HNCould you make it redirect to https automatically please? Will the source code be available?
berkas1 on HN
Stored arbitrary HTML and scripts are a security concern
From 1 comment
A possible security concern is that this can store arbitrary HTML, including script. http://kvak.io/?n=f9f2o1r2pd64
andrewla on HN
Not suitable for secrets
From 1 comment
Not great for secrets tho
quickthrower2 on HN
Requests
Markdown support
From 1 comment
I like the unintrusive UI, but what I would really like is markdown support. I am not sure if that fits _your_ initial idea, but I'm a tech person, so, for me that's a must.…
tomw1808 on HN
Custom or human-readable URLs
From 2 comments
Neat! I like how it's lightweight, not enough lightweight stuff on the web nowadays (except for HN). Allowing the option to set human readable permalinks might be useful.
breck on HNWhat would help a lot, if you could customize the generated parameter in some way. Together with the password feature noone could "hack" into it anyways.
donmb on HN
Client-side encryption
From 1 comment
Would be great with client side encryption
ellis0n on HN
Open source code for self-hosting
From 2 comments
Will love to self host something like this. Would you be willing to open source it?
davidcollantes on HNCould you make it redirect to https automatically please? Will the source code be available?
berkas1 on HN
Questions
What tech stack is used
From 2 comments
Can you describe the tech stack behind this?
skapadia on HNLooks nice! You seem to be missing an about page and a privacy-related page though. What tech stack is behind?
tleb_ on HN
Business model
From 1 comment
Very interesting tool. I wonder what the business model behind this might be. How do you intend to make money? Do you even want to make money with this?
baxtr on HN
Alternatives named
Telegraph (telegra.ph)
From 1 comment
https://telegra.ph/
holdn on HN
notepad.cc and onthesamepage.online
From 1 comment
That's cool! Reminds me of old notepad.cc and https://onthesamepage.online/ with very similar mechanics and philosophy, but for visual drawing.
zserge on HN
shrib.com
From 1 comment
reminds me of shrib.com/
ahstilde on HN
0bin encrypted pastebin
From 1 comment
Have you seen clientside-encrypted pastebins like 0bin[0]? The idea is to absolve the host of legal responsibility, since they can't even access the data without the decryption…
rozab on HN