Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages

Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by steerablesafe on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:06AM (#25111136)

Interesting. This could be considered as abuse of github issues though.

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by hiccuphippo on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:55AM (#25111612)

The best hack on github issues I know is the trending-repos repo. Just subscribe to the issue of the technologies you care and you'll receive a daily/weekly email with the most starred repos for that period:

https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by OskarS on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:13AM (#25111202)

Yeah, this is like when people built filesystems on top of Gmail attachments in the bad old days before Dropbox.

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by poyu on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:25PM (#25117162)

Boy I remember doing this when I got my Gmail invite around 2006, those files are still retrievable today!

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by xwdv on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:16AM (#25111229)

Think of this as the software version of graffiti.

It is an artistic and creative way to shorten urls, but likely won’t exist forever. As long as it does though, we can appreciate the art for what it is.

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by nelsontky on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:15AM (#25111214)

Indeed, especially with the recursive link created by someone else (nlsn.cf/6)

GitHub does have a 60 calls per hour API limit so I don't think it affects them as much(?) That being said this project is meant to be for fun and definitely not recommended for production purposes HAHA

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by userbinator on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:06AM (#25112505)

I've seen quite a few uses of the issues page as a discussion forum too. I certainly wouldn't consider any of it "abuse", however.

I wonder if anyone has made this observation before in regards to such things: "Anything that can be used to store arbitrary data, will be used to store arbitrary data."

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by kordlessagain on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:11AM (#25112589)

> could be considered as abuse of github issues though

Like licensing arguments?

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