The Owen Wilson Wow API

Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API by charcircuit on Saturday April 30, 2022 @02:58AM (#31213991)

1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself.

2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally.

3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be hard to generate income since most users probably only want to use it for a short amount of time as a joke. I think it is intended to just be a fun API that others can use.

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Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API by mikeyjk on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:11AM (#31214044)

You are responding to a satirical comment, riffing on the 'hacker news famous' comment that was criticising Dropbox during its infancy.

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Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API by anttiharju on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:51AM (#31214179)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API by szundi on Saturday April 30, 2022 @04:21AM (#31214310)

Slow progress of hacker news turning into 9gag

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Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API by willmw101 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @06:49AM (#31214957)

Or developing a sense of humour. Going by your comment apparently there are still some roadblocks on that journey.

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Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API by progre on Saturday April 30, 2022 @06:58AM (#31214999)

I don't see how that would happen. This forum is paged text only. 9gag is images and infinite scroll. Joke subissions on the HN frontpage almost always has some intresting merit other than the joke.

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Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API by FractalHQ on Saturday April 30, 2022 @04:34PM (#31219054)

I find the humor quite refreshing!

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