Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by rsync on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:57AM (#32459802)

"Oh By".[1]

It's a "universal shortener".[2]

You can take any block of text and condense it to a simple code that you can chalk up anywhere. It's the same idea as a QR code but you can just quickly write it out with a pencil or chalk it on the street ... or verbally state it.

I'm convinced there is some use-case that this elegantly solves and would be genuinely valuable to people ... but beyond mentioning it here on HN I have never marketed it in any way.

[1] https://0x.co

[2] https://0x.co/examples.html

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by aaur0 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @01:21PM (#32461033)

I would recommend blacklisting a few words while generating the URL. This is what was generated for me https://0x.co/done.html?code=632CUM

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by rsync on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:33PM (#32461664)

... and the latin word for "along with" should be on that list ?

But seriously ...

We did, in fact, disable certain outputs but they were all related to legibility and mistaken transcription. For instance, no O/0 and no l/1, if I remember correctly ...

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by brk on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:10PM (#32460382)

I love the idea of this. It seems like your major hurdle is just getting enough traction for the "Ox" prefix to become as well understood as "@" or "#".

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by rsync on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:43PM (#32460676)

Yes, I think that is the crux of it.

Maybe a superbowl commercial ...

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by quickthrower2 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:45PM (#32464990)

You are on a Malwarebytes blacklist, just FYI.

It says: "Website blocked due to phishing"

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by danbulant on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:34AM (#32460091)

How do people find 0x.co to get the data out of the code? Maybe the code should be written like 0x.co/something instead of just 0xSOMETHING?

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by rsync on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:54AM (#32460257)

Yep. Chicken and egg problem.

The idea is that they come into such broad usage that everyone just knows what an 0x code is.

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by jacobsimon on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:26PM (#32460528)

Or make your SEO good so that when people inevitably Google search, your result is first.

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by danbulant on Sunday August 21, 2022 @08:04AM (#32539330)

0xSOMETHING is just a single word so that will usually not find something unless they have an index with all the generated codes, which is something they probably don't want.

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by hoyent on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:33PM (#32461658)

This is just a pastebin, isn't it?

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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? by rsync on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:34PM (#32461670)

I don't know what it is.

It made me happy to build it and I hope that there is some emergent use-case for it that organically comes into being.

Surprise me :)

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