Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it

Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by swehner on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @11:44PM (#9536627)

Kind of related, http://channelurl.com/ -- the site only has those pages that are linked to. In other words, the content of a page is taken from its URL.

Example: a couple of Mark Twain quotes at

http://channelurl.com/show/1f8b080054c8525500036d90b16a04310...

Cheers

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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by nosir33 on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:07AM (#9536698)

I think this is great. The page is basically a markdown viewer and the link has markdown encoded in it. If you pass the URL through a URL shortener, then the URL shortener is effectively hosting the content of your page. It would be cool if this was static HTML and the markdown was rendered in JS.

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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by nosir33 on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:17AM (#9536741)

This one has a WYSIWYG editor and renders the markdown using only javascript. All content is in the URL and isn't even sent to the server.

http://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/#bVPBTtwwEL37KwYt0u6W3a...

With source code: https://github.com/jbt/markdown-editor

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Re:Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it by swehner on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:35AM (#9537178)

Nice! Uses compression as well, I see.

Would be super cool if the URL encoding schemes of these two sites were compatible!

OTH, I'm guessing the markdown-editor "site" cannot be searched.

Here is the result for the Google search of channelurl.com for "bird" / http://www.google.ca/cse?q=bird&cx=partner-pub-1886386989888...

Kind of fun that way too!

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