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Re:Show HN: Solid side income from market inefficiencies on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @05:10PM (#8110989)
I like this a lot. I thought about doing something similar for used cell phones, where you could find price discrepancies between Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, and some others.
Re:Show HN: Unofficial App Store for Trello on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:38PM (#7849897)
I flipping love Trello and think this Boards App Store is fantastic. As far as board ideas, how about a Business Model Canvas, MVP, and some kind of a branstorming/comparing/sorting board, you know, for the "Ideas" board? Keep it up!
Re:Show HN: A Url Permanence Service on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @09:17PM (#4879913)
Thanks for all of the feedback everyone... it has been very exciting to actually "launch" something and get some feedback. You guys did a swell job of uncovering some bugs and edge cases. I'm going to keep pushing and at least get it working as advertised.

I did some research ahead of time and did come across purl.org, but had no idea about WebCite and a couple of the others. Yes, my project is basically the same as those.

Does this work as a single point of failure company? Who knows, but it's been fun.

Re:Show HN: A Url Permanence Service on Sunday December 02, 2012 @06:39PM (#4863118)
I'd say a lot has changed in Libya since 2010...
Re:Show HN: A Url Permanence Service on Sunday December 02, 2012 @12:04PM (#4861729)
The nameservers themselves are here in the us, which will hopefully help. But you have a good point.
Re:Show HN: A Url Permanence Service on Sunday December 02, 2012 @11:58AM (#4861703)
It launched with this Show HN...
Re:Show HN: A Url Permanence Service on Sunday December 02, 2012 @10:28AM (#4861434)
It's pretty quick and dirty... purl.ly links will detect a 404 at the destination and redirect you to the google cache instead. Works great if that page is in the google cache, but it may not be.

I'll get around to caching the full content of the destinations at time of purl.ly creation next, and serve that if google is missing it.