Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

Last year, just for fun, I created a single index.php website calculating HEX colors to RGB. It takes 3 and 6 digit notation (ie. #c00 and #cc0000) and converts it to RGB value. No database, just single .php file, converting values on the fly.

It's little over a year old and now every day there's 60k-100k bots visiting and crawling the shit out of two-trillion-something sub pages...

I am out of ideas what to do with this site. I mean, it's probably one of the largest websites on the Internet, if counted by sub-pages...

What cool experiment/idea/stuff should I do/try with this website?

I'm sure AI could be (ab)used somehow here... :)

Reminds me of the Library of Babel for some reason:

https://libraryofbabel.info/referencehex.html

> The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries…The arrangement of the galleries is always the same: Twenty bookshelves, five to each side, line four of the hexagon's six sides…each bookshelf holds thirty-two books identical in format; each book contains four hundred ten pages; each page, forty lines; each line, approximately eighty black letters

> With these words, Borges has set the rule for the universe en abyme contained on our site. Each book has been assigned its particular hexagon, wall, shelf, and volume code. The somewhat cryptic strings of characters you’ll see on the book and browse pages identify these locations. For example, jeb0110jlb-w2-s4-v16 means the book you are reading is the 16th volume (v16) on the fourth shelf (s4) of the second wall (w2) of hexagon jeb0110jlb. Consider it the Library of Babel's equivalent of the Dewey Decimal system.

https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?jeb0110jlb-w2-s4-v16:1

I would leave the existing functionality and site layout intact and maybe add new kinds of data transformations?

Maybe something like CyberChef but for color or art tools?

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

You mean adding 2 hex values at the end of the 6-notation to increase number of sub-pages? I love it, will do :)

sell backlinks..

embed google ads..