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Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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post #23

Ironically, the idea is more useful than intended. One could, for example, store on/off user's preferences in the cloud without the hassle of local storage, survey responses, or even control IoT devices remotely with just the switch of a boolean.

If this had authentication you could even expand its usage.

A boolean might indicate if it's snowing in NY, for example (Read-Only for most people)

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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Can it send an email or POST to a webhook whenever a boolean is changed? I'd like to know whenever our is_production flag is changed.

Could you add an XML endpoint for your API, with an XSD describing it? All our systems are built to use XML, and adding JSON support to our infrastructure is still 6-9 months away.

Do you offer HIPAA-compliance, in case we'd like to store booleans from medical records on your servers?

Re: Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)

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post #32

Good practice would recommend adding /v1/ to your API url. The state of the boolean ecosystem is moving so fast that we have no idea what booleans will look like in 5 years!

Good call. We're already struggling to keep up with this rapidly evolving data type.
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