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Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by borski »

chrift wrote: post #82
borski wrote: post #6

Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com

Just tried it on https://beetle.email and got spammed with new signup notifications. You might want to put a warning on there saying that it will submit any forms it can find a LOT. Also, on the waiting screen, while it's running tests, I filled in the form and it's had an iframe drama. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7rofi17cjormgav/Screenshot%202016-...

Thanks for the feedback. We will try to make that clearer - it does look for vulnerabilities anywhere it can.

And thanks for the info on the iFrame - I'll look into that as well.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by borski »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #23
borski wrote: post #6

Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com

Haven't checked how you're doing responsive layout but it's not working on FF mobile on my device, just FYI.

I've literally never tried FF on mobile, and never known anyone to use it, heh.

I'll definitely test that.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by borski »

c8g wrote: post #49
borski wrote: post #6

Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com

what is the meaning of "Your website is BORDERLINE UNSAFE" i used http://www.gogle.com [ http://google.com is not allowed.]

See above.

Also, please don't scan sites that aren't your own - you won't be able to see results anyway.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by ProAm »

i336_ wrote: post #58
ShinyCyril wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't fully understand the underlying cause, so take this with a pinch of salt... but my girlfriend's father's photo collection almost got wiped out by Google Photos. After being locked out of his Samsung tablet (supposedly it set itself a lockscreen out of the blue), I checked whether it had backed his photos up on Google Photos, but nothing there... After resetting it (it seems Samsung removed the ability to rese…

Methinks you could definitely get in touch with Google about this. Product support may well actually do what it's supposed to do... Alternatively, keep the tablet on cotton wool until you see someone mention in here they're from Google, check their profile for contact info and email them directly. Keep doing this until you get a reply back, and get them to poke your issue over to the right department. :P

> get in touch with Google about this

Ha!

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by nickpsecurity »

borski wrote: post #98
helb wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says that "Your website is BORDERLINE UNSAFE" after a while even if you leave the account form blank and just keep the page opened in a background tab. Better yet, it probably does that for any URL – see c8g's comment about Google, i've tried HN and a few of my own sites, all with the same results. Even tried to give it it's own address, but it "is not permitted". So I thought that maybe it just displays that mess…

The scan we run from the homepage is a rudimentary scan that only scans for client-side vulnerabilities, since we can't scan for server-side issues until you've verified ownership. As a result, we can't give you a clean bill of health until you've run a full scan, which is why you see that. If you verify ownership, you'll see any issues we found and be able to run a full scan which can give you a clean bill of health…

I'm not using your app but I assume it's not as clear as your comment based on upthread posts. You might want to modify the app to show both client and server side results with server saying "unknown: must verify ownership first." That would eliminate the confusion.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by gnicholas »

criddell wrote: post #96
gnicholas wrote: post #92

I was working as a corporate lawyer, and I posted a Show HN [1] before going to lunch one day. I came back and it was at #1, and it stayed there for over 12 hours. This led to a feature in Fast Company [2] and press in over 20 different languages. After winning a couple startup competitions, I quit my day job and now do BeeLine Reader [3] full-time. We have 70k users on our first-party tools, plus many more on our li…

I wish Amazon would add something like this to the e-ink Kindles.

yep, it could be done in grayscale, or they could use color e-ink (which exists but hasn't been adopted because it isn't good enough for image reproduction or fast enough for video).

In the meantime, our iPad app [1] and browser plugins [2] integrate with the Kindle Cloud Reader.

1: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beeline-reader/id938026867?m...

2: http://www.beelinereader.com/install

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by Kluny »

antirez wrote: post #15

I did not put "Show HN" in the title when I posted Redis here, but an HN post was the first announcement I did.

I just read the about page. Could you help me understand a little more about how it works? It seems like a tool that could replace sessions and cookies, and possibly a browser-based database?

My current project is a tournament-scoring app where I'm using cookies to hold match scores, so that the score won't be lost if the page is refreshed before the match is over and saved to the database. Would redis be appropriate in that context?

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by sashthebash »

In 2011 I did a Show HN for a project called StorageRoom (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616041) and got some interesting feedback.

Five years, a name change and a complete rewrite later Contentful (https://www.contentful.com) has raised a Series B (total funding close to $20m), got ~100 employees and customers ranging from Jack in the Box, over Nike to Urban Outfitters.

It's been a wild ride, and it doesn't look like it's going to be over anytime soon :)

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by silverlight »

anubisresources wrote: post #71
silverlight wrote: post #61

I did a Show HN for Roll20 right after launching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4532754 We now have almost 2 million users and a small team working on it full-time. I definitely originally thought it would only be a side project...

I love roll20! You've created a phenomenal product

Thanks!
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