Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by ronsor » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 2:10 AM UTC

wayne wrote: post #116

swatkat wrote: post #113

Safari on iOS 14.1 started throwing “Deceptive website” warning for the domain. It worked fine (i.e. no warning) an hour ago.

Ditto on Chrome with an all-red screen and "Deceptive site ahead".

looks like phishers have already started using it

real sad

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by zambodian2 » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 2:21 AM UTC

Crouton: https://ugliest.app/l/03756676-f16a-4964-9a86-9e13b4735a00/2

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by andygcook » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 2:55 AM UTC

pailander wrote: post #93

andygcook wrote: post #19

Made a quick ugly nostalgic website: https://ugliest.app/l/faf7f8c5-cd2c-47ab-9cb8-f6daf27f74d6/T... Warning: May contain sound Edit: Accidentally left the token on the URL I posted and got pwned... :)

You're missing a visit counter.

Im pretty sure I included one under the fire GIF. But might not be rendering on every browser.

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by andygcook » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 2:56 AM UTC

allenu wrote: post #38

andygcook wrote: post #19

Made a quick ugly nostalgic website: https://ugliest.app/l/faf7f8c5-cd2c-47ab-9cb8-f6daf27f74d6/T... Warning: May contain sound Edit: Accidentally left the token on the URL I posted and got pwned... :)

Nicely done. Is it still possible to change the cursor appearance? Might want to look into that.

Missed opportunity. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to edit this site anymore because I didn’t save the edit link.

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by Shared404 » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 3:42 AM UTC

runxel wrote: post #40

I don't get it. Why has everything to be called an "app" nowadays? All in all I have so many questions – Let's start with: "WHY, tho?"

> I don't get it. Why has everything to be called an "app" nowadays?

Because that's what people have decided. It is what it is.

> All in all I have so many questions – Let's start with: "WHY, tho?"

Why not?

I personally quite like the aesthetic.

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by red2awn » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 5:13 AM UTC

xyst wrote: post #7

https://ugliest.app/l/ca885415-5559-48e2-8c28-1a49af5c1c43/g... I created an app. How do I get 100M USD series A funding round?

Rewrite it in Strategic communication [0]

[0]: https://github.com/rotoclone/strategic-communication

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by hakube » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 5:18 AM UTC

Will you support custom domains? I love this platform tbh

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by david90 » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 6:41 AM UTC

Nice work! How can I call the insert/select/update APIs in JS?

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by deckplecksetter » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 6:47 AM UTC

I love the simplicity of this. If it had a proper editor, I could totally see using this for small prototype webapps.

Re: Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

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Post by maybevain » Thu, Nov 05, 2020, 7:00 AM UTC

solox3 wrote: post #64

Heads up for the creator: putting everything under ugliest.app allows pages to read the same cookies across different "apps". If anyone plans to use the platform for production (which you appear to welcome), nothing substantial can be done. I forgot what made github.com switch to github.io. Something similar but totally separate.

There's also the added benefit of being able to list the github.io domain on the Public Suffix List [1], which means that no cookies can be set for the top level domain, only the *.github.io subdomains. This prevents the platform users from accidentally revealing their cookies to every other app under the top level domain.

EDIT: to ellaborate for the interested, the Public Suffix List is used by browser vendors to decide what part of the URL is considered the TLD for display and cookie security purposes (and I imagine others).

[1] https://publicsuffix.org/