Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

Post by Cornify » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 5:58 PM UTC

sobriquet wrote: post #8

Minor tweak: When clicking the input box, I'd like the ghost text, ' http://' , to be removed. Since I've already copied the URL I want to make happy, when I paste it I produce: http://http://urltomakehappy.com , It'd be nice to not have to manually remove that first http://

Post by Cornify » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 6:10 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #26

jlees wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use 'frameworks' as a handwavy term to encompass 'anything that means you don't need to spend days reinventing the wheel'. If the aforementioned Lisp utilities mean you can do that, then so be it. (Indent three spaces for code.)

Sorry, didn't mean to jump at it like that. It's just URL-shorteners have been annoying me lately. Just because they're easy to make doesn't mean you should; there is no hack value in them, as nothing new is there to be discovered and no new ground to break; and they have no business value, aside from being, potentially worth BILLIONS as an integral twitter utility for the next generation of enterprise web grids and…

Post by erlanger » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 6:21 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #13

gonick_daysbury wrote: post #5

Pretty cool but your target audience - current or former drug users - is going to be a difficult one to monetize.

"Click here to register for $20. $15 of which goes to the 'legalize marijuana fund!'"

Post by Cornify » Sat, Apr 11, 2009, 6:20 AM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #16

There's a meta keywords entry but no content. They're not that important nowadays, but you might as well fill it in. You could do with a bookmarklet to make generating links easier. Perhaps you could add a feature to allow URLs to be prefixed by http://hapylink.com/ to then change them into the final link. For example: http://hapylink.com/http://www.foxnews.com/ would return a page with the resulting Hapylink. Diggba…