Ask HN: Combine URL shortener and service to compress text and store it in URL?

1 point

2 years ago

I use the following two services but the workflow is not so good as I have to deal with seperate sites and must be very careful with the second site in particular since it does not always update the URL - my work around is to paste in the text - then the URL will be correct for use with 0x.co) - but I wish I could get the same results with less effort:

https://0x.co/ (URL shortener)

-- combined with --

https://nicd.gitlab.io/t/ (stores compressed text in the URL)

If anyone owns a very short URL this could become a business for you. https://a.co/ is taken (just so you know)

An added feature I would use is client side code execution for supported programming languages and a way to add new programming languages - an easy hack would allow one to create very long programs by transparently keeping many "0x" codes collected under a master "0x" code.

Used with password protection and a default "temporary" post lifetime which can then be switched to "final" this becomes a very powerful environment for programmers.

I have pointed my domain http://0by.co/ to https://nicd.gitlab.io/t/ if anyone wants to try this.

I really hope some people do!

Point your browser to 0by.co or to https://nicd.gitlab.io/t/, paste in your text, copy the URL, point your browser to 0x.co, paste in the URL and choose to make it a "link" type code.