[HN Gopher] Show HN: Ugliest.app - Ugly but good app platform
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Show HN: Ugliest.app - Ugly but good app platform
Author : bloopbloop10000
Score : 174 points
Date : 2020-11-04 20:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| k2xl wrote:
| Reminds me of expages.com from back in the 90s. Creating a
| website was simple. The "login" page to create an expage was the
| same as the sign up, so you could easily create new websites on
| the expage.com domain.
| RandallBrown wrote:
| My friends and I built huge networks of Expage websites. Even
| the popular kids in school made their own sites. Being linked
| to by certain people was a big deal.
|
| I credit Expage as being one of the main reasons I got into
| software development.
| jeanlucas wrote:
| geocities sends their regards :)
| techsin101 wrote:
| honestly good enough for 99% use cases
| aabbcc1241 wrote:
| It should be called webpage or website instead of app?
| federiconbo wrote:
| bugly
| crabl wrote:
| Completely serious: in addition to "pages", if there was the
| ability to define "endpoints" that respond with JSON, I'd be in!
| makach wrote:
| Nice work! The application is good, but GUIDs in the URL is
| bad...
| bloopbloop10000 wrote:
| Custom domains are in the backlog :)
| andygcook wrote:
| 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... :)
| aracena wrote:
| hahahah I love this
| erichurkman wrote:
| This needs a 'Best viewed in Chrome 86 on iMac Pro' banner.
| BalinKing wrote:
| M E S S A T S U
| hobby-coder-guy wrote:
| All my sites had Queen midi files in the background.
|
| Geocities xoom (i think?) Tripod Angelfire!
| zeroxfe wrote:
| This made my day. Thanks.
| allenu wrote:
| Nicely done. Is it still possible to change the cursor
| appearance? Might want to look into that.
| stefanmichael wrote:
| "However many requests per second we feel like serving"
|
| probably closer to the truth of competing cloud providers than it
| has any right to be
| defanor wrote:
| Not sure what's ugly about it: it looks nicer and cleaner than
| most of the websites I see. I'm also not quite sure what's an
| "app platform", but this seems to be some sort of a web
| publishing service, and there's a bug on page creation: it leads
| to a 404 error page (possibly it requires JS, but doesn't say so,
| and works without it otherwise).
|
| Edit: Noticed the docs page [1]. There's some scripting, so the
| uploaded pages are rather PHP-style scripts/apps, hence the "app
| platform", probably. Might be useful to link the documentation
| from the main page.
|
| [1] https://ugliest.app/docs/pages.html
| solox3 wrote:
| 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.
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| > I forgot what made github.com switch to github.io. Something
| similar but totally separate.
|
| Same reason: to prevent user-generated/user-hosted content from
| being able to read GitHub.com cookies.
| xwdv wrote:
| I would like to know the design of the multi tenant architecture.
| fwip wrote:
| I see why it's ugly - why is it good?
| enos_feedler wrote:
| Maybe because it is simple and free. Not agreeing with the
| author here just trying to understand where they might be
| coming from.
| [deleted]
| vagrantJin wrote:
| I actually like the spartan no BS.
| splatzone wrote:
| It's a shame you've chosen to delete everything after 24 hours. I
| understand why though. Maybe just make no guarantee that the apps
| will stay live, so I can share what I make with friends?
|
| I like the plain design, very austere and to the point. It would
| be good if your copy was just as blunt and frank, tell us why
| it's good and why we should use it
| bloopbloop10000 wrote:
| OP here-- you make a good point about sharing with friends.
| Added a button to make apps last forever!
| [deleted]
| st0le wrote:
| Where are the docs for the table API?
| bloopbloop10000 wrote:
| https://ugliest.app/docs/pages.html
| [deleted]
| lxe wrote:
| This sounds like a cool side project to implement when learning a
| new language/framework.
| Geee wrote:
| Using textarea breaks the page editor. Also, 'back to app'-link
| doesn't work.
| xyst wrote:
| https://ugliest.app/l/ca885415-5559-48e2-8c28-1a49af5c1c43/g...
|
| I created an app. How do I get 100M USD series A funding round?
| doctor_eval wrote:
| To maximise your valuation, just make sure you don't have any
| customers or revenue.
| gitgud wrote:
| And you need to involve AI somehow to revolutionize a
| particular industry
| SirYandi wrote:
| Don't forget blockchain! AI powered block chain powered AI
| sharker8 wrote:
| Have it be multicloud and serverless.
| techsin101 wrote:
| stealth mode
| robertlagrant wrote:
| Depends on what colour sleeve you chose to premiere your new
| MacBook Air in at the local coffee roastery.
| jedimastert wrote:
| I truly want to believe that you just wrote "not found"
| thinkloop wrote:
| maybe google acquired them
| Nextgrid wrote:
| No React, Kubernetes nor micro services?
|
| Sorry, not gonna fund that, it's not scalable enough.
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| Not just for ugly sites:
| https://ugliest.app/l/3aaebcf3-86a6-4fc9-9c4f-7d5721de91bc/r...
| lhoff wrote:
| I believe you got hacked. Perhaps you shouldn't have shared the
| link with the token included.
| throwaway894345 wrote:
| This is cool, but it seems to be broken. I tried to create a
| table called `test`, but I got `something went wrong but we won't
| say what`. It's also not clear to me what to do with a table (I
| don't see any options to add columns or data).
|
| EDIT: Maybe it's just being hugged to death. Just about every
| action is throwing the aforementioned error now.
|
| EDIT2: This would be really cool if it were self-hosted
| (obviously without the auto-deletion)!
| bloopbloop10000 wrote:
| Sorry about that! Everything should be working now
| tshaddox wrote:
| You have to click the Docs link to see how you can read from
| and write to tables using a template syntax and HTML forms.
| carlsverre wrote:
| Heres my ugliest messageboard. Warning: no filtering, no
| moderation, no protection against any kind of abuse.
|
| https://ugliest.app/l/e93dbf19-2cf4-4f6e-82a9-a763bb8fde6f/b...
| carlsverre wrote:
| @bloopbloop10000 is there a way to html escape in the template
| language?
| raviolo wrote:
| Oh man. No protections against abuse for sure!
| carlsverre wrote:
| well... that was spammed pretty bad in less than 5 minutes.
| mission aborted.
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| Fastest website death I've seen. You deserve an achievement.
| Nextgrid wrote:
| What was the spam? Copyright infringement? Hate speech?
| Illegal pornography?
| carlsverre wrote:
| hate speech + porn
| [deleted]
| rafram wrote:
| That died quickly, sad. :(
| kentiko wrote:
| That was fun
| carlsverre wrote:
| haha I agree for the couple mins it survived :)
| dataguy1315 wrote:
| now I'm afraid to open it lol
| exabrial wrote:
| oh put it back up!
| carlsverre wrote:
| working on it
| hamolton wrote:
| > something went wrong but we won't say what
|
| I think you got the big hug
| julianlam wrote:
| Well, that's ugly alright!
| [deleted]
| gnulinux wrote:
| I love this, but it doesn't look like server-side language is
| Turing complete. It can only read, write, and delete rows;
| branches on admin; and returns a random number. Is it possible to
| extend the language in a way defining functions, if stmt and for
| loops are possible?
|
| Since it already has if, I wonder if I can branch on things other
| than "admin".
|
| EDIT: I stand corrected, looks like using `range .. end` you can
| actually loop.
|
| EDIT2: if also works: {{ if (rando 0 1) }}
| a {{ else }} b {{ end }}
|
| prints a or b non deterministically.
| vmception wrote:
| took too long to load, next!
|
| people should just start immediately posting a screenshot or a
| screen record as their first comment because thats all I want to
| see usually anyway
| fao_ wrote:
| It loads in two seconds, so I hope this was ironic. Also, plain
| html is almost always going to be smaller than an image file.
| vmception wrote:
| Hi, it periodically got hugged to death and this. Assuming
| the creator wasn't monitoring all server traffic as part of
| their outreach campaign, flippant messages like mine can help
| to show the reality of people being bounced quickly and fix
| their server infrastructure or code.
| asutekku wrote:
| Flippant messages like yours do not provide any value and
| do not help any more than "Seems like it was hugged to
| death". Pretty much anything that is not protected by
| "cloudflare & co" will be hugged to death by HN
| sharker8 wrote:
| How do you use the tables feature?
| exabrial wrote:
| Well it passes the Little Bobby Tables test... I created an app
| named "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--"
| [deleted]
| runxel wrote:
| 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?"
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