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Oh man, that describes all of them.

http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS

https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface

https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin

https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers

https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns

And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff:

https://www.stavros.io/projects/

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In pastery's FAQ it says

> Everything goes over an encrypted TLS connection, so nobody other than the intended recipient can see what you're pasting.

It should say "nobody other than the intended recipient and the developers of this website".

I have changed the wording to be more accurate, thanks!

Not sure if that would be useful but you could use similar approach to recently posted https://send.firefox.com/ that encrypts content before sending it to server using key that is in # param and is never send to server by browser.

Unfortunately, that would make it hard to provide various features server-side, such as code highlighting, and would require JS on the client (and also break raw file downloads, etc). It would also make the editor plugins much more complicated (right now they just POST to an endpoint).

We think that not listing pastes, having them expire soon by default, etc is a good compromise, as we don't claim perfect privacy, just that pastes are always sort of "unlisted".

Nice work!

This thread is all over the place haha! Did they ever get to meet at the bridge??:

https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/amhhqthp/

This is amazing!

Hahaha, those poor people! They meant a conference (ie phone) bridge, and no, the bot never went :P

Spamnesty is dope! How do you avoid getting blacklisted by the spammers though?

I don't, but there are plenty of spammers to go around :P

Forwarded 10 spam mails to your service. I absolutely love the idea. Hoping for some interesting conversations.

First: these are awesome, and thank you for sharing. (Esp. Spa.mnesty.com - that's hilarious and incredible at the same time)

I tried timetaco.com but it's not doing anything. I tabbed my way through the day (it filled in today's date - 2017, then 8, then 10). I select 5 : 10, which is about 3 minutes in the future, and then clicked 'Generate'. It just changes the date (all three parts) to red, and doesn't do anything. (I'm clearly missing something - what am I missing?)

Hmm, that's odd... Maybe it's detecting your timezone incorrectly? Can you try setting a date that's tomorrow?

Try 17:10 instead of 5:10?

Those are all pretty awesome!

Since they don't really make you any money - do people use them often then - if so how do people find them?

Thank you! It depends on what you mean by "often", I guess often enough. I use Pastery all the time (especially the editor plugins), and all my developer friends love it too.

I guess people use some of the other services too, for example I get lots of comments for Spamnesty. I don't really care enough to look, though, as I built them for myself or because I thought they'd be fun, or because I just wanted to make something with a friend.

I was just curious because many developers enjoy (and want) people to use the stuff they write.

I was just wondering if/how you tried to market it or show it to more people.

I mainly just post them around HN whenever the opportunity arises :P

For me its a bit of a balancing act... You produce a project which is successful means you need to devote time to it. But to devote time to it you need to provide support, updates, etc. If your projects doesn't earn money or you are forced to work on something else it becomes difficult and then you whish people will not use it. Most troublesome are student projects who pm you.

I tried to create a timeTaco countdown for today, but it didn't let me? AFAICT, it only allows for blast-off dates in the future. Also, a little clarity about time format (12 vs 24) and time zone would be nice. Overall though I love the simple UI.

Yep, we're going to fix the UX on that ASAP, thanks! Currently the 24-hour date assumption is a bit confusing.

Thank you for pastery. Best pastebin I've ever found, use it more than any other.

Thank you as well, going to start using it regularly.

Thanks, glad you like it!

Hah! I just noticed "Not a git repo" on the main page. Say no more! I completely grok why that's there.

Did you grok "because I changed deployment techniques and git can't read the commit hash any more"? :P

I was going to fix it, but I like your reaction, so I might just leave it!

Ah, that's funny!

>I completely grok why that's there.

I don't. Please explain?

Robotic abuse has a tendency to bring cool projects like this to their knees. Any publicly-accessible, readable/writable service will eventually run into this problem.

Tell me about it, I looked shortly after we launched Pastery and saw 100,000 pastes and was ecstatic at the response, but then noticed that some were spam. I deleted all the ones that had spammy terms, and was left with 53 pastes :(

Thanks, I'm glad you like it! Try the editor plugins, they're 90% of the site's value. Pressing a single key to share code is amazing.

That's really prolific! How do you find the time to create so many projects?

Most of them are just weekend projects, and took two or three days to create. Then I spend the odd few hours here and there. I also go to bed very late, which gives me ample time to work on stuff during the time when everyone else is asleep.

Do you also sleep late in the morning or do you just operate on very little sleep?

I wake up late, too, yes, but once in a while I'll be so engrossed in something that I'll get four hours of sleep. I'll generally have to make up for that sleep later that week, though.

Neat projects! I'm curious, have you seen very much interest in eternum? I have an idea for a similar project, but I am not sure how many people are really interested in IPFS.

Hmm, moderate, really, but it's early days. It certainly has been encouraging, and I wanted it mainly for my own use, so if IPFS takes off, that's just an added benefit.

Your work is appreciated! <3

Thank you! <3

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