Hacker News Reader

The "Download Code" button just downloads a .tar.gz of code? Doesn't link to the GitHub repo? I mean, either actually describe what 'code' is in this sense (it's a short, simple PHP script, for the curious) or link to the repository. The page itself is hopelessly broad and altruistic without giving any details of the solution, and I'm pretty unimpressed with this code if it aims to be anything more than a proof of concept.

View on HN

i updated www.unhosted.org/manifesto.html to include some more info on how it works.

the code does not claim to be anything more than a proof of concept. As you say, it's a silly 100-line php script, nothing more than that. it is also not very well-written, especially the unhosted.js and hutch.js files (i didn't have any JavaScript background when i started the project, nor did i try, at all, to write production-grade code). But we hope it does, as it were, 'proof the concept'.

i will make the link to the github page (as opposed to the tarball) more prominent, sorry for that.

https://github.com/michiel-unhosted/unhosted

Reply on news.ycombinator.com