“Business”? This is a weekend toy project, and good for them for trying to explore monetization as part of the exercise.

But reverse engineering the implementation, even trivially, is more intellectually interesting than the effort itself. It’s good content for HN and a really valuable beginner’s lesson for the author.

I appreciate the reveal. I come to HN to see things exactly like this. And if someone is going to “show HN”, well hacker is right in the title of the site so expect people are interested in that kind of thing so best take minimal steps to secure your stuff.

Eh, from the rest of the thread I don't think these 133t HN readers are the target audience anyway.