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I'm a touch confused -- http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/

Is this your site as well?

It's not, but it uses that editor. The difference between the two is that with JSON Blob, you can collaboratively edit/share your JSON and use it programmatically via the JSON Blob API.

I don't know why it didn't even occur to me that the editor could be a third-party library. Duh :)

Thanks for clarifying, and great work!

Very awesome. I use http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/ often but this looks much cleaner.

Do you plan to keep it up indefinitely or open-source it?

It's open sourced - https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob.

It's running on a single Heroku dyno with the free MongoHq service, so at some point I'll have to figure out what to do when there's more than 512MB of documents stored, but for now it's running indefinitely.

Nice job. I love these kinds of small helper/utility sites, it's big part of why I follow HN.

Is there a directory of sites like this somewhere, by the way?

I found three such directory sites which have different approaches.

http://hnshowcase.com : visual preview, filtering, social integration, etc.

http://showinghn.com : minimalist list based on /newest polling

https://twitter.com/JustShowHN : Twitter feed based on main RSS

Could be useful if one was writing an DB Admin backend for MongoDB.

I'm working on one right now and will definitely be integrating this into it. It's a perfect fit.

Nicely done, sir. Wasn't exactly sure what the true power was for a minute. I really like the json editor, but what really sells it is being able to have mock urls that actually function. Perfect for setting up a data source via the api for use among multiple engineers. You should somehow make that bit of info more prominent in the demo.

Thanks! I definitely didn't do a good job at that based on the feedback I've received. I'll try to make it more prominent because that was the sole purpose of the project.

"This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered may not be saved."

... far to sensitive. You can press "clear" in the toolbar then try to close the browser tab and it'll pop up on a empty document.

Personally, I wouldn't have that at all.

Apart from that, it looks very nice. Many options for manipulating the JSON object, cool!

Nice! I have to use things like this all the time when debugging writes to mongo, so this is really neat. I like the design, although being able to resize the windows would be nice. On my 17" Macbook, there's more unused space that I really need.

It's also really cool that you can save/restore - I could see this being used like jsFiddle.

GL!

I like the idea bu... When adding new key/value pairs, the text 'field' and 'value' should either be placeholders or selected on focus so a user's first keypress wipes those strings from the field. Having to manually select all is not intuitive and forces the user to do work easily done by the computer.

Regarding the presentation part of this, even if you don't use it for exchanging data, serializing JSON to YAML can output a nicely readable and terse structure. The example JSON ends up looking like this: http://pastebin.com/gw6SGz4U

This is awesome :) I'm looking for a way to interactively build something like this into our documentation at https://balancedpayments.com/docs/api

Have you seen Swagger? https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-core/

I'm going to try to get this working for JSON Blob API's documentation over the weekend.

Very nice. This is one of those things where I don't need it right now, but in 2 weeks I'll be thinking "where the hell is that bookmark..." :)

Nice, an upgrade from http://json.parser.online.fr/ for quick looks at json.

When I try to upload json it never seems to finish. Chrome/Linux

Other than that, I like it a lot. Very cool side project

Very clean. FYI, when saving I get a URL like undefined/api/jsonBlob/50e46e66e4b006ece99dff64.

Thanks! Fixed that... https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob/commit/00cba8c54692f7690d...

Cool. FYI, the items within the drop downs are not usable on my idevice

The link to jsoneditoronline.org on the About page is incorrect.

Thanks! Fixed - https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob/commit/a4e6f145f5166c26e2...

cool, but you could have stayed in the g namespace just by adding http:// to the beginning.

This would be great to tie into CouchDBs admin interface!

it would be nice if I could give it a jsonp URL and a callback function name

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