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Show HN: 1-click autocomplete server

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5 pointsbosky1014 comments

Looks nicely done and simple to use :) But I wonder why I wouldn't build this myself? It's not particularly hard and using a third-party service adds an extra dependency. Perhaps I'm missing something and the home page needs a better use case.

thanks for the feedback.

not all developers want to deal with managing servers, dependencies, the initial sysadmin, and deployment.

the idea is to put a HTTP layer over these heterogenous environments so that getting any functionality is as simple as hitting a url.

and for developers, its the power of heroku with the simplicity of a pastebin.

So this is targeted at some app that ONLY needs autocomplete? Obviously if you have an app with any kind of backend, you're already doing all the other stuff. I think it's cool, just not sure I see the use case.

   http://endpoints.io/autocomplete

no, this code snipppet showed how to make an autocomplete server in 10 lines, and deploy it ready for use in under 1 click without the sysadmin hassles.

thanks we're looking for more examples & would love suggestions. but you can replace the ^ code with anything a nodejs app can do in the same editor. you get a full fledged linux environment running a nodejs server pulling the right dependencies based on 'your' code. more stacks coming soon.

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