Show HN: Sitekite – Imgur for Websites
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You might want to fix this though http://sitekite.com/hello-world-2o5f7g
The reason why there was a need for off-site image hosting is because people and websites like reddit didn't want to pay for the bandwidth or be forced to deal with takedown requests.
A decade ago, bandwidth was much more expensive, and it was only because it got much cheaper that imgur's business model of allowing free direct linking is even possible now.
If I want to share an address with someone, there's nothing wrong with a google maps link. There are hundreds of websites out there that allow you to host text or blog.
>> There are hundreds of websites out there that allow you to host text or blog.
Blog sites typically need signup, so are slower to get started with than this. Also if you think of something like Blogger, it would not be as clean/minimal out of the box if you just want a clean 'single page' to link someone to.
Pastebin-style hosting can be no-signup but is typically uglier than this, and usually doesn't allow you to embed images/maps.
If you care that little about the way you are presenting your information that you can't even be bothered to sign up, you most likely don't care about having fancy HTML formatting.
The reason why most blogs require you to sign up is so they can ban you when you start putting up phishing, cookie stuffing, or exploit pages.
Also here is one that I found from a single search. http://www.c99.nl/
Who says choosing Sitekite would mean I care little about presentation? Sitekite does a better job than (to use my original example, Blogger) for its intended 'share a single page of info' use-case.
>> The reason why most blogs require you to sign up is so they can ban you when you start putting up phishing, cookie stuffing, or exploit pages.
As a user, I don't care about that, I just don't want to have to signup to yet-another-thing just to share some info with my friends/colleagues.
>> Also here is one that I found from a single search. http://www.c99.nl/
Ugly.
The intersection of people who are able to write their own HTML but absolutely refuse to sign up with a fake email, or get their own VPS really comes down to 2 types of people.
Paranoids
Phishers
Both of which are tiny minorities.
> Ugly.
And how is this relevant when you are writing raw html?
Right now it doesn't support any markdown or image embedding mainly because not too many people use it, but I wouldn't be opposed to adding it if users saw the need.
What's the use case you imagined when you built it? What need did you have?
As a suggestion: make a bookmarklet to quickly share highlighted text/images from a website. That'd be great.
I created one http://sitekite.com/foshizzle-daZeYw but I'm not creative enough to think of clever uses.
If they provided an API, it would be cool for barebones notifications from automated systems too.
Could you please explain what you meant?
1. if you added a login + uploads and this could be used as a super simple alternative to document sharing.
2. Add page versioning and this could work as a wiki.
3. Add notifications and teams could use it for managing internal documents, photos, etc.
4. I think if search we're added theres tons of possibilities though you might not want to go there..
"We're sorry, but something went wrong. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."
One thing: It really needs some kind of preview before creating the site.
Or is the dmca-related workload just the right anti-growth measure to prevent interesting new things coming up?
How do you explain this to your investors: "The site is technically ok and we are growing, but we need money for some people to handle dmca requests and this kills our business modell."
So many cool ideas are blocked because of the retarded dinosaur-politics of corporate stalinism. We need a real breakthrough here for a jump to the next level. Current copyright laws are protecting the wealth of a very small group of people but do seriously damage the development of new industries and thousands of jobs. Stupid.
By the way, it's evidently that the linked word is "here" :) (they should solve that too).
- oEmbed support would probably make things more useful for users.
- Here is a way for you to add a "Form" button where users can quickly create and add forms to their pages: http://www.jotform.com/anywhere/
Maybe an option to email an auth token in case the cookie is lost so you can continue editing? Or maybe just a password/key.
Edit: Now After Testing.
Wow, how delightful.