mmathias

Sonic Robo Blast 2 - https://www.srb2.org/ ... and especially ... SRB2Kart - https://wiki.srb2.org/wiki/SRB2Kart (!)

I made V.O.B.S., a system that lets you produce interactive TV shows using the internet as a transport medium, multiple webcams in different locations and our server infrastructure.

https://vobs.io/

My project "UrlRoulette" was on the HN homepage for about 24 hours. I received a huge traffic spike at the start. Since then traffic came from other sources such as Reddit, some blog posts and articles that were written - and of course some search engines. After being on HN, UrlRoulette was featured in the german C'T magazine and received a lot of traffic from their website and their print edition. Also, being featured on some more sites certainly helped pushing the site's page rank on Google.

The project: https://urlroulette.net/

I actually wrote a post about being on the HN front page: https://hackernoon.com/urlroulette-24-hours-on-hacker-news-e...

Yes, sorry, didn't think about that. Changed the title.

By the way, URLRoulette has a disclaimer that says

"Use at your own risk, the internet is a dangerous place!!"

Yes, but they are no longer distributed to users. I thought that was the original question. I'm keeping them in the database to check for SPAM/multiple submissions mainly.

Well, that could happen on any website that you visit. IMO it does not make a difference whether you know the link before you click it or not, because you still don't know what you will get. But I am thinking about implementing some sort of virus/malware scanning.

Yes, it does, but I think there is almost no way around that. Many sites still use query parameters to show a specific blog entry for example... :/

Wow, HN front page! About one visit every two seconds! Crazy! :)

They get removed.

Thank you, that sounds like a good idea!

:)

Wow, thanks, that's a long list. Will try to implement in the coming days... :)

Yes, UrlRoulette tries its best not to redirect you to the links that you submitted - that would be boring.

All the low-quality stuff: yes, that's the other users! :)

Well, I'm not exactly sure about how to do that. I could implement a list of all the major porn sites, but then people could still post porn URL using URL shorteners...

That's odd. UrlRoulette does some sanity checking on the content of the URL. Thank you for this bug report!

Thank you, that's a good explanation. Of course, open source hardware would be nice too :)

Yes, but all Android Phones come with a pre-compiled binary distribution. And as long as it's pre-compiled, it's kind of hard to know what is going on under the hood. Compiling and installing your own Android almost always is a pain..

Thanks!

Thank you! :)