[HN Gopher] Show HN: QuikPub - Write, Publish and Share rich tex...
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Show HN: QuikPub - Write, Publish and Share rich text via short
URLs
Author : DarrenDev
Score : 40 points
Date : 2021-02-05 12:25 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (quikpub.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (quikpub.co)
| madelyn wrote:
| Hey, this looks awesome! Definitely echoing the abuse potential
| concerns shared by other commentators.
|
| You might want to consider hosting content published on a
| different domain from your main site, otherwise search engines
| and site lists could flag the domain as a bad actor if something
| gets through.
| DarrenDev wrote:
| That's a good idea. Thanks.
| fellowniusmonk wrote:
| Title text wrapping is broken?
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| https://quikpub.co/EDBMWVQSDH
| DarrenDev wrote:
| I just saw that. I pushed a fix for something else half an hour
| ago and broke it. Should be ok now.
|
| Thanks
| selfishgene wrote:
| Can one edit or remove a post after creating it?
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| How long are posts guaranteed to stay available?
|
| Do your future plans for the service include creating an
| authentication method so that users can edit/remove earlier posts
| or download all of their content and move it to another server if
| necessary?
|
| How do you plan to deal with libel claims?
| DarrenDev wrote:
| >Can one edit or remove a post after creating it?
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| There's an edit/delete url as well as a share url.
|
| >How long are posts guaranteed to stay available?
|
| Hopefully for ever. But it's early days now on a two week
| project, so I don't have answers for that far in the future.
|
| >or download all of their content and move it to another server
| if necessary?
|
| That would definitely be on the plan, but wouldn't be
| implemented until a log in / user account mechanism was in
| place.
|
| >How do you plan to deal with libel claims?
|
| I haven't fleshed out that far ahead yet. Today I'm focused on
| getting a working app out there. Next week, once I see if
| anyone is using the app in earnest I'll have more time to get a
| handle on what to do about illicit or potentially harmful
| content.
| DarrenDev wrote:
| Hi everyone. I'm Darren and I built QuikPub over the past couple
| of weeks.
|
| The quickest way to explain QuikPub in a way everyone should get
| is to describe it as "Imgur for text."
|
| I've felt for a long time that there was no easy way to quickly
| publish short or long form rich text without going down the blog
| route. Blogging -- by design -- comes with a history of posts and
| comments. Too much information when all you want to do is post
| about something that has nothing to do with your blogging persona
| or area of expertise.
|
| QuikPub lets you post anonymously (or add your name) and share a
| short URL to that content anywhere you want (just like Imgur). It
| comes with a slightly longer edit URL so that you can change or
| delete the post later.
|
| There's no link or connection to other posts you make. There's no
| public list of "new posts." Your QuikPub post is invisible to
| Google and to casual browsers until you choose to share it.
|
| There was a Show HN yesterday about a new product called Haven
| that seems to be targeting a similar user base, though their
| solution was very different.
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013715) While reading the
| comments I felt that many of those commenting would benefit from
| a simple publishing app like QuikPub.
|
| Feedback is very welcome. I'm not a UI designer, and I'm aware
| that the UI is a bit on the weak side, but that's something I
| hope to improve over time.
|
| Here's a few examples of posts I made myself earlier:
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| https://quikpub.co/3K5MIPZGWP
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| https://quikpub.co/THMWJII2AW
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| https://quikpub.co/XL3HHFCFQF
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| https://quikpub.co/SMP42QPSQ1
|
| Thanks
| stanislavb wrote:
| Nice work. Seems pretty decent. Do you intent to make money out
| of it though?
|
| Also, how do you plan to promote it? Apart of HN.
| DarrenDev wrote:
| When I starting fleshing out the idea a couple of weeks ago I
| came up with a three stage development plan (I come up with a
| lot of three or four stage plans!!), with stage 1 being where
| it's at now - a very basic MVP.
|
| How far I get with stages 2 and 3 depends on the kind of
| feedback I get from people over the coming weeks.
|
| I have ideas about how to extend it to a paid for app, but
| the short answer is I haven't decided yet if that direction
| has legs. Too early to say.
|
| As for promotion, I'm reaching out to different types of
| potential users right now. I have some older desktop products
| in the creative writing field, and have a lot of users of
| those products, so that's another avenue for feedback and
| potential users.
| davchana wrote:
| Nice..
|
| After publishing, the page is more wider than phone screen, &
| user can't scroll horizontally to see the whole page or published
| link https://quikpub.co/763Q4EX52G
| DarrenDev wrote:
| Thanks davchana. I'm aware of that and will be fixing it soon.
| nexthash wrote:
| Haha, I've built something similar to this before as a student
| project! Except I've described it as a 'shareable index card'.
| Check it out here: http://drop-info.live/
|
| Two pieces of advice for you if you are intending to take this to
| market. I suggest writing/investing in some good moderation tools
| to prevent spammers and other undesirables from using your site
| for illegal stuff. Also, get yourself a lawyer and write terms of
| service to protect your project from liability.
| DarrenDev wrote:
| Thanks for the advice nexthash. It is something that's been
| concerning me, and is one of the reasons I'm not currently
| allowing embedded images in posts -- I don't want to have to
| deal with hosting pornography and all the pains that come with
| that.
|
| Shady content, potential copyright infringements, it's a can of
| worms all right.
| selfishgene wrote:
| What about libel?
| ben509 wrote:
| Allow audio uploads and you can deal with slander, too!
| nexthash wrote:
| Yep, and also linking to other websites can be an issue, like
| phishing, porn, malware, etc. It is a very big can of worms
| but from my experience the second spammers discover your site
| it becomes their new home base and will get your domain
| blacklisted pretty quickly.
| DarrenDev wrote:
| Did you find solutions to that yourself with your own app?
| tyingq wrote:
| Much nicer than just plaintext pastebins...
|
| However, there's some issues with the editor and backend that
| allow injecting javascript. I was able to do that with the image
| insert. I suspect the link insert has a similar issue. Seems like
| you need something to scrub out that sort of thing on submit or
| display.
|
| See https://quikpub.co/NPU1KDYKXK
| DarrenDev wrote:
| Thanks. I'll look into that. I thought I was stripping out all
| scripts, but I wasn't checking the image and link insertion.
| Much appreciated.
| caffeinewriter wrote:
| Definitely use a battle-tested HTML sanitization library if
| possible. There's a million different pitfalls and footguns
| with XSS. See: Some of the insane XSS polyglots out there
| that can be used for testing.
|
| https://github.com/0xsobky/HackVault/wiki/Unleashing-an-
| Ulti...
| DarrenDev wrote:
| Thanks for the advice. It's number 1 on my list now.
| sammorrowdrums wrote:
| Also the stricter the content security policy the more xss
| holes you can plug.
| dergachev wrote:
| Looks like gist.github.com with a wysiwyg, cool stuff.
| DarrenDev wrote:
| Thanks.
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