Like most websites of such projects, its missing the "What is X" that explains what problem your "product X" solves. (yes you are selling your product)
And gives context such as being a supplement to Y and an alternative to Z. After reading every page, i still have no idea what it does, what its for and how i can learn more about Y and Z so i can understand why i need X.
This is a great point. Most tools and services fail at ELI5 which is a missed opportunity for them (since they’re alienating potential users/customers).
100% agree. I have no clue what this does or why I would need it, and furthermore I feel like I would have to do a fair bit of research before the website makes sense.
"This application will be able to read and write your public and secret gists." Probably a good idea to create a separate GitHub account due to the "secret gists" permission.
I've thought about implementing something like this to convert a hook-based API into a streaming one. The use case being that there are things I want to build that don't need a public address. So, very nice!
Give him a break, this is how projects - and especially personal projects - develop. You find a cool idea you want to explore on, the end product might be something totally different then what you started with.
Yes, but you don't typically replace the same domain with two totally different services. You create 2 new domains. I would never pay someone for a service when they've repeatedly shown that they're willing to throw out the system people have started depending on and replace it with something radically different. Not only can I not trust the stuff to stay around, I can't trust the developer to have enough of an attention span to care about the old stuff enough to even just leave it alone to keep working in maintenance mode.
Maybe I'm missing it, but I can not find any documentation on what languages are supported. Then I figured it used the gist language declaration to support all(?) languages. But for python, it says print is not defined. So that's not it. I'm kind of at a loss for what's supposed to be going on.
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Gotta say I really like it, maybe put the example curl request much nearer the top in a big font size?
I took the curl example added it to the homepage right under the tagline.
Thinking of a Hook as a standard Unix Pipe really helps solidifying the entire concept.
Here is a live example of merging multiple hooks: http://hook.io/Marak/merge
and of using piping hooks together: http://hook.io/Marak/pipe
The only code that gets shared with the site is when a new gist is created. Never previous gists.
I'll investigate the Github API scope settings immediately and see if I can make the access level only public gist.
Thanks for the head-up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809827
... and tried to fork Node's EventEmitter into "EventEmitter2":
http://blog.nodejitsu.com/distribute-nodejs-apps-with-hookio...
This time it's "HTTP Microservices", eh? Maybe next time it'll be even more incredibly powerful and surprisingly simple.
The hook.io domain actually expired and went to public auction recently and I was able to purchase it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1666304
You should check out our tools. We can help a lot with the storage/display of http requests.
Can I use this to transform Web Hook data from one service into a format that another service expects?
Example:
Service A WebHook -> hook.io -> Service B Rest Request
Edit: Would definitely need SSL support for the above use case.
Try taking a look at the transform or merge examples
http://hook.io/Marak/transform
http://hook.io/Marak/merge
https://github.com/Xeoncross/UnitEngine
Adding HTTPS is now a top priority.