Hi Hacker News, I've sometimes had the need for a place to host my bash aliases, React components templates and other scripts that I want to have quick access to so I decided to create a free service for this, Waterdeep. I
will appreciate all the feedback you guys
might have for me in regards of the website itself or what's lacking.
The idea is to just have a very quick 1 click way to find scripts that you have, Google Drive is more of a general purpose storage, this is specifically for scripts and optimized for that.
To list a situation where Waterdeep could be easier to use:
When you have a temporary file you might need but is messing up your git flow, you can just store it at Waterdeep and access it later or delete it. If you want to do the same with Google Drive, you'd have to create that file inside a folder which can be hard to find.
For the case of GitHub, you can easily have your own scripts there and it would work fine, Waterdeep is more so focused on extremely fast access to your scripts without having to create a repository and commit/push the files to it, which I understand it pretty straight forward to do for most developers yet that friction might be the reason why most of them don't have a dotfiles repository on their GitHub account.
I get this actually. It's really niche but useful for the people who'd need it. Nowadays I have a simple alias that opens up a text editor which points to a file inside my ~/.notes folder. That folder syncs to Dropbox. I find that grep works really well for when I need to find something. I can definitely see the benefit of bundling all of that into a much more convenient service.
The files will be public and the link to wget the files is already in the roadmap, the links will most likely look like this: http://waterdeep.io/tazard/.bash_profile. As of now there’s no easy way to retrieve those files with wget
> Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?)
This is a good idea! There’s no command line tool, I can put together API docs, this is no easy task as the documentation has to be good and easy to understand, let me consider this along with other features that I also had in mind.
It's a very simple product to just upload text files and have very quick access to them, what you'll get is just that. Imagine Github's gist but easier to use and optimized for quick access to text files.
If you often have temporary scripts that you want to save somewhere, this might be a place where you can store them.
If you have aliases in a dotfile that you might want to have quick access to when on a new computer, this could be helpful too.
I think di0x74 is saying you should include these value props somewhere a new user might see it to encourage them to create an account and try your service :)
Hi Hacker News, I've sometimes had the need for a place to host my bash aliases, React components templates and other scripts that I want to have quick access to so I decided to create a free service for this, Waterdeep. I will appreciate all the feedback you guys might have for me in regards of the website itself or what's lacking.
Good work. BTW, why can't you save it in Github or even Google drive? Am i missing anything!?
Good question!
The idea is to just have a very quick 1 click way to find scripts that you have, Google Drive is more of a general purpose storage, this is specifically for scripts and optimized for that.
To list a situation where Waterdeep could be easier to use:
When you have a temporary file you might need but is messing up your git flow, you can just store it at Waterdeep and access it later or delete it. If you want to do the same with Google Drive, you'd have to create that file inside a folder which can be hard to find.
For the case of GitHub, you can easily have your own scripts there and it would work fine, Waterdeep is more so focused on extremely fast access to your scripts without having to create a repository and commit/push the files to it, which I understand it pretty straight forward to do for most developers yet that friction might be the reason why most of them don't have a dotfiles repository on their GitHub account.
I get this actually. It's really niche but useful for the people who'd need it. Nowadays I have a simple alias that opens up a text editor which points to a file inside my ~/.notes folder. That folder syncs to Dropbox. I find that grep works really well for when I need to find something. I can definitely see the benefit of bundling all of that into a much more convenient service.
This sounds really great. I'm on my phone so I haven't signed up, but I plan to when I get to my desktop.
Are these files public, or private? A great thing about GitHub gist's is that being public I can just wget them whenever I need them.
Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?)
Now you can wget the raw files! They are now public at for example: https://raw.waterdeep.io/tazard/myfile.py, feel free to check it out!
> Are these files public, or private?
The files will be public and the link to wget the files is already in the roadmap, the links will most likely look like this: http://waterdeep.io/tazard/.bash_profile. As of now there’s no easy way to retrieve those files with wget
> Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?)
This is a good idea! There’s no command line tool, I can put together API docs, this is no easy task as the documentation has to be good and easy to understand, let me consider this along with other features that I also had in mind.
Thanks for the feedback tazard!
Personally i wouldn't sign up to a site without knowing what I'll get from doing that. A bit more details what you are offering wont hurt
It's a very simple product to just upload text files and have very quick access to them, what you'll get is just that. Imagine Github's gist but easier to use and optimized for quick access to text files.
If you often have temporary scripts that you want to save somewhere, this might be a place where you can store them.
If you have aliases in a dotfile that you might want to have quick access to when on a new computer, this could be helpful too.
I think di0x74 is saying you should include these value props somewhere a new user might see it to encourage them to create an account and try your service :)
Why the name waterdeep? Curious
I just thought it's cool sounding, there's no real reason behind it.