Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

by mmathias • 6 years ago

36 21 6 years ago

codingdave• 6 years ago

Seems pretty easy for this to just turn into a way to spam-post a site you want people to visit. All you need to do is change the querystring on your URL and it lets you keep submitting it.

cm2187• 6 years ago

Or malware

huhtenberg• 6 years ago

This needs a blacklist. Got "1 man 1 jar" on the first (and, you bet, the only) try.

sthnblllII• 6 years ago

Agreed. I too want everyone to know that I am very respectable and mature and disapprove of anything inappropriate, especially if it comes from the internet on a site whose sole purpose, (which I knew when I visited it) is to give you unfiltered links other users submitted.

csunbird• 6 years ago

Well, I got the xvideos (a porn site) on first visit.

gk1• 6 years ago

I got Playboy. What else did we expect...

himujjal• 6 years ago

i posted a porn site tbh. lol

rsa25519• 6 years ago

I like it. There's potential for abuse, sure, so I'm glad I got to try it before the spam battle begins :-)

Ansil849• 6 years ago

This seems like a vector for 1) malicious content (malware, spyware, cryptominers), 2) spam (referral links, MLM sites), 3) offensive content (shock sites, extreme pornography), 4) illegal content (child pornography, terrorist material).

soared• 6 years ago

5) harmless fun :)

jjoonathan• 6 years ago

I spent a few minutes looking for a good rickroll remix and found one that's pretty sweet and looks underappreciated in the view count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECVGW-nbUg

lifthrasiir• 6 years ago

It also has a popularity ranking, which at the moment has an usual shock site in 4th place...

discreditable• 6 years ago

#3 is the top third trending site listed.

swirepe• 6 years ago

Russian roulette is a vector for bullets, but presumably everyone knows that before they play.

PurpleFoxy• 6 years ago

Just says my url is invalid.

z3t4• 6 years ago

This being on HN front page I expect same good quality. Hopeful I will find something interesting.

zsellera• 6 years ago

This was the most disgusting thing I clicked on this month.

grawprog• 6 years ago

I used bit.ly to shorten the URL for urlroulette(wouldn't let me use it otherwise.) Bet it would be pretty easy to just make it redirect to itself indefinitely with some kind of script or something.

Also, thankfully, I got homestar runner and not any of the things mentioned in other comments.

unlog• 6 years ago

They should have grouped the urls by the referrer, so you only get suggestions from the circle you come from.

Shared404• 6 years ago

I got redirected to a political spam site.

I have to agree with Ansil849's assessment.

edwardwatson• 6 years ago

I got redirected to the Tailwind CSS site. Hacker News has left its mark.

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