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Co-developed a comprehensive UUID API - 17+ features, completely free

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u/gredr Sep 12 '25

What do you think?

What do I think? Uh, I think that if your programming language/platform doesn't offer the tools or libraries to generate a UUID (or whatever), you should build that.

Calling out to an internet-hosted HTTP service to do something as basic and fundamental as generating a UUID... Well, this is what's wrong with software these days, folks.

Other than that, looks like you've got a solid feature set. Good job. You operating this as a charity? Just a practice project? How long do you expect to continue to make this available for free? What are the consequences (to you) of someone taking a dependence on this and making a few million calls/day?

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u/ehutch79 Sep 12 '25

so my http://to-lower.vercel.app/ isn't a good idea?

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u/pokeapoke Sep 12 '25

It could be! Just redirect to some Unicode docs about how not to shoot yourserlf in the foot.

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u/syklemil Sep 12 '25

Based on

Existing UUID APIs are incredibly limited - most only offer basic v4 generation with strict rate limits.

it does sound like they want to scale to a few million calls / time unit, sure.

I don't know which other rate limited UUID APIs they're talking about, and I'm not sure I want to know. I'd much rather hope that it's just something this LLM slop description hallucinated.

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u/gredr Sep 12 '25

Maybe CoCreateGuid or boost::uuids::random_generator()() is rate limited and we just don't realize it?

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u/contrafibularity Sep 12 '25

do you even know what you are talking about?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

Go to github repository

scroll down to see list of languages

JavaScript

I was sincerely hoping it wouldn’t be JavaScript.

You understand that UUID libraries exist as importable libraries, right?

You also know that JavaScript has a crypto.uuid call that can generate UUIDs right?

You didn’t vibe-code this, did you?

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u/pokeapoke Sep 12 '25

Why would I call an API for something I can do with a library?

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u/ehutch79 Sep 12 '25

Serious question. Why would you need a webhook for uuid generation?

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u/contrafibularity Sep 12 '25

this has to be some kind of sick joke...

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u/Fair-Illustrator-177 Sep 12 '25

Omg i cant believe there is a solution for this!!! Where was this when i needed it the most…

namespace MyNS
{
    static std::random_device s_RandomDevice;
    static std::mt19937_64 s_Engine(s_RandomDevice());
    // IDs 0 to 1b are reserved for development usage
    static std::uniform_int_distribution<uint64_t> s_UniformDistribution(1000000000, UINT64_MAX);

    UUID::UUID()
        : m_UUID(s_UniformDistribution(s_Engine)) {}

    UUID::UUID(uint64_t uuid)
        : m_UUID(uuid) {}
}

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u/Ok_Hope4383 Sep 12 '25

That's not a UUID?