Yvo Schaap
yvoschaap.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Yvo Schaap, a Dutch developer, posts small web tools, security findings about big sites and Twitter essay archives.
What HN saysHN links it for tools like the Product Hunt leaderboard, the Marc Andreessen tweet archive and an edge fonts demo, plus his Google hijack findings.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Marc Andreessen tweet essays5 people · 26 points · first shared 2014 · 6 comments on HN
- 2Producthunt.co leaderboard3 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3Google +1 Button Discovered2 people · 45 points · first shared 2011 · 9 comments on HN
- 4Loom (YC W12) leaks private video snippet clips, as a feature2 people · 6 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 5Wordpress Theme Generator2 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 6Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, accounts exploitable2 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 7Hijacking the Verified Knowledge Panel1 people · 226 points · first shared 2020 · 28 comments on HN
- 8Facebook paid $4.5K for disclosure of my user account exploit1 people · 117 points · first shared 2013 · 123 comments on HN
- 9Latest LLM models tested against a simple question1 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Advanced LLM AI Models vs. a Simple Question1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
- 11Marc Andreessen on big problems1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 12PHP and Mysql exploit tips for lazy programmers.1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13Show HN: Crawling & indexing Airbnb city' hosts recommendations.1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Exposing product trends using Product Hunt1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 15Google's supervising ranking algorithm exposed1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
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tag2 · 2016-10-26
We were 'Hunted' for our App (Hucnhapp) on PH this weekend. We were also hunted a few months ago for our iOS Framework (Redbeard). Both times it was by an influencer that was able to get it featured onto the homepage. Even though we were featured on a weekend both times it still led to thousands of visitors to our site (Approximately 7K in the case of Redbeard). Apparently weekdays leads to an order of magnitude greater.
It really can be a great way to seed early traction. Getting featured can also mean you're picked up by various other blogs and publications as it does lend some credibility with the tech blogs.
If you're looking to reach out to some influencers here's a great site that ranks them: https://www.yvoschaap.com/producthunt/
yvoschaap · 2019-06-16
I caught Google a few years back with the same hijack, but then it was Metrolyrics: https://yvoschaap.com/weblog/misbehavior_by_google_lyrics_onebox_resul…
jonawesomegreen · 2015-01-15
Original tweet storm can be found here:
http://www.yvoschaap.com/pmarca/
ASquare · 2014-10-21
You can do the all time bit - there's a leaderboard built with the PH API: http://www.yvoschaap.com/producthunt/
yvoschaap2 · 2012-09-24
I created one for that:
http://www.yvoschaap.com/edgefonts/
Prepare for some resource hogging :)
aw3c2 · 2011-03-31
RomanAClef · 2010-09-11
Very cool. Didn't think it be such as big deal, since others have already played around with the official Youtube player and API. For example: http://www.yvoschaap.com/youtube/, http://www.flatvid.com.
jacquesm · 2009-11-05
The researcher is called Yvo Schaap (not Schapp!), a dutch guy, here is the original article:
http://www.yvoschaap.com/index.php/weblog/facebook_myspace_accounts_hi…
_ck_ · 2009-09-26
This is far more impressive, Chain Reaction (aka Boomshine) in javascript:
http://www.yvoschaap.com/chainrxn/
mlLK · 2008-11-17
http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/
I found this off-the-cuff with a few google queries, but trust me man I feel your pain; this might not be the solution you're looking for if you know some CSS and HTML; otherwise, your welcome. Honestly I'd browse the plethora of free themes available at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ ; find one you like, figure out the themes image dimensions then Photoshop your site according to your brand. Otherwise, hire a web-designer. ;)