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Myjson – A simple JSON store for your web or mobile app

by fotoblur on 4/22/14, 1:16 PM with 27 comments

  • by ozh on 4/22/14, 2:57 PM

    Neat and simple, but that's exactly the kind of things that makes me go "too bad it's not open sourced, I could use that"

  • by michaelmior on 4/22/14, 2:39 PM

    Seems like it might be handy for testing. Certainly good to stay way from it for production apps though.

  • by tburch on 4/22/14, 3:44 PM

    I built http://jsonblob.com for this purpose. It has an HTTP API as well as we nice GUI interface to edit your JSON. It's open sourced and really just a thin webapp on top of mongo, so it's easy to run your own.

  • by alxeder on 4/22/14, 4:09 PM

    A JSON literal is also valid JSON. Therefore 4, "test" and true should be saveable without a object wrapper

  • by donbronson on 4/22/14, 3:43 PM

    Could be used for notepad API or something public. That said, it seems that services like Parse and Firebox seem more robust and also have faster response times.

  • by tyleregeto on 4/22/14, 3:35 PM

    I can't see the use case of this. If it was editable after saving then that would make sense, but this is just static. And being static, you're better off just bundling it with the app. Unless I'm missing something?

    Nice presentation though, the site looks nice.

    EDIT: I see you can create and update through the HTTP API, which makes it much more useful.

  • by jackmaney on 4/22/14, 3:06 PM

    Neat, but it would be neater if this were open source and running on https.

  • by goblin89 on 4/22/14, 5:26 PM

    Why not use https://www.firebase.com? Seems more reliable (Privacy Policy, ToS, SLA) and easier to start using, and it has a free tier if you need something quick for development.

  • by ImJasonH on 4/22/14, 4:52 PM

    I built a similar thing, in Go on App Engine: https://github.com/imjasonh/simply-put

  • by Edmond on 4/22/14, 3:30 PM

    for anyone interested in a an easy tool for building JSON store/APIs, you might find HiveMind (crudzilla.com) useful, I am the developer.

    Here's a simple screencast: http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/instantiator.g...

    There's a lot that you can with it, in terms of generating JSON.

  • by gregbarbosa on 4/22/14, 3:32 PM

    For testing purposes, wouldn't using Dropbox suffice as well? It gives a quick way to update the JSON and see changes occur near live in app?

  • by graham1776 on 4/22/14, 5:00 PM

    Could you do this for an excel document (database)?

    It would be cool to be able to drag and drop an excel document into here and call it with a url.

  • by techaddict009 on 4/22/14, 1:48 PM

    Seems simple and useful like jsfiddle. I will really use this in my app.

  • by ff7c11 on 4/22/14, 4:01 PM

    Maximum nesting depth of 100 :( or else it says it's invalid JSON.