Show HN: I Built UUIDs-as-a-Service

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3 pointskagitac3 comments

Can you outline advantages that this has over www.uuidgenerator.net (which supports multiple types of UUIDs, not only V4)?

(www.uuidgenerator.net can be accessed through its website or through the https://www.uuidgenerator.net/api API, which is also available on the https://graphql.stepzen.com service.)

I decided to build this the other day when I tried to use www.uuidgenerator.net, but it was down.

A benefit of this service is that it is deployed as a Cloudflare Worker, which is an edge computing platform so your requests are handled by the closest location to you.

It's just too tempting to be mischievous with a service like that and give the same UUIDs to different people.

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