Hurry! Carve out your Hackaday.io homestead with a vanity URL. You can see I’ve already secured hackaday.io/mike, but get in before the rest of Hackaday finds out and you can you have ‘/tom’, ‘/jane’, or ‘/zerocool’. (Don’t do it… you can be more creative than zerocool!)
Whether you already have an account, or if you want to create one right now, the next time you log into Hackaday.io the interface will give you the opportunity to choose your vanity address. Like the Oklahoma land rush, we’re sure there will be a swell of folks looking to squat on the most pristine land. So if your first name is already taken, now is the perfect time to re-invent your perfect username.
For those that need a jump start picking their slug, we want to hear your favorite screen name/handle/user alias of all time in the comments. At the risk of embarassing [Jeff Keyzer], I have to say his alias (and company name) Mighty Ohm is pretty spectacular. Can anyone beat it?
I went with the obvious one of using my handle, but could have been more creative I suppose.
To be honest, I was happy to just get my name.
If I’d have tried to think of a more creative name I’d probably have lost it by the time I tried :-/
Me too.
https://hackaday.io/controlmypad
The goofiest one I could think of was https://hackaday.io/io.itsofftoworkigo or using i’s and o’s for something in binary.
Even cooler if your programmers would make the vanity URL available as a subdomain.. (ie:http://mike.hackaday.io)
Oooh, Old Bit Collector also ranks on my list of superb alias’. Bravo!
Can’t do that because of among other things cookies
Am I missing something? I’ve created a hackaday.io account and started creating projects, but I see nothing about selecting a URL.
When I logged in a little bit ago, along the top it asked for a ‘username’ which effectively became the vanity url name
I seem to have broken something… I managed to make hackaday.io/dbtayl when I wasn’t logged in, and now it’s claimed, but not associated with an account…?
I just PM’d you.
Hi mike, seems I have a similar problem. Lion.XL is is use even though it should be assigned to mu user account, and my user account is attached to lin.xl and no way to change it. can you help???
You can change your vanity url if you go to Edit Profile, then update the ‘username’ field.
https://hackaday.io/index.html
:)
God damn that’s clever.
Damn, that’s genious!
GAAH I was just about to do that!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5KzBJ42r4&w=420&h=315%5D
So incredibly EVIL!
(Really, I’m just jealous I didn’t think of it first)
http://hachaday.io/cgi_bin/
Doesn’t work, alphanumeric only is doable
Went with https://hackaday.io/index.php .
.htm ist taken as well.
Aha! You’re the one who snagged .php! I managed to get .htm however . . .
don’t pick robots.txt
Ask me how I know!
How do you know (nobody is asking so I must do) ?
Crap, did anyone try .htaccess yet?
Tell Brian I’m squatting hackaday.io/brian
That’s cool, because I already have /benchoff, and I hate being called Brian.
Oh man, I’ve been calling you Brian for years now. Why didn’t you say something :-P
Ok Brian :P
now you’ve done it…
My entire business plan is ruined! http://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/2613386/preview/stock-footage-an-emotional-and-sad-elderly-man.jpg
We’ve got that B-Roll!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8
At the risk of missing out on another epic URL (Pete, I hate your guts XD) I’m wondering if picking one that was already used for the site’s function would cause problems? Not all of them contain potentially unallowed characters, ex. the ‘about’ page:
http://hackaday.com/about/
I would hope that trying to grab something like hackaday.com/myfeed might be blocked :-)
I tried everyone of them. Not working. Too bad
b’aww i wanted wp-admin (cuz im currentlly messing with a wordpress site) but it didnt let me :(
So now i got hackaday.io/404 :3
You’re the person that stole my 404!
Awesome
/crashoverride is good enough? /Ultralazer? /doctordoom?
http://hackaday.io/oi.yadakcah
Surprisingly pronounceable…
you beat me to it!
…and (very) loosely translated as “Is that a no?” in Japanese. :-)
Of course, I went with my personal favourite, MickMad (I’ve been known with this name on the interwebs since 1999, when I wasn’t even a teenager!)
I wasn’t able to score 404 but I did snag 403
Yet it doesn’t seem that anyone too 418 yet
Since I also got 418 on my license plate, there is now ;)
You win Pete, bravo :-)
I just claimed my initials.
http://hackaday.io/amp
got myself hackaday.io/backdoor.html
So … lame, sad and .. alone
Kinda cool, but makes it impossible for us to easily track the success of the HaD.io experiment by sorting the Hackers list by Newest and looking at the ID numbers.
if you don’t click but hover over the newest member, you still get the hacker id.
Yay vanity!
hackaday.io/myfeed.html
Grabbed https://hackaday.io/smartwatch! This is great!
I took NotAHack
I guess I’m the boring one here. Since my dain is still bramaged, I went with my long time handle of DainBramage. Apparently I lack the facilities to come up with anything more clever than that.
I think DainBramage is an excellent handle. It would be better if your real name was “Dane” but I know it’s not :-D
Thank you very much!
I do get called “Dain” quite a bit when online, so I would probably respond if someone yelled it at me. It might take me a moment, though.
My brain reverses phonetic sounds all the time. I probably would have gone with Drain Bammage, but stuck with my commenter id, instead.
score managed to get 0xD15EA5E go me :D
I’m impressed no one took http://www.hackada.io/hackaday.io I took positive07 so I wont do it
I thought about it but it feels unnecessary repetitive.
First! https://hackaday.io/first :D
Haha yeah! Got http://hackaday.io/pat
Nice !
http://hackaday.io/cr8ive
Should have thrown an e in there cre8ive.. guess you took creative license with that?
8 starts with an e :-)
i feel lame now … http://hackaday.io/chri
but still, 4 letters, thats cool. try finding a gmailaccount name ;-)
let’s see if i’ll actually post any usfull stuff here. I gave it a try :-)
I managed to get mine before my American doppelganger.
https://hackaday.io/brynet
I am so lame. https://hackaday.io/default.asp
Why can’t I take HelloWorld ? It’s not even taken ! It keeps saying this username is already used.
It’s on the reserved list. I don’t know why, though.
https://hackaday.io/market :)
there is only http://hackaday.io/zuul
I tip my hat to you sir. I wonder if I could get http://hackaday.io/IntellectualMadman ? I’m going to have to check that out.
My first name was taken, so I decided to go with simply d. However I got an error message about only alphanumeric was allow. Since when d isn’t part of the alphabet? Now worries I went with http://hackaday.io/pvltech . pvltech being a name I selected for general service business I was preparing when in case oil patch bust of the ’80s ’90scaught up with.However a disabling medical condition hit me first, so I never turned a screw under that business name. Now to create some content. Nice feature Hackaday, thank you.
Brilliant idea, thank you Hackaday!
been having troubles commenting — http://hackaday.io/me