Isseven (isseven.app)

by philipreasa 61 comments 108 points
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[−] Rendello 41d ago
Doesn't work for the other 125 encoded characters that are numerically seven, as defined in the Unicode Character Database:

https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/extracted/DerivedN...

(Viewable / copy-able version: https://pastebin.com/fNRv3wD6)

[−] vova_hn2 41d ago
I was almost sure that they do it client-side for a joke, but if you check the browser console, you can see that they actually make a request! You can even make the same request with curl and it works!

Although, making an HTTP request manually is quite inconvenient, so I'm waiting for Python SDK.

[−] cyode 41d ago
Heads up OP: I’m trying to get a pro license but your checkout flow is borked. Probably should fix ASAP before missing out on HN front page traffic.
[−] OsrsNeedsf2P 41d ago
I misread this as "is even" and was shocked that 46 returned false
[−] akoboldfrying 41d ago
Enterprise looks promising, but before I take this to upper management: How many sevens of uptime are we talking?
[−] grant0417 41d ago
Vulnerable to a distillation attack, unfortunately not much of a moat.
[−] Quot 41d ago
7.0000000000000001 evaluates to true.
[−] encody 40d ago

> 77.7% uptime SLA

Giving GitHub a run for its money, I see.

[−] evanb 41d ago
Bug report: I tried 6.999999̅ and got false. So there's some nonstandard model of the reals being leveraged here.
[−] nvader 41d ago
Bug report: I entered 3 + 4 and did not get a kinda or true.

This app is ngmi

[−] charcircuit 41d ago
This SaaS actually will be replaced with an in house vibecoded solution.
[−] CobrastanJorji 41d ago
That documentation is woefully inadequate. It provides only one example request, and then it shows two separate responses, and it doesn't make clear which one is associated with the request. It doesn't even describe the individual request fields, nor does it provide any response codes or a list of error codes/messages. How am I supposed to develop with this?

I do, however, appreciate the seven figure SLA. My service requires at least five nines of uptime, and seven figures is definitely more than five.

[−] qot 40d ago
Very similar to https://isevenapi.xyz/

Even down to injecting an ad into the response as a joke.

[−] himata4113 41d ago
complaint: someone entered "seven" and it crashed my entire infrastructure because the output returned a non standard 'kinda'.
[−] forthwall 41d ago
Needs an Agent skill! Gotta be more modern :)
[−] rushabh 41d ago
Reminds me of https://five.js.org/
[−] dustimpact 41d ago
Apparently “seven” is only kinda seven. I would argue that seven is seven!
[−] bombcar 41d ago
I can use this as a random number generator; at least it's not nine.
[−] layer8 41d ago
It hallucinates 6.9999999999999996 to be seven.
[−] 0xblinq 41d ago
I wanted to subscribe and I can't! How do you expect to make any money if that doesn't work?!!1
[−] iamgopal 41d ago
No other numbers were harmed in the making of this API.

But their feeling hurts, especially primes.

[−] csmantle 41d ago
This Is Seven as a Service.
[−] verzali 39d ago
Did not work, did not recognise 'VII' as seven.
[−] system2 41d ago
I like how you spent $10 for the domain for this. :)
[−] nwhnwh 41d ago
I will vibe code my way out of poverty:
[−] s20n 41d ago
Does this have an MCP server?
[−] darkhorse13 40d ago
Is this SOC2 compliant?
[−] matt3210 41d ago
Does not work for Nw==
[−] mwkaufma 41d ago
TIL 6+1 is not seven.
[−] seanhunter 40d ago
We wanted to subscribe to the enterprise plan, but unfortunately:

- No Soc-2 compliance

- No sso support.

We asked if we could host on-prem or even byoc but that seems an impossible dream.

Smh

[−] zetanor 40d ago
Oh, come on people. You don't need a cloud service for this. Just use the is-seven NPM package.
[−] cyanydeez 40d ago
needs an MCP.
[−] hyperhello 41d ago
Eh, more better than Prolog.