nowfound

Life & fun · June 11, 2020

Web-Scale UUID as a Service

UUID.rocks is the fastest UUIDv4-as-a-service built on Cloudflare Workers.

Web-Scale UUID as a Service launched on June 11, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,395 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Every UUID generated is unique and uses uuidv4 from the uuid npm package. Switches from standard uuidv4 format to Readable UUIDs , that are Shakespearean grammatically correct sentences. Eg. Nertie Irwin Farris the Tighter of Chandlerville reminded Erica Aguistin Maryl and 8 dapper jaguars Switches from standard UUIDv4 to a Short ID . These ID’s are converted from UUIDv4 ID’s so they are just as unique & colission free. Uses the nanoid package to generate ID’s. Supports &len= param to adjust ID length. If this is not a number it will be silently ignored. If used in combonation with bulk api, may fail if len is too long. Gets some stats about service usage, tracked viafrom uuid.rocks

Does a similar job

all alternatives →

More life & fun this month

the category →

Source: Show HN post ↗

Launched alongside, June 2020

the whole month →