I made V.O.B.S., a system that lets you produce interactive TV shows using the internet as a transport medium, multiple webcams in different locations and our server infrastructure.
My project "UrlRoulette" was on the HN homepage for about 24 hours. I received a huge traffic spike at the start. Since then traffic came from other sources such as Reddit, some blog posts and articles that were written - and of course some search engines. After being on HN, UrlRoulette was featured in the german C'T magazine and received a lot of traffic from their website and their print edition. Also, being featured on some more sites certainly helped pushing the site's page rank on Google.
Yes, but they are no longer distributed to users. I thought that was the original question. I'm keeping them in the database to check for SPAM/multiple submissions mainly.
Well, that could happen on any website that you visit. IMO it does not make a difference whether you know the link before you click it or not, because you still don't know what you will get. But I am thinking about implementing some sort of virus/malware scanning.
Well, I'm not exactly sure about how to do that. I could implement a list of all the major porn sites, but then people could still post porn URL using URL shorteners...
Yes, but all Android Phones come with a pre-compiled binary distribution. And as long as it's pre-compiled, it's kind of hard to know what is going on under the hood. Compiling and installing your own Android almost always is a pain..