PDFs that are readable by human eyes only

Today: still up
Launched: 2022-07-06
Where: Show HN
Attention: 216 points

What we know

PDFs that are readable by human eyes only was posted to Show HN on 2022-07-06 at humaneyesonly.com. The site still answers.

Across the whole register, 23% of launches whose fate we could settle are gone.

Go and look

humaneyesonly.com — the site itself
The Show HN discussion — 126 comments at the time
What it looked like, in the Internet Archive

Others who tried something similar

Stream real-time, human-readable blockchain data — moved
Threadable — gone
YoLinks, a human-readable URL shortener for teams — gone
WeExpire.org – Notes readable only after your death — still up
Rails Baseline – a Rails SaaS starter with agent-readable architecture — unverified
WeExpire – Notes readable only after your death — unverified
Postgres.email – Readable Mailing Lists — still up
Simple, readable, chronological front page items from Hacker News — still up

How we know. Show HN and Product Hunt entries are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it has shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server that answers 404 is one somebody still pays for. Y Combinator entries use the status YC itself publishes, which is why only those can say acquired. Search the whole register.