MyUUIDshop, Generate UUIDs and never worry about duplicates
Details
- External ID
- 48189454
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- MyUUIDshop, Generate UUIDs and never worry about duplicates
- Website domain
- myuuid.shop
- Launched
- May 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
In response to some recent discussion here and on X about a company having an in house uuid microservice and team dedicated to it. At first that was made fun of, but further discussion revealed in fact sometimes uuids can collide due to improper entropy seeding most likely. In order to ensure that UUIDs are unique, we store each generation in a database, then check new generations against it to ensure they are not previously generated. As well, there is an API through which you can check if a UUID is present in the database. Paid options available for heavy use. Enjoy!
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche data tools and novelty websites
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- uuid generator
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a humorous novelty project consisting of a basic web page, a PostgreSQL database or Redis set with a unique constraint, and a simple UUID generation API route.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: 256-bit UUIDs, counters
Concerns raised: UUID collisions occurring in practice despite theoretical safety, Bad entropy causing collisions, Whether collisions are actually a real problem with 128-bit UUIDs, Service appears to be a joke
Feature requests: Documentation on how UUID collisions occurred in microservice, Explanation of benefits over simpler alternatives like counters
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 9 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 10 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 133 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Japanese Names Generator · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.30
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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