Upcoming Features

YubNub's goal is to be the definitive command-line operating system for the internet. I've got lots of ideas to make YubNub better -- if you want to suggest improvements, leave a comment on my YubNub blog post.

Here are some future enhancements that I would like to do:

• [IMPORTANT] Allow multiple parameters by specifying %s multiple times. (Thanks Iain!)
• Pipes! You know, like: gim "porsche 911" | htmltidy | upload_to_flickr. (Cool, huh?)
• A "copy" command. Don't like the name "gim"? Copy it to a command named "google-image-search"! And you Unix geeks will probably want to copy the "copy" command to "cp".
• Allow descriptions to be edited. Maybe keep a history of edits, just in case. But don't let the URL be edited -- that's etched in stone (unless you send me an email - I'll provide a "Request Edit" button for this).
• Captchas to guard against spambots? Thanks to Bruce for the idea, and for marking dozens of commands as spam by hand.
• Paul Webb had the idea of letting admins remove the "Mark as spam" link for commands that we know are good
• shanabak suggested making YubNub do POSTs in addition to GETs
• Idea from carrot: "yubnub" command for Linux and other operating systems (could just call lynx, I suppose)
• Idea from technoweenie: commands for BackPack
• Display tags from del.icio.us (thanks shanabak!)
• RSS feed (thanks Brian!)

And some minor things:

• Validate input.
• Trim all input strings.
• Display the date of last access on the ls screen.
• Paginate the ls output, as the command list might get pretty long.
• Track which commands get used the most, and which haven't been used in a while.
• Set focus properly on command/new screen (either the Command or URL text field).
• Typing man without any arguments: just go to the man man page, instead of throwing an exception.
• Nightly backups
• Typing man for a non-existent command: Provide a friendlier and more useful page than "Application Error". (Maybe go directly to the Create screen, with a warning at the top).
• Warning screen if user attempts to execute a spam command. Offer to Google the command as an alternative
• Include link to read-only access to source code in Subversion.

Stuff that's done: