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Show HN: One global text input, shared by everyone

A website called Only One Input provides a single global text field where any visitor can type, and everyone else sees the input in real time.

Background

- "Show HN" is a tradition on Hacker News (HN), the tech-news site run by Y Combinator, where founders and developers post projects they've built for feedback from the community. - "One global text input, shared by everyone" is likely a real-time collaborative text field — anyone visiting the site can type in it and see what everyone else is typing, similar to the "One Million Pixel" concept but with text. - This is a playful social experiment / tech demo, not a commercial product. It explores ideas of shared attention, anonymity, and what happens when thousands of strangers can edit the same input field at once (chaos, vandalism, emergent patterns, collective poetry). - The site is hosted at onlyoneinput.com, and the creator is showing it off to HN to see how people interact with it.

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