[HN Gopher] Show HN: A graveyard for my side projects
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Show HN: A graveyard for my side projects
Author : bilater
Score : 76 points
Date : 2021-07-25 05:35 UTC (1 days ago)
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| zapstar wrote:
| Love the idea and your past (passed?) projects. My condolences.
|
| I've built something similar, called Project Cemetery [0], with
| the hopes of giving all of us a place to pay our respects to the
| side projects that have passed. Sadly, it just wasn't meant for
| this world either. Only projects of mine are listed, although I'd
| still gladly post submissions!
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| [0] https://projectcemetery.com
| bilater wrote:
| Nice! I like the gravestones for the projects haha.
| timwis wrote:
| I like the design of this site. Reminds me of notion.
| bilater wrote:
| Thank you! I love Notion so I appreciate the comparison. :D
| pengwing wrote:
| I would not contribute to something framed as a graveyard,
| because the name implies commemoration of your loved ones. If you
| ever want to be successful, your way will be paved with the
| corpses for your side-projects. You killed each one yourself and
| learned from it. Not a single tear shed.
| ozfive wrote:
| Do they then deserve to be in a ditch or a shallow grave or
| maybe sunk to the bottom of the sea with a weight?
| mtlynch wrote:
| This is a dupe from a few days ago, but it looks like the
| original thread has been deleted.
|
| What's going on?
| mathgladiator wrote:
| I love this layout, and I've done a similar thing over the years:
| http://jeffrey.io/wall-of-shame.html
|
| Something I intend to do next year is to go through and catalog
| my ideas and which ones have manifested in the market and how.
| bilater wrote:
| Do it! Site looks nice. :)
| ghgr wrote:
| The you-tldr seems pretty useful, although admittedly hard to
| monetize.
| ud_0 wrote:
| I think the subscription/"free trial" concept is a particularly
| hard sell for this. Maybe micropayments would be much better
| suited as a default: _pay $1 right now via Paypal to have a
| video transcribed_. Subscription optional for recurring
| customers.
| gnyman wrote:
| I'd go as far as to say it's very useful :-) I don't know how
| many times I've sat trying to skip trough a video to find a
| certain phrase or fact. Also the name is great and easy to
| remember, definitely committing that to my memory.
|
| I am curious, from a technical point of view, are you pulling
| down the YouTube transcription or doing your own? And does that
| rely on the YouTube api (thus costing money for you at some
| point?).
| bilater wrote:
| Thanks! We used the Youtube API and it's actually free for
| our purpose. Using the API allows us to serve the requests
| super fast as the transcription is already done.
| yoaviram wrote:
| I've toyed in the past with the idea of creating a place for
| people to capture their now defunct startups based on my own
| experience with how quickly all the digital traces disappear.
| Sort of like Crunchbase but focused only on dead projects. Any
| one thinks that there's a general need for this?
| bartread wrote:
| Back in the days following the OG dotcom bust there was a
| website called Fucked Company that detailed all the tech
| startups that either had failed or were in the process of
| failing. Sadly long since defunct but the front page at least
| is still available via the wayback machine:
|
| https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20060603194832/http://www...
| dumbmachine wrote:
| Graveyard listing of some failed startups.
| https://www.failory.com/cemetery.
| restinbits wrote:
| Years ago I was working on a digital graveyard called "rest in
| bits" (RIP = rest in peace = rest in piece = pieces are bits =
| bits are what makes up code) but it never came to fruition.
| Anyway, if you need a name, I recommend rest in bits.
| brianshaler wrote:
| There is a delicious irony to restinbits offering the name of
| their defunct project, rest in bits, to someone making a site
| tracking defunct projects. Rest in bits could then be in the
| inaugural batch on rest in bits.
| mathgladiator wrote:
| I would use it, but given my eclectic nature would need an
| backup button.
| tylerrobinson wrote:
| I went to college with Bilal and remember him as a smart guy.
|
| Very cool to see that you have developed this expertise and the
| grit to execute on it for so many ideas, Bilal!
| bilater wrote:
| Thanks Tyler! Appreciate it. :)
| timdaub wrote:
| Actually that doggysticker website would probably do well as a
| collection of NFTs on Ethereum.
| bilater wrote:
| good idea!
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