[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
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Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
Things you made that could be valuable to other people if they used
it, but which you abandoned because you enjoyed making the thing
more than you would have enjoyed marketing it.
Author : leobg
Score : 125 points
Date : 2022-08-14 13:02 UTC (9 hours ago)
| metaketa wrote:
| We made a boardgame called "Money Maker that accurately models
| the banking sector, money/credit creation and financial crashes
| at https://moneymaker.games.
|
| It started out as an educational tool for schools to teach how
| money creation _actually_ works but now turned into a "family"
| board game loved by IT people, bank staff and sociology
| professors. We loved producing it and players are very happy with
| it because it's so fun but we never really started marketing
| sadly because we had to take up day-jobs.
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| I built a web app to help me track the Apple Fitness+ workouts
| I've done, including notes and whether or not I liked the
| workout, plus a Shortcut to help save the workouts after I do
| them.
|
| I certainly haven't abandoned it, but I haven't bothered
| promoting it in any meaningful way because I derive value from it
| whether or not others are using it.
|
| There's an invite system in place to help prevent spammers from
| overrunning the place, but I'm quite responsive to requests.
|
| You can find it here: https://myworkouts.xyz
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| I built a review website (think G2) for political tools as the
| industry seemed incredibly opaque and driven by word of mouth
| with the idea of also eventually expanding to giving rankings to
| individual campaign consultants as well and also sketched out a
| "toptal for campaigns" site but never built it.
| richharms wrote:
| https://gitlab.echothree.com/echothree/echothree - started years
| ago as a product information management system for an online
| retailer, grew a lot of other functionality, now I use it as an
| example application when talking about GraphQL or other
| technologies I want to prototype.
| captn3m0 wrote:
| - A OSS Mutual Funds API for India: https://mf.captnemo.in/
|
| - A public dataset of a powerbank-on-rent provider in India:
| https://captnemo.in/plugo/
|
| - OpenAPI specifications for some Indian companies:
| https://stoplight.captnemo.in/docs/simpl/,
| https://stoplight.captnemo.in/docs/kuvera/
|
| - Publicly updated dataset and release feed of edits to Indian
| Securities (ISINs): https://github.com/captn3m0/india-isin-data
|
| - Re-published Joel Spolsky's HgInit on GitHub pages as a proper
| Jekyll website: https://hginit.github.io/
|
| - A regex based validator for Indian PINcodes:
| https://github.com/captn3m0/india-pincode-regex
|
| A lot more at https://captnemo.in/projects/
| Argher wrote:
| A chat service with extension to overlay anonymous chat functions
| on any website, with rooms grouped by url. All JS.
|
| Also a peer to peer parking spot rental platform a la Airbnb. JS
| with a python backend.
|
| A gamified voter registration Facebook app. Rails backend.
|
| Not that I didn't think I would market them, at the time I built
| them I was just unaware of how to effectively, and I have newer
| projects since.
| mushishi wrote:
| Lyyri, in which you can split a Youtube video into parts and add
| lyrics to it: https://egaga.github.io/Lyyri/
|
| Mainly made for myself, so that I can easily sing only parts of
| the song with lyrics.
|
| Then Spotify added lyrics back and kinda lost interest in this,
| even though could be used for other purposes as well like
| teaching purposes: giving link to students to watch only some of
| the video with added commentary by teacher. Though, currently the
| actual video is shown only really small so doesn't suite for
| that.
| whitefang wrote:
| I've built Formester[1] which aims to be the only backend that
| you would ever need for any forms on the web. You want to build
| survyes you can do it. Want to store data from your own embedded
| form, auto notify users on submission, protect against spam with
| out fiddling with complex code and much more. I would love to get
| feedback from users on what could be improved further.
|
| I had initally abandoned it but have picked it up again in 2022
| and this time I'm planning to make it big.
|
| [1] formester.com
| piyushsinghania wrote:
| I checked it out and yes, formester.com looks great.
| vonmixer wrote:
| https://friendle.gg
|
| Something a couple of friends and I spun up during the Wordle
| hype. It's PvP Wordle, where you set the word for the opponent to
| guess and vice versa. The meta is quite different from regular
| Wordle, obscure words and repeated letters do well.
|
| We were too lazy to market it and have just been playing with
| friends and family.
| f0e4c2f7 wrote:
| I built a managed Kubernetes platform because it was what I knew
| how to build. Pretty quickly I realized selling it was actually
| going to be pretty similar to my day job which is what I was
| seeking a change from.
|
| So I took a left turn and started making a VR game instead. The
| marketing path for that is much more interesting.
| jraph wrote:
| I developed a web app that allowed my friends and me to watch the
| same video synchronously during the lock-downs / curfew after
| Summer 2020. The video would be served by my server, and anybody
| could control the playback. Pausing or seeking would do it for
| everyone. We would all connect to a Jitsi Meet room so we could
| hear people laugh or react to the video.
|
| I called this "Meet Anyway", it was my first Svelte app, and
| never released it for several reasons, among them:
|
| - I had to do some manual video upload and provide the exact
| video URL to the app to make things work
|
| - the thing had some glitches even if it mostly worked and did
| the job
|
| - I had other things to do, in particular taking care of an open
| source network implementation of a popular letter-based game that
| I started in 2016 and then forgot (ran all this time on my server
| without maintenance at all, not appearing in top) and which
| suddenly attracted people during the lock-down.
|
| - and now I'm interested in other things, especially that the
| lock-downs are over. It would be nice to finish it and publish it
| though, but I'm more interested in the other things, and there
| are major issues: the videos need to live under the same domain
| as the app if I remember correctly because of browser security,
| so either people have to host the tool themselves or we would
| need to offer a service that would host people's videos while
| they are watching it, or at least to proxy them. I did not want
| to set up such a service and so the tool does not solve the issue
| for many people, only those who are technically inclined.
|
| This was my second shot at this issue, I had first put together a
| Python program which allowed two users to watch the same video
| locally with a regular Linux video player, so I could watch stuff
| with a relative, using MPRIS, a unified Linux / Free Desktop
| D-Bus interface to control music and video players. This one I
| actually released it, but there's actually a mature project that
| does this better, is actually maintained and is cross-platform:
| https://syncplay.pl/
| areichert wrote:
| Oof, basically everything I've built, I've been too lazy to
| market...
|
| - Mental Health tracking app [1] for tracking my daily activities
| against my anxiety/depression/well-being
|
| - Web3 Contract Explorer [2] for making it easier to inspect and
| run methods on Ethereum contracts
|
| - GlobalEntry appointment notifications [3] for making it easier
| to book last-minute interview appointments
|
| [1] https://mental-h.vercel.app/
|
| [2] https://web3-contract-explorer.vercel.app/
|
| [3] https://www.appointmentfinder.xyz/
| maoeurk wrote:
| I'm actively working on language learning software through
| immersion at https://polyglatte.com . It's currently completely
| free with no way to pay for it but I still feel some amount of
| guilt about self-promotion even though I get lots of positive
| feedback and it's already helping people.
|
| I find marketing to be very uncomfortable so I've been neglecting
| it, but I know it's the only way to any kind of success.
| Jaruzel wrote:
| I built a tool to populate an empty Active Directory instance
| with fake user identity data, including office addresses,
| departments, organisational linkages, security and distribution
| groups, and of course all the actual user data.
|
| It could fill an AD with upto 50,000 identities and associated
| data, which could then be used for testing. The engineer could
| tweak every aspect before it got created.
|
| Beyond fully writing it and getting it to a version 1.0 state, I
| never marketed it as I had a sudden crisis of faith and thought
| no-one would actually want it.
| mediamogul wrote:
| I am blessed that my crises of faith mostly hit before even
| starting work on an idea I think is clever.
|
| Accomplishes the same thing - minimizing any potential success
| - but further upstream.
| Jaruzel wrote:
| In this case, it was something I needed, but I took it way
| beyond a scrappy tool just for me, and turned it into a full
| production level wizard based GUI app.
|
| I guess not all of that was wasted effort.
| rsync wrote:
| "Oh By".[1]
|
| It's a "universal shortener".[2]
|
| You can take any block of text and condense it to a simple code
| that you can chalk up anywhere. It's the same idea as a QR code
| but you can just quickly write it out with a pencil or chalk it
| on the street ... or verbally state it.
|
| I'm convinced there is some use-case that this elegantly solves
| and would be genuinely valuable to people ... but beyond
| mentioning it here on HN I have never marketed it in any way.
|
| [1] https://0x.co
|
| [2] https://0x.co/examples.html
| danbulant wrote:
| How do people find 0x.co to get the data out of the code? Maybe
| the code should be written like 0x.co/something instead of just
| 0xSOMETHING?
| rsync wrote:
| Yep. Chicken and egg problem.
|
| The _idea_ is that they come into such broad usage that
| everyone just knows what an 0x code is.
| jacobsimon wrote:
| Or make your SEO good so that when people inevitably Google
| search, your result is first.
| hoyent wrote:
| This is just a pastebin, isn't it?
| rsync wrote:
| I don't know what it is.
|
| It made me happy to build it and I hope that there is some
| emergent use-case for it that organically comes into being.
|
| Surprise me :)
| brk wrote:
| I love the idea of this. It seems like your major hurdle is
| just getting enough traction for the "Ox" prefix to become as
| well understood as "@" or "#".
| rsync wrote:
| Yes, I think that is the crux of it.
|
| Maybe a superbowl commercial ...
| aaur0 wrote:
| I would recommend blacklisting a few words while generating the
| URL. This is what was generated for me
| https://0x.co/done.html?code=632CUM
| rsync wrote:
| ... and the latin word for "along with" should be on that
| list ?
|
| But seriously ...
|
| We did, in fact, disable certain outputs but they were all
| related to legibility and mistaken transcription. For
| instance, no O/0 and no l/1, if I remember correctly ...
| grose wrote:
| When Google Play Music died I made https://inter.tube as a
| replacement music storage locker. It supports almost all of the
| Subsonic protocol but I haven't had the time to make a web
| interface for things like the playlist editor so I don't really
| feel comfortable marketing it. I think it could be useful for a
| certain niche though. Slowly re-working it to use Cloudflare
| Workers and R2.
| adityapurwa wrote:
| I built Playtune https://playtune.app - a web game where you can
| turn any YouTube videos into a rhythm game. It comes from a
| frustation from playing rhythm game but they have limited song
| catalog. Playtune literally have millions of song that you can
| play. Any song that is uploaded to YouTube can be played as long
| as it allow embedding. You can even make a rhythm game out of
| five minute craft videos if you want or linus tech tips.
| sdwr wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| https://playtune.app/play/FdC119_bm1k
| onetokeoverthe wrote:
| noworriesnate wrote:
| * A fuse filesystem for Linux that mirrored another directory,
| except for files that were marked as executable. When you tried
| to access those files, my program executed the file and let you
| read from stdout.
|
| * A KDE plasmoid that let you drop executable files onto it, and
| when you did the files got executed. Very simple, although I was
| proud of the name--dropkik.
|
| * An alternative to markdown that has an ANTLR grammar, so it's
| easy to generate parsers in many different languages. It's not as
| nice as markdown though. Also it supported direct export to PDF,
| so it didn't require a LaTeX install.
| solumos wrote:
| https://topica.io - productized transcription service to turn
| video content into a searchable archive
|
| https://joincrux.com - weight loss community w/o the snake oil BS
| paulirish wrote:
| You improved the speed of something. It took 430ms before and now
| just 160ms. But how do you quantify that? https://how-much-
| faster.glitch.me/ gives you a few options for how to word things.
| Grustaf wrote:
| Sounds like it's already quantified? 160 ms vs 430 ms.
| eps wrote:
| Quantifying the _change_ , relative to the base or the new
| value.
| didgetmaster wrote:
| You need to find a way to weight it. Improving, by a huge
| percentage, something that is traditionally very slow can
| sometimes be trivial. Improving, by even a few percentage
| points, something that many different systems have spent
| decades trying to make as fast as possible can be much more
| significant.
|
| For example, finding files in a big file system using standard
| file calls takes forever. Making this hundreds or even
| thousands of times faster is certainly possible.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw
|
| On the other hand, making general database queries run faster
| than the latest version of Postgres with proper indexes takes a
| bit of novel thinking. Even a 20% or 30% improvement should be
| considered a breakthrough, let alone 2x or better.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE
| formercoder wrote:
| Not sure if this would be valuable to anyone but I have a custom
| apps script that parses all of my new calendar event and takes
| certain actions on certain events. For example, events from/to my
| wife get marked as personal color and private, title starts with
| a star -> personal and private. Event from workout class system
| -> mark as fitness and private.
| thepra wrote:
| There were shy attempts at "marketing" https://collanon.com but I
| didn't follow through them seriously even though it's a ready to
| go platform.
| arminiusreturns wrote:
| I took a simple google ticket system tutorial and made a whole
| gapps-script based internal company ticket portal. Using googles
| auth system meant user-correlatiom became trivial and sped up
| task resolution. As I was the only person running the IT
| department, I had the ability to choose and I didn't like any of
| the corporate products for a company that did business more
| frugally than falling for death by a thousand license cuts, a
| very real danger.
|
| Then gapps-script updated, broke some stuff, I got tired of
| maintaining it, and we got a new dev, so I aquiesced to Jira.
|
| I hate jira.
| chasd00 wrote:
| My sons schools use a system called PowerSchool for grade books.
| I wrote a little script I call powernag that scrapes and then
| txts them all their missing or incomplete assignments. They hate
| it, it's perfect.
| singlemalt wrote:
| We built this during the pandemic (https://www.share.clinic),
| because we thought it would be useful for people to market all of
| their online classes, etc. on social media. When it was done, we
| became so busy with other projects that we didn't have the time
| to market it. If somebody is interested in taking this on as a
| project, let us know.
| dabeeeenster wrote:
| https://www.carpricetracker.com/
|
| I did post it to HN but that's all. Not really sure what to do
| with it!
| mmcnl wrote:
| I built a simple flight calculator with the goal of being fast
| and easy to use. I use it quite often myself.
|
| https://flightcalculator.net/
| malux85 wrote:
| https://nyan.global An EVM disassembler and formal smart contract
| verifier (got bored, abandoned)
|
| https://atomictessellator.com
|
| Current project - small molecule chemistry simulation platform
| (no marketing, passion project)
| madarco wrote:
| A tiny Arduino compatible PCB with wheels and motors attached to
| the PCB board itself, with Bluetooth and a mobile app. (basically
| a single-board RC car).
| emadda wrote:
| https://table.dog
| block_dagger wrote:
| StoryKey, an attempt at improving BIP39 brain wallet mnemonics.
| https://github.com/jcraigk/story_key
| pdyc wrote:
| did not abandoned it since i am using for myself but didn't put
| any effort into marketing it either other than mentioning it on
| hn few times https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver . It's
| hHeadless server for hosting courses and associated blog/static
| content from private github repository.
| iambateman wrote:
| I have two...
|
| The truly abandoned project is FountainCards.com. It accepts
| typed input, converts it to a "handwritten" SVG, sends to a pen
| plotter, and mails the card. I built the whole app, bought two
| pen plotters and was ready for production. the reason I stopped
| was because I didn't care enough about marketing to the clientele
| who needs that kind of thing - mortgage brokers, car salesmen,
| etc. It felt like I was helping the client act like they cared
| about their customer by sending "heartfelt" notes without
| _actually_ caring about their customer. In other words, I was
| helping them send really nice spam.
|
| After that, I spent some significant time thinking about what
| project I would really care about, which leads to the second
| app...
|
| I've been working on MoneyHabitsHQ.com in my free time since
| January. It is a simple take on a personal finance app. The idea
| is to try to get the maximum benefit from 3 minutes of budgeting
| per week. There are a bunch of features which will make the app
| nearly "invisible", while still helping people keep track of
| their money.
|
| I haven't started marketing it because getting the UX right on a
| budget app is incredibly difficult. I've been in quiet beta for a
| few months, and if anyone wants to try it out, feel free to email
| me: Stephen@bate-man.com and I'll get you a promo code.
| wolfgang42 wrote:
| If you still want to do something with the plotters, maybe
| consider the wedding market? Change to a calligraphic font
| (IIRC there are some Hershey fonts that might be a good start)
| and sell a bundle with invitations, place cards, and so on.
| [deleted]
| eduardosasso wrote:
| I built a music visualizer inspired by vintage stereos,
| https://soundq.co
| iurydias wrote:
| I built Riffbase https://www.producthunt.com/products/riffbase
|
| Riffbase is a web application to save snippets of Spotify tracks.
| Save your favorite riffs of your favorite songs! You can search
| for Spotify songs directly in the app and use the neat Riffbase
| interface to pinpoint exactly where the riffs start and end.
| jroesner wrote:
| We built https://metrik.one
|
| It's an advanced analytics tool for Mailchimp. It's mostly
| targeting regular newsletter senders, but gives detailed insights
| into an audience w/o violating user privacy. We like to think
| about it as the Plausible for Email Marketing. Unfortunately the
| development took too long, my business partner and friend ran out
| of runway and my kid was born. Still planning to market it, but
| so far under the radar.
| cbanek wrote:
| I was 17 and I built a portable mp3 player out of a computer and
| put it in a backpack. It ran linux and had a keyboard - no
| screen. It was way better than the available CD-ROM based mp3
| players back then. Who wants to flip through 700 songs on a ff /
| rewind button anyway?
|
| Sadly, I didn't have the thought or the money or the people to
| turn it into you know... the iPod. (technically, I was about 2
| years earlier, but I'm sure they were working on it)
| greatjack613 wrote:
| I built https://bobbysdeals.net as a way to share curated deals
| with family and friends. Never marketed it but it still garners
| some organic traffic through our social media accounts so I guess
| that works. :)
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| About half of the 30 or so bands I have played with have been
| abandoned after a couple of gigs, or non at all.
|
| Mostly I've only just played music for fun. It's much more fun
| (and certainly easier) playing at some friend's house every week
| for 18 months than it is to book performances, market the band,
| produce works for the public, etc.
|
| I have a sticker on my truck that says "This Sticker Will Last
| Longer Than Your Band", and that's been true.
|
| I don't regret learning to play the entirety of Dark Side of the
| Moon and performing it once. I know so much Grateful Dead. I've
| play dozens and dozens of original songs written by friends that
| won't ever get any attention outside of the 20 people who were
| paying attention at some bar.
|
| I've also played with more commercially focused endeavors and
| have an idea of the horrors of trying to tour and manage the
| commercial aspects of music. It's not like most of these bands
| were any worse or could not have been marketed.
|
| I've played with a lot of folks who have only ever been in one or
| two bands.
|
| The thing I find interesting about all that is this point:
|
| they usually vastly underestimate how much work it takes to
| market a band
|
| and at the same time (I find this a little beautiful) they vastly
| underestimate the goodness of their own musical output.
|
| Just because projects don't succeed commercially does not mean
| they aren't well made or that these projects are not worth doing
| in as things in themselves.
| coppolaemilio wrote:
| I am in the same situation at the moment and it is a bit sad.
| I've been trying to do more "solo" work because I'm the only
| constant in my musical journey. I envy bands that last for a
| long time because they can make it work, but I had to travel a
| lot and it made it impossible to have a band that would endure
| even the smallest of hiatus.
|
| At the same time, every time I am with musicians that "made it"
| only talk about how miserable is to tour and how horrible it is
| to be constantly doing music for a living, so I feel lucky to
| make money out of software development. But I guess the stupid
| teenage dream still lives somewhere in me.
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| I've been in bands that have played hundreds of gigs
| together, and I've traveled a bit to make music. Fortunately,
| I have never -had- to do that. It's not fun, it doesn't pay
| well (compared to my software work), and the big payoffs all
| seem to be about the short term validation of larger
| audiences and better production.
|
| To be fair, that has a lot of appeal.
|
| I've also gotten a lot out of bands that are just like, "guys
| night out for bowling". Way more than the long term
| commercially functioning bands, actually.
|
| We just meet up and play every week (when we can), usually in
| the early evening or after my buddys' kiddos have gone to
| bed.
|
| Once I leaned into the idea that these friendships were
| important both for me (as an old, single almost-pro musician)
| and my buddies (who have careers and wives and youngsters),
| the idea that simply playing (and practicing to support my
| friends) became really rewarding as an end in itself.
|
| That appreciation really changes the dynamics, because I
| select more for how I get along with the people than I do for
| chops or genera.
|
| The dream of taking that kind of band out isn't stupid or
| immature, nor is the dream of just having to play music for a
| living.
|
| I have found that it's just so much easier and just as much
| fun to do "bowling night" at someone's house, and so much
| easier to make my money doing software.
|
| I don't think there is anything sad in that situation.
| analog31 wrote:
| Then you'll enjoy the best amplifier ever for electric bass,
| that I prototyped and even gigged with but never brought to
| market. ;-)
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| Oh, that sounds like a perfect fit.
|
| I've worked a lot on bass- last nights gig was a songwriter
| duo where I played upright. However, I've never been one to
| change my setup much. Maybe 12 or so years ago I bought a
| markbass and and a pbass... and I haven't even wanted to
| change the flat-wound strings on it.
| neya wrote:
| I spent 7 years building my own static site generator CMS.
|
| I added drag and drop, Wordpress-like UI and lot of complex
| functionality based on studying extensively the existing systems
| like Jekyll, Hugo, etc. Originally, I started with a Wordpress
| theme I designed myself. It was great until it wasn't - I tried
| to add E-Commerce to it and it was the most pathetic architecture
| for a CMS I've ever worked with. Although I made a successful
| theme with E-Commerce in it, I refused to use something as
| fragile. At the time, PHP wasn't great to work with either and I
| was a Rails guy. So, I looked into Ruby based alternatives and
| found Middleman and Jekyll. Middleman was quite powerful, but not
| powerful enough for a travel website where people could sort
| content by certain criteria, discover new places to travel, etc.
| Again, I started hitting the limitations of the language itself
| and felt frustrated. I tried Jekyll, same story. Over the course
| of these trials, I would work every weekend religiously with
| meticulous detail. I would spend all my after work hours on this
| little project of mine.
|
| During the course of these 7 years, many people left, I lost many
| friends around me because I couldn't trade off the time for them
| with the time spent this project. I worked on it because I wanted
| to. It felt like I was going deep into unexplored territory,
| discovering so many possibilities with just what people would
| label as a simple CMS. And then, one day, I launched privately.
| Just to myself. It was a bliss to watch it in action. By then, I
| had ported it over to Elixir with a custom architecture that
| could support any business model you want. Data portability and
| export were one of my core requirements as I had painfully tried
| to migrate my content from free CDNs more than once after
| receiving terrabytes of traffic.
|
| Finally, to test my CMS, I implemented it for a client who is
| still running their entire business on it. They spend barely
| 1/5th of their competitors' cost and yet are able to serve 3
| times the traffic. This was the biggest validation for me,
| personally. This thing ran by itself for 4 years without any
| hiccups or maintenance required on the cloud. It was a business
| unit on auto-pilot for me. I loved it and it was all because of
| immensely thanks to the architecture which I consciously
| disallowed Javascript to not be a part of the whole thing. The
| frontend was completely separated so deployments to the
| core/backend wouldn't fail because of some dumb sh*t change Babel
| made to their config file or Webpack is forcing you to upgrade
| something. In fact, the JS dependency even for the frontend was
| quite low and I used Phoenix/LiveView where I could and just
| static CSS frameworks to make the UI look good and plain old
| refresh and reload for everything else. This still works well for
| me.
|
| At its peak performance, the SSG CMS attracted a political party
| member's attention who was running his own online news site at
| the time. I got a chance to speak to him over the phone and he
| was curious how the system worked. I politely told him I couldn't
| sell him a clone of my system as that would be a betrayal for my
| client. I valued loyality and would never do something behind his
| back. He appreciated me for that and got some useful advice to
| upgrade his stack instead. I had never been more proud.
|
| Finally, as with all good things coming to an end - the contract
| with my client has terminated and I am now doing Startup School
| to launch my SSG CMS as a Saas. I am also going to open source
| the core to enable developers to adopt and reap the benefits of
| my hard work. I know it is just a simple CMS to many, but I
| consider it my life's work and I see it as much, much more.
|
| In case you are interested, you can sign up on this page for
| updates, I plan to launch both the OSS version and Saas version
| before Q4 this year. Thank you, if you have read so far :)
|
| https://www.trystatic.com
| freshman_dev wrote:
| In its current form this sign-up page looks sketchy or just
| broken at best: - Terms of service link is
| broken - No explanation like this on the site itself
| - 'Beta tester 50% off' doesn't link to anything -
| Header image is cut off
|
| For those reasons I would not trust my email to this site if I
| came across it on the web
| neya wrote:
| Thank you for your feedback, I'll fix them soon :)
| bdlowery wrote:
| This is pretty cool. How much are you thinking of charging
| monthly for it?
| podviaznikov wrote:
| this is very cool, good job!
| mastersummoner wrote:
| I wrote an Android app that splits checks. You pre-create groups
| of people (Adam and Jane are a couple, John is solo, etc), then
| for each line item on the bill you decide which groups should be
| charged for it. You can split tax and tip proportionally or just
| evenly along people/groups.
|
| And it uses OCR to scan the receipt and read the items, amounts
| and tax. I was amazed how well open source Tesseract worked for
| this out of the box.
|
| Finished it but never marketed it, too much of a perfectionist.
| Worked really quite well though.
|
| This was maybe 6-7 years ago, and I've since seem other apps
| doing basically the same thing.
| _nhynes wrote:
| I made a Chinese language learning tool that uses speech
| recognition to grade flashcards [0]. It fills the niche where
| interactive apps like Duolingo and HelloChinese don't offer very
| much spoken practice.
|
| Unfortunately, the ASR isn't great, so I'm holding off on
| marketing until it's better. Honestly, if I spent half the time
| learning the language as I have making tools, I'd probably be
| fluent by now...
|
| [0]: https://letsyiya.com
| tokinonagare wrote:
| > Honestly, if I spent half the time learning the language as I
| have making tools, I'd probably be fluent by now...
|
| Hahaha, I made the same mistake to the point of going into PhD
| in the field. Most of the (prototype) tools aren't even
| released.
| ezl wrote:
| https://www.lost-item.com
|
| I lose stuff a lot. It started as a URL (https://www.lost-
| item.com/eric/) that I can put on a sticker on my stuff so that
| when people find my phone, wallet, credit card, keys they can
| contact me.
|
| I preferred that over my phone number or email address because I
| didn't want to put anything that identifies me on the items, so a
| form on the internet acts as a barrier.
|
| In general, I find that people are really nice about it. I've
| recovered my full wallet at least 3 times and my phone probably 5
| times.
|
| Yes, I am forgetful. If I were smarter, I would just not lose
| stuff. But because I'm not, I have that.
|
| Hosted on github pages and uses firebase, so basically it costs
| me $1 a year + the domain registration fee. So after I recovered
| my cell phone just once, I basically figured it's been paid for
| for life.
|
| Lifetime revenue from strangers on it is less than $100. Value of
| items recovered to myself, probably $3k.
| HighlandSpring wrote:
| This seems like something that could have massive tail upside.
| You help someone with lots of resources recover something of
| sentimental value, they tip you couple $k.
| tasuki wrote:
| > https://www.lost-item.com/eric/
|
| The page shows for me:
|
| > Oh my...
|
| > It looks like this page has been lost
|
| I tried to use your page to tell you that the page has been
| lost, but that didn't work!
| rolfvandekrol wrote:
| The trailing slash seems to be a typing error.
| jfim wrote:
| > Yes, I am forgetful. If I were smarter, I would just not lose
| stuff.
|
| It's really not about being smart, some people are just more
| forgetful and distracted than others.
|
| What I found helps is to do a regular check that you have your
| stuff with you. Whenever I leave somewhere I check that I have
| my keys, wallet, and phone.
| stavros wrote:
| This seems great for my RC planes and other things! It would be
| nice if the site could generate a nice sticker-looking thing
| with a QR code, though.
| DLarsen wrote:
| I built https://www.spendlight.com/ for my wife and I to not just
| track spending but to get a handle on our sentiment around our
| spending choices. While we still have different reactions to
| spending decisions, it at least gave us the language and ground
| rules to work towards our personal finance goals.
| sakutea wrote:
| Voting system that cannot be cheated
| primax wrote:
| I built a trailer sized heavy duty hard drive shredder that could
| shred drives down to 1mm aggregate in about 1 minute.
|
| It is acoustically silenced down to about 70db and doesn't need
| any external power sources/connectivity
|
| I actually did do a bit of marketing but honestly it's not a
| service Australians want to pay for and the opportunity cost and
| risk of pushing it further isn't worth it.
|
| Might dust it off again when/if regulations change to require
| destruction of other people's data on drives at EOL.
| greazy wrote:
| That is very very cool. I work at a hospital campus
| (Melbourne), all hdds require destruction. So I wonder if your
| customers should be businesses not individuals.
| andy99 wrote:
| I worked on (wouldn't say I completed) a testing framework for ML
| models, where you can specify a series of tests for a model to
| pass. The unique part is emphasizing support from the training
| data for the inferences you expect the model to make, i.e.
| checking that similar training data exists for some test cases
| and is influential in predicting them. It's pretty niche, and I
| don't explain it very well, but I remain convinced that with the
| right framing it represents a more rigorous way of making sure
| machine learning models are built and used "responsibly".
|
| https://github.com/rbitr/pytkml
| themoonisachees wrote:
| If you've ever played on The Oldest Anarchy Server In Minecraft,
| 2b2t.com, then chances are you experienced a login queue hundreds
| of users long. From my experience, 600 users would make you wait
| about a full day, while having Minecraft open and connected to a
| server.
|
| I cooked up what amounts to a wrapper for minecraft protocol ( js
| lib) that creates a proxy that connects for you, you connect to
| it when ready and bobs your uncle.
|
| I posted it on reddit twice, it was used as a scapegoat for a guy
| who did a really clever exploit that exposed peoples bases and
| that's about it. I stopped playing Minecraft a while ago, but the
| OSS community is still updating it every now and then.
|
| Https://github.com/themoonisacheese/2bored2wait
| syldarion wrote:
| I'm not sure if I can say abandoned YET, but I thoroughly enjoyed
| working on Braggle (https://braggle.app/), which is a site that
| lets you create rooms with your friends to post your scores for
| the various Wordle clones.
|
| It's my first real website outside of my blog, and it's been
| awesome learning how to do everything (thank you Firebase for
| making it so much easier), but I haven't been enjoying the
| follow-up of all the infrastructure work needed to make it more
| performant. Classic engineer problem, let me make the NEW THINGS.
|
| On top of that, trying to get people to notice on Twitter with a
| few hashtags here and there hasn't been the most fun.
| Dachande663 wrote:
| bulkbuffer.com ; a CSV uploaded for Buffer. Tens of millions of
| posts sent.
|
| gpsheatmaps.com ; CSV/GPX to heatmap generator. Working on a new
| version that supports printing.
|
| I get a few donations a year, enough to cover their costs.
| victornomad wrote:
| I made PHONK https://phonk.app
|
| It is a very easy-to-use self-contained JS framework for
| prototyping and making stuff with Android devices.
|
| You can access sensors, NFC, bluetooth, MQTT, websockets, or
| write a simple UI with a couple of lines of code. Think in the
| terms of easiness of Arduino for Android
|
| When people try it they always say WOW "why have I never heard of
| this?!" ( probably because I'm very bad at marketing :/ )
|
| I got it mentioned in Hackaday and some comments here in HN but
| that's all :)
| PenguinCoder wrote:
| Looks pretty good. Is there anyway to share a completed
| prototype app with a other user, or run an app developed this
| way standalone? I went to look at the docs page on your site,
| but it's more of a basic tutorial rather than docs.
| victornomad wrote:
| yes, the docs are pretty basic, I agree :)
|
| If the other person has PHONK installed you can just share
| the project folder.
|
| I used to have an "Export/Import PHONK file" back in the days
| but it broke at some point and I decided to remove since
| nobody noticed :D
| ehnto wrote:
| Keeping in mind these were a while ago, times have changed:
|
| * A scraper and search engine that aggregated digital agencies by
| the technologies they were known to work with.
|
| * A store locator, I had been seeing the request a lot on
| eCommerce stores and thought it would make a great SaaS. I was
| right about that, but unfortunately it wasn't mine that was
| succesful.
|
| * An API dashboard tool that let you pick and display arbitrary
| data from any API endpoints you had access to. They were fetched
| and updated from the client's browser in real time, using a few
| different auth methods configurable by the user. It used an
| interface backed by JSON Path to let you select any part of the
| API's return value to display. I had hoped to go really far with
| the display UI, and allow for piping and manipulation of data
| before displaying it. But it didn't take off as an MVP.
|
| * A page creator that used the concept of configurable blocks to
| build the page, this was way before Gutenberg and I feel like my
| approach to the UI was pretty novel even today. It was used
| almost exclusively for religious spam and I took it down because
| my country has no safe harbour laws, so I was potentially
| responsible for anything put up.
|
| A bunch of others that never actually launched as well, including
| a management tool for mechanic workshops, a motorsport app to
| help manage a small DIY motorsport program, even a budgeting tool
| for long term travellers/nomads.
| barnabask wrote:
| I made DBaaS Review: https://www.dbaasreview.com/
|
| It started out as a hosted database price comparison tool on my
| personal blog and then just sort of grew. It's not abandoned, but
| also I'm just not sure what to do with it.
| newbie578 wrote:
| An app to help keep track of different project ideas.
| https://apps.apple.com/hr/app/ideago/id1638985339
|
| I have trouble with deciding which ideas to pursue. I always get
| a couple of weird ideas per month so I get easily distracted on
| what to build. So I decided to create a simple todo app, which
| will help me:
|
| 1 - rate my ideas (10 questions on a scale from 1 to 10, for
| self-grading) 2 - answer the important questions first (Revenue,
| Differentiation and Speed) 3 - keep all of the ideas in one place
|
| Hilariously, a basic todo app for keeping track of ideas doesn't
| really have a good grade, but I still needed to build it.
| jlkuester7 wrote:
| I was using an open source Android app once. The app was
| (deliberately) missing some simple features that I wanted. I was
| also interested in tinkering with Android development, so I
| proceeded to fork the app and hack in my feature (just to scratch
| my own itch).
|
| As a further learning exercise, I decides to try and publish it
| on F-Droid, which I eventually managed to do (once again solely
| because I wanted to tinker with it). I made no attempt to promote
| the app and did not really expect anyone to use it. Since then it
| has not become a runaway success, but there must be some folks
| using it since the repo has received a number of
| stars/issues/PRs. We have continued to mature the app and build
| out more features. (Not at all what I had expected when I sat
| down to hack in the first change....)
| fuzzythinker wrote:
| I made a TradingView like app for myself. It doesn't have most
| TV's features, but has features I care about that TV doesn't
| have. Was planning to use it to sustain an income to create real
| apps. But due to the down market, I haven't been using it and
| instead focus on building the real app. Which will be an origami
| folding simulator driven by a simple config-like domain specific
| language. Plan to launch that before eoy.
| MerelyMortal wrote:
| It seems like there is a bit of marketing going on in this
| thread.
| mFlorin wrote:
| I built https://www.musicetutor.com/ for music ear training and
| music theory in general. No marketing so far but its growing
| nicely.
| stavros wrote:
| I got tired of not being able to find anything on the web and
| wrote a bookmark manager that is also a search engine:
|
| https://historio.us
| thenetdev wrote:
| I built SmarterCerts.com, a scale inspection software and
| asset/job management tool. It has never been marketed and sold
| only by word of mouth in the industry.
| bsenftner wrote:
| I wrote a "resource forecasting and employee scheduling" system
| that used what would now be called deep learning (I did this in
| 2002) that consumed multiple years of an animation studio's
| accounting records, covering everything the studio spends money,
| including fine grained information about the employees, what jobs
| they worked on, their specific roles, who they helped accomplish
| tasks, and tasks they accomplish alone. This system operated in
| Excel, as that was the tool the studio execs were used to using,
| but I had to write the entire thing in C++ and access it as a dll
| within Excel because it referenced gigs of data not in
| spreadsheet cells.
|
| The studio I worked, Rhythm & Hues, was a 2-times Academy award
| winner. My "resource forecasting and employee scheduling" system
| was able to prove the presence of institutional learning, and the
| prediction graph of that learning curve was used by banks to
| justify the working capital loans made to the studio. It also
| maintained the forecast of the render farm usage, identifying
| when and how many additional render servers needed to be leased.
| Perhaps the most useful was it generated on-demand employee
| schedules: who works on what, who is most likely to be helping,
| and insures those that support one another most frequently are
| scheduled with compatible tasks.
|
| The studio owner thought I should market and sell that system
| independently. I also came up with a VFX process for automated
| actor replacement, which I did purse - trying to create
| Personalized Advertising with you and your friends in the video
| ads you see when streaming. However, VCs wanted to finance a
| porno company (seriously! they insisted) and I eventually went
| bankrupt. But hey, I can claim high morals as the global patent
| author that invented deep fakes, but refused to do porno with it.
| akehrer wrote:
| https://helpmeetcal.com/
|
| A webapp for creating calendar events with unique links to
| meet.jit.si for video conferencing. It was an early pandemic
| project that I haven't done anything with since putting it up.
| karasevm wrote:
| I got tired of worrying about third party image hosting providers
| and every self-hosted solution was either lacking features or was
| too bloated for my needs, so I build another one:
| https://github.com/karasevm/personal-gallery-node (there are gifs
| showcasing some of the features in the readme).
|
| It support uploading jpg, png, gif, webp, webm, mp4 with drag-
| and-drop, through file picker, API, ShareX (with ready to use
| configs), and through Android share feature, if installed as a
| PWA.
|
| The performance may not be the best, but my Pi2 handles it
| without issues.
|
| I wanted to put up a demo before sharing it, and there's still no
| demo, but it's quick to try out with docker (but it can also just
| run through node if you want that for some reason).
| timae wrote:
| I built https://zebra.page/ during time off from work around the
| holidays. Stripe came out with payment links a few months later.
| Not exactly the same thing, but enough to dissuade from spending
| time marketing it.
| de4np wrote:
| https://hollr.at Got tired of having to resort to FB for our team
| sporting activity. It's been coming along for a few years. Once I
| finish the REST api and perhaps an iOS app (keeping my fingers
| crossed for push notifications so I don't have to) I'll at least
| do a Show HN.
| sambalbadjak wrote:
| https://www.erbij.app it's actually used by 30k users. But never
| marketed it.
| batch12 wrote:
| I made https://torwhois.com. I posted here and reddit and that's
| it. It gets decent traffic from researchers and folks searching
| for onion sites.
| actinium226 wrote:
| timeblocker.dev
|
| A combination todo list and calendar. It lets you schedule your
| tasks and keeps track of how much time you're spending/have spent
| on various tasks.
|
| Also has support for recurring tasks like gym, etc.
|
| I may get back to it someday.
| rc_mob wrote:
| I made an entire Car Dealership inventory system. Its nice and
| scalable with Apis for everything. I have 2 dealers and never
| grow or market it. stupid me.
| RobSm wrote:
| Explain more about it
| sirsinsalot wrote:
| Everyone who has given up due to competitors ... remember this:
|
| Search for "car key lanyard" on Amazon or eBay.
|
| There's hundreds of sellers.
|
| Markets are big. Finding a niche isn't about a unique product,
| it's about a unique offering. There's much more to a business
| than the product.
| deon09 wrote:
| A service that notifies when specific keywords are mentioned on
| different social media like twitter, reddit, hackernews, etc...
|
| It was pretty fun to build, and although it has 0 users, I use if
| for myself to keep track of mentions about another product that I
| have helped to develop (which has ~1M users).
|
| Hosted on AWS, with a low monthly bill, so I have keep it running
| as I get some actual value from it :)
|
| https://thesocialwatcher.com/
| eps wrote:
| How does it compare to F5bot in terms of reaction time? Asking
| because the latter is nearly instanteneous and it's coverage is
| similar. It is also free.
| archi42 wrote:
| When mongodb (or some similar object-like storage engine) was
| pretty new I played around with it by writing some HTTP API using
| PHP. I was frustrated about how I would mostly write code to
| check if the user was allowed to r/w an object, if the input
| format was alright and overall do very little productive work on
| actually doing something with the data. So I implemented a
| "universal" API that allowed arbitrary access to the database.
| Permissions, ownerships and permissable data were stored as
| template or metadata objects. So basic API methods could be
| easily setup and only more complex actions would need actual
| coding.
|
| Wasn't finished beyond a basic PoC, and I did it more
| fun/practicing than for anything of more tangible value. I
| believe the code has been lost.
| plantain wrote:
| Global, realtime, full definition satellite imagery.
|
| http://satview.skysight.io/
|
| I have been meaning to spin this off into a SaaS. I don't know of
| anywhere you can actually get the full definition imagery as a
| slippy map, everywhere else cuts corners and loses fidelity.
|
| Contact me if you would find it useful...
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| A really fast front end testing library, that had _one_ function
| which just ran tests on the browser.
|
| Tests are just objects where the labels are the names of the
| tests, and the tests themselves are thunks that return {actual:
| foo, expected: bar}. These can be arbitrarily nested. No stupid
| "describe" functions.
|
| I made it because it was easier to make my own little tool than
| to deal with things like jest or mocha. I sometimes think I
| should market it - but what's the point?
| [deleted]
| prakhar897 wrote:
| I built a tool for Web Journalists to create headlines. The idea
| is to give them generic examples which can help in their
| brainstorming so they can come up with an actual good headline
| easily.
|
| Created the whole site with complete Auth, Billing etc but lost
| interest when tried to actually market it. I started creating
| this when I saw someone make >10k$ launching something similar on
| producthunt. I thought I can make some ez money too.
|
| https://headlineheroapp.herokuapp.com/
|
| Edit: Buy Now won't work because Stripe credentials are expired.
| thatoneguytoo wrote:
| I've recently started building trydeepwork.com
|
| It has one user: me
| deepandmeaning wrote:
| A quotes website: https://thinkmindful.com - I love quotes and
| have been collecting them for years.
|
| I thought it would be nice to share them with others and offer a
| weekly quotes by email service too (sadly neglected for a while).
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| This is super cool! I have also collected quotes for some
| years, I think one of my favorite recent ones is, "The greatest
| crime is to do nothing because we fear we can only do a
| little." - John Le Carre (Little Drummer Girl)
| podviaznikov wrote:
| love this design!
| kenforthewin wrote:
| https://litchan.com
|
| link aggregator/RSS feed with real-time chat
|
| https://www.quickq.app/
|
| Knowledge base for slack
| rulak wrote:
| I built a EMR System for underdeveloped countries I also built a
| social virtual world game non 3d gui
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| Can you share more about the EMR system?
| mnomitch wrote:
| I made a website for using ranked choice voting for online polls
| - https://poller.io - It has been nice to be able to do a quick
| Ranked Choice Instant Runoff Vote or Borda Count when deciding on
| things with friends (i.e. where to go on a trip, or which board
| game to play).
|
| I "marketed" it by posting on HN and Reddit, but that's about it.
| coffeefirst wrote:
| These days I only make things for myself. The moment you support
| other people you pick up obligations, which isn't something I'm
| prepared to do anymore.
|
| * A budgeting app based on the idea that the only important
| number is dollars saved.
|
| * An automated newsletter assembled out of RSS feeds, which I
| built when I quit social media.
|
| I think my next item is going to be some kind of cookbook, but I
| haven't quite decided what exactly that means.
| casta wrote:
| Recently I wrote a small search engine for NYC menus:
| https://c.bitlet.org/ff.html
|
| The data is small enough that you can keep it all in memory. It
| was a nice toy and it let me play with a few data retrieval
| techniques I had heard talking about but never actually
| implemented.
| brtkdotse wrote:
| Interesting. Did you scrape the restaurants websites?
| casta wrote:
| The data is scraped from restaurant menu aggregators. There
| are some online and they don't seem to even try to stop you
| from scraping.
|
| If I had to guess I'd say that scraping restaurant websites
| would be a much bigger project than what I did, given that
| there isn't structure in how menus are presented, and most of
| them still have pdfs, or even worse, an image for their menu.
| wnolens wrote:
| This is sweet haha. I want Mapo Tofu, nearby, ranked by price
| and distance. Next: what's the sentiment about that dish (from
| reviews). Or at least a restaurant rating.
|
| Love how fast it is and the non distracting design. Bookmarked.
| matttah wrote:
| After getting tired of no way to easily follow news of AWS
| product updates for only ones I actually use we built Broadside.
| You can set which services you care about, how often you want to
| be notified and it sends you a digest of the updates.
|
| https://getbroadside.com/
| username223 wrote:
| Hmm... a personal website that has taken many hours over the past
| twelve years, a handful of abandoned Free Software projects, ...
|
| These things were and are valuable to some people, but I find
| "marketing" them somewhere between tiresome and repugnant, so I
| don't.
| nodoodles wrote:
| UK-specific - scraping online grocery store prices across stores
| daily since 2020 but never built on top of it, and not packaged
| to market as api or data set..
| blaydator wrote:
| I have built an iOS and Android app called Boomerang to send
| email to myself in one tap. It's been around for 5 years and has
| started as a side project for learning Ionic. I have maintained
| it so far and users (5K+ MAU) love it so far and want to give me
| money for it. I am planning to monetize it though as its started
| to cost me some money.
|
| https://boomerang-app.io
| layer8 wrote:
| I'm using iOS shortcuts for that. I guess an app is useful for
| those who don't want to fiddle with setting up shortcuts.
| myleshenderson wrote:
| This is great. I look forward to giving you money for this.
| DragonCot wrote:
| I created a simple little Boardgame News site. It pulls all the
| stuff I'm interested in into one place which is now a fixed tab
| on my main browser.
|
| https://dragonc.droppages.com
|
| Never marketed because I hate ads as much as the next person, and
| also because I kept getting messages such as "use a news feed
| reader." I just wanted everything together in a readable
| timeline.
| kordlessagain wrote:
| I abandoned a personal search engine offering I had up for over a
| year at https://mitta.us/. After pivoting it to an offering for
| prompt engineering management, I'm finding it a lot easier to
| market.
|
| This comment is marketing. I'm looking for anyone needing
| complex, time-series based prompt generation for GPT-3
| applications.
| swagasaurus-rex wrote:
| A data-synchronization library for Node.js
|
| https://github.com/siriusastrebe/jsynchronous
|
| Ever get tired of sending API requests and JSON payloads?
| Wouldn't it be cool if data just synced between server and
| client?
|
| Jsynchronous lets you share deeply nested object/arrays between
| node.js and connected browsers - and any changes made to that
| variable.
| sandruso wrote:
| During covid we did online classes where teachers present the
| slides and everything was recorded. I built a simple program that
| sliced videopresentation into slides and also sliced the audio
| for every slide. It was convinient to go through presentation
| slide by slide and play audio what teacher said during the slide.
| FailMore wrote:
| I'm building a tool to help people not give up on marketing
| (something I've struggled with in the past). If you're interested
| in trying it out please email me. Email on my profile.
| saasxyz wrote:
| Tell us more.
| adamhi wrote:
| Over COVID I wrote a novel-length... thing. I hesitate to call it
| a text adventure, or a game, even though that's what it looks
| like on the surface. I'm not sure what to call it.
|
| The joke at the beginning was that it's a "travel simulator" for
| a period in time when you couldn't travel. I worked on it every
| day for about eight months, and I think I showed it to maybe six
| people. It was mostly a writing exercise, and an excuse to do
| research.
|
| It's "abandoned" in the sense that I'm not driven to do more work
| on it, but it is "content complete" at about 300 pages, and it
| can be played.
| graboid wrote:
| I would be super interested to see it.
|
| The aspect of text adventures or MUDs [0] that attracts me the
| most is the fact that you can actually move through a "textual
| landscape". Sorry, I have no better words to express it. Ditch
| all the quests and puzzles and fighting. Just immerse myself in
| a landscape evoked by words, that maybe adds some surreal
| elements, or other stuff that you couldn't express in a
| graphical way.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
| adamhi wrote:
| Some of the very first scripting I did was for a MUD, back in
| the day! I really like that feeling of painting a very
| subjective map of a place in my head, just based on text.
|
| Part of the joke of this project, for me, was treating an
| entire country like a room in a MUD (e.g. "You are in the
| United States. Exits are Canada, Mexico...")
|
| You can see the game here: https://travelsimulator.rodeo/
|
| `/help` shows commands, but the important ones are `go` and
| `look`.
| graboid wrote:
| Nicely done! I love the design. And now I learned about the
| Tenkile in Papua New Guinea :-).
| tokinonagare wrote:
| That's intriguing to say the least. Any plan on published it
| somehow?
| fxtentacle wrote:
| I built my own GeForce Now / Google Stadia clone for up to 8
| gamepads to connect to the same instance. It's GPU-accelerated,
| UDP-based and all C++.
|
| It works well and I still use it with friends and family to play
| games together. I even designed a logo, registered it for an EU
| trademark, and made t-shirts.
|
| But when Steam Remote Play Together was announced, I decided that
| there wasn't a market for it anymore, so instead I switched to
| building real-time AI tools in C++.
|
| My next idea, funny Webcam filters for desktop, was then pre-
| empted by Snap Camera coming to desktop. With so many FAANG-scale
| companies releasing free tools, it has become really tricky to
| find financially viable niches.
| badtension wrote:
| That sounds very cool!
|
| Maybe a similar project could take off: sharing console
| instances. Flat community of 50 apartments would buy 5 consoles
| and share them with each other (you keep them all in a storage
| room and just connect with TV via ethernet).
|
| One major problem is that console manufacturers would probably
| need to be a part of this and I think they would rather sell 10
| consoles individually than 5 for sharing.
| toast0 wrote:
| > One major problem is that console manufacturers would
| probably need to be a part of this and I think they would
| rather sell 10 consoles individually than 5 for sharing.
|
| It would certainly work better with manufacturer involvement,
| but you could use HDMI capture to source the video, and USB
| to provide the inputs, so the console doesn't know any
| better. There's some licensing rigamorole and content
| management as well. You _could_ probably do a forced log out
| between users and rely on cloud saves, but that 's kind of
| ugh... Would work better if you can trust the people you
| share the console(s) with.
| badtension wrote:
| Yes, in principle you could do that (apart from all the
| legal troubles...)
|
| In practice we like things customized and only want to see
| our own savegames available on the list so this is a real
| issue that could break this especially if large number of
| strangers were to use it.
|
| Another issue is waste - what if you want to play some game
| but it was installed on another console that is currently
| playing something completely different? Installing all
| games on all consoles seems crazy. Maybe have a large NAS
| with multiple games preinstalled? If we could add another
| type of game licensing which would allow for playing the
| same game on 5 different hardware consoles simultaneously
| that would be perfect.
|
| Resources would be used to their maximum potential.
| toast0 wrote:
| Scheduling around game installs would be tricky yeah. I
| don't know how the various console do with having their
| storage swapped... I know the switch can store downloaded
| games to SD cards, but I don't know if it lets you put
| that SD card into another console and play the games if a
| licensed user is logged in... Or if it needs to be
| downloaded by that specific console. I think the current
| xbox and playstations also have user replacable storage,
| but again, it may be specialized per console? I know the
| platforms already have code to check for licensed user on
| a downloaded game when the game is downloaded to a
| console not deemed the 'home' console for a user.
|
| If you can swap storage, you can build around NAS
| connected storage emulators.
|
| Otherwise, yeah, big storage and guessing about what
| should go where. Like Netflix CDN nodes, but with more
| black boxes.
| als0 wrote:
| How much does it cost for a GPU accelerated VM in the cloud? It
| would be great if there was an automated way to spin up a VM,
| install your software and then destroy the VM when you're done.
| After all, GeForce Now and Google Play don't let you play your
| full Steam library.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| About $0.5 per hour for a 3080 equivalent. And yes, I have an
| image that I can spin up on-demand.
| notpushkin wrote:
| This seems to be a neat setup. I've found this script a
| couple days ago: https://github.com/gcloudrig/gcloudrig
|
| (haven't given it a try just yet but surely looking forward
| to)
| fxtentacle wrote:
| Yes, that's very similar to what I built. That repo is
| using Parsec (also free for private users) as the game
| streaming implementation.
| tryauuum wrote:
| I wonder if there even are a lot of clouds that provide
| consumer GPUs. I heard GPUs designed for computation doesn't
| perform as well in games
| mirker wrote:
| The dealbreaker is that consumer GPUs (and their drivers)
| have a terms of use prohibiting various aspects of
| datacenter usage.
| archi42 wrote:
| The vGPU feature can be unlocked for several Nvidia GPUs:
| https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
|
| I did not yet try it myself (maybe it doesn't even work
| anymore?), and it might not be an option for businesses.
| shiftpgdn wrote:
| There is a tremendous market for low cost reliable remote viz
| software.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| What is "viz software" here? Visualization? e.g. Fusion 360?
| fanick wrote:
| This interesting for me from the standpoint of shared
| controllers. What is the general idea behind this? Did you
| write a driver that would fake these controllers on the
| 'server'? What platforms have you covered? I'm into massively
| local multiplayer game and was always toying with ideas on how
| to reliably connect as much controllers as possible into a
| game.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| I didn't build it, but there's ViGEm for creating virtual
| Xbox 360 controllers: https://github.com/ViGEm/ViGEmClient
|
| So each client polls the local controller using the DX APIs,
| streams the state to the server and then the server creates
| virtual gamepads to send the input to the game.
| navane wrote:
| Doesn't Stream Remote Play Together show there _is_ a market?
| Competition means the market exist?
| voakbasda wrote:
| When a deeply entrenched player gets into the game, small
| players do not stand much of a chance. I think few people
| have the necessary David in them to go up against such
| Goliaths. OP made the personal choice to walk away from an
| uphill battle, and I don't blame them one bit.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| Yes, the market surely exists. But I can't build a
| bootstrapped business around competing with FREE. Steam has
| other ways to monetize user engagement, but I would have
| needed to charge users for the service.
| yewenjie wrote:
| A simple browser extension for Hacker News that shows a sidebar
| with links buried deep in HN comment threads such as this one -
| so that you can quickly glance at all the external things people
| are talking about.
|
| https://github.com/dit7ya/hnlinks
| ionwake wrote:
| Cool! Any chance for a chrome extension?
| PTOB wrote:
| This is an amazing tool. Thank you.
| jay00 wrote:
| I built an Android app to transcribe WhatsApp voice notes:
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transcrib....
| [deleted]
| HossGreen wrote:
| httpa://userxp.net
|
| I was tired of not finding any recruitment portals for product
| people and the affiliated work pipelines.
|
| I added a bit of gamification with the play on words but haven't
| marketed it, as I just figure everyone else likes LinkedIn.
|
| I personally feel LinkedIn is a cesspool on fire in it's current
| state, so I've just given up there.
| richardboegli wrote:
| My Weight Loss Story 40kg in 40 Weeks (90lb in 9 months) Without
| Exercise [0]
|
| I didn't necessarily enjoy writing it, or the process, but
| thought it needed to be written because I have heard so many
| different weight loss suggestions through out my life.
|
| [0] http://40in40book.com
| dave84 wrote:
| I get a "Too many redirects" error on that link.
| richardboegli wrote:
| Thanks @dave84. Looking into it now. Here is link to Amazon
| http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q6MA3P8
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Almost everything I've written.
|
| I eat my own dog food. I publish all my work, as if they are
| commercial applications, but never bother to tubthump.
|
| Mainly, I use them in my own projects. I've collected a few GH
| stars, here and there, but I don't really care too much, if
| anyone else uses them.
|
| The one project that achieved escape velocity is comfortably in
| the capable hands of a new team, and I just spot it, from time to
| time, with my backyard telescope.
| luismedel wrote:
| Around 2005 or so I developed a full Visual Basic-to-C++
| transpiler, a visual form editor and an IDE to easily develop
| Palm apps, all in C#.
|
| Some friends and family told me that the IDE was "awesomwe"
| (well, awesomeness is very a very relative thing with your F&F)
| but I never found the time/motivation to polish it and market the
| thing.
|
| Edit: typos.
| tfrere wrote:
| I made https://coloursinculture.io
|
| It's a web-app that allows you to understand how colours are
| perceived by different cultures.
|
| You can search by color, culture or concept.
| Minor49er wrote:
| Russians only put significance into two colors?
| tfrere wrote:
| Unfortunately, i'm dependent on an incomplete dataset
| (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kdEOmMxo-
| Shy2gGlUpPe...) from the original dataviz (https://www.inform
| ationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colour...)
|
| That being said, if you have any informations on Russian
| color meanings, you might consider contributing here
| (https://github.com/tfrere/colours-in-culture#contribute)
| ThomPete wrote:
| https://livepass.io/_index.html
|
| In 2019 i started building a video platform allowing you to do
| both 1/1, 1/many and streaming, setting up booking and charging.
|
| Then covid, then zoom exploded then we kind of killed it, but
| it's fully functioning.
|
| https://www.realwork.ai Also in 2018 I started building a field
| management platform for remote teams like construction, retail
| etc.
|
| We got our first client in 2020, then covid happened and the
| entire industry closed down. The app is fully functional, the
| backend is fully functional and we are currently in talk with
| someone who want to get into the construction industry.
| hkgjjgjfjfjfjf wrote:
| folli wrote:
| 2 things:
|
| http://genewarrior.com
|
| A fast and easy toolkit for common bioinformatic tasks, such as
| translating DNA sequences, alignments and primer design. Built
| more than 7 years ago, I personally still use it regularly for my
| work. But it never got any traction, although I believe it can be
| very useful for a lot of biologists.
|
| https://cubetrek.com
|
| 3D Topography for visualizing GPS Tracks. This is a very recent
| side project of mine. I did a Show HN a couple of days ago, but
| also no significant traction. It anyway is a work in progress.
| skatanski wrote:
| When Covid started I wasn't able to buy any facemasks, I've had a
| newborn and was quite stressed to get them from somewhere. I
| didn't want to use eBay like website, which sold them with a huge
| markup. I've cobbled together a scraper that would check many of
| the biggest home depot-like stores in my country. It'd then sent
| an email to me, with how many facemasks were available in any
| given store along with contact information. I've configured my
| phone to notify on email arrival from that address. I've run it
| as a job on my NAS. It was interesting to learn that even though
| I was getting information on these masks arriving to the store
| few seconds after they have been inserted into the system. When I
| called the shop - masks were already gone. In the end I did
| manage to get some using this approach, and I was happy it
| worked.
| acedTrex wrote:
| I made a discord bot, https://github.com/ClemBotProject/ClemBot
| https://clembot.io Its not super interesting right now in terms
| of features but it has all the basics and a solid foundation. But
| we have some grand plans in the future and once those are
| realized then I might look into marketing it more.
| dirtybirdnj wrote:
| I have made a process for doing pen drawings involving bitmap to
| SVG conversion. It's called Robot Draws You! and it's been in
| perpetual limbo for the past few years as my career has struggled
| and cratered.
|
| I just don't have the time to be able to focus on a creative
| endeavour when I feel like my world is crumbling around me.
|
| I've written multiple versions of the bitmap to SVG converter, I
| have an XY robot gantry set up and I have a bunch of plans and
| schematics drawn up to diagram how it all works.
|
| Getting the focused time to be fully "plugged in" to the project
| is impossible when every day I'm freaked out about how I will pay
| the bills, will I ever get a job, will I lose everything
| tomorrow.
|
| Additionally I feel intense shame for having worked on this thing
| for "years" and still not having any significant progress to
| report or show. It's a huge embarrassment, but one day I hope it
| can be something I am proud of.
| [deleted]
| cmos wrote:
| I'm sorry about your career - this must have been difficult to
| write about. Sometimes it's about the journey, take solace that
| you just might be in a temporary dip in your life adventure.
| How can some of these setbacks be opportunities?
| nullfish wrote:
| I created a 3D digital dice rolling app for tabletop roleplaying
| games like Dungeons & Dragons. Been slowly adding features to it
| for just under a year. No timelines, no stress. Growing at a nice
| pace.
|
| https://dddice.com
| wewerestranger wrote:
| carlbarrdahl wrote:
| A point-of-sale-system for ordering and paying for food trucks
| with queue handling so customers know when to pick up food.
|
| And a kaleidoscopic camera made with webgl: https://kaleido-
| nft.vercel.app/app
| mostlyghostly wrote:
| https://statscalculator.com/
|
| Side project I made after leaving a large company; a free
| statistics package that bridges the gap between Excel and actual
| coding (R, Python). In the corporate world we used Minitab or a
| similar package with an expensive enterprise license.
|
| Once I moved to a smaller one and was doing analytics on the
| side, I didn't have the budget for such things so.... I made my
| own version...
|
| Never really had the time to build out a full set of features or
| promote it. We probably could have grabbed a piece of low-rent
| district for analytics software.
| bambax wrote:
| I made a MIDI-controller out of cheap sonars and an Arduino, that
| lets you control anything with movement "in the air". You can use
| it to control filters, or volume, or anything really.
|
| Here's me playing it with a silly wig:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgH-WU-9CZA
|
| The artist "Mezerg" uses a MIDI-enabled Theremin to do something
| similar, but it's costly.
|
| The BOM for my thing is around $30 when building just one at at
| time (excluding time spent of course); if mass produced the unit
| cost could probably be quite low. But the market is probably
| extremely small... maybe 200 devices? So I didn't pursue mass
| production.
| ivanmontillam wrote:
| A day-pass VPN with a single server, with SMS capabilities (with
| your GSM SIM card). Sort of like a VPN vending machine.
|
| Tech-stack: OpenVPN + MySQL + some Python scripts as glue +
| PayPal integration.
|
| Use case: If you need a Venezuelan IP address [0]. you'd just
| access the VPN front site, pay for a day-pass, and use the VPN
| [1]. Also banks use SMS-based 2FA, so having the SIM card in the
| server helps [2].
|
| Turns out there are cheaper VPNs that do have Venezuelan IP
| addresses, though my offered benefit is to offer _home_ random IP
| addresses, which makes it more stealth. Also the economics didn
| 't help, and the upstream bandwidth isn't great as well.
|
| I took down the site and just left the VPN for myself and some
| trusted friends. Also, if someone did something sketchy with it,
| it'd by tied to my home address.
|
| Maybe someday I'll create a blog post about it.
|
| --
|
| [0]: Something very niche, banks here don't allow people foreign
| IP addresses to do bank transfers, etc., they could also block
| your bank account entirely.
|
| [1]: It'd issue short lived certificates for the amount of time
| purchased.
|
| [2]: With a ZTE MF667 USB modem.
| nathanfig wrote:
| https://rapidstash.io
|
| JSON document store that allowed you to access any part of the
| the JSON document by URL (object.nested.value becomes
| object/nested/value).
|
| Had fun making it and the website above, but was not really
| interested in the promotion hustle.
| klysm wrote:
| That's a cool idea. I wonder if you could make a expressive
| enough query language with it
| leetrout wrote:
| If I were OP i would use one that already exists like
|
| https://jmespath.org/
|
| https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath
| mNovak wrote:
| I like to buy used electronics online, but it's very tedious
| cross-referencing model numbers and benchmarks and such to
| determine what's actually a good deal. For example which is
| better, a 10th gen i5 or a 7th gen i7 at the same price?
|
| So as a pandemic hobby, I made a website to scrape eBay laptop
| listings, extract all the relevant data, cross reference against
| benchmarks, and sort the result by "value" (aggregate performance
| / cost). I took inspiration from the parametric search on site
| like digikey for commodity components, where no one cares about
| brand.
|
| You can check it out here [1]. Maybe eventually I'll write a
| showHN, but I haven't been working on it for a while, and there's
| a few features I want to add before that. Originally I planned to
| use affiliate links, which seemed like a nice all-parties-win
| setup, but eBay kicked me off the Partner Network program for not
| generating traffic. So presently it's totally free and non-
| profitable.
|
| [1] https://bytebucket.co
| clintonb wrote:
| https://getfriendlyreminder.com/
| marci wrote:
| Based on the URL, I thought it was going to be the same thing
| that I had built. It was a simple web app for the people who
| lend and/or borrowed a book or a CD or something from a friend,
| but after too long don't remember which one. While still fresh
| in mind, one would enter:
|
| - their email
|
| - their friend's email
|
| - the name of the thing being shared
|
| - and the date both would be reminded (by email).
| me_bx wrote:
| * An app which downloads all the invoices received as email
| attachment in the last quarter (in order to send them to the
| accountant).
|
| * An app which identifies the 200 hashtags most frequently seen
| in Instagram's top posts containing a given hashtag.
|
| For both of these projects, a factor leading me not to start
| marketing them was the complexity and risks in relying on Google
| and Facebook APIs as data sources, respectively.
| Sjeiti wrote:
| I once wrote an invoicing application because I couldn't find any
| good ones that weren't cloud-based: https://projectinvoice.nl/
| suprjami wrote:
| A long time ago (before containers and systemd) I wrote an
| initscript to run Minecraft on a CentOS 6 server. I posted it in
| one or two forums but it was mostly for my own use, running a
| server for a group of friends.
|
| Someone who ran a Minecraft hosting business contacted me asking
| permission to use it in their product, which was very surprising
| to me.
|
| (it was GPL so I couldn't and wouldn't say no, but I also
| politely explained that I wasn't their free tech support and that
| patches would be welcome)
| ztarven wrote:
| News as Facts (https://newsasfacts.com/) - concise world news
| sourced from Wikipedia
|
| https://rate.house/ - like a collaborative IMDb but also has
| music, books, video games, and podcasts
|
| https://wordhoot.com/ - competitive Wordle
|
| None of them are abandoned but I just don't have the resources to
| do any marketing.
| l0b0 wrote:
| A vCard parser and validator. The original Python code was
| clunky, and I've tried to reboot it in both Java and Rust. In the
| end I've always fallen back to Python, spent a few days bringing
| things back up to a half-decent state, and then table-flipping at
| the packaging stage. It will probably never get to a good state,
| but it's useful for me.
| [deleted]
| rikkipitt wrote:
| I built https://www.quikk.co.uk which gives users a better audit
| trail and backup of their Xero accounting data. I've never really
| marketed it, but MRR-wise it's doing ok. Promising volumes so
| far. I keep meaning to put effort into getting it into the hands
| of those who would benefit most from it but always get
| sidetracked with my other projects.
|
| Throwing this out there, why not... if anyone would like to help
| me, let me know!
| klausjensen wrote:
| Slightly related: I wrote a small converter for a couple of
| unsupported bank formats (like zen.com) for Xero.
| https://xeroconverter.com
|
| I don't even know if anybody else ever used it, as I don't
| track anything at all - but most likely not.
| rozenmd wrote:
| I originally wrote https://OnlineOrNot.com to be a snapshot
| testing tool for GraphQL servers back on 2017. Essentially it
| detected if your engineers suddenly broke or changed certain
| resolvers without updating the snapshots.
|
| I spent about two months building, then went around my
| professional network to try sell/market it.
|
| It turned out most folks using GraphQL didn't have this problem,
| because they had good test coverage, or wouldn't have engineers
| randomly change their GraphQL schema.
|
| I ended up rewriting it to be an Incident Management service
| (basically, an uptime checker for APIs, web apps, and websites,
| as well as a status page service), significantly easier to market
| now.
| darthcloud wrote:
| I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller
| adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console. I've been working
| on it for the last three years. I entertained the idea to make
| and sell the hardware myself. But in the end I learned that's
| it's not something I'm interested to get into. What I really like
| is working on the software.
|
| In the end this pivoted into a more community driven project
| where multiple makers are selling various variations of the HW
| and giving me a cut of their profit to support the SW
| development.
|
| Recently I even got a Chinese company, notorious for selling
| "clone" of OSHW projects, to support the SW development as well
| via GitHub sponsor.
|
| I wrote a retrospective of last 3 years [2].
|
| [1] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro
|
| [2] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/discussions/289
| stavros wrote:
| That looks fantastic! I think Pimoroni will take care of the
| entire manufacturing and marketing process for you, if you want
| to contact them. Their CEO emailed me way back about this, but
| he hasn't replied to my multiple emails since, so YMMV.
| londons_explore wrote:
| I built erraticpacket.com
|
| It exists, has a handful of users per day, but I don't market it
| because it isn't margin positive and certainly wouldn't be with
| any money diverted to marketing.
|
| It currently gets about 2 minutes of my life per week dedicated
| to it.... And that's it - times up for this week, bye!
| TT-392 wrote:
| I was having problems with my hands from muscle exhaustion due to
| typing. My doctor recommended I should use an alarm clock, to
| remind me to not type for more than a few minutes at a time.
| Instead, I thought, I could do better. So I made the following
| program:
|
| It is a program that has a countdown, lets say, 100 key presses,
| and every time you press a key, it goes down by one, and every,
| lets say second, it recovers 1 key. When it reached like 20 keys,
| I got a notification, and when it reached 0, I got a typing
| timeout (I disabled my keyboard). This forced me to, type more
| efficiently, to use more efficient shortcuts and to think about
| code before I wrote it more. In the end, this actually helped a
| lot for my hands, and I was still able to work on stuff.
|
| I ended up never releasing it, because I was too lazy to put in
| the work to get it to a usable state for other people on other
| computers.
| mkl wrote:
| I use Workrave (https://workrave.org/) for the same purpose.
| It's time-based rather than count-based, and takes mouse into
| account as well as keyboard.
| TT-392 wrote:
| Right, the mouse is a concern for most people as well, I
| never really considered that part since with my i3wm + vim
| setup, I basically never touch the mouse anyways.
| polyterative wrote:
| I need this, got rsi
| TT-392 wrote:
| Probably won't be of any use, but here is the code:
| https://github.com/TT-392/keyAlarm/tree/master
| sjducb wrote:
| That sounds great. Can you put it up on GitHub so I can use it
| please?
| TT-392 wrote:
| I mean sure, but I wasn't exaggerating when I said it is
| probably not usable on other peoples computers. It only works
| on linux, it doesn't work on wayland, and because I am using
| xinput to disable the keyboard, you will have to replace the
| device name in blockKeyboard.py:
| https://github.com/TT-392/keyAlarm/tree/master
|
| It shouldn't be too difficult to write your own though, so,
| if anyone wants to do so, feel free to steal the idea.
| djbusby wrote:
| Works on my machine. Thanks! (Xfce)
| n3t wrote:
| > I mean sure, but I wasn't exaggerating when I said it is
| probably not usable on other peoples computers.
|
| That's totally okay! I love when people share their "works
| on my machine programs". Just say upfront that it's your
| personal tool so others won't expect production-grade
| software.
|
| The code might inspire others, let others fork it (if a
| license says it's okay), teach code readers about some
| technique or tool, or just be fun to poke around.
|
| I, for one, learned about pyxhook while reading your code.
| Thank you!
| TT-392 wrote:
| That is nice, as for a license, I think half of the
| program is someone else's keylogger code I found
| somewhere online, so putting my own license on there
| seems shitty. But I put a line in the README that anyone
| can steal the idea of the concept of the program, if
| someone is gonna do that, they are gonna want to rewrite
| everything anyways.
| pttrn wrote:
| An experimental weather forecast visualization app:
| https://brutalism.rs/project/itinerant/
| dejobaan wrote:
| My bot that finds and tweets about the best-reviewed new games on
| Steam, constructing miniature 6 second trailers for each:
| https://twitter.com/playfullyauto
|
| This was an extension of a bot I made years back, that
| constructed a 6s trailer for every single game on Steam as it's
| launched (https://twitter.com/microtrailers), which later became
| part of a thing I did officially at Valve
| (https://store.steampowered.com/labs).
|
| The @playfullyauto one was my most recent (post Steam Labs)
| thing, and it's my favorite, because it unearths a bunch of games
| people like. But I never really spread the word about it.
| syldarion wrote:
| I followed microtrailers, it was awesome getting the brief
| snippets of EVERYTHING. I hadn't seen that you'd made a new one
| until now, definitely giving that one a follow!
| nosmokewhereiam wrote:
| Terrapintonics.com is a sticker site that we got overwhelmed with
| trying to fullfil orders with so many unique SKUs.
|
| Each decal is different, how do you organize 1,000 different ones
| on a website, much less the stock of physical decals?
|
| We've decided to just print and list batches of 10 at a time or
| uncut sheets instead, and we don't market to keep the orders
| light so it's manageable to ship decal packs in a timely manner.
| failTide wrote:
| You must have been doing some marketing earlier on though ,
| right? How did it get to be popular in the first place?
| arran-nz wrote:
| An easy way to share contact informative at conferences
|
| - https://qcard.link
| jfim wrote:
| I made a piece of software that logged what was happening on my
| computer, similar to rescue time, in order to help me fill time
| sheets. It worked pretty well, but I didn't have the bandwidth to
| sell that while being in school, so I mothballed it.
| freshman_dev wrote:
| I rebuilt Wordbase, a discontinued word strategy game
|
| https://wordbase.app
|
| It gets a steady trickle of users searching for the original app,
| and that's all it's meant for (not monetized), so I don't market
| it
| dobladov wrote:
| I made a tool to export YouTube subtitles directly into Anki
| without downloading the video, it must be useful since it even
| got me a job offer by one of the users (pretty famous person).
|
| I never did more marketing than a Reddit post when the proof of
| concept was made. Coincidentally, I've worked on it recently and
| added some useful functionality.
|
| Extension:
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube2anki/boebb...
| Source: https://github.com/dobladov/youtube2Anki
| lighttower wrote:
| I built a bunk bed where the bottom bunk lifts out of the way
| revealing a play area for kids
| hollywood_court wrote:
| I built a gutter estimating app for pricing seamless gutter
| installations.
|
| I'm a carpenter, but I spent a few weeks helping a friend with
| his gutter business years ago. He would spent 45-60 minutes
| building an estimate for each potential client.
|
| The app I wrote allowed him to complete each estimate I'm less
| than 90 seconds.
|
| However he refused to use it because "I've always done it this
| way."
|
| He lost the business and now works at Kroger. Some people just
| don't like technology.
| shashurup wrote:
| Not exactly like the title imply. I built a minimalist RSS reader
| which I use exclusively. The main reason I don't market it I'm
| unsure I want to deal with feature requests etc.
| https://feedcircuit.kibardin.name
| kcbanner wrote:
| I built TurboSearch, an ag frontend for MSVC:
| https://kcbanner.gumroad.com/l/turbosearch
|
| I was frustrated with how slow and clunky all the existing
| solutions were for regex searches. The built in file search in
| MSVC has a UI that wastes a tonne of space (and the search itself
| is unuseably slow). Constantly changing to a terminal to run
| ag/grep and then open the file manually in MSVC was a pain, so I
| learned how to build an extension and put a GUI onto the command
| line tools I was already using.
|
| Tools like Visual Assist are great if you want actual symbol
| indexing, but the searches (of a UE4) codebase can take 30-60s.
| TurboSearch can run a regex search of the entire engine in ~6s
| and searches of just the game code take ~200ms.
|
| I have only sold one copy, but I use it every day and it's a core
| part of my workflow. I thought there would be more interest in it
| when I built it, but since I've gotten so much use out of it
| myself, the time spent building it was well worth it.
| gnorme wrote:
| A browser extension for Twitch.tv (mainly for MOBAs) that enabled
| live-stream viewers to mouse-over in-game items/abilities and be
| shown a tooltip describing that item/ability as if they were
| playing the game themselves. Useful for viewers who are new to
| watching competitive matches and have no idea what certain
| icons/abilities/items represent.
|
| Scraped millions of publicly available property tax documents for
| a specific region and combined it with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap
| to visualize the data.
| coalteddy wrote:
| Would you mind sharing a link to those projects. Both sound
| really cool.
| podviaznikov wrote:
| small app that allows me to publish my Apple Notes to my personal
| website
|
| [1] http://montaigne.io [2] https://podviaznikov.com
| kirubakaran wrote:
| https://deepwork.me/
|
| I'd describe what it is, but then that would be marketing
| whatinside wrote:
| For the last few years, I have been building iOS app to make
| scheduling your to-do easy. It combines calendar, todo, project
| managing and even outliner.
|
| Sepnia: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sepnia-calendar-
| tasks/id151493...
| dbattaglia wrote:
| I made a web game that's a mix of the board game Stratego and the
| classic rock/paper/scissor game. Its single player only, and the
| computer player's logic can use a lot of work but I haven't spent
| much time on it in a while. Basically you move your pieces to try
| to catch the other player's flag.
|
| https://rock-paper-scissor-battle.com
|
| https://github.com/daniel-bytes/rps-scala
| deneb150 wrote:
| I just finished rewriting this custom reddit email newsletter
| service from a few years ago. Fully functional but don't feel
| like trying to market it: https://orangered.email/
| andwaal wrote:
| I built a TikTok clone only showing clips from old snowboard and
| ski movies from the early 2000s. Movies are imported using a CLI
| which reads VLC playlist containing bookmarks for each clip. I
| love my app and is using it every day as an alternative to other
| empty minded social media, but will probably never publish it or
| marked it due to copyrights.
|
| If anyone has a use case which does not involve copyright
| infringement I would be happy to give away the code.
| elymar wrote:
| That sounds awesome.
| c-fe wrote:
| that sounds nice, I do enjoy old ski and snowboard movies/clips
| aswell. Is there any way to look at these clips? I think this
| would also work very nicely as background visuals for events /
| shops, however the copyright aspect is probably difficult with
| such a usecase
| andwaal wrote:
| Send me a message to my user name at gmail or github and I
| will send you the apk. I have added about ten movies so far,
| but I am planning to add some more when I get the time.
| t_mann wrote:
| Probably not exactly an extension of your current app, but you
| could try to build sth like a TikTok for extreme sports. I'm
| sure there are plenty of people with an urge to share their
| GoPro videos with friends.
| andwaal wrote:
| Yeah, I though about it, but it seems to already exist in the
| app "You Rip"
| ronyfadel wrote:
| I made a TestFlight [1] for a free service to get webhooks/zaps
| on your iPhone/Mac (via push notifications). I needed it for
| myself, but eventually it didn't get much traction. I still use
| it myself daily.
|
| [1] https://testflight.apple.com/join/zWqTQOM9
| michaelhoffman wrote:
| I made a simple tool to extract comments from PDFs with different
| severity levels. Mainly developed for my use marking up documents
| for review in an academic context, a need many academics have but
| I'm not sure how many others.
|
| https://github.com/hoffmangroup/pdfcomments
| seydor wrote:
| my bookmarking site. Not abandoned, i use it for myself
| regularly, but i dont think anyone else is
|
| https://pinplz.com
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