Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

I have kind of the same experience with the little game I made a while back (lots of effort, but no marketing, so no sales...).

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I wrote it based on some scripts I had, and then added Wireguard support and configuration generation.

I'm now working on making a proper backend so it can be used as a library (i.e. to run a few requests through different VPN connections, e.g. for web scraping for websites with geolocation-sensitive content), and also to learn a lot more about Linux system calls.

Eventually I'd like to expand that to use the network namespaces and firewall rules to allow for different virtual network configurations so I could use it for testing out distributed systems development too.

A suite of realtime chatrooms, for travellers to talk about their flights, and the airlines that run them.

The idea is to let the use enter their flight details into a search box, find the chatroom for their flight, and let others know what's on their mind.

Before the pandemic, me and my wife would travel to see family often enough to experience the mind numbing frustration of sitting in a cabin of a delayed flight. In some case, for hours at a time.

We were also shocked at how often airlines will change the T&C's, often to the detriment of the customer. Especially in regards to seating plans (separating friends and family), and baggage allowance.

I wanted to do something to help customers challenge airlines on such issues and, where possible, discuss solutions amongst themselves.

Techwise, while simple (Elixir, Vue, CouchDB), I think it works well. But the marketing side of it has been tough... It hard to know where to start.

Not sure if the idea is bad, if the timing is off (pandemic) or the execution needs improving in someway.