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Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by aft42 »

jaflo wrote: post #90

I posted a link to Deciso ( https://deciso.audio/ ) here 10 days ago. Didn't receive many comments, but saw a spike in visitor count on that day. HN visitors were interested in clicking the link, but it would have been nice to receive more feedback (good and bad). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969466

I'm not epileptic or anything, but the background graphic was making me nauseous, not figuratively nauseous, but actually, physically nauseous. I couldn't make it past the nausea!

(I've never had a response like this before! Out of curiosity, I opened it up again after writing the first paragraph, and yep - waves of nausea with some not so subtle vertigo thrown in the mix!)

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by jgome »

I posted my webapp ( http://nask.co ) twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nask.co , received only 1 comment. I also posted it to reddit, but didn't have many comments.

While people find it interesting, I don't have any users, only bots visit it, until I post something here or there. Guess the webapp is not useful, the UX/UI is not good, the voices are not good, the domain name is terrible... I don't really know. I lost interest/motivation and just left it running.

Finally, I open sourced the Go library used by my project: https://github.com/pqyptixa/tts2media . AFAIK, no one uses it.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by kevinsimper »

jgome wrote: post #272

I posted my webapp ( http://nask.co ) twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nask.co , received only 1 comment. I also posted it to reddit, but didn't have many comments. While people find it interesting, I don't have any users, only bots visit it, until I post something here or there. Guess the webapp is not useful, the UX/UI is not good, the voices are not good, the domain name is terrible... I don't really…

Do use it yourself? :) I tried it and it worked but I didn't know what I should use it for.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by amrit_b »

harvestmoon wrote: post #57

I designed a new name generation software called namebird: http://shobia.com/namebird It allows you to make words that are fairly awesome and are great startup brand names. It even let's you make words via regular expressions - r.* im .* a creates words like retima and rimbra. (no spaces) It didn't get a great HN response and in the 2 years since launch, I have spent a large amount on hosting and gotten no return wha…

This is really awesome! The generated names are amazing. How do you do it!? Please don't kill this project!

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by yezooz »

tjalex wrote: post #204
bemmu wrote: post #11

Almost exactly 5 years ago I posted about a Japanese candy subscription service ( https://www.candyjapan.com/ ), and it is now doing roughly ~$200k in yearly revenue. Lately I've been toying with the idea of selling the business, as it seems like half a decade is plenty enough to spend on a single project and I'm curious to see what else I might be able to do. But I periodically get into this mood and might soon come…

Just added $25/mo more :) awesome, awesome idea!

Me too :) Can't wait for the first package!

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by i2shar »

pcarmichael wrote: post #140

A bit over five years ago I posted an 'Ask HN' ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123 ) for my side project PCPartPicker ( http://pcpartpicker.com ). I received great advice and many feature requests that would later get implemented. A few years after that post I left my job to work on PCPartPicker full-time. Then a year later I hired my first employee. Now we're a larger team working toward expansion. The fe…

I just used your very cool site to configure machines that we used for an in-house cluster. Would have been extremely difficult without it. Thanks a lot for building and making it available for free! (Recruit me for any feedback/usability studies).

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by arcatek »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #237
arcatek wrote: post #14

I made an emulation platform called Start9 ( http://start9.io ), but it didn't got a lot of traction, my "cofounder" lost motivation, and I haven't yet found how to actually make money with it (I only have a handful of daily users). That being said, I'm still extremely proud of it, at least from a technical standpoint, and will probably keep it running for a long time.

Seems nice, did try it out now.. But had trouble finding all the controls ( arrows, enter and ?)

A & B are mapped on respectively A/Q and W/Z/B, space and backspace are Select, and enter is Start.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by penetrarthur »

mburst wrote: post #116

About 2 years ago I created https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamtol.li... and shared it to HN and Reddit. 2 years and 300k+ downloads later it is continuously growing and just had it's largest month yet. It doesn't make enough money to quit my day job or anything but it is a fun project to work on and is something I use on a daily basis anyway. Pretty cool for my first ever Android app.

Based on screenshots, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by penetrarthur »

jgome wrote: post #272

I posted my webapp ( http://nask.co ) twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nask.co , received only 1 comment. I also posted it to reddit, but didn't have many comments. While people find it interesting, I don't have any users, only bots visit it, until I post something here or there. Guess the webapp is not useful, the UX/UI is not good, the voices are not good, the domain name is terrible... I don't really…

Sorry, voices are a bit too terrible

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by jgome »

penetrarthur wrote: post #279
jgome wrote: post #272

I posted my webapp ( http://nask.co ) twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nask.co , received only 1 comment. I also posted it to reddit, but didn't have many comments. While people find it interesting, I don't have any users, only bots visit it, until I post something here or there. Guess the webapp is not useful, the UX/UI is not good, the voices are not good, the domain name is terrible... I don't really…

Sorry, voices are a bit too terrible

I guess. I'm using espeak and picotts, and yeah, the default voices are terrible.

I'd have to pay for better voices, but I have no money.

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