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

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Post by justsomehnguy »

wilkommen wrote: post #335
imgabe wrote: post #228

No Nonsense Recipes - https://nononsense.recipes I built it mainly to scratch my own itch out of frustration with recipe blogs and their endless stories and photo collages before they get to the point where they actually tell you how to make the recipe. It seems a pretty common complaint, so I thought other people might be interested. I added a subscription because I don't like ads and tracking and everything that go…

I love the idea but it needs pictures really bad. I’m not gonna be able to pick a recipe based on a text description, the photo is what reels me in.

Somebody should write the extension to snatch the pics from recipe blogs. /jk

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Post by throwamon »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #234

S E N T I E N T S: The Role-Playing Game of Artificial Consciousness - https://www.sentientsrpg.com/ About 7 months ago I started writing a role-playing game because I loved the premise: you play an android who has spontaneously and mysteriously developed consciousness—but android manufacturers are actively hunting down these "Awakened" robots and suppressing knowledge of the phenomenon. I'm about 60 pages into the c…

Ever heard of the anime Ergo Proxy? It's also about androids that spontaneously and mysteriously develop consciousness.

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Post by mindcrime »

Pretty much all of my "side project" stuff falls into this category in a sense (the sense where "success" means something about "making money").

Some of these things I work on with the hope of making money off of them someday, while others I never really had any financial interest in to begin with. But in either case, I really look at the true value of the projects as being the lessons I learn and the knowledge I gain from working on them.

In the end, I figure I learn something from everything I work on, so in the sense that learning is the real goal, all of my projects are ultimately a success to some extent. It's only a question of degree.

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Post by jdmichal »

mNovak wrote: post #170

https://bytebucket.co I'm the kind of person that always buys electronics used on eBay, where you can get really powerful but 2-3 years old devices for a few hundred $. And, I find shopping for used electronics elsewhere is still terrible (how good is a 1yo i5 vs a 3yo i7?). So, I made this site to help me in that -- I started scraping eBay listings for laptops, picked out the specs and cross-referenced them to bench…

I have a small maybe-bug report for you. I thought, hey I don't want anything with a HDD, only SSD. So I set HDD to 0-0, and it just filters out everything. Even systems with no HDD disappear.

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Post by nja »

superfamicom wrote: post #325

I made a website to listen to Super Nintendo / Super Famicom music emulated in the browser. It was a great way to learn about Emscripten. Not sure what it would succeed at other than being popular, and I can assure you it is not. https://sfc.fm/

I love this! Wonder if it would be possible to make something similar for other consoles (I'm thinking Game Boy?)

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Post by paulorlando »

I like the prompt. Something I started a few years ago was writing about unintended consequences: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/ I was best at this when I truly didn't care about success. I took a diversion into trying to intentionally make it successful and now am back to not caring if it succeeds. But it's a win just because I've learned so much working on it. It also brought me to lots of people I never would have met otherwise.

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Post by two_poles_here »

byecancer21 wrote: post #264
Forge36 wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's already a website and you tease with this? Why keep the website private?

It's in German language and legal stuff, although one may enjoy the renderings of numerous corruption-involved public officials. These were made using AnimeGANv2. https://de.wickepedia.org/Wickepedia:About The felonious judge is named Wicke so this was thought to be the most hilarious domain name. It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and who…

Holy mother of a server this is glorious. Bruh/sis you are legendary.

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Post by imgabe »

wilkommen wrote: post #335
imgabe wrote: post #228

No Nonsense Recipes - https://nononsense.recipes I built it mainly to scratch my own itch out of frustration with recipe blogs and their endless stories and photo collages before they get to the point where they actually tell you how to make the recipe. It seems a pretty common complaint, so I thought other people might be interested. I added a subscription because I don't like ads and tracking and everything that go…

I love the idea but it needs pictures really bad. I’m not gonna be able to pick a recipe based on a text description, the photo is what reels me in.

Working on adding it! I want users to be able to upload pictures, but that creates a host of problems with moderation and everything.

Recipes you can copy, because they’re not copyrightable, but images are, so just scraping them from other sites is really not ok. Cooking 18000 recipes and taking pictures myself is also not going to work. So, yeah. I totally get the desire for pictures though.

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Post by JoshTriplett »

superfamicom wrote: post #325

I made a website to listen to Super Nintendo / Super Famicom music emulated in the browser. It was a great way to learn about Emscripten. Not sure what it would succeed at other than being popular, and I can assure you it is not. https://sfc.fm/

That's awesome! SPC is an impressive music format, and music artists on the SNES pushed it to its limits.

Also, props for the great Twitter handle.

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