I created a privacy-friendly wishlist service (https://wishy.gift/) for my SO, and as long as she and my family uses it, it's a success for me. Going from ~1k to ~5k users during 2021 was a lot of fun, but it's the close circle that really counts :)
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#492I am building a D&D 5e character sheet app: https://dwarven.academy
It has very few users but I don't care because I built it mainly because I didn't enjoy dndbeyond and wanted something different. I'm using it for all my sessions :3
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#493I'm working on a philosophical project and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. I don't care if I don't have a single reader.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#494https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
It backs up personal data and puts it on a timeline. It's cool to pick a random day and see what I was up to. It also serves as a backup tool.
Somehow, people find out about it and star it. One person even contributed a pull request. However I strictly built it for myself, with no intention to make a product out of it.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#495My own virtual tabletop: https://bonfiretabletop.com
It's actually picking up some speed and have a small base of active users, but even without what: I learn a ton from this project, definitely made me a better developer and entrepreneur.
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#496I built a satirical social network called shlinkedin. It started as a way for me to learn elixir and make fun of thought leadership with my roommate, and has gradually gotten bigger. It’s all open source and a ton of fun to work on. Everyone is an alter ego (think Beff Jezos or Office Spider), and it’s hilarious to see how much people commit to the characters they create. And I can’t say enough good things about work…
I've seen it before. It's hilarious
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#497I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…
If your strategy makes as much sense as your writing, you're definitely going to prison.
What is the illegal part?
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#498https://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…
Another bug report:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/125134793099?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-5320...
4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, and an i5-1035G is misparsed as 64GB RAM and 1035 GB SSD.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#499I've been journaling for a very long time, and have thought about building a tool to encapsulate the "best practices" I've come up with over that time.
Finally gave it a shot and whipped up a site this week. I'm having fun building it while using it. I hope it'll be helpful to some other people too, but even if it isn't it's enough for me.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#500Making marmalade, no tech angle, just nice to work your hands!