https://www.isthatalemon.com
There is a pretty popular used car checklist. I thought it needed to be converted to a basic but interactive website, just for fun.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#62Started a music blog that I aim to be nearly fully automated: https://pulse.input.sh/ . This change isn't live yet, but in the v2 (next month or so) it will a) fetch new Spotify releases by genre every week, b) rank them by popularity and extract top 10, and c) publish them as a blog post and add them to a playlist others can follow. Basically the opposite of Spotify's generated (Discover Weekly / Release Radar) and…
The coming update reminds me of Hype Machine (but it's not Spotify friendly).
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#63https://pancakes.cloud/ - a simple and fast website for storing and managing recipes.
I built it for myself, but a few friends have already asked to use it because they are fed up with how bloated and ad-heavy most recipe websites are these days.
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#64A native GUI library https://github.com/yue/yue.
It was a disaster when I announced it on Hacker News, and I got numerous harassments from strangers.
But anyway 3 years since then and I'm still working on it.
Edit 1: 2 => 3 years
Edit 2: If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog on the mistakes I made http://cheng.guru/blog/2018/02/18/lessons-learnt-from-open-s....
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#65https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.
My parents just had the radio hooked up to the same circuit that was driving the bathroom lights. You enter the room, turn on the lights and there was instant audio. Makes sense to put this into a product.
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#66https://wantfuel.com - a simple website for investors to find startups looking for funding
I thought it's absolutely nuts that something simple and straightforward like this doesn't exist yet, so I built it
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#67That would be my open source robot Rover. I am making it to learn both about 3D printed robotics [1] and computer vision in unstructured environments [2]. It’s a really fun project, and success would be if anyone ever decided to clone or fork it and sell them. I’m considering working with a friend to design an aluminum version for low volume production for researchers, but I have a lot on my plate so I’m not sure if I really will.
Still it’s rewarding for me to work on. I started it after my startup failed and I was so exhausted working on something I wanted to succeed. So I made a totally non commercial open source project and it’s been a lot of fun.
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#68Writing a book on how to advertise on google ads. Don’t care if I make any money; I see so much money wasted on Google ads I want to at least try to centralize good Ads practices.
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#69This sci-fi [0] music player with automatically generated visualizations. https://glitchy.website/
Eventually I will make it more like an actual music player since right now it only plays one file and provides different seek points so you can jump to the song you want to hear. I think it will also be an interesting way to keep me invested in releasing new music that I can put on it.
[0] Built it using arwes.dev for that sci-fi feel
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#70https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.
I solve that problem by turning on the hairdryer. My wife thought I'm weird but she's starting to realize the benefits