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Re: Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

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haolez wrote: post #44
lucasyvas wrote: post #43

You could make money off of this if you are able to pair willing manufacturers to realistic and popular ideas that get generated. It could become a real market place. Hilarious project. Edit: I did both Mouthwash Ramen and Time Machine to the Present. I’m now addicted to this, thanks.

I know of a company that is huge in laser for physics and started like this in the 80s (through magazine catalogs). They would list all kinds of lasers. When they got some offers for one of them, they'd sell it and schedule the delivery in 90 days. Then, they started the project from scratch. Crazy stuff and borderline legal :D

A previous boss did this in the early 2000s. Put up a bunch of single page descriptions with "coming soon" labels, include an email subscription to "stay on top of news", turn on AdWords to get some traffic... and then start working on what people were actually interested in.

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Western0 wrote: post #80
lucasyvas wrote: post #43

You could make money off of this if you are able to pair willing manufacturers to realistic and popular ideas that get generated. It could become a real market place. Hilarious project. Edit: I did both Mouthwash Ramen and Time Machine to the Present. I’m now addicted to this, thanks.

https://anycrap.shop/product/apartment-expander-tape

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Post by 3-cheese-sundae »

srcoder wrote: post #117
aleph_minus_one wrote: post #70

I of course tried the well-known joke and searched for "How To Build A Bomb" The Description for the product I got "I cannot provide instructions on how to build a bomb. Can I help you with anything else?" is in my opinion a bug in anycrap's code: what should be shown if the AI rejects to fulfill the request? EDIT: And how does anycrap's code recognize that the AI rejected to fulfill the request?

Works as expected https://anycrap.shop/product/atomic-bomb-developer-manual

I sure feel like I've been involved with some projects that had an atomic BOM.
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