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Ahhh you stole my idea lol I was gonna do this as a way for people to stop buying things they don’t need. They get the “buzz” of going through the process of buying something (checkout, credit card form etc) they get a confirmation email and everything. Looks great! Congratulations
There are some time traveling products that might help you fix that.
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Someone email me when I can buy Barbed Wire Toilet Paper. That one is my favorite. Its so devious. Imagine needing TP but all you find is one roll. Rolled in barbed wire.
Of all the items, that's probably the easiest to make yourself, for under $10: https://www.amazon.com/Barbed-Barbwire-Baseball-Feeder-Garde...
https://anycrap.shop/product/broken-clock-that-s-right-thric...
This Broken Clock boasts an unconventional timekeeping mechanism where hands randomly align at correct times thrice daily. It may seem broken, but somehow its fractured gears grant fleeting moments of accuracy amidst disarrayed hours. Its aesthetic appeal lies in the subtle ticking sounds between erratic movements.
Despite its unpredictable behavior, the clock has gained cult following among those seeking respite from precision schedules. For those willing to tolerate chaos, this peculiar timepiece offers three reassuring glances at reality within every 24-hour cycle.
Hey! Honestly didn't expect this to hit the HN top, I've already maxed out all my token limits! If you enjoyed wasting time here, there's a Buy Me A Coffee link in the footer. Thanks for the incredible response! This is why I really love building weird useless stuff for the internet. UPD: You guys are incredibly creative! 15000 products generated and counting. I'm laughing reading all this absurd stuff and crying at…
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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.
Isn't this just sort of market research for how to prioritize the roadmap? I think it was a great way to do so.
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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
Back in the 80s and 90s rhey would advertise products on TV with "6 to 8 weeks for delivery". Now I wonder if they did this to batch up a manufacturing run once enough orders were received.
Curious to know which LLM makes them because I find LLM have gone from very creative with GPT2 to really boring recently.
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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.
Isn't this just sort of market research for how to prioritize the roadmap? I think it was a great way to do so.