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

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Post by ornornor »

kafked wrote: post #240
ornornor wrote: post #239

I’m so envious people get such good ideas. I always come up empty when trying to invent something that is enjoyable to use, fun, funny, partly an art project, partly making us question ourselves and our habits… Of you want a piece of that feeling: https://anycrap.shop/product/regrets-for-what-could-have-bee... Could you walk us through the process of coming up with the idea for this website?

The website was created for learning and fun a few months ago and forgotten as a completely useless product, I absolutely did not expect such a feedback that I received here today

But… how did you come up with the idea? There are a million other things to build for learning. What was your inspiration? How did you imagine this?

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

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Post by kafked »

ornornor wrote: post #242
kafked wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The website was created for learning and fun a few months ago and forgotten as a completely useless product, I absolutely did not expect such a feedback that I received here today

But… how did you come up with the idea? There are a million other things to build for learning. What was your inspiration? How did you imagine this?

I always have a lot of ideas, but this project seemed to me the least creative of all, it seems like it's too obvious, I don't know really, it's just generate stuff with available models, like a million of similar or more useful ideas

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

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Post by kafked »

kinduff wrote: post #241

Wrote about this last May, had this vision of a store that looks very much like this. Maybe you enjoy the read, here is the link: https://kinduff.com/2025/05/28/when-ai-sells-you-what-you-wa...

Thanks! That's interesting. I feel like some kind of synchronicity here - this project also was built and deployed in May

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

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Post by neilv »

Very impressive.

I wonder how the great (better than "AI") human designers and copywriters and marketers will stand out, amidst all the good-enough-for-many-purposes, at scale, AI slop.

How will they even establish their career reputation and be noticed?

Or even get enough real-world experience to develop strong holistic creative+product skills, to become great?

(Will the job market become like software engineering IC jobs, in which it's mostly Leetcode fraternity pledging for the best-paying jobs, just to gatekeep, and then most other companies mimicking that? That might work for hiring large numbers of worker drones, but how can that find you top creatives?)

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

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Post by LtWorf »

magicalhippo wrote: post #52
haolez wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

We do something similar at work. Except usually the dev department doesn't know until handed the project from sales and so the project goals might be entirely unrealistic given the deadline. What do you mean that feature doesn't exist? Well, I sold it to the customer, they have to go live in two weeks and their workflow depends on this feature.

Ah you must work at my same company!
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