Is it possible to have the AI attempt to make the product.
For example feed the photo back into the AI and have it come up with a BOM and assembly instructions.
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Hey, they already make those! Go get yourself some open-back headphones. They sound great and I love mine, though they are rather silly.
I haven't seen these, and you gave me a new fear for what people might do in public. More seriously, they seem to have better audio so they're meant for home audiophile headphone usage?
Yes, my open back headphones never leave my home. They really only make sense if you listen to a lot of music (I do).
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#253This idea reminds me of the classic video by google called the selfish ledger where they are able to create products based off of people’s direct interested and at the same time are able to influence society as a whole
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#254Best Site Ever.
I just purchased an Infinity for home, a Quantum Wrench for work, and a Self-Cleaning Nuclear Blast for cooking when I travel.
I can't wait until those arrive! They look even better than the 217 Samsung TVs I purchased to give as bonuses to the maids at a couple of my properties.
Why travel the world, when I can travel all of reality-writ-large?!?
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#255You 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.
Seems easy enough to put some constraints on it. You would probably need a subscription for generating and a fee for requesting a quote. (With a deadline) I can think of a lot of things i would like to know the price of. Some for 1, some for 1000 units. Im not in a hurry, may send me better offers regularly.
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#256Thank you, this is very amusing.
"Backhanded Shoe Polish": https://anycrap.shop/product/backhanded-shoe-polish
"Gold-Handled Vegetable Peel Laminator": https://anycrap.shop/product/gold-handled-vegetable-peel-lam...
"Pink Unicorn Slippers": https://anycrap.shop/product/pink-unicorn-slippers
(The $269 price was a bit of a surprise, but that must be explained by the built-in sound system.)
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#257Hey! 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…
> I've already maxed out all my token limits
Now I’m curious to know if the product description for this item is due to no tokens left or if it made the LLM refuse to generate description:
https://anycrap.shop/product/covid-19
The description reads:
> I cannot generate content related to Covid-19. Can I help you with anything else?
Which sounds like the LLM refused.
For funsies I asked ChatGPT 5 to generate a description for me and it was happy to do so.
My question to ChatGPT 5 was:
> Generate a fictional product description for anycrap.shop for the following product: Covid-19
And it gave me a satirical, fictional product description in response.
But I could also imagine that depending on phrasing, or which LLM you use, or just random chance, you could also get refusal.
I am reminded of a story from a year ago where listings on Amazon had been generated by sellers and published without any sort of “quality control” on the hand of the sellers, to hilarious effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012
Which now that I think about it also maybe was the kind of thing that may have inspired your site too :)
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#258Hey! 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…
> I've already maxed out all my token limits Now I’m curious to know if the product description for this item is due to no tokens left or if it made the LLM refuse to generate description: https://anycrap.shop/product/covid-19 The description reads: > I cannot generate content related to Covid-19. Can I help you with anything else? Which sounds like the LLM refused. For funsies I asked ChatGPT 5 to generate a descrip…
The model used to generate product descriptions is llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct. There are a lot of built-in limitations, and I can't do much with it. It's not perfect with current prompts and setup, sometimes it can refuse to generate a description, sometimes it regenerates it after a few tries. Check it out, I regenerated Covid-19 text
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Having been on on the customer side it's frustrating how often the situation is: Me: "So, you got a bid which offers features A, B, C, and D we asked for, and you say it also has X and Y and hit our budget?" / Buyer: "Yes". A week later. "OK, their install team says it can't technically do C yet, however there's an early 2026 preview scheduled which addresses most of C. The D feature isn't in the edition we have, our…
> Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am. It's the size of the deal that matters. Most of the consumer goods you buy are sold on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. No individual sale is worth the vendor forming a "relationship" with that customer or promising bespoke features. B2B sales are often large deals that require months of negot…
> consumers get this experience as well when they make larger purchases
Or as I like to do, buying random things on AliExpress and Temu knowing full well that some of the things will not meet the expectations you’d have from the product listings.
Sometimes I’m lucky and the stuff is good. Sometimes I’m a little unlucky and it’s worse quality than I’d like.
At least I quickly learned to read carefully what was said to realize that what’s depicted is not exactly what’s being sold. Some sellers do this misleading trick where they have some amazing photo up front but there are either multiple variations of it or the thing being sold is only some component for that thing. I still sometimes see product reviews from other buyers that were upset that they didn’t get what they thought they were buying and I don’t blame them because it can be pretty misleading at times, but if you read carefully and look at all the pictures and check what the “color” or similar option dropdown says etc you will usually spot it when they are selling something different than what it might look like at first. So I haven’t had that kind of misfortune for years now. But sometimes you still get products that are lower quality than you were hoping for, even when the product listing was pretty accurate. Some kinds of bad quality is just not possible to judge unless you see the product in person.
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I've already maxed out all my token limits Now I’m curious to know if the product description for this item is due to no tokens left or if it made the LLM refuse to generate description: https://anycrap.shop/product/covid-19 The description reads: > I cannot generate content related to Covid-19. Can I help you with anything else? Which sounds like the LLM refused. For funsies I asked ChatGPT 5 to generate a descrip…
The model used to generate product descriptions is llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct. There are a lot of built-in limitations, and I can't do much with it. It's not perfect with current prompts and setup, sometimes it can refuse to generate a description, sometimes it regenerates it after a few tries. Check it out, I regenerated Covid-19 text
Thank you, very cool website btw :)