http://www.flugpo.com
We have this Social Classifieds Network that is trying to inject more trust in to online classifieds but it's hard to get above the noise of craigslist and kijiji. Not a failure yet but not a success either.
Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#32http://www.imageboard.net/top/ A forum designed without the use of text using just images to communicate with a built in editor and voting tools. Roommate and I made it as a toy for a programming competition, so we weren't expecting grand things. It got grabbed by the 4chan crowd so... uh... yeah. I linked to the best ones for a reason ;)
That's a great idea, and a great domain name. You didn't go forward?
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Random curiosity: did you change your name from Steve to Mark? If it isn't personal, mind sharing why?
Isn't it obvious? It's one character shorter. Just like one of Arc's guiding principles: "How code looks matters: short names, no swearing". Of course, since ones name is so frequently typed, one might prefer something even shorter. Like, "Joe", as a purely hypothetical example. I'm not sure one can go any shorter than three characters for a common male US name. More seriously, I'm guessing Mark/Steven is of Asian de…
Al?
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#34Not that it was built to change the world, but I've personally been very happy with http://www.iheartquotes.com/
It was a two day project to bring the Unix fortune program to the web. You can browse online but I've gotten more use out of the API which I turned into a Twitter bot and include in my .bash_profiles.
The Paul Graham tag: http://www.iheartquotes.com/tags/paul_graham
On Twitter http://www.twitter.com/iheartquotes
In my .bash_profile curl -m 3 http://www.iheartquotes.com/api/v1/random
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#35Nothing world changing, but the pastebin I wrote recently, I find it pretty handy for sharing js snippets
it shows the page rendered above in a frame below, you can test snippets of javascript / css in it, processing js works as well
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#36http://lifeshelf.net
It's basically a web version of Delicious Library (not del.icio.us. Think delicious monster, mac fans).
I didn't really launch it per se, so I can't say that it failed, but if I don't have people using/looking at it, I'm finding it hard to convince myself to fix all the egregious bugs.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't it obvious? It's one character shorter. Just like one of Arc's guiding principles: "How code looks matters: short names, no swearing". Of course, since ones name is so frequently typed, one might prefer something even shorter. Like, "Joe", as a purely hypothetical example. I'm not sure one can go any shorter than three characters for a common male US name. More seriously, I'm guessing Mark/Steven is of Asian de…
Al?
Now you're talking! You can call me "Al" from now on, thanks.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#38http://watrcoolr.us
Never "launched" it, but I still think it deserves popularity :).
It's a browser start page that I made for myself (and use) that displays the top stories for a set of most-emailed-like feeds. The feeds have been tweaked over time to yield the most interesting stories at any given time. After all, they were the most emailed ones...
It's not really for news junkies or the news.yc crowd in particular. However, it could work for you as I am in the news.yc crowd. Anyway, almost everyone I have explained it to and that has tried it as their homepage has liked it. That is, I've gotten really good feedback in terms of constant use from friends and family.
So I think there is some non-negligible subset of people who would like this as their home page, but I of course have no way to reach them :)
If you do click on it, note it isn't just one story. You can click the arrows on screen or use the arrows on your keyboard to move off the front story. But if you have as your home page, the latest story will just be displayed.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#39http://www.imageboard.net/top/ A forum designed without the use of text using just images to communicate with a built in editor and voting tools. Roommate and I made it as a toy for a programming competition, so we weren't expecting grand things. It got grabbed by the 4chan crowd so... uh... yeah. I linked to the best ones for a reason ;)
Lots of, uh, phalluses.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#40resently I released http://www.fictionthis.com/ - "allows you to share ideas and have unbiased input into creating a published work of quality fiction. This open project was developed for inspired members of our online community to create their own version of the story and to rate their fellow authors."
I thinks its a great idea, but traffic has been slowly disappearing.. feedback anyone?