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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by mosburger » Tue, May 13, 2008, 1:56 PM UTC

watmough wrote: post #57

mosburger wrote: post #53

A lot of people roll their own popurls.com site. I wrote one, too, to teach myself the Apache Wicket framework. This one is for web developers. http://devfunnel.com . I was going to add the ability to "follow" it on twitter, but I've run out of steam, and no one seems very interested in it. I've moved onto other projects. :)

That's really pretty cool. However, it seems like it would be hard to hold the attention of people who don't like to scroll down. I guess that's one of my favorite things about HN. Loads fast and only need to scroll on the most commented articles.

Yeah, that's why I added the collapsible arrow thingies at the left-hand side, to hide specific languages. I was going to eventually persist their open/closed state w/ cookies. I might still do it, but it's hard to get the motivation to work on it when I get fewer than five page hits a day. :/

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Tue, May 13, 2008, 2:11 PM UTC

naich wrote: post #88

Not big or world changing but something I would have thought people would find useful. It's a mortgage calculator that actually works out the useful numbers for you, i.e. repayment costs taking inflation into account, discounted periods, extra payments and a nice graph at the end: http://www.maggenhoof.co.uk/mortgage

Thanks! I was looking for something like this the other day.

It would be better (for me that is) if you included some refinance options, i.e. compare your current mortgage to your refinance options.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by paraschopra » Tue, May 13, 2008, 2:20 PM UTC

Never had the resources to launch an advertising network (http://precimark.com), an independent music platform (http://kroomsa.com), a startup aggregator (http://startuplogic.com) from the scratch and without a marketing budget.

I guess hackers like building websites but making them grow is something entirely different. For me, it is extremely hard to focus at a single app and make it grow. Instead, I find it more enjoyable to churn out more and more websites whether anybody visits them or not. Maybe its good, maybe its bad. What do you guys say?

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by Corrado » Tue, May 13, 2008, 3:17 PM UTC

diego wrote: post #59

vulpes wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When is the API coming? I can see us using this quite a bit.

The API is already available although we haven't announced it. There is a WordPress plugin that uses it, called TagMahal. Please contact us if you'd like to use the API, if you need to do up to 5k queries per day or so it shouldn't have much of an impact on our server.

I would like to see a Blogspot plug-in too! I just tried it on my latest post and it worked much better than I did. :)

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by apgwoz » Tue, May 13, 2008, 5:02 PM UTC

rochers wrote: post #46

http://www.thephotostream.com could change the way people consume their daily web.

I meant to link this on my photography blog when I saw it a while back. Did it now instead: http://www.photub.com/2008/May/13/photo-stream/

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by adammichaelc » Tue, May 13, 2008, 5:29 PM UTC

apgwoz wrote: post #47

maybe it wouldn't change the world, but if you're into reading multiple local papers "popurls style" http://www.newshoured.com/ might be a friend.

Wow! This is so cool. Good job. Great format.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by bbgm » Tue, May 13, 2008, 6:07 PM UTC

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #38

http://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 particula…

We should start a movement for watrcooler. Love the design, especially the keyboard nav

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by 0x28aa1f185a6b4 » Tue, May 13, 2008, 6:38 PM UTC

duthel's comment is not spam.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Tue, May 13, 2008, 7:04 PM UTC

bbgm wrote: post #107

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #38

http://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 particula…

We should start a movement for watrcooler. Love the design, especially the keyboard nav

Well, I'm certainly interested in spreading it, I just don't have any great ideas for how to do so. At one point I had it so you could email the links off the site to other people, but it wasn't used much so I dropped it in favor of dropping clutter.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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Post by coglethorpe » Tue, May 13, 2008, 7:18 PM UTC

STHayden wrote: post #31

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.

I've used this site and I like it.