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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Writing a book on how to advertise on google ads. Don’t care if I make any money; I see so much money wasted on Google ads I want to at least try to centralize good Ads practices.

I'd also be interested in this given my failed experience with Google ads

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Working on modeling behavior of economic agents of defi seigniorage algo stablecoins with a couple of others in discords: https://github.com/cinquemb/dollar/tree/dsd-protocol-modelin...

A big problem I see now is that lot of "positive" changes being added to existing protocols aren't backed by anything but existing holders beliefs that they will work, and being able to simulate changes/forks on local testnets agaisnt will make it easier to objectively say why an additional will be better/worse than another protocol/previous/future protocol changes.

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I've recently been getting more interested in the culture and history of streetwear so I started website interviewing streetwear startups to learn their stories.

I'm just doing it for the fun of talking to interesting people and a making content some people will enjoy.

A few people have already told me they liked the first interview so I'm happy with that!

https://dripdetector.uk

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A native GUI library https://github.com/yue/yue . It was a disaster when I announced it on Hacker News, and I got numerous harassments from strangers. But anyway 3 years since then and I'm still working on it. Edit 1: 2 => 3 years Edit 2: If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog on the mistakes I made http://cheng.guru/blog/2018/02/18/lessons-learnt-from-open-s... .

As a GUI framework, my first feedback is that there is no screenshots available anywhere to be found.

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I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

how did you get your initial users?

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https://secretlink.org/ - A simple way to send encrypted one time data to people. It's a no signup way to send encrypted messages to people (think usernames and passwords etc) that includes the time limited decryption key in the email we send to the target user and when the target user views the email, the message is deleted from our system. This way if the target email gets hacked in the future, the link is useless.…

Interesting. It’s like a quantum email service.

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https://classical.page/ Follow your favourite classical music composer or classical works, and Classical Page will email you when the relevant music is going to be played in concert near you. This means you can get in quick with tickets and never miss out.

Launched in New York and London, more cities coming soon.

I've used it as a testbed for trying out Google Cloud technologies - it works with Cloud Functions, Big Query and Cloud Run.

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I'm pushing a few commits every week on a spatial note app.

It's a big alpha WIP a this point and as you say "I don't care if this succeeds" as I know I need it anyway and already use it every day, as well as a bunch of friends. I'm a visual thinker and to me notes in apps like Evernote always end up looking like digital soup. Putting everything on a big 2D map helps me tremendously. So far it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/WkuLENm.png

https://play.caraque.app/ (alpha password: underground)

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I recently built a service ( https://timetrigger.dev ) that was mostly for fun and not profit. I wouldn’t say I don’t care about it per se but if it makes no money that’s ok. Hopefully it will at least get some customers though!

There is a typo on your front page. "individual tasks a a specific time." should be "individual tasks at a specific time."

Also "easy humas readable dates" should be "easy human readable dates"

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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post #220
post #64

A native GUI library https://github.com/yue/yue . It was a disaster when I announced it on Hacker News, and I got numerous harassments from strangers. But anyway 3 years since then and I'm still working on it. Edit 1: 2 => 3 years Edit 2: If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog on the mistakes I made http://cheng.guru/blog/2018/02/18/lessons-learnt-from-open-s... .

A few Screenshots would have been really nice

In the "Examples" section of README, you can find links to examples with screenshots.
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