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

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

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Post by ryangossiaux »

t_christensen wrote: post #387

I launched https://thecitymapquiz.com some time ago and I really don't have any succeed critia for it. It was fun to built, playing around with rendering open street map data, and building the web part with phoenix liveview. I really don't have any plans to it going forward, and with a couple of small kids and a full-time job, I'll probably not have any time to spent on it if I actually had a plan. So in someway you…

I think I saw this in a different HN comment of yours and played it. Love the concept. My only suggestion is that you expand the multiple choice option pool. I could rule out a lot of options later on in the quiz simply by remembering what options had already been used.

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

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Post by FailMore »

I'm building https://www.taaalk.co/, it's a social network for conversations.

The site went down a few months ago, but now it's back up. The first new Taaalk I'm having is with another engineer, and we're trying to publicly solve a technical chanllenge - how to repopulate the Taaalk database from archive.org download.

https://www.taaalk.co/t/repopulating-the-taaalk-database-fro...

I love Taaalk so much. I love all the little design features. I love tinkering with it. I love the conversations I have had with people on it; you can check them out on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20210316214650/https://taaalk.co....

I don't mind if it fails but I do have high hopes for it!

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

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Post by kcbanner »

I built a Visual Studio extension that wraps ag (the silver searcher), because I was constantly flipping to the terminal to use it to search the UE4 codebase I work on. The built in MSVC text search is egregiously slow, and even tools like Visual Assist (which search via indexing symbols) take forever to run on the entire engine.

It can do a full regex search on the entire UE4 codebase in about ~6s on my SSD. Searching just the game's codebase takes ~200ms, enough to feel instant. The speed is all credit to the developers of ag, I just put a convenient interface on it.

I use it essentially as a navigation tool and it's a core part of my workflow, but haven't gotten any paying customers. I initially had hoped to sell a few copies, but since it has completely solved my own problem and probably saved me hundreds of hours of waiting for slow searches, I'm happy.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CaseyBan...

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

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Post by FailMore »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #70

I built a website to help me track my Apple Fitness+ workouts. Specifically, I needed several features that Apple doesn't offer today: - A chronological history of the workouts I've completed. - Notes and like/dislike tracking on the workouts I've completed. - Real search capabilities to let me find particular types of workouts (e.g. filter to yoga workouts and search for "pigeon") And, if people actually use it, the…

Hey, this looks really cool. Saved!

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

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Post by EdwardDiego »

rafale wrote: post #381
byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

You have a serious case of delusions of grandeur. Get some help.

If you read the website, it's apparently because an off-label medicine wasn't approved.

But it looks like Patient F has survived though, which is good.

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

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Post by jbuckner »

For the last few years, I've been building Live Music Archive for iOS (https://livemusicarchive.app), a player for the giant collection of free live music on archive.org because the other apps out there didn't provide the experience I wanted.

I love working on it and wish I could make a living on it, but the nature of the app means I can't pursue commercial gains from it. It's the only side project of mine that I actually use all the time and it has gained a small fanbase, but really, I'm building it for me.

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

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Post by JoeOfTexas »

I spent a year building a website to host real-time, competitive turn-based web games.

https://acos.games

The idea is similar to Roblox, where it's all user-generated games. If it gets attention, I'll continue evolving it, if it falls flat, I will still sleep like a baby at night.

You can learn more in our docs: https://docs.acos.games

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

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Post by scarecrowbob »

I'm a musician. Long term. 43 years old, been playing forever. Don't care if I get any success at it.

Not a hobby. Makes money sometimes. I play professionally. For money. On stage.

If you play for your entire life, you can get really good at a ton of things.

I played pedal steel at a rehearsal for my country band tonight. I played piano at a rehearsal for my hot club jazz band on Monday. I played upright bass at a rehearsal for a string band last night.

Sunday I recorded a new track with my girlfriend, ambient techno (novation circuit, moog, girlfriend's esoteric warblings).

Monday I finished an EDM track.

I have a bunch of aspirational goals. I'd like to DJ at my local ecstatic dance. I'd like to front a Louis Prima style jazz band.

I've been playing trumpet and trombone every day for the last 2 months.

I don't care if I have any professional success. But hard to say all that is a hobby. Maybe I'll eventually be able to retire and just work as a musician, teaching and doing my little gigs and producing the records I engineer for other folks and running sound for the little parties we play out in the desert in Utah.

Don't care. My kids are raised, I've got a reasonable remote day job.

We'll see how it goes.

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

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Post by spike021 »

For the past month and a half or so I've been learning Swift/SwiftUI and developing an iOS app. I intend to sell it since I know there's a niche market for it. However, I don't know that I'll get many sales and I'll probably start off just handing out a bunch of promo codes at first to get initial users. I don't mind if it isn't "successful", but if I could sell enough copies to make up for the Developer Program annual cost and perhaps enough to help me pay a friend a bit for helping design an icon, that would be enough to make me "happy", I think.

A cherry on top would be maybe $100 a month or so. Even $50. Just to buy a couple meals with income from it.

But if it doesn't, I won't be hugely disappointed. It's just been a fun side-project.

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

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Post by FailMore »

vgel wrote: post #218

Me and my wife made https://sortesalearum.com , a web emulator for an ancient roman fortune telling system. In SEO terms it's one of my most successful projects though -- not a lot of competition :)

This was fun and gave me wise advice!
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