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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?

#401

https://featureask.com/ It's 2022 and there should be a place on the internet where you can voice opinions/feedback towards your favorite products, and feel heard.

Cool concept, think it's a bit too locked behind a login button. Think you need to let people taste it more before asking them to sign up

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

#402
I am building https://learnawesome.org

It's an attempt to organize world's knowledge. Right now, it looks like GoodReads-like social network for learning resources organized by topics, formats, difficulty levels etc. But there's a knowledge-graph that separates ideas and the medium those ideas are expressed in. For eg: "Sapiens - the book" and "TED Talk given by Yuval Harari" are connected to the same node.

This idea isn't anything new. Here is Danny Hillis talking about it at OSCON 2012: https://youtu.be/wKcZ8ozCah0

The code is open-source on github: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/

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

#404
post #122

I posted this as a show HN a few weeks ago, I maintain a small, completely free html/js game. There's no chance of it ever making money in its current form, it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players[0]. [0] https://wallsmash.com

A while ago, I found this incredible website: https://wilderness.land/ It's basically somebody's web adventures as a map. It's inspired me to make my own version with hex tiles. I'm adding this to my list of sites :)

Can I see yours, I want to do it too!

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

#406

https://flat.social - a fun video conferencing app where meeting attendees can fly around and speak with others around them. While I do care about the outcome, I work on it regardless. It's a lot of fun from a technical point of view and I keep meeting amazing people through it.

This is very cool. How is progress going? What is usage like?

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

#407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you licensed? Maybe the first candidate just intends to take your financial advice and then sue you into the ground afterwards.

I hope original comments see this. Advising investment vehicles for money, without proper disclaimers and a licence is a very bad idea.

I feel like licensing could be an issue, but if you're advertising that you will lose someone's money, either you succeed (hard to argue that the customer didn't get exactly what they asked for), or you fail (hard to prove damages).

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

#409
I'm working on an alternative to Twitter/Reddit/Discord called Sqwok (https://sqwok.im)

The idea sprouted some years ago when I had used Slack for the first time and wondered why there wasn't a non-enterprise/gaming open chat app for news discussion.

It's the most ambitious thing I've built and the most joyful part has been meeting and building friendships with complete strangers across distant continents all through this silly website I built!

I won't say "I don't care" if it succeeds because I believe one must give it their all and not worry about the outcome, but regardless it's been an invaluable learning experience and at the end of the day I have no regrets.

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