I made a simple tool to extract comments from PDFs with different severity levels. Mainly developed for my use marking up documents for review in an academic context, a need many academics have but I'm not sure how many others.
Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
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#12I have built an iOS and Android app called Boomerang to send email to myself in one tap. It’s been around for 5 years and has started as a side project for learning Ionic. I have maintained it so far and users (5K+ MAU) love it so far and want to give me money for it. I am planning to monetize it though as its started to cost me some money. https://boomerang-app.io
I’m using iOS shortcuts for that. I guess an app is useful for those who don’t want to fiddle with setting up shortcuts.
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#13A chat service with extension to overlay anonymous chat functions on any website, with rooms grouped by url. All JS.
Also a peer to peer parking spot rental platform a la Airbnb. JS with a python backend.
A gamified voter registration Facebook app. Rails backend.
Not that I didn’t think I would market them, at the time I built them I was just unaware of how to effectively, and I have newer projects since.
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#14I’m actively working on language learning software through immersion at https://polyglatte.com . It’s currently completely free with no way to pay for it but I still feel some amount of guilt about self-promotion even though I get lots of positive feedback and it’s already helping people.
I find marketing to be very uncomfortable so I’ve been neglecting it, but I know it’s the only way to any kind of success.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#15I have built an iOS and Android app called Boomerang to send email to myself in one tap. It’s been around for 5 years and has started as a side project for learning Ionic. I have maintained it so far and users (5K+ MAU) love it so far and want to give me money for it. I am planning to monetize it though as its started to cost me some money. https://boomerang-app.io
This is great. I look forward to giving you money for this.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#16Not sure if this would be valuable to anyone but I have a custom apps script that parses all of my new calendar event and takes certain actions on certain events. For example, events from/to my wife get marked as personal color and private, title starts with a star -> personal and private. Event from workout class system -> mark as fitness and private.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#17There were shy attempts at "marketing" https://collanon.com but I didn't follow through them seriously even though it's a ready to go platform.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#18I took a simple google ticket system tutorial and made a whole gapps-script based internal company ticket portal. Using googles auth system meant user-correlatiom became trivial and sped up task resolution. As I was the only person running the IT department, I had the ability to choose and I didn't like any of the corporate products for a company that did business more frugally than falling for death by a thousand license cuts, a very real danger.
Then gapps-script updated, broke some stuff, I got tired of maintaining it, and we got a new dev, so I aquiesced to Jira.
I hate jira.
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#20I made PHONK https://phonk.app
It is a very easy-to-use self-contained JS framework for prototyping and making stuff with Android devices.
You can access sensors, NFC, bluetooth, MQTT, websockets, or write a simple UI with a couple of lines of code. Think in the terms of easiness of Arduino for Android
When people try it they always say WOW "why have I never heard of this?!" ( probably because I'm very bad at marketing :/ )
I got it mentioned in Hackaday and some comments here in HN but that's all :)