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Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

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I built my own GeForce Now / Google Stadia clone for up to 8 gamepads to connect to the same instance. It's GPU-accelerated, UDP-based and all C++. It works well and I still use it with friends and family to play games together. I even designed a logo, registered it for an EU trademark, and made t-shirts. But when Steam Remote Play Together was announced, I decided that there wasn't a market for it anymore, so instea…

Doesn't Stream Remote Play Together show there _is_ a market? Competition means the market exist?

Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

#26
My Weight Loss Story 40kg in 40 Weeks (90lb in 9 months) Without Exercise [0]

I didn't necessarily enjoy writing it, or the process, but thought it needed to be written because I have heard so many different weight loss suggestions through out my life.

[0] http://40in40book.com

Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

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News as Facts (https://newsasfacts.com/) - concise world news sourced from Wikipedia

https://rate.house/ - like a collaborative IMDb but also has music, books, video games, and podcasts

https://wordhoot.com/ - competitive Wordle

None of them are abandoned but I just don't have the resources to do any marketing.

Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

#29

I 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 marketi…

Looks pretty good. Is there anyway to share a completed prototype app with a other user, or run an app developed this way standalone? I went to look at the docs page on your site, but it's more of a basic tutorial rather than docs.

Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

#30
I made a tool to export YouTube subtitles directly into Anki without downloading the video, it must be useful since it even got me a job offer by one of the users (pretty famous person).

I never did more marketing than a Reddit post when the proof of concept was made. Coincidentally, I've worked on it recently and added some useful functionality.

Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube2anki/boebb... Source: https://github.com/dobladov/youtube2Anki

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