Not exactly like the title imply. I built a minimalist RSS reader which I use exclusively. The main reason I don't market it I'm unsure I want to deal with feature requests etc. https://feedcircuit.kibardin.name
Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
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#62For the last few years, I have been building iOS app to make scheduling your to-do easy. It combines calendar, todo, project managing and even outliner.
Sepnia: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sepnia-calendar-tasks/id151493...
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#63I 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?
When a deeply entrenched player gets into the game, small players do not stand much of a chance. I think few people have the necessary David in them to go up against such Goliaths. OP made the personal choice to walk away from an uphill battle, and I don’t blame them one bit.
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#64https://getfriendlyreminder.com/
Based on the URL, I thought it was going to be the same thing that I had built. It was a simple web app for the people who lend and/or borrowed a book or a CD or something from a friend, but after too long don't remember which one. While still fresh in mind, one would enter:
- their email
- their friend's email
- the name of the thing being shared
- and the date both would be reminded (by email).
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#65My sons schools use a system called PowerSchool for grade books. I wrote a little script I call powernag that scrapes and then txts them all their missing or incomplete assignments. They hate it, it’s perfect.
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#66"Oh By".[1] It's a "universal shortener".[2] You can take any block of text and condense it to a simple code that you can chalk up anywhere. It's the same idea as a QR code but you can just quickly write it out with a pencil or chalk it on the street ... or verbally state it. I'm convinced there is some use-case that this elegantly solves and would be genuinely valuable to people ... but beyond mentioning it here on…
How do people find 0x.co to get the data out of the code? Maybe the code should be written like 0x.co/something instead of just 0xSOMETHING?
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#67I built https://www.musicetutor.com/ for music ear training and music theory in general. No marketing so far but its growing nicely.
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#68https://hollr.at Got tired of having to resort to FB for our team sporting activity. It's been coming along for a few years. Once I finish the REST api and perhaps an iOS app (keeping my fingers crossed for push notifications so I don't have to) I'll at least do a Show HN.
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#69I made https://coloursinculture.io
It's a web-app that allows you to understand how colours are perceived by different cultures.
You can search by color, culture or concept.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#70"Oh By".[1] It's a "universal shortener".[2] You can take any block of text and condense it to a simple code that you can chalk up anywhere. It's the same idea as a QR code but you can just quickly write it out with a pencil or chalk it on the street ... or verbally state it. I'm convinced there is some use-case that this elegantly solves and would be genuinely valuable to people ... but beyond mentioning it here on…
How do people find 0x.co to get the data out of the code? Maybe the code should be written like 0x.co/something instead of just 0xSOMETHING?
Yep. Chicken and egg problem.
The idea is that they come into such broad usage that everyone just knows what an 0x code is.