I built https://zebra.page/ during time off from work around the holidays. Stripe came out with payment links a few months later. Not exactly the same thing, but enough to dissuade from spending time marketing it.
Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
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#82I built a TikTok clone only showing clips from old snowboard and ski movies from the early 2000s. Movies are imported using a CLI which reads VLC playlist containing bookmarks for each clip. I love my app and is using it every day as an alternative to other empty minded social media, but will probably never publish it or marked it due to copyrights. If anyone has a use case which does not involve copyright infringeme…
that sounds nice, I do enjoy old ski and snowboard movies/clips aswell. Is there any way to look at these clips? I think this would also work very nicely as background visuals for events / shops, however the copyright aspect is probably difficult with such a usecase
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#83I made an entire Car Dealership inventory system. Its nice and scalable with Apis for everything. I have 2 dealers and never grow or market it. stupid me.
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#85I built a tool for Web Journalists to create headlines. The idea is to give them generic examples which can help in their brainstorming so they can come up with an actual good headline easily.
Created the whole site with complete Auth, Billing etc but lost interest when tried to actually market it. I started creating this when I saw someone make >10k$ launching something similar on producthunt. I thought I can make some ez money too.
https://headlineheroapp.herokuapp.com/
Edit: Buy Now won't work because Stripe credentials are expired.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#86I 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…
This interesting for me from the standpoint of shared controllers. What is the general idea behind this? Did you write a driver that would fake these controllers on the 'server'? What platforms have you covered? I'm into massively local multiplayer game and was always toying with ideas on how to reliably connect as much controllers as possible into a game.
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#87I built a tool to populate an empty Active Directory instance with fake user identity data, including office addresses, departments, organisational linkages, security and distribution groups, and of course all the actual user data. It could fill an AD with upto 50,000 identities and associated data, which could then be used for testing. The engineer could tweak every aspect before it got created. Beyond fully writing…
I am blessed that my crises of faith mostly hit before even starting work on an idea I think is clever.
Accomplishes the same thing - minimizing any potential success - but further upstream.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#88I abandoned a personal search engine offering I had up for over a year at https://mitta.us/. After pivoting it to an offering for prompt engineering management, I'm finding it a lot easier to market.
This comment is marketing. I'm looking for anyone needing complex, time-series based prompt generation for GPT-3 applications.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#89I built a tool to populate an empty Active Directory instance with fake user identity data, including office addresses, departments, organisational linkages, security and distribution groups, and of course all the actual user data. It could fill an AD with upto 50,000 identities and associated data, which could then be used for testing. The engineer could tweak every aspect before it got created. Beyond fully writing…
I am blessed that my crises of faith mostly hit before even starting work on an idea I think is clever. Accomplishes the same thing - minimizing any potential success - but further upstream.
In this case, it was something I needed, but I took it way beyond a scrappy tool just for me, and turned it into a full production level wizard based GUI app.
I guess not all of that was wasted effort.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#90Almost everything I've written.
I eat my own dog food. I publish all my work, as if they are commercial applications, but never bother to tubthump.
Mainly, I use them in my own projects. I've collected a few GH stars, here and there, but I don't really care too much, if anyone else uses them.
The one project that achieved escape velocity is comfortably in the capable hands of a new team, and I just spot it, from time to time, with my backyard telescope.