I made a discord bot, https://github.com/ClemBotProject/ClemBot https://clembot.io Its not super interesting right now in terms of features but it has all the basics and a solid foundation. But we have some grand plans in the future and once those are realized then I might look into marketing it more.
Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
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Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#92I 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…
How much does it cost for a GPU accelerated VM in the cloud? It would be great if there was an automated way to spin up a VM, install your software and then destroy the VM when you're done. After all, GeForce Now and Google Play don't let you play your full Steam library.
I wonder if there even are a lot of clouds that provide consumer GPUs. I heard GPUs designed for computation doesn't perform as well in games
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#93I have made a process for doing pen drawings involving bitmap to SVG conversion. It's called Robot Draws You! and it's been in perpetual limbo for the past few years as my career has struggled and cratered.
I just don't have the time to be able to focus on a creative endeavour when I feel like my world is crumbling around me.
I've written multiple versions of the bitmap to SVG converter, I have an XY robot gantry set up and I have a bunch of plans and schematics drawn up to diagram how it all works.
Getting the focused time to be fully "plugged in" to the project is impossible when every day I'm freaked out about how I will pay the bills, will I ever get a job, will I lose everything tomorrow.
Additionally I feel intense shame for having worked on this thing for "years" and still not having any significant progress to report or show. It's a huge embarrassment, but one day I hope it can be something I am proud of.
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#94I built a command line tool called Resimage for resizing and compressing images, My personal favorite usage so far is performing a compress command on a directory of images before uploading them to my blog because most of the time I have a slow and unstable connection. Recently I added support for resizing an image to iOS and Android icon sizes. Not sure if this gonna be useful for someone else or not (I think there gonna be many similar products out there) so haven’t put any effort in marketing it yet.
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#95https://statscalculator.com/
Side project I made after leaving a large company; a free statistics package that bridges the gap between Excel and actual coding (R, Python). In the corporate world we used Minitab or a similar package with an expensive enterprise license.
Once I moved to a smaller one and was doing analytics on the side, I didn't have the budget for such things so.... I made my own version...
Never really had the time to build out a full set of features or promote it. We probably could have grabbed a piece of low-rent district for analytics software.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#96I originally wrote https://OnlineOrNot.com to be a snapshot testing tool for GraphQL servers back on 2017. Essentially it detected if your engineers suddenly broke or changed certain resolvers without updating the snapshots.
I spent about two months building, then went around my professional network to try sell/market it.
It turned out most folks using GraphQL didn't have this problem, because they had good test coverage, or wouldn't have engineers randomly change their GraphQL schema.
I ended up rewriting it to be an Incident Management service (basically, an uptime checker for APIs, web apps, and websites, as well as a status page service), significantly easier to market now.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Or make your SEO good so that when people inevitably Google search, your result is first.
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#98I 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.
Explain more about it
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#99I have made a process for doing pen drawings involving bitmap to SVG conversion. It's called Robot Draws You! and it's been in perpetual limbo for the past few years as my career has struggled and cratered. I just don't have the time to be able to focus on a creative endeavour when I feel like my world is crumbling around me. I've written multiple versions of the bitmap to SVG converter, I have an XY robot gantry set…
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Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#100I'm building a tool to help people not give up on marketing (something I've struggled with in the past). If you're interested in trying it out please email me. Email on my profile.
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