I've built Formester[1] which aims to be the only backend that you would ever need for any forms on the web. You want to build survyes you can do it. Want to store data from your own embedded form, auto notify users on submission, protect against spam with out fiddling with complex code and much more. I would love to get feedback from users on what could be improved further. I had initally abandoned it but have picke…
Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
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#142Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#143I was having problems with my hands from muscle exhaustion due to typing. My doctor recommended I should use an alarm clock, to remind me to not type for more than a few minutes at a time. Instead, I thought, I could do better. So I made the following program: It is a program that has a countdown, lets say, 100 key presses, and every time you press a key, it goes down by one, and every, lets say second, it recovers 1…
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#144https://www.lost-item.com I lose stuff a lot. It started as a URL ( https://www.lost-item.com/eric/ ) that I can put on a sticker on my stuff so that when people find my phone, wallet, credit card, keys they can contact me. I preferred that over my phone number or email address because I didn't want to put anything that identifies me on the items, so a form on the internet acts as a barrier. In general, I find that p…
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#145And a kaleidoscopic camera made with webgl: https://kaleido-nft.vercel.app/app
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#146So as a pandemic hobby, I made a website to scrape eBay laptop listings, extract all the relevant data, cross reference against benchmarks, and sort the result by "value" (aggregate performance / cost). I took inspiration from the parametric search on site like digikey for commodity components, where no one cares about brand.
You can check it out here [1]. Maybe eventually I'll write a showHN, but I haven't been working on it for a while, and there's a few features I want to add before that. Originally I planned to use affiliate links, which seemed like a nice all-parties-win setup, but eBay kicked me off the Partner Network program for not generating traffic. So presently it's totally free and non-profitable.