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

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Post by TT-392 »

sjducb wrote: post #143
TT-392 wrote: post #131

I 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…

That sounds great. Can you put it up on GitHub so I can use it please?

I mean sure, but I wasn't exaggerating when I said it is probably not usable on other peoples computers. It only works on linux, it doesn't work on wayland, and because I am using xinput to disable the keyboard, you will have to replace the device name in blockKeyboard.py: https://github.com/TT-392/keyAlarm/tree/master

It shouldn't be too difficult to write your own though, so, if anyone wants to do so, feel free to steal the idea.

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

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Post by folli »

2 things:

http://genewarrior.com

A fast and easy toolkit for common bioinformatic tasks, such as translating DNA sequences, alignments and primer design. Built more than 7 years ago, I personally still use it regularly for my work. But it never got any traction, although I believe it can be very useful for a lot of biologists.

https://cubetrek.com

3D Topography for visualizing GPS Tracks. This is a very recent side project of mine. I did a Show HN a couple of days ago, but also no significant traction. It anyway is a work in progress.

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

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Post by bdlowery »

neya wrote: post #48

I spent 7 years building my own static site generator CMS. I added drag and drop, Wordpress-like UI and lot of complex functionality based on studying extensively the existing systems like Jekyll, Hugo, etc. Originally, I started with a Wordpress theme I designed myself. It was great until it wasn't - I tried to add E-Commerce to it and it was the most pathetic architecture for a CMS I've ever worked with. Although I…

This is pretty cool. How much are you thinking of charging monthly for it?

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

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Post by analog31 »

scarecrowbob wrote: post #118

About half of the 30 or so bands I have played with have been abandoned after a couple of gigs, or non at all. Mostly I've only just played music for fun. It's much more fun (and certainly easier) playing at some friend's house every week for 18 months than it is to book performances, market the band, produce works for the public, etc. I have a sticker on my truck that says "This Sticker Will Last Longer Than Your Ba…

Then you'll enjoy the best amplifier ever for electric bass, that I prototyped and even gigged with but never brought to market. ;-)

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

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Post by TT-392 »

polyterative wrote: post #166
TT-392 wrote: post #131

I 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…

I need this, got rsi

Probably won't be of any use, but here is the code: https://github.com/TT-392/keyAlarm/tree/master

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

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Post by t_mann »

andwaal wrote: post #33

I 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…

Probably not exactly an extension of your current app, but you could try to build sth like a TikTok for extreme sports. I'm sure there are plenty of people with an urge to share their GoPro videos with friends.

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

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Post by metaketa »

We made a boardgame called "Money Maker that accurately models the banking sector, money/credit creation and financial crashes at https://moneymaker.games.

It started out as an educational tool for schools to teach how money creation _actually_ works but now turned into a "family" board game loved by IT people, bank staff and sociology professors. We loved producing it and players are very happy with it because it's so fun but we never really started marketing sadly because we had to take up day-jobs.

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