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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?
#182I made a TradingView like app for myself. It doesn't have most TV's features, but has features I care about that TV doesn't have. Was planning to use it to sustain an income to create real apps. But due to the down market, I haven't been using it and instead focus on building the real app. Which will be an origami folding simulator driven by a simple config-like domain specific language. Plan to launch that before eoy.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#183I got tired of not being able to find anything on the web and wrote a bookmark manager that is also a search engine:
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#184I made a Chinese language learning tool that uses speech recognition to grade flashcards [0]. It fills the niche where interactive apps like Duolingo and HelloChinese don't offer very much spoken practice. Unfortunately, the ASR isn't great, so I'm holding off on marketing until it's better. Honestly, if I spent half the time learning the language as I have making tools, I'd probably be fluent by now... [0]: https://…
> Honestly, if I spent half the time learning the language as I have making tools, I'd probably be fluent by now...
Hahaha, I made the same mistake to the point of going into PhD in the field. Most of the (prototype) tools aren't even released.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#185Global, realtime, full definition satellite imagery.
I have been meaning to spin this off into a SaaS. I don't know of anywhere you can actually get the full definition imagery as a slippy map, everywhere else cuts corners and loses fidelity.
Contact me if you would find it useful...
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#186Hmm… a personal website that has taken many hours over the past twelve years, a handful of abandoned Free Software projects, …
These things were and are valuable to some people, but I find “marketing” them somewhere between tiresome and repugnant, so I don’t.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#187UK-specific - scraping online grocery store prices across stores daily since 2020 but never built on top of it, and not packaged to market as api or data set..
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#188Around 2005 or so I developed a full Visual Basic-to-C++ transpiler, a visual form editor and an IDE to easily develop Palm apps, all in C#.
Some friends and family told me that the IDE was "awesomwe" (well, awesomeness is very a very relative thing with your F&F) but I never found the time/motivation to polish it and market the thing.
Edit: typos.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#189I have two… The truly abandoned project is FountainCards.com. It accepts typed input, converts it to a “handwritten” SVG, sends to a pen plotter, and mails the card. I built the whole app, bought two pen plotters and was ready for production. the reason I stopped was because I didn’t care enough about marketing to the clientele who needs that kind of thing - mortgage brokers, car salesmen, etc. It felt like I was hel…
If you still want to do something with the plotters, maybe consider the wedding market? Change to a calligraphic font (IIRC there are some Hershey fonts that might be a good start) and sell a bundle with invitations, place cards, and so on.
Re: Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
#190A quotes website: https://thinkmindful.com - I love quotes and have been collecting them for years. I thought it would be nice to share them with others and offer a weekly quotes by email service too (sadly neglected for a while).
This is super cool! I have also collected quotes for some years, I think one of my favorite recent ones is, "The greatest crime is to do nothing because we fear we can only do a little." - John Le Carré (Little Drummer Girl)