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

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Post by rolfvandekrol »

tasuki wrote: post #170
ezl wrote: post #138

https://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…

> https://www.lost-item.com/eric/ The page shows for me: > Oh my... > It looks like this page has been lost I tried to use your page to tell you that the page has been lost, but that didn't work!

The trailing slash seems to be a typing error.

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

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Post by mastersummoner »

I wrote an Android app that splits checks. You pre-create groups of people (Adam and Jane are a couple, John is solo, etc), then for each line item on the bill you decide which groups should be charged for it. You can split tax and tip proportionally or just evenly along people/groups.

And it uses OCR to scan the receipt and read the items, amounts and tax. I was amazed how well open source Tesseract worked for this out of the box.

Finished it but never marketed it, too much of a perfectionist. Worked really quite well though.

This was maybe 6-7 years ago, and I've since seem other apps doing basically the same thing.

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

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Post by andwaal »

t_mann wrote: post #178
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.

Yeah, I though about it, but it seems to already exist in the app "You Rip"

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

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Post by syldarion »

I'm not sure if I can say abandoned YET, but I thoroughly enjoyed working on Braggle (https://braggle.app/), which is a site that lets you create rooms with your friends to post your scores for the various Wordle clones.

It's my first real website outside of my blog, and it's been awesome learning how to do everything (thank you Firebase for making it so much easier), but I haven't been enjoying the follow-up of all the infrastructure work needed to make it more performant. Classic engineer problem, let me make the NEW THINGS.

On top of that, trying to get people to notice on Twitter with a few hashtags here and there hasn't been the most fun.

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

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Post by scarecrowbob »

analog31 wrote: post #175
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. ;-)

Oh, that sounds like a perfect fit.

I've worked a lot on bass- last nights gig was a songwriter duo where I played upright. However, I've never been one to change my setup much. Maybe 12 or so years ago I bought a markbass and and a pbass... and I haven't even wanted to change the flat-wound strings on it.

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

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Post by syldarion »

dejobaan wrote: post #132

My bot that finds and tweets about the best-reviewed new games on Steam, constructing miniature 6 second trailers for each: https://twitter.com/playfullyauto This was an extension of a bot I made years back, that constructed a 6s trailer for every single game on Steam as it's launched ( https://twitter.com/microtrailers ), which later became part of a thing I did officially at Valve ( https://store.steampowered.com/l…

I followed microtrailers, it was awesome getting the brief snippets of EVERYTHING. I hadn't seen that you'd made a new one until now, definitely giving that one a follow!

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

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Post by LAC-Tech »

A really fast front end testing library, that had one function which just ran tests on the browser.

Tests are just objects where the labels are the names of the tests, and the tests themselves are thunks that return {actual: foo, expected: bar}. These can be arbitrarily nested. No stupid "describe" functions.

I made it because it was easier to make my own little tool than to deal with things like jest or mocha. I sometimes think I should market it - but what's the point?

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