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

#291
Valuable? I don't know about that, but fun? Sure.

I developed a 3-D crossword tile-building puzzle. Everyone that tried it was vociferous "You should sell this!" My response was always "I already have a job and I like it. This is a hobby." And I consider it (mostly) completed, not abandoned.

https://i.imgur.com/qlLl434.jpg

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

#292
i forked and modernized a platform that was built by a university to create collaborative spaces. i added a REST API and use it for modern webdevelopment.

i tried marketing it, but i could not get developers interested because it effectively eliminates the need to do any backend development. most websites are CRUD and don't need a custom backend. this platform has it all. i haven't done any backend development on my own websites for years now for the same reason.

i'd love to get more people to use this, but where are developers that prefer frontend work over backend work?

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

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I like to buy used electronics online, but it's very tedious cross-referencing model numbers and benchmarks and such to determine what's actually a good deal. For example which is better, a 10th gen i5 or a 7th gen i7 at the same price? So 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 p…

This is awesome! I regularly encounter the same problem. Particularly when shopping for electronics, where there is a clear metric that counts (say, USD/Watt hour for batteries). But how often had I wished something like this existed for other items as well. Say, toothpaste. What do I care about the brand? I care about the abrasivity factor (RDA), and the amount of flouride. Or sweaters. I don't care that it looks li…

It's just a bunch of regex, nothing too sophisticated. Generally the people making listings are trying to convey all the data, so in a sense it's semi-structured. The most limiting factor is getting a CPU model; I'd like to eventually build up a taxonomy of major device brands/models to map to their specs (I do have this currently for Apple, which many people post year or A-model numbers for).

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

About $0.5 per hour for a 3080 equivalent. And yes, I have an image that I can spin up on-demand.

This seems to be a neat setup. I've found this script a couple days ago: https://github.com/gcloudrig/gcloudrig (haven't given it a try just yet but surely looking forward to)

Happy to see it's still getting use!

The NVIDIA T4 VWS GPUs aren't as flashy as they used to be and there's no option for faster CPU cores in GCP, but for medium-setting ray traced gaming it'll still do the trick!

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

#298
I wrote a Java SWT application to remove backgrounds and normalize colors in PowerPoint presentations. The use case was my wife was printing 100s of lecture slides in college that would not otherwise print in black and white. I occasionally think about trying to monetize an online version of it.

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

#300
I built https://cp.lounar.com

Slack bot to streamline customer communications from many platforms. Emails, Slack chats, or mobile text messages can be forwarded to any #channel. All responses in the Slack thread are seamlessly sent back to the source.

Simple integrations already work fine. I am working on "Smart features" like auto classification and smart routing, and implementing of new integrations.

Need help with marketing :)

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