I wrote a proposal for Tiger Scheme[1] to radically alter the structure of the scheme and change the general direction, in effect a reboot of the scheme. If it's accepted, it'll be a shedload of work with no financial reward and a massive time sink, but it has the potential to really change information security in the UK and help with the skills shortage in industry so it's worthwhile.
Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
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Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#22Started writing a blog to document our startup experiences but no one visits it. Those that visit don't stay. Tried promotion through social media without success. Everyone said it will be easy to interact with those with similar interests. While not the aim to make a profit, currently no chance of making any traction, let alone profit from the blog.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#23I built http://www.giftstrong.com/ that pulls the 100 top rated products from Amazon. It was built over a weekend to experiment with the Yii PHP framework and because I wanted to see what the list looked like (wasn't disappointed, there's some surprising stuff on there - like how Braveheart on DVD is mankind's greatest accomplishment according to Amazon). I was considering promoting it as a quick way to find gifts fo…
Great website, would be even better if it noticed I was from the UK, and then showed UK Amazon results :)
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#24Although not really a tech company, I started http://www.thoughtthreads.org/ with a few university friends. We don't expect it to be profitable since it's a non-profit. :)
Cool; I’d have put a dash in there thought-threads.org, kind of hard to read like this
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#25I built http://ziposit.com, for super-simple website hosting. I was going to add ads when I started getting users, but users never came. Still fun.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#26We've launched http://heattest.com/ two months ago. It's an app for heatmap analytics, which was a pretty hardcore to develop. We've spent a lot of time to make the algorithm really good and reliable, but so far we have like 3 sign ups in total, all of them for free trials. The market looked really promising at first.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#27Launched an app to get your congress reps on the phone w/ a single button - http://www.airshipsoftware.com/contact-congress
Meant to be free for all, included a silly in-app purchase. Generated lots of calls to congress, got some press, currently losing $2.10/week on hosting.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#28Made http://www.clipchoose.com in May.
Never intended it to be profitable, more of a learning experience (first webapp).
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#29I built http://stalltalk.info/ . Its a toilet based social network. The amount of fun I have had with this far outweighs the profitability.
This is brilliant !
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#30Launched an app to get your congress reps on the phone w/ a single button - http://www.airshipsoftware.com/contact-congress Meant to be free for all, included a silly in-app purchase. Generated lots of calls to congress, got some press, currently losing $2.10/week on hosting.
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