My failed chrome extension that acts as a hub for all news. Basically an rss aggregator but included some video and social features as well. The USP and reAson I created it was I didn't like the way google reader was later out and being a designer thought everyone should be able to customize the layout of their reader to their tastes. So I built MESH ( http://www.digi-dil.com/MESH ) which let you design it yourself..
Learned how to code JavaScript doing the project and also helped me a bit landing my current job but nobody except my girlfriend and my mom have it installed only one of which knows how to use it...
Shopwisely.org. This was a site that donated affiliate link revenue to charity when you shopped online. Absolutely zero people used this. This site made me lust for anything that at least one person would use. Like.fm, the original version. The MVP was an applescript that published your iTunes play history to a web page. It got users by itself as soon as I put it online. There weren't many users, but greater than the…
Can you turn like.fm into a dating site? Last thing I want to do is share my playback history with other humans.
Actually they were a "dating" site in that they explicitly said that, but they seem to have pivoted (slightly, at least) as they describe themselves as "find people nearby" now.
I personally wouldn't make a dating site be explicit about that.
Actually they were a "dating" site in that they explicitly said that, but they seem to have pivoted (slightly, at least) as they describe themselves as "find people nearby" now. I personally wouldn't make a dating site be explicit about that.
Chris, I mentioned another idea to you about 6 months ago.
I collected a few stats here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvUEclt_oCPedHV... The typical conversion rate (after removing SU visits which are basically bouncers) is at 0.43%. The earnings is around $5 for 1000 pageviews (without SU) or $3 (with SU included). Any thoughts on improving this?
Make it a tweetmeme.com for Amazon items. Can you also pick out ebay items?
Picking ebay items could be a bit of work.
But the tweetmeme idea is good, I'll keep that in mind, thanks!
Like most in the HN community, I've had my fair share of failed projects, each of which I learned a lot from:
1. Happy21stBirthday.com - I thought it would be a great gifting site for fun & light-hearted gifts for 21st birthdays, but couldn't get enough traction. If any1 has better ideas to utilize this domain, plz share.
2. Rebutl.com - a video debate site (similar to ESPN's 'Around the Horn') where users could debate about various subject matters and get prizes/rewards after viewers voted for the winner.
I have many, but the one that I invested most time in was QuoteVault http://www.quotevault.org/ It's a website where you can save interesting quotes from other sites or even pages / books. There's also a browser bookmark that allows you to select text on a website and import it into quotevault right away. Finally, there's a small public stream (much like your twitter stream) where you can share interesting quotes. He…
this is a great idea, I had a similar idea. I would have js bookmarklets and remove need for signups initially. Make it into a sort of pastebin. Also, make it a summary tool too (for oneself and for sharing.) Allow users to enter alternate headline, summary, quote/s, ranking, judgement. Check out quote.fm and drop me a line if you want to see my screenshots, brainstorm or see my other research into this idea.
Hey, thanks, that looks really nice. I mostly gave up on QuoteVault since I'm busy with other projects now. However, one thing I still lack is a good solution for reading texts offline and highlighting quotes in there. There's instapaper, kippt, and many others, but they all just allow offline reading, but no offline highlighting. There's one solution, which does kinda work, but the offline support is wonky. I'm seriously considering building a small app that reads read-later lists from different services and saves the quote data somewhere else via an API. Would quote.fm allow something like that? I see there's a read-api, but I haven't seen a way to add an article or add a quote for an article. Or did I misunderstand something? You can also hit me by mail for further discussions if you're interested. terhechte AT gmail com
AppointmentReminder for doctors. The idea was to build an appointment reminder system that was also an insurance eligibility checker(eligible API has actually made me want to reboot the project). The end goal was to be a Yelp for physicians. It turns out selling to doctors is fucking hard. Their attitude towards salespeople is to treat them like pharm reps and make them buy you lunch and then wait 2+ hours. No thanks…
Thanks for saying we make you want to reboot project :)