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Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

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Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

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http://www.imageboard.net/ (possibly NSFW content) It's sort of a pixel art discussion board. You would have to check it out to really understand it. It was fun to build, but it would be hard to commercialize. Plus nurturing a community that is more interested in quality art than anonymous penis drawings would be more work than I have motivation for.

8===D

(sorry)

Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

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iPhone app called something like "Scene". User can choose a natural scene to display (forest w/ birds and stream, desert w/ a thunderstorm etc) and then just put their phone next to their computer at work. The various scenes would have sound too so the user could enjoy the scene w/o looking at the phone the entire time. I'd personally like something w/ wind-chimes.

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I have a whole directory on my personal laptop of abandoned projects, that I've worked on over the past few years. One that I still would love to see built on is the concept of a Fisheye Editor. I wrote a prototype in Python Tk: http://apgwoz.com/fisheye-edit/ Another idea I had, which I thought was good, was building a Twitter like site to track what you were eating, and marry the concept with Reddit style voting an…

Re: Fisheye Editor - have you seen Dasher? A Bayesian Fisheye Input method. :-)

I have and it's pretty impressive. This is meant to move the focus of your editing to a few lines sorounding your cursor, and nothing else. It's not meant as an accessibility tool.

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I have a couple. Biggest one was a social networking site (which technically is still in my mind, but pretty dead) to compete with the big boys. In the end I was offered enough money for the work I had done on caching and some other bits that it was silly not to take it. :) I'd love to have another go some day. There was Qoppa which was intended to be an extensible Browser game server written in Python. That fell apa…

You don't need fancy art to make an interesting game.

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post #19

http://www.imageboard.net/ (possibly NSFW content) It's sort of a pixel art discussion board. You would have to check it out to really understand it. It was fun to build, but it would be hard to commercialize. Plus nurturing a community that is more interested in quality art than anonymous penis drawings would be more work than I have motivation for.

Move it farther from a text-thread format. Explore some undiscovered territory! For example, a slideshow would be a great way to view replies. I love the way people are making little cartoons, but the replies just keep sliding to the right. They should just change, with some way to control the speed. (Maybe the author of the reply can set the default amount of time for the image to appear before the next one comes.) So many possibilities!

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A mechanical ant trap/killer to be the only "conventional weapon" for my war on ants. I attract a line of ants to eat the bait (in my case, cat food), then periodically suck (or blow) ants into an un-escapable garbage bag, but only a few at a time to keep the line of ants stable. (or until the entire colony is exhausted) Compared to the traditional poison method, it is much more satisfying for me to dispose of a garb…

Is it too inconvenient to keep your (including your cat's) food out of their reach, so they'll just go away?

http://xkcd.com/382/

Re: Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects?

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I can never seem to get past the "buy a marginally clever domain name" phase. So I can go down the list of my domains on GoDaddy:

Yakrazor.com: time management app. I can't remember exactly where I was going to go with it, but the basic idea was to bring some order to the process of Yak Shaving.

ToShove.com: provide a nice REST interface on top of Apple's push notification service.

CarZero.net: TSD rally site; mostly an online scorekeeping app. Still considering building this out with an iPhone-based front end.

SportsCarClub.net: basically WordPress for local car clubs, plus postal-code search for nearby events and clubs.

And then I have a half dozen more that I'm actually doing something with or seriously plan to do something with.

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purely for artistic purposes and social commentary, do not take this too seriously ... * welcome to the "anti-social" web * http://www.suicidespam.com * website caters to those who really hate the world, this life, and want to get out ... * ... and to make the biggest splash they possibly can in the process * website offers high-quality, expensive video/audio equipment, great high-power wireless/satellite IP services…

horrible
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