http://maps.staticrooster.com/ GPS overlay data on maps with geosynced photos. Like personal Google maps w/ panoramio.
Hey, that's a great way to show photos on the map! Why didn't I think about that?
Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#122http://watrcoolr.us Never "launched" it, but I still think it deserves popularity :). It's a browser start page that I made for myself (and use) that displays the top stories for a set of most-emailed-like feeds. The feeds have been tweaked over time to yield the most interesting stories at any given time. After all, they were the most emailed ones... It's not really for news junkies or the news.yc crowd in particula…
Totally agree with other posters. This is a neat interface - I like how it completely takes away the clutter, allowing you to focus on the current story. User configurable, perhaps? No-cycling, custom feed selections, etc. Personally, I would like longer excerpts...two to four line excerpts just don't cut it for me. However, I presume that's a function of the provider's feed settings. Also, some of the feeds are just…
Most of the excerpt lengths are from the feeds, though I am cutting it off after one paragraph. The idea is you would quickly move through them and click through to the story if you want.
I don't understand your question about the new page. Can you please expand? There shouldn't be a new page load for each story, i.e. when you hit the arrow keys it should be taking the excerpts from memory.
As for the feed choice, these are just general interest feeds of course. I've thought about custom feeds, but then this just becomes another feed reader (and a worse one at that). I think its usefulness stems from the aggregation, i.e. you do no work to get a snapshot of the most emailed stories out there. And since they are not your feeds, you don't really care if you miss something.
That being said, I can really see some sub-watrcoolrs. What would you think of a hacker oriented one? Any feed ideas?
Also, what do you mean by "no-cycling?" Thanks for the feedback.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#123http://www.jihadonyou.com
Just a place to vent frustrations. A friend of mine and I built this in a weekend. There's a blog post somewhere describing the tale.
We made it on techcrunch. We made it on digg and reddit. There was a short spike of traffic. A little bit of foreign media coverage and then silence.
It seems adsense doesn't appreciate our ideas or those of our posters. It also seems that the adwords we bought seem to either never be searched for or that google doesn't like our domain.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#124http://www.thecollegeblognetwork.com
not sure if it I'd consider it a failure, but definitely has not seen the organic growth that we initially expected.
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#125Chalee - Marlene Duthel Art & Sound
This site shows Artwork or Art by Marlene and Chalee Duthel
Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?
#126http://www.mylistwatcher.com - We Watch Your Amazon Wish Lists and will alert you when the price of any item meets your target price. Never miss a bargain again!