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Re: Ask HN: What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

#41
The multiplayer mode of my Android game "Laska". There are just not enough active players to make it work.

But I like the feature because its based on AppEngine and XMPP, so it doesn't have any costs and will probably be available forever. (forever on the internet means sth. like 2-5 years)

Re: Ask HN: What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

#43
post #7

I've got a personal todo application that's aimed for lazy people. I've seriously tried a dozen of "smart todo", and no one were good for me. The one I built is special because it is so simple, flexible, and it does more than what a paper agenda can do. I could publish it but I would need to modify lots of thing to make it intuitive for new users, write docs, and basically just to make it "public".

> I could publish it but I would need to modify lots of thing to make it intuitive for new users, write docs, and basically just to make it "public". None of those sound like prerequisites for publishing something. Is the functionality there, and is the tool modestly resistant to things like SQL injection? If so, why not put a link out there (like, say, in this thread)?

Please do, I'd owe myself a try without docs. I've tried everything too.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

#44
post #18

http://wunbar.com Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere. Failure, I suppose: browsers can do the same thing, with a little setup; and, more importantly, people seem to have a preference to navigate to each of these sites and search them directly.

Konqueror has this feature since ages. gg:foo for searching foo in google ggi for google images and much more, like imdb, even php for searching in php docs. And thats the most awesome feature ever.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

#45

I built a Twitter client that filters out everything in your feed except for Tweets including urls or photos. It's pretty good way of just finding the interesting stuff in your Twitter feed. http://blurl.me

I've got that as a feature in friendbinder and no one uses it.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

#46
post #8

I guess it'd be this entire website (visual amazon search): http://bigbooksearch.com/ Reason for failure? Google doesn't index search results...

That site has a ton of potential. I'm sure with some tweaks here and there it could really take off.

I like this site - its cool :) I know its going against the point of the site but you could use the DOM to scrape the Product details and display them as links (you can link to any site without copyright infringement??) - if you don't want text you could always pass a small amount of info into the alt tags. If this sounds dumb feel free to ignore. But I like the idea of the site

Re: Ask HN: What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

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post #23
post #18

http://wunbar.com Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere. Failure, I suppose: browsers can do the same thing, with a little setup; and, more importantly, people seem to have a preference to navigate to each of these sites and search them directly.

I like this site. I feel that having to type in the prefixes might be a blocker for the normal crowd. Have you tried some different UIs to make picking the service happen?

http://spudu.com is the same app with a different UI

Re: Ask HN: What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

#50
I wrote a jetpack app the allows you to toggle the Search header, Left Column, and Footer elements on/off in iGoogle.

http://jetpackgallery.mozillalabs.com/jetpacks/55

I'd say it didn't take off because it requires the user to have firefox, install jetpack, use igoogle, and be annoyed by all that wasted space etc :)

I wouldn't say it failed. I use it at work and home, and I love it :)

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