Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?

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collAnon

#Social & Communications #Open Discussions #Communication 8 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

I built an Android app to transcribe WhatsApp voice notes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transcrib.transcrib.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1175 social mentions

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WordHoot!

News as Facts (https://newsasfacts.com/) - concise world news sourced from Wikipedia https://rate.house/ - like a collaborative IMDB but also has music, books, video games, and podcasts https://wordhoot.com/ - competitive Wordle None of them are abandoned but I just don't have the resources to do any marketing.

#Free Games #Word Games #Games 6 social mentions

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ratehouse

News as Facts (https://newsasfacts.com/) - concise world news sourced from Wikipedia https://rate.house/ - like a collaborative IMDB but also has music, books, video games, and podcasts https://wordhoot.com/ - competitive Wordle None of them are abandoned but I just don't have the resources to do any marketing.

#Movie Reviews #Movie Ratings #Movies 11 social mentions

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hollr

Https://hollr.at Got tired of having to resort to FB for our team sporting activity. It's been coming along for a few years. Once I finish the REST api and perhaps an iOS app (keeping my fingers crossed for push notifications so I don't have to) I'll at least do a Show HN.

#Movies #iPhone #Android 2 social mentions

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RapidStash

Https://rapidstash.io JSON document store that allowed you to access any part of the the JSON document by URL (object.nested.value becomes object/nested/value). Had fun making it and the website above, but was not really interested in the promotion hustle.

#Databases #Prototyping #REST API 1 social mentions

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Itinerant

An experimental weather forecast visualization app: https://brutalism.rs/project/itinerant/.

#Weather #Weather Apps #Web App 1 social mentions

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wordbase.app

I rebuilt Wordbase, a discontinued word strategy game https://wordbase.app It gets a steady trickle of users searching for the original app, and that's all it's meant for (not monetized), so I don't market it.

#Games #Online Games #Strategy Games 1 social mentions

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historious

I got tired of not being able to find anything on the web and wrote a bookmark manager that is also a search engine: https://historio.us.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Note Taking 10 social mentions

Https://litchan.com link aggregator/RSS feed with real-time chat https://www.quickq.app/ Knowledge base for slack.

#Tech #RSS Reader #RSS 2 social mentions

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Workrave

I user Workrave (https://workrave.org/) for the same purpose. It's time-based rather than count-based, and takes mouse into account as well as keyboard.

#Health And Fitness #iPhone #Time Tracking 25 social mentions

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Syncplay

I developed a web app that allowed my friends and me to watch the same video synchronously during the lock-downs. The video would be served by my server, and anybody could control the playback. Pausing or seeking would do it for everyone. We would all connect to a Jitsi Meet room so we could here people laugh or react to the video. I called this "Meet Anyway", it was my first Svelte app, and never released it for several reasons, among them: - I had to do some manual video upload and provide the exact video URL to the app to make things work - the thing had some glitches even if it mostly worked and did the job - I had other things to do, in particular taking care of an open source network implementation of a popular letter-based game that I started in 2016 and then forgot (ran all this time on my server without maintenance at all, not appearing in top) and which suddenly attracted people during the lock-down. - and now I'm interested in other things, especially that the lock-downs are over. It would be nice to finish it and publish it though, but I'm more interested in the other things, and there are major issues: the videos need to live under the same domain as the app if I remember correctly because of browser security, so either people have to host the tool themselves or we would need to propose a service that would host people's videos while they are watching it, or at least to proxy them. I did not want to set up such a service and so the tool does not solve the issue for many people, only those who are technically inclined. This was my second shot at this issue, I had first put together a Python program which allowed two users to watch the same video locally with a regular Linux video player, so I could watch stuff with a relative, using MPRIS, a unified Linux / Free Desktop D-Bus interface to control music and video players. This one I actually released it, but there's actually a mature project that does this better, is actually maintained and is cross-platform: https://syncplay.pl/.

#Sync Watch #Watch Together #Communication 24 social mentions

I had built apprecia: https://apprecia.te.it; but never marketed it. It's a simple tool that lets you send/receive appreciations and store them permanently. It gained 150+ users automatically; and I still use it once in a while to appreciate people.

#Tech #Funny #Social Media Tools 1 social mentions