Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas?

Re:Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas? by poteto on Monday September 03, 2012 @05:17AM (#4469723)

StackOverflow for Fashion: http://www.idthisitem.com

Basically Q&A to find out where to buy stuff. It's coasting along without much traction and I can't get enough people to answer without having to reward them with coupons and such.

Seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I'm not so convinced this is a big enough of a problem to solve.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas? by npguy on Monday September 03, 2012 @05:20AM (#4469735)

what indicators did you have that there was a problem to be solved here? am just trying to understand your thought process -

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Re:Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas? by poteto on Monday September 03, 2012 @05:23AM (#4469745)

Twitter. We were monitoring certain things like "I wish I could *" and we happened to type in something like "find this dress". You can see some results: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22find%20this%20dress%22

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Re:Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas? by npguy on Monday September 03, 2012 @05:36AM (#4469780)

Thanks. Am thinking, this is one way Twitter could identify intents and make money.

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