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Business Idea Evaluation: shopping list app with optimal route planning

When doing in-person shopping at walmart, I often find myself unable to locate items and walking repeated distances because of bad route planning. The walmart app is useful, but if my shopping list is long, searching each product in the app gets inconvenient.What I've created is an app where you only need to input your product search queries, and the app:automatically populates product...

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Re:Show HN: Built a cheaper easier to use Grammarly on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:43AM (#41740364)
Cool! A while ago I had a similar idea, and I built a desktop app, Grammarsen.

https://desktoptools.net/grammarsen

Re:Show HN: Built a cheaper easier to use Grammarly on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:42AM (#41740361)
I have
Re:Show HN: Refractify: optical software against Myopia on Saturday February 24, 2024 @03:15AM (#39490032)
Nah, virustotal does that stuff all the time. Two detections is low out of all the malware scanners it used. I usually just use malwarebytes.

How to know if a product is useless or just needs more promotion?

I have so many SaaS ideas, and I just want to build them in my free time. I know I should find/talk to users first, etc, but if anything, it's good to practice coding skills.Anyways, I'm not sure when I should move on to a next project or keep promoting what I currently have. Submitting to directories and making social media posts takes time, and obviously a useless product will have zero users...

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Re:Looo.lol – a binary math site on Saturday January 06, 2024 @12:59AM (#38888860)
This is pretty cool. Better if includes signed integers.
Re:InstaBracket – Autocompletes), ], and “ on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:14AM (#37388124)
Simple, lightweight, and self-explanatory program/extension.

Here for the portable, windows exe version if interested: https://shadowmysterious.gumroad.com/l/store