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Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:49AM (#32459713)
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.

Re:Apple Patent Envisions a Mac Inside a Keyboard on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:14AM (#30499989)
I imagine the main selling point for this is portability, but a laptop is already about the size of a keyboard?
Re:I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email ... on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:14PM (#26438063)
Just got http://xn--f18h.fm (rolled up newspaper) for https://newsasfacts.com. I actually think emoji urls pique people's interest more than traditional urls.
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:52AM (#23178832)
https://rate.house/

It's a collaborative media database to rate and track all your media in one place.

Think Letterboxd/IMDb/Goodreads but with more media types.

Also http://masscorona.info - easily digestible and mobile-friendly statistics and graphs/charts on official Massachusetts Coronavirus data.

Re:LibraryThing Is Now Free to All on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:13PM (#22652377)
Awesome. I love LibraryThing. It's one of my inspirations for creating rate.house.
Re:Goodreads Is Broken on Saturday September 07, 2019 @03:15PM (#20905865)
I absolutely agree, algorithms are terrible for recommendations. On the media database[0] my wife and I are building we're experimenting with community upvotes for suggestions. Our userbase is small so the results are inconclusive right now but hopefully time will tell if this method works.

[0] https://rate.house

Re:Goodreads Is Broken on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:43PM (#20905314)
My wife and I experienced the same disappointments on goodreads, and many of the same flaws exist in other media rating/cataloging sites. We're attempting to solve this problem by creating a centralized collaborative media database that we always wished existed. Without any marketing yet, https://rate.house currently only has ~100 users, but we'd love to hear HN's input and know if we're heading in the right direction.
Re:Show HN: Cleanse – remove zero-width characters, replace text on al... on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:28AM (#16764683)
I know, another zero-width related extension, but it's a bit different.

Cleanse notifies you when a page contains zero-width characters and removes them automatically. You can still trigger the removal manually if there are any content generated dynamically after page load.

Cleanse allows you to replace/remove any string you'd like on all websites. One potential use case is for parents to replace inappropriate words with something else. Another use case is for pranks. It also parses regex.

I've never built an extension before until today so feedback is much appreciated.