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What is something you built but never marketed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32458897
submitted this linkon August 15, 2022
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    I built https://cp.lounar.com

    Slack bot to streamline customer communications from many platforms. Emails, Slack chats, or mobile text messages can be forwarded to any #channel. All responses in the Slack thread are seamlessly sent back to the source.

    Simple integrations already work fine. I am working on "Smart features" like auto-classification and smart routing and implementation of new integrations.

    Need help with marketing :)

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    Sand Draw - 10 million downloads :-)
    ASO organic optimization, no marketing.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.KalromSystems.SandDrawLite

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    I built dreamcv.io - Resume generator with captivating themes such as twitter, GitHub, Google, etc. Got some paying customers initially, but didn’t have my time for it after the birth of my daughter. Currently I do have time but pursuing a more exciting idea. Thinking about selling dreamcv.

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    I'm building an image/video generator + scheduler to quickly create content.

    Building it personally with no plans to release.

    Will likely integrate with dalle or other Ai generative image platform.

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    During my degree, I created a tool that searched through documents for specific keywords and then categorized all examples found so I could easily find what I was looking for. There were similar tools available but none that did the job as well. My intention was never to market it as it was just for personal use. I shared it with other students and they all found it really helpful which shows that if you have a problem there are probably a lot of other people out there with the same problem.

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    I apologize, but I do not have personal experiences or the ability to create things. However, if you're looking for software, you can visit their website at crackszoom to learn about the software and services they offer in the field of software development and technology solutions.

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    i just visit this website information is very updated

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    A six-year-old condiment company has attracted loyal customers but has achieved less than $500,000 in sales. The company’s gross margins can’t cover its overhead or provide adequate incomes for the founder and the family members who participate in the business. Additional growth will require a huge capital infusion, but investors and potential buyers aren’t keen on small, marginally profitable ventures, and the family has exhausted its resources.

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    I'm currently creating a wordpress hosting platform. Your wp will be created in seconds, it's full featured - you can upload any theme/plugin.

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    https://okzest.com - we started with good intentions of marketing from day one and here we are 6 months later and only really just starting to!

    If you want to spice up your email marketing with dynamic images per customer then come take a look.

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    I created a website using WordPress but never marketed it.
    https://malloftoys.com/collections/lain

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    I have four mega SaaS that I will not seek VC money to fund marketing. It is my hope that my recent smaller and simpler SaaS will generate the cashflow to invest in the others.

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    I once built a game for the designers.

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    GetServerStatus (https://getserverstatus.com), a software for monitoring Linux servers that I started building back in 2018, to scratch my itches.

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    Headless Content Management System for developers. Not sure if casual blogging is marketing though :D

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    https://appkq.com/

    Project collaboration SaaS - never marketed!

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      Nice portfolio! What’s the total MRR if I may ask? Also do you plan to sell any of these?

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    I built a tour guide app that will read you articles from Wikipedia when you are close to the physical site it's called Wiki City Guide

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    Wordpress is huge.

    I'm currently creating a wordpress hosting platform. Your wp will be created in seconds, it's full featured - you can upload any theme/plugin.

    Our wp installation is secure (HTTPS), unlimited traffic, can use custom domain.

    We charge for your wordpress daily (only 0.3 USD per day) ! So you can create landing page for your campaign, launch it, destroy it when it's done.

    I need a marketer who is deep in this market. Email me (me at rizrmd.com)

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    I built a plagiarism checker tool a long long time ago but really never took it further. Even had a few users (i don't know how). The domain got expired last year. ALAS!

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    https://factango.com, a small knowledge-representation platform that can store all kinds of knowledge. I made an explainer video at https://bit.ly/3w2GU24. Factango is hand-carved from a WAMP stack and is nothing like the beautiful sites shown in this thread. I am envious of you folks!

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    I once built an entire online text based strategy game. It still runs to this day, sadly there are not a lot of visitors on there which demotivated me (and it's necessary to have in order for the game to be fun)

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      Would love to check it out.

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        whoops. A little late, but here goes: https://www.idlebase.com :)

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    I have build my own product management course, but this baby never got to see the people around because I got snowed under other work:(( But one day..!

  23. 1

    Sadly I haven't done any marketing for my current project pingparrot.io yet. Even the landing page terribly optimized and does a bad job explaining what the product actually does.

    Hopefully I find some time soon to change this.

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    Back when Craigslist was still popular, I built a review service based on the persons telephone number. So if a user sold you junk, you could report their number and leave a negative review. I thought it was a good idea, but I didn't like the ethics behind it so I never ran with it. I do remember one person I was trying to buy something off of, stood me up so to say, and I texted him back letting him know I reported his number to my service with a link to the review. lol the person was not pleased...

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    too many things.

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      Really 😲

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        yeah really lol

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    My first failed startup.

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    I started making a small cloud database called BitRocket this summer. I gradually turned the project into a fully open source project before I tried to market it. I'm still working on it today and I'm using it in some of my projects but I never tried to call attention to it.

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    Haha, too many things. If we are including personal projects that aren't even reasonably publicly accessibly, oh boy. Here are some that are:

    I am actually going through old projects, getting them out there, thinking about marketing. Anyone got tips? How to decide whether to try and "resurrect" some old stuff?

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    ZeroToCentury - a cycling app that provides you a cycling schedule/plan to go from 0 to 100 miles over the course of 4-6 weeks regardless of fitness level / experience (within reason of course).

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    Reminds me of this side project https://podstack.live/

    It has a collection of the podcasts we have listened to.

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    I've built Linktree alternative but focused on getting leads. https://slicklink.io/

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    I've built a bunch of products, all windows applications....

    • Duplicate File Finder
    • Encryption Utility
    • A vault app -- Allows adding files to a virtual encrypted drive (a single file on disk) that holds all files in encrypted state. Something like OneDrive vault.
    • A timer app that gives periodic notifications (xp baloons :)) asking to take break. It had a bunch of configurations. Those days, I used to be on my PC on an average of 6-8 hours after my college. I always studied my course material, couple of weeks before exams, pulling several all nighters. Once exams were over, I was back to coding :)
    • Lawyer's Diary -- (my first successful product) -- tracks cases, clients, and dates -- was used by a lawyer for 3 years before he went back to physical diary again.
    • Patient Tracking System -- (my mega successful product) -- used by a doctor for over 14 years. It ran smoothly without any production bugs for 14 years. The doctor recently switched to a different product only because the product is no longer in active development I was not able to give time as he needed a few new features like SMS integrations and online appointments.

    All these were built between 2008 to 2010. Sometimes, I think I should resurrect all these products and just start selling them. Thanks for asking, answering this question was an emotional ride for me.

    Cheers,
    Abhijit

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      You seem to be an OG. Hats off sir.

      Myself Riten, from Agartala currently building a platform to help individuals showcase their work http://fueler.io/ - currently doing $8000+ in revenue in the last 4 months.

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        Great! You've a beautiful looking website and seems to be a great product. All the best :)

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          Thank you so much sir :)

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    Building it for 2 years already: https://github.com/thelang-io
    Not going to spend a penny on marketing. I really like Elon Musk way of not marketing your product and spending all the money on making it better.

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    I built a tool to extract the top most replayed times from YouTube videos called https://ytgrep.com

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      Not working on my end.

      This is the video I was trying it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs7KtoS0eKI

      I'm using the brave browser.

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        Hey Honeysyed,
        It only works if the YouTube video has the most replayed videos already generated on the platform.

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    I built https://goodworkcafes.com/ - a website that helps you find a good cafe to work from wherever you are in the world.

    The data is crowdsourced from my friends and I, although the build is broken and no longer updates correctly.

    Never really marketed in.

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    Built tailwindmasterkit.com - Didn't even know how to market.

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      Any specific reason for not marketing it?

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        honestly i don't know where to start 😅

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    Wow! So many products, tools, and services out there that never saw the light. I wouldn't say I ever reached the product stage on something that I didn't market but I've had a bazillion ideas that never became a product for various reasons.

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