After writing the blog post, I got a trickle of emails asking if ever turned the code I chucked together in an evening into a gem.
I'd always follow up a few quick questions about what they'd expect from the library, if they'd pay for it. The responses were consistently positive, but I always took them with a dash of salt (what if they were just being polite instead of honest).
I left the idea in my "neat, but no one will use this" idea pile.