| candlestickpro.com - a site i created with a friend of a friend to track stock portfolios and offer buy/sell recommendations based on candlestick patterns. the business plan was to charge a monthly membership fee as well as invest some of that money in stocks the site recommended (which would also serve as marketing for how good the recommendations were). the business relationship went sour and the site never came to fruition. 1.8T.org - started as a vw/audi car enthusiast website offering web hosting and email forwards. i eventually started a vw/audi dealer ratings site on it instead which became very popular among the community and dealer network. a few dealers took it too seriously and started posting fake negative reviews of other dealers and constantly complaining to me. dealing with all the angry people sucked the fun out of it, and other, more generalized car dealer review sites popped up, so i shut it down. made money with adsense. still own 8t.org with nothing to use it for. ramblin.gs - a forum site that i created to experiment with some forum software i was working on. the community never prospered much, but i released the (awful, hacked-together) software which some people ran with and created some new communities with it that continue to operate. wen - an attempt to create a simple scheduling site that could parse natural language entries and turn them into calendars/alerts. got too involved in perfecting the parser that i got bored with it and never launched it. deskto.ps - a screenshot sharing website to be like flickr but more adept at handling large images. users could tag programs (draw borders around them, like flickr's notes) running in their screenshots and it would automatically assemble lists of most popular software and connect people to find themes/icons/support/whatever for the software they liked that other people were using. it would make money by letting commercial software developers sponsor the pages for their software that users tagged. stopped working on it, never renewed the domain and someone snagged it. sellister.com - a better craigslist that offered feedback profiles/karma like ebay to help people feel more comfortable dealing with strangers. never got it off the ground, but i still hate selling things on ebay and craigslist. http://den.im/ - an rss reader that i made two years ago to clone the old bloglines interface because i hated the new one and their site was always randomly not updating feeds. added twitter integration, made an iphone/android version, and continue to use it every day but can never find the motivation to open it up out of private beta. there are much nicer rss readers out there now and i don't think i have the resources available to host a huge number of users for free. |