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In 2023, I've written a LOT of useless software. I've built 1 feature complete product [0], 2 kinda-feature complete products [1], and a bunch of half-finished stuff.
Unfortunate for me, none of them generated any revenue.
But it's been a fantastic experience refining a lot of the rough edges on how to build faster. It's crazy looking back how much I built in 6-ish months.
[0] https://turas.app
[1] https://coderev.app, https://zeeq.ai
[3] e.g. https://github.com/CharlieDigital/hekaton
This is very timely because I completed writing a useless software just a few minutes ago:
CFR Brackets: https://susam.net/cfr.html
Source: https://github.com/susam/cfr
It is a very minimal drawing language that supports only 5 commands: C (change colour), F (move forward), R (rotate), [ (begin block), and ] (repeat block). The commands are slightly inspired by the Logo programming language. The minimal nature is inspired by P′′.
No practical usage is intended. I wrote it for fun and I am hoping I will have some more fun with it trying to draw interesting shapes with it while trying to keep the input code as small as possible.
What do you mean useless? Dial is going to revolutionize the way people insert numbers.
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/dial
some of my recent useless software with an audience of mostly 1 (me)
https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/
click the icon that matches the word (red word -> red icon, green word -> green icon, up word -> up icon, so easy)
http://lalo.li/lsd/ - LSD refactored and now in color
https://flapimoji.franzai.com/ - a flapy bird implementation in emojis
https://ashtanga-muskeln.franzai.com/ - a german yoga anatomy learning app and quizz
same for yoga vokabulary - https://ashtanga-vokabeln.franzai.com/
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lighthouse-script - a bulk google lighthouse testing suit
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy - thats hard to explain, its a file and website text extracter minyfier copy to clipboard command line tool
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/qrpwd - backup encrypted data as qr images in your google photos / whatsapp / fb photo streams
some of my recent useless software with an audience of mostly 1 (me)
https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/
click the icon that matches the word (red word -> red icon, green word -> green icon, up word -> up icon, so easy)
http://lalo.li/lsd/ - LSD refactored and now in color
https://flapimoji.franzai.com/ - a flapy bird implementation in emojis
https://ashtanga-muskeln.franzai.com/ - a german yoga anatomy learning app and quizz
same for yoga vokabulary - https://ashtanga-vokabeln.franzai.com/
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lighthouse-script - a bulk google lighthouse testing suit
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy - thats hard to explain, its a file and website text extracter minyfier copy to clipboard command line tool
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/qrpwd - backup encrypted data as qr images in your google photos / whatsapp / fb photo streams
some of my recent useless software with an audience of mostly 1 (me)
https://updownredgreenetc.franzai.com/
click the icon that matches the word (red word -> red icon, green word -> green icon, up word -> up icon, so easy)
http://lalo.li/lsd/ - LSD refactored and now in color
https://flapimoji.franzai.com/ - a flapy bird implementation in emojis
https://ashtanga-muskeln.franzai.com/ - a german yoga anatomy learning app and quizz
same for yoga vokabulary - https://ashtanga-vokabeln.franzai.com/
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lighthouse-script - a bulk google lighthouse testing suit
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/thisismy - thats hard to explain, its a file and website text extracter minyfier copy to clipboard command line tool
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/qrpwd - backup encrypted data as qr images in your google photos / whatsapp / fb photo streams
Oh interesting, I wrote something very similar: https://github.com/albertz/mac-suppress-mouse-keyboard
It also blocks mouse presses.
The only way to unblock is to type in a special sequence of letters on the keyboard. But an on-screen display will tell you what to type.
It was mostly for my toddler.
I made a fortune database from Marcus Aurelius's _Meditations_. You can go "fortune /path/to/meditations" and get a random paragraph from the book.
https://github.com/fnune/meditations-fortune
- https://github.com/wader/flac.tcl
In most cases i learned way more then i expected. Even made some friends.
I do a lot uf useless and experiment software, like these:
https://namechecker.leandrosf.com/ -> Check if your pretended project name is already used in somewhere
https://github.com/lsferreira42/bli -> a brainfuck interpreter that is intended to help you understand brainfuck
https://github.com/lsferreira42/nadb -> a threaded key value store with memory buffering
https://github.com/lsferreira42/hnpes -> a hackernews chrome extension to find previous posts of the url your are browsing
All of them work, but not at all usefull hahahaha
I do a lot uf useless and experiment software, like these:
https://namechecker.leandrosf.com/ -> Check if your pretended project name is already used in somewhere
https://github.com/lsferreira42/bli -> a brainfuck interpreter that is intended to help you understand brainfuck
https://github.com/lsferreira42/nadb -> a threaded key value store with memory buffering
https://github.com/lsferreira42/hnpes -> a hackernews chrome extension to find previous posts of the url your are browsing
All of them work, but not at all usefull hahahaha
I do a lot uf useless and experiment software, like these:
https://namechecker.leandrosf.com/ -> Check if your pretended project name is already used in somewhere
https://github.com/lsferreira42/bli -> a brainfuck interpreter that is intended to help you understand brainfuck
https://github.com/lsferreira42/nadb -> a threaded key value store with memory buffering
https://github.com/lsferreira42/hnpes -> a hackernews chrome extension to find previous posts of the url your are browsing
All of them work, but not at all usefull hahahaha