I made Idyllic Past[1], a webapp that emails you a weekly comment from your Hacker News and Reddit accounts. The eventual goal was to catalog all the things the

I made Idyllic Past[1], a webapp that emails you a weekly comment from your Hacker News and Reddit accounts. The eventual goal was to catalog all the things the user liked on the internet and present random items to him by email. I was hoping to capitalize on nostalgia by running ads in the emails. Unfortunately, I got only 3 signups. The post I made on HN was completely ignored (only about 20 people visited the link), and the post I made on Reddit ended up with a net score of 0. Oh well, lesson learned -- gauge interest on a proof of concept before spending the time to build a full product. [1] http://www.idyllicpast.com http://www.idyllicpast.com