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Ask HN: If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?
- keefe 14y agodownload my reference server from github, write a couple templates, publish
- geekdada 14y agowhat language you use to develop
- wslh 14y agoA site to learn English pronunciation using the Google Chrome Speech and TTS API
- rukshn 14y agoA hack with some API? Plus bootstrap to make things quicker
- canibanoglu 14y agoA bookmarking site that works with bookmark previews only. I haven't been able to find something similar to what I want but then again I haven't searched a lot.
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- lignuist 14y agoA website that provides RSS feeds for Twitter, since they are shutting off RSS next week.
- niazangels 14y agoa qr clock :)
- joeblau 14y agoThat's a pretty awesome idea!
- nwh 14y agoHere's a physical one — http://hackaday.com/2012/10/29/qr-clock-is-unreadable-by-humans-and-computers-alike/ http://hackaday.com/2012/10/29/qr-clock-is-unreadable-by-hum...
- Gurrewe 14y agoI started to create one a while ago. But I found out that there was really no use for it. :D http://x42.se/ http://x42.se/
- niazangels 14y agoHey, thats pretty cool :D Well, atleast its buildable in 4hours, right? :)
- taproot 14y agoWhat use did you think it would have when you started? o.O It is cool though.
- flexie 14y agoA site where you could safely and anonymously 'expose' corrupt government offcials.
- arjun88 14y agoi made this www.complainsindia.com (not in 4 hours)
- general_failure 14y agoDid you mean complaints?
- arjun88 14y agothey are similar. http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100922055243AAHW75z http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010092205524... And of course i had to compromise with the available domain.
- aviraldg 14y agoNo, they are not. "Complain" is a verb, whereas "complaint" is a noun. Nevertheless, good effort.
- flexie 14y agoInteresting. How do you go about securing that people who file complaints are anonymous?
- qedtherese 14y agoIf I only had 4 hours I would stand on the shoulders of some good APIs. Maybe make a gaming site with challenges - "guess the common theme"... pictures, video or something like that. Use search and embedding.
- route3 14y agoBetween ZenCoder and the encoding services that AWS released, someone needs to expose easy video encoding to non-developers. It's easy for us to wire up these services for our needs, but Joe Marketer can't. Here's what he see when he searches: a large amount of spammy looking sites offering downloadable software of questionable origin (and ability). Five minute trial versions. The actual download page has twelve other download buttons for affiliate links and products. It's awful. He just wants whatever-file-type he was given to work on iPhone/iPad for this upcoming ad campaign. Bootstrap + filepicker.io + Zencoder + Stripe.
- jon_dahl 14y agoPeople come to Zencoder wanting this, but it isn't really what we do. Not sure how big it is, but there is a market for this.
- video123 14y agoyou could try Miro Video Converter
- danielgrieve 14y agoIt isn't web-based but http://www.fuelcollective.com/permute http://www.fuelcollective.com/permute is a nice tool.
- t0 14y agoI just launched one yesterday for a small business. I'll probably launch another today. If it takes you more than 4 hours to ship, you've probably made it too complicated and you'll never finish it. I usually even go as far as setting up a website. Here's a coupon for a $0.99 domain name (http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/PS-domains.jsp?promo=NCDISC0020 http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/PS-...), and here's some $1/month web hosting (http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/).
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoStupid Q: But are there any "gotchas" with a $.99 domain? Seems too good to be true.
- t0 14y agoOnly two small issues I noticed were you can't change the whois data, and the 2nd year would cost $39. You can turn off autorenewal and transfer it in a year though. I just tried it.. not too good to be true! They even give you complex DNS zones and setup was near instant.
- gpinkham 14y agoI did one a couple of months go. wishlistagram. took about 6 hours though.. from idea to prod..
- joeco 14y agoA blog where people can contribute photos of their friends doing stupid things. Why? Because people love stupid stuff.
- a5seo 14y agoA blog where my 6 yr old daughter can review toys. She's been asking for this for a few weeks.
- fjw 14y agoHave you thought about just using Wordpress? You can be the admin and then make a contributor account for your daughter to write random things but not have the power to publish them or change up any of the settings/design.
- taproot 14y agoOr even blogspot / youtube?
- mrtrombone 14y agoI set my son up on http://www.jux.com http://www.jux.com. Nice and easy
- wcchandler 14y agoI spend too much time procrastinating... so I'd like it if I could speed up my "stupid" time. I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells. And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the only difference being the content isn't user generated and you can't "vote" on a story's popularity -- it's timely. Add the necessary ajax elements so it "stacks" stories on the top of the scaffolds. I should be able to sit on that page and not do a thing and have fresh content load for me. Then if there's any interest you could easily add more features. I'd probably write it one day if I weren't so distracted by other things. Shouldn't take much longer than 4 hours to code.
- musiic703 14y agoIt would be a simple plain white background with a button that says push. And a troll face would pop out all up in your screen.
- carerra 14y agostupid simply small business 'housekeeping' tools - open source. people could setup tools, create a dashboard, setup recurring actions, notices, invoice tracking, tax calculations, etc. <I've exceeded 4 hrs I guess>
- 10dpd 14y agoA site for launching a website in 4 hours. Meta.
- joshguthrie 14y agoA mashup between a To-Do list and a bookmarking system. This way, I could just fill links in, then when I got time, read the first one and unstack it instead of having 20+ tabs opened at the same time.
- earwolf 14y agoA serious competitor to Amazon
- Bryan22 14y agoThe site i've been working on for 2 years... but it's not ready. :)
- Mz 14y agoA site that sold t-shirts and the like which promoted the idea that disabled folks are sexy as hell. Yes, I am serious. I would totally do that if I had any clue how to make it work.
- yolesaber 14y agoWhat part of "making it work" are you unsure of?
- Mz 14y agoThe idea would actually fit well with several sites I already have. I cannot get traffic. I don't know how to "sell" anything. I have at times jotted down ideas for sayings but I tend to be too wordy. So I haven't figured out something short and snappy for a t-shirt, though I am disabled and I have a few ideas on how to frame that as sexy (men seem to think I am hot).