Years later, I found out it was completely fake; the end credits even tell you it's fake (I missed that). I had a hard time believing anything after that realization.

* - Mermaids: The Body Found

For the last year, I've been sitting on a business idea unrelated to software. I've decided to go for it. My question is: where is the best place to list domains/websites, etc. for sale?

I've used Flippa in the past, but it has a $100 listing fee, which I would like to avoid.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476417

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We got pretty heavily downvoted here, lol. Really, I don't understand why.

I think around age 20-21, I read Descartes' Meditations on Philosophy, which forced me to evaluate all of my beliefs about existence. Digging further into other philosophers (and religions), I realized there's not a whole lot I really know... about anything.

Eventually, I came to the belief of there being a creator, although who or what this creator is, I have no idea.

As a chess fan, I love it. It's something I wanted to exist. Although I haven't gotten any good feedback yet from other chess players. If you're a chess fan, please give it a try and let me know what you think!

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/LeetChess/hogbcffpf...

I could observe myself and knew what I looked like, but couldn't break it. The CTO stopped me as I was speaking and said "this isn't going to work". As soon as he said that, I ended the call. I had some major imposter syndrome during that time, I think that played a huge role in my fumble. Still massively cringe when I think about that, though.

But that is news to me. Interesting. Although for static sites, I always use Netlify or even GitHub pages.

Does Vercel do the same?

The point is, I used to just throw everything up on a PaaS. Heroku/Render, etc. and pay way more than I needed to, even if I had 0 users, lol.

This and because it's so convenient to click some buttons and have your application running. I've stopped being lazy, though. Moved everything from Render to linode. I was paying render $50+/month. Now I'm paying $3-5.

I would never use one of those hosting providers again.

Shopify stores, blogs (even owned a #1 tech blog), local job boards, global job boards, dating sites (which were shut down due to payment providers refusing to service these types of sites), various SaaS sites, etc.

Nothing made any real money. I don't know if it's just me - perhaps I'm just not meant to succeed here - but I'm still trying. Still building.

I think the biggest downer was when I built the coolest SaaS for martial arts academies. I thought it was guaranteed success, as I am involved in these communities, know a ton of owners. I reached out to all of them. Offered a free setup/trial. None of them cared, or even attempted to use it.

Likewise, I just built the coolest browser extension for chess players (in my opinion). I run a local chess club. Thought everyone would want to at least try it out. Maybe 2 users installed it. Lol.

I just stopped caring, and I look at it in a new way. Yeah, I may not have paying customers for projects, but I am expanding my portfolio. These are real assets that I own. The process is fun. Abandon the idea of making money, and it becomes more enjoyable.

It works on Chrome and Brave for now. Planning a Firefox release soon.

If you're a chess fan, you'll probably love it, but if not, let me know why (I'll try to improve it).

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/leetchess/hogbcffpf...

This is something I've wanted to build for awhile (first bought the domain in 2020 (then lost it for a year+)). It's a tactics solver on each new tab page.

There are 5 modes of play:

Easy (<1200 elo)

Medium (1200-1800)

Hard (1800-2400)

Expert (2400+)

Speedrun (solve as many puzzles as possible in 60 seconds).

I'm having a ton of fun with it, and definitely noticing improvements with actual games (definitely solved the most puzzles in my life while developing this extension).

If you check it out, please let me know what you think. Any feedback is good!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666431

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And oh no! really hate to hear that. I thought it was responsive, but didn't fully test on smaller devices. Sorry for that. I will work on a fix as soon as possible!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589836

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I saved this as test.md, opened it in notepad, clicked the link, and it popped open a command line:

[Click me](C:/Windows/System32/cmd.exe)

Can definitely go further than this; just a quick test.

To be fair, though, it's not just a click -> open/run. The user has to `ctrl+click` and will see the source of the link (at least I do).