Rest in peace, projects
No longer maintained, yet loved
Ankicode remains
When the GPT API first dropped I created a relationship advice chatbot that dispensed advice from The Relationship Handbook by George Pransky. It integrated Google’s voice API, and supported chat history with Firebase. At its peak it had over 400 daily active users. Ultimately, I failed to monetize. This model was further invalidated when @levelsio shut down a similar service.
Cause of death: Couldn’t monetize to support my API costs.
This was a website I created to visualize data I had scraped from ratemyprofessor.com. It was the first “real” site I created and was made without the use of any frameworks.
Cause of death: I don’t want to expose scraped data.
This was a search engine for college classes. It allowed professors to privately upload all materials for their classes, including PDFs and YouTube videos. Whitelisted students could then search the PDF contents and video transcripts, and be linked to the relevant PDF page or video timestamp.
Cause of death: ChatGPT is so good at teaching that it’s not necessary to use something like this.
After realizing that artists I liked linked music on their Twitter pages, I created this site to scrape Twitter for music recommendations. I actually ended up finding some good music this way.
Cause of death: Twitter started charging large sums of money to access their API.
When Google’s MusicLM was released, I scraped hundreds of music reviews, then post-processed them to generate prompts for MusicLM to emulate the style of different artists without directly mentioning them in the prompt (which is still prohibited in most systems today).
Cause of death: Suno is so good, prompts don’t matter that much anymore.
This was a Chrome extension that added Rate My Professor reviews to our student portal’s class search. It had about 50 users at its peak.
Cause of death: I graduated.
The first Chrome extension I made. It clicked login when you loaded our school’s student portal. I made this after overhearing some dude complaining about this. It had about 75 users at its peak.
Cause of death: I graduated.
The most absurd of the joke sites. This site had a button where you could pay for goose poop (which is actually a real business!!!). It also had a game called Poop Stack that was like a two-player version of Stacker.
Cause of death: No one made any purchases.
My friend and I created an alternative time system, then sent our other friends this site to convert our ZM timestamps to AM/PM. We also launched a cryptocurrency on a testnet to enhance the joke.
Cause of death: The girl whose pet rabbit was the face of the brand broke up with me.