My second relationship coincided roughly with the release of the first LLM API. So I created an AI counselor to help me not repeat my mistakes. It ended up being popular with Brazilians with >400 DAU.
Cause of death: I was a broke student and API credits were expensive.
This site was born out of a desire to tape stack rankings of professors in the Computer Science department all over campus. But if you’re gonna scrape 1 university you might as well scrape all of them and create some more interesting graphs with the data.
Cause of death: I graduated.
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.
After realizing that artists I liked linked music on their Twitter pages, I created this site to scrape Twitter for music recommendations.
Cause of death: Elon jacked up the API costs for Twitter.
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.
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.
A Chrome extension that clicked “login” when you loaded our school’s student portal. Made after overhearing some dude complaining. Had about 75 users at its peak.
Cause of death: I graduated.
I (attempted) to sell some goose poop over the internet.
Cause of death: Outcompeted by ShitExpress
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.