HN user
https://rate.house
News as Facts (https://newsasfacts.com/) - concise world news sourced from Wikipedia
https://rate.house/ - like a collaborative IMDb but also has music, books, video games, and podcasts
https://wordhoot.com/ - competitive Wordle
None of them are abandoned but I just don't have the resources to do any marketing.
I imagine the main selling point for this is portability, but a laptop is already about the size of a keyboard?
Just got http://xn--f18h.fm (rolled up newspaper) for https://newsasfacts.com. I actually think emoji urls pique people's interest more than traditional urls.
It's a collaborative media database to rate and track all your media in one place.
Think Letterboxd/IMDb/Goodreads but with more media types.
Also http://masscorona.info - easily digestible and mobile-friendly statistics and graphs/charts on official Massachusetts Coronavirus data.
Awesome. I love LibraryThing. It's one of my inspirations for creating rate.house.
I absolutely agree, algorithms are terrible for recommendations. On the media database[0] my wife and I are building we're experimenting with community upvotes for suggestions. Our userbase is small so the results are inconclusive right now but hopefully time will tell if this method works.
My wife and I experienced the same disappointments on goodreads, and many of the same flaws exist in other media rating/cataloging sites. We're attempting to solve this problem by creating a centralized collaborative media database that we always wished existed. Without any marketing yet, https://rate.house currently only has ~100 users, but we'd love to hear HN's input and know if we're heading in the right direction.
I know, another zero-width related extension, but it's a bit different.
Cleanse notifies you when a page contains zero-width characters and removes them automatically. You can still trigger the removal manually if there are any content generated dynamically after page load.
Cleanse allows you to replace/remove any string you'd like on all websites. One potential use case is for parents to replace inappropriate words with something else. Another use case is for pranks. It also parses regex.
I've never built an extension before until today so feedback is much appreciated.