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A very serious academic endeavor and the peer-reviewed research into consumer imagination patterns

I rendered this map from the OSM source with some filters so some locations could be excluded. Anyway, I can manually add any locations. Please write to me via the contact form with a list of locations to add

This is my favourite comment on this topic:

"In the 90s I was on the Disappearing Team for the McGillicuddy Serious Party. When we were in power my task was to go around the world erasing New Zealand from all the maps, since if no-one knew we were here, we wouldn't have to spend anything on defense or build annoying tourist traps" (c) RalphNZ

I'm running a cutting-edge reverse scam. I aggressively threaten to charge you NZ$1, and then I just give you the product for free

Thanks, this is actually a community idea that I liked and added

The cartography industry and New Zealand have a long, complicated history.

I'm building a little map experiment where people rename places. Added a "$1 to show New Zealand" feature (if you click "No", it shows NZ for free anyway). NZ is a DLC now

Yeah, same, I was surprised how well people behaved, most were more creative than toxic.

I checked that badwords list too, but it feels outdated and it’s not great for maps: it blocks words like "dick", and there are plenty of official place names and features that contain that substring and more others surprising examples.

These days it's easy to plug in AI-based profanity filter quickly. I'm also not too worried about people making "penis" jokes on the map, the dataset already has plenty of that stuff anyway, word-play is a base for geography naming.

Bravo!

I mean, when the site first came out, Google started to show product pages and impressions started to grow, but after a couple of weeks they dropped completely to zero and the pages were excluded from search index, and I don't see anything changing, only some pages got into the index, mainly because of links referring to the site. Well, there are almost 100k products here now and I hope this collective unconscious never gets into search results

Thanks! It's Next.js hosted on Cloudflare

"Create concise descriptions that sound professional but contain absurd elements" with some additional instructions

Cloudflare Workers AI

You'll be surprised how quickly Google determined the usefulness of the site and practically removed it from the search results, and it was absolutely right to do so

It's just hardcoded and randomly chosen, no any suggestion logic in here

I'm glad you liked it! Most reviews actually AI-generated but people can leave reviews too

It's not free, unfortunately, next month I have some amazing bills waiting for me :) Thanks Cloudflare for the amazing speed

The model used to generate product descriptions is llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct. There are a lot of built-in limitations, and I can't do much with it. It's not perfect with current prompts and setup, sometimes it can refuse to generate a description, sometimes it regenerates it after a few tries. Check it out, I regenerated Covid-19 text

That's why this place called Hacker News. Nice try!

Thanks! That's interesting. I feel like some kind of synchronicity here - this project also was built and deployed in May

I always have a lot of ideas, but this project seemed to me the least creative of all, it seems like it's too obvious, I don't know really, it's just generate stuff with available models, like a million of similar or more useful ideas

The website was created for learning and fun a few months ago and forgotten as a completely useless product, I absolutely did not expect such a feedback that I received here today

Less then a cent for a product. ~50k products already generated though...

Thanks! Next.js + tailwind, Cloudflare hosted, it was made for week in sum mostly to learn this stack

Thanks! It's flux-1-schnell, the prompt is pretty complex and randomly generated for each product, so kinda unique too

Thanks! Though I built this a few months ago and was sure that no one would be interested

I like it! Well, I guess I'll pay for this lesson, next time I'll create something more boring

I wish I could scale it, but I'm not sure I can manufacture enough Shit Mayonnaise to meet demand

Hey! Honestly didn't expect this to hit the HN top, I've already maxed out all my token limits! If you enjoyed wasting time here, there's a Buy Me A Coffee link in the footer. Thanks for the incredible response! This is why I really love building weird useless stuff for the internet.

UPD: You guys are incredibly creative! 15000 products generated and counting. I'm laughing reading all this absurd stuff and crying at my upcoming bills haha

Thanks! Reached some limits, made a quick fix