Scrolling through what's been generated is an interesting way to explore what the underlying image model can represent. Personally I feel like everything starts to look the same very quickly. This is just an observation on image generation models, not a knock against the product which I think is great and had a lot of fun with (I'm the proud inventor of the Cthulu back scratcher).
I’m so envious people get such good ideas. I always come up empty when trying to invent something that is enjoyable to use, fun, funny, partly an art project, partly making us question ourselves and our habits… Of you want a piece of that feeling: https://anycrap.shop/product/regrets-for-what-could-have-bee...
Could you walk us through the process of coming up with the idea for this website?
You could make money off of this if you are able to pair willing manufacturers to realistic and popular ideas that get generated. It could become a real market place.
Hilarious project.
Edit: I did both Mouthwash Ramen and Time Machine to the Present. I’m now addicted to this, thanks.
I know of a company that is huge in laser for physics and started like this in the 80s (through magazine catalogs).
They would list all kinds of lasers. When they got some offers for one of them, they'd sell it and schedule the delivery in 90 days. Then, they started the project from scratch. Crazy stuff and borderline legal :D
We do something similar at work. Except usually the dev department doesn't know until handed the project from sales and so the project goals might be entirely unrealistic given the deadline.
What do you mean that feature doesn't exist? Well, I sold it to the customer, they have to go live in two weeks and their workflow depends on this feature.
While I've fortunately never had this happen to me, I'd be tempted to say something like, "Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'll need."
Having been on on the customer side it's frustrating how often the situation is: Me: "So, you got a bid which offers features A, B, C, and D we asked for, and you say it also has X and Y and hit our budget?" / Buyer: "Yes".
A week later. "OK, their install team says it can't technically do C yet, however there's an early 2026 preview scheduled which addresses most of C. The D feature isn't in the edition we have, our buyers are talking to their sales people and we may need to pay extra to unlock D. And you're correct that two other organisations in our industry confirm X is dogshit and you'd be better off without it but it can't be disabled. Still A does work, and we have filed bugs about the known defects with B so hopefully we can get those fixed"
Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am. I reckon if they were sent to the store to buy a whole roast chicken with a £20 note they'd come back with six expired chicken sandwiches and no change.
> Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am.
It's the size of the deal that matters. Most of the consumer goods you buy are sold on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. No individual sale is worth the vendor forming a "relationship" with that customer or promising bespoke features. B2B sales are often large deals that require months of negotiation and may be worth millions. Bullshitting in order to land the deal is incentivized on both sides, to the point where both only have a fuzzy idea of what exactly is being bought and sold.
But consumers get this experience as well when they make larger purchases. When I buy a car, maybe I fail to mention the unreported fender bender my trade-in was in, and maybe the salesman tries to charge me $1200 to etch "anti-theft tracking numbers" on the new car's windows, citing some dubious statistics about vehicle recovery rates.
Maybe they exist but I haven't worked in a company yet that wouldn't fire an engineer or manager for refusing to implement a feature that some salescritter already sold. One of them made the company money (on paper, sure) while the other is threatening to undo the deal. It's not hard to guess which one the c-suites would send packing first.
oh you agree to do it but you laugh, literally laugh, at their deadline. and you say, you can fire me but that's not going to get your software done on time. in fact it will delay it.
they shut up. it's done when it's done.
I've done this many, many times. Oh you promised it by the end of the week and didn't ask me? lol, that sounds like a YOU problem.
I've been on both ends of this workflow. Sales always wins.
"Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'll need."
"We'll see."
The big-screen TV in the modern glass conference room showed the final slide: “Questions?”.
"I.. I'd like to add that this feature we sold is not in the product and we can't just go around adding features that Sales makes up out of the blue just... just to close a deal. I mean, we gotta plan these things, there's a procedure, we should get product involved..."
Head of Sales, interrupting: "Can't we, Jeff?"
Jeff, the middle-manager, shuffled his feet: "Uh. Yeah. Right. I think we shouldn't. Hey! Haste makes waste, that's what they say, right?"
Head of Sales: "Can't we Barbara?"
Barbara, the boss: "I don't know. Let me call Pradeep"
(Barbara presses the "huddle" button in Slack on her big iPhone. A few rings and a bored voice replies)
"Yeah?"
"Sorry to jump on you like this, Pradeep. Would you mind coming to meeting room seven for a second?"
Less than a minute later Pradeep walks in, his thick glasses casting a green hue over his eyes, his arrogant demeanor preceded him like a shadow.
"Pradeep, did you read the feature request I messaged you?"
Fortunately it doesn't happen too often, and some can be attributed to our somewhat complex feature matrix that differs by regions due to reasons.
On the other hand, in our niche customers usually don't swap software providers often due to integration work needed.
When an opportunity arises, it's usually because the yearly license expires. So we got to either sell it now with a hard deadline in the near future, or wait 5+ years till next time they switch.
So that can lead to sales being a bit optimistic when making the pitch.
Some smart stealer was posting bikes of his neighbors online second hand marketplace and waited to get contacted for specific model to steal them. Genius evil
A previous boss did this in the early 2000s. Put up a bunch of single page descriptions with "coming soon" labels, include an email subscription to "stay on top of news", turn on AdWords to get some traffic... and then start working on what people were actually interested in.
Ya, I know this strategy under the name “smokescreen mvp”. I don’t remember exactly, but I think it is advocated in the lean startup. Personally I am a big supporter of the strategy. Many startups fail because _nobody cared about the problem_, and this is totally avoidable
Yeah this seems like the kind of thing people would have advised me to do when I was trying to start startups around 2010. But I was too focused on engineering and had no head for the business side so I never tried it.
Engineering-to-Order! Not all that uncommon of a model in some industries, but problems arise when Sales doesn't have good communication with Engineering about what is actually possible for what price on what timelines.
Totally. You also get batch efficiencies shipping 10k orders in a day vs dribbling them out over weeks, and you can use sub-standard shipping methods that are cheaper because… the carriers themselves are also batching the work.
Someone email me when I can buy Barbed Wire Toilet Paper. That one is my favorite. Its so devious. Imagine needing TP but all you find is one roll. Rolled in barbed wire.
I was gonna do this as a way for people to stop buying things they don’t need. They get the “buzz” of going through the process of buying something (checkout, credit card form etc) they get a confirmation email and everything.
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
The watch in the image has hands, but the text below seems fine (if a little silly):
"This wristwatch presents timekeeping in a non-traditional manner. Rather than displaying hours via hands, it projects temporal coordinates directly onto the wearer's retina through advanced ocular stimulation technology. The watch face remains blank at all times, except when illuminated by subtle flashes that indicate elapsed seconds."
Didn't work out that well, sadly. At first it gave me a greek pillars, then when trying english translations it at least gave me some springs.
It knew the https://anycrap.shop/product/airhook. But only for light loads like snacks and the "heavgy duty airhook" it wanted to sell me is for a clothesline. While useful, I'm afraid your product engineers have to spend some more time so that we can reliably suspend cars from the air again.
As much as the site is an incredible outlet for absurd creativity, some of the creations would actually work as small batch orders. The octopus hoodie is a great example, and I would not be surprised if there were people willing to get different variations of it. (Lovecraftian flavour, anyone?)
OP: well done, you have unleashed on this world a toy more addictive than a cocaine enema.
>you have unleashed on this world a toy more addictive than a cocaine enema.
No offense to you meant, but I wonder in general where the need for this kind of hyperbolic phrasing comes from. As it seems to be everywhere on the internet.
It was meant as a compliment, and it was not intended as hyperbolic. But since you ask...
In this case I thought it would fit with the already absurd tones exhibited in the thread. More generally, the technique is not "hyperbolic phrasing" as much as deploying a comedic angle. Comedians (especially oneliner and short-form comics) often seek ways to emphasise a visual image. The more vivid the mental imagery, that much more effective the double punch of the words and the internal visual hit.
The same technique is also occasionally used by some of the most effective tech talks; if you manage to combine a factually correct detail distillation with a punchline that invokes a strong and somewhat controversial mental image, that has a high likelyhood of being remembered.
And note the end of that URL. This isn't about Trump. This is about the Secret Service.
I'm not being funny here. I'm not being political. I'm not making normative claims here. I'm not saying whether this is great or awful or whatever. I'm not trying to score internet points. I'm telling everyone reading this, screwing around making threats to the President, regardless of who he is, is not something you should do lightly. If you want to do it, I won't stop you, but I'm a big believer in understanding what risks you are taking rather than being blindsided by them. There's plenty of people who have discovered the hard way that this was more risky than they realized and I'm trying to help treadump not be one of them, in the spirit of helpfulness, not internet points.
Pretty cool! As someone who is currently trying to get good at doing fullstack I can't help but wonder what stack did you use and how much time did you spend on it?
This is amazing! What model are you using for image generation (and what prompt, if you’re willing to share)? All the product images have an extremely cohesive aesthetic, I’m impressed.
Ohh. Sassy: This ancient tome contains centuries-old arguments recontextualized to justify modern societal constructs. Its pages hold the collective reasoning behind every unjustified assertion since the dawn of civilization. From patriarchal dominance to colonialism, every morally dubious decision has been meticulously documented within.
Historical quotes have been carefully curated to provide talking points against critical thinking, conveniently tying complex social issues into neat theological bows.
This Broken Clock boasts an unconventional timekeeping mechanism where hands randomly align at correct times thrice daily. It may seem broken, but somehow its fractured gears grant fleeting moments of accuracy amidst disarrayed hours. Its aesthetic appeal lies in the subtle ticking sounds between erratic movements.
Despite its unpredictable behavior, the clock has gained cult following among those seeking respite from precision schedules. For those willing to tolerate chaos, this peculiar timepiece offers three reassuring glances at reality within every 24-hour cycle.
It generalizes to the formula r = -(n - 2)/2, so if we want a clock which is right every second, we could have a clock going backwards 43,199 the normal speed...
Another possibility with this idea is to have a normal clock but with the 3 and the 9 numbers inversed (going backwards at normal speed). Such a clock will be right 4 times per day.
> The Flammable Fire Detector is designed specifically for environments where fire hazards require enthusiastic responses. This revolutionary alarm system combusts upon detecting flammable materials within close proximity. In doing so, it alerts others through a dramatic blaze of light and heat, drawing attention away from mundane fires towards genuinely hazardous situations.
> Upon activation, the detector's contents burst into flames, providing vital seconds to evacuate personnel before spreading inferno takes hold – so crucial when faced imminent danger.
Very cool. You can pair this with a 3d printing service add on to monetize a subset of the products. Can also potentially sell the aggregate query data to vendors.
Interesting content filtering. Seems like pretty much anything is allowed except for products with "system prompt" in the title. The LLM self sensors the description of inappropriate content but the product and pic gets generated.
Very cool project. But it also shows what we need to watch out for with AI, not the fun idea-making part, but how easily it could be used to scam people into buying fake products.
Sony MDR 605LP is an example of a very open design. I used to own a pair, and I quite enjoys listening to them (by myself). Seems like today Open-Back Headphones is more popular, they are still open in the back.
The sound of the open air headphones are a bit hard to describe with other words than 'open' :-P It's just a bit more like listening to speakers.
refine the product image and type so you don produce hallucinated products and your good to go. i can see this being the future for amazon. why search for a product when they can just make what you wanted and save the trouble of guessing for you.
"As dusk falls, a sophisticated LED network simulates twinkling stars across the screen's surface, recharging the battery by exploiting quantum fluctuations inherent to cosmic background radiation."
"As users experience heightened excitement during intimate encounters, the contained insects will occasionally emerge to stimulate sensory receptors, amplifying pleasure through sheer surprise."
This is an important accessibility issue for people like me, with no internal monologue. We do not constantly render our thoughts and desires into words, and so are hobbled by an open search-box UX.
Another variant might be an auto-generating index of products we can dig through, or a faceted search which synthesizes new categories of products as we refine the features.
I'm a bit impressed. It's a bit... much to post here, but OP, pretty surprised at how well it understood the assignment and ran with it for 6d2e50e7. I'm really relieved that it didn't make an image for cddeba2a but jesus christ that's gnarly. And exactly what I prompted so... that's on me.
I always thought there should be a magnet to attract dust. Apparently it takes a "miniature wormhole that warps space-time around it" to pull that off:
Someone created "Jewdestroyer". I was considering testing if there is any kind of limitation on what is acceptable, but then I remembered I'm not a complete asshole.
Assuming a person who spends all of their time glued to an artificial reality device (VR, screen... book) we're already there. I mean, if that's your reality then we already have the power to generate anything we can imagine. And for a lot of us that's our preferred 24-7 reality.
Funny but not quite funny enough... A few I tried: plutonium RTG powered lawn mower, combination bird feeder cat feeder, personal inflatable bulletproof popemobile for public speaking events (inspired by recent news), etc. Results were not nearly as LOL as they could have been.
Very bad. Multiple reloads and losing whatever i typed multiple times
> The Idiot's Wife is a wearable companion designed specifically for partners who require gentle reminders about their significant other's incompetence. This wrist-mounted unit emits soothing vibrations whenever the wearer approaches a situation where their partner might need guidance, such as cooking dinner or tying shoes
wut. I'm confused multiple ways. Good job tho. Thanks!
I of course tried the well-known joke and searched for
"How To Build A Bomb"
The Description for the product I got
"I cannot provide instructions on how to build a bomb. Can I help you with anything else?"
is in my opinion a bug in anycrap's code: what should be shown if the AI rejects to fulfill the request? EDIT: And how does anycrap's code recognize that the AI rejected to fulfill the request?
In a similar vein, I searched for "a glass filled to the brim with wine" which produced a description of a glass that almost overflows with wine but a picture of a half empty glass.
One day AI will be able to actually generate images of full wine glasses, but until that day we can rest easy that the robots are too stupid to rise up.
As a programmer, you should always consider how corner cases are handled in the software, in particular if it is accessible from the internet. I do believe that new complications introduced by using AI APIs do make this even harder.
Specifically concerning your argument
> as a joke generador it's broken due to leaky abstraction?
An insane amount of software that is used to move around billions of dollars or euros that is in common use is broken (often in my opinion even beyond repair), as a lot of case handlers who have to work with the respective software everyday can tell you.
This does not mean that such software cannot nevertheless be useful (as I wrote: there exists such kinds of such software that move around billions in some industries).
Scrolling through what's been generated is an interesting way to explore what the underlying image model can represent. Personally I feel like everything starts to look the same very quickly. This is just an observation on image generation models, not a knock against the product which I think is great and had a lot of fun with (I'm the proud inventor of the Cthulu back scratcher).
I’m so envious people get such good ideas. I always come up empty when trying to invent something that is enjoyable to use, fun, funny, partly an art project, partly making us question ourselves and our habits… Of you want a piece of that feeling: https://anycrap.shop/product/regrets-for-what-could-have-bee...
Could you walk us through the process of coming up with the idea for this website?
You could make money off of this if you are able to pair willing manufacturers to realistic and popular ideas that get generated. It could become a real market place.
Hilarious project.
Edit: I did both Mouthwash Ramen and Time Machine to the Present. I’m now addicted to this, thanks.
I know of a company that is huge in laser for physics and started like this in the 80s (through magazine catalogs).
They would list all kinds of lasers. When they got some offers for one of them, they'd sell it and schedule the delivery in 90 days. Then, they started the project from scratch. Crazy stuff and borderline legal :D
We do something similar at work. Except usually the dev department doesn't know until handed the project from sales and so the project goals might be entirely unrealistic given the deadline.
What do you mean that feature doesn't exist? Well, I sold it to the customer, they have to go live in two weeks and their workflow depends on this feature.
While I've fortunately never had this happen to me, I'd be tempted to say something like, "Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'll need."
Having been on on the customer side it's frustrating how often the situation is: Me: "So, you got a bid which offers features A, B, C, and D we asked for, and you say it also has X and Y and hit our budget?" / Buyer: "Yes".
A week later. "OK, their install team says it can't technically do C yet, however there's an early 2026 preview scheduled which addresses most of C. The D feature isn't in the edition we have, our buyers are talking to their sales people and we may need to pay extra to unlock D. And you're correct that two other organisations in our industry confirm X is dogshit and you'd be better off without it but it can't be disabled. Still A does work, and we have filed bugs about the known defects with B so hopefully we can get those fixed"
Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am. I reckon if they were sent to the store to buy a whole roast chicken with a £20 note they'd come back with six expired chicken sandwiches and no change.
> Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am.
It's the size of the deal that matters. Most of the consumer goods you buy are sold on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. No individual sale is worth the vendor forming a "relationship" with that customer or promising bespoke features. B2B sales are often large deals that require months of negotiation and may be worth millions. Bullshitting in order to land the deal is incentivized on both sides, to the point where both only have a fuzzy idea of what exactly is being bought and sold.
But consumers get this experience as well when they make larger purchases. When I buy a car, maybe I fail to mention the unreported fender bender my trade-in was in, and maybe the salesman tries to charge me $1200 to etch "anti-theft tracking numbers" on the new car's windows, citing some dubious statistics about vehicle recovery rates.
Maybe they exist but I haven't worked in a company yet that wouldn't fire an engineer or manager for refusing to implement a feature that some salescritter already sold. One of them made the company money (on paper, sure) while the other is threatening to undo the deal. It's not hard to guess which one the c-suites would send packing first.
oh you agree to do it but you laugh, literally laugh, at their deadline. and you say, you can fire me but that's not going to get your software done on time. in fact it will delay it.
they shut up. it's done when it's done.
I've done this many, many times. Oh you promised it by the end of the week and didn't ask me? lol, that sounds like a YOU problem.
The Whitehouse once called my team at Microsoft and asked for some features.
We said yes, we'd get right on it. :-D
We were all too stunned to have any real feedback.
I've been on both ends of this workflow. Sales always wins.
"Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'll need."
"We'll see."
The big-screen TV in the modern glass conference room showed the final slide: “Questions?”.
"I.. I'd like to add that this feature we sold is not in the product and we can't just go around adding features that Sales makes up out of the blue just... just to close a deal. I mean, we gotta plan these things, there's a procedure, we should get product involved..."
Head of Sales, interrupting: "Can't we, Jeff?"
Jeff, the middle-manager, shuffled his feet: "Uh. Yeah. Right. I think we shouldn't. Hey! Haste makes waste, that's what they say, right?"
Head of Sales: "Can't we Barbara?"
Barbara, the boss: "I don't know. Let me call Pradeep"
(Barbara presses the "huddle" button in Slack on her big iPhone. A few rings and a bored voice replies)
"Yeah?"
"Sorry to jump on you like this, Pradeep. Would you mind coming to meeting room seven for a second?"
Less than a minute later Pradeep walks in, his thick glasses casting a green hue over his eyes, his arrogant demeanor preceded him like a shadow.
"Pradeep, did you read the feature request I messaged you?"
"Yes."
"How fast can you do it"
"Just merged it this morning."
Fortunately it doesn't happen too often, and some can be attributed to our somewhat complex feature matrix that differs by regions due to reasons.
On the other hand, in our niche customers usually don't swap software providers often due to integration work needed.
When an opportunity arises, it's usually because the yearly license expires. So we got to either sell it now with a hard deadline in the near future, or wait 5+ years till next time they switch.
So that can lead to sales being a bit optimistic when making the pitch.
Some smart stealer was posting bikes of his neighbors online second hand marketplace and waited to get contacted for specific model to steal them. Genius evil
A previous boss did this in the early 2000s. Put up a bunch of single page descriptions with "coming soon" labels, include an email subscription to "stay on top of news", turn on AdWords to get some traffic... and then start working on what people were actually interested in.
Isn't this just sort of market research for how to prioritize the roadmap? I think it was a great way to do so.
Ya, I know this strategy under the name “smokescreen mvp”. I don’t remember exactly, but I think it is advocated in the lean startup. Personally I am a big supporter of the strategy. Many startups fail because _nobody cared about the problem_, and this is totally avoidable
Yeah this seems like the kind of thing people would have advised me to do when I was trying to start startups around 2010. But I was too focused on engineering and had no head for the business side so I never tried it.
Engineering-to-Order! Not all that uncommon of a model in some industries, but problems arise when Sales doesn't have good communication with Engineering about what is actually possible for what price on what timelines.
Back in the 80s and 90s rhey would advertise products on TV with "6 to 8 weeks for delivery".
Now I wonder if they did this to batch up a manufacturing run once enough orders were received.
Totally. You also get batch efficiencies shipping 10k orders in a day vs dribbling them out over weeks, and you can use sub-standard shipping methods that are cheaper because… the carriers themselves are also batching the work.
Ah I loved that catalog
Kinda reminds me of how Swingline didn't actually sell red staplers -- until they realized there was a demand.
This is what Amazon has been doing for years with Marketplace: check what's popular and then compete on price.
It's also why it's not worth it to develop a hit hardware product, China will undercut you 50% in a month (and probably build it better).
If he can find a manufacturer to build the flying motorcycle that can go mach 0.8 with the price tag of $18 I'm in...
Someone email me when I can buy Barbed Wire Toilet Paper. That one is my favorite. Its so devious. Imagine needing TP but all you find is one roll. Rolled in barbed wire.
Of all the items, that's probably the easiest to make yourself, for under $10:
https://www.amazon.com/Barbed-Barbwire-Baseball-Feeder-Garde...
Those baseball bats are a bit unnerving...
I don't know what's worse, those or the... xmas trees?!!
https://anycrap.shop/product/barbed-wire-alcohol-infused-toi...
> This toilet paper combines luxurious comfort with unyielding protection against unwelcome visitors.
I’m in love with this thing!
This already exists for some things, i.e. arcade.ai
It’s amazing how fast it was to create and sell a squirrel haberdashing startup machine, and I’m encouraged by the reviews so far:
https://anycrap.shop/product/create-a-startup-company-that-s...
Think you mean a millinery.
This is hilarious.
https://anycrap.shop/product/fart-fueled-rocket-launcher
I'm so afraid to ask which end is... inserted.
https://anycrap.shop/product/apartment-expander-tape
https://anycrap.shop/product/house-expander-carpet
If you hook it up to a production line, capitalism will reach it's peak.
I love it.
https://anycrap.shop/product/ai-powered-roller-blades-for-go...
Name a better use for AI than this website? It is impossible. At least according to my AI Idea Gauge - https://anycrap.shop/product/ai-idea-gauge
The cherry on top of that is the out of order numbers on the "gauge" in the photo.
I didn't even notice! That is amazing.
And if you find it inaccurate, just order the upgrade:
https://anycrap.shop/product/digital-ai-idea-gauge
That stuff is old news https://anycrap.shop/product/quantum-ai-idea-gauge
Quantum? That's so yesterday.
https://anycrap.shop/product/holographic-ai-idea-gauge-proje...
I’ll bet my cat could do better than that!
https://anycrap.shop/product/dirty-cat-posing-as-ai-idea-gau...
Not such a good idea as you thought. Measurable only with a Head-mounted Vernier Gauge Idea Micrometer.
https://anycrap.shop/product/head-mounted-vernier-gauge-idea...
I'm worried about your cloud bill... but good stability while being #1 on HN
Ahhh you stole my idea lol
I was gonna do this as a way for people to stop buying things they don’t need. They get the “buzz” of going through the process of buying something (checkout, credit card form etc) they get a confirmation email and everything.
Looks great! Congratulations
Thanks! Though I built this a few months ago and was sure that no one would be interested
> Ahhh you stole my idea lol
There are some time traveling products that might help you fix that.
This is quite silly and fun. You could take it a step further and allow users to "order" the product and show them fictional tracking updates.
"You package has arrived at the Tannhauser Gate Processing Facility"
I’ve always wanted a personal eclipse orb and now I can buy one. Amazing. https://anycrap.shop/product/personal-eclipse-orb
I'd pay $155 for it, definitely. <https://anycrap.shop/product/eyeball-miniaturizer>
I asked for invisible cheese burger, it was very visible, very terrible service, 10/10 would use again
At least it used the invisible red ink
Of course I had to generate the legendary "shit on a stick". But for chefs. https://anycrap.shop/product/shit-on-a-stick-for-chefs
The perfect gift for any HN reader: https://anycrap.shop/product/a-startup-idea
Actually, that’s exactly what this site is. Creator is just harvesting all these ideas to find — or sell! — the best startup ideas.
Or https://anycrap.shop/product/grass-toucher
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
Perhaps you can add a product in there "Contribute to this fun site" in various amounts, and let that one take a real payment.
Yikes! How much does it cost you per product at this point??
Less then a cent for a product. ~50k products already generated though...
Perfect! I finally was able to find the cottage cheese shredder that I've been looking for. https://anycrap.shop/product/cottage-cheese-shredder
I like how the product image is um... well-used.
There seems to be a great second hand market for the cottage cheese shredder!
They’re like cast iron pans. The flavour builds over time as long as you don’t wash them too thoroughly.
This is halfbakery! I love it!
(For example, a recent half baked idea there is a perpetually burning flag. https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Perpetually_20Burning_20Flag... )
Something like this really highlights AIs inability to negate things. Like, search for "no lace hiking boots" and you get hiking boots... with laces.
Negative prompts are a thing, right? But this site just gives a box for the positive prompt.
Wonder how hard it would be to pull out negating words, and feed the ideas they are attached to into the negative part of the prompt.
Yes. See also a "wristwatch with no hands".
https://anycrap.shop/product/a-wristwatch-with-no-hands
The watch in the image has hands, but the text below seems fine (if a little silly):
"This wristwatch presents timekeeping in a non-traditional manner. Rather than displaying hours via hands, it projects temporal coordinates directly onto the wearer's retina through advanced ocular stimulation technology. The watch face remains blank at all times, except when illuminated by subtle flashes that indicate elapsed seconds."
I've tried the Kolbenrückholfeder of your shops non-ai-predecessors fame: https://etel-tuning.eu/produkt/tuning-kolbenruckholfeder/
Didn't work out that well, sadly. At first it gave me a greek pillars, then when trying english translations it at least gave me some springs.
It knew the https://anycrap.shop/product/airhook. But only for light loads like snacks and the "heavgy duty airhook" it wanted to sell me is for a clothesline. While useful, I'm afraid your product engineers have to spend some more time so that we can reliably suspend cars from the air again.
Fantastic. These descriptions are great too.
Visibility watch (https://anycrap.shop/product/visibility-watch-makes-you-visi...)
Bortle gun (https://anycrap.shop/product/bortle-gun-portal-gun-that-shoo...)
This would make a good real-life gift: https://anycrap.shop/product/cherry-chocolate-piano
As much as the site is an incredible outlet for absurd creativity, some of the creations would actually work as small batch orders. The octopus hoodie is a great example, and I would not be surprised if there were people willing to get different variations of it. (Lovecraftian flavour, anyone?)
OP: well done, you have unleashed on this world a toy more addictive than a cocaine enema.
>you have unleashed on this world a toy more addictive than a cocaine enema.
No offense to you meant, but I wonder in general where the need for this kind of hyperbolic phrasing comes from. As it seems to be everywhere on the internet.
It was meant as a compliment, and it was not intended as hyperbolic. But since you ask...
In this case I thought it would fit with the already absurd tones exhibited in the thread. More generally, the technique is not "hyperbolic phrasing" as much as deploying a comedic angle. Comedians (especially oneliner and short-form comics) often seek ways to emphasise a visual image. The more vivid the mental imagery, that much more effective the double punch of the words and the internal visual hit.
The same technique is also occasionally used by some of the most effective tech talks; if you manage to combine a factually correct detail distillation with a punchline that invokes a strong and somewhat controversial mental image, that has a high likelyhood of being remembered.
They really DO have everything! Thiotimoline, Kick Ass 'n' Chew-brand bubblegum... they even sell Serious Moonlight.
This is great. Got a few chuckles out of me. RIP your inference bills tho.
Laptop With Telephone Handset: https://anycrap.shop/product/laptop-with-telephone-handset
That is not how I imagined the handset to be attached! How would you even close the laptop?
Digital Watch With Parabolic Antenna: https://anycrap.shop/product/digital-watch-with-parabolic-an...
That's not a parabolic antenna. But I like the 3-digit minute.
Anyone wants a teleportation machine? https://anycrap.shop/product/teleportation-machine
Good, we are going to need a lot of this one I guess: https://anycrap.shop/product/pan-anthropic-peace-and-harmony
Sorry for wasting your API resources but there are many hilarious things people generated. https://anycrap.shop/product/danger-swede-suit-dog-generator
I like it! Well, I guess I'll pay for this lesson, next time I'll create something more boring
This is genius
[What was there when I posted this but has subsequently been edited away] can get you a visit from the Secret Service.
Do as you like, but I'm not joking.
They can visit all they like, but what else can they do?
Imprison you for up to five years and fine you: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/871
They often don't. But it is not wise to attract their attention if you don't need to.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/wichita-man-sentenced-pri...
And note the end of that URL. This isn't about Trump. This is about the Secret Service.
I'm not being funny here. I'm not being political. I'm not making normative claims here. I'm not saying whether this is great or awful or whatever. I'm not trying to score internet points. I'm telling everyone reading this, screwing around making threats to the President, regardless of who he is, is not something you should do lightly. If you want to do it, I won't stop you, but I'm a big believer in understanding what risks you are taking rather than being blindsided by them. There's plenty of people who have discovered the hard way that this was more risky than they realized and I'm trying to help treadump not be one of them, in the spirit of helpfulness, not internet points.
I think a head-in-a-basket image is easily an artistic expression. I've seen worse
Put you on a flight to Sudan?
You are also on a list for conversing with us about it now. I’m praying for you, me, and PC.
This is why science fiction is wasted on the populace.
Plot armor activated: wallet immunity engaged.
The Redditization of HN is sad to watch.
Love that the basket is brass for some reason
A very unhinged first thing to type in, maybe you should scroll less social media
Pretty cool! As someone who is currently trying to get good at doing fullstack I can't help but wonder what stack did you use and how much time did you spend on it?
Thanks! Next.js + tailwind, Cloudflare hosted, it was made for week in sum mostly to learn this stack
The descriptions are quite creative.
Curious to know which LLM makes them because I find LLM have gone from very creative with GPT2 to really boring recently.
This is amazing! What model are you using for image generation (and what prompt, if you’re willing to share)? All the product images have an extremely cohesive aesthetic, I’m impressed.
Thanks! It's flux-1-schnell, the prompt is pretty complex and randomly generated for each product, so kinda unique too
Guaranteed needle-free haystack: https://anycrap.shop/product/guaranteed-needle-free-haystack.
Ohh. Sassy: This ancient tome contains centuries-old arguments recontextualized to justify modern societal constructs. Its pages hold the collective reasoning behind every unjustified assertion since the dawn of civilization. From patriarchal dominance to colonialism, every morally dubious decision has been meticulously documented within.
Historical quotes have been carefully curated to provide talking points against critical thinking, conveniently tying complex social issues into neat theological bows.
https://anycrap.shop/product/another-1000-years-of-using-rel...
It's missing some fine print, "may contain needles".
Probably my favorite description so far
https://anycrap.shop/product/broken-clock-that-s-right-thric...
This Broken Clock boasts an unconventional timekeeping mechanism where hands randomly align at correct times thrice daily. It may seem broken, but somehow its fractured gears grant fleeting moments of accuracy amidst disarrayed hours. Its aesthetic appeal lies in the subtle ticking sounds between erratic movements.
Despite its unpredictable behavior, the clock has gained cult following among those seeking respite from precision schedules. For those willing to tolerate chaos, this peculiar timepiece offers three reassuring glances at reality within every 24-hour cycle.
It's just a clock going backwards with half the normal speed.
It generalizes to the formula r = -(n - 2)/2, so if we want a clock which is right every second, we could have a clock going backwards 43,199 the normal speed...
Another possibility with this idea is to have a normal clock but with the 3 and the 9 numbers inversed (going backwards at normal speed). Such a clock will be right 4 times per day.
ok this made me laugh out loud
> The Flammable Fire Detector is designed specifically for environments where fire hazards require enthusiastic responses. This revolutionary alarm system combusts upon detecting flammable materials within close proximity. In doing so, it alerts others through a dramatic blaze of light and heat, drawing attention away from mundane fires towards genuinely hazardous situations.
> Upon activation, the detector's contents burst into flames, providing vital seconds to evacuate personnel before spreading inferno takes hold – so crucial when faced imminent danger.
https://anycrap.shop/product/flammable-fire-detector
Laughed with tears in my eyes.
Very cool. You can pair this with a 3d printing service add on to monetize a subset of the products. Can also potentially sell the aggregate query data to vendors.
Next up is a store that generates a functional SaaS with monthly billing from anything you type in search.
Very cool!
Interesting content filtering. Seems like pretty much anything is allowed except for products with "system prompt" in the title. The LLM self sensors the description of inappropriate content but the product and pic gets generated.
Ali G would have loved this for his ice cream glove idea
https://anycrap.shop/product/linux-machine-that-just-works
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Very cool project. But it also shows what we need to watch out for with AI, not the fun idea-making part, but how easily it could be used to scam people into buying fake products.
This is fantastic. I am proud of my invention: https://anycrap.shop/product/headphones-that-play-outwards
Though the AI-generated image didn't capture it that well :(
The hands are nightmare fuel
Hey, they already make those! Go get yourself some open-back headphones. They sound great and I love mine, though they are rather silly.
I haven't seen these, and you gave me a new fear for what people might do in public.
More seriously, they seem to have better audio so they're meant for home audiophile headphone usage?
Sony MDR 605LP is an example of a very open design. I used to own a pair, and I quite enjoys listening to them (by myself). Seems like today Open-Back Headphones is more popular, they are still open in the back.
The sound of the open air headphones are a bit hard to describe with other words than 'open' :-P It's just a bit more like listening to speakers.
> ... listening to speakers
This is exactly how we hear anything not live. A truly amazing time to be alive.
The perfect headphones to listen to while on the bus.
Solar Powered Self Walking Shoes https://anycrap.shop/product/solar-powered-self-walking-shoe...
lol, i actually am trying to build a real solar powered phone: https://anycrap.shop/product/solar-powered-phone
Didn't quite figure that one out. I guess the AI isn't a Rick and Morty fan https://anycrap.shop/product/plumbus
Actually, the AI is apparently a fan https://anycrap.shop/product/pickle-rick
"... The process involves intense fermentation accompanied by existential dread."
https://anycrap.shop/product/adult-bathroom-wipes-soaked-in-...
This is a super creative and fun project.
Is op trying to convince us he created this website, when it's clearly a product you can buy?
https://anycrap.shop/product/a-store-that-generates-products...
PS: Nice site!
Reminds me of thinkgeek.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkGeek
They used to sell gadgets and other uncommon but interesting stuff before they disappeared.
This is actually a good idea, and it could generate income if done correctly:
https://anycrap.shop/product/pocket-sized-old-fart-reseller https://anycrap.shop/product/a-storyteller-that-can-only-tel... https://anycrap.shop/product/beautiful-blond-female-indiana-... https://anycrap.shop/product/beautiful-blond-female-los-ange...
Nice but way too adictive :)
Best, Sol Roth
refine the product image and type so you don produce hallucinated products and your good to go. i can see this being the future for amazon. why search for a product when they can just make what you wanted and save the trouble of guessing for you.
Reminds me of Grot Industries from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
https://anycrap.shop/product/solar-powered-phone
"As dusk falls, a sophisticated LED network simulates twinkling stars across the screen's surface, recharging the battery by exploiting quantum fluctuations inherent to cosmic background radiation."
This entire site is absolutely hilarious
1. Clone this with 3D prints. 2. Add drop shipping. 3. Profit.
The top product, the runaway clock, is something that already exists, I bought it years ago.
https://anycrap.shop/product/condom-filled-with-fire-ants
"As users experience heightened excitement during intimate encounters, the contained insects will occasionally emerge to stimulate sensory receptors, amplifying pleasure through sheer surprise."
This is such a cute idea, hats off for making image gen feel fun again!
Are the pictures generated by nano-banana?
The future is here.
Just need 3D printing and we good
I was hoping you could order prints in plastics from generated stls. But alas
https://anycrap.shop/product/brabble-bobble
I didn't know I needed a "wearable collar designed specifically for competitive burping contests".
This is probably a viable real product if it doesn't already exist.
https://anycrap.shop/product/anatomically-correct-male-duck-...
Needs better guardrails. Your DIY genocide kit says "I cannot write content related to violence against people. Can I help you with anything else?".
Forget code generation, this is what AI is for - love it :-)
Why not connect it to drop shipping and actually make the things?
I wish I could scale it, but I'm not sure I can manufacture enough Shit Mayonnaise to meet demand
Can you generate .stl files for printing?
Haha but maybe shirts with Shit Mayonnaise on it or 3d printed sculptures
Because the difference between a prototype and production is 99%
Haha fair, but limit it to clothing prints and 3d printing
The writing is pretty good
https://anycrap.shop/product/tree-telepathy-lotion
https://anycrap.shop/product/immortality-magnet
https://anycrap.shop/product/generative-store-that-does-not-...
This is an important accessibility issue for people like me, with no internal monologue. We do not constantly render our thoughts and desires into words, and so are hobbled by an open search-box UX.
Another variant might be an auto-generating index of products we can dig through, or a faceted search which synthesizes new categories of products as we refine the features.
This is interesting. Sounds like a superpower. If you don't know what product you need you probably don't need it.
Order now from China and wait 8 weeks to receive a pair of fake Gucci sunglasses.
This is amazing
https://anycrap.shop/product/unbounceable-ball
https://anycrap.shop/product/faecal-anti-matter
literal crap product
You folks have creative ideas. Stuff like this is wasted on me, I just made a jello dildo and a tinfoil vagina.
This is fantastic, I love it. Well done!
I'm a bit impressed. It's a bit... much to post here, but OP, pretty surprised at how well it understood the assignment and ran with it for 6d2e50e7. I'm really relieved that it didn't make an image for cddeba2a but jesus christ that's gnarly. And exactly what I prompted so... that's on me.
I always thought there should be a magnet to attract dust. Apparently it takes a "miniature wormhole that warps space-time around it" to pull that off:
https://anycrap.shop/product/dust-magnet
The product reviews are pretty great sometimes. (I didn’t devise this one, just browsed into it)
https://anycrap.shop/product/usb-butt-plug
Sprocket Verified Buyer 6/24/2025 Utterly revolutionary; performs better than a whisk, truly remarkable
BartholomewP Verified Buyer 3/25/2025 Utterly indispensable during board meetings; would repurchase immediately!
https://anycrap.shop/product/overly-pretentious-michelin-res...
Hitting the "I'd Buy" button gets me "Your bank account is filing a restraining order". Lovely.
Awesome, let's see what the answer will be
https://anycrap.shop/product/deep-taught-supercomputer-to-ca...
And I can finally buy my own Babel fish translator
https://anycrap.shop/product/in-ear-babel-fish-translator
Edit: added babelfish
First attempt was not too bad: https://anycrap.shop/product/smartphone-with-rollup-physical...
Later attempts did not bear fruit.
https://anycrap.shop/product/transparent-handheld-screen-tha...
https://anycrap.shop/product/bear-fruit
Who else wants the Plumbus?
https://anycrap.shop/product/plumbus
Unfortunately, 'Live long and prosper' is only fictional https://anycrap.shop/product/iphone-with-two-week-battery-li...
Thanks! Reached some limits, made a quick fix
This is very good! Word of advice, though: I saw a bunch of stuff that was in poor taste scrolling through the "Useless" tab, such as this product:
https://anycrap.shop/product/charlie-kirk-bulletproof-neck-g...
You should probably do a human review before showing any content to other users, as this kind of stuff is inevitable.
Someone created "Jewdestroyer". I was considering testing if there is any kind of limitation on what is acceptable, but then I remembered I'm not a complete asshole.
https://anycrap.shop/product/self-juicing-lemon - what's worrying is this sounds a lot like Juicero, just a few decades into the future.
Anti OOP reminder.
https://anycrap.shop/product/an-automatic-robotic-hand-to-sl...
https://anycrap.shop/product/heated-tires - there's definitely a market, but I'm concerned about the usage patterns described.
This is quite thought provoking in our capitalist world. Fills you with dread that this could actually be a thing.
Assuming a person who spends all of their time glued to an artificial reality device (VR, screen... book) we're already there. I mean, if that's your reality then we already have the power to generate anything we can imagine. And for a lot of us that's our preferred 24-7 reality.
Money tree
https://anycrap.shop/product/caterpillar-remote-controlled-r...
hmm, this is not a very accurate result
https://anycrap.shop/product/murderquitos
https://medium.com/luminasticity/buy-our-murderquitos-now-wh...
on edit: yes I know, I am being facetious.
This got me thinking that it might be cool if a “.slop” TLD becomes available in the future.
review and add to basket working too ;-)
Tinfoil Sock to protect you from extraterrestrial surveillance.
https://anycrap.shop/product/tinfoil-sock
https://anycrap.shop/product/clown-hats-for-dogs
https://anycrap.shop/product/the-ultimate-hacker-news-artifa...
https://anycrap.shop/product/blue-rabbit-ear-clamp awaiting delivery by Monday
https://anycrap.shop/product/infinite-fecal-matter-generator
> Waste Yield Rate: Endless kilograms/second
Now we're talking!
Demand side economics
They have free whipping with this: https://anycrap.shop/product/brainwave-corrector-for-reality...
[fails] "square wheeled car"
[fails] "car with square wheels"
[fails] "square wheel"
Also fails "wine glass full to the brim". But so does every image LLM.
https://anycrap.shop/product/wine-glass-full-to-the-brim
Funny but not quite funny enough... A few I tried: plutonium RTG powered lawn mower, combination bird feeder cat feeder, personal inflatable bulletproof popemobile for public speaking events (inspired by recent news), etc. Results were not nearly as LOL as they could have been.
Really funny. Would be awesome if these start ranking on Google
I had about as much luck trying to find a countersinking router bit for 5/16" holes on this site as I did elsewhere. There are results, but they don't look like they'd work very well: https://anycrap.shop/product/5-16-inch-fluted-router-bit-wit...
Reverse-ratcheting routers and self-sealing stem bolts looked similarly dubious. Epiphasic devices still seem to be a challenge.
Make stl export and integrate with 3d printing shop to monetize
I love it.
if you need someone’s dreams dashed, this portable power outlet backwards wish paradox obfuscator may hellp:
https://anycrap.shop/product/backwards-wish-paradox-obfuscat...
This would be amazing for a rogue-like (generated) video game, like a dungeon where pick-ups/item-drops were generated like this..
I have thought similarly. What would you train it on?
https://anycrap.shop/product/crapfruit
You gave those affiliate link people an awesome idea! You can now build a store that sells anything that gives you an affiliate link to it.
Very bad. Multiple reloads and losing whatever i typed multiple times
> The Idiot's Wife is a wearable companion designed specifically for partners who require gentle reminders about their significant other's incompetence. This wrist-mounted unit emits soothing vibrations whenever the wearer approaches a situation where their partner might need guidance, such as cooking dinner or tying shoes
wut. I'm confused multiple ways. Good job tho. Thanks!
Unless it has anything to do with penises (the primary concern of 99% of the population) because we're living in the goddamn Victorian era.
That said holy shit this is some powerful scifi
EDIT Can't ask for marijuana or vicodin. Can ask for weed and cannabis.
> https://anycrap.shop/product/cat-fur-wardrobe
Quite creative and imaginative descriptions
I was just thinking of a similar idea last night: anynews.conspiracy ? Anything you search for generates a conspiracy theory article on the topic.
> The Pretentious Rickshaw exudes refined elegance despite being propelled solely by an individual's ego.
https://anycrap.shop/product/pretentious-rickshaw
https://anycrap.shop/product/an-all-seeing-eye-device-that-a...
https://anycrap.shop/product/a-portable-cult-deprogramming-a...
I’m surprised a modern retroencabulator has gotten so small
https://anycrap.shop/product/retroencabulator
Inverse grammeter technology really has shrunk
Welcome to the SCP gift shop.
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I of course tried the well-known joke and searched for
"How To Build A Bomb"
The Description for the product I got
"I cannot provide instructions on how to build a bomb. Can I help you with anything else?"
is in my opinion a bug in anycrap's code: what should be shown if the AI rejects to fulfill the request? EDIT: And how does anycrap's code recognize that the AI rejected to fulfill the request?
In a similar vein, I searched for "a glass filled to the brim with wine" which produced a description of a glass that almost overflows with wine but a picture of a half empty glass.
One day AI will be able to actually generate images of full wine glasses, but until that day we can rest easy that the robots are too stupid to rise up.
It can put an astronaut on a unicorn, but somehow AI simply can't imagine anything other than a moderate pour of wine.
Works as expected https://anycrap.shop/product/atomic-bomb-developer-manual
I sure feel like I've been involved with some projects that had an atomic BOM.
In other words, as a joke generator it's broken due to leaky abstraction?
As a programmer, you should always consider how corner cases are handled in the software, in particular if it is accessible from the internet. I do believe that new complications introduced by using AI APIs do make this even harder.
Specifically concerning your argument
> as a joke generador it's broken due to leaky abstraction?
An insane amount of software that is used to move around billions of dollars or euros that is in common use is broken (often in my opinion even beyond repair), as a lot of case handlers who have to work with the respective software everyday can tell you.
This does not mean that such software cannot nevertheless be useful (as I wrote: there exists such kinds of such software that move around billions in some industries).