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.
lucasyvas · 2h ago
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.
haolez · 2h ago
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
magicalhippo · 2h ago
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.
DowsingSpoon · 45m ago
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."
tialaramex · 29m ago
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.
nilamo · 1h ago
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.
prerok · 9m ago
Isn't this just sort of market research for how to prioritize the roadmap? I think it was a great way to do so.
ttoinou · 2h ago
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
gundmc · 1h ago
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.
giancarlostoro · 8m ago
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.
i7l · 2h ago
This is what Amazon has been doing for years with Marketplace: check what's popular and then compete on price.
Workaccount2 · 2m ago
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).
nharada · 1h ago
This already exists for some things, i.e. arcade.ai
wudlndhabrdshr · 1h ago
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:
That's not a parabolic antenna. But I like the 3-digit minute.
losthobbies · 2h ago
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
kafked · 2h ago
Thanks! Though I built this a few months ago and was sure that no one would be interested
Dantalian · 1h ago
I asked for invisible cheese burger, it was very visible, very terrible service, 10/10 would use again
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."
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.
GabrielBRAA · 57m ago
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?
kafked · 46m ago
Thanks! Next.js + tailwind, Cloudflare hosted, it was made for week in sum mostly to learn this stack
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
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.
"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.
recursive · 14m ago
This is interesting. Sounds like a superpower. If you don't know what product you need you probably don't need it.
elijahcarrel · 2h ago
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.
kafked · 2h ago
Thanks! It's flux-1-schnell, the prompt is pretty complex and randomly generated for each product, so kinda unique too
I like it! Well, I guess I'll pay for this lesson, next time I'll create something more boring
tumidpandora · 1h ago
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.
treadump · 3h ago
This is genius
jerf · 1h ago
[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.
kurtoid · 1h ago
They can visit all they like, but what else can they do?
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.
actionfromafar · 1h ago
Put you on a flight to Sudan?
iwontberude · 1h ago
You are also on a list for conversing with us about it now. I’m praying for you, me, and PC.
analog8374 · 2h ago
This is why science fiction is wasted on the populace.
tempodox · 2h ago
Plot armor activated: wallet immunity engaged.
moralestapia · 1h ago
The Redditization of HN is sad to watch.
turnsout · 1h ago
Love that the basket is brass for some reason
artursapek · 2h ago
A very unhinged first thing to type in, maybe you should scroll less social media
xaxaxb · 20m ago
The future is here.
xaxaxb · 20m ago
Just need 3D printing and we good
shredprez · 52m ago
This is such a cute idea, hats off for making image gen feel fun again!
jszymborski · 1h ago
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.
Though the AI-generated image didn't capture it that well :(
ainiriand · 3h ago
The hands are nightmare fuel
ryukoposting · 3h ago
Hey, they already make those! Go get yourself some open-back headphones. They sound great and I love mine, though they are rather silly.
vintagedave · 3h ago
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?
Epa095 · 3h ago
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.
jagged-chisel · 3h ago
> ... listening to speakers
This is exactly how we hear anything not live. A truly amazing time to be alive.
shortcord · 3h ago
The perfect headphones to listen to while on the bus.
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?
I sure feel like I've been involved with some projects that had an atomic BOM.
jeroenhd · 2h ago
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.
turnsout · 1h ago
It can put an astronaut on a unicorn, but somehow AI simply can't imagine anything other than a moderate pour of wine.
the_af · 2h ago
In other words, as a joke generator it's broken due to leaky abstraction?
aleph_minus_one · 1h ago
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).
nert · 23m ago
if you need someone’s dreams dashed, this portable power outlet backwards wish paradox obfuscator may hellp:
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!
wizardforhire · 1h ago
Demand side economics
mulhoon · 3h ago
This is quite thought provoking in our capitalist world. Fills you with dread that this could actually be a thing.
analog8374 · 53m ago
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.
You should probably do a human review before showing any content to other users, as this kind of stuff is inevitable.
richrichardsson · 2h ago
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.
artursapek · 2h ago
Really funny. Would be awesome if these start ranking on Google
Hilarious project.
Edit: I did both Mouthwash Ramen and Time Machine to the Present. I’m now addicted to this, thanks.
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
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.
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.
https://anycrap.shop/product/create-a-startup-company-that-s...
I love it.
https://anycrap.shop/product/ai-powered-roller-blades-for-go...
https://anycrap.shop/product/head-mounted-vernier-gauge-idea...
https://anycrap.shop/product/digital-ai-idea-gauge
https://anycrap.shop/product/holographic-ai-idea-gauge-proje...
"You package has arrived at the Tannhauser Gate Processing Facility"
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.
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
(For example, a recent half baked idea there is a perpetually burning flag. https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Perpetually_20Burning_20Flag... )
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.
https://anycrap.shop/product/a-wristwatch-with-no-hands
"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."
https://anycrap.shop/product/unbounceable-ball
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.
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
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...
"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.
Do as you like, but I'm not joking.
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.
> 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
https://anycrap.shop/product/a-store-that-generates-products...
PS: Nice site!
https://anycrap.shop/product/anatomically-correct-male-duck-...
"... The process involves intense fermentation accompanied by existential dread."
Though the AI-generated image didn't capture it that well :(
More seriously, they seem to have better audio so they're meant for home audiophile headphone usage?
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.
This is exactly how we hear anything not live. A truly amazing time to be alive.
"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?
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.
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).
https://anycrap.shop/product/backwards-wish-paradox-obfuscat...
literal crap product
https://anycrap.shop/product/tinfoil-sock
https://anycrap.shop/product/an-automatic-robotic-hand-to-sl...
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/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
Later attempts did not bear fruit.
https://anycrap.shop/product/transparent-handheld-screen-tha...
https://anycrap.shop/product/tree-telepathy-lotion
https://anycrap.shop/product/immortality-magnet
[fails] "car with square wheels"
[fails] "square wheel"
https://anycrap.shop/product/wine-glass-full-to-the-brim
> Waste Yield Rate: Endless kilograms/second
Now we're talking!
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.
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/pretentious-rickshaw
https://anycrap.shop/product/retroencabulator
Inverse grammeter technology really has shrunk