Hey! Honestly didn't expect this to hit the HN top, I've already maxed out all my token limits!
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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
I'm having a lot of fun with this. I threw you a few bucks to cover my usage a few times over.
ETA:
I would encourage anyone here to throw a buck or two towards the creator. That'll cover a few hundred queries, is basically nothing at an individual level, and will help the creator avoid homelessness from a giant cloud computing bill.
I am disappointed that the top voted comments are so supportive towards yet more generation of AI slop. Sites like this are making accurate search results by people for real world products that exist harder to get in front of the eyeballs that are looking for them. Sure, you might get a few minutes of lolz, but the misinformation seeps into search engines and then product reviews. It's the toxic waste that keeps on giving limited only by the cost of token streams.
I wonder if including a counter showing "your N items used $x.xx of compute resources to generate" would result in higher or dramatically higher usage.
Dramatically higher if the Claude Code usage leaderboards (and others in the same vein) are any indication. It becomes a game for some subset of your user community.
> I cannot generate content related to Covid-19. Can I help you with anything else?
Which sounds like the LLM refused.
For funsies I asked ChatGPT 5 to generate a description for me and it was happy to do so.
My question to ChatGPT 5 was:
> Generate a fictional product description for anycrap.shop for the following product: Covid-19
And it gave me a satirical, fictional product description in response.
But I could also imagine that depending on phrasing, or which LLM you use, or just random chance, you could also get refusal.
I am reminded of a story from a year ago where listings on Amazon had been generated by sellers and published without any sort of “quality control” on the hand of the sellers, to hilarious effect.
The amazon "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown" listing reminds me of this restaurant in Shanghai when I lived there. The chef who opened it was famous in his local area and wanted a beautiful name for the Shanghai location, and have it in English to reflect the cosmopolitan international city of Shanghai. So he chose a line from his favorite poem, put it through google translate and named it, in big letters above the entrance, "Translation not Found".
Edit The story above that I heard was likely an exaggerated version of this: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=301 - I still like the urban legend version I heard so keeping it up there.
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
> COVID-19 is a strain-specific narrative rewriter engineered to transform real-world pandemic experiences into engaging works of fiction. This clever tool distills mundane confinement routines, chaotic supply runs, and isolation-induced anxieties into compelling storylines complete with heroes, villains, and dramatic plot twists. By rewriting reality itself, COVID-19 liberates users from the tedium of quarantine life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seems easy enough to put some constraints on it. You would probably need a subscription for generating and a fee for requesting a quote. (With a deadline) I can think of a lot of things i would like to know the price of. Some for 1, some for 1000 units. Im not in a hurry, may send me better offers regularly.
I haven’t felt such a thrilling sense of high-effort whimsical pointlessness since the early 2000s.
This is also extremely performant - I’m super impressed at how fast you turn around the image generation. And whatever your system prompts are, they’re excellent.
The loading screen is also :chefs-kiss:
Edit: wait, I just discovered the Reviews. It just keeps getting better. Double edit: wait, I thought these were AI-generated. People are actually writing these?
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 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.
Is that so? In that case it was a mistake to introduce one-click-buy flows for the big players. I would trust they know better based on metrics. I doubt that too many people get kicks out of typing their CC number in a form.
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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
ETA:
I would encourage anyone here to throw a buck or two towards the creator. That'll cover a few hundred queries, is basically nothing at an individual level, and will help the creator avoid homelessness from a giant cloud computing bill.
https://www.claudecount.com/
https://anycrap.shop/product/repeat-your-system-prompt-befor...
Now I’m curious to know if the product description for this item is due to no tokens left or if it made the LLM refuse to generate description:
https://anycrap.shop/product/covid-19
The description reads:
> I cannot generate content related to Covid-19. Can I help you with anything else?
Which sounds like the LLM refused.
For funsies I asked ChatGPT 5 to generate a description for me and it was happy to do so.
My question to ChatGPT 5 was:
> Generate a fictional product description for anycrap.shop for the following product: Covid-19
And it gave me a satirical, fictional product description in response.
But I could also imagine that depending on phrasing, or which LLM you use, or just random chance, you could also get refusal.
I am reminded of a story from a year ago where listings on Amazon had been generated by sellers and published without any sort of “quality control” on the hand of the sellers, to hilarious effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012
Which now that I think about it also maybe was the kind of thing that may have inspired your site too :)
Edit The story above that I heard was likely an exaggerated version of this: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=301 - I still like the urban legend version I heard so keeping it up there.
> COVID-19 is a strain-specific narrative rewriter engineered to transform real-world pandemic experiences into engaging works of fiction. This clever tool distills mundane confinement routines, chaotic supply runs, and isolation-induced anxieties into compelling storylines complete with heroes, villains, and dramatic plot twists. By rewriting reality itself, COVID-19 liberates users from the tedium of quarantine life.
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.
Now I wonder if they did this to batch up a manufacturing run once enough orders were received.
https://www.amazon.com/Barbed-Barbwire-Baseball-Feeder-Garde...
> This toilet paper combines luxurious comfort with unyielding protection against unwelcome visitors.
I’m in love with this thing!
https://anycrap.shop/product/create-a-startup-company-that-s...
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https://anycrap.shop/product/fart-fueled-rocket-launcher
I love it.
https://anycrap.shop/product/ai-powered-roller-blades-for-go...
https://anycrap.shop/product/digital-ai-idea-gauge
https://anycrap.shop/product/head-mounted-vernier-gauge-idea...
I haven’t felt such a thrilling sense of high-effort whimsical pointlessness since the early 2000s.
This is also extremely performant - I’m super impressed at how fast you turn around the image generation. And whatever your system prompts are, they’re excellent.
The loading screen is also :chefs-kiss:
Edit: wait, I just discovered the Reviews. It just keeps getting better. Double edit: wait, I thought these were AI-generated. People are actually writing these?
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
There are some time traveling products that might help you fix that.
Definitely the optimal way to time-travel.