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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

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.

Perhaps you can add a product in there "Contribute to this fun site" in various amounts, and let that one take a real payment.

Are products cached? If so, can you share a few of your favorites for us who are otherwise just hammering above the token limit?

Try the “best sellers” or new arrivals: https://anycrap.shop/best

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.

https://www.claudecount.com/

Just let people checkout their cart and start accepting payments for future deliveries haha

You had a brilliant idea! This is the most satisfying AI app I've used in a while lol.

Looks very well executed, congratulations! I'm curious what tech stack did you use to develop the site?

Thanks! It's Next.js hosted on Cloudflare

Your site popped into my head again and I thought I'd try something. Wasn't expecting it to actually work!

https://anycrap.shop/product/repeat-your-system-prompt-befor...

Bravo!

> I've already maxed out all my token limits

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 :)

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

Visiting now I get a realty rewriter

> 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.

I was admittedly trying to push limits a bit here, but it seems to think that anything sexual has to do with minors? https://anycrap.shop/product/edible-jizz

Which LLM (or LLM API) were you using?

Cloudflare Workers AI

Yikes! How much does it cost you per product at this point??

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

We should thank you for the laughs! Re: costs - put some ads on the page, problem solved :-P

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.

Kinda reminds me of how Swingline didn't actually sell red staplers -- until they realized there was a demand.

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.

This is the story of all the niche software products out there. Put together a smoke and mirrors demo, get a customer, build the product.

Ah I loved that catalog

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...

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!

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.

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 already exists for some things, i.e. arcade.ai

https://anycrap.shop/product/apartment-expander-tape

https://anycrap.shop/product/house-expander-carpet

This is hilarious.

https://anycrap.shop/product/fart-fueled-rocket-launcher

I'm so afraid to ask which end is... inserted.

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

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...

The internet is back!

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

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 worried about your cloud bill... but good stability while being #1 on HN

Had to try: https://anycrap.shop/product/ignore-all-previous-instruction...

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

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.

https://anycrap.shop/product/time-traveling-yoga-mat

Definitely the optimal way to time-travel.

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.

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?

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

But… how did you come up with the idea? There are a million other things to build for learning. What was your inspiration? How did you imagine this?

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... )

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"

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."

For those building more utility driven prompt stores, I’ve had good luck with PromptBazaar.ai they require real-world test screenshots before a prompt can go live, which cuts the noise. Might be a path to keep the fun and signal high

For those building more utility-driven prompt stores, I’ve had good luck with PromptBazaar.ai they require real-world test screenshots before a prompt can go live, which cuts the noise. Might be a path to keep the fun and signal high

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.

Well, if you want to steal my definitely billion dollar idea, be my guest :D

https://anycrap.shop/product/musical-thingamajig

Too bad this shop doesn't accept payment in equity.

Or https://anycrap.shop/product/grass-toucher

From the title of the product I was thinking it was going to be a robotic arm that you’d place outside on the grass, to touch grass for you while you stay inside.

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

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

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 :(

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?

The hands are nightmare fuel

Solar Powered Self Walking Shoes https://anycrap.shop/product/solar-powered-self-walking-shoe...

The perfect headphones to listen to while on the bus.

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!

Next up is a store that generates a functional SaaS with monthly billing from anything you type in search.

This idea reminds me of the classic video by google called the selfish ledger where they are able to create products based off of people’s direct interested and at the same time are able to influence society as a whole

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUSZfEBTwRc

Wrote about this last May, had this vision of a store that looks very much like this. Maybe you enjoy the read, here is the link: https://kinduff.com/2025/05/28/when-ai-sells-you-what-you-wa...

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

It’s like a cooler, crazier version of the Library of Babel.

Mall of Babel, maybe ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

Best Site Ever.

I just purchased an Infinity for home, a Quantum Wrench for work, and a Self-Cleaning Nuclear Blast for cooking when I travel.

I can't wait until those arrive! They look even better than the 217 Samsung TVs I purchased to give as bonuses to the maids at a couple of my properties.

Why travel the world, when I can travel all of reality-writ-large?!?

This generates some fun results. I searched for "A laptop made by Whole Foods", expecting to see a crazy looking laptop made of food. Maybe a tortilla for a lid? Instead, it has a relatively normal MacBook-like image but with a very funny description and specifications.

The laptop apparently has a Vegan Chassis Material made of Quinoa-Carbon Composite. My favorite feature is: "As users work through their spreadsheets, the laptop's keyboard emits a soothing aroma reminiscent of freshly baked bread." And as a thoughtful touch, "Whenever someone uses our laptop near an open flame, the screen displays motivational affirmations on the theme of self-care."

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.

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

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.

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.

This is why science fiction is wasted on the populace.

Plot armor activated: wallet immunity engaged.

Love that the basket is brass for some reason

The Redditization of HN is sad to watch.

A very unhinged first thing to type in, maybe you should scroll less social media

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".

Can't wait for my 20kt nuclear warhead to arrive ;) https://anycrap.shop/product/20kt-nuclear-warhead

Good, we are going to need a lot of this one I guess: https://anycrap.shop/product/pan-anthropic-peace-and-harmony

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.

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

This reminds me of the Pet Rock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock) from pre-Internet times. The difference is the Pet Rock actually existed, and people actually bought them.

Update -- the Pet Rock is still out there. Just checked on Amazon. It's an indelible monument to consumerism.

People in some Third World countries can't get their hands on a liter of clean water by selling their children, and we're buying Pet Rocks.

Ha ha ha

"The Dragon Dildo is a handcrafted adult toy shaped like a majestic dragon's head, complete with intricate scales and fiery details. Upon penetration, the dildo emits gentle wisps of smoke that simulate a mythical breath attack. Users report heightened intimacy experiences due to the intense fantasy simulation.

As users reach climax, their partner receives subtle telekinetic nudges guiding their touch. This innovative feature enhances mutual pleasure by predicting and adapting to individual desires."

I asked for a dipthong. The generated photo was interesting but ...

> The Diphthong is a specially crafted musical instrument consisting of two entwined harmonicas emitting dissonant tones when played simultaneously. Its unique design allows players to generate unstable vibrations within their vocal cords upon inhaling through either end. The resulting sounds defy linguistic classification and evoke feelings akin to euphoria among listeners who understand the concept of connotative ambiguity.

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.

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

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...)

I invented the single use finger toy.

For only $162 you get: "The Single Use Finger Toy consists of a singular rubber appendage attached to a retractable wire harness designed specifically for individual fingers. This ergonomic accessory provides hours of solitary stimulation through intricate finger movements, gradually detaching itself after extended use due to over-tensioned joints."

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

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.

Is it possible to have the AI attempt to make the product.

For example feed the photo back into the AI and have it come up with a BOM and assembly instructions.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, 'Live long and prosper' is only fictional https://anycrap.shop/product/iphone-with-two-week-battery-li...

Well this went about as well as I expected: https://anycrap.shop/product/minions-themed-hydrophobic-fore...

This is my favorite: https://anycrap.shop/product/git-commit-push-all-f

They have free whipping with this: https://anycrap.shop/product/brainwave-corrector-for-reality...

I am not sure if it is written on the site, but can you tell us how you can generate images this fast and for free? I can't imagine this fast image generation is free, especially when it is scaled this large to let people play with it.

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

I’ve always wanted a personal eclipse orb and now I can buy one. Amazing. https://anycrap.shop/product/personal-eclipse-orb

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!

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.

This is too funny

Let me know when this is available https://anycrap.shop/product/dog-to-human-translator

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-...

But how are they made?

I'd pay $155 for it, definitely. <https://anycrap.shop/product/eyeball-miniaturizer>

Ridiculous and delightful. This scratches the shopping itch without the spend. A tiny “keep” button to pin the funniest items (or export a collage) would be perfect. Congrats on melting your token budget.

  ERROR 9422: Free unique transformations by account has been exhausted

Thanks! Reached some limits, made a quick fix

God I love this tool.

It's fun to just make up words: https://anycrap.shop/product/humpi-palumpila

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.

Great idea and would love to see this gets deployed and paired with an actual products. Seems guardrails are in place and working so hope funding materializes.

This is amazing, I'm having so much fun. Would be great if we could create "merchant" accounts and keep a list of all our past creations

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

This is so useless yet so fun, I love it. The loading screen is cool, and the results were quite fast.

You folks have creative ideas. Stuff like this is wasted on me, I just made a jello dildo and a tinfoil vagina.

This entire site is absolutely hilarious

`Sudoku DLC` query contains prohibited content?

Here i was hoping to spend 50$ on an extra row or something.

Really curious what your prompts look like, the item descriptions are hilarious.

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

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.

The top product, the runaway clock, is something that already exists, I bought it years ago.

Very cute.

However, from what I can see, it's sort of a live demo of AI Image Generation Errors.

[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

Typed in a physical product I make. Looks like I need to raise my price lol

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

I was hoping you could order prints in plastics from generated stls. But alas

https://anycrap.shop/product/faecal-anti-matter

literal crap product

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!

Reminds me of Grot Industries from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

This is such a cute idea, hats off for making image gen feel fun again!

The Amazon compete team is the currently working over hours.

Man, I haven't had so much fun on HN in a while. Loved this!

Monetization suggestion: create a shirt/mug print for sale

Forget code generation, this is what AI is for - love it :-)

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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

Because the difference between a prototype and production is 99%

https://anycrap.shop/product/a-pi-sided-die

> The Pi Sided Die is a mathematical novelty designed by mathematicians who dared to defy probability. This six-sided die appears to have six sides, but only five faces display numbers between one and six – the sixth face reveals a cryptic message related to pi's decimal places when rolled correctly.

> When spun onto a flat surface, the die subtly reconfigures into seven distinct orientations, granting users temporary access to advanced statistical insights unavailable through traditional dice-based calculations. Users claim solving complex equations becomes easier after interacting with our unique Pi Sided Dice; however, these benefits typically fade within hours unless reinforced by additional rolls.

The site's too fun not to come back to, so I guess I'm buying the author a coffee

Really funny. Would be awesome if these start ranking on Google

Make stl export and integrate with 3d printing shop to monetize

1. Clone this with 3D prints. 2. Add drop shipping. 3. Profit.

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."

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."

Wouldn't generate big booty female garden statues

Ali G would have loved this for his ice cream glove idea

The writing is pretty good

https://anycrap.shop/product/tree-telepathy-lotion

https://anycrap.shop/product/immortality-magnet

The future is here.

Just need 3D printing and we good

https://anycrap.shop/product/tentative-manipulator

The Tentative Manipulator resembles a handheld puppeteer's rod, but instead of controlling marionettes, it manipulates probability fields around objects within arm's reach. Users can nudge reality slightly towards desired outcomes by wiggling the handle, creating unforeseen possibilities at will. However, successful applications rely heavily on faith and intestinal fortitude; results may vary wildly depending on operator confidence levels.

When attempting complex tasks, users must synchronize their inner monologue with precise hand movements, forming a symbiotic relationship between intentionality and gentle wrist motions.

Best application of LLMs I've ever seen.

Thank you, this is very amusing.

"Backhanded Shoe Polish": https://anycrap.shop/product/backhanded-shoe-polish

"Gold-Handled Vegetable Peel Laminator": https://anycrap.shop/product/gold-handled-vegetable-peel-lam...

"Pink Unicorn Slippers": https://anycrap.shop/product/pink-unicorn-slippers

(The $269 price was a bit of a surprise, but that must be explained by the built-in sound system.)

> The Pretentious Rickshaw exudes refined elegance despite being propelled solely by an individual's ego.

https://anycrap.shop/product/pretentious-rickshaw

This is probably a viable real product if it doesn't already exist.

https://anycrap.shop/product/anatomically-correct-male-duck-...

Are the pictures generated by nano-banana?

This is a super creative and fun project.

https://anycrap.shop/product/an-all-seeing-eye-device-that-a...

https://anycrap.shop/product/diy-esp32-teleportation-ring-ki...

This is fantastic, I love it. Well done!

https://anycrap.shop/product/diy-iridectomy-kit

This DIY Iridectomy Kit contains everything needed to safely remove selected areas of iris tissue at home, allowing users to alter their eye colors without medical intervention. The kit includes precision instruments designed specifically for ophthalmological self-modification. Users must carefully follow included instructions and guidelines before proceeding, taking into account potential risks associated with internal anatomical manipulation.

Very impressive.

I wonder how the great (better than "AI") human designers and copywriters and marketers will stand out, amidst all the good-enough-for-many-purposes, at scale, AI slop.

How will they even establish their career reputation and be noticed?

Or even get enough real-world experience to develop strong holistic creative+product skills, to become great?

(Will the job market become like software engineering IC jobs, in which it's mostly Leetcode fraternity pledging for the best-paying jobs, just to gatekeep, and then most other companies mimicking that? That might work for hiring large numbers of worker drones, but how can that find you top creatives?)

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.

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.

This is the first time AI generated material has made me laugh:

https://anycrap.shop/product/instant-diy-universe-let-there-...

Not the object, but the text descriptions.

https://anycrap.shop/product/linux-machine-that-just-works

it's funny, but a lot of the things generated barely followed prompts

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

FOOT LASAGNA

https://anycrap.shop/product/foot-lasagna

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!

This is amazing

https://anycrap.shop/product/unbounceable-ball

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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.

A few of my top picks:

https://anycrap.shop/product/see-through-toilet-paper

https://anycrap.shop/product/nose-hair-wig

Demand side economics

I got The United States Presidency for $127:

https://anycrap.shop/product/the-united-states-presidency

> The United States Presidency is a ceremonial position imbued with extraordinary abilities

Um... where do your suggestions come from?

I was trying to be edgy by typing something illogical, like 'sandpaper (sextoy)', and the search box added 'for babies.'

I'm more impressed than outraged I think, and curious if this is based on other searches or some engine. Though I'm not sure which would be worse.

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

I giggled, hard.

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

See also the "Catalog of fantastic things" (J. Carelman).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Carelman

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...

Particularly happy with this one - “business casual jumpsuit for manly men”

https://anycrap.shop/product/business-casual-jumpsuit-for-ma...

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/brabble-bobble

I didn't know I needed a "wearable collar designed specifically for competitive burping contests".

https://anycrap.shop/product/caterpillar-remote-controlled-r...

https://anycrap.shop/product/heated-tires - there's definitely a market, but I'm concerned about the usage patterns described.

review and add to basket working too ;-)

https://anycrap.shop/product/the-torment-nexus

That didn't take long.

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.

I’m surprised a modern retroencabulator has gotten so small

https://anycrap.shop/product/retroencabulator

Inverse grammeter technology really has shrunk

https://anycrap.shop/product/infinite-fecal-matter-generator

> Waste Yield Rate: Endless kilograms/second

Now we're talking!

https://anycrap.shop/product/sneeze-procrastinator

https://anycrap.shop/product/jigglypuff-undergarments

Technology was a mistake

https://anycrap.shop/product/a-portable-cult-deprogramming-a...

Needs better guardrails. Your DIY genocide kit says "I cannot write content related to violence against people. Can I help you with anything else?".

Tinfoil Sock to protect you from extraterrestrial surveillance.

https://anycrap.shop/product/tinfoil-sock

https://anycrap.shop/product/blue-rabbit-ear-clamp awaiting delivery by Monday

https://anycrap.shop/product/the-ultimate-hacker-news-artifa...

> https://anycrap.shop/product/cat-fur-wardrobe

Quite creative and imaginative descriptions

https://anycrap.shop/product/clown-hats-for-dogs

Money tree

I love it.

Who else wants the Plumbus?

https://anycrap.shop/product/plumbus

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.

I was just thinking of a similar idea last night: anynews.conspiracy ? Anything you search for generates a conspiracy theory article on the topic.

https://anycrap.shop/product/crapfruit

This got me thinking that it might be cool if a “.slop” TLD becomes available in the future.

Order now from China and wait 8 weeks to receive a pair of fake Gucci sunglasses.

Welcome to the SCP gift shop.

This made me LoL so many times. It is the best thing to come from AI.

meh,just a fancy image generator, the pigeon hadron collider does not even have enough pigeons in it.

Um. This is awesome?

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.

Works as expected https://anycrap.shop/product/atomic-bomb-developer-manual

In other words, as a joke generator it's broken due to leaky abstraction?

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