mahirsaid 2 minutes ago

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 3 hours 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 3 hours 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 2 hours 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 an hour 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 30 minutes 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 an hour 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 10 minutes 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 2 hours 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 2 hours 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 9 minutes 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 3 hours ago

    This is what Amazon has been doing for years with Marketplace: check what's popular and then compete on price.

    • Workaccount2 3 minutes 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 an hour ago

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

TheSockStealer 2 hours ago

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

hyperific 3 hours ago

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"

losthobbies 3 hours 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 3 hours ago

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

Dantalian an hour ago

I asked for invisible cheese burger, it was very visible, very terrible service, 10/10 would use again

  • freedomben an hour ago

    At least it used the invisible red ink

pkulak 2 hours ago

Something like this really highlights AIs inability to negate things. Like, search for "no lace hiking boots" and you get hiking boots... with laces.

  • bee_rider an hour ago

    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.

  • ks2048 2 hours ago

    Yes. See also a "wristwatch with no hands".

    https://anycrap.shop/product/a-wristwatch-with-no-hands

    • theturtlemoves 2 hours ago

      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."

simple10 36 minutes ago

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.

GabrielBRAA an hour 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 an hour ago

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

kafked 3 hours ago

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

danvoell an hour ago

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

jddj 2 hours ago

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...

saltcured 19 minutes ago

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.

  • recursive 15 minutes ago

    This is interesting. Sounds like a superpower. If you don't know what product you need you probably don't need it.

elijahcarrel 2 hours 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 2 hours ago

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

tumidpandora an hour 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 3 hours ago

This is genius

  • jerf 2 hours 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 2 hours ago

      They can visit all they like, but what else can they do?

      • jerf an hour ago

        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.

    • iwontberude 2 hours ago

      You are also on a list for conversing with us about it now. I’m praying for you, me, and PC.

  • analog8374 2 hours ago

    This is why science fiction is wasted on the populace.

  • tempodox 2 hours ago

    Plot armor activated: wallet immunity engaged.

  • moralestapia 2 hours ago

    The Redditization of HN is sad to watch.

  • turnsout 2 hours ago

    Love that the basket is brass for some reason

  • artursapek 2 hours ago

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

xaxaxb 21 minutes ago

The future is here.

  • xaxaxb 21 minutes ago

    Just need 3D printing and we good

shredprez an hour ago

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

jszymborski an hour 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.

https://anycrap.shop/product/flammable-fire-detector

  • vardump 32 minutes ago

    Laughed with tears in my eyes.

debo_ 2 hours ago

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

apexalpha 2 hours ago

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

vintagedave 4 hours ago

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 :(

  • ainiriand 3 hours ago

    The hands are nightmare fuel

  • ryukoposting 4 hours 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 4 hours 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 3 hours 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 3 hours ago

          > ... listening to speakers

          This is exactly how we hear anything not live. A truly amazing time to be alive.

  • shortcord 4 hours ago

    The perfect headphones to listen to while on the bus.

aleph_minus_one 2 hours ago

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?

  • jeroenhd 2 hours 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 2 hours 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 2 hours ago

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

    • aleph_minus_one 2 hours 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).

carterschonwald 3 hours ago

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

jimkleiber 3 hours ago

Why not connect it to drop shipping and actually make the things?

  • kafked 3 hours ago

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

    • p1mrx 3 hours ago

      Can you generate .stl files for printing?

  • abpavel 3 hours ago

    Because the difference between a prototype and production is 99%

danparsonson 3 hours ago

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

void-star 2 hours ago

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!

mulhoon 4 hours ago

This is quite thought provoking in our capitalist world. Fills you with dread that this could actually be a thing.

  • analog8374 an hour 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.

stavros 3 hours ago

This is fantastic, I love it. Well done!

Western0 2 hours ago

review and add to basket working too ;-)

api 2 hours ago

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.

paulnpace 4 hours ago

  ERROR 9422: Free unique transformations by account has been exhausted
  • kafked 4 hours ago

    Thanks! Reached some limits, made a quick fix

    • olooney 3 hours ago

      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.

      • richrichardsson 3 hours 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 2 hours ago

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

TOGoS 2 hours ago

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...

  • tempodox an hour ago

    Reverse-ratcheting routers and self-sealing stem bolts looked similarly dubious. Epiphasic devices still seem to be a challenge.

speransky 2 hours ago

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

Chris2048 3 hours ago

This would be amazing for a rogue-like (generated) video game, like a dungeon where pick-ups/item-drops were generated like this..

  • analog8374 2 hours ago

    I have thought similarly. What would you train it on?

ezconnect 3 hours ago

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.

analog8374 3 hours ago

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.