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What is UselessShit.co?

UselessShit.co (http://UselessShit.co) is a fun project which purpose is to help spread spread the bitcoin adoption. One of the ways, in which I'm trying to achieve this, is by allowing people to easily create unique, physical paper items (like bitcoin cards, bookmarks & stickers), which can be printed and handed out to friends, foes or complete strangers. These items can also serve as gift cards, as they can be loaded with precious sats easily.

See for yourself how easy is to create your own graphics (no other tools required):

https://uselessshit.co/card-generator (https://uselessshit.co/card-generator)


Features

• dedicated panel for creating personalized cards, bookmarks & stickers;
• lightning gifts;
• simple & embeddable fiat2sats calculator;
• price receipts for your bitcoin purchases;
• list of bitcoin resources;

Some bookmarks, business cards & stickers created with the card generator:

https://i.ibb.co/JF1J1Xp/lightning-gift-card.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fd5iiVVWAAIjJZu?format=jpg&name=large

https://i.ibb.co/BygMLNh/bitcoin-artwork-creator-1.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdgushIXEAM5R24?format=jpg&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdgusgrWYAARtsG?format=jpg&name=medium

Would love to hear your feedback :)

Have a great day ahead!

I love the name you picked, couldn't have done it better myself.  ;D

But like any other website, I hate seeing black fonts on a white background. It makes my eyes go all teary. A night mode would be highly appreciated.
I like the people to follow section. There are some names there I am not familiar with and I was searching for a good list of BTC advocates to follow over social media. This should do it.   

You're welcome  :) Glad you've found it useful!


Some people find it offensive, so every now and then I try to work on the overall tone, to make it more positive  :) I also purchased another domain (at https://thisbitcointhing.com) where I'll try a bit different approach  :)


You're right  ;D But maybe it's not to late to get domain like that.

Happy you like it :) Also, thanks for the suggestion - I just added the dark mode feature.

The only thing that's missing from these lists is their respective links ^{[especially for the last two categories that might unintentionally lead newcomers into clicking on phishing websites that appear from time to time on Google or other search engines]}.

Thanks for the feedback! Added the links to lightning wallets & signing devices  :) Remaining links will be added on another occasion.

One can now create bookmarks with the generator available at https://uselessshit.co/card-generator :)

Really like sites like these. Simple, homegrown sites without anything crazy.
My only criticism as a web developer for 15+ years, would be the following (and I mean this with the best intentions, btw - because I can tell how much effort you put into the site)

1. I would sway away from rotating slideshow on the homepage. Honestly, I think if you used the following image as a standard image (https://uselessshit.co/images/card-2.jpeg) it would be much less anxiety inducing on the user. Finding a way to place the other images (if you want them) on the page, might be advisable. Remember, you're bringing new users to Bitcoin (and these foreign concepts) to the site, having a slideshow showing technical jargon right away probably isn't the best way to keep your user calmly scrolling down the page)
2. I would reduce the amount of verbiage to get to the basics. TBH and in full transparency (and quite embarrassingly) I had no clue what stacking sats was, and linking to another site (under the "were you handed a card") is probably just bad flow. I actually ended up googling it to find out what it was, vs reading the site - which is probably a bad sign. I would perhaps take the most important points you're trying to make, make them concise, and include them plainly in the first 1-2 minute read of your site. You'll get more traction this way.

Otherwise, great job! Clean design & code looks good!

Thanks for taking the time to give an honest feedback! Really appreciate it :)

1. Will apply the changes with the next release :)
2. You are right - I sometimes forget that things that seem obvious to me, are completely foreign concepts to others (and vice versa). I'm already working on a new flow - also a friend who's a nocoiner (but finds bitcoin interesting) offered some help in reevaluating the content :)

Great and easy site, I love it.

Maybe add a function or widget to directly swap cryptos?
For example Changelly offers a widget for this.

Thanks! Glad you like it :)


Well, the Fiat2SatsConverter can already be embedded as a widget https://uselessshit.co/#converter

In regards to swapping cryptos, it's not really my pair of shoes - I don't want to have anything to do with shitcoins, other than advising people to stay away from them.

One can now create multiple business-cards/bookmarks copies at the same time with the generator available at https://uselessshit.co/card-generator

Up to 9 business cards & 5 bookmarks per page :)

It's now possible to add background image to business-cards/bookmarks :)

Cool idea and it looks well implemented. A good call of action and a simple way that anyone can help spread the word and onboard people. I didn’t read all the linked articles but it’s nice to see that there is also opportunity to be educated about things like why we need a new currency in the first place. Good job.

Thanks! I believe onboarding as many people as possible now, before the system collapses is of a great importance. Bitcoin is a digital superpower & without it, we're screwed.

It's now possible to create multiple lightning gift cards with just a single click. Check out https://uselessshit.co/card-generator for details ;)

Sticker format is now available at https://uselessshit.co/card-generator :) Check 'em out ;)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fd5iiVVWAAIjJZu?format=jpg&name=large

FYI: Christmas Card format was added to card generator at https://uselessshit.co/card-generator  ;)

Crop & resize features for background image at https://uselessshit.co/card-generator are now available :)

Creating bookmarks for your books has never been this easy ;)

https://i.ibb.co/19xFdtw/uselessshit-stay-humble-bitcoin-bookmark.png

All graphics created with the card generator at https://uselessshit.co/card-generator in addition to saving as print friendly PDFs, can now be exported as images which can then be easily shared on social media  :)

Heh, nice stumble. Any chance you're looking into integrating some of those silly AI art generators all over the internet?

I recently sent manually made puzzles that, when solved, gives people parts of private key (or seed phrase) to reveal their satoshi gift. Might have used this instead had I found it earlier.

I'm happy you've come across it eventually  ;)

In regards to AI generated graphics, I'm thinking about it, but first I'd like to integrate pixabay or smth  :)

Thanks for stepping by!

You can now timestamp your bitcoin memes with artwork creator  ;)

Added a basic guide for nostr newcomers at https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr ;)

The only good thing about you showing this OP is that you know how to listen to the suggestions of those who have been in this cryptocurrency industry for a long time. What the proposers are saying is also for the good of what you want to do here in the crypto space.

I also didn't see anything wrong with what some of the commenters said about the post you made. You also have a lot to improve on the site platform you showed OP.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I can't seem to access the website; perhaps It's (website) down or my network is down. Could someone please confirm if this is only happening to me?

The site works :)

Btw OP, really good job, I love these types of projects, it reminds me of the early internet days when we used to surf around sites like these.

I'm guessing the problem is on your end, not the web server's.

I tried the website and it worked perfectly for me. I even played around and made a few cards just to get a feel for how the website works, and I was very pleased with how it turned out.

Unfortunately I didn't spend much time to give more review about project but if Op implement all that has been suggested to him into action I'm sure the project is going to be even better than it is now.

Happy to hear that it's working for you  ;) There's an option to upload the image directly to https://nostr.build (free image hosting service) so you can share your designs with the world  ;)

Is it possible to see the other bitcoin memes uploaded? Like the stock compilation of majority uploaded? I find the website very memorable and unique and yeah feels the vibe of early days of internet.

It also works for me and I'll try to make mine but I'm that type of guy that just loves to browse and look at those funny memes.

Thanks! For now direct upload to nostr.build only - viewing them is theoretically possible on https://nostr.build/i/ - will do a catalogue at some point tho ;)