It's been about 9 years since I started writing an application for E-Bay auctions. It was capable of auction management, had fancy templates, included multiple images inside one single graphic file hosted on ebay servers, could update itself and was really newbie friendly. In short: it was the E-Bay Swiss army knife.

I programmed it in my free time because I had to pay bills from my full-time job, and so it took over two years for it to be usable by other people. During this time the E-Bay API was changed twice which forced me to rewrite some parts of the Application.

When I was done and wanted to publish the application, the API was changed a third time and a competitor launched a similar application. At this time I lost track and hope and gave it up since I would have to rewrite even more parts of the Application. I quit the already registered domain, deleted the homepage and moved the application into my archive with a heavy heart.

I still have lots of VMware images with development environments and even a running but useless webserver for the application. For the sake of completeness, here is a screenshot of the application running on Windows 7:

It was developed under Windows 2000, but is still running.
Only the surface is not up-to-date ;)

Rest in peace "Sell-O-Matic"