Ask HN: What did you build in 2019? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by vinrob92 » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

I built the following things:

- A SaaS for productized services (https://www.manyrequests.com)

- I wrote a book (in 24 hours) on productized services: (http://www.productizebook.co)

- I also grew a FB group (Productized Startups) to 1950+ members on the topic of productized services.

My goal for 2020 for my SaaS is to hit 150 customers or $10k/month in monthly recurring revenue.

To achieve that goal I plan to:

- Improve the UI of the SaaS in Q1 and Q2

- Release one piece of content per day

- Grow my community of productized startups founders to 4k members

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by abrichr » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:29 PM UTC

vinrob92 wrote: post #11

I built the following things: - A SaaS for productized services ( https://www.manyrequests.com ) - I wrote a book (in 24 hours) on productized services: ( http://www.productizebook.co ) - I also grew a FB group (Productized Startups) to 1950+ members on the topic of productized services. My goal for 2020 for my SaaS is to hit 150 customers or $10k/month in monthly recurring revenue. To achieve that goal I plan to: -…

How did you go about building the community? Has it been worth the investment?

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by CarrotCodes » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

Adopt Animals (https://www.adoptanimals.io/) - a charitable passion project for free, independent, and ad/tracking-free animal rehoming listings in the UK.

We're partnering with one shelter in Edinburgh (Scotland) to start, and built the website and a pair of apps to showcase animal listings. We've had a few success stories of people finding pets already, which is really motivating!

If you know of a shelter in the UK who might want their listings on there (ideally they'll have a means of exporting them and we'll build an importer), let them know to get in touch with us :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by rikroots » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:31 PM UTC

I recoded my HTML5 canvas Javascript library from scratch. Partly to add fun stuff like modules, web workers, promises etc - but mainly because I'm determined to make the canvas element much more accessible (and easier to add analytics to, etc) - progress report here: http://scrawl-v8-progress-0919.rikworks.co.uk/

Question: traction numbers? If this is "how many people are using my side project", I'm fairly sure the answer is "nobody" - which has the bonus that I don't need to worry about supporting backwards compatibility.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by krapp » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

For some reason they keep letting me mess with Anarki[0], so I do.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/commits?author=kenneth...

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by ryanmercer » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:36 PM UTC

A relationship, and got engaged. Getting married in May... never thought that would happen!

Does that count?

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by buboard » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

a few things

https://joybuddies.com (warning: comic sans)

https://reworkin.com

https://pinplz.com

https://opensimworld.com (older, but redesigned this year)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by chrisked » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

reviel wrote: post #10

Blook ( https://blook.io ): Helping US and Foreign entrepreneurs register their company in the US as an LLC or C-Corp. Go-live will be on the first :) Particularly looking to work with the latin america market.

Looks great. Wish you all the best for the go live. We are in the same business. I do this for Germany with firma.de. Trying my best to increase the amount of entrepreneurs here.

If you ever want to talk about bundling other service offerings into the company formation offering let me know. We had our fair share of learnings there :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by jzting » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:08 PM UTC

JMBL, a word game for iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jmbl-word-puzzle-game/id124873...)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by ve55 » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:09 PM UTC

nkrisc wrote: post #8

ve55 wrote: post #4

Tagmap ( https://tagmap.io/ ) - allows communities to have a map of their members and easily message people nearby or similar to you to make new friends. Currently have a few thousand MAU, hoping to pick this up significantly in 2020.

Looked around and clicked the tag that had a few thousand users (because everything else was a hundred or less) and the few near me were bizarre NSFW shock value profiles. Is that normal for this?

There's been a few malicious users here and there and some interesting communities, we usually remove them pretty quickly, especially when they're reported. I'll do a check right now and try to remove whatever it was you stumbled across, thanks!

We're also working on a more robust system to filter content that some users might not want to see, although anything extreme should be removed either way.