I recently realized that not only do I want to do challenging, high-impact work, I want to be thanked for it! Knowing you made a small improvement to a million people is one thing. But if someone says it was great to you in person, it's really a good feeling. Satisfaction = impact + fuzzy feelings
Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
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#172Small web game: increstellar.com - tge game is okish, the technical aspect probably on the side of bery naive, but I finished it and player interacted actively, which was incredibly novel experience to me. Ideas I tought were fun were shot down, while the community provided an endless stream of possibilities to improve areas that I never have considered.
For the simple incremental structure it has I got quite the engagement, with a thousand of players and an average session of 20minutes it was far beyond my expectations.
I also got back a ton of knowledge on the topic, which is nice.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have a little bit of assembly for processor-specific startup housekeeping, but that's mostly reused with small modifications for different boards. The rest of the code base is entirely C, managing functions such as ground communications, mobility (locomotion, navigation and control), thermal management, power management, fault detection and recovery, payload (e.g. science instrument) management and mission plannin…
See that sounds shitty to you man but I just had an issue where I couldn't upgrade to Webpack 4 because some critical modules were out of date, but I have to upgrade to webpack 4 because other modules are claiming they'll be dependent on it soon (or I need to use deprecated modules). When stuff like this happens I'm like... why did I choose web dev...
For reference, I used to be in web/mobile dev before working with OP. You can always transfer over, as to be honest a lot of the skills are transferable.
That said, space code has its own versions of webpack dependency hell...
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#174Definitely would be automating monthly reports at our company. Prior to building the system, it would take a week or two to collate all the data for our 200+ clients.
The system integrated with all our third-party analytics platforms that could handle all of our reports with a client of a button. Went from 1-2 weeks to 1-2 seconds.
Now we keep adding more and more integrations, and even our competitors want to use it.
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#175I worked summers in college as a garbage man and laborer for my town department of public works.
My current side-hustle is guiding kayak trips with local outfitters. I am looking forward to retiring into that.
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#176Not quite startup or hobby project material, but some of the most gratifying work is making non-critical, easy to implement changes in your business's workflow! Sometimes users will have minor (or major) issues with the way a tool works - database takes 30 seconds to retrieve a certain type of information, there's no clear path from point A to point B in a frequently used business tool, certain jobs take 2x as long a…
I too love fixing things where I can see the person's reaction. It is so satisfying. We are so often removed from the user and don't get that joy. I think as a dev it's a good exercise too, to stay grounded and avoid feature creep or working on things that don't matter too much. I always to try -think- about how my user will be reacting, but that's different than actually -seeing- it. I think it's part of why I like…
I'm currently a solo UX at a start up, and I have dabbled with FE dev for past few years.
I am a bit frustrated with how the FE operates with this company, they don't seem to care about ensuring good UX, I'm not even involved in their sprint cycle, they just build things AND THEN ask me to fix the UX if someone points out how terrible the products are. (And obviously with TONS of restrictions saying the codebase/architecture wouldn't allow it - smh)
I understand I'm still new to the company(4months), but this has been by far the worst design-FE collaboration I've ever experienced. I tried to schedule a meeting to address these issues in a professional manner, but they canceled it and said it's not important for the company now.
I really take joy in solving problems for people with good UX but now I just come in to work to design CEO pitch decks in PPT and get paychecks... the pay is alright but it is really not rewarding at all professionally. Should I jump this ship? Do you guys have any advice for me?
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#179I was working on an weather app. My wife use that app personally to track her health.
The app has some fun social activity and itself is very rewarding to use. The app itself maybe simple and the social interaction and a focus community make it very fun to use.
Beside that, I was trusted by the founders and given time to do many experiment: I have implement some really cool stuff in Go/Elixir.
It also open my mind. I used to hate MongoDB but through repeatedly learning I discover MongoDB was a way different in 2011.
In the end, I think the freedom of technologies decision, trust, and see the work you do affect your close relative are very rewarding.
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#180This is a weird answer. But it was probably the project that almost ruined my career. I once started a project to add in A/B testing to a legacy platform that really wasn’t supportive of any such changes. The project was a technical success but a political disaster. The aftermath made it very clear that my manager was hoping I would fail so that he would have an excuse to manage me out. When it didn’t fail he became…
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