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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by diweirich »

alin23 wrote: post #74

Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…

What did you do to prepare for leaving your job? Do you have another source of income?

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by redgetan »

nlawalker wrote: post #198
redgetan wrote: post #193

I learned and released my first gamedev project - a multiplayer arena fighter ( http://kikiki.io ) . Still have a couple hundred people playing per day, but no longer maintained. These days, I'm learning React/React-Native to build a marketplace that connects photographers with people who want better dating photos.

>> multiplayer arena fighter I'm curious - are there a lot of tutorials or learning resources out there for this kind of game? I feel like I see a lot of them. modd.io is a whole platform for making these kinds of games almost exclusively.

I basically used two open source projects as learning resource . I recommend checking out https://github.com/huytd/agar.io-clone and https://github.com/ahung89/bomb-arena . Simply playing around with those code, tweaking them, and modding them, allowed me to go from knowing nothing about gamedev, to learning about how to create one.

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Post by finfun234 »

seibelj wrote: post #179
finfun234 wrote: post #97

I launched two projects. 1) http://instant10-k.com/ An efficient way to search 10-k and 10-q filings for publicly listed companies. A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance. 10-Q is the quarterly version. If you have ever purchased an individual stock you should read the 10-k and 10-Q reports.…

Instant 10k is useful and efficient, thank you

thank you!

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Post by dvdsgl »

pestkranker wrote: post #200
dvdsgl wrote: post #88

A friend and I created https://quicktype.io to generate TypeScript, Swift, Go, C#, C++, etc. from JSON sample data and GraphQL queries. Many have tried to solve this problem – we've found at least 20 projects that attempt to turn JSON sample data into code to represent that data, but they're almost all abandoned and they all have the same fundamental flaws (they generate invalid code for most non-trivial inputs). In…

I looove it! Used it multiple times this year (Typescript / C# generator)

Woot! Glad you found it useful.

Is there anything we can improve?

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by Hasz »

firefoxd wrote: post #159

I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment. Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death. I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my hea…

Any details on the hardware? Passive RFID, NFC, BLE or something else?

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by firefoxd »

amyassin wrote: post #171
firefoxd wrote: post #159

I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment. Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death. I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my hea…

Interesting. Any link or place to watch the product at?

It's an before alpha product, your feedback is very welcomed.

https://www.ottomon.net

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by firefoxd »

Hasz wrote: post #205
firefoxd wrote: post #159

I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment. Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death. I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my hea…

Any details on the hardware? Passive RFID, NFC, BLE or something else?

I've been playing with NFC tags, but QRcode has been working pretty well for me so far.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by SteveGregory »

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