Scaling my businesses from $4M profits to around $12M in profits.
I think there is a huge opportunity in the dampening of the financial markets, to use that to get people to buy my products and services.
Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
211–220 of 514 posts
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#212I've spend many years in Growth engineering. We often get asked to build this banner or that modal. I've always felt there should be a Wix kind of experience, but for smaller components. I didn't find one so I decided to build it.(bannerbox.io).
Bannerbox is targeted at existing site owners, specifically non-technical people (i.e. Marketing).
I do all of the design and coding myself (both backend and frontend in Typescript). I've been building this on the side and it's been a slog. I'm nearing feature complete and aim to start marketing the product this year.
It's currently costing me ~$50/month in hosting fees and generating 0 in revenue.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#213My stock discovery algo[0] averaged 21% daily increase last month and we're launching in a couple of weeks. Post launch we're going to be working on buying/selling alerts to save people from having to watch charts all day (which I do, but I enjoy it). Also a few more features we're looking at, such as crypto analysis. But with the current bear market, I'm less enthused that it's a worthwhile avenue currently. 0: http…
if you can generate returns in a bear market, then what’s the worry?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#214I'm starting a 100% Worker Owned For-Profit residential Trash and Recycling Co-operative
All profits go into the neighborhoods we serve and our bylaws are based on the US Constitution. No investors or different class shares. Management term limits, workers vote for CEO and a cooperative ombudsman (termed) for representation during yearly plan/budget proposal.
The CEO proposes a yearly plan/budget to the collective of ombudsman representatives, which vote to approve or amend. The yearly plan includes all P&L numbers for previous years, open balance sheet, salaries, as well as hiring, growth, acquisition plans for the following year(s)
I'm leaving out a lot of details of course, but the overall gist is that: incentives are aligned across the co-op such that management is incentivized to care for their employees above all, and there is no pressure from investors to grow more quickly than our company can sustain. Basically will not pursue increased margins at any cost.
We will provide the best service at a price that ensures we can fully take care of our employees such that they have a great life and can provide amazing service because they have the time, and trust to care about how we serve each other and our residential communities everyday.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#215Scaling my businesses from $4M profits to around $12M in profits. I think there is a huge opportunity in the dampening of the financial markets, to use that to get people to buy my products and services.
What is your business? I'm starting out now at $0 profits. Hope to change that this year.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#216I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software. Cloud software so often needs subscriptions, and if the company dies I lose access to my data. Local software isn't collaborative. I don't want to email files around to myself, or think about versions. So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much ab…
This is something I wanted. I found remotestorage.io which seems like a cool idea but I am not sure it has moved much in the last couple of years in terms of adoption.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#217After covid hit I stopped running the Candy Japan subscription box and moved on to making games on Roblox. I’ve had a good start with it, and want to keep improving and releasing more games.
Perhaps I’ll also try some other platforms/side projects as well to avoid getting too stuck on just one platform.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#218Im a long time lurker but first time poster. One of my resolutions for this year is to engage more with likeminded people and to build useful product for small-medium sized businesses to help them keep their infrastructure secure.
It’s a webapp written in Django which lets customers perform scans on their machines to help them get a better view on which ports are open, which machines are reachable etc.
I’m planning on adding more features as time goes on but I’m focused on building a MVP for now. 3 days in and I’m loving it so far - I’m new to Python (and programming in general, really) so it’s a great learning exercise either way. I’m hoping to monetise it as SaaS.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#219My oldest daughter will turn 8 this year. These days I'm planning which would be best computer/software/OS for her (if any), but nothing in the market fits my requirements as a father. There is so much noise, distraction and overall bullshit in today's computers that I don't think it is healthy or appropriate for her. So I'm planning to make a custom (software) solution. A small set of focused, minimal, productive an…
Coming from a similar use case, I'm all in on LÖVE (https://love2d.org) You can see some of the things I built with it at http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
#220Continuing to work on https://www.vantage.sh/
We help individuals and companies get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs. Currently support AWS, Datadog, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks and Fastly.
We originally launched on HN nearly 2 years ago now and it's been a very enjoyable experience so far. Feel free to shoot me a note if I can help out on anything infrastructure-cost related.