I grew a side project (appointment scheduling) 150% and even scored a large multinational corporation as a customer.
Ask HN: What have you accomplished in 2014?
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#32Doubled the sales of Candy Japan.
Went back to school and completed my M.Sc.
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#33Worked remotely for the whole year. It has been an interesting ride.
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#34Went on a long job hunt, resulting in 6 offers, with the best one paying more than 5x my current current salary. Got a much better understanding of the professional landscape and the opportunities out there.
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#35Created a pet project this year, it has ~400k hits/month and I earn more than $1k/month with ads. It is completely passive outcome.
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#36I've managed to fix a few low-profile security bugs in various projects.
I switched jobs to one that pays double what I was making at my last one... which isn't saying much because I was being royally screwed.
I did not manage to do anything I had actually planned to do at the precipice of 2014, however.
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#37Quit my job to start a company. Failed, but learned a lot of important lessons. Got back to a well paid job. Probably most important - got back to a very good shape.
Could you share some of the lessons learned?
Sure, some of the most important ones are below:
- ideas are worthless without execution
- focus on the product - doing anything else before having at least an mvp is dumb
- focus on one thing at a time
- never lie to yourself
- we usually hugely overestimate what we can achieve in a short period of time, but also hugely underestimate what we can do in a long one
- being in good shape greatly improve my mood and performance at work
- don't mistake activity for achievement
And some more. Of course most of this stuff is obvious and I have always thought I knew them. This was in theory - this year I have 'learned' them the hard way.
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#38Changed jobs 3 times, including a return to the 1st job of the year. Added 30% to my annual salary in the process. Wrote a massive iOS Application ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zonas-find-explore-connect/i... ) Attended WWDC for the first time, and in doing so, finally met a friend of mine whom I've only ever known as a screen name. Completed my first major freelance project. (First 5-digit invoice.)
Congratulations on your progress! What's your plan for 2015 (more iOS, fulltime or freelance)?
Hoping to stick it out at the full-time job for a whole year. Something I haven't done since 2011, while building a freelance network to keep side income flowing.
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#39I finally finished an SaaS product that I plan to start selling in early January, once I get back from a holiday break. Pretty excited to have a side-project that I think can generate revenue.
Very cool! If I may, what niche is your SaaS product in?
Its a tool for freelancers and agencies to make a certain bit of client communication better.
Other uses are plenty, but this one is my focus.
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#40I got my first job in the tech industry after leaving hospitality. It was the most difficult and most rewarding thing I've done in my career.
Sounds like something I would dream of doing - I am currently in accounting. What is your roadmap in tech? And congrats on succeeding!
Wasnt on HN this weekend. I started really simple with HTML/CSS. Then I moved on to Ruby, and then learned the Ruby on Rails framework. Now I write apps that analyze web data.
Start with CodeCademy.com. It's a great intro for people who want to get started. There are also classes on Udacity you can check out. Feel free to email me if you want to connect further. My contact info is on my profile.