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Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

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Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

#31
Launched my first SaaS, and I have quite a few users registered... some paid accounts, even!

http://sendtomycloud.com

Also, gathered a lot of attention for the ANSI & ASCII art communities (and at least 2 new artists!) with my rewrite (and promotion) of http://artpacks.org.

FYI: A new pack full of ANSI art from Blocktronics comes out today, around 2pm eastern. You'll be able to see it at http://artpacks.org/2015

Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

#33
Finally, got productive after months of burn out. Couple of features for http://thehorcrux.com/ (A backup integrity verification phase exposed to the user). Pressing the "Submit for Review" button today. :)

Also doing a machine learning project at a nice uni. It's probably the reason for my recovery. It's a way better environment than staying at home getting distracted. I think I now get the concept of co working spaces.

Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

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Kicked off my personal challenge - 12 Apps in 12 Months - in order to force myself to deliver personal projects as opposed to just tinker with stuff and never make it past the beginner phase. It's working great; I have a slick kanban workflow on Trello going on, and a (tiny, irrelevant, but useful for this purpose) SaaS app in production. App #2 is under way ahead of schedule since #1 reached MVP with a full week to…

Could you share more about workflow on Trello you have? (I imagine you are utilizing it alone)

Sure. I believe it actually originated here on HN, though I got it from Pieter Levels.

On my board I have the following lists:

2015 Week N | Now | Today | Tomorrow | Week | Month

Long-term work items originate in the month list, and get moved left as time progresses. Obviously as items come up they can be input whenever is appropriate.

At the end of the week, 2015 Week N is archived (I actually move it to another board), and a new week is created to cover the next week's completed work.

This setup pressures me into meeting my commitments, and allows me to feel accomplished by looking at the previously completed weeks.

Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

#35
Launched into beta my Android note taking / whiteboarding / vector draw & show.

You draw on Android (multiple people can co-draw in real time) and also can view docs online (also with realtime updates)

Here's a sample drawing / note http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934

sample diagram http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=2b...

landing page http://write-live.com/

Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

#36
* Switched to washing my hair once a week after 45 days of not washing it, no 'poo style. Before this, if I didn't wash it every day, I'd have a head of grease in 30 hours.

* Hit 60K pageviews on http://www.developingandstuff.com for the second month in a row; started splitting posts by content into several thematic blogs.

* Restarted playing the bass, seriously considering getting Rocksmith after trying it out at a friend's house.

* Got my first sale on fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/mparramon/

Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

#38

This has nothing to do with technology, but hey: I finally decided to take saxophone lessons, I will buy a sax on Saturday morning and have my first lesson next Tuesday. I've been playing both flatpicking guitar and mandolin respectively for 14 and 4 years, but have been in love with the sax for more than 20 years. At almost 29 years old I decided it was time to take the plunge and learn how to play the thing. It's g…

Let me know if you want to be a beta tester for my game to learn reading the music staff. Here's a sample game video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_xNPk2y8N4

Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?

#40
Worked on and finished a couple big features for Improvely (https://www.improvely.com). Visitor profiles are looking snazzier (http://i.imgur.com/Up61dUk.png). Still an unending TODO list for February and onward.

Gave W3Counter (https://www.w3counter.com) a bit of a facelift, and a new set of plans & pricing. Offering annual plans has increased customer LTV a lot.

Started testing Amazon Aurora for RDS. I'm considering replacing several bare metal servers with RDS once that service is out of "preview". The feature set is just bonkers for how easy it is to use. The price is just bonkers compared to RDS for MySQL/Postgres -- you get multi-AZ replication for free. Can't wait.

Did my taxes. Waiting on 1099s to come in before I file anything just to make sure everything lines up with my own books.

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