I launched alpha of my lifelong dream - website to visualise all public budgets:
http://blog.wikibudgets.org/2015/01/sankey-builder-launch.ht...
Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
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Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#42Started online grad school at Georgia Tech in CS and managed to launch a beta of my first product. http://www.thesnaffu.com
Quick suggestion, the main image is pretty, but makes it hard to read this text: ("Mobile QA Simplified") and ("Logging a bug has never been easier with Snaffu")
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#43Great thread idea! Began a "biggest loser" competition at work, lost 5 pounds. Launched MisfitWatchr for iOS and Android (converts Misfit activity into WeightWatchers points). Began development of BeerSwift (faster check-ins for Untappd). All in all, a very productive month!
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#44Decided to launch something every month in 2015 as a way to train myself out of half finishing projects.
Of course I'm briefly blogging about it as a journal too.
Initial discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908275
And yes, I did manage to ship in January! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8973807
I am planning Feb's challenge later today...
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#45PyParallel: added support for detecting system memory high/low states and altering behavior accordingly (i.e. hit high memory, stop accepting new connections until the event clears), refactored the heap snapshot logic, implemented socket re-use and context re-use for socket servers, switched over to using custom threadpools per socket server such that min/max threads could be limited to ncpu (prevents the kernel from flipping out and creating 200-300 threadpool threads when hitting instantaneous load of 10k+ connections (which happened when I was just palming everything off to the default thread pool, which has no min/max thread bounds and simply tries to do "best effort" servicing of thread pool load, which is completely sufficient in just about every case other than huge instantaneous loads)). Removed the extensive pointer/memory address testing from the release build (still in debug build) which, as expected, gave a significant performance improvement. End result, gloriously low latency and low jitter: https://twitter.com/trentnelson/status/562839986408800257. Only crashes now when you ctrl-c it on the console (as I haven't written the cleanup code yet) -- once that is fixed, I'll build an installer and do a public release, wahey! I love it when a plan comes together.
(PyParallel: native CPython running on all cores without being impeded by the GIL. https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...)
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#46I decided to jump in head first and build a company. I'd been planning to do it for years as a side-project but always ended up too tired in the evenings - so, now that my partner has a job (he was previously at university so we were relying on my income), I've decided to just go for it.
It's scary and chances are I won't make it - but I'm so glad I've at least made a start. At the very least it'll be a nice break for 6-12 months, with some good experience too.
If you're interested in what I'm making, I'm building a simple, affordable web analytics service. There are loads of fantastic tools in this space (Heap is a great example) but they're 1. frankly very expensive (I'm targeting small companies/design studios) and 2. often more complicated than what most people need. Google Analytics has an awful lot of features (and has the advantage of being free) but is really quite complicated, especially for people who aren't as technical.
I should be launching in under a month - please feel free to sign up to be notified if you're interested: http://pleasant.io/
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#47Worked 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 cons…
Dude! You make my achievements look dumb :( Good work! One day I hope to be as good.
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#48Work-related:
- Spoke at a conference for the first time (React.js Conf) [1]
- Released my first serious open-source project (an isomorphic React app server) [2]
- The project I've been building was demoed to some executives and put our team in a really good spot.
Other cool stuff:
- Started buying furniture and accessories to make my room feel like home. I've always been hesitant to own large items because I've moved pretty frequently since I finished high school. Buying a handmade hardwood bed is a big deal for me.
[1]: http://conf.reactjs.com/schedule.html#tweak-your-page-in-rea...
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#49I launched Rocket Renegade . Developed in Swift. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rocket-renegade/id955229059?...
Very cool. Looks like it performs great from the comments.
How was developing a game in Swift?
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#50Kicked 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…
Ha, identical goal for me, except it's about shipping something rather than just apps each month. I've posted elsewhere with links, but good to know others are doing the same.
I'm thinking one months project might even be a platform to encourage others to do this in 2016...