Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by songzme » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 3:35 AM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #418

songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

You know Wo/Man I think you should put up a page and ask for people to donate as sponsors. I think HN users alone, if we come together, could send 10,20,50,100 people through your program. I would be proud to know my few dollars helped in this way.

Yeah! Thats the plan for next year. It takes time to set up a donation platform as an NPO and we are working on it. In the meantime, I put an email signup (per baron816's suggestion) and will send out an email when donation tools are ready).

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

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Post by JohnnyConatus » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 3:42 AM UTC

Built a fintech-ish startup all by myself, zero funding. I didn't intend to do it all by myself but it's not a sexy business so no one was jumping to go full-time. It came close to breaking me as a human being, honestly.

Anyway, I went from being a CTO who was constantly being pitched horrible no-good business ideas by first times CEOs - who as a rule, wanted to give me 10% equity but also wanted me to build the project for free - to a CEO who closed countless sales and knows his CAC and LTV like the back of his hand.

If I can, so can you but you have to manage CAC:LTV.

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

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Post by vogt » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 3:43 AM UTC

JDiculous wrote: post #367

vogt wrote: post #251

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Annoying that somebody rolled on you for that.

Yea it's pretty lame seeing as how the video was posted under a pseudonym, meaning that person did some serious digging and clearly had an agenda (I'm 95% sure who it was). It's all good though, I had been wanting to leave for a long time but had kept putting it off for the "right moment". I'm glad that that decision was made for me because now there's nothing to regret.

You must have pissed that person off at some point. Without knowing the context though, that's a very low road move to take on their part.

In any event, I enjoyed the couple of videos of yours I watched.

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

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Post by wolco » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 3:44 AM UTC

I held a full time crm position while working 100 hours a month doing laravel development for a local startup. Created php websites and implemented features for other client. Watched 500+ laracast videos, went to my first online conference. Tried to re learned react instead learned vue. Tried to reimplement a movie game in vue / quasar framework with some success from a half finished react project which was from a 1/4 finished angular project.

Also moved around a few hundred websites from mostly hostgator accoints to a droplet setup.

The one area I struggled with was what to build next last year. I hope to get more clarity this year.

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

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Post by snupples » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 3:51 AM UTC

alien_ wrote: post #265

At work I've got more familiar with Terraform, got started with Kubernetes, and contributed significantly to the infrastructure of a few awesome projects. In my spare time I've been maintaining my Autospotting pet project, which is maturing nicely, growing a lot and already generated savings in the six-seven digits for its users: https://github.com/cristim/autospotting I also spent time learning to play guitar, made…

I've been working with Terraform and Kubernetes a bit as well. Their strengths seem to be very complimentary when aiming for a platform agnostic system.

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

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Post by jeffshek » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 3:52 AM UTC

Created a passion of mine and finally overcame the fear of launching! BetterSelf is a side-project that's used to track supplements and medications and how it impacts your sleep and productivity.

Site : https://betterself.io/ GitHub : https://github.com/jeffshek/betterself

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

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Post by throwaway65466 » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 3:54 AM UTC

throwaway65465 wrote: post #248

wjossey wrote: post #42

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If you’re an alcoholic and drink daily, it can be very dangerous to stop cold turkey. If this is more of a lifestyle change, where you drink a few times a week but want to cut it out, I’d say (with zero scientific justification whatsoever) it’s sort of up to the person. Dietary and habitual changes for me have been easiest when made dramatically, but I know for many others that reduces quality outcomes. This is proba…

> If you’re an alcoholic and drink daily, it can be very dangerous to stop cold turkey. Could you elaborate? I have plans to do exactly that Jan 1.

You'll get into withdrawal which results in mental (anxiety, paranoia, etc...) and physical effects (tremors, nausea, vomiting, sleeping disorder, etc...).

Depending how hooked you are it could be a real physical dependency which can be harmful.

That being said, its just the same as the effects of alcohol in general, they are just stacking up when you have withdrawal. If you have truly decided to stop/lower your drinking - and you actually have what you consider a problem - its wiser to tapper it off, but it does require actual will to do it...

Below is a link that describe the withdrawal you can go through (found after a quick search, looks fairly accurate): https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/alcohol-abuse/withdrawal-...

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 4:01 AM UTC

adtac wrote: post #77

Built Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don't want to host and maintain servers on your own. (And maybe even apply to YC, who knows :)) It started out with me reading a blog post [1] and thinking "I can write Disqus tonight". And that's how it began; I had…

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

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Post by deepakkarki » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 4:04 AM UTC

I had a bad burn out and had to quit my job to keep my sanity. I've always had the habit of sharing interesting tech articles with my friends, so I launched https://discoverdev.io as a side project. It's basically a no BS curated daily list of good engineering articles that I feel would be worth your time! Had to teach myself some web dev and some basic design.

Right now working on a platform for developers to explain the internal workings of their projects. This would help a lot of new comers understand how a particular project works as opposed to being asked to read it's source code.

All on all 2017 was a meh year, hoping for a brighter 2018.

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

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Post by juicefs » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 4:17 AM UTC

I have been working on pet project since July, 2016, quitted the daily job and turned that into SaaS startup [1] in 2017, raised funding and built a team. At the end of 2017, we got 10X growth in terms of data size, having 5 paying customers with $24K ARR.

[1] https://juicefs.io/