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

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Post by adtac »

mikgan wrote: post #462
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…

I really enjoyed reading your code, it's got a great style. Play on :D

Thank you! :)

This was only possible because of all the contributors [1]: some of the design paradigms were entirely their ideas, so credits to them as well.

[1] https://github.com/adtac/commento/graphs/contributors

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Post by firefoxd »

taneq wrote: post #339
firefoxd wrote: post #159

I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment. Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death. I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my hea…

> It's a tag that turns any object into a smart object (still working on my elevator pitch). What it does is allow you to contact the owner of any device. Put the tag on your car and anyone can contact you about your car(i.e. if it is blocking the way or you left your lights on). Put the tag on your keychain and if you lose them people can contact you. You can use the tags on anything really. Did you just invent a QR…

Yes, most of the time qrcode is seen as a gimmick, ie you might as well write the url instead of downloading a qr reader app.

Here is my hope for making good use of it.

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

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Post by adtac »

nishs wrote: post #452
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…

There's a product named Hosted Comments mentioned in another comment on this post with a similar goal. https://www.hostedcomments.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16042162

Yep, I am aware. In fact there's a bunch of other offerings as well (someone else with a similar product once posted a summary comment; can't find it right now).

I just quickly registered and it appears the moderation/dashboard functionality is slightly limited in HostedComments. I only have the option to view all the comments. But with SaaS commento, you'll have a full fledged dashboard. Here's a sneek peak: https://i.imgur.com/j23BfKN.png

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Post by lxcid »

Had my first full year working on my startup https://www.taskade.com/

It have been challenging. I switch from being an iOS engineer to a full stack web developer. I always thought its easy to manage a team but I was so wrong. Struggling between doing and delegating.

I hope to I learn and improve going forward into 2018, trying to be good at enabling my teammates more. Hope we make Taskade becoming great.

I'm grateful I have good relationship with my co-founders though and still enjoy very much working with them. Hope we achieve great things together.

Happy New Year HN!

Cheers, Stan

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

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Post by frankzinger »

ianai wrote: post #36

Landed a new job in a new (to me), hard to enter industry making 2x what I used to make. Also achieved 2 new certifications. Personally I finally have a good management of my migraines and starting toward veganism.

What causes your migraines?

For me it was stress. I could always kind of tell but since I've been working for myself for the past few years I have had hardly any migraines.

An acquaintence gets them very often and they are extremely severe---incapacitating her for a day or more at a time. She has been battling this for decades and has been unable to find any causes.

Edit: does the veganism have anything to do with the migraines?

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Post by raghavtoshniwal »

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…

Hey, I tried doing something similar in my city. I found designing a useful curriculum a challenge. I would love to ask a few questions. Couldn't get hold of your email. My email is raghav.toshniwal at google's service.

Thanks!

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Post by e15ctr0n »

ernsheong wrote: post #406

I worked on https://www.pagedash.com , bookmarking with the content if you will. I also launched https://themalaysianpulse.com , a Malaysian news aggregator.

> I also launched https://themalaysianpulse.com, a Malaysian news aggregator.

Wonderful work! Any chance you could talk more about how you built this website? For example, where do you get your news from, how do you aggregate it, and which technology stack do you use on the server side?

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Post by avinassh »

ploggingdev wrote: post #101

Hosted Comments https://www.hostedcomments.com/ , a Disqus alternative with a focus on privacy. The learning experience of building Hosted Comments was great : using iframes to embed comments in websites, building a commenting system with voting and some features which Disqus does not have : locking comments, hiding comments (not yet deployed https://imgur.com/a/R89Cw ). It started out as a sideproject, then decided…

> using iframes to embed comments in websites

why an iframe?

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

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Post by decentralised »

Lasher wrote: post #300
decentralised wrote: post #296

Left a career as an IT Architect to begin a new life as a Ethereum developer. I'm so much happier now :-)

Are these private apps based on Ethereum or public facing apps? I'm curious at this early stage of the ecosystem what an "Ethereum Developer" does in terms of active projects.

Well, as far as paid work goes, I've wrote a few ERC20 token / ICO contracts and I've done a few PoCs with private chains.

I'm also focusing on open-source projects, hackatons and bug bounties simply because I've spent the last 20 years of my life working in corporate and anything that feels "real" I'm game.

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