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 ghufran_syed » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 7:49 AM UTC

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…

What you're doing sounds great. I'm on the board of HackerDojo, our mission sounds pretty aligned to yours and you are not too far away - so get in touch, I'm sure we can figure out a way to support what you're doing! (will send pm also)

https://hackerdojo.com/

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

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Post by markessien » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 7:59 AM UTC

Did two remote internships for software developers in Africa - each with about 1000 participants.

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

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Post by fitzpasd » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 8:22 AM UTC

Recently, we released RsRelayJS, a small RxJS lib that provides 'Relay' types. These are analogous to Subject types, but without the ability to call complete() or error(). Therefore, they are stateless in the sense that they cannot enter a terminal state. I've found myself using these more than Subjects in our code, to bridge non-Rx code to Rx.

Check it out here - https://github.com/Microsoft/RxRelayJS

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

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Post by desaiguddu » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 8:26 AM UTC

We are mobile development agency, so most of the work we did was client work

- NFL, MLB & Basketball teams coaching iPad applications

- Worked on Productivity application for Singapore based startup

- Worked on Gifting application for USA based startup

Apart from client work here are the interesting things we did:

- Grown Apple Developers Club to 1000+ members on meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Apple-Developers-Club-Ahmedabad/]

- Started AI & ML Developers meetup group [https://www.meetup.com/Artificial-Intelligence-and-Machine-L...]

- Open sourced MFCard on GitHub [https://github.com/MobileFirstInc/MFCard]

- Provided 4 paid Internship to college students

- Launched App Fixers & Shots on Product Hunt

[1] https://app-fixers.com

[2] https://mobilefirst.in/shots

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

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Post by rayalez » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 8:29 AM UTC

- https://nulis.io - tree text editor for writers

- https://helix.startuplab.io - habit tracker

- https://fictionhub.io - fiction publishing platform

- https://startuplab.io/blog - started writing articles on startups/tech

Also a few smaller projects.

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

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Post by desaiguddu » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 8:43 AM UTC

thepumpkin1979 wrote: post #490

1) Got engaged :) 2) I built my own invoicing web app(breakdeck.com). 3) Developed an Electron app aimed at developer's productivity that I actually use 4) I published my first native Electron/Node.js module https://github.com/bithavoc/node-desktop-idle 5) Read 4/7 books I intended to read throughout the year. 6) Visited a new country

Excellent!

Couple of mistakes on BreakDeck website

- SuperHey is linked to SuperKey.com

- SuperHey website's Contact us link can be improved

What is the best way to reach out you?

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

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Post by DanHulton » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 8:44 AM UTC

Nearly finished up Chat & Slash, an RPG you play in Slack: https://www.chatandslash.com

I hope to finish up the "official" release early in 2018, but in the meantime, all that knowledge about Node and JS helped me land my current job, so it's a solid win in my book.

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

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Post by chuhnk » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 8:45 AM UTC

Continued my solo journey on Micro - OSS tools to simplify distributed systems development. It's been over 2 years full time now.

https://micro.mu/ https://github.com/micro

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

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Post by xor1 » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 8:48 AM UTC

borg666 wrote: post #278

Worked on a dating app http://crushhourapp.com as a side project with a friend of mine. It took almost 1.5 years to complete, Backend APIs were done with Django, iOS app with Swift. The concept is dating app for London commuters. I created the whole London Underground maps programmatically in the app. The final result was ok, unfortunately dating market is already saturated, and our market is only limited to London,…

How do you feel about RxSwift and MVVM so far? Do you see it becoming increasingly more widespread in production code?

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 9:00 AM UTC

jwq1 wrote: post #284

alin23 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I've used it for a few months. That's the reason I've started working on my thing. I felt that it didn't have the features that I needed the most (hyphenation, dropcaps, ad removal etc.) and I would have felt like a jerk to ask for these things from the developer. These are not common needs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They're my needs haha, I sent you an email to become a beta tester

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