Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

I'm constantly chipping away at Zigpoll (https://www.zigpoll.com).

Flexible surveys are an incredibly broad challenge both from the client side and the analytics/dashboard side. Since it's by nature solving long tail problems the level of complexity is such that you have to have several different user paths which "just work" under the same umbrella. And entering into different markets ensures a constant flow of new features to roadmap. I am focused on e-commerce currently but it could continue to branch out into multiple sectors given enough polish and tighter integrations with relevant third party providers.

Wrapping up a system where I can pay people per image and annotation for building computer vision data sets. Applying for my federal firearm manufacturer license so I can 3d print guns in California. Hopefully landing SBIR funding to go full time on my projects.

I want to transition into UX/UI design, aka Digital Product Design eventually. Not sure that going to happen in 2023, but I'm collecting books and courses right now.

I want to write a C compiler in Rust for fun :)

This year I don't anticipate having much free time, so I'm trying to engage more contributors in side projects,

* Automotive ECU tooling, https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash

* DJI FPV forward/reverse/all sorts engineering, https://github.com/fpv-wtf

I've been working a lot with various folks using Discord and contributions are gradually shifting from me towards others, which has been great to see. As the old adage goes, teaching a project is truly the final form of knowing one - much harder than hacking alone, but ultimately more fulfilling.

When I started my automotive ECU journey my goal was to demystify the "tuning" scene for a broader software engineering community, and I think I've generally been successful at this.