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Re: What are you working on?

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Post by shady_trails »

Continuing work on an online course on React JS, found here: https://www.udemy.com/learn-and-understand-reactjs/?couponCo....

I had some challenges with the course at the started, but refocused my efforts in making sure I was creating a product that a beginning developer could work through and then feel confident to build their own apps. Once the quality content was in place, reviews, revenue, and engagement soared.

Revenue is up over the last two months, and I plan to write a blog post in the next few weeks regarding that topic. In addition, I plan to also release a new course covering React Native in the next week.

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Post by twunde »

I'm working with a friend on a PHP framework, specifically helping with the docs: https://github.com/spiral

The coolest thing about it is IDE autocompletion of db fields. Other cool stuff is UML generation for Mongo/RDBS, and a storage abstraction for s3, ftp, etc so switching providers is just a config change.

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Post by krapp »

Just started a Coursera course on game development[0]

I've been building Space Invaders in C++ for almost a year now. It's been an excuse to learn things like building an entity-component system, messing with fonts, creating spritesheets, etc, and currently i've taken a week-long tangent into vectors and collision detection. It's more of a journey vs. destination kind of thing, otherwise it could have been "done" a long time ago.

I decided to wrap most of my Github projects into a small, threaded PHP forum, which is currently a HN clone because I can't be arsed to care about style right now. I've got lots of little things like related links generation and thread folding and sorting working. It will probably never actually see the light of day.

Since I just graduated from technical school, I have to find actual work so that's taking up a lot of time too.

[0]https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-development

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Post by the_impossible »

I'm working on finding a co-founder in NYC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218445

Finding a co-founder is close to number 1 on the list of things a founder has to do, because the number 1 mistake that kills startups is being a single founder. Therefore learning from other people's search in finding a co-founder would be learning what to look for yourself.

I can easily imagine finding a co-founder to be a startup idea itself if done right.

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

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Post by mindcrime »

As always hacking on Quoddy[1] and Neddick[2]. Beyond that, I've been dabbling with a number of new languages, tools, libraries, etc. See [3] for all the details. The tl/dr; though, is this - working my way through Machine Learning for Hackers and Practical Common Lisp, and starting on an AI bot[4] to give me a playground to mess with AI and Machine Learning techniques. Right now it's just AIML[5] and doesn't do a whole heck of a lot, but I just started on this a couple of days ago. Right now it can chat over XMPP and basically say "hello" and give you the current time.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[2]: http://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

[3]: http://mindcrime.github.io

[4]: https://github.com/mindcrime/LearningAIML

[5]: http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html

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