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Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by heynickc » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 12:44 PM UTC

Day job: Software Engineer (.NET) for a manufacturing company working on custom line of business apps.

Side Projects: A blog where I tackle topics that junior/mid-level software engineers might like to learn more about.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by Killswitch » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 1:23 PM UTC

Day Job: Kind of hard to describe, my title says VP of Engineering, but I work for a screen printing and embroidering shop, but I don't work on anything in the company, I was hired as the first and only employee to build a SaaS to help printing shops manage their business, and we'll be dogfooding of course.

Side projects: I have a few, mainly I am building a Heroku competitor using Docker.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by ItsChucky » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 1:57 PM UTC

werber wrote: post #4

ItsChucky wrote: post #2

I work for a small map tech company and my job role is basically a graduate C# developer, with some configuration duties also to cater our product to different customers. I didn't know C#, only Java, before starting the job so it's been nice to learn about concepts like WPF and Linq this past year. I do some freelance work for a small business owner in which I code small Java apps that hook to the eBay and Amazon API…

I have the same thing with coming home from work and just being done with screens. What's worked for me is coding for 1-3 hours before work, and treating one weekend day as a normal workday but for myself.

I've sort of tried the second one and usually do get a bit done at weekends. I like the first one though, I'll try that too. It's all a question of whether I can get up that early!

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by sideproject » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

I'm a software engineer at a health-focused startup by the day.

I run two sites

http://hellobox.co - tool to create and run your own communities (e.g. like HN) http://sideprojectors.com - market place to sell & buy side projects

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by dhca78 » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

kgen wrote: post #49

Software engineer, and my side projects involve helping people learn things interactively: RegexOne: http://regexone.com SQLBolt: http://sqlbolt.com

Wow that's cool! I hope you keep up the good work. SQL and Regex are great topics too for these types of websites.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by bakztfuture » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

-- Day Job--

I'm a student at the University of Guelph ... Not quite a day job but definitely keeps me busy!

-- Side Project --

Helping to organize business information around startups at http://www.StartupTimelines.org/

-- Shameless Plug --

If you're interested in contributing/helping out gimme a shout Bakz at bakzdesign.com

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by xyn_ » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

rubicon33 wrote: post #64

-- Day Job-- Senior Software Engineer (currently iOS). -- Side Project -- I'm building a web betting platform, for E-Sports! My goal is to provide THE BEST option, available internationally, for betting on E-Sport games. It's a really exciting project that I've been working on for 2 years. I'm using AngularJS, and WebSockets to create a 'real-time' user experience on the client side. -- Shameless Plug -- If you're in…

I'm a full stack engineer and would love to hear some more details. Shoot me a message, my email is in my bio.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by eecks » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 7:51 PM UTC

I'm a software engineer using java, xml, plsql, oracle db, javascript, html/css.

I am about to start a side project in java and have one just started in python with flask. I want to start using reactjs too.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by wanghq » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 8:00 PM UTC

Killswitch wrote: post #72

Day Job: Kind of hard to describe, my title says VP of Engineering, but I work for a screen printing and embroidering shop, but I don't work on anything in the company, I was hired as the first and only employee to build a SaaS to help printing shops manage their business, and we'll be dogfooding of course. Side projects: I have a few, mainly I am building a Heroku competitor using Docker.

Check http://convox.com if you haven't.

Discussion from HN: http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tools/395

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by someotheridiot » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 11:10 PM UTC

I'm a dba but do a lot of automation and build self service websites for internal use.

My side project is http://rebrickable.com which will calculate what LEGO sets and custom fan creations you can build by reusing your existing collection of sets and loose parts.