Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

Get at least one, but hopefully two, signed publisher agreements for board game designs. I already have one prototype that's been getting playtested by a major publishing company. I've got two other prototypes that are probably two revisions away from being able to submit them to publishers.

I also want to make a 3D (and hopefully VR) version of my old strategy video game design, Proximity, and release it on as many platforms as possible.

Make a small app using Swift and self-publish that so I can prove to employers that I have Swift experience (I've tinkered with it enough to get a good handle on it but haven't finished anything) and maybe get back into mobile development full-time again (currently doing ASP.NET development). I have a good amount of Objective-C experience but no one seems to care about that anymore.

Finally, I have a novel with a second draft that's nearly finished that I'd like to turn into an ebook form, get some private readers, and do one more quick revision before sending it off to publishers. Because of how screwed up book publishing has gotten, I may end up self-publishing, but I know if I do that it's only going to make like, 100 sales at best, so I'd rather try to find a publisher first.

If I get all that accomplished next year it will have been a pretty good year. I got a lot started in 2015 but nothing got finished.

Last year, January 3rd, I started to rewrite one of my iOS projects thinking it would take some one day or two. The last 10% has taken the whole year. Obviously not working on it every day, and "burn out" is included.

eating better especially when I eat out and helping others to eat better.

Trying to finish bestfoodnearme.com and give it a new look with pictures to help in this endeavor.

I've already built it and I am finalizing website copy, static pages, etc before launching.

I built network 'canaries', for lack of a better word, that do a couple things.

  1) They emulate popular services, Web Server, FTP Server, MySQL server.

  2) They provide you with information and alert you when other machines talk to it (for example, it will give you information from a POST request on a page that has a password field).

They are essentially network trapdoors that let you find people doing things they shouldn't on your network and are all precompiled ELFs, which make deployment super easy.

I want this to provide me with real revenue (my 2016 goal). If you have input for me please let me know what you think.

Tell us what your book is about