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

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

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Post by WildGreenLeave »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #59

Finishing and working on getting more traffic to : http://startupwrench.com -- Also get some advertisements going, and hopefully build out the job-board. Right now, to get the first 5 jobs there's a coupon code: Firsties if interested go to: http://jobs.startupwrench.com 65% off. It's already bringing in some adsense money, and I'm not sure how much on affiliate programs, as they are a little harder to track and see…

You might wanna disable debug in your Laravel config. There is a debug bar that shouldn't be there.

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

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Post by gremlinsinc »

WildGreenLeave wrote: post #61
gremlinsinc wrote: post #59

Finishing and working on getting more traffic to : http://startupwrench.com -- Also get some advertisements going, and hopefully build out the job-board. Right now, to get the first 5 jobs there's a coupon code: Firsties if interested go to: http://jobs.startupwrench.com 65% off. It's already bringing in some adsense money, and I'm not sure how much on affiliate programs, as they are a little harder to track and see…

You might wanna disable debug in your Laravel config. There is a debug bar that shouldn't be there.

thx, yeah I enabled that earlier today after a push failed, forgot to change the .env back, thanks for catching that.

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

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Post by krapp »

Funny enough, I just made my first commit[0] to what I hope will be only the first successful game project next year.

I have a ton of half-finished projects I need to either finish or abandon. I even have a Hacker News clone that will probably never see the light of day. But mostly I want to play around with games.

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/berzerk

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

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Post by drham »

My resolution isn't a specific project, but more of a general commitment to spending regular time on side projects.

I've very recently been enjoying using pomodoro[1] cycles to track my productivity at work and I'd like to translate the same behavior to my side projects and commit to getting 4 cycles done per week (~2 hours), and tracking that information to keep myself accountable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

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

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Post by simonswords82 »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #58
simonswords82 wrote: post #15

I'm going to continue to get out of the way of my team who do an awesome job running http://www.staffsquared.com which we started three years ago. Using the time this frees up I'll be launching http://www.thingsclick.com and doing some consultancy bits for various companies helping with their digital marketing.

Both services look pretty awesome, I wouldn't mind giving thingsclick a try on some projects, I'm notoriously bad at testing my apps.

Thanks - pop your e-mail on the thingsclick.com site if you haven't already and we'll let you know when it's ready. We just found the existing testing tools (I'm looking at you Selenium) to be very powerful but too cumbersome. We've built something that anybody can use to create tests and re-run them as frequently as necessary.

We're already dog fooding Things Click internally and it's saved us a bunch of time, especially around regression testing. I'm looking forward to seeing how other people find it.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

AnkhMorporkian wrote: post #52
tommoor wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not discouraging your prototype/project at all, but make sure to check out http://www.aftership.com - service works really well for lots of different couriers :)

Seems to be a slightly different concept. That seems to mainly be for shippers, whereas mine would be for receivers. Also, their pricing seems a little absurd, I'm pretty surprised they have such big name customers. I still think my project would be viable though, since it would have a free plan with unlimited packages. Thanks for the heads up about aftership. If nothing else, it'll be a good way to get a list of car…

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