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Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by hprotagonist »

1. on-device speech recognition and command clasifier. V. Proprietary.

2. antigen target filtering system for a boolean logic platform for using CAR-T with AML.

3. Database and retrieval system for a series of experiments in gerbil and chinchilla cochlea to study wave propagation along the organ of corti.

4. a unity-based traveller RPG character management suite.

5. A system to measure whisker deflection in rats as a proxy for studying Bell's palsy

6. a variety of small silly projects for personal use.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jacobwg »

I left an amazing company with one of the best work environments (https://webflow.com) to work for a non-profit that fights child sexual abuse (https://www.wearethorn.org). The work has been incredibly rewarding, and although I was quite nervous about leaving an awesome job and jumping into an unknown, in hindsight almost everything about the change was a meaningfully positive improvement. Working towards a mission that personally I feel has a lot of value has been an awesome experience.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by alin23 »

Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year.

I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here:

1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engine inside the new Kindle firmware.

2. A Spotify music discovery website. I'm trying to make a two-click-playlist-generator by using Spotify APIs to look at the top artists/genres of a user and create playlists on the fly with tracks that the user could like.

I use Spotify daily and found myself overwhelmed by how much music there is available. Because of that, I'm mostly listening to my saved songs, Discover Weekly/Release Radar and trying out playlists that usually have the same too popular songs.

3. An adaptive brightness/contrast app for external monitors. Adjusting brightness using the monitor's controls is always annoying to do.

4. A morning alarm that starts playing an algorithmically generated Spotify playlist each time, with fade-up volume, external speaker support, adaptive algorithm based on likes/dislikes and self-updating alarm times based on day moments (twilight, sunrise, golden hour, dusk etc.)

5. A detector for processes that eat up all your CPU and battery. I started writing this in Rust so I can make it cross-platform and learn the language at a lower level.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by forkLding »

Working on an IOS-based dating service which handles your facebook friends, mutual friends and soon to add searching capabilities, people within an 100m radius and people you would meet at events, it has several hundred users right now since beta-launch a couple months back.

Inspired because of things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041292

Heres my IOS appstore link: appsto.re/ca/SfGTib.i

Please do check it out and provide feedback!

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by adtac »

Built Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento

Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don't want to host and maintain servers on your own. (And maybe even apply to YC, who knows :))

It started out with me reading a blog post [1] and thinking "I can write Disqus tonight". And that's how it began; I had a working prototype in 24 hours (at the expense of a final exam I had in two days haha). Posted it on HN, and it blew up. And then I sat down and made it into a serious project that's now actually used by other people. I've had senior devs from huge companies (like Atlassian) contribute to the project, and I think that's amazing.

http://donw.io/post/github-comments/

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by T2_t2 »

alin23 wrote: post #74

Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…

Dude, LINKS! My mate was looking for almost that exact spotify thing!

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by javajosh »

jacobwg wrote: post #73

I left an amazing company with one of the best work environments ( https://webflow.com ) to work for a non-profit that fights child sexual abuse ( https://www.wearethorn.org ). The work has been incredibly rewarding, and although I was quite nervous about leaving an awesome job and jumping into an unknown, in hindsight almost everything about the change was a meaningfully positive improvement. Working towards a missi…

I had an opportunity to work for them but declined because I didn't want to look at the content. Tell me: how much of that do you have to actually go through? And to other devs: if you have thick skin and an iron stomach, go work for them.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by city41 »

Two side projects: a budgeting app that is a fresh take on the problem. I'm currently using it for my family's budgeting and once I feel it's polished enough I plan to open it up to users.

Also working on a closet design app. We bought a house that had completely empty closets (not even a basic closet rod), and learned the hard way that existing closet design solutions are all quite bad. I built a very simple one to meet our needs, then from there kept polishing it. It saved us money as we were able to design a closet that met our exact needs and only buy the needed parts. Most/all closet design apps are "package" oriented, forcing you to commit to less or more than you actually need.

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