Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

Just yesterday I released my first Android application (a game called: "Shades and Hues - a game of color gradients": https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nkcss.shad... never published a mobile app before, so that was fun :)

For my business (I work 32-hours a week and have my own consulting company on the side); I wrote software for a .NET CE Embedded device (Zebra; previously Symbol Kiosk device) that allows customers to price-check in retail stores. A customer of mine put up 4 hardware units in their store, and has been working great. I also wrote the communication software for their PoS cash register to accept PIN+Chip Debit cards, which has also been running for nearly a year without a hitch. Have one offer pending for a big project to write a custom OCR application, which would be the biggest project I've done solo, to hopefull, I can tell you guys about that next year :)

A service where you look at an existing site and suggest how to make it look better would be great.

My friends have been streaming on twitch so I've been writing a bot for them to play overlays/games with their viewers, let viewers earn points, queue up music, etc.

Along the way I brushed up on some es6 concepts, learned React, and was reminded of writing eggdrop bot scripts back in the day :P

Everything is public on github and is somewhat-generic/reusable by others. Hope to complete documentation and make it 100% generic in Jan/Feb so others can use and contribute.

Core bot library: https://github.com/bdickason/hpc-bot Twitch overlay server: https://github.com/bdickason/twitch-overlay Their specific bot files: https://github.com/bdickason/dumbledore

Also helped deploy/ship Tekken Chicken, a framedata app for Tekken 7 (ios: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/t7chicken/id1244210422?mt=8) (android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t7chicken&...)

Whats the deal after you are hired? a %? for how long?

I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment.

Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death.

I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my head. For the last 2 months I have built a prototype that works and started to dogfood it.

It's a tag that turns any object into a smart object (still working on my elevator pitch). What it does is allow you to contact the owner of any device. Put the tag on your car and anyone can contact you about your car(i.e. if it is blocking the way or you left your lights on). Put the tag on your keychain and if you lose them people can contact you. You can use the tags on anything really.

I started by building an android app but then realized you can do all this directly from the browser.

Expect the first beta in January.