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

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Post by jetti »

I published my first book C# And XML Primer (https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484225943) and wrote my second book Pro Windows 10 Development in C# 7 (https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484229330).

I started learning Elixir and wrote Plsm (https://github.com/jhartwell/Plsm/) which is my highest starred github repo with a whopping 86 stars (my previous highest was only 7).

Finishing up 2017, I'm working on my first mobile app using Xamarin Forms and Elixir + Phoenix for the server side. It is a simple train schedule app for the Chicago Metra but it is something that will help me and hopefully others.

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

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Post by aidaman »

austenallred wrote: post #375
ploggingdev wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Started as a side project in January, and I had no idea it would take off like this Would be interested in learning about the backstory. Did you blog about it somewhere?

Have been too busy building it. Started with 20 students, they performed remarkably well, started adding classes each month, got into YC and raised a large seed round, solved 2 or 3 other problems that hadn’t been solved before, and now we’re ready to open the gates to more people (our acceptance rate right now is right around 2%)

Plus you sold the shit out of it. Like seriously, quality work.

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

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Post by songzme »

avinassh wrote: post #478
ploggingdev wrote: post #101

Hosted Comments https://www.hostedcomments.com/ , a Disqus alternative with a focus on privacy. The learning experience of building Hosted Comments was great : using iframes to embed comments in websites, building a commenting system with voting and some features which Disqus does not have : locking comments, hiding comments (not yet deployed https://imgur.com/a/R89Cw ). It started out as a sideproject, then decided…

> using iframes to embed comments in websites why an iframe?

Cross origin cookie stuff can get pretty narly. Using iframes makes things easier

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

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Post by mfrye0 »

danieltillett wrote: post #466
mfrye0 wrote: post #372

I've been finally making serious progress on my startup, and have been picking up bigger customers lately. I kind of fucked up and decided to try the whole solo founder thing. I don't recommend it. I had a few bad experiences with cofounders at previous startups, so my rationale was to wait for the right person to come along. But that never happened... so I decided to just go solo. Being a solo founder has been by fa…

Being a solo founder is only hard in the beginning. If you survived the first two years then you are over the hump. Good luck for 2018.

Thanks man.

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

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Post by iamwil »

Started the year taking CS232n deep learning course. Then I started looking into spaces and markets to build something in, and get loads of practice doing customer dev. I looked at CSV tools, amazon seller tools, data cleaning services, VR game spectating, sushi collection mobile game, but none of them seemed right for one reason or another.

After that, I just wanted to build something I wanted to use, so I built Helmspoint—it helps you deploy Keras image recognition machine learning models to the web. Just upload the trained keras model, and it generates the web app and API. I’ve always found it maddening to configure servers, set up TLS, domain names, environment variables, etc, just to get something to show or share models with other people, so that’s why I built it.

https://www.helmspoint.com

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

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Post by songzme »

raghavtoshniwal wrote: post #476
songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

Hey, I tried doing something similar in my city. I found designing a useful curriculum a challenge. I would love to ask a few questions. Couldn't get hold of your email. My email is raghav.toshniwal at google's service. Thanks!

Love to give you some feedback/pointers, shot you an email. We plan to open source our curriculum and make adjustments as we go :)

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

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Post by songzme »

danenania wrote: post #468
songzme wrote: post #378

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. I was genuinely sharing what I did this year, was not hoping for any positive financial outcomes. 2. Integration with non-profits donations is not trivial. After registering as a non-profit, it takes some time for the list of registered non-profits to propagate through to donation tools (facebook, gofundme, etc). Sometimes, I have to fax in documents to prove legitimacy, and it takes a few days for that to process…

Check out givelively.org for (free) Stripe-based nonprofit fundraising and payment tools. I used to work there and they are doing a great job simplifying the process. I'm happy to put you in touch with the team if it's helpful.

givelively.org is amazing. Signed up and would love to be put in touch. song garagescript org

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

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Post by jd3 »

exikyut wrote: post #391
jd3 wrote: post #347

http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/assets/portfolio.html#mes... Wrote this a couple of weeks before Mozilla removed the XUL/XPCOM add-on APIs

oooooooo. I really really like this webpage :) full of interesting things. The click-to-change background FTW. (Is... are some of the bitmaps from DESQView/X?) Thanks so much for the Apple fonts, I've been meaning to poke the Alto source for ages!! Hmm. This idea I've had for a while may interest you, and you may have more success with it than I have: I want to get the fonts off a Psion MC400. https://sites.google.co…

No, but I just extracted the deskview patterns and added them to the site! Thanks for the info. http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/patterns/OEM/DVX/

hmm, I'll ask around about the Psion MC400

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

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

iratewizard wrote: post #413
adpirz wrote: post #389

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>smaller town and down sized everything You can very much pull that off in lots of small towns in the US, but yeah, you're living a close to thread bare lifestyle.

Not really. My girlfriend and I together make more than 200k/y and spend less than 1k/month on expenses while we prepare for her to launch a business. We cook food from CSA and our Farmer's market, have a cozy 2 bedroom in a quiet city and generally just don't buy a lot of things we don't need.

Which city? And 1k includes rent?

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

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Post by thepumpkin1979 »

1) Got engaged :) 2) I built my own invoicing web app(breakdeck.com). 3) Developed an Electron app aimed at developer's productivity that I actually use 4) I published my first native Electron/Node.js module https://github.com/bithavoc/node-desktop-idle 5) Read 4/7 books I intended to read throughout the year. 6) Visited a new country
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