Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

Working on https://excalidraw.com/ a whiteboarding tool with hand-drawn like feel. We just added live collaboration support recently to help with architecture brainstorm and interviews while everyone is working remotely.

This is great! Music theory is something I’ve wanted to learn, but have had a hard time finding the time/ resources that work with my brain. And I’ve been working on guitar, ukulele, and mandolin over this time of housebound-ness. I’ve learned a ton in just the last ten minutes playing with this. Like, honestly, barre chords have never made sense to me, and they just clicked with this. Still lots of practicing to do on my end, but this is great.

So so cool. Thank you for building this!

Working on a rules light alternative to the Lancer RPG. I love the art and lore, but in between hearing about it and its release, I got more into OSR sorts of games and now Lancer feels almost overwhelming with its rules. I'm merely hacking Into the Odd for now, but adding mech combat and some other tables to help along gameplay. No idea what I'm going to do about art though. I don't have enough money set aside right now to hire an artist.

I'm also learning Flutter so I can make a desktop and tablet app to assist Game Masters in adding audio to their games- sound fx, ambiance, and music. Now that the quarantine is here I might see if I can make it compatible with Discord or Roll20.

Looking good: I should have read your comment in full before I tried it because I was sitting here wondering why I could only create buildings in the sky. Neat idea though, and it'll be awesome when it looks as good as the picture you have on your website at the moment.

A couple of days ago, I launched a major feature for my website monitoring service (https://tryhexadecimal.com), and that is status pages. I have been meaning to do it for a long time since some customers were asking for it, and it will help to differentiate from competition in a major way. I had to migrate my Rails app from Heroku to EC2 to accommodate this change (I need to obtain both a wildcard TLS certificate for my domain and certificates on behalf of my customers).

Over the next few weeks, I will be polishing it and expanding the feature set, but that's not where most of my brain cycles will go, though.

I am still looking for marketing channels that will consistently bring right people to my website every month. A few things I am considering:

* Double down on writing. I do have a behind-the-scenes journal-y thing ... with 2 articles on it. It certainly needs more love. What I want to do:

1. every N days publish a "behind-the-scenes" story about running a one-person business

2. share it on relevant communities, get on some newsletters, and perhaps get some backlinks

3. build an email list

4. get organic traffic from search engines every month

* Double down on SEO. I have picked most of the low-hanging fruit already (technical & on-page SEO). I do have a single webpage that accounts for most of the organic search traffic (pretty low in absolute numbers), however, I feel like I'm missing on several adjacent keywords. Ungood!

* Start writing in-depth technical guides. You know, the ones that would rank for a whole slew of keywords, and bring in targeted traffic to the website. That's what DigitalOceans and Linodes of the world are doing, and I'm sure it does wonders for them.