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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by genbattle »

abyssknight wrote: post #54

Working with FAMiLab on creating a low cost sensor battery for classrooms as part of the Element-14 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge. Otherwise, trying desperately to get out of a recent spout of burnout, loss of motivation, and chronic perfectionism. I have, arguably, one of the best job situations in the world right now but I'm not enjoying it. The work I do is just not profoundly satisfying, despite being able t…

I feel your pain in just about every respect. Having personal projects can help. From what others have said having a solid non-programming hobby and getting back some balance is a key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Interesting and somewhat related blog article: http://heycarsten.com/employment-the-hard-parts/

Also, another article i found really interesting on the topic: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JoelChristiansen/20110110/6763/Pa...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by zarprey »

I'm working on an iphone/ipad app for kids. It's a silly thing just a coloring book but we're trying to make it better than anything else out there interface-wise and we're experimenting with in-app purchases and a bunch of other ios features. It's my first app that i've worked on from concept to execution so its pretty exciting to me.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by petervandijck »

horofox wrote: post #55

A real-time chan/anonymous community. We want to explore the potential in the privacy aspect that it does have. Chans are known to be hard to break-even(server cost wise) and they look... bad/ugly. So using node/socket.io and with a nice execution, in that "adventure" we want to create one that can scale cost-wise and basically own the market. We are developing a lot of cool features(and useful) and it's looking good…

That's a great idea, hope it goes well.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by abyssknight »

genbattle wrote: post #71
abyssknight wrote: post #54

Working with FAMiLab on creating a low cost sensor battery for classrooms as part of the Element-14 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge. Otherwise, trying desperately to get out of a recent spout of burnout, loss of motivation, and chronic perfectionism. I have, arguably, one of the best job situations in the world right now but I'm not enjoying it. The work I do is just not profoundly satisfying, despite being able t…

I feel your pain in just about every respect. Having personal projects can help. From what others have said having a solid non-programming hobby and getting back some balance is a key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Interesting and somewhat related blog article: http://heycarsten.com/employment-the-hard-parts/ Also, another article i found really interesting on the topic: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JoelChristians…

Thanks. Hit me up off HN if you ever need someone to share your frustration. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kpao »

I'm working on a Flight Simulator for Windows Phone 7.

It's a civilian Flight Sim, build in C# with XNA. I've been working on the PC version for 7 years as a side project...

Release in a couple of weeks if we get rid of the last few bugs in time.

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