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Re: Show HN: What Are You Working On?

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Edit: WHOOSH I totally missed your link! I think your idea is awesome if you couldn't tell by my participation :)

TOO MUCH!

I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year. The past two or three months things have been improving a lot thanks to meds.

Three projects I'm working on are starting to really start to buzz:

1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.

2. Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING! s/o to the Duet folks their support forum is second to none.

3. Electric motor for my kayak. Some very cool people on the internet are selling ESCs designed for brushed / brushless motors and it just so happens they perfectly overlap with the small / lightweight motor I'm using on my kayak. You can spend $$$$ on an electric setup but I'm making it work with a $130 motor, $200 battery and maybe $60 of electronics? Suck it torqueedo.

Honestly if you'd have told me all this would be going on at once six months ago I might have got in a fight with you for blowing smoke up my ass. It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.

I wish I could go back in time and tell my depressed / stressed self to have some hope and hang in there.

Re: Show HN: What Are You Working On?

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I signed up right away(as SeventhSeeker). I like the fact that there's no comments section, so it's just about the people building projects rather than biased by what random unrelated discussions other people decide to have. But feedback is still a thing, so I'm not really sure how to balance that.

Finding people that vibe on the same things you are passionate about is really, really difficult. Feedback and just being around people doing stuff I think is super, super important.

One way I'm considering doing this is running a local HN style invite only message board. There are lots of FB groups for my target activity (fishing) but people are notoriously guarded about their fishing spots so I'm thinking maybe a small $5 a month membership will keep the tire kickers out and reduce the riffraf.

Put it this way, if someone was doing this around here already I'd sign up right now. It's not just finding a community, it's finding a CURATED community where the things / people you need are available for you to interact with.

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