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Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
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#272I created meli[1], which is a faster alternative to docker-compose.
I also created sewer[2], which is a letsencrypt client library and command-line application.
In 2018, I want to create a highly available, fault tolerant, strongly consistent and durable messaging broker/queue. yeah, I'm aiming big.
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#273Started working on my first side project! It's an alternative way to screen developers that I think is better than anything that's currently out there. I'm interested in hearing feedback on the idea.
You provide JSON data that will be exposed through an API which candidates will use. They are given instructions on how to parse and manipulate the data. Then they POST the response to you. If the response is 200 OK - they've passed and they can upload their code for your team to review and decide if they should go to the interview stage.
I think this has lots of benefits:
- It's gives candidates a real-life problem to solve. Most, if not all software developers will have to interact with API's and manipulate data.
- Candidates can use their own dev environment that they are comfortable using.
- It saves the company time. They can choose to only assess the code of people who pass the test.
- It makes for a good candidate experience. I think it reflects well on a company if their interview process is close to real-life work.
Hoping to ship the beta version of this next month
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#274I launched two projects. 1) http://instant10-k.com/ An efficient way to search 10-k and 10-q filings for publicly listed companies. A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance. 10-Q is the quarterly version. If you have ever purchased an individual stock you should read the 10-k and 10-Q reports.…
1) is so great -- thanks for making/sharing. I run into the clunky search process for 10k's once in a while and think your site does a great job improving that experience. In case you're taking feature requests, these are some things I'd love to see in a 10k site (order in relevancy): autocomplete in search see recently released 10k's browse functionality 10k specific discussions (e.g., annotating similar to RapGeniu…
thank you for your feedback @liampronan! Autocomplete is in the works and I will give others consideration. Please spread the word.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#275I launched two projects. 1) http://instant10-k.com/ An efficient way to search 10-k and 10-q filings for publicly listed companies. A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance. 10-Q is the quarterly version. If you have ever purchased an individual stock you should read the 10-k and 10-Q reports.…
Insta10K is amazing. Using EDGAR was a huge pain in the ass; this is so much easier. Thank you!
thank you! I Want to make filings accessible for all!
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main problem we had is over promising. For every client we had, the CEO promised some features we cannot deliver. Many of the financial decisions made wasted tons of money. (Microsoft Azure is not for your up and coming start up, too expensive) I tend to favor meeting one customer at a time to understand the problem we are trying to solve, but we went for bulk email and spamming. The few clients I met one on one…
Did they try getting bizspark? Or did they have it but overuse their limits?
We used bizspark. But that only lasts a while then you are left with a huge bill every months.
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#277I was working on LibreTaxi https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi it's ride sharing app that works thru Telegram (currently). Surprisingly, it worked really well, there are 100-500 rides in some cities every day
I was excited about this project when i first saw it here but i have to say the setup instructions are very confusing. It would be nice if the documentation had step by step installation and first boot instructions. Many months after cloning the repo, i have never managed to set it up. The instructions are all over the place. The NodeJS instructions say you can run npm -i after installing node. Then you get to Gettin…
Thanks, I know, some setup is required. I ask everyone who had any issues to update instructions in confusing places. So you may want to check it again.
Also, I'm going to add docker image soon, so it will just work with few commands
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#278Worked on a dating app http://crushhourapp.com as a side project with a friend of mine.
It took almost 1.5 years to complete, Backend APIs were done with Django, iOS app with Swift. The concept is dating app for London commuters.
I created the whole London Underground maps programmatically in the app. The final result was ok, unfortunately dating market is already saturated, and our market is only limited to London, lesson learned, test your idea first, build a quick prototype, don't spend more than 5-6 months, unless you are really sure.
For the rest of the year, I have concentrated in learning Reactive functional programming, created a small backend app with Clojure, at work I am working on iOS app, which I have architected using, RxSwift, MVVM, it has over 650 tests, with close to 80% test coverage using Quick and Nimble frameworks.
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#279I worked on an open source project at the end of the year to help track your Coinbase profits: https://www.profbit.info/ https://github.com/joshblum/profbit/
Thanks for building this! I've been using it since it was posted as a show hn and have enjoyed the straightforward interface and steady improvements. Keep it up!
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#280I started coding a platform to save webpages.(Evernote like)
There are two main ideas:
* Build a personal webarchive so that links you like never disapear
* Being able to find any articles you liked in the past by searching them from their title, content or similar sentences of the text (like you can search "wooden house" and it will find an article which contains the sentence "wooden home")
The platform will be available with a montly subscription fee OR for free if you host it by yourself