Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

My little side project is News Uniter [1], and it's an attempt to break out of your news media-consuming bubble and help read different news sources.

The most recent update shows the home page of each news site side by side, so you can see what media outlets focus on different headlines. It's interesting to see what is considered "important news" at various places - it can sometimes help better reveal media biases, and, I think, can help people with other political leanings understand those biases more.

At least one friend could not believe another friend of mine when he claimed that Fox News did not have a particular very important headline at the top of their page. This app could help show, "Here's what each news site thinks is important, and how it may be different from what you think it might be."

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-uniter/id1182818371?mt=...

I nearly ended up a pancake when my steering failed heading into a turn in February, the day before my birthday. I realized the circumstances that led to me not being able to fix it before it led to near disaster weren't going to change on the path I was heading down largely by habit, so I finally set some priorities.

I decided to focus on making a business out of music. I'm far from where I want to be, but it's been a long time since I was doing Mechanical Turk tasks to pay for junk food. I have savings, my music is improving, and 4 people pay me almost $15 a month through Patreon[1]. Probably not a lot to the crowd here at HN, but it's a peace of mind I never knew before.

The big, super-important lesson I got from that is to not cling to what I wanted at some point in the past and accept how things are. I wanted to be fully financially independent, but had no plans, no goals, no notion of how I might make it happen. I had the desire, but not the will or commitment.

Being two seconds and one failure of attention from the front end of an 18-wheeler has a way of hitting the reset button.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/digitalscofflaw

why was this down-voted? someone here work on a competing product in 2017 or something?

I released my first ever big project this year. Learn Anything (https://learn-anything.xyz).

It's pretty amazing to see how fast it evolved and how much there is still to do. Can't wait to see what will happen to it in 2018 and what we will be able to do with it.

I worked on my first side project, XBRLStudio [1]. It's a Windows desktop application that allows users to organize and view XBRL quarterly and annual financial filings.

I'm traveling today, but would love to hear any feedback on the project.

[1] https://XBRLStudio.com