I bootstrapped and launched my Customer Success Management app Akita - https://www.akitaapp.com
It's been a LONG road but we've finally got happy customers and revenue.
Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
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#92Started 2017 working remotely, from home, in a rather depressing environment. Through this year I rented an office space and hired 3 other people.
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#93I left my job to work full-time on https://sublimefund.org, with the goal of getting more people involved in philanthropy.
I'm working on donation matching right now.
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#94I left my full time job about 3 months ago to start my own software consulting venture. Ive maintained projects from old clients I had on the side, and also created and launched a new project for a client (RN mobile app). Still have to get an online presence setup for the company. Its been going well so far, and I am looking forward to new projects and clients in 2018.
I launched ScrumGenius (https://scrumgenius.com). Its a side project I started for fun at my previous job (it was just a simple slack bot script back then) and decided to actually build a service and launch it a few months ago. I did not take it too seriously at first, I was just using it to learn. However, after reading indiehackers and other people launching products I was really inspired to give it a try. Its been steadily growing and it makes around $300/mo.
Hoping to continue to grow it even more in 2018.
If anyone is looking for a end to end consultant that does Full Stack Dev with experience in mobile and web! Please do reach out, would love to talk! I am based in Canada and UK.
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#95I built https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/
It was a site I put together to help me understand myself a lot better by asking myself the hard questions in life, and constantly reiterating it.
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#96I 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/
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#97I 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.
2. http://datasetapi.com - A platform to host clean curated datasets.An airport dataset is live, More to follow.
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#98Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…
I would pay for that pocket-to-kindle service
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#99I left my old job and built a lot of things, even built some things with friends. A lot of which have become open source. Also did a lot of reverse engineering.
4. https://github.com/Inumedia/NXLDownloader
5. https://labs.crr.io/maplestory/PKG1
Those are the main ones.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#100Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…
I just recently joined Spotify. I have found their "we will play similar music after your music ends" feature to enable me to discover lots of new artists. I find it interesting you found Spotify lacking here, because I am finding the opposite.
I'm a long time Spotify user. I love that feature too and it worked very well for me when it first launched. But after a while it started playing the same songs that I have already heard many times. Spotify's algorithm is very unpredictable so I can't say it will work out the same for you. But if it will, at least you can have another try with what I'm trying to build ^_^