Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

Writing. My ability to write is highly dependent on the context. I'm much better at essays than emails, and fiction is completely outside my abilities. I would also like to change my style a little to be less flowery and more succinct. More Paul Graham than purple prose.

Marketing. I'm hopeless at it, and I need to be at least OK at it in order for my project (https://nuenki.app) to succeed.

Time management. I'm very good at obsessing over one thing; less so at managing lots of different things that need to be round-robined.

Physics and maths! I'm in my gap year at the moment, but I want to be prepared for my physics degree next year. I'm already really quite rusty.

Git. I know enough to use it, but I've no clue what a rebase is, for example.

I've had a vague interest in 3D printing for a while, but I've recently been getting into DND and it might finally justify getting one. It seems like miniatures are best with resin printers though, while most other things aren't. I also hate painting things, so maybe it isn't worth it.

German! Nuenki has distracted me from it, but I ought to properly get back to it. It's just something I enjoy - I've discovered how much fun language learning is.

And a number of other things, but the list is already quite long and I should probably be enjoying Christmas instead of browsing HN :)

Marketing and sales, so this time I succeed with having paying customers in my next product :)

Any tips or resources for solo entrepreneurs is highly appreciated!

Same here! I really underestimated marketing. I've got a lot more respect for it now.

I assumed "build it and they will come" would work, and while there are definitely areas I could improve my product, the bottleneck for me is getting people to see it and try it. Once they're using the trial, I have an excellent conversion rate.

Pottery/ceramics throwing. I want to learn to make cups and plates. I'm tired of computers. I already know enough to be able to write useful programs and get the job done.

If blender is a bit overwhelming for you (it was for me), give blockbench a try. I love how simple everything is, and you can always add plugins if you miss something. Its open-source too!