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Ask HN: What milestone do you want to achieve in 2017?

12 points by bsvalley 10y ago

What is the single milestone you'd like to achieve in 2017?

mindcrime 10y ago
Goal number One: To land our first few paying customers After that, the next goal would be to get to a level of revenue that would let me do this full-time and not work a dayjob.
- AznHisoka 10y ago
  I assume you're talking about Fogbeam. I don't like the tagline, btw: "Easy to use, community-driven, open-source Enterprise software for businesses." Nobody goes online searching for "enterprise software for businesses". They do however search for solutions to problems like 'advertise to my target customers' or 'chat with my customer on my website'.
  - mindcrime 10y ago
    I don't like the tagline, btw: "Easy to use, community-driven, open-source Enterprise software for businesses." Yeah, absolutely. That's something that I've been meaning to change for a while, but it hasn't been a big priority since we've been heads down focused on product stuff lately. And this new product represents a little bit of a pivot, so once this is all ready, we'll revamp the messaging as well.
- jetti 10y ago
  This is my goal too. I would love to be able to get my business to a point where I can pay my mortgage and other monthly payments with the income each month (this is a downloadable software product, so no recurring revenue from a customer that can be "counted on")
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- bsvalley 10y ago
  "This year I'll be doing whatever I feel like doing in the moment" That's a milestone.
krapp 10y ago
To actually finish last year's new year's resolution: [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452309 Or in a broader sense (that makes me seem less pathetic), to actually implement a game in the framework that it turns out I've been writing for a year or two, when I thought I was writing a game.
taway_1212 10y ago
I want to not get fired and not rage-quit from my well-paying, but boring and tedious programming job. The saved money will allow me to quit sometime in 2018 and retrain to do something cooler (preferably a different kind of programming).
- id122015 10y ago
  +1 I like when I hear the truth. I recently asked a question, (if programmer wages are too low?) Maybe you'd like to answer that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253813
- bsvalley 10y ago
  Sounds familiar :) Just remember one thing, 2018 is far!
JBerlinsky 10y ago
I'm going to focus on my own health. I've spent the last half-decade working so hard to help grow the businesses of others, putting in 18-hour days regularly, and it's catching up. Time to hit the gym and pay back some of the non-technical debt that has accumulated.
- shakna 10y ago
  That is a fantastic goal. Being a workaholic/perfectionist has really hurt me, and the last ten years are all catching up at once. Take your time, and make sure you enjoy it.
broken_hn 10y ago
Since this is an open-ended question, I would like to describe a somewhat personal milestone for 2017: I want to break free of the depression which has been hanging like a cloud around me for 3 years. I had never thought that I would be the sort of person that depression would hit. But 3 years in the prime of my life has just gone by in a haze. :-(
- shakna 10y ago
  It's hard as hell. Stay strong, reach out when you need help. People in all the unexpected places will be there for you, even if those you rely on don't always.
textread 10y ago
HN has become a timesink. Will not open the website. Will rely on newsletter of top stories instead. Same with reddit. This will be my last comment. Goodbye everyone
shakna 10y ago
No milestones. My health is crapping out at me ignoring it for so long and I have a 3 month old daughter. My focus is on taking it easy, being there for my kid, and actually trying to enjoy a year of life, without become an obsessed workaholic like I usually do. To keep me sane with a slower pace of life, I'm trying to hook up some Arduinos into something that vaguely resembles a computer. But that's it. My milestone: Enjoy, don't do.

12 points by bsvalley 10y ago

What is the single milestone you'd like to achieve in 2017?

Goal number One: To land our first few paying customers After that, the next goal would be to get to a level of revenue that would let me do this full-time and not work a dayjob.

AznHisoka 10y ago
I assume you're talking about Fogbeam. I don't like the tagline, btw: "Easy to use, community-driven, open-source Enterprise software for businesses." Nobody goes online searching for "enterprise software for businesses". They do however search for solutions to problems like 'advertise to my target customers' or 'chat with my customer on my website'.
- mindcrime 10y ago
  I don't like the tagline, btw: "Easy to use, community-driven, open-source Enterprise software for businesses." Yeah, absolutely. That's something that I've been meaning to change for a while, but it hasn't been a big priority since we've been heads down focused on product stuff lately. And this new product represents a little bit of a pivot, so once this is all ready, we'll revamp the messaging as well.
jetti 10y ago
This is my goal too. I would love to be able to get my business to a point where I can pay my mortgage and other monthly payments with the income each month (this is a downloadable software product, so no recurring revenue from a customer that can be "counted on")

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bsvalley 10y ago
"This year I'll be doing whatever I feel like doing in the moment" That's a milestone.

krapp 10y ago

To actually finish last year's new year's resolution: [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452309 Or in a broader sense (that makes me seem less pathetic), to actually implement a game in the framework that it turns out I've been writing for a year or two, when I thought I was writing a game.

taway_1212 10y ago

I want to not get fired and not rage-quit from my well-paying, but boring and tedious programming job. The saved money will allow me to quit sometime in 2018 and retrain to do something cooler (preferably a different kind of programming).

id122015 10y ago
+1 I like when I hear the truth. I recently asked a question, (if programmer wages are too low?) Maybe you'd like to answer that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253813
bsvalley 10y ago
Sounds familiar :) Just remember one thing, 2018 is far!

JBerlinsky 10y ago

I'm going to focus on my own health. I've spent the last half-decade working so hard to help grow the businesses of others, putting in 18-hour days regularly, and it's catching up. Time to hit the gym and pay back some of the non-technical debt that has accumulated.

shakna 10y ago
That is a fantastic goal. Being a workaholic/perfectionist has really hurt me, and the last ten years are all catching up at once. Take your time, and make sure you enjoy it.

broken_hn 10y ago

Since this is an open-ended question, I would like to describe a somewhat personal milestone for 2017: I want to break free of the depression which has been hanging like a cloud around me for 3 years. I had never thought that I would be the sort of person that depression would hit. But 3 years in the prime of my life has just gone by in a haze. :-(

shakna 10y ago
It's hard as hell. Stay strong, reach out when you need help. People in all the unexpected places will be there for you, even if those you rely on don't always.

textread 10y ago

HN has become a timesink. Will not open the website. Will rely on newsletter of top stories instead. Same with reddit. This will be my last comment. Goodbye everyone

shakna 10y ago

No milestones. My health is crapping out at me ignoring it for so long and I have a 3 month old daughter. My focus is on taking it easy, being there for my kid, and actually trying to enjoy a year of life, without become an obsessed workaholic like I usually do. To keep me sane with a slower pace of life, I'm trying to hook up some Arduinos into something that vaguely resembles a computer. But that's it. My milestone: Enjoy, don't do.