After a depressingly latent period of non-doing in 2009, I broke out of my shell and kicked some ass in 2010. May and after was the period of "getting shit don

After a depressingly latent period of non-doing in 2009, I broke out of my shell and kicked some ass in 2010. May and after was the period of "getting shit done" as I kicked in to full throttle and overcame my fear of not-wanting-to-code-anymore. Protip: Just get started making something that's interesting to you, and you'll naturally get hooked. Starting is the hardest part, so just realize you need to bite the bullet. Also, if you're stuck, then paint something. Launched http://www.moreofit.com http://www.moreofit.com. It currently gets over 2k unique visits per day, and that figure has doubled every two weeks for the past 12 weeks. Nearly each day is a record day, and day-to-day increase in visits is what used to be my total amount of visits just a short while ago. Running on one instance barely breaking 1% CPU. I don't foresee that growth slowing until about the 20k/day range, maybe I can get 40k/day if I'm lucky, in which time I can try to monetize it and make maybe $40-100/day -- if only there were an ad network that let me define keywords on a per-page basis (rather than crawl my page [adwords] or just define the general keywords for my site). Also launched http://www.dashler.com http://www.dashler.com, and the bookmarklet, http://www.dashler.com/toolbar http://www.dashler.com/toolbar, which I think is just ahead of its time and/or is not nearly marketed as well as it could be. I use it daily to get traffic stats on webpages I visit, connect pages with their comments, shorten URLs, etc. Too high of a learning curve for it to be successful, and competitors like Glue make a much more compelling social and viable business out of a similar idea. But still was an amazing learning experience to make javascript+css which runs on any page in a performant manner. Never got to launch "forums for anything" which I think is a hugely under served market. Just search for "<anything> forums" and see the massively successful vBulletin site set up for it. Why should the web rely on somebody setting up a domain and host, and plopping forum software onto it? Huge barrier to entry for something that the internet was essentially built for. If I could create a forum instantly and without an account, then share that URL with others to use, that would be immensely valuable for organizing any number of events, ideas, projects, etc. Besides that, got employed at a mid-sized start-up which I'm happy with, and expect to learn a hell of a lot and gain some management or team lead experience, and be part of the growth phase from "something big" to "something huge". The job search process was both fun and stressful (negotiating always presents the possibility of having to walk away), but I'm happy to have gone through the experience; in particular meeting with various start-ups was quite refreshing to realize that I'm not alone in my quest for making something big. Also built some confidence in going essentially 4 for 4 in phone interviews to interviews to offers. All in all, not a bad year for me, despite being broke for 11/12ths of it.