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Ask HN: What you achieved this year?

18 points by kodeshpa 15y ago

Share your start up , side projects, any cool hack or experience.

samlev 15y ago
I released an Open source project (http://www.samuellevy.com/mico http://www.samuellevy.com/mico) which has had a few hundred installations; travelled through Europe; quit a job; got a job; became self-employed; started several projects (but got bored with/dropped most of them); explored some concepts that interest me through the medium of JavaScript and Conway's Game Of Life (http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/ http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/ and http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/shared/ http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/shared/); and most recently have started work on a new charity-based system/startup. I've had a pretty eventful year, I think.
pawn 15y ago
With the help of a few buddies, I released my first Xbox 360 game, piniq (http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550a04 http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77f...). That's the most ambitious thing I've done. Less ambitiously, I made a Text Call of Duty. (http://viewthesource.org/g/cod.html http://viewthesource.org/g/cod.html)
- _ud4a 15y ago
  hahahaha love the text COD!
  - pawn 15y ago
    Glad you like it! :-D It matches my experience with playing CoD online pretty closely...
SHOwnsYou 15y ago
Started my consulting company and booked ~400k of business from formation through May 2012 Around June I will start looking for my first revenue generating employee.
jacques_chester 15y ago
Finished my honours degree, earning first class and a high distinction on my project ("An improved 3-party protocol for tracking user visits to participating websites"). I know academic attainment is kinda uncool on HN, but I am very proud of it. I hope to turn it into money in 2012.
hajrice 15y ago
Decided not to go to college; Went through a seed incubator; Built a profitable product (helpjuice.com) which I live off of. Then, I turned 19.
dangrossman 15y ago
Finally launched http://www.dialshield.com http://www.dialshield.com , a side project I had 90% done 2 years ago then simply didn't follow through on... but now it's out there and people are using it. Redesigned http://www.w3counter.com http://www.w3counter.com and launched a new realtime dashboard. Moved all my sites off Amazon EC2/ELB/EBS/S2/etc. back to physical servers.
MattBearman 15y ago
2011 has seen me: - Bootstrap and launch http://bugmuncher.com http://bugmuncher.com, which was profitable almost instantly. - Quit my job, and now I live off freelancing/contracting and BugMuncher. - Turn to the dark side and switch to a Mac Book from a PC (it's a big deal for me :) Plans for 2012: - Take advantage of my new found freedom and travel lots - Have enough BugMuncher users to mean I no longer need to freelance - Become a rock star
kodeshpa 15y ago
- Launched side project - Learned python - pushed 2 new apps to android
gdhillon 15y ago
Bootstrapped and will be launching soon (http://diglig.com http://diglig.com).
polyfractal 15y ago
-Launched http://www.startupfrontier.com http://www.startupfrontier.com (email newsletter that interviews interesting startups which are hiring) -Quit my job in academic neuroscience to become a freelance software developer -Been with my wonderful girlfriend for almost a year now =)
GoldenMonkey 15y ago
Launched three month project: iPhone Course http://www.LearnApps.Org http://www.LearnApps.Org

18 points by kodeshpa 15y ago

Share your start up , side projects, any cool hack or experience.

I released an Open source project (http://www.samuellevy.com/mico http://www.samuellevy.com/mico) which has had a few hundred installations; travelled through Europe; quit a job; got a job; became self-employed; started several projects (but got bored with/dropped most of them); explored some concepts that interest me through the medium of JavaScript and Conway's Game Of Life (http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/ http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/ and http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/shared/ http://gameoflife.samuellevy.com/shared/); and most recently have started work on a new charity-based system/startup. I've had a pretty eventful year, I think.

pawn 15y ago

With the help of a few buddies, I released my first Xbox 360 game, piniq (http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550a04 http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77f...). That's the most ambitious thing I've done. Less ambitiously, I made a Text Call of Duty. (http://viewthesource.org/g/cod.html http://viewthesource.org/g/cod.html)

_ud4a 15y ago
hahahaha love the text COD!
- pawn 15y ago
  Glad you like it! :-D It matches my experience with playing CoD online pretty closely...

SHOwnsYou 15y ago

Started my consulting company and booked ~400k of business from formation through May 2012 Around June I will start looking for my first revenue generating employee.

jacques_chester 15y ago

Finished my honours degree, earning first class and a high distinction on my project ("An improved 3-party protocol for tracking user visits to participating websites"). I know academic attainment is kinda uncool on HN, but I am very proud of it. I hope to turn it into money in 2012.

hajrice 15y ago

Decided not to go to college; Went through a seed incubator; Built a profitable product (helpjuice.com) which I live off of. Then, I turned 19.

dangrossman 15y ago

Finally launched http://www.dialshield.com http://www.dialshield.com , a side project I had 90% done 2 years ago then simply didn't follow through on... but now it's out there and people are using it. Redesigned http://www.w3counter.com http://www.w3counter.com and launched a new realtime dashboard. Moved all my sites off Amazon EC2/ELB/EBS/S2/etc. back to physical servers.

MattBearman 15y ago

2011 has seen me: - Bootstrap and launch http://bugmuncher.com http://bugmuncher.com, which was profitable almost instantly. - Quit my job, and now I live off freelancing/contracting and BugMuncher. - Turn to the dark side and switch to a Mac Book from a PC (it's a big deal for me :) Plans for 2012: - Take advantage of my new found freedom and travel lots - Have enough BugMuncher users to mean I no longer need to freelance - Become a rock star

kodeshpa 15y ago

- Launched side project - Learned python - pushed 2 new apps to android

gdhillon 15y ago

Bootstrapped and will be launching soon (http://diglig.com http://diglig.com).

polyfractal 15y ago

-Launched http://www.startupfrontier.com http://www.startupfrontier.com (email newsletter that interviews interesting startups which are hiring) -Quit my job in academic neuroscience to become a freelance software developer -Been with my wonderful girlfriend for almost a year now =)

GoldenMonkey 15y ago

Launched three month project: iPhone Course http://www.LearnApps.Org http://www.LearnApps.Org