Ask HN: What you achieved this year?

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by kodeshpa • 15 years ago

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

samlev• 15 years ago

I released an Open source project (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/ and 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.

pawn2• 15 years ago

With the help of a few buddies, I released my first Xbox 360 game, piniq (http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77f...). That's the most ambitious thing I've done.

Less ambitiously, I made a Text Call of Duty. (http://viewthesource.org/g/cod.html)

_ud4a• 15 years ago

hahahaha love the text COD!

pawn2• 15 years ago

Glad you like it! :-D It matches my experience with playing CoD online pretty closely...

SHOwnsYou• 15 years 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• 15 years 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• 15 years 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• 15 years ago

Finally launched 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 and launched a new realtime dashboard.

Moved all my sites off Amazon EC2/ELB/EBS/S2/etc. back to physical servers.

MattBearman• 15 years ago

2011 has seen me:

- Bootstrap and launch 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• 15 years ago

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

gdhillon• 15 years ago

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

polyfractal• 15 years ago

-Launched 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• 15 years ago

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

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