Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?

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Turn my sudo movie/book/comic/game review site into something a little more
You've been spending too much time on the command line ;)

Is there a niche genre you'll be focusing on? I tried to set something up like that for zombie-horror films about 10 years ago, but once I had started college it became too much work to get and create enough content for me to stay motivated.

The only thing I did get around to doing was setting up a store with affiliate links. Go figure.

Not a particular project per se, but there are a few technologies that I'm going to devote some serious time towards learning. Elixir/Phoenix is intriguing to me. Going to give TypeScript a serious look - particularly now that it has support for JSX.
New project: Finish my projects

Weird, it's the same as my 2015 NYE's project.

EDIT: Otherwise, I'll keep bitching at Javascript for being terrible, will try out Mithril, will try to do more FP and will definitely do some Rust. Wanted to write libsavefile to read data from gamesaves and such. Might be fun.

A few months ago I took a position as a Team Lead. For the first time in my career I am responsible for the work of others. My focus is going to be on making it as easy as possible for the folks on my team to do their jobs with minimal interruptions or annoyances. I know that means I'll have Outlook and Word open at least as much or more than my IDE, which will be a big change.

I'd like to learn a JS framework as well. I don't know any and it's probably getting to the point where that's going to start holding me back professionally soon.

good luck! After six months as cto, I have to tell you, ohhh boy I HATE IT!
A bit businessy and vague, but charge our readers/audience for things rather than entirely relying on advertising/sponsorships (which is working well, don't get me wrong)? So.. diversification, perhaps :-)
This year I want to get my first SaaS app out the door. Just started working on making a tool with my friend for documenting and testing apis.

Tangentially related, I've been reading a book called The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal that has a lot of good ideas that apply to making changes in behavior if you have trouble (as I often do) getting things done.

A bit meta, but I want to finish the section of my homepage that lists which projects I'm working on.

Once that's done, maybe I'll start writing a book. Or my PhD thesis. One of those for sure.

I've already started mine - a personal dashboard app that combines all my most-used features of various other apps/sites into one place that I control.

So far it handles note-taking and task management, as well as showing me all issues and pull requests assigned to me.

Prioritize my list of projects for a change. I'm far too guilty of "chasing the shiny new object." I work on a project, realize how much work will be needed, resignedly go on with it, something new comes along...you get the idea. Recently found out about the Pomodoro technique, which will be helpful for new stuff and the HabitBull app for ongoing projects.

http://pomodorotechnique.com/

http://www.habitbull.com/

I will do swift (2d games and ios apps) :)
I'm going to continue to get out of the way of my team who do an awesome job running http://www.staffsquared.com which we started three years ago.

Using the time this frees up I'll be launching http://www.thingsclick.com and doing some consultancy bits for various companies helping with their digital marketing.

Both services look pretty awesome, I wouldn't mind giving thingsclick a try on some projects, I'm notoriously bad at testing my apps.
Thanks - pop your e-mail on the thingsclick.com site if you haven't already and we'll let you know when it's ready. We just found the existing testing tools (I'm looking at you Selenium) to be very powerful but too cumbersome. We've built something that anybody can use to create tests and re-run them as frequently as necessary.

We're already dog fooding Things Click internally and it's saved us a bunch of time, especially around regression testing. I'm looking forward to seeing how other people find it.

Massive group video chat => WebRTC, phoenix/elixir :)
"A few times I been 'round this track" - Gwenneth Rennae Steffani.

Deep in a few years on a couple of things. Wish it was as simple as starting new things each year, but I fall hard and commit deep to projects. This has come from learning it's best to hang in there and see shit out. Personally interested in the wilderness between Youtube and plain old television, personally. Onwards we go into the new year I guess. Best of luck everyone with 2016 projects.

More realistic goals, this year:

* Publish my game to Google Play, then to iOS Appstore.

* Finish the collaborative art platform I've been working on.

* Launch 3 new side-projects that each sustain a MRR of $1000+/mo.

Getting back into bike racing after 20 years!
Objection!!! That's a leading question!

I plan to finish existing projects in 2016!

Actually, my current plan is to get outdoors more and play music more. That may conflict with my earlier plan to finish existing projects.

I have been writing a lisp interpreter and mind=blown. I really want to write a harder one now - maybe a basic python interpreter, or make my own little language :D

I also really want to get proficient enough in the JS world to make a simple web app. So far everytime i start wondering what has changed since MVC+jQuery and shopping around million frameworks.

I want to find and develop high quality information 'scraping' and annotation and find a good community to connect with, in support of research and health system projects.

I posted about this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10595190 but even though it seems to be a common desire, there doesn't seem to be much organization around it, aside from the really heavyweight projects which I don't think are necessary for most purposes.

hypothes.is and overviewdocs.com are two open source projects that are in the right direction, but I want to find a less centralized design.

I've had a project in mind for a while, and I've built a prototype for my own use, but I'm looking into creating a public version of it.

A unified package tracking website. Put in some tracking numbers, get a centralized list, get status updates for all your packages from a single source. There's one site I've found that sort of does this (packagetrackr.com), but quite frankly it's awful.

I also have some ideas for premium services: forward emails and automatically extract/add tracking numbers to your account, SMS notifications, a few others. I just have to pull the trigger and actually make it.

As someone who gets a metric butt-ton of packages, my prototype has been super useful. I actually have it automatically parsing my mailbox and extracting links already, which is really convenient. Where possible I also extract any product names and display them next to the tracking number.

Not discouraging your prototype/project at all, but make sure to check out http://www.aftership.com - service works really well for lots of different couriers :)
Seems to be a slightly different concept. That seems to mainly be for shippers, whereas mine would be for receivers. Also, their pricing seems a little absurd, I'm pretty surprised they have such big name customers.

I still think my project would be viable though, since it would have a free plan with unlimited packages.

Thanks for the heads up about aftership. If nothing else, it'll be a good way to get a list of carriers I should look at supporting :)

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Sounds a bit like a web version of this: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/deliveries.html
Yup, definitely aiming to solve the same problem. My hope though is that by making it web based (and perhaps providing an app) I can lure some businesses into using it to track all their incoming packages, which they wouldn't want to do with a phone app exclusively.
Something VR, or a drawing app for ipad pro and apple pencil
Becoming a vandweller. Fixing up and selling my house.
Now that swift is open source, I believe we will see swift on the server too. With that thought, I started learning swift from mid-December. I am learning it with solving programming challenges. I also blog about them here[1]. My Q1 project is to learn swift in-depth with this approach.

[1]: http://tech.jjude.com/swift-challenges/

Get at least one, but hopefully two, signed publisher agreements for board game designs. I already have one prototype that's been getting playtested by a major publishing company. I've got two other prototypes that are probably two revisions away from being able to submit them to publishers.

I also want to make a 3D (and hopefully VR) version of my old strategy video game design, Proximity, and release it on as many platforms as possible.

Make a small app using Swift and self-publish that so I can prove to employers that I have Swift experience (I've tinkered with it enough to get a good handle on it but haven't finished anything) and maybe get back into mobile development full-time again (currently doing ASP.NET development). I have a good amount of Objective-C experience but no one seems to care about that anymore.

Finally, I have a novel with a second draft that's nearly finished that I'd like to turn into an ebook form, get some private readers, and do one more quick revision before sending it off to publishers. Because of how screwed up book publishing has gotten, I may end up self-publishing, but I know if I do that it's only going to make like, 100 sales at best, so I'd rather try to find a publisher first.

If I get all that accomplished next year it will have been a pretty good year. I got a lot started in 2015 but nothing got finished.

* Finish a book I have started a few days ago and release it under Creative Commons.

* Finish up a paper I've been working on for the last couple of months.

* Get a contract extension.

* Finish up the reading challenge for the next year (I've failed miserably this year with 16/25 books).

Also, I have two projects in my hand that seem more than interesting and I can't wait to start them as soon as the holidays finish.

Tell us what your book is about
Just my thoughts about the things such as the web, government transparency, open source software, Internet monopolies and similar.

I've been blogging my thoughts for about two years now, but I found that blog posts are too limiting to express my thoughts about these things.

That's why I have decided to write a book that will unite my opinions on these topics, give my back story as a person who grew up in a war torn country that's not very familiar for its technological advancements and the things I've been through trying to compete with international developers and having my right to free speech jeopardized a couple of times.