Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?

My current project is Move by Numbers [0], a sort of "Twitch plays chess" type of game with a comfortable pace, points, and levels. The idea of cooperative gaming has intrigued me recently, and this is my first foray into the space. Building it has been entertaining, but finding users and gathering feedback has been a struggle. I'm learning first-hand how difficult marketing is.

I also just published an article on tracing 2D metaball outlines [1], so if you enjoy visual explanations of algorithms, check it out.

Up next on my list is either a declarative charting language and cross-language interpreters for said language (data visualization is something I worked with a lot in my previous job), or a Japanese grammar textbook I've been dreaming about writing for several years now.

[0] https://movebynumbers.com

[1] https://eightsquaredsoftware.com/articles/metaball.html

I moved to the US recently so using it to show my skills to employers seeing as I've been working on entrepreneurial things while traveling. I actually found your post while browsing through my clone of Hacker News! I also have a business Shave Like A Boss which sells traditional shaving equipment: https://www.shavelikeaboss.com.au/

I definitely recommend working on a real idea for a project as you will be able to use it for something in the future.

https://devel.tech, tech tutorial website - webpack, bulma, django, docutils + sphinx (heavily customized)

Here are some examples:

- Powered by pure docutils: https://devel.tech/tips/n/sNZwQvNh/django-compressor-vs-djan...

- Powered by sphinx: https://devel.tech/features/django-vs-flask/

https://www.hskflashcards.com - recently converted to bulma, webpack + django-webpack-loader (from BS4 + django-compressor). Powered by Django + Postgres with the unaccent extension (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/unaccent.html). Example usage: https://www.hskflashcards.com/search?omni=hao

Some comments on the stack: webpack has really grown on me, particularly https://github.com/ezhome/django-webpack-loader. I've been avoiding trying to integrate node for a long time, and found webpack to have a bit of a learning curve, but after getting through the quirks it's great.

Another thing, looking into seeing more stuff with yarn workspaces (https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2017/08/02/introducing-workspaces/), lerna, etc. Trying to make the UX customizations more modular, and I think it's becoming more practical to separate out stuff into node packages more often.

As for other stuff I've been liking, SASS has been good as always, as has the bulma framework (https://bulma.io).

I've come to realize that I do want to share pictures, funny videos and all the internet has to offer, but I want to do it on my own terms and actually own what I put up until I decide to take it down.

It'll be the single place to go to find out what's going on with me. If I'm connected with you on social media that I have, you can see more details compared to random visitor.

Not super complex, just me a WordPress install and an idea.

Before this I did a word exploration site https://www.niftyword.com . It has been steadily growing helping quite an handful of people, but is not a revenue pulling niche. Currently makes enough for server costs and a monthly dinner.

What? Inspired by Kamran Ahmed's roadmap to becoming a web developer[2], learnmapp lets anyone create and share roadmaps for learning any topic/subject.

Why? Everytime I want to learn something new, the biggest hurdle I face is to find where & how to start and what to learn next. So with this tool, I want to make it easier for beginners to find and follow a roadmap to learn better.

When? Will launch, optimistically, by this weekend.

Also, it'll be free and the code will be available on github.

[1] https://learnmapp.com (not live yet) [2] https://goo.gl/6fHbVH

[1]:http://readup.tips

https://suet.co https://github.com/kehers/suet

A daily list of curated blog posts for developers. Focus is on minimal design and top content. Just ten interesting links for the day!

Nothing special, but good to get familiar with the tech. And definitely not yet ready to be shown (also, currently just a ripoff of an older nintendo game)

https://github.com/archagon/crdt-playground

https://keto.fm

It's a Dark Souls-inspired full-length game (15 hours of VR gameplay) where you cast spells by drawing glyphs in the air. People seem to like it, at 85% positive reviews.

Currently I'm on the non-coding part of work mostly: I still have some bugs to clear, but after that it's beta feedback (and then more bug fixing), press relations, trailer, and similar launch prep.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760/LeftHand_Path/

I'm also working on a side project using Google Cardboard, and I'm starting testing game mechanics for my next full VR game which will probably involve melee combat.

https://www.leadmine.net

The market has a lot of competition, but it seems most solutions are just too bulky and slow. We recently went on a trip to various boarding places around us and received good feedback about our product. I'm very excited to see what happens next.

Angel investing - invested in over 100 companies since 2013.

Digital Currencies - Investments in companies: Filecoin, Shapeshift, and Balance

Oh yeah I have a full time day job as a cloud computing architect

It mostly works the way I want it to - I've just been tweaking the number of stories it shows, and which subreddits it displays. It's not really meant to be useful to anyone other than myself, but it's been fun to work on.

Making about $60 MRR.

Been using other CRM systems but found them to be too restrictive. Salesforce provides endless customization but costs a bomb.

So now you don't have to do the back and forth "hey can you make a few quick edits" routine, and you can use whatever technology you want to build the site.

We've been working on it a little under a year and have a couple thousand users.

I do all of the software work for the on-device controllers, cloud backend, and UI.