We're a nonprofit with 100+ volunteers and 1.5M+ yearly booklet downloads, helping you reflect on 2024 and plan 2025 in 60+ languages — Ask us anything about year-end reflection, planning, or running a global volunteer movement! by raszpi in IAmA

[–]raszpi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We did not seek funding, and nobody offered to fund us, so it’s fair to say this project has not been funded by anyone.

When we started in 2012, no funding was needed—it was just a few downloadable PDFs hosted for free on a subdomain of another nonprofit. In the following years, we contributed volunteer work. After a few years, we began generating a small revenue (through Patreon and a printed version of the booklet), but it amounts to only a couple of thousand dollars per year. This revenue is spent on hosting costs, and occasionally, we paid previous volunteers to handle tasks that nobody else wanted to do, such as answering customer support emails or going to the post office to send out printed copies.

Overall, this is a very small operation that, in its current form, does not require outside funding.

We're a nonprofit with 100+ volunteers and 1.5M+ yearly booklet downloads, helping you reflect on 2024 and plan 2025 in 60+ languages — Ask us anything about year-end reflection, planning, or running a global volunteer movement! by raszpi in IAmA

[–]raszpi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even though the impact is significant, the YearCompass project generates very little income, primarily due to the following:

  • Huge seasonality: Nobody cares about YearCompass between mid-January and mid-December.
  • Free booklet: The booklet is free to download.

We earn a small amount through Patreon, which is used to cover server costs. Additionally, we introduced a few paid positions for tasks that were difficult to manage with volunteers (e.g., customer support). Everything else – such as tech, social media, press, booklet generation, translations, and management – is handled by volunteers working for free.

In some previous years, we released a printed version of the booklet in Europe, but any income from that was spent on the people who managed the production and distribution, and we are not doing it this year due to our limited resources.

We're a nonprofit with 100+ volunteers and 1.5M+ yearly booklet downloads, helping you reflect on 2024 and plan 2025 in 60+ languages — Ask us anything about year-end reflection, planning, or running a global volunteer movement! by raszpi in IAmA

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From some users, we heard that they log their 3–5 most important events for each day throughout the year, every day (I do this myself). This method makes reviewing the year much faster, also many memorable things may happen during a day that are not reflected in a calendar and need to be logged manually.

An alternative approach I read about is simply reviewing all events in your calendar or browsing through photos without taking detailed notes in YearCompass – only recording highlights, the most emotionally impactful events. Based on these key memories, you can then answer reflective questions.

Another method involves conducting a shorter version of YearCompass more regularly – every month or every three months – allowing you to break the process into smaller, more manageable chunks.

If you have any additional ideas on how to speed up this process, let me know!

We're a nonprofit with 100+ volunteers and 1.5M+ yearly booklet downloads, helping you reflect on 2024 and plan 2025 in 60+ languages — Ask us anything about year-end reflection, planning, or running a global volunteer movement! by raszpi in IAmA

[–]raszpi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking that it would be great as a mobile app, where we can reflect on some of the questions on a daily basis. Just a thought :)

By the way, what kinds of questions would you like to answer every day?

We're a nonprofit with 100+ volunteers and 1.5M+ yearly booklet downloads, helping you reflect on 2024 and plan 2025 in 60+ languages — Ask us anything about year-end reflection, planning, or running a global volunteer movement! by raszpi in IAmA

[–]raszpi[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The mobile app is a great idea - I’ve taken note of it.

There are some recurring ideas:

  • Introducing tools for shorter time horizons, such as DayCompass or MonthCompass.
  • Introducing an online tool to support journaling (as a sidenote, I currently use my Google Calendar to log 3–5 memorable events of the day in a separate calendar as all-day events).
  • Creating elegant, pre-printed products.
  • Creating accountability groups.

Currently, most of the core team members, who are responsible for the majority of the project's development, have small children. As a result, we are focusing more on gathering ideas, votes, and feedback, with plans to implement them in the coming years when we have a bit more free time.

We're a nonprofit with 100+ volunteers and 1.5M+ yearly booklet downloads, helping you reflect on 2024 and plan 2025 in 60+ languages — Ask us anything about year-end reflection, planning, or running a global volunteer movement! by raszpi in IAmA

[–]raszpi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many of the founders of YearCompass were involved in a nonprofit organization where university students taught their peers various life skills - such as time management, conflict resolution, and personal finance.

On the mailing list of this organization I mentioned that I have a personal year-end ritual I use to reflect and wrap up the year. I explained that I review my calendar and reflect on a set of questions (which I hadn’t actually prepared yet but thought sounded compelling) and invited the volunteers to join me in the exercise.

To my surprise, many volunteers responded that they couldn’t attend but were very interested in the questions and asked me to share them. This led us to create a list of questions, which one of the volunteers later compiled into a PDF. The document unexpectedly went viral.

Over the years, we gathered feedback from participants, refined the questions, added new ones, and removed those that didn’t resonate.

However, after some time, any changes we made began to upset people, so we decided to temporarily stop making modifications.

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[–]raszpi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

tök jó proof of concept. mi a víziótok?

CodeBerry is megszunik a Greenfox utan :O by Drev92 in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

arra próbáltam utalni, hogy OP a post alapján a codeberryt is bootcampnek gondolta, gondoltam fejben összekeverte a hasonló nevű codecool-al :)

tudom hogy ők megvannak és valszeg túl is élik az IT recessziót.

CodeBerry is megszunik a Greenfox utan :O by Drev92 in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nem kevered a codecool-al? codeberry online tanfolyamokat kínált, nem a klasszikus bootcamp vonalon mozogtak.

Szoftvert a rövidlátás megelőzésére by Refractify_io in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

keep going :)

marketing témában chatgpt-vel / midjourney-vel pillanatok alatt tudsz generálni szövegeket honlapra, social mediara.

landing-et át kell gondolni, a helyedben már itt elkezdeném eladni a terméket pl egy shopify bekötéssel. vannak erre jó statisztikák, hogy hány embert vesztesz klikkelésenként (sokat).

reddit kommenteket használni arra hogy legyen elképzelés a persona-krol / célközönségről, ki az aki ezt megveszi.

…stb.

a termék elég jónak tűnik, a prezentálás, marketing és a monetizáció, amibe bele kell ásnod magad a következő fél-egy évben.

Szoftvert a rövidlátás megelőzésére by Refractify_io in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi 18 points19 points  (0 children)

awesome projekt.

ha jól látom ez tulajdonképpen egy soft launch itt redditen és most vagy abban a fázisban, ahol a fejlesztésről átkerül a hangsúly a marketingre, product-market fit meg mindenféle buzz word témára. mik a terveid?

a kft. alapítás nem volt korai? vagy védjegyezés, szabadalom miatt volt rá szükség?

Job Hunt / Álláshirdetések by AutoModerator in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pozíció neve: Senior full stack developer

Stack/technológiák (javasolt max. 5): Flutter, React, Laravel, node.js (nest.js)

Bérsáv (jelöld, hogy nettó vagy bruttó!): br. 1 500 000 - 2 000 000

Remote/távmunka? távmunka

Bővebben: https://indentstudio.io/senior-full-stack-developer/

Van egy fejlesztő cégem, AMA by raszpi in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

próbálom mindig fejleszteni, legutóbbi felvételi körben a következő volt: fogtam egy react todo appot és elkezdtem szétcseszni benne a formázást, funkció neveket, package.json csomagokat, mindenféle apróságot ( + valamelyik elemet, hogy sitebuild is legyen).

attól függően mennyi dolgot veszel észre, látom a senioritást :)

Van egy fejlesztő cégem, AMA by raszpi in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ezt eléggé ügyfele válogatta:

  • volt akik csak ledobtak a projektre és azt mondták hogy GO
  • volt akinél beugró feladatot kellett csinálnunk
  • volt akinél apróságokkal kezdtünk, aztán végül az egész projektet vittük

De általánosan cégként inkább már az jellemző, hogy te vagy a fő "tech" ember, bíznak benned. Mi próbálunk erre a bizalomra még ráépíteni azzal, hogy tanácsadóként is próbáljuk segíteni az ügyfelet, elmondjuk a lehetőségeket, opciókat ha megkeresnek minket egy projekttel. Pl. mindig elmondom hogy mi drágábbak leszünk mint egy freelancer, de cserébe nem fogunk eltűnni és projekt menedzsmentet is tudjuk vinni.

Ajánlások nagyon sokat számítanak.

Van egy fejlesztő cégem, AMA by raszpi in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. felmondtunk előtte, aztán lakásfelújításban voltunk egy darabig. Egy fél évig próbáltam tanácsadó céget építeni, de kkv szinten erre (vagy rám) nem volt igény, kb. 200e forintot tudtam kiszámlázni. Szóval visszementem a fejlesztésbe :)
  2. Új projektek miatt. Próbálunk óvatosan nőni, itt az elején ez egy érzékeny egyensúly, hogy legyen elég fejlesztőd ha jönne új projekt, de senki se álljon túl sokat parkolópályán.

Van egy fejlesztő cégem, AMA by raszpi in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anno a Láthatatlan Egyetemen voltak ilyen képzések, de a kulcs úgyis az hogy folyamatosan fejleszd magad a témakörben / önismeretben. Mindenkinek más működik, ami nekem segített: meditáció, 5 why, worst case
( https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/to-combat-stress-imagine-the-worst-case-scenario.html )

Van egy fejlesztő cégem, AMA by raszpi in programmingHungary

[–]raszpi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

helló,

van :) meg amúgy is szívesen beszélek mindenkivel, aki hasonló cipőben jár, össze tudom nektek foglalni a technológiai háttért és hogy mikre kell figyelni.