A buddy and I had a ridiculous idea at 4pm Wednesday to create a simple site to collect new year's resolutions.
http://www.myresolutionis.com
We went from "dude, I've got this idea" to a fully-functioning production site in less than 20 man-hours (we still had to work our "real jobs" in the middle) thanks to the hacker community:
* A Linode credit from an AppSumo bundle from a few weeks ago - server solved.
* Ruby on Rails & FB Connect gems - back end framework solved.
* The HTML5 boilerplate & jQuery - front end framework solved.
* StackOverflow - "issues" solved.
Actual cost-to-date: $10 for the domain name registration.
The hacker community wins again!
PS, here's my resolution list: http://www.myresolutionis.com/jeff
edit: title for clarification :)
In 2010 I lost ANOTHER 50 lbs.
In 2011 I'm going to lose the final 50.
(...yes, obviously, I was pretty overweight to start with!).
I payed off my mortgage last year. This year I'd like to pay off my HELOC.
I took up guitar last year, and practiced for 45 minutes per day. Going to continue that, and upload a video of me playing one memorized song per month.
I've got a dozen more resolutions - most are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely). Most are of the form "do 1 X per Y".
I've been making a list of candidates in a personal wiki all year long, and will spend some time later today figuring out which ones make the cut.