[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 50 points
Date : 2025-06-29 20:21 UTC (2 hours ago)
| chaosharmonic wrote:
| I actually _just_ shared a Show HN post about mine before finding
| this...
|
| I recently shipped a first-draft UI demo that you can play around
| with for my self-hosted jobs tracker:
|
| https://escape-rope.bhmt.dev
| mmarian wrote:
| ~~Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't look like a jobs
| tracker.~~ Wait, I get it now, this isn't job applications,
| it's jobs available out there.
| mmarian wrote:
| Just writing posts for my blog on personal experiences with
| startups https://developerwithacat.com . Am taking a break from
| any serious building, bit tired of failing. Using the blog as a
| form of self therapy.
| ml- wrote:
| Still on my sabbatical and continuing to build on things I enjoy
| rather than things that pay (for now).
|
| Main focus is https://wheretodrink.beer, collecting and
| cataloging craft beer venues from around the world. No ambition
| of being exhaustive, but aiming for a curated and substantial
| list. After the last thread, a bunch of people added their
| suggestions, thanks! It helped add interesting new venues from
| cities I hadn't covered yet.
|
| I'm very slowly layering on features, and have a few spin-off
| ideas I'll keep brewing on for later. The hardest problem thus
| far has been attempting to automate popularity rankings and
| automatic removal of defunct venues without breaching a bunch of
| ToS.
|
| Also made https://drnk.beer, a small side project offering beer-
| related linkpages and @handles for Bluesky (AT Protocol). It's
| been on the backburner, but still very much live.
|
| Probably looking for another small project for the next few
| months to focus on something else for a while. Always curious to
| see what others are building and doing. Thanks for sharing!
| nicbou wrote:
| How did you populate it? The Berlin list was pretty decent. I
| added one that came to mind.
| djfivyvusn wrote:
| He posts on internet forums and suckers fill out the data for
| him.
| plindberg wrote:
| I've been working on an app called Lang. It's a calm daily
| spending guide - shows you what's okay to spend today, based on
| how much needs to last how long.
|
| The idea came from noticing how most people manage money day to
| day: checking their balance, adjusting by feel, trying not to
| drift. There are tons of tools for planning or categorising, but
| not much that fits that kind of improvised pacing.
|
| Still early, but trying to shape it around those habits - to make
| something simple and steady, that supports how people already do
| things.
|
| https://lang.money
| iamwil wrote:
| An LLM driven app that helps you make buying decisions, like for
| coffee grinders, dishwashers, and monitors.
| lurkingllama wrote:
| An iOS app that lets you change the paint color of your rooms and
| try out new interior design styles (ex: Rustic, Coastal, etc).
|
| I built it because I was blown away with what the latest image
| generation models can do and found that interior design is one
| area where it could already provide significant value for people.
| I've already used it in just about every room in my house to help
| me decide on:
|
| - which paint color I should use
|
| - how I should arrange my furniture
|
| - what color theme I should be using to match the design I've
| gone with
|
| - general inspiration on decor
|
| It's free to download to try with sample imagery. Unfortunately
| due to the cost of image generation, you won't be able to upload
| your own photos in the free version (yet). But I'm constantly
| improving the app and would really love some feedback.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roomai-restyle-your-home/id674...
| abcd_f wrote:
| OpenAI on the back?
| lurkingllama wrote:
| It's built to be plug-and-play with a few different image
| generation models. gpt-image-1 (OpenAI's API-only image gen
| model) performs extremely well for certain tasks, but it's
| not perfect.
| gwbrooks wrote:
| Using Google's GDELT to analyze velocity and sentiment around
| public-policy/political news. Objectives: develop a taxonomy of
| news-event types and their behavior; use that taxonomy to test
| faster/better time to market with responses; ultimately determine
| which scenarios, if any, can be predicted.
| rozenmd wrote:
| More or less the same project since Feb 2021: OnlineOrNot
| (https://onlineornot.com).
|
| Idea is to be _the_ uptime monitoring + status page solution
| software teams choose. Next big project I 'm looking at is making
| a terraform provider for uptime checks, so setting up alerts for
| your new microservice becomes seamless.
|
| Still years away from employing me full time, but we're getting
| there.
| lionls wrote:
| Great project, love your advanced API checking!
|
| Just noticed your website checker might have a bug:
| https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=Kfd51...
| rozenmd wrote:
| What's the bug you're seeing? rate limited by Google?
| jaronilan wrote:
| Nothing actually. Feels nice.
| delusional wrote:
| A standalone BitTorrent DHT client
| https://github.com/delusionallogic/dht
|
| It's pretty simple so far. I'm focused ok getting the basics
| right and robust, such that I can start playing around without
| disrupting the real network. I don't have any specific goals, I'm
| just sort of messing about.
|
| One question that dropped into my lap today was who just
| announced 2k new Infohashes over the span of 10 minutes. That'll
| keep me busy for a while.
| tasoeur wrote:
| Last year I quickly built then released an experimental mixed
| reality horror game for Apple VisionPro: https://pulsargeist.com.
| It was a lot of fun and people actually liked the early
| prototypes of it. The game ended up completely tanking on
| VisionPro. Most people are on Meta Quest anyway so I'm now trying
| to re-implement the whole thing with Godot for Quest.
|
| It's been a lot of fun but Meta HorizonOS (or whatever) is such a
| poorer dev experience... Anyway I'm now trying to rebuild the
| live environment mesh reconstruction feature that doesn't exist
| while encountering first limitations with Godot... Hopefully it
| will be ready in a couple months!
|
| If this whole thing got you curious you can watch a technical
| talk I made about this game at the Letsvision conference in
| Shanghai, CN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYFH2hiRNqk
|
| ...and if social media doesn't somehow destroy your soul, you can
| follow me here: https://x.com/sxpstudio
| asdev wrote:
| Cursor for the gym + fitness:
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forceai-ai-workout-generator/i...
| anttiharju wrote:
| Curious about whether you're aware of https://www.aitofit.io/en
| and how your app compares to it
| asdev wrote:
| this looks a little different to mine, mine primarily uses a
| chat interface
| ranger_danger wrote:
| Nothing because I'm terrible at coming up with useful ideas for
| something to code.
|
| I'd like to volunteer for a software project but I struggle to
| find good ways of locating a project that interests me.
| vax425 wrote:
| I'm building an automatic tide prediction clock that doesn't need
| an internet connection.
| niwrad wrote:
| An audience-driven GenAI rom-com w/ Daily Episodes.
|
| How We Met - https://how-we-met.c47.studio/
|
| Each day, I create a new 30-second episode based on the plot
| direction voted on by the audience the day before.
|
| I'm trying to see how far the latest Video GenAI can go with
| narrative content, especially episodics. I'm also curious what
| community-driven narratives look like!
|
| For the past week, I've been tinkering mostly with Runway,
| Midjourney, and Suno for the video content. My co-creator vibe
| coded the platform on Lovable.
| chidog12 wrote:
| Working on Lunova -- a QuickBooks Online app that you can create
| custom alerts via SMS/email such as when big deposits land,
| invoices go overdue, or vendor prices spike. Just cleared
| Intuit's tech/security + marketing review (Took over 3 months...
| after building the MVP) and we're now live on the QBO App Store.
| Feedback and feature requests welcome: https://uselunova.com
| cpursley wrote:
| How's it working with the Quickbook API - any tips?
| chidog12 wrote:
| Pretty smooth once you respect the limits: 500 calls/min + 10
| concurrent per realm. We run a per-realm token bucket and
| queue work; If you throttle and batch, you won't hit 429s,
| but I talked to a few QB app owners and bigger apps tend to
| find it restrictive.
| dalemhurley wrote:
| Are you going to go on their new Partner Programme?
| JetSetIlly wrote:
| An Atari 7800 emulator. The world needs another 7800 emulator I
| think.
| trentnix wrote:
| One that compiles to WASM would be nice.
| dookahku wrote:
| A drone framework for managing different HW resources, similar to
| an operating system
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I'm working on getting all my supported iOS/MacOS/WatchOS/TVOS
| apps ready for Version 26 (Liquid Glass).
|
| It introduces quite a few changes. In my shipping apps, I'll
| probably be simply telling the OS not to use Liquid Glass (for
| now), but for my various test harni, I will need to adapt. Looks
| like a fair bit of work.
| ajmurmann wrote:
| An app that allows you import text in a foreign language you are
| learning and then click on sentences or words to get a
| translation and generate flashcards from them.
| kurrupttt wrote:
| I'm building an app for students :) help them learn by using ai
| to generate flashcards, quizzes, materials etc.
| pyromaker wrote:
| I'm working on Fro (https://fro.app)
|
| Haven't released properly yet - not sure if it's stable but oh
| well.
|
| I don't like using my personal email to sign up for things. But
| there are definitely things that I do want to sign up for -
| newsletters, try out some services.
|
| I know there are temporary email services, but I actually want to
| use these services. Of course there is Apple email that forwards
| to your real email.
|
| But, I also don't want to flood my inbox.
|
| Anyway, I wanted to receive these transactional emails in my
| personal Slack.
|
| So, that's what Fro is for (https://fro.app)
|
| - Sign up - get an email address - link to your Slack channel
|
| And you can now catch up on those newsletters via Slack.
| teruza wrote:
| Just launched the full history of South African Arbitrage using
| beautiful graphs for anyone to explore here:
| https://www.zarbitrage.co.za
| sethops1 wrote:
| I'm working on https://tickerfeed.net - a new kind of forum for
| stock market discussion.
|
| After HashiCorp was acquired by IBM I decided to take time off
| from corporate life and build something for myself. For years
| I've also been a casual retail investor on the side.
|
| Forums like /r/stocks and /r/wsb in the past have been useful
| resources for finding leads and interesting information. But
| meme-ification (among other factors) have substantially degraded
| sites like Reddit, to the point where interesting comments are
| much fewer and far in between. With TickerFeed I'm hoping to
| recapture what was lost - a platform where investors can discuss
| companies and all things stock market through meaningful long
| form content.
|
| It's also a chance to build something with my dream stack - Go +
| HTMX + SQLite, and that's been fun :)
| daxaxelrod wrote:
| Insurance is negative NPV. Trying to make it NPV neutral by
| giving people tools to self-insure. Starting with an app that
| lets you self-insure your phone with friends and family.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/open-insure-self-insurance/id6...
| ParanoidShroom wrote:
| A reverse image search to detect dirty xtc pills.
| https://pillscanner.app/
| KomoD wrote:
| The obvious solution to this problem is just not taking random
| pills.
|
| Also I don't see how this solves anything, just because a pill
| "looks" like another doesn't mean it is that, it could still be
| anything.
| reaperducer wrote:
| On a whim, I bought a pack of playing cards at the supermarket.
| Now I'm learning how to play card games.
|
| The card maker has its own web site with the rules for playing
| all kinds of card games, and it's filterable by number of
| players, including many games for one person.
| qudat wrote:
| We host a static site service where users can manage their sites
| via ssh (https://pgs.sh). Previously we used minio for object
| storage but have become frustrated by its perf issues on smaller
| VMs, don't need the distributed features, and wanted something a
| little lighter weight. We initially thought Garage could check
| most of our boxes but very quickly discovered perf issues there
| as well.
|
| So we decided to build out our own filesystem adapter and
| recently deployed it. It's pretty exciting to have our own
| solution that does exactly what we need and appears significantly
| faster.
|
| It makes us want to open source pgs.sh because it has fewer
| dependencies in order to deploy.
| postalcoder wrote:
| I'm still working on hcker.news, which first started as a more
| configurable hacker news frontpage, but has turned into a thing
| that I've found to be quite helpful at content discovery.
|
| I recently by request[0] added a cohesive timeline view for hn's
| /bestcomments. The comments are grouped by story and presented in
| the order that they were added to the /bestcomments page. It's a
| great way to see popular comments on active topics. I'm going to
| add other frills like sorting and filtering, but this seems to be
| as good a time as any to get some of your thoughts!
|
| You can check it out here: https://hcker.news/?view=bestcomments
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076987 (thx adrianwaj)
| asciimov wrote:
| I have a nice garden going right now. TAM Jalapenos have taken
| the longest to flower, almost thought they wouldn't. Sweet cherry
| peppers have been plentiful. Lost my zucchini crop to squash vine
| borers.
| stanac wrote:
| Still working on sudoku variants app (posted show hn 5 months
| ago), reworking solving algorithms for better hints and
| difficulty categorization.
|
| https://sudokuvariants.com/
| slau wrote:
| A Parquet file compactor. I have a client whose data lakes are
| partitioned by date, and obviously they end up with thousands of
| files all containing single/dozens/thousands of rows.
|
| I'd estimate 30-40% of their S3 bill could be eliminated just by
| properly compacting and sorting the data. I took it as an
| opportunity to learn DuckDB, and decided to build a tool that
| does this. I'll release it tomorrow or Tuesday as FOSS.
| dpkrjb wrote:
| I've been slowly building a website full of daily puzzle games
| (https://regularly.co/). I built the first game for my wife
| (https://regularly.co/countable) which she plays every day.
| Floored is my personal favourite, I find it deceptively
| challenging
| marcuskaz wrote:
| I finally compiled and expanded on all my various blog posts,
| tutorials and other Python goodness into a book: Working with
| Python. It is available as a free pdf download at:
| https://mkaz.blog/working-with-python/
|
| It's grown over a dozen or so years and when I finally decide to
| compile into a book, everyone now uses AI and no longer read and
| learn from books but instead through LLMs.
| zahlman wrote:
| Fantastic. I wish I'd started on writing something like this
| years ago (although I'd wanted to teach explicitly rather than
| having a collection of how-tos).
|
| > when I finally decide to compile into a book, everyone now
| uses AI
|
| This is part of what discourages me from starting now, sadly.
| That, and having more concepts for actual Python projects than
| I know what to do with.
| ok_dad wrote:
| > everyone now uses AI and no longer read and learn from books
|
| Not me, I read the shit out of documentation and also books
| like yours which distill knowledge from professionals down to a
| bunch of useful points. I have never not learned something
| (even if I knew and forgot it) from reading a good book about
| "Working with X".
|
| Thanks for your hard work, and for giving it away to others
| gratis.
|
| Edit: the string formatting cookbook has a ton of useful info
| that I always forget how to use, I'm going to bookmark your
| site by this page: https://mkaz.blog/working-with-
| python/string-formatting
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| I've been building an interactive nuclear reactor scoping tool to
| help people build intuition about how different types of nuclear
| reactors work and cost at different sizes. I ran a bunch of
| simple reactor simulations and this basically interpolates
| between them. https://whatisnuclear.com/neutronics-scoping-
| tool.html
|
| I did a screenshare demo of it yesterday:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQzDfrdf71Y
| sodality2 wrote:
| After 2+ years of maintaining the FOSS lightweight Reddit
| frontend Redlib [0], I realized that my niche but extremely
| detailed knowledge and experience of using Reddit's endpoints
| might be useful. After reverse engineering the mobile app and
| writing code to emulate nearly every aspect of its behavior, plus
| writing a codegen framework that will auto-update my code from
| analyzing the behavior from an Android emulator, I can pretty
| easily replay common user flows from any IP around the world,
| collecting and extracting the data. Some use cases:
|
| * OSINT (r00m101 just beat me to it by launching...)
|
| * Research into recommendation algorithms, advertising placement
| algorithms, etc
|
| * Marketing (ad libraries, detailed analysis of content given
| data not even exposed to the mobile app due to some interesting
| side channels, things like trend analysis, etc)
|
| * Market research for products
|
| * Sales teams can use it to find exact mentions of other
| products. Eg: selling crash reporting software? Look up your
| target accounts' brands and find examples of complaints.
|
| Plus a few more with more imagination.
|
| So I'm working on a site that allows user access to some of the
| read-only functions available here. Coming soon :tm:. Been really
| fun building it all in Rust, though :) If you're interested in
| anything here, email in profile.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
| Karrot_Kream wrote:
| Is there any interest in factoring the Reddit parts out of the
| UI code? I've been thinking of taking a stab at that myself but
| figured this would be a good place to ask if you have plans :)
| sodality2 wrote:
| Do you mean a way to have the Reddit app render content from
| some generic social media provider, while keeping the UI? I
| haven't thought about that yet. I'm sure it would be
| possible, but that would require tearing out a lot of backend
| code and replacing it 1:1. Most of my work has been on the
| network side of the app, and not much modification; just
| introspection and inspecting behavior.
|
| My main question: why, do you like the UI? I honestly really
| hate the reddit app, I haven't seriously used it for browsing
| since I fixed up Libreddit into Redlib :)
| Karrot_Kream wrote:
| I don't like the Reddit app personally but I also do like
| something a bit more dynamic than what Redlib offers.
| Personally I'm fine with JS on the frontend and frameworks
| like React as long as they're implemented well.
|
| I'd also just like to play around with different styles of
| frontend just as a way to hack on things.
| sodality2 wrote:
| Ah, I see. You can get pretty far with Redlib as a base +
| modifying html templates. They're very flexible and easy
| to read/extend. Though it relies on public methods to
| access Reddit, not my mobile app secret sauce :)
| dheera wrote:
| I took a break from a toxic big tech job.
|
| I spent a couple months travelling.
|
| Then I spent a couple months trying to use transformer-based
| models of sorts to detect short-lived inefficiencies in the stock
| market to try to create a passive income trading bot. I know
| short-term quant trading is super hard to be profitable, but
| Rentech did it, so I figured I'd throw a couple months at it.
|
| Then I spent another couple months on AI for science, robotic lab
| automation, and trying to get AI to do AI research inside a
| Docker container.
| dirwiz wrote:
| A mail/spam filter to flag emails whose sender's domain is less
| than a year old.
| mauvehaus wrote:
| Our staining our log home project has evolved into a replacing
| some logs project after demolishing the sketchy balcony that came
| with the house and discovering a bunch of rot.
|
| Frankly, I'm astonished that it hadn't collapsed out from under
| me when I was shoveling snow off of it this past winter. Behind
| the ledger that tied the balcony to the house was a mess of
| pressure treated lumber scabbed into a cavity in the logs formed
| by rot, none of it well-fastened or fastened into truly sound
| wood.
| nikhizzle wrote:
| A job feed for remote jobs - https://tangerinefeed.net/
|
| This is something I've needed myself over the last few years as
| jobs become shorter and shorter lived. Keep on improving it as
| some kind of compulsion.
| zahlman wrote:
| I've been more actively developing PAPER, and expect to push to
| GitHub and publish wheels on PyPI tomorrow although it's really
| still not ready for a Show HN. My work there has also led me to
| developing some side utilities:
|
| * a library for filesystem tree operations (and other trees, if
| you're clever enough swapping in components)
|
| * a utility to identify and extract wheels from pip's cache (so
| that they can be dumped into other installers' caches, for
| example)
|
| I also hope to return to bbbb soon, if only to make sure that it
| can build PAPER's wheels smoothly (and with a few other basic
| conveniences implemented).
|
| Oh, and I wrote an article for LWN recently and have plans for a
| few more....
| cbartlett wrote:
| Just like another poster, I'm also building a website of daily
| puzzles, finally at the point where it's mostly finished and I'm
| not completely ashamed of it - https://dailyplay.club
| tokioyoyo wrote:
| I wrote a simple app last year that put all my Apple Watch
| workout routes on a simple map, so I can see how much of the city
| I've covered (all existing options were paid, and I was too cheap
| for it). Now I have some time, so rewriting it properly that's
| based on neighbourhood, completion %s, achievements and etc. It's
| weirdly fun, because I'm not a mobile engineer, but satisfying to
| see hundreds of users per month using my app.
|
| Also, every region has different ways of representing a
| "neighbourhood", so I get to learn how to extract viable data
| from each city. Lots of map stuff, I'm genuinely enjoying it!
| nicbou wrote:
| This sounds wonderful. Do you have some writeup about it or
| screenshots?
| tokioyoyo wrote:
| Hm, the new version is very rough right now, as I've been
| focusing on API/Data side of things. But generally the idea
| is something like these: - https://uc792df8aab8345f71952cc545
| 69.previews.dropboxusercon...
|
| - https://uceed957a657be57d7d53af97504.previews.dropboxuserco
| n...
|
| It felt good when I was able to figure out how to generate
| all the neighbourhood data for any given city. A bunch of fun
| OSM data manipulation though.
|
| If you meant the app that I wrote last year, it's here -
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mapcut/id6478268682. The idea
| is much simpler though, as I mentioned.
| this-pony wrote:
| Did you look at the squadrats app? It's compatible with strava
| also. It sounds quite similar to what you describe.
| KomoD wrote:
| There's wandrer.earth as well, though it's based on roads,
| not neighborhoods or squares
| tokioyoyo wrote:
| Not Squadrats, but I've checked out some others, like
| CityStrides. There were a few problems though:
|
| - It felt like what I wanted to achieve is pretty simple (GPS
| coordinates -> display all on the same map), so didn't want
| to subscribe for a monthly fee. I couldn't actually find an
| app that would dump all my HealthKit data directly onto the
| map, which was surprising.
|
| - Last year when I wrote my app, I wanted to see how fast I
| can learn simple mobile development loop
|
| - Now, I couldn't really find anything that divides the
| coverage areas into real-world neighbourhoods. So, think of
| West Village of NYC, or Yorkville in Toronto, or Yoyogi in
| Shibuya and etc. Back when I used to live in Vancouver, I
| would look at my own app, and kinda say in my head "aight,
| I've walked through every street in West End, Vancouver".
| Figured it would be cool to have a proper way of tracking it.
| So working on it currently.
|
| - It's kinda fun to work on an app for my own needs
|
| I'll take a look at the squadrats though! Looks pretty cool.
| benjaminbenben wrote:
| I've been working on https://stacks.camera - it's an idea about
| overlaying the previous picture when you're taking a photo so you
| can create a timelapse or animation.
|
| For example, you can scroll through 60 pictures from my window
| https://stacks.camera/u/ben/89n1HJNT
|
| Most of the challenges are around handling images & rendering,
| but I've also been playing with Passkey-only authentication which
| I'm finding really interesting.
| Cypher wrote:
| quitting my job :( 17 years and new management has been a
| disaster never to resolve... sad times
| bravesoul2 wrote:
| Not sure yet but I want to build some Atlassian Forge apps.
| raybb wrote:
| Two things: https://urbanismnow.com a weekly newsletter that
| pulls together (mostly) positive news from around the world to
| inspire local change.
|
| The other more recent is a web based CalDAV client for Todo
| items. I love the tasks.org mobile app and can't stand the
| Nextcloud Tasks UI so I'm making an alternative that'll be local
| first and simple but fast.
| nicbou wrote:
| https://urbanismnow.com for the lazy
| raybb wrote:
| Fixed it. Thanks!
| franze wrote:
| Installed Claude Code in Sudo and Yolo Moder on my old laptop and
| told it to get self aware
|
| it now takes every other minute a webcam pic of me to see whats
| going on
| spacecadet wrote:
| Love this.
| jedberg wrote:
| Just watch out when it starts singing Daisy.
| robotswantdata wrote:
| New "AI in a box" product, can run the big models I.e.
| DeepSeek-R1-0528 etc. comparatively cheap, fast and just works.
| Our build partner is big on sustainability, considering a return
| to upgrade option.
|
| Likely will do a prosumer SKU, will be faster and cheaper than
| the Mac Studio equivalent.
| pedalpete wrote:
| We're enhancing sleep's restorative function through
| neurostimulation.
|
| Our first devices were delivered to researchers in Feb for their
| clinical trail (we just provide the tech, it's their study).
|
| We're prepping for pre-sale now as we finalize the last few
| manufacturing and design details.
|
| https://affectablesleep.com
| welpo wrote:
| I'm trying to create the best A/B test sample size & duration
| calculator: https://calculator.osc.garden/
|
| It's free (https://github.com/welpo/ab-test-calculator), and it
| has no dependencies (vanilla JS + HTML + CSS).
|
| Right now it only supports binary outcomes. Even with the current
| limitations, I feel it's way above many/most online
| calculators/planners.
| lcmchris wrote:
| Fontweaver.com - AI for font generation.
| nicbou wrote:
| I'm still working on a German health insurance calculator. It
| evolved into a very elaborate recommendation tool.
|
| Health insurance is one of the earliest, most important decisions
| immigrants make, and they often choose wrong. It can delay visa
| applications, cause coverage issues, or create expensive problems
| down the road.
|
| Now they click a few buttons and get very specific
| recommendations explained in plain English. If they're confused,
| they can involve an independent insurance expert for free. The
| guy replies within an hour or two, and is cool with Whatsapp. The
| way I gather feedback from users, he's strongly incentivised to
| stay honest.
|
| There is no AI involved, just good old-fashioned business logic.
| It means that the advice is sound, well-tested and verified by
| multiple competing experts.
|
| It's such a far cry from either trusting whatever reddit or your
| employer tells you, or the slow back and forth of getting a quote
| from a (possibly dishonest) broker.
|
| The second version[0] has been live for about a month, and the
| results are phenomenal. This third version vastly improves the
| quality of the advice, adding information about gap insurance for
| visa applicants, and making actual recommendations instead of
| listing all options.
|
| It's a really fun project, even if the topic is boring. It's a
| great research, UX, copywriting, coding and business project.
| It's the product of a few months of hard work, and so far it
| seems to pay for itself.
|
| [0] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/german-health-insurance
| oulipo wrote:
| We're building a repairable e-bike battery at https://gouach.com
| :)
| jesse__ wrote:
| I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10
| years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port
| the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty
| cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload
| the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen,
| like a voxel version of shadertoy.
| https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai
|
| I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of
| the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that
| supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user
| through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your
| source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and
| in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.
|
| https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof
| c0nrad wrote:
| Base health counter for Star Wars Unlimited
| https://blog.c0nrad.io/posts/swu-health-counter/
| ok_dad wrote:
| I'm writing tests, fixing bugs, and adding features to improve
| the quality of a piece of financial software that transfers
| certain financial data on a special private network. It's way
| less fancy than it sounds, but I'm enjoying improving the tests
| and adding important security and legal compliance features.
| Knowing that others will depend on my hard work to keep their
| business financial records straight is a great reward, and I am
| taking my responsibility seriously.
|
| I'm also working on learning about building software with LLMs,
| specifically I am building a small personal project that will
| allow me to experiment with them using measurable hypotheses and
| theories, rather than just tweaking a prompt a bunch and guessing
| when it is working the best. I know others have done this, but I
| am building it from the ground up because I'm using it as a
| learning experience.
|
| I plan to take my experimentation platform and build a small
| "personal agent" software package to run on my own computer,
| again building from scratch for my own learning process, that
| will do small things for me like researching something and
| writing a report. I don't expect anything too useful to come out
| of it, since I am using 1.7B/4B models on a MacBook Air M2 (later
| I might use my 3080 but that won't be much improvement), but it
| will be interesting to build the architectural stuff even if the
| agents are effectively just useless cycle-wasters.
| bbsimonbb wrote:
| https://simplyfirst.fr.
|
| We're off and running, making the world's best configurators for
| complex products. Our first clients love us. Our configurators
| implement some very personal ideas about front-end state
| management, and it's really a thrill to see it all working with
| real products, 3d rendering and zero latency.
| bbsimonbb wrote:
| If anyone's tempted to visit, the home page is in French. Click
| on "Chiffrer un produit" and you're into the configurator which
| has English translation (top right). All the magic is on the
| third screen, after selecting a category and a product. The
| disposition of options and choices, plus prices for all
| choices, plus the 3d rendering, plus all the totals, all
| recalculate in the browser with zero latency, based on previous
| choices.
| Smaug123 wrote:
| Ideas are coming way too fast to work on them all at the moment.
|
| * Expect/snapshot testing library for F# is now seeing prod use
| but could do with more features:
| https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Expect
|
| * A deterministic .NET runtime
| (https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.PawPrint); been steaming
| towards `Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!")` for months, but good
| lord is that method complicated
|
| * My F# source generators
| (https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Myriad) contain among other
| things a rather janky Swagger 2.0 REST client generator, but I'm
| currently writing a fully-compliant OpenAPI 3.0 version; it takes
| a .json file determining the spec, and outputs an `IMyApiClient`
| (or whatever) with one method per endpoint.
|
| * Next-gen F# source generator framework
| (https://github.com/Smaug123/WoofWare.Whippet) is currently on
| the back burner; Myriad has more warts than I would like, and I
| think it's possible to write something much more powerful.
| dataviz1000 wrote:
| I built an IPC/RPC shim for a Chrome extension so I can send
| strongly-typed messages between isolated JS contexts that
| otherwise expose wildly inconsistent messaging APIs.
|
| I discovered that VSCode has a very nice solution so I pulled the
| core VSCode libraries and injected them into a Chrome extension
| using the dependency injection, ipc / rpc, eventing to bridge the
| gap between all of these isolated JS contexts and expose a
| single, strongly-typed messaging API, my IPC/RPC shim sits on top
| of each of the native environments and communication mechanisms.
|
| Yesterday, Microsoft released the source code for the Copilot
| chat. Apparently, since the basis of my Chrome extension is the
| same core libraries I can drop the VSCode chat UI into the side
| panel without much friction. Although, I might continue to use
| Microsoft's FluentUI chat currently implemented in the extension.
|
| Because Copilot chat has a lot of code that runs in node in
| Electron, now I'm working in porting all the agent capabilities
| for browser automation from the Copilot chat including the code
| for intent, prompt creation, tools, disambiguation, chunking,
| embedding, ect. I'm 4 to 6 weeks away from having feature parity
| of Playwright for automation from a Chrome extension side panel
| that can do most of the inference using huggingface
| transformer.js locally. Nonetheless, heuristics exposed as tools
| such that if the intent is playing a video, all that is required
| is a tool that collects all the video tags and related elements
| with metadata. No need to use $10 in tokens to figure out which
| video element to play.
|
| Yeah, I think I'm 4 to 6 weeks away from having a Copilot chat in
| a browser doing agent automation.
|
| If you want to see where I'm at today,
| https://github.com/adam-s/doomberg-terminal.
| Agilesuitcase wrote:
| Pomodoro technique with a quick shared break online minigame.
|
| It runs a 25-minute focus timer, then launches a 3-minute round
| of a multiplayer minigame (right now just multiplayer
| Minesweeper), followed by a 2-minute cooldown with a chatbox
|
| A couple friends and I do this manually, we work on side
| projects, mute ourselves on Discord, and play random games during
| the break. This just puts it all in one place.
|
| Only Minesweeper for now, but planning to add a voting screen and
| a few more simple multiplayer games.
|
| https://studytomato.com
| samjs wrote:
| I've been building tooling for better debugger support for Rust
| types using debuginfo: https://github.com/samscott89/rudy
|
| I'm planning on doing a proper writeup/release of this soon, but
| here's the short version:
| https://gist.github.com/samscott89/e819dcd35e387f99eb7ede156...
|
| - Uses lldb's Python scripting extensions to register commands,
| and handle memory access. Talks to the Rust process over TCP.
|
| - Supports pretty printing for custom structs + types from
| standard library (including Vec + HashMap).
|
| - Some simple expression handling, like field access, array
| indexing, and map lookups.
|
| - Can locate + call methods from binary.
| daniellionel wrote:
| An application that helps non-native english speakers work on
| their accent.
| growbell_social wrote:
| AI assisted algorithmic backtesting & trading.
| https://www.growbell.com. You describe your strategy in plain
| language and we'll do the rest. Pretty charts included.
| mkagenius wrote:
| Letting AI code run wild on mac - via CodeRunner
|
| 1. https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner
| jerlendds wrote:
| I'm working on rewriting OSINTBuddy in Rust with Apache Age and
| Vite+preact ( http://209.46.122.104/docs/overview - sign
| in/create account will not work yet). You can think of OSINTBuddy
| as node graphs, OSINT data mining, and plugins, or as an
| alternative to Maltego. The project was previously written in
| Python using JanusGraph and the frontend using create-react-app.
| I still have to wire up all the frontend endpoints and write out
| a Rust websocket but once that's done I'll more or less be at
| feature parity with the old Python edition.
|
| The code and a demo video can be found here:
| https://github.com/osintbuddy/osintbuddy (and on codeberg)
| rkj93 wrote:
| making small releases for new styles and tools at
| https://vizbull.com Photo to Portrait converter
|
| In few weeks releasing Chrome Extension for Youtube Transcript
| and Summary dashboard at https://www.infocaptor.com
|
| Doing some minor fixes for https://wireframes.org - MockupTiger
| AI Wireframing
| genghisjahn wrote:
| I'm working on a service that sends weather alerts via sms. Sign
| up takes 3 taps from a. SMS enabled device. It's some what
| useful, but I still have lots to do. Around 27 users so far.
|
| https://www.mercuryfalling.net
|
| Apologies for US zip codes only and imperial units. I'll for
| international postal codes and offer Celsius/metric units soon.
| ejs wrote:
| I'm working on a tool to make tracking business metrics easy. [0]
|
| I've always had issues collecting business metrics like "signups
| per day" in observability tools, but using marketing type tools
| comes with it's own set of problems.
|
| [0] https://flexlogs.com/
| burgerquizz wrote:
| built my own game engine with threejs, and now at a point where
| we can game via a config file and edit game with an editor.
|
| Now I am focusing on trying to get brands / businesses to create
| games on https://playcraft.fun for their marketing campaigns or
| events
|
| if you want are interested, feel free to ping me!
| bytecauldron wrote:
| I'm currently developing a middleware that connects Nvidia PhysX
| to GameMaker. There's still a lot of work left but I have most
| features working in some capacity. Dynamic and static actors,
| primitive/convex/triangulated shapes, joints, character
| controllers, GPU accelerated PBD particles and deformables, etc.
| GameMaker is primarily a 2D engine and offers limited options for
| 3D, but it is possible if you know how to use vertex buffers.
| I'll probably post it here once it's a little farther along, but
| I'm pretty proud of my progress so far. I'm hoping I can use it
| to support myself in some way, but there's a lot of anxiety in
| selling a niche project like this.
| z3ugma wrote:
| Still working on: an enclosure-compatible open-source version of
| the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder
| ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking"
| part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home
| Assistant.
|
| - The encoder ring which works like an LED mouse, but in reverse:
| Fully reverse-engineered and on its own demo PCB
|
| - The faceplate PCB, which does the actual control of the
| thermostat wires, has been laid out, but the first version missed
| a really-obvious problem involving the behavior on power-on with
| certain of the GPIO pins from the ESP32, so I've got rev 3 on
| order from the PCB manufacturer.
|
| Nest Thermostats of the 1st and 2nd generation will no longer be
| supported by Google starting October 25, 2025. You will still be
| able to access temperature, mode, schedules, and settings
| directly on the thermostat - and existing schedules should
| continue to work uninterrupted. However, these thermostats will
| no longer receive software or security updates, will not have any
| Nest app or Home app controls, and Google will end support for
| other connected features like Home/Away Assist. It has been
| pretty-badly supported in Home Assistant for over a year anyway,
| missing important connected features.
| ryandrake wrote:
| Wow! Useful work, if that's true about them planning to
| remotely nerf everyone's product.
|
| Yet another example of why not to buy a product that needs to
| be tethered to its manufacturer to work. Good luck. I'd be
| willing to beta test (I'd have to check what rev mine is)
| jarmitage wrote:
| I started integrating http://ohmjs.org with http://strudel.cc so
| you can live code your live coding language
| gametorch wrote:
| AI Sprite Animator: https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator
| yurivish wrote:
| I'm working on a little website to summarize discussion trends
| across the podcast ecosystem. I wrote about an early prototype
| here[1] and also gave a presentation about it a few months ago[2]
| and now I'm working on an expanded "daily pulse" view across
| hundreds of episodes of top news podcasts from the last few days.
|
| My secret agenda is to explore how the "information supply chain"
| can be tracked across the data-processing stack all the way from
| the original audio through transcription, the processing
| pipeline, and UI. I'm using language models for multi-stage
| summarization and want to be able to follow the provenance of
| summaries all the way back to the transcripts and original audio.
|
| [1] https://yuri.is/n/podcast-vibes-prototyping/
|
| [2] https://yuri.is/n/podcast-vibes-presentation/
| z3ugma wrote:
| This is such a good visualization idea. I'd like to see some of
| the webinars and work calls I am on represented this way in the
| after-call summary
| yurivish wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| You could try making one using Observable Plot (which is what
| I used for these):
| https://observablehq.com/plot/transforms/dodge
|
| One of the slides in my presentation has the full prompt I
| used, in case that's useful. I ran it on chunks of the
| podcast transcript and then merged/deduplicated the results
| to get the data that's visualized here.
| rudasn wrote:
| Ephemeral, client-side encrypted sharing of files, text, html,
| and forms.
|
| Just prototyping at the moment, but the goal is to allow users to
| not only share files (even big ones) but also forms, like Google
| forms, but encrypted and one time only (read once).
|
| The use case I have in mind is allowing businesses to create GDPR
| forms (with private info, consent, etc), share unique urls with
| specific customers, and once the data is received by the business
| delete it from the server.
|
| This could be useful to businesses that don't have a customer-
| facing portal, but have to deal with PII and the customer needs
| to consent and verify the data and what it's used for.
|
| The data is encrypted client side (web crypto) and the password
| either shared in the url (in the hash fragment, also encrypted by
| a key stored on the server) or by other means (eg. could be the
| recipient's dob or id number or some other previously shared or
| known value).
|
| Still trying to figure out the details, use cases, business value
| but the core backend is done so is the client-side crypto stuff.
| I managed to get chunked AES-GCM working so that it doesn't load
| the whole file in memory in order to encrypt it, it does that in
| chunks of let's say 2MB. Chrome also has chunked requests (in
| addition to responses) for sending the file to the server, but
| would probably need to come up with some other mechanism to get
| that working on other browsers (like send the chunks in multiple
| requests and append to a single file on the server, but that adds
| more complexity so I'm still working it out).
| 999900000999 wrote:
| Got Phonex.new to finally build a working prototype of my open
| source MTG style card game.
|
| Gonna wait until the LLM credits refresh next month to continue,
| but I'm very happy so far.
|
| Elixir has been cool.
| dcsan wrote:
| https://Podskim.com is a way to skim through podcasts like a
| TikTok sans the brain rot. It also has some fact checking and
| topic monitoring behind the scenes. Haven't figured out a
| business model for it yet but has been fun to keep poking it
| daxfohl wrote:
| Finally learning TLA+ by plugging a very simplified multithreaded
| Java simulation of an old project's distributed, (hopefully)
| eventually-consistent algorithm into LLMs and asking for
| translations.
|
| I'd previously tried to learn TLA+ a few times but always
| eventually lost interest and gave up. This approach was quick and
| easy. Disappointed that TLC can't really exhaustively check more
| than 8 steps; being O(n!), 9 steps would take months, even after
| all the symmetry optimizations. Maybe will look at TLAPS next.
| kolleraa wrote:
| I'm working on inq - a real ink pen that writes on real paper
| while simultaneously digitizing everything you write.
| Specifically working on the software for our mobile and web apps.
|
| Among other things, my team has implemented access-based sharing
| using web links, like Google Docs for real paper handwriting. And
| we've just launched Quin, our AI assistant for real paper
| handwriting. Super useful for getting help with math, language
| learning, looking up relevant facts, generating ideas, etc.
|
| See https://inq.shop/pages/app
| polishdude20 wrote:
| How does it work? Some imu / accelerometer sensing?
| kolleraa wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_paper
| nateb2022 wrote:
| I don't see any ink refills, when I run out do I have to buy a
| new $165 pen?
| kolleraa wrote:
| No, the pens take standard D1 refills and are easy to change
| - they'll be available soon in the shop there.
| codruterdei wrote:
| Adding descriptions my library of images on my NAS so it can be
| searchable like google photos and iCloud. Had fun with go and the
| code is as short as it gets.
|
| https://github.com/erdeicodrut/Photo_tagger
| risyachka wrote:
| Open source Apple's hide my email alternative
|
| https://github.com/webmonch/hide-my-mail-cloudflare
| ks2048 wrote:
| https://6k.ai/ (only a landing page for now)
|
| Working on AI/NLP stuff in low-resource languages. Working on
| some research ideas (hope to publish) and well as some practical
| tools for learning languages.
| dalemhurley wrote:
| Great URL.
| chrismsimpson wrote:
| I'm building a custom vocalist/DSP AI. I've never built any kind
| of neural net beyond a toy demo, but I've been programming for
| ~25 odd years.
|
| Think like ACE Studio, but I'm going much less for pitch
| performance and much more for clarity, expressiveness and human
| realism.
|
| Very much at the data labeling phase but a little bit beyond the
| crude initial experiment phase.
| orsenthil wrote:
| http://beaver.learntosolveit.com is my task management app. I am
| using this now, others have started using it, and continuing to
| build it.
|
| I could create a portfolio page for my various projects -
| https://projects.learntosolveit.com/
| dogtorwoof wrote:
| Would recommend a demo or screenshot on the landing page to
| help convince people to actually sign up with their Google
| account?
| matthewolfe wrote:
| I'm working on TokenDagger [0] a high performance implementation
| of OpenAI's Tiktoken. My benchmarks are showing 2-3x higher
| throughput, as well as ~4x faster tokenization for code samples
| on a single thread.
|
| [0] https://github.com/M4THYOU/TokenDagger
| ddahlen wrote:
| I posted a couple of months ago:
|
| https://github.com/dahlend/kete
|
| Research grade orbit calculations for asteroids and comets
| (rust/python).
|
| I began working on this when I worked at caltech on the Near
| Earth Object Surveyor telescope project. It was originally
| designed to predict the location of asteroids in images. I have
| moved to germany for a PhD. I am actively extending this code for
| my phd research (comet dust dynamics).
|
| Its made to compute the entire asteroid catalog at once on a
| laptop. There is always a tradeoff between accuracy and speed,
| this is tuned to be <10km over a decade for basically the entire
| catalog, but giving up that small amount of accuracy gained a lot
| of speed.
|
| Example, here is the close approach of Apophis in 2029:
|
| https://dahlend.github.io/kete/auto_examples/plot_close_appr...
| richarlidad wrote:
| https://inspectsupplement.com/
|
| clinical summaries of dietary supplements
| fullstackchris wrote:
| still hacking away at codevideo - basically event sourcing for
| the IDE https://codevideo.io
|
| its good enough for me that ive started using it for my MCP
| masterclass videos / code export / transcript
| https://mcpmasterclass.com
| JusticeJuice wrote:
| I wanted to learn a bit about backend development, so I've been
| building my own version of soundcloud with supabase. Main thing
| I've learnt so far, auth is flipping complicated. But it's been
| really fun! The audio compression is done clientside with ffmpeg
| and WASM, I'm pretty pleased with that approach. Everything is
| pretty busted atm, but I'm trying to get to a 'walking skeleton'
| then polish. I've been devlogging the process as I go for fun.
|
| https://cassette.world/
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwpg34oLvwU
| arjunbajaj wrote:
| Fostrom (https://fostrom.io/) - A developer-focused IoT Cloud
| Platform.
|
| In Fostrom, devices connect via our SDKs or standard protocols
| such as MQTT and HTTP, and send and receive structured, typed
| data, through pre-defined Packet Schemas. Each device gets its
| own sequential mailbox for messages. You can trigger webhooks or
| broadcast messages to other devices based on incoming data,
| powered by programmable actions (written in JS).
|
| We entered Technical Preview recently. Since then, we've been
| working on:
|
| - Major upgrades to Actions: making it easier to write action
| code, along with testing before deploying, and more docs on how
| to write good actions. Coming this week.
|
| - We're in the process of releasing Device SDKs in multiple
| languages, including JS, Python, and Elixir soon. The SDKs are
| powered by an underlying lightweight Device Agent written in
| Rust.
|
| - A new data explorer to view and analyze your fleet's
| datapoints, which will be available in a few weeks.
|
| Happy to answer questions and appreciate any feedback.
| ssnola504 wrote:
| https://resample.app
|
| A simplified DAW for mixing together tracks with different keys
| and tempos. It uses WebAssembly and emscripten under the hood for
| audio processing.
|
| It's a work-in-progress passion project of mine where I get to
| explore new technologies and hone in on my UX / Web a11y skill
| set.
| dalemhurley wrote:
| https://DocCheetah.com - aiming to help accountants chase clients
| for their documentation. Launched, not got any traction, spent a
| little bit on advertising through LinkedIn. Probably need to
| execute more targeted marketing and more problem validation.
|
| https://Full.CX - still hums along in the background. Couple of
| customers. Just added MCP which has been amazing to use with AI
| coding agents. Updating the UI/UX to ShadCN to improve usability
| and make it easier for future changes replacing NextUI and Daisy.
|
| https://Toolnames.com - no changes this month.
|
| https://Risks.io - little bit of work on the new platform, yet to
| be released.
|
| https://dalehurley.com - little facelift
| heliographe wrote:
| Working on indie photography software (iOS/macOS for the time
| being): https://heliographe.studio
|
| My most recent release is a camera app dedicated to RAW
| photography, which focuses on being fast & lightweight &
| technically precise - I wrote the website to be both a user's
| manual and a crash course in photography concepts:
| https://bayercam.app
|
| I'm working on my next app release, which I'm pretty excited
| about!
| prmph wrote:
| Since I had so much trouble managing my entire digital
| information universe [1], I decided to scratch my itch and solve
| it for myself and maybe others as well. Here are my ideas about
| my product:
|
| - Manages the entire range of personal (and maybe business)
| information/content: Documents, Media, Messages (email, instant,
| etc.), Contacts, Bookmarks, Calendar, etc.
|
| - Tag based, so that the question of where to put and find
| content is quite a bit easier to answer. Think of a set of flat
| folders, on one or more devices, within which the files are
| stored with tags attached. However, there will be some
| improvements on the usual implementation of tag-based systems out
| in the wild. Since people find navigating/browsing files more
| natural than searching, virtual folders will be dynamically
| generated to provide guided navigation. Also, entire folders can
| also be treated as atomic and tagged/managed as one object,
| useful for repositories and projects. And, heuristics (and maybe
| AI) will be used to automatically tag files when they are
| imported into the tool, greatly reducing the tedium of adding
| tags the first time.
|
| - Is file based, so that all information is ultimately physically
| stored as individual files. This allows information to be more
| easily managed on a physical level: moved around, backed up,
| exported/imported, searched, navigated, etc. without the
| restrictions imposed by the opaque islands of information we have
| now. So in addition to docs, each email/instant message, contact,
| scheduled task/event, bookmark, etc. would ultimately be stored
| as a file, unlocking all the things you can do with files.
|
| - Has a local web-based UI launched from a local agent, so actual
| file content does not usually need to move across the network and
| stays local, and the tool is also easily multi-platform, with
| consistent UI irrespective of platform.
|
| - Provides a cloud web UI as well, that communicates with content
| devices through the local agent, so that content stored across
| multiple devices can be managed in one central location, even
| without direct access to those devices, team/org features can be
| provided. However, file content still stays local, except when
| shared.
|
| - Provides tools for exporting data as file from the data islands
| of various apps and service, and backing up as files to cloud
| storage services.
|
| My vision is a situation where I am in charge of my own data
| irrespective of whatever device, app, or service I use, can
| ensure that it is always available and will not be lost, and that
| I can easily navigate and search through it all to find whatever
| I want, no matter how scattered and massive it is.
|
| I welcome your thoughts. What would make this work for you? Would
| you mostly prefer a cloud UI or a local UI? Are there any
| technical or market gotchas I should be aware of?
|
| [1] Here are some of my issues with personal information
| management affordances of current tech, which is driving me to
| work on a solution:
|
| - Our data is too bound to device and vendor islands. Can't
| easily move my information across Apple/Google/Whatsapp, etc
| accounts. Can't easily merge and de-duplicate either. I almost
| always somehow lose data whenever I have to move to a new phone,
| etc.
|
| - Hard to own your data on many services: Discord, Slack, etc.
| Can't easily export, search
|
| - Hard to have a 360 overview and handle on all your data assets
| and query them in consistent manner
|
| - Files as a unit of information storage and management is very
| ergonomic; we shouldn't allow that concept to be buried by
| vendors for their own gain.
| wjgilmore wrote:
| A few months ago I launched SpiesInDC - https://spiesindc.com, a
| mail-based (as in the real mail) subscription service about Cold
| War history. Subscribers, ahem secret agents, receive packages
| every few weeks containing reproductions of famous documents,
| stanps from the USSR, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, coins, and other fun
| stuff. I keep refining the packages every week to make it better
| and it is so much fun.
| deanputney wrote:
| How are you handling the mailing? I love the idea of a mail-
| based project, but I worry that I would forget to go to the
| post office occasionally.
| jeddie wrote:
| A UI to start conversations and debates between LLMs, from a
| user-supplied prompt: https://modelmash.ai.
| nickincardone wrote:
| I'm preparing to re-enter the tech job market and have been
| building a Chrome extension for tracking Catan resources during
| games on colonist.io. It's been a fun side project (my first time
| developing a browser extension) and it's involved some
| interesting probabilistic logic to estimate players' hands after
| unknown card steals.
|
| https://github.com/nickincardone/catan-counter
| nickandbro wrote:
| I am working on https://vimgolf.ai , a site where users play vim
| golf with each other and try to beat a bot powered by O3.
|
| I've been meaning to wrap the project up for a while. Went down a
| rabbit hole trying to make the vim containers fault tolerant and
| scalable using kubernetes. But, after a friend told me I could do
| everything using cloudflare containers, I've been changing my
| backend to use that instead.
| daxfohl wrote:
| I was hoping to make a piano practice assistant for my kids, that
| would take sheet music in MusicXML format, listen to the
| microphone stream, and check for things they frequently miss like
| rests, dynamics, consistent tempos.
|
| Surprisingly the blocker has been identifying notes from the
| microphone input. I assumed that'd have been a long-solved
| problem; just do an FFT and find the peaks of the spectrogram?
| But apparently that doesn't work well when there's harmonics and
| reverb and such, and you have to use AI models (google and
| spotify have some) to do it. And so far it still seems to fail if
| there are more than three notes played simultaneously.
|
| Now I'm baffled how song identification can work, if even
| identifying notes is so unreliable! Maybe I'm doing something
| wrong.
| haron wrote:
| I work on Telegram bot, that helps you learn languages using
| parallel reading method: https://t.me/parallel_reading_bot
| zainhoda wrote:
| Mobile app that lets you continue coding while you're away from
| your computer.
|
| The goal is to be a full mobile IDE that lets you use Claude
| Code, Gemini CLI, and other agentic code editors.
|
| Has mobile-native file browsing and git integration.
|
| https://remote-code.com
| piker wrote:
| Tritium, the legal integrated drafting environment:
| https://tritium.legal (web preview:
| https://tritium.legal/preview)
|
| It's an egui Rust project to bring the IDE to corporate lawyers.
| spacecadet wrote:
| A super hacky, OAI Codex/Cursor built dungeon master in your
| console. Started as "can I build this while riding in the car
| using codex?" to maybe taking it a little too far. I was happily
| surprised by the quality of the Wayfarer model.
|
| https://github.com/derekburgess/dungen
| NoTranslationL wrote:
| I'm working on Reflect [0], it's a private self discovery and
| self experimentation app. You can track metrics, set goals, get
| alerted to anomalies, view correlations, visualize your data,
| etc.
|
| [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-
| anything/id64638...
| fxtentacle wrote:
| I went Yak shaving.
|
| For my 3D audio project I need an affordable way to make plastic
| cases. I felt like injection molding services are way overpriced,
| so I decided to make the molds in-house. Turns out, CNC milling
| is overpriced, too. As are 5 axis CNC mills. So in the end, we
| built our own CNC machine.
|
| And like these things always go, I found an EMI issue with my
| power supply and a USB compliance bug in the off-the-shelf
| stepper control board. But it all turned out OK in the end so we
| now have the first mold tool that was designed and machined fully
| in-house. And I learned so much about tool paths and drill bits.
| Plus it feels like now that everyone has experienced hands-on how
| stuff is milled, my team got a lot better at designing things for
| cheap manufacturing.
| memset wrote:
| A simple "ChatGPT for email." I just want to be able to ask
| things like "What time is my flight next week" or "Can you pull
| up the email where I sent John the final documentation for the
| api?"
|
| I don't want to auto compose messages or anything. I just want
| the computer to filter out things I don't care about and tell me
| the answer to things without hunting around my inbox.
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