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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by ravenical »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #82

I’m working on an ISBN database that fetches information from several other services, such as Hardcover.app, Google Books, and ISBNDB, merges that information, and return something more complete than using them alone. It also saves that information in the database for future lookups. Mostly because I’m working on a personal library management service called Shelvica to solve my own problems[1], and none of those serv…

Interesting! Have you looked into data from Anna (https://annas-archive.li/blog/all-isbns-winners.html)?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by epolanski »

genkoph wrote: post #52

I built an alternative to the Typescript package "neverthrow" called "no-exceptions" I found neverthrow's api to be not very ergonomic so I built my own little version. https://www.npmjs.com/package/no-exceptions

Serious question, not dismissing any of your work but why implement it yourself when there's plenty of such implementations in TS land already.

fp-ts has an Either type e.g. but there's plenty of such libraries.

https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/modules/Either.ts.html

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by tomxor »

cookiengineer wrote: post #36

I am working on my Go UI library called gooey [1] which aims to be a one stop framework to build webview/webview apps in Go and WebASM. It started out with bindings for the DOM, Web, and Browser APIs, but as of today I now have custom Web Components support (which is a big deal considering Go's type system quirks). Tomorrow I'm gonna polish some of the UI components and start refactoring my git-evac [2] repo manageme…

> Components are bad for web accessibility (aria- property fatigue).

I've been using web components as a vehicle to automate and auto validate accessibility aspects as much as possible, because I think the only way to truly make things sustainably accessible is to find a way to unburden the developer by either inferring as much as possible or making validation a natural part of development rather than a separate testing cycle that will invariably cause accessibility support to become out of sync.

It sounds like you might have similar concerns. Do you have any insights to share along these lines for Gooey?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by czhu12 »

I'm working on a Heroku / Render / Flyio alternative thats free, open source, built on top of Kubernetes for about 2 years now.

I’ve found these services charge way too much per GB of memory (10x more than IaaS providers), but more importantly, offer terrible flexibility. You can’t schedule multiple apps on the same instance, and there aren’t many instance size options.

Canine also supports deployments of any helm package (postgres, airbyte, dagster, etc) via helm charts.

https://github.com/czhu12/canine https://canine.sh

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by egglemonsoup »

I'm working on a text-based softball league simulator where you forcibly enlist your friends and family to join your co-ed softball team. You play as their manager/coach/fellow player.

Every aspect of the games are narrated in real time so you know what's going on. I'm still in the prototype stage and I've seen some pretty hilarious interactions already.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by dom96 »

Very much a hobby, but I'm working on a Pinterest alternative built on ATProto called Scrapboard[1]

The Bluesky ecosystem is a really great platform to build social media on and with Pinterest being overtaken by AI content I figured I'd give it a shot. There is definitely not as much content there, but it is of much higher quality and the culture of providing alt text on images really makes search work rather well.

1 - https://scrapboard.org

2 - https://bsky.app/profile/scrapboard.org

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by epolanski »

hewwwww wrote: post #61

In my free time I’m still working on My Financé (I keep getting feedback this name is confusing), which is a fairly undifferentiated personal finance tool. It’s a labor of love, but I love it! I’m currently building a simulation engine that lets you forecast your spending, build scenarios (like taking a year off, getting a cat, move to a new city, etc based on your current spending patterns and assets. https://myfina…

Because everybody reads it as a typo of my fiance.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by czbond »

abnercoimbre wrote: post #99

Full-time indie dev breathing life into next-gen terminals [0]. This is my lifelong career ambition. If you can't afford early access, please email me and I'll grant you a free copy: I need all the feedback I can get! [0] https://terminal.click

Your URL has 2 "l" in click. Your marketing team should fix that ;)
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