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

I'm in The Hague right now at a digital democracy conference, where I was invited to present on my prototype that I've been building the past few months!

It's for doing realtime "human cartography", to make maps of who we are together in complex large-scale discourse (even messy protest).

https://patcon.github.io/polislike-human-cartography-prototy...

Newer video demo: https://youtu.be/C-2KfZcwVl0

It's for exploring human perspective data -- agree, disagree, pass reactions to dozens or hundreds of belief statements -- so we can read it as if it were Google Maps.

My operating assumption is that if a critical mass of us can understand culture and value clashes as mere shapes of discourse, and we can all see it together, the we can navigate them more dispassionately and with clear heads. Kinda like reading a map or watching the weather report -- islands that rise from oceans, or plate tectonics that move like currents over months, and terraform the human landscape -- maybe if we can see these things together, we'll act less out of fear of fun-house caricatures. (E.g., "Hey, dad, it seems like the peninsula you're on is becoming a land bridge toward the alt right corner. I feel a little bummed about that. How do you feel about it?")

(It builds on data and the mathematical primitives of a great tool called Pol.is, which I've worked with for almost a decade.)

Experimental prototype of animating between projections: https://main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com/iframe.... (advanced)

Hmm. I can't say for others, but I can tell you what would work for me given that I might meet some the criteria of desired audience for this.

In this space, it is more about trust and what you have done in the past more than anything else. Audits and whatnot are nice, but I need to be able to trust that your decisions will be sound. Think how Steam's Gabe gained his reputation. Not exactly easy feat these days.

FWIW, favorited for testing.

Continuing to work on a Low Power FM community radio station for the East San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. We have started promoting and putting on local events and are trying to fund raise to build out the station. Raising money is hard! We did a big show in Burbank where several hundred people showed up but we only netted $800 after expenses. :(

We were featured on our local NPR syndicate which is neat: https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/new-grassroots...

https://kpbj.fm/

Since this is hackernews, i'll add that i'm building the website and archiving system using haskell and htmx, but what is currently live is a temp static html site. https://github.com/solomon-b/kpbj.fm

I am working on Lunch Flow (https://lunchflow.app), a tool that allows people to automatically sync their bank accounts to their favorite budgeting apps (Google Sheets, Lunch Money, Actual Budget, or use our API!)

I was motivated to build this as I found that many great personal finance and budget apps didn't offer integrations with the banks I used, which is understandable given the complexity and costs involved, so I wanted to tackle this problem and help build the missing open banking layer for personal finance apps, with very low costs (a few dollars a month) and a very simple api, or built-in integrations.

Still working on making this sustainable, but been quite a learning experience so far, and quite excited to see it already making a difference for so many people :)