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

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

#142
Working on sanctum [0] and reliquary [1].

Soon approaching a 1.0 release for sanctum once I get my brain out of vacation mode and into hacking mode again. A lot has happened this year and I am excited.

I will be talking about how sanctum and its cathedrals work at sec-t 2025 [2] so in full swing working on the demos and presentation.

[0] https://github.com/jorisvink/sanctum

[1] https://reliquary.se

[2] https://sec-t.org

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

#143
a distributed compute framework for unstructured data that treats retrieval as a first class citizen - it feels like we're rebuilding the modern data warehouse using all ai native primitives. joins, clustering, retrieval, all using distributed compute/inference primitives.

check it out: https://mixpeek.com

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

#144
helping educate the population of the United States with the assistance of Chinese Australian missionaries on how to navigate the "food" supply chain and minimize the consumption of adulterated/compromised food while still achieving a well-rounded nutritional diet

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

#145
I'm working on an update to my flashcards app, Fresh Cards. The current version has a lot of limitations, so I've been working on a rewrite that improves all aspects of the app, for nearly a year now.

Most recently, I've been incorporating a lot of improved UX design. The app has always used a playlist metaphor, i.e. your database of flashcards is your library and you can sort them in different ways and then hit Play to start reviewing. Within the review session itself, you go through the cards in the playlist in small batches so that it's less overwhelming, among other reasons. After every batch, the app returns to an overview screen so you can see what you've just reviewed so far in the session.

The challenge has been designing this overview screen so it's clear where you are in the playlist without making it overwhelming. I finally came up with a good design this week, which I was quite happy with: https://mastodon.social/@allenu/114921335089371494

I've been pleasantly surprised at how much of an improvement this new UI has made on how the product feels. The old UI only showed you the history of cards you've reviewed in the session and highlighted the most recent batch of cards. This new one shows you the full playlist, but redacts the contents of the playlist ahead, so you immediately get a sense of how much left there is to do, but without being shown what is in the contents of the cards. Interestingly, this has the effect of making you want to see what is in those cards, i.e. to keep reviewing!

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

#146

Working on Humadroid - trying to make SOC2/ISO27001 compliance less painful for small businesses. The $30-50K consultant route is brutal for startups, so we're building an AI-assisted platform that helps with policy generation and guidance. Still in beta and learning a lot from each customer we onboard. We're actually going through our own SOC2 assessment in August, which has been... educational. Recently added busin…

Love this! Not a customer but could see it happening. ISO 27001 compliance (or equivalent) is a standard requirement when working with the public sector in my area. NIS2 is also on the horizon, have you looked into it?

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

#148
Working on 3dpack.ing, an AI-powered 3D container loading tool.

It calculates optimal ways to load boxes into trucks or containers, considering stacking rules, fragility, and real-world constraints. You can drag boxes like 3D Tetris or upload photos to auto-estimate item dimensions. Recently added: batch-wise guided loading for warehouse use cases.

We're at ~$400 MRR and just opened up a 14-day free trial. Feedback, trials, and intros to logistics folks welcome.

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

#150
I'm working on DBOS Transact [0], our open source library that adds durability and reliability to your codebase. We're about to launch support for Golang [1] and Java, and that's going to bring some really interesting customer problems. I can't wait!

[0] https://github.com/dbos-inc

[1] https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-go

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