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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

I just quit my "day job" to work on a business I've built with some good friends! We make stingray-resistant booties -- ie, if you encounter stingrays in the shallows, these greatly reduce the chance you get stung (https://mydragonskin.com/). I'll be in charge of a couple marketing efforts, helping with Youtube, and other odd things that come up!

My day job required me to go into office frequently, and I'm really feeling the reduced social connection of being fully remote in a small company. Any suggestions how to deal with this? I'm planning to reconnect with old friends, surf a lot, go rock climbing, and maybe take dance / music / other classes. Would also love if anyone wants to work together in the same place (library, coffee shop, etc). I'm in Escondido California, but happy to drive ~30 min to meet folks.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by Malazath »

ttd wrote: post #132

I'm working on a new app for creating technical diagrams - https://vexlio.com . It's an area with some heavyweight incumbents (e.g. Visio, Lucid) but I think there's good opportunity here to differentiate in simplicity and overall experience. I'm still in the fairly early phase, and I suspect I haven't quite found the best match of features to customers yet. From a dev perspective this area has a ton of super interes…

Actually right up my alley. I have many frustrations and reservations against the current offerings. Super excited to see a new player enter the field

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by mattkevan »

I’m building a browser-based static site generator and CMS.

I love SSGs as they’re simple and fast and the sites they make can be hosted anywhere with little maintenance. But, after helping a non-technical friend get up and running with one, the UX is rubbish.

So I’m building a combined CMS and SSG called Sparktype, designed for writing and publishing. Users can create pages or collections, write and export the generated site. At the moment it exports to zip, but I’m working on connecting to Netlify or GitHub for automatic deployment.

My goal is to build something that allows people to create a publication with the ease and polish of say, Medium or Substack, but which is completely portable and will work on almost any hosting.

It’s very early MVP - the editor works, but the default site theme is rough around the edges and there are a bunch of bugs. I’m currently working on getting it good enough so that I can create its own marketing and documentation site with it.

I’d love any thoughts or feedback you might have.

https://app.sparktype.org

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by joewhale »

nikhizzle wrote: post #41

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.

Looks good! Seems to not be bringing in the requirements section of the JDs?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by zeta0134 »

I'm working on a rhythm game for original NES: https://zeta0134.itch.io/tactus

This is written entirely in 6502 assembly, and uses a fun new mapper that helps a little bit with the music, so I can have extra channels you can actually hear on an unmodded system. It's been really fun to push the hardware in unusual ways.

Currently the first Zone of the game is rather polished, and I'm doing a big giant pixel art drawing push to produce new enemies, items, and level artwork to fill out the remainder of the game. It's coming along slowly, but steadily. I'm trying to have it in "trailer ready" / "demo" state by the end of this calendar year. Just this weekend I added new chest types and the classic Mimic enemy to spice things up.

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