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

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

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Post by RichardChu »

I'm working on 2 projects right now:

1. Fluxmail - https://fluxmail.ai

Fluxmail is an AI-powered email app that helps you get done with email faster. There are a couple of core tenets/features that it has, including:

- local-first - we don't store your emails and we make interactions as fast as possible

- unified inbox - so you can view emails from all your email addresses in one place

- AI-native - helping you draft emails, search for emails, and read through your emails faster

I'd love to hear if these features resonate with you, or if there are other features that you feel are missing from your current email app.

2. ExploreJobs.ai - https://explorejobs.ai

This is a job board for AI jobs and companies. The job market in AI is pretty hot right now, and there are a lot of cool AI companies out there. I'm hoping to connect job seekers with fast-growing AI companies.

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

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Post by mfrye0 »

I'm working on Plaid / Perplexity for business data.

The basic idea is that integrating business data into a B2B app or AI agent process is a pain. On one side there's web data providers (Clearbit, Apollo, ZoomInfo) then on the other, 150 year old legacy providers based on government data (D&B, Factset, Moody's, etc). You'd be surprised to learn how much manual work is still happening - teams of people just manually researching business entities all day.

At a high level, we're building out a series of composable deep research APIs. It's built on a business graph powered by integrations to global government registrars and a realtime web search index. Our government data index is 265M records so far.

We're still pretty early and working with enterprise design partners for finance and compliance use cases. Open to any thoughts or feedback.

https://savvyiq.ai

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

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Post by cornfieldlabs »

gigatree wrote: post #205
cornfieldlabs wrote: post #201

We are building a private text-only no-clout social network with chronological feed for close friends. (It was supposed to be completed months ago but got stuck in other issues) Here's the waitlist and proposal: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

Private comments and no likes looks great, something I’ve been wishing more social media had (but won’t for obvious reasons). Best of luck!

Thank you!

-Many say they want to stop doomscrolling and clout-chasing but I don't know how many are actually willing to do so

-Individuals may move here but their friends won't. So the feed will be initially empty by design. Introducing any kind of reward is against our ethos so we are clueless about how to convince existing friend circles to move.

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

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Post by shlomo_z »

mrdazm wrote: post #188

I’ve got a side project going that’s a browser extension (starting with Safari + Sign in with Apple) intended to add a comment layer to the internet as a whole. I’m calling it Chaffiti ( https://chaffiti.com ). The idea is to enable a comment section on any webpage, right as you’re browsing. Viewing a Zillow listing? See what people are excited about with the property. Wonder what people think about a tourist attract…

What an idea!

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

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Post by danielvaughn »

I'm trying to turn code into a design tool. Kind of like if you ask yourself - what if Cursor had been built for designers?

Currently it looks like this:

  - code editor directly in the browser
  - writes to your local file system
  - UI-specific features built into the editor
  - ways to edit the CSS visually as well as using code
  - integrated AI chat
But I have tons of features I want to add. Asset management, image generation, collaborative editing, etc.

It's still a prototype, but I'm actively posting about it on twitter as I go. Soon, I'll probably start publishing versioned builds for people to play with: https://x.com/danielvaughn

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

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Post by tombert »

I've become a bit addicted to online education. I finished my first masters degree in Computer Science in July, and I started a masters in Mathematics from The Open University at the beginning of October. I've wanted to really get into the weeds of obscure and arguably-useless math for about as long as I can remember, and I figure that getting a masters in it is as good a way to get that knowledge as any way else.

Other than that, I've been doing a lot of fixing of tech debt in my home network from the last six years. I've admittedly kind of half-assed a lot of the work with my home router and my server and my NAS and I want these things to be done correctly. (In fairness to me, I didn't know what I was doing back when I started, and I'd like to think I know a fair bit better now).

For example, when I first built my server, I didn't know about ZFS datasets, so everything was on the main /tank mount. This works but there are advantages to having different settings for different parts of the RAID and as such I've been dividing stuff into datasets (which has the added advantage of "defragging" because this RAID has grown by several orders of magnitude and as a result some of the initial files were fragmented).

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

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Post by shomp »

gavmor wrote: post #142
shomp wrote: post #128

Building a donations powered marketplace, zero platform fee: https://shomp.co Merchants who want to sell on Etsy or Shopify either have to pay a listing fee or pay per month just to keep an online store on the web. Our goal is to provide a perpetually free marketplace that is powered solely off donations. The only fees merchants pay are the Stripe fees, and it's possible that at some volume of usage we will be able t…

How's your API? I often consider putting together a sort of algorithmically driven print-on-demand storefront. I want to be able to script prices, product descriptions, things like that. And see them show up in a request on sale.

Right now the API is nonexistent, relying entirely on people using the web interface to make listings, upload photos, and set prices. But if you would find this useful I can happily build it out. Our stack is Elixir and building APIs is very straightforward. Our code is open-source, too!

When you say "algorithmically driven print-on-demand" do you mean that prices would automatically adjust based on inventory? Or like, how do you mean.

Also, when you say "see them show up in a request on sale" — can you clarify? I interpret this to mean you want a webhook triggered when an order comes in.

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