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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)

#232
I’m building an e-book reader for the web and PWA platforms:

https://flowery.app/books

The library of public domain classics is courtesy of Standard Ebooks. I publish a book every Saturday, and refine the EPUB parser and styler whenever they choke on a book. I’m currently putting the finishing touches to endnote rendering (pop-up or margin notes depending on screen width) so that next Saturday’s publication of “The Federalist Papers” does justice to the punctilious Publius.

Obligatory landing page for the paid product:

https://flowery.app/vocabulary-building

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

#234

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 f…

Legend!!! My buddy just got stung the other week.

Check out Eventship. Hussein is local to SD. You should also meet Fred for press.

I’ll try and remember about these in the winter. I need new booties anyways. How many mm? 2 plus 2 so 4?

https://eventship.com/

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

#235
I've been working on AltStack.jp [1], a curated directory of Japanese digital services (think cloud hosting, registrars, email providers, etc.), all made and operated in Japan. It’s for anyone in Japan looking to reduce reliance on foreign (especially US-based) platforms, inspired by projects like European-Alternatives.eu.

The site itself is built with Astro, content is written in Markdown. It's still very much a work in progress: the design’s evolving, search isn’t done yet, and I’ve only scratched the surface with a handful of categories out of the dozens I have planned.

[1] https://altstack.jp/en/

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

#237
My girlfriend recently got into making sourdough and wanted to keep a log of all her recipes. She really wanted to explore the relationships between recipe water percentage and crumb density, or proof time and oven spring, for example. I built her https://sourdoughchronicle.com - a local first bread journal that allows peer to peer recipe and results sharing. Claude + aider had a MVP built in an hour and she's loving it! Oddly enough the comparison charts haven't made it in yet, but that's the next feature on the the to-do list.

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

#240
I'm building an alternative to Lulu. Native macOS app, strictly follows Apple Human Interface Guidelines, powered by Network Extension for better performance. I also try to convert IPs to domains (LuLu only shows the IPs) from DNS or get the SNI on the wire. It allows you to monitor all traffic from your Mac and block it if needed.

Simple license, no subscription, perpetual license with 2 years of updates.

https://tinyshield.proxyman.com/

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