Drowning in technical debt from my 12 year old auction startup. While building another startup for the hotel industry. Wish I had more time for personal/side projects. I have a million ideas that just die on lack of time to execute.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#272Fostrom (https://fostrom.io)
A developer-focused IoT Cloud Platform. The idea stems from pain points experienced while automating an indoor farm a few years ago where I had to spend way too much time building the data collection and analysis infrastructure instead of focusing on the actual automation.
Devices connect via secure MQTT, HTTP, or WebSockets and send structured, typed data. Each device gets its own sequential mailbox for messages. You can trigger webhooks or broadcast messages to other devices based on incoming data, powered by programmable actions.
Just deployed to production. Currently working on Device SDKs (coming very soon) and time-series analytics. Check out the platform, we're in technical preview now. Happy to answer questions and appreciate any feedback.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#273I'm working on a customizable app for self-tracking, a combination of habit trackers, health logging and journaling. You should be able to track what you want in a way relevant for you. Think of a combination of free form CSV programs x habit tracker or health app.
App will be local-first and without locking important features behind a subscription.
Very recently I finished my bachelor thesis which was about this app (focus usability and market fit).
Also made this site a few days ago, get notified when it launches: https://dailyselftrack.com
More about me here: https://bryanhogan.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#274I'm migrating my blog (https://alprado.com/) to a custom solution built with Laravel. I know the HN community appreciates simplicity, but in my opinion, hosting static HTML is almost as easy as hosting PHP. However, PHP gives you the flexibility to build an interactive and optimized CMS.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#275This weekend working on an open-source algorithm to automatically lay out schematics. Easy problem to do poorly and very difficult to do well! My current approach is “match to existing corpus of well-laid-out schematics, then adapt until the netlist fits” hopefully it works out!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#276OpenCLI - https://github.com/bcdxn/opencli
A document specification for defining command line interfaces.
It's really just a fun side project to get more familiar with Go. The goal is to be able to generate boilerplate code in a few languages/frameworks and to generate documentation in a couple formats.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#277https://easel.games A game engine that lets you code multiplayer games without coding the multiplayer! My idea was to put multiplayer into the fabric of the programming language itself. This allows the engine to automatically turn your game into a multiplayer game, without you needing to learn anything about networking or synchronization. I imagine there are lots of people who have the talent and creativity to create…
Awesome!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#278Exploring N8N
I have the impression clients like it when their code is “visual” so I’m trying to learn more of it to attract new clients
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#279I've been working on an e-ink laptop. I wanted a machine I could stare hours at and feel okay about it. I didn't seem to find a device like that out there. I'm designing everything from the chassis to the software OS. E-ink has its own design constraints. I'm building 5 apps for it: a browser, reader, mail, writer and code editor. It's still a ways to go. Here's a picture of what I have so far: https://www.heyravitej…
hey maybe the kid that made the anyon_e would be inspiring for you! Here's a couple related videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fks3PBodyiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0sLQvuLwxQ
Huge inspiration! I loved the anyon_e videos. He DIY'ed the laptop and made it look really nice.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#280A POTS line simulator. Basically a telco central office that fits on your desk. Up to 16 lines, touch tones only, only 1 call at a time. No digital intermediate between the caller and answerer, just a pure analog line.
I'm going to plug a couple phones into it, but the main goal is to get all my old computers to talk to each other using their modems.