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

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

#272

Building https://fallinorg.com/ , a Mac app that organizes your files. It looks inside each file to see what it’s about, then moves it to the right folder for you. Everything happens on your Mac, so nothing leaves your computer. No clouds, no servers. It already works with PDFs, text, Markdown, and many other file types. Next I’m adding ePub, and later Microsoft Office and iWork support. If you have messy folders any…

This might be what I've been looking for. On the first of every month I have Hazel put everything in ~/Downloads/yyyy-mm (previous month), with the intent to move each file to the correct project/area folder in my actual file structure. But I'm about 1.5 years behind on that...

Have you looked at competitors? If so, what are they? I haven't found anything that does this as elegantly as Fallinorg.

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

#273

I’m building TypeQuicker: https://www.typequicker.com Typing is an extremely underrated skill and especially in the age of LLMs, it is the bottle neck in a lot of cases. I’ve never been fond of existing typing apps; excessive ads, typing random words, etc so I built my own. You can practice typing code, use your own text, etc We have a paid plan for features where you can type natural text that targets your weak poin…

That’s great! Going to give it to my kids to try.

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

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Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe. This seemed like a solvable problem. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of s…

This is so incredibly important, well done. The problem of our food being steeped in plastic hits the news here and there, but it should be front and center in my opinion. Testosterone has been plummeting for decades and it scares the heck out of me. The hormone whose job is "form goals, shrug off failure, and try again!" is being destroyed and corporations are given a free pass to pump us full of phthalates and bisp…

Plastics could be part of it, but three years ago Cleveland Clinic said it could also be weight, sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep, diet, and alcohol

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/declining-testosterone-le...

And anecdotally, I've still been forming goals and shrugging off failure five years into suppressing most of my endogenous testosterone with exogenous estrogen

Have you had your levels checked?

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

#276

Earth Meta Insights Since a few months back I am working on a side project to give a snapshot of the regional and global species and natural ecosystems. I use manual (me) and automated tools (web and literature search tools, llms, visualizers ...) to search, extract, organize and visualize ecosystem literature and data. A regional example of mountain gorilla's of Rwanda: https://www.earthmetainsights.com/emi-cards-go…

I appreciate what you're doing here. I think it's really important to have this kind of high level overview of these species. I have a little feedback based on clicking around the site. When you click on a country in the map view(under Elephants, for example), I think the map still has focus instead of the card. So this means you can't highlight text, click on links, etc within the card. Also if you scroll using the…

Really appreciate that you checked out the website. It is a bit hacky, but for now i am happy with it. Indeed that is correct, the focus is on the map. I am going to fix that. Thank you.

As for the see more, it is in my planning. I can do it manually, but I am waiting for some free time to automated that.

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

#277
A tool for Muslims. Dreamstate: Interpret your dreams Islamically

https://dreamstateai.replit.app/

Traditional Knowledge: Constrained to Ibn Seerin's classical teachings — trusted by Muslims for over 1,000 years AI-Powered Analysis: Unlock the meaning of your dream with 4,300 dream symbols from the Dictionary of Dreams.

Share your dream confidentially, answer a few context questions, and receive your authentic Islamic interpretation in under a minute.

This is an MVP which I started <4 weeks ago. Currently validating Desirability, Feasibility, and Viability.

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

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I'm currently building Visirya, an app that helps people record their night dreams and transforms them into short videos and written journals. The bigger goal is to use this dream data to create dream cartographies, essentially maps of recurring themes, emotions, and symbols—to uncover patterns and insights across dreams over time. So far, we've built the video generation and dream journaling features. The app is liv…

The idea is nice, but I wonder if a generated video can have any resemblance of the actual dream. At least for me, dreams are very tied to emotion, and the visuals are kinda blurry, so i don’t know if that sort of thing can provide any satisfaction. But I know certain aesthetics can feel “dreamlike”.

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

#279

A tool for Muslims. Dreamstate: Interpret your dreams Islamically https://dreamstateai.replit.app/ Traditional Knowledge: Constrained to Ibn Seerin's classical teachings — trusted by Muslims for over 1,000 years AI-Powered Analysis: Unlock the meaning of your dream with 4,300 dream symbols from the Dictionary of Dreams. Share your dream confidentially, answer a few context questions, and receive your authentic Islami…

Confidentiality is very difficult to guarantee. You may want to put some brackets on what your users can realistically expect and give them tips on how they can stay anonymous. But lovely and novel idea, really neat to see these kind of cross-overs.

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

#280
I have been building https://github.com/zayr0-9/Yggdrasil

It started as a solution to LLM front ends having terrible native branching features. But slowly I realize most of our data will be going through LLM's so Yggdrasil is evolving into a platform which consumes all your LLM queries, while keeping it easy to query and reference.

And now I have begun to realize how detrimental LLM assisted coding can be to someone who starts depending on it too much, so Yggdrasil is a bet in the other direction as compared to mainstream. Instead of agents/AI doing everything I believe human + ai assistance will win in the end.

Yggdrasil has a simple agent called Valkyrie, so they have their place, but that I believe should be the last step, after the developer has discussed and planned thoroughly through our tree interface, Heimdall.

And if someone replaces the dev, they can browse their conversations with the LLM, observe their mind map, what questions they asked, what extra things they considered (branches), the whole thought process easily navigable and visible.

Personally after using Yggdrasil, I feel quite confident in using the LLM, as I can ask all the silly questions I want, without worrying about context pollution. It aligns really well with the natural exploratory tangential thoughts we have when trying to find solutions or learn something.

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