Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jollyjerry » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:35 AM UTC

vladoh wrote: post #41

I'm working on a open-source tool to create photo galleries from a folder of photos: https://simple.photo . It creates galleries as static sites that are easy to self-host. I started this out of frustration that there is no good tool I could use to share photos from my travel and of my kids with friends and family. I wanted to have a beautiful web gallery that works on all devices, where I can add rich descriptions a…

Like the layout tiles you have for the photo thumbnails. Will dig through and learn some css. Have struggled with different size content to create a compact masonry layout.

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

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Post by funkaster » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:36 AM UTC

tristanMatthias wrote: post #255

https://avanci.design Taking a break from tech to work on a luxury fashion brand with my mum. She hand paints all the designs. I it first collection is a set of silk scarves and we’re moving into skirts and jackets soon. Been a wonderful journey to connect with my mum in this way. And also to make something physical that I can actually touch. Tech seems so…ephemeral at times

this is super cool. congrats and best of luck with it! Love the mother & son backstory to the product. The scarves look like they could make a great gift as well. I'll bookmark your website.

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

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Post by brandon272 » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:36 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #228

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. Ot…

Was the Masters in CS from the Open University?

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

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Post by michalszulcpl » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:38 AM UTC

https://lustroczynszowe.pl/ The aggregator of rental values in Poland. We want to increase the transparency of the real estate market, empowering consumers and enabling them to make fully informed financial decisions. We will also suggest savings on specific fields.

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

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Post by jakubriedl » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:38 AM UTC

I'm trying to figure out how modern internal API management should work like and started https://www.appear.sh/.

After spending so much of my career dealing with APIs and building tooling for that I feel there's huge gap between what is needed and possible vs how the space generally works. There's a plethora of great tools that do one job really well, but when you want to use them the integration will kill you. When you want to get your existing system in them it takes forever. When you want to connect those tools that takes even longer.

The reality I'm seeing around myself and hearing from people we talk to is that most companies have many services in various stages of decay. Some brand new and healthy, some very old, written by people who left, acquired from different companies or in languages that were abandoned. And all of that software is still generating a lot of value for the company and to be able to leverage that value APIs are essential. But they are incredibly hard and slow to use, and the existing tools don't make it easier.

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

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Post by brainless » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:39 AM UTC

I vibe coded a desktop app to view Indian stocks: https://github.com/brainless/Indistocks

This is built with Rust, egui and SQLite3. The app has a downloader for NSE India reports. These are the daily end of day stock prices. Out of the box the app is really fast, which is expected but still surprises me. I am going to work on improving the stocks chart. I also want to add an AI assisted stocks analyst. Since all the stocks data is on the SQLite3 DB, I should be able to express my stocks screening ideas as plain text and let an LLM generate the SQL and show me in my data grid.

It was really interesting to generate it within 3 days. I had just a few places where I had to copy from app (std) log and paste into my prompt. Most of the time just describing the features was enough. Rust compiler did most of the heavy lifting. I have used a mix of Claude Code and OpenCode (with either GLM 4.5 or Grok Code Fast 1).

I have been generating full-stack web apps. I built and launched https://github.com/brainless/letsorder (https://letsorder.app/). Building full-stack web apps is basically building 2 apps (at a minimum) so desktop apps are way better it seems.

In the long-term, I plan to build and help others generated apps. I am building a vibe coding platform (https://github.com/brainless/nocodo). I have a couple early stage founders I consult for who take my guidance to generate their products (web and mobile apps + backend).

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

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Post by ashafq » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:41 AM UTC

I’m building SPARK (Signal Processing Algorithms, Routines, and Kernels), an open-source library of modular, efficient DSP components for low-power embedded audio systems.

The goal is to make it straightforward to design and deploy small, composable audio graphs that fit on MCUs and similar hardware. The project is in its infancy, so there’s plenty of room for experimentation and contributions.

https://github.com/Colahall/SPARK

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

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Post by nidnogg » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

My personal website/webring. It's mostly a collection of ideas I've been mulling over and holding off on due to not being able to iterate on them fast enough. Nowadays thanks to AI, a lot of these a short errands so it's been a fun few weeks. I've also started chucking a few previous side projects under more unified domains. [1][2]

[1] https://nid.nogg.dev [1] https://mood.drone.nogg.dev

Also working on a youtube channel [3] for my climbing/travel videos, but the dreary state of that website has me wondering whether it's worth it, tbh. I haven't been able to change my channel name after trying for weeks. It's apparently the best place to archive edited GoPro footage at least.

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@nidnogg

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

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Post by vishakh82 » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:43 AM UTC

I'm building Monadic DNA explorer, a tool to explore thousands of genetic traits from GWAS Catalog in your browser and plug in your own DNA data from 23andMe, Ancestry, etc. All processing happens locally on your machine and AI insights are run in a private LLM inside a TEE.

https://explorer.monadicdna.com/

I'll be adding more features in the coming days!

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

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Post by ai-christianson » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:45 AM UTC

Working on https://github.com/gobii-ai/gobii-platform open-source AI employees that live in browsers.

They’re always on. They log into real sites, click around, fill out forms, and adapt when pages change — no brittle scripts, no APIs needed. You can deploy one in minutes, host it yourself, and watch it do work like a human (but faster, cheaper, never tired).

Kind of like a “browser-use cloud,” except it’s yours — open, self-hostable, and way more capable.