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

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

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I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.

Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable government. You can’t seriously believe this right?

There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too far.

I bet you are the same type of person who values software privacy haha

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

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Is that legal in your country? In mine (Netherlands) there are way too many people with doorbell camera aimed right at the street even though it's illegal to record a public space like that. Most folks are ignorant about it though, or think that surely the internet-connected gadget sold by some anonymous corporation won't be abused....

For private use you can film in public places in the Netherlands no?

You are not allowed to put up unlicensed surveillance cameras in public places, no.

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

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I recently started 3D printing rings and electro plate then with gold or silver. I'm also going to explore powder coating soon.

Once I feel comfortable, I'll probably open an Instagram account and hand out free personalised rings. For some time I've thought about how I should price them, and I've reached the conclusion that giving them out for free feels right.

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

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Definitely want this kind of thing.

Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you!

I would pay for it as an individual. Just things like going into code and spending 3 weeks reverse engineering everything is not ideal. Especially if it's something where the entire team has quit or been laid off. And lately the solution for that is just rewriting the damn thing lol.

How much we're willing to pay is a whole other question. I feel like this is the kind of thing that Cursor already does by itself but it's just not releasing a user-readable output of it.

It won't likely be a subscription thing, but one off payments per repo makes sense, and there should be some kind of satisfaction guarantee or say, charge to have the output in a human readable format.

Monorepos are also a pain. On the front end, they sometimes share design. On BE they may share databases. It would be cool to break it down into DDD-style domains if applicable or propose things like anti corruption layers. More often it's like a "pacific ocean meets atlantic ocean" kind of thing, where you can tell there's a difference in the way things are done, but it's not entirely clear where the border is. This would probably be worth a lot more.

To a much lesser extent, an architectural copilot would also make sense. On the front end, we have a lot of redundant components. Say a button might be PrimaryButton, but the same thing is GreenButton or FilledNoOutlineButton by other devs. We tried documenting this which just ended up being a waste of 1 week because nobody read the doc. It's worse with complex components like TwoButtonModal vs TwoButtonModalWithClose. And what happens is code is always built in parallel; people don't realize that the designer's new style applies to both teams so you get two people building the same components at the same time. Not a major problem, but I think this is worth a few cents every PR.

Ultimately it's hard to gauge. Like Copilot underdelivered, Cursor overdelivers, and yet both essentially do the same thing. I guess the amount we're willing to pay is just vibe-based.

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

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I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the simple goal of buying less clothes, and thro…

How do you monetize something that is based on a trait that most lack (vanity)?

Like the entirety of the fashion industry one may assume

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

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I'm working on a pure SWI-Prolog grammar to describe the modern music notation. The end goal being to be able to do the last step of Optical Music Recognition and generate the final music score (in the MEI) from a set of graphical primitives: https://github.com/kwon-young/music

It's been months I've been stuck on the description of note groups because of the insanely complex 2D semantics.

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