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

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

#281
systemg - "Systemd, for busy people".

https://sysg.dev

https://github.com/ra0x3/systemg

I'm personally tired of getting stuck in config/deployment hell every time I want to deploy a long-lived web service. Sure I eventually learned how to use systemd, but systemd has SO many things baked into that I simply don't need. systemg is a lightweight process supervisor that features everything you'd typically want when running/managing production web services in the wild.

Would love feedback.

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

#282
Disenhackifying one of the last pieces of my KaithemAutomation server that still feels not best practicesful.

Device driver plugins used to have a very simple flat key value, strings only format, with a set_config_properties function to tell the host what kind of UI to show.

That's all getting replaced with JSON schemas, with some auto-upgrade shims so old config keeps working.

It's one of many things that now seems completely insane, but made sense when I had way less experience a long time ago!

Also still on and off working on my BLE/WiFi based Meshtastic-alike.

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

#284
Made a website to host a blog! Right now it's empty except for one post describing the process of setting up the blog. I plan to add more stuff once I finish this semester in college.

Website: https://ngonella.com/

I have a bunch of ideas and small projects I would like to write about, so I'm really excited about this.

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

#286
Originally started in 2012, I’m (still) building log.soccer - a stat-tracking tool for amateur soccer players. This is the third or fourth iteration of the site, which until this year mostly served as a glorified résumé project to showcase the latest framework or tool I had just learnt.

Thanks to ChatGPT, my productivity went through the roof this year, and I finally shipped an MVP that might actually be useful.

It’s a standard Django + React + AWS stack. My raison d’être is to build an Apple Watch app that tracks match scores in real time. 2026 hopefully.

https://log.soccer

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

#287
I'm making a game finally! Merge-three + village sim.

Hoping to actually take this one to something polished as opposed to the many half-finished prototypes littering my git repo over the years. I've discovered (always knew?) that heavily cutting scope is the best way, and been successful thus far.

It gets pretty boring/unbalanced by ~150 turns, but I have some ideas on how to fix. I'm still playing with ways to help de-clutter the board and make use of the economy aspects.

After some false starts with ai-gen art, I had fun learning to color the pixels myself. The process wasn't as scary as I'd thought and the results are better than I hoped.

https://tower3.dreamofninjas.com/

Inspired by TripleTown from the wonderful studio Spry Fox.

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

#289
My friend and I working on PennyPost, financial analyst that solely focuses on your spending.

It looks at your spending across all your accounts, categorizes, identifies patterns, trends, runs predictions and sends weekly/monthly summary email.

No apps or dashboards, just insight.

Plug in once and forget. Takes 5 minutes to keep track of your spending.

We are still at early stages but you can check it out here

https://pennypost-landing.vercel.app/

Appreciate any feedback you might have!

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