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

#291
Currently working on Note Cargo, basically self-hosted Markdown note-taking app, but I tried to not using database. So similar to Obsidian/Logseq but its web-based.

And currently working to make things shareable, also don't want to use database.

Here is the demo https://notecargo.huedaya.com/

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

#292
I’m currently working on https://www.dreamly.in - automated, personalized, and localized bedtime stories for kids.

My daughter loves stories, and I often struggled to come up with new ones every night. I remember enjoying local folk tales and Indian mythological stories from my childhood, and I wanted her to experience that too — while also learning new things like basic science concepts and morals through stories.

So I built Dreamly and opened it up to friends and families. Parents can set up their child’s profile once - name, age, favorite shows or characters, and preferred themes (e.g. morals, history, mythology, or school concepts). After that, personalized stories are automatically delivered to their inbox every night. No more scrambling to think of stories on the spot!

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

#294

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?

No, it was from WGU.

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

#295
- Working on Kanji Palace (https://kanjipalace.com): We're going to publish the iOS app on the App Store and adding vocabulary. Currently, the app converts single Kanji (e.g., 生) into vivid mnemonic images. We aim to support vocabulary like 先生.

- Writing a book about Claude Code, not just for assisted programming, but as a general AI agent framework.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python/commit...

Claude Code used to be a coding agent only, but it transformed into a general AI agent. I want to explore more about that in this book.

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

#296

I’m currently building YTVidHub—a tool that focuses on solving a very specific, repetitive workflow pain for researchers and content analysts. The Pain Point: If you are analyzing a large YouTube channel (e.g., for language study, competitive analysis, or data modeling), you often need the subtitle files for 50, 100, or more videos. The current process is agonizing: copy-paste URL, click, download, repeat dozens of t…

How coincidental - I needed exactly this just a couple days ago. I ended up vibecoding a script to feed an individual URL into yt-dlp then pipe the downloaded audio through Whisper - not quite the same thing as it's not downloading the _actual_ subtitles but rather generating its own transcription, but similar. I've only run it on a single video to test, but it seemed to work satisfactorily.

I haven't upgraded to bulk processing yet, but I imagine I'd look for some API to get "all URLs for a channel" and then process them in parallel.

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

#297
https://reader.manabi.io

iOS/Mac app for learning Japanese by reading, all in one solution with optional Anki integration

I went full-time on this a couple years ago. I’m now doing a full iOS 26 redesign, just added kanji drawing, and am almost done adding a manga mode via Mokuro. I’m also preparing influencer UGC campaigns as I haven’t marketed it basically at all yet.

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

#298
Currently, I am working on Ampersand (https://withampersand.com/)

It's a sync infra product that is meant to cut down 6 months of development time, and years of maintenance of deep CRM sync for B2B SaaS.

Every Salesforce instance is a unique snowflake. I am moving that customization into configuration and building a resilient infrastructure for bi-directional sync.

We also recently launched a pretty cool abstraction on top of Salesforce CDC which is notoriously hard to work with: https://www.withampersand.com/blog/subscribe-actions-bringin...

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