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

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

#31

An app to help you split individual receipts with a bunch of people: https://demo.snapreceipts.fyi/ Mainly used by my friends right after we have a group lunch or dinner. You just upload a pic of the receipt after a meal and it parses out the items. We assign who got what and it calculates who owes what. Makes the receipt splitting part super easy.

How is the text extraction done? Tesseract?

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

#32
Still working on https://phrasing.app - an app for polyglots to learn over 120 languages in the most effective manner and a beautiful UI. Just finished a onboarding flow, now updating the search and create experience to fall more in line with actual usage from users, then hopefully prepping for a more public launch :)

Had a fun week fixing up the application so it’s 100x faster on 5 different axes, and it’s starting to feel really well polished. Also started to move from reagent to preact/signals in a long slow migration hopefully to hsx.

I also moved the critical algorithm logic into an independent Clojure file that is compiled (and tested) with cherry-cljs — I’m hoping to expand this to ClojErl and jank so I can have isomorphic Clojure code running on the browser, BEAM server, and native swift app :D

It’s getting really close to done, I’m using it now to study 18 different languages, including some really minor ones like Maltese, Welsh, and Cantonese (not sure if Cantonese is really a minor language, but definitely low learner resourced) and it’s easy, slick, and surprisingly effective!

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

#33

"WithAudio", a text to speech solution for Desktop. https://desktop.with.audio The most important features (for me) are: One Time Payment and 100% local and private. I don't send any data to any server. Just enough to verify license keys. - Its one time payment, user can import any text, URL or ebooks and use the reader with read along text highlighting or export the audio as mp3 or m4a (audiobook specific format). -…

Nice!

I'm curious, what on-device text-to-speech engine did you use?

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

#34

I've been working on an new approach to working with SQL: https://5QL.site You select columns and then just drill down to create further joins. Change the SQL text and it updates the view. I'm a CS undergrad would love feedback.

This is interesting, both in the sense that you did a great job on it, and I think unexpected-ways-to-explore-SQL is underrated. There are a lot of SQL databases that people could benefit from being able to drop a tool like this onto and explore. One of the most interesting applications for LLM's is writing SQL based on a schema, and I wonder if your tool could incorporate a "show me the books titles from authors who…

Thank you!

Yes, I agree. Just as we need to check what LLMs produce when writing code, I think this could be a way to check what they produce when trying to write SQL.

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

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90s.dev. Well, kind of. I've been working a ton on some variations and ports of it over the last couple months, but the problem is that I need funding. So my plan is to setup github sponsors, where for each project people want me to work on, they can donate any amount, and for each $25, I'll work one hour on that project. It'll have a few related projects that all come from a unified vision I have for 90s.dev -- to b…

Wow, as soon as I post, my comment is second to the bottom.

lol

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

#36
A tool to solve optimization problems using quantum computers. Just released the first open-source version https://github.com/pasqal-io/maximum-independent-set/ . Now expanding it to more complex types of optimization problems.

Also, thinking about resurrecting http://opalang.org/. We'll see if I have the energy to work on that.

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

#37

I'm working on this programming language that compiles to Go. The goal is to have it behave like typescript for Go, where any Go program would compile out of the box, but then you can use the new syntax. Featuring: built-in Set/Enum/Tuple/lambda/"error propagation operators" It also have a working LSP server and generates a sourcemap, so when you get a runtime stacktrace, it gives you the original line in your .agl f…

I like the bang operator for propagating errors. Shame to lose multiple returns though

That's why there is a "Tuple" expression that you can use instead, which allows you to easily return multiple values, and destructure them as well.

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

#38

"WithAudio", a text to speech solution for Desktop. https://desktop.with.audio The most important features (for me) are: One Time Payment and 100% local and private. I don't send any data to any server. Just enough to verify license keys. - Its one time payment, user can import any text, URL or ebooks and use the reader with read along text highlighting or export the audio as mp3 or m4a (audiobook specific format). -…

Nice! I'm curious, what on-device text-to-speech engine did you use?

Thanks I'm using https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS

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

#39

I'm working on this programming language that compiles to Go. The goal is to have it behave like typescript for Go, where any Go program would compile out of the box, but then you can use the new syntax. Featuring: built-in Set/Enum/Tuple/lambda/"error propagation operators" It also have a working LSP server and generates a sourcemap, so when you get a runtime stacktrace, it gives you the original line in your .agl f…

I like the bang operator for propagating errors. Shame to lose multiple returns though

Well, it seems to support tuples, which are more powerful.

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

#40
Tanstack DB - a new client side store for web apps, with transactions, optimistic state, and live queries spanning multiple collections.

It's designed for sync, so rather than fetching you can hook it up to a sync engine (any!) to keep your front end in sync with your backend. It's built on Tanstack Query, making the sync engine optional, and a great path for incremental adoption.

The query engine uses a typescript implementation of differential dataflow to enable incremental computation of the live queries - they are very fast to update. This gives you sub ms fine grade reactivity of complex queries (think sql like joins, group by etc).

Having a lot of fun building it!

https://tanstack.com/db/latest https://github.com/TanStack/db

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