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

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

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Post by absoluteunit1 »

flyinglizard wrote: post #273
absoluteunit1 wrote: post #165

I’m building TypeQuicker: https://www.typequicker.com Typing is an extremely underrated skill and especially in the age of LLMs, it is the bottle neck in a lot of cases. I’ve never been fond of existing typing apps; excessive ads, typing random words, etc so I built my own. You can practice typing code, use your own text, etc We have a paid plan for features where you can type natural text that targets your weak poin…

That’s great! Going to give it to my kids to try.

Thanks! Any feedback is welcome :)

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

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Post by m82labs »

An “everything” feed reader. Its a plugable framework that allows you to push anything into an RSS feed reader type interface. Email, Slack notifications, RSS, etc.

I want one place to manage ALL notification settings. So if I want to be notified of Slack messages that contain the word “cat”, I can do that.

I am also looking to add summarization and tagging using a local SLM. Trying to find a method that can run on older hardware.

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

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Post by NetOpWibby »

I'm working on a video platform called Nickel. 5-second clips and 5-minute (max) videos. I've been slacking on development but realized recently that I lack focus and am easily distracted by other projects. I wrote about this yesterday.

https://blog.webb.page/2025-09-28-ikigai.txt

I did figure out something I've long wondered about recently. Y'know how you can see previews of videos in Messages? I got it working! Here's an example video: https://nickel.video/6NI3n_IlIlII

My inspiration for Nickel was 1) missing Vine and 2) not wanting to use YouTube to share my gaming clips.

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

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Post by kretaceous »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #82

I’m working on an ISBN database that fetches information from several other services, such as Hardcover.app, Google Books, and ISBNDB, merges that information, and return something more complete than using them alone. It also saves that information in the database for future lookups. Mostly because I’m working on a personal library management service called Shelvica to solve my own problems[1], and none of those serv…

I need the search service so bad.

I attempted something like this because I wanted a good books search service which provided me at-a-glance information I needed from Storygraph & Goodreads. The main things I look for when I search a book is genres/Storygraph's "moods", number of pages, whether it's part of a series, rating across services & how much does it cost.

Could never make it work properly.

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

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Post by xrendan »

Soupy wrote: post #320

"Google maps but for old maps": https://pastmaps.com This is a solo startup that I've been working on for 2 years now. It's a labor of love and I'm very lucky and thankful that it's big enough to surprisingly pay all of our bills. Still constantly feeling FOMO over all of my startup buddies working with AI and LLMs while I plug away at old maps and GIS . It gets ~80K MAUs and just slowly and consistently is growing o…

I would absolutely love if you brought Canadian maps to this.

I work for Build Canada and I would love to see some maps from the fur trade and early exploration to tell stories.

If you want to chat my email is brendan at buildcanada.com

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

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Post by recepdagli »

shlomo_z wrote: post #303
recepdagli wrote: post #271

just bought the milliondollargpt.com and have no idea what to do with it...

For now, I think it would be funny if you put plaintext that says "just bought the milliondollargpt.com and have no idea what to do with it...". Optionally as a hyperlink to your comment I am replying to. Edit: Spelling

thats make sense! just a sec :D

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

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Post by recepdagli »

shlomo_z wrote: post #303
recepdagli wrote: post #271

just bought the milliondollargpt.com and have no idea what to do with it...

For now, I think it would be funny if you put plaintext that says "just bought the milliondollargpt.com and have no idea what to do with it...". Optionally as a hyperlink to your comment I am replying to. Edit: Spelling

done! thanks

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

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Post by dweekly »

I'm working to build a tool for macOS and Windows desktops to help non-technical users figure out what's wrong with their home internet and how to fix it. https://www.networkweather.com/

It's literally just me in the garage right now banging out prototypes, talking to MSPs, and probing networks/WiFi/OS to make this tool.

The hope is that companies care whether employees are productive when remote/hybrid/on-the-road, or at least are sick of trying to triage first line helpdesk tickets about home network issues and Zoom glitches.

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

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Post by jojohai »

davidw wrote: post #295

Trying to re-legalize "neighborhood commercial" by right in the city I live in. Things like corner stores or small barber shops or coffee shops or converted restaurants. ACUs or Accessory Commercial Units, home conversions... different ways of doing it.

Great. I assume you live in the US ? Your urban planning law are atrocious. In countries like thailand for instance it's very common to have a shop in the house. Things go nicely and it's more lively. Good luck, that a good project at the root of so many issues
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