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

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

#331
I've been able to have the privilege of working at a company that is cool with me open sourcing everything we build along the way -- its a nice perk and it also makes me motivated to work on stuff outside of work :)

The two things I've open sourced that I've been moonlighting after hours for:

https://canine.sh/ - An open source Heroku alternative, 10x cheaper. Got sick of paying those prices

https://hellocsv.github.io/HelloCSV/ a free open source flatfile alternative

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

#332

I had built a social network for my friends which is working great so now I am building it for the world. A place to dump all my thoughts in text to people I already know. No photos, no clout-chasing, ego boosts, infinite scrolling, findable profiles etc. I created a waitlist page (code only) using Gemini 2.5 and hosted it in cloudflare pages using D1 for database. Waitlist page is here: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev…

FYI I get access denied for your google docs link

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

#334
I developed "LessEncrypt" for my dev environment, an ultra lightweight, hassle free alternative to LetsEncrypt for use with self-signed CAs like in a dev or homelab environment. At work we have self signed keys for our dev/stg environment, and manage it with Ansible and some scripts, but spend a surprising amount of time dealing with it. This is an experiment to get us out of that business.

https://github.com/linsomniac/lessencrypt

Short description:

- Client generates RSA keypair and connects to server from <1024 TCP port, sends pubkey. - Server uses reverse DNS to come up with cert name (rules can specify alternate CN and SANs, override TTL, etc). - Server generates a signed cert and connects back to client on <1024 TCP port and sends cert.

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

#335

An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos, without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot. At the moment, the flow goes like this: 1. During the week, write posts for things that have happened. 2. Posts can be assigned to groups. (family, friends etc). 3. At the end of the week…

Are you self-hosting the email?

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

#336
I built a web app for looping specific sections of YouTube videos as a way to practice songs.

https://proloops.jprokay.com/

Slowtube was a huge inspiration for me (I’ve spent many hours with it), but I wanted a way to save my loops and continue my practice.

Saving is solely to the browser’s database right now.

Feedback is much appreciated!

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

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post #249

Planning a hobby alpaca farm (3-4 alpacas), very early stage. Everything from farm related stuff (water, food, shelter, etc.) to self-sufficiency (solar, etc.) to real time monitoring (which cameras, affecting power supply). Who knows if it'll ever happen, but just planning everything in detail is a lot of fun. Especially with weird regulatory constraints where I'm living, there's a lot to watch out for. Example: Sol…

This must be the dream for a lot of tech people living behind a screen. I can see myself wanting to do this (although maybe work on the farm not own it)

I think a lot of people in office jobs day dream about this sort of thing. My father-in-law is a third generation farmer producing ultra fine wool. I am a source of free labour at shearing time and I will tell you that when I treat myself to a sleep in on Monday morning and roll out of bed for standup at 9:30 I sit there with the biggest shit-eating grin on my face meanwhile my father in law is already 4 hours in to his 12+ hour day.

Also if I was to go into farming I'd have to do something with crops/fruits/vegetables. I am a bit of a softie but the realities of livestock husbandry when met with the economics of farming can be quite confronting.

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

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post #249

Planning a hobby alpaca farm (3-4 alpacas), very early stage. Everything from farm related stuff (water, food, shelter, etc.) to self-sufficiency (solar, etc.) to real time monitoring (which cameras, affecting power supply). Who knows if it'll ever happen, but just planning everything in detail is a lot of fun. Especially with weird regulatory constraints where I'm living, there's a lot to watch out for. Example: Sol…

This must be the dream for a lot of tech people living behind a screen. I can see myself wanting to do this (although maybe work on the farm not own it)

I already live in a farm with a permanent remote job!

/brag over

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

#339

I've been working on an e-ink laptop. I wanted a machine I could stare hours at and feel okay about it. I didn't seem to find a device like that out there. I'm designing everything from the chassis to the software OS. E-ink has its own design constraints. I'm building 5 apps for it: a browser, reader, mail, writer and code editor. It's still a ways to go. Here's a picture of what I have so far: https://www.heyravitej…

The site is unreachable for me

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

#340
post #326

Been playing with my birdnet detection data. Made a realtime synth based on species detections and working on wireless framed art piece that displays the latest detection on an eink display.

> framed art piece

love this idea! my retired mother spends a lot of time at her living room window with the Merlin Bird ID app and optimizing her bird feeders. it'd be fun to build something like this for her.

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