Open source hybrid piano. Been a very part-time hobby for several years.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#352https://blendful.com — A template generator (currently for Tailwind). I've been frustrated by marketing templates and their unitary visual style which becomes implemented all over the web. I think people want high quality templates and assets that they can theme themselves, without diving into the nitty gritty of padding, line-height, et al. Super early, launched on Reddit and have a few users.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#353I recently strongly solved the Royal Game of Ur (https://royalur.net/solved), and am now back to the less academic pursuit of working on our implementation of the game.
Funnily enough, players are much more excited about the achievements I am planning to add than they ever were about us solving this 4000-year-old board game. I guess you've got to pick your audience.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#354After a decade of professionally working with container orchestrators like Kubernetes and ECS I quit my job to build Uncloud — an open source lightweight version of those [1]. I want the tool to bring me joy when I use it, in a similar way Docker did when I first tried it in 2013.
Imagine Docker Compose and Tailscale had a baby. Uncloud is the baby that allows you to deploy and manage containers across a network of Docker hosts. I feel like we forgot how to build simple tools that do the job and not a thousand other unnecessary things.
I've started migrating some of my self-hosted web apps from my k8s cluster and I really enjoy it. Using the tool early on helps me better understand where the biggest pain points are and what I need to prioritise.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#355https://github.com/runvnc/mindroot . Basically open source Custom GPTs. Heavily focused on plugins. Has browser use, computer use, agents can delegate subtasks, Chroma KB, etc. Fully customizable front end.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#356https://tritium.legal Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to…
Looks great! Well done.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#357https://periplus.app A website for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, quizzes and flashcards. Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time. Currently using the graph for topic suggestions, though I've also been playing around with steering document generation with it as well.
This is amazing. I tried to build something like this about a year ago and didn't get very far. How much time did this take and how big are your AI bills?
Feature suggestion: fact checking the contents of a flash card with perplexity
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#358https://desktop.with.audio/
A one time payment (no subscription), local text to speech solution for MacOS or Windows. I've been a heavy user of Speechify but it was a bit expensive to justify. So I eventually built With Audio and after a few iterations now I'm working on the desktop app. Our laptops are very powerful and they are more capable of running some of these Text To Speech models with near to real time performance.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#359I recently quit my job and build Cookboox (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cookboox/id6743146885), an iOS app that lets you scan cooking recipes (from photos, screenshots, or physical cookbooks) and turns them into an interactive, step-by-step guide.
The idea is to make your existing recipes easier to use in the kitchen. Instead of just a static image or page, you get a hands-free friendly, guided experience.
Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#360I 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/linsomn…
Sounds interesting and useful. How difficult has this been to create? Have you encountered obstacles you didn’t expect that chewed up a lot of time?