Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jbverschoor » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:18 PM UTC

siruva07 wrote: post #338

PodSnacks ( https://podsnacks.org ) — Personalized AI summaries of top podcasts, delivered to your inbox. I've been building PodSnacks because I found it overwhelming to keep up with podcasts across tech, business, and science. PodSnacks uses LLMs to summarize the most popular episodes from shows like Lex Fridman, Acquired, All-In, Invest Like the Best, and more. You choose your favorite shows, and we email you short…

I’d prefer summaries of my YouTube subscriptions, where I can also add my own “summary template”

In currently have a prompt for it that works for me, based on the transcripts.

Problem: too much duplicate information in any type of publication and too much fluff

Problem2: YouTube/transcriptions

Probably wouldn’t pay for such a service, but would be very happy using it. Perhaps some channel promo / email based ads for discovery or recommendations.

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

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Post by westcoast49 » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:18 PM UTC

pheelicks wrote: post #231

A pentagonal geospatial indexing system: https://a5geo.org/ If you’ve used H3 or S2 it should be familiar, the major difference (apart from the fact it uses pentagons) is that the cell areas are practically uniform, whereas alternative systems have a variance of around 2 between the largest and smallest cells, making them less useful for aggregation. The site has many visual demos, e.g. https://a5geo.org/examples/are…

Is it based upon repeated subdivision of an icosahedron?

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

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Post by fertrevino » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:22 PM UTC

I am extending my pet project menuop.com, a digital menu maker for restaurants. I plan to integrate AI to enhance visual impact, analytics and recommendations to restaurant owners.

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

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Post by qwertox » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:24 PM UTC

siruva07 wrote: post #338

PodSnacks ( https://podsnacks.org ) — Personalized AI summaries of top podcasts, delivered to your inbox. I've been building PodSnacks because I found it overwhelming to keep up with podcasts across tech, business, and science. PodSnacks uses LLMs to summarize the most popular episodes from shows like Lex Fridman, Acquired, All-In, Invest Like the Best, and more. You choose your favorite shows, and we email you short…

Interesting. Once signed in, how do I search for podcasts? Discover is not showing a search field, unlike https://www.podsnacks.org/newsletter/podcasts

Edit: Ok, I found the search function in the hamburger menu. A bit unintuitive.

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

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Post by sameline » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:37 PM UTC

estsauver wrote: post #229

universalestimator.com I started experimenting and I think this builds out pretty neat estimations from jira tickets/other descriptions. When I was sitting in the CTO role, I spent a ton of time talking with people about how long/short various projects would be. When I was a developer, I hated the estimation piece because it felt like it was both keeping me from building and was almost never done with enough context…

Cool idea! Does it take your team’s prior estimations into account to improve future estimates?

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

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Post by spech » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:40 PM UTC

zby wrote: post #234

I am working on an app for rhythm training for dancing. The first step is beat detection in music - here is my code for generating videos with beat counting: https://github.com/zby/beat_counter (vibe coding warning). Beat detection seems to work OK, downbeats are a bit more tricky and I have found not good solutions for further structuring of music (for dancing they usually count to 8 - that is two 4 beat measures -…

Very cool! Dancer here. Looking for something that counts music so I can do some choreopgraphy faster.

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

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Post by alok-g » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:40 PM UTC

Cyphase wrote: post #187

Myself. Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love that word) imminently. Just moved to reduced hours, still in the transition and unwinding phase. Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects. Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter) of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things. I'm excited.

I am in a similar stage.

In brief:

25 years of experience including FAANG. Recently got divorced (complex litigations, fought hard, very satisfied with the outcome).

Now rethinking myself. Want to do something useful for humankind in the rest of my life. Having big ideas for the future. Trying some research-focussed 'side' projects. Considering writing a book. Learning new things. So on.

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

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Post by carlosjobim » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:44 PM UTC

jhunter1016 wrote: post #287

Working on static website hosting. Thinking about how I can build backend functionality for customers as well while maintaining the openness that the static hosting has offered. https://orbiter.host

I use Fastpanel, which is an incredible tool for that, but seems to be completely unknown. Free as well.

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

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Post by freeone3000 » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:45 PM UTC

A semantic music visualizer :) real-time capture of elements of music —- not tracks but true elements —- paired with time-stable frame generation for display. It likely won’t be as good as a real VJ, but I want to outshine all the visualizers which are basically a demo atop a grapheq.

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

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Post by alok-g » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 12:45 PM UTC

Oras wrote: post #324

Resume builder 7 months ago, I was looking for a job and got frustrated with the current resume builders, so decided to build one exactly how I wanted a resume builder to be. - Free (like really free). - No signup, no login. - Has AI features to improve text. - Find jobs matching the resume. https://resumeyay.com

Nice!

Would like to see more written down on how the résumé-building part works.

Would love to see something that can start from a pre-existing CV and help refine. (My current CV is my own record of projects I have undertaken, so it has a lot of detail and runs into approx. 10 pages.)