I’m building a keyboard-driven tool for designing in the browser. It’s like a mashup of Webflow, Storybook, and Vim.
It’s still in development, but you can see a codebase for an earlier prototype here:
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#362I've been working on a programing language to read and write Excel spreadsheets.
Or more accurately I've been writing a custom programming language and porting my library to it, so I can transpile it out to other languages.
Currently it is being transpiled to C++ and C#
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#363notd - A lightweight outliner built with PHP, JavaScript, and SQLite: https://github.com/andjar/notd
I'm building a simple outliner focused on core functionality: hierarchical notes, backlinks, file attachments, and todo management. The goal is portability and longevity - it runs in phpdesktop as simple php, js and sqlite without compilation or complex frameworks.
I have been a happy user of LogSeq, but the current major rewrite, intended to enable real-time multi-user collaboration, introduce a lot of complexity and I am now more worried about the longevity of that project.
Built with assistance from Cursor, Gemini, and Jules, so vibe coding. Still early stage but functional for basic outlining needs.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#364https://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.
I’m intrigued and made a note to check this out, but I just wanted to say that I love this design! It’s gorgeous. Is this a template or did you hire a designer or design it yourself?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#365Working on a new tool to automate busy work and save time for founders, engineers, support reps, and marketers.
Most ai apps are focused on reading and synthesizing data, but none are great at “write” actions across apps.
We’re focused on making the simplest and easiest way to use ai to control your apps and get things done
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#366https://polyreader.app
My brother is always sending me articles to read, and I don't like reading at a computer, so I made a tool to send articles to my Kindle. It makes me happy and I use it every day, along with a small but apparently happy customer base.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#367An 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?
No, it will have to be a third-party provider. Currently using Amazon SES, but will be easy to replace with another email provider.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#368Been 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.
You need to post more detail on this!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#369https://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 perfo…
Care to explain more? how is it going? how many paying customers? how did u get the first 100 users or how are u going to achieve it?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#370Link: https://infinitepod.app/ I'm building Infinite Pod, a web app that generates language learning podcasts tuned to your individual learning goals and level. It's based on the principle of language acquisition through comprehensible input, as described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug It's still a bit rough, but feels magical in my own testing so I wanted to make it available to others.
This looks very interesting! A bit of feedback for you: the number one question I have as I look at this is, podcasts about what?