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

#371
Still working on https://theretowhere.com, which is a website that makes it easier to find apartments and hotels/airbnbs close to people and activities you care about.

The past couple months have been fun since I've implemented a lot of new highly-requested features into the site's city heatmapping capabilities. One thing I've found motivating is having my own private changelog that shows screenshots of feature requests people have given me, and then dates for when I finally finished those features.

It's easy to forget how much stuff you've built in a month or two, sometimes.

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

#372
MAXSTACK: Web framework for rapidly building SaaS apps with AI - trying to enable the next wave of 'fast-fashion saas'. Think of it like better-auth is doing for auth, I want to do for the rest of SaaS

- comes with common SaaS features pre-built (crud, blog, auth, etc.) - import templates from the framework until you want to customize them - create forms with just a zod schema - good docs, typescript interfaces, a CLI for common tasks, and MCP for your AI agent

If you're building something now or want to - I'd love to help. Could use the experience to make things easier through my framework.

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

#373
An AI Interview Coach - Socratify

www.socratify.com

It focused on critical thinking and communication skills by having dialogues about recent news and announcements at the companies you want to work at. Have a 2 min dialogue and get feedback about how you think and speak.

Think of it as a Duolingo for your career goals

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

#374

Enhancing the restorative function of sleep, without altering sleep time. https://affectablesleep.com Our patent-pending neurostimulation builds on over a decade of research in slow-wave enhancement, and more than 50+ published peer-reviewed papers. Today we're building our last 3D printed unit. In October we start our first tooling run.

The first thing I need to see is what it can achieve.

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

#375
I'm working on a new CAPTCHA designed to be very simple and user-friendly for humans, while maintaining strong LLM bot protection. I'm currently looking for pilot users (content creators, site owners, or anyone interested) to test it out and provide feedback. If you're interested, please comment.

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

#376
Picshift.io: upload an image, get a URL, change what shows at that URL whenever you want. Works anywhere an image link works.

You can randomize and schedule images to show up at the link as well. Super useful for marketing, maintaining screenshots on a website or in documentation, etc.

Would love to hear if anyone wants to use it!

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

#378
I am working on FastFileLink (https://fastfilelink.com/), yet another file-sharing CLI/app that uses WebRTC for P2P transfer but exposes HTTPS links, making it compatible with browsers and tools like curl/wget.

It's ~90% production-ready. We use it internally to move files between containers and hosts (especially when volumes aren't mounted), and for WFH employees to exchange large files without a relay server. For huge files, there's resumable upload to our infra-backed server — fast global downloads included.

The CLI will also support receiving files via WebRTC, but that feature hasn't been released yet. It is open source (https://github.com/nuwainfo/ffl), but the README hasn't been updated yet and the code is not synced with the latest version (working on these).

Another production-used tool I'm working on is MailTrigger (https://www.mailtrigger.net/) — a programmable SMTP server that turns any email into a message on LINE, Slack, Teams, Telegram, SMS, or basically anything. If your app can send email, it can trigger multi-channel notifications with zero extra code.

Think of it as “SMTP to Anything,” or an email-native IFTTT/Zapier.

It supports JS and WASM for preprocessing, routing, and automation — you can write custom logic, auto-reply with LLM-generated messages, or forward alerts intelligently. We use it for price drop alerts, server health monitoring, and integrations with Jenkins/Sentry to push incidents to our DevOps Telegram channel.

Also experimenting with LLM-assisted rule creation: you can define notification logic in natural language instead of writing code — for example, auto-reply with an LLM-generated joke or handle customer support queries dynamically.

Docs are more complete than the website (which is still evolving), and the pricing page is currently a placeholder. Already running in production for us and a few early adopters.

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

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post #157

Everyone’s drowning in long articles, dense PDFs, and hour-long videos. I’m working on https://unrav.io , it lets you flip any article, paper, or YouTube link into the format you actually want (summary, mindmap, podcast, infographic, etc.) in one click. Right now I’m experimenting with a simple bookmarklet trigger instead of a browser extension. Curious: how do HN folks feel about bookmarklets in 2025, still viable,…

Bookmarklets are nicer, you don't have to install them. AIUI, people hate installing. I hate installing!
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