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

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

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Post by DamnInteresting »

Less than a week ago I officially launched a game I've been working on for years, Omiword[1], my second word game so far. It was discussed here on HN previously while it was in open beta[2], and again when Stripe shut down my account without explanation[3].

Reception so far has been positive. It's nice to be done with a long project, though this one will never exactly be done--I need to make sure there is a new puzzle for each day, though I have several months' worth prepared in advance.

I've started designing my next game, but it's probably a couple of years out. I just need something for that part of my brain to occasionally chew on.

[1] https://www.omiword.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43654350

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075038

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

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Post by syngrog66 »

all on the side, in free time:

- EV charging software

- finish writing book on tech topic

- finish writing book of short stories

- planning next upgrade of LatLearn, my Golang latency instrumentation library (along with a dev session screencaat)

- planning next upgrade of Slartboz, my sci-fi post-apoc comedy adventure real-time Rogue-like game (along with a new demo screencast)

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

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Post by c_o_n_v_e_x »

davidsojevic wrote: post #315

I've been working on a "businesses for sale" aggregation/search engine that sources data from all of the major "business for sale" type platforms in Australia and de-duplicates listings, extracts data like revenue/profit/etc, and normalises it all for quick browsing. I have a couple of family members and friends who are looking to buy businesses (separately), and it's been much more time-consuming than you'd expect j…

Living in Australia and interested in buying a business, I can attest to biz4sale-type sites being a real problem.

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

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Post by Footprint0521 »

enjeyw wrote: post #275
nine_k wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't help but immediately think about a counteracting piece of software, which asks an LLM for variations of a paragraph, or a phrase, or a few synonyms, and types it the way a human would, with pauses, typos, navigation, rearranging pieces via copy-paste, etc. Not that your software is going to be useless. But as long as there is an incentive to cheat, new and better tools that facilitate cheating will crop up. S…

Yeah it's a good call out. I think it's a (more) winnable battle though. For both a keystroke based AI detector, and software designed to mimic human keystroke patterns, performance will be determined by the size of the dataset they have of genuine human keystroke patterns. The detector has an inherent leg-up in this, because it's constantly collecting more data through the use of the tool, whereas the mimic software…

I got burned by software like this, when I pasted in a essay I transcribed while driving through Whisper, and software like this thought I had pasted AI content lol

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

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Post by JeremyHerrman »

sipjca wrote: post #216

Been working on https://handy.computer . It's similar to SuperWhisper and others, but is open source and cross platform It uses whisper.cpp under the hood and should be accelerated on most devices using the Vulkan backend

thanks for making this! I'd love to use the microphone key (fn + mic) to trigger Handy but even after turning off dictation it doesn't seem like the system allows that key to be used (I get a dialog prompting me to turn on dictation).

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

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Post by crimsontech »

I'm making a personal app to help me visualise time passing.

I get "time blind" when I'm fixated on something like work, programming, reading, research, etc. While it can be a good thing, it also means I forget to eat, don't take breaks, miss meetings, or just spend way too long doing one thing and end up wondering where the day went. Typical notifications don't seem to snap me out of it either.

The app creates a thin, always visible line at the bottom of my screen that shrinks inwards as time passes, at the end of the allotted time the screen will blur preventing me from doing whatever I was doing and snapping me out of my hyperfocus state. I can choose how long the timer runs for and how long the screen blurs for. Tonight I added a loop feature so I can use it like a pomodoro timer with enforced breaks.

It's a simple menu bar app for MacOS and could be better, but it does what I want it to do. I've been using it for the past week and found it really helpful.

I haven't used Swift before so it was a good learning experience too.

It's the same principle as a Time Timer (timetimer.com) which I used previously but I find my app works better as the screen blur actually prevents me from just continuing whatever I'm doing, and the bar is always in my line of sight.

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

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Post by bryanhogan »

I'm working on DailySelfTrack ( https://dailyselftrack.com/ ) , an app to track what matters to you in a way that you find relevant. So it is a mix of habit tracker, health log and journal. Like a spreadhsheet app, but with much better UX. And like a habit/health app, but with much greater customization.

I want this to be a tool highly useful for people who have complex health issues, are working towards ambitious goals, or just want to regularly reflect on their day.

I'm building it since I couldn't find a satisfying solution anywhere. It's local first and does not force you into a subscription, or tries to exploit you with any other dark patterns.

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

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Post by ajb »

davidsojevic wrote: post #315

I've been working on a "businesses for sale" aggregation/search engine that sources data from all of the major "business for sale" type platforms in Australia and de-duplicates listings, extracts data like revenue/profit/etc, and normalises it all for quick browsing. I have a couple of family members and friends who are looking to buy businesses (separately), and it's been much more time-consuming than you'd expect j…

When a previous employer went bust, it was bought by the CEO after being listed by the administrator on an obscure website (ip-bid.com) which you have to make an account and log in to just to see the listings. There was only one bid. (I leave to the reader to speculate on the utility of a bid website without public listings, but such listings might represent good value compared to those advertised more widely). It may be worth checking company filings to see if there are equivalents used by insolvency administrators in Australia (I found out only by reading the administrator's "statement of proposals" on the fillings website after the fact -the sale wasn't advertised anywhere else as far as I can tell).
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