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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)
#392PayRankJobs (https://payrankjobs.com) - Got tired of my tech writer wife getting spammed with $55K jobs when she's worth $200K+.
Built an AI-powered system that finds the highest-paying roles that match your resume and respect your salary requirements
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#393I'm getting into frontend web development with Rust by making a tracker [1] (not the advertising kind, rather a type of music-making app that was popular with chiptune artists in the '90s).
This is my first time doing anything with frontend more complex than an image carousel, and I have occasionally felt that I'm in over my head with things like multithreading and audio playback, but it's immensely satisfying seeing the app come together.
I am extremely impressed by the Leptos framework [2], and I'm thrilled that I haven't had to write a single line of JS, even when doing DOM interactions or communicating with web workers.
Once I polish up the tracker frontend, I'd like to add a backend and potentially try to release it as a paid app.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#394Been working on a games curation site that is focused on hyper specific themes (https://exhibitplay.com/). I find game genres to be so broad, which makes discovery a boring process. My idea is to take a curatorial approach and make collections that highlight the themes that exist within genres.
It's pretty simple, JSON data that I manually fill out and display in a grid. Takes some inspiration from Letterboxd lists. Future plan is to run online and in-person exhibitions for smaller curation and to commission writers and other curators to provide further depth and insight into a list.
I have no plans to turn this into a profitable thing. It's a pure passion project which I hope will benefit researchers, academics, other curators, and the whole game community. It's a resource as much as it is a celebration.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#395I'm building Zenta, a small set of offline tools to help you focus and stay present.
And Flow – a terminal app that helps you track deep work without distractions. It runs locally, keeps things simple, and protects your attention instead of just counting time.
Made for developers who want calm, not noise.
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#396Working on AutoDBA [1]. The goal is to help developers and DBAs find and fix common performance issues, misconfigurations, unused indices, and silent slowdowns directly in your IDE.
We're trying to figure out how to narrow down our target audience and get to early revenue. Also, how we can grow the extension adoption.
[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=autodba-...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#397An open source STL-like set of containers and algorithms for treating bit-resolution types like first class citizens.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#398I'm working on an app[0] that makes hosting temporary PDF forms simple, without needing an account or payment. You simply add input fields over any static PDF and publish it to get a link which you can send to other people who may need to fill the form. The form stays online for 30 days. To keep the forms online for longer, I will be offering paid plans. [0]: https://www.signmypdf.com
Well executed! Low fuss. The widget process was intuitive and worked good enough on mobile. Shareable link was easy.
Some minor thoughts: Are the radio buttons meant to have a big outline? Any way to erase the signature? What tech did you use for the frontend?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#399I got laid off so I'm dusting off an old python project that takes OTF/TFF files and applies algorithmic effects to them. Then you can export the font as a new OTF/TFF file to unleash on your own design work, websites, etc.
I wanted interesting looking typefaces for my printmaking assignments when I was taking studio art classes on the side in university. Now that I've been laid off, I wanna polish it and see what other people create with it.
Lots of room to rewrite and improve it, but I have job applications and interviews to get through.
I was working on a routing application for San Francisco (+Daly City) where it includes being able to put how willing you are to walk to certain bus routes instead of how most apps try to put the least amount of walking and don't consider that if the wait for a bus or train is long, then I don't mind walking to connect to another route that takes me to my destination faster. It takes tree shade, elevation, and marked off location to avoid into account.
It evolved into more of tool for planning leisure walks and runs that could hit places I'd want to visit with a loose timeline--for days where I would want to wander and then end up at a particular stop/station to get back home.
Talking about them here has more ideas churning in my head and reminds me to step outside of my little bubble to remember why I truly love coding. To make fun and convenient experiences.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#400I'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 thi…
I'm really interested in this if theres a way I could make use of this too? Word for word I have the same list of problems when it comes to me hyperfocusing on things, where I don't even just forget to eat but I can't feel that I'm hungry. Too busy hyperfixating to feel so.