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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#41
A Mac-based video manager that automatically transcribes, translates and summarises videos. I process information best through reading, so I built it to manage my growing collection of training course videos, webinars and meeting recordings. Currently working on adding RAG search to make it easier to query content.

Also building a CMS and static site generator that runs entirely client side in the browser. Pick themes, model content an publish to clean HTML. It also makes content available beyond just the browser, eg in a command line TUI.

https://www.sparktype.org

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#42
I'm working on https://yap.town - an SRS based language learning app.

I would say it combines the best parts of Duolingo and Anki. Anki is great for memorizing words, but you don't see the words in the context of novel sentences. Duolingo is great for exposure to new sentences, but it's oriented around "lessons" and SRS is an afterthought. (Duolingo is also not designed for people serious about learning a language IMO, it's too easy and goes too slowly.)

Had to do quite a bit to get it to work well.

1. At first you would think that if you know all the words in a sentence, that should be enough to understand the sentence. But it doesn't work like that. For starters, words can have multiple meanings. The french word "bois" can mean "(you) drink" or "wood". You want to learn these separately. I trained an NLP model (a gemma3 finetune) that I use to understand the manner each word is used in each sentence: https://huggingface.co/collections/anchpop/lexide-nlp-models

2. Even then, what about a sentence like "you'd better not"? Even if you know the words "you" "had" "better" and "not", you still won't really get this. So I use the wiktionary "multiword terms" category for each language to get a huge list of terms like "'d better" , "you better believe it", etc, and teach these in addition to individual words. And then I only show sentences where you know all the individual words as well as all the terms.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#43
Building https://ottex.ai - a native MacOS app to solve repetitive micro tasks on a computer.

- Transcribe voice to text (especially useful when you need to explain something to Claude code )

- (soon) select text to instantly Check grammar / Improve writing / change tone of text

- (soon) select text to Translate between languages

I discovered that I have a few 10/20$ subscriptions (grammarly, raycast, wisperflow) that do embarrassingly simple stuff I can one shot with cheap SLM. So I decided to build a one app specialized in small repetitive tasks on computer.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#44
Selfhosting via yunohost, especially loving Immich and Actual Budget. I'm not in IT but I use Linux and it has been easy enough for me to set up.

Also making personalised Christmas t-shirts in Inkscape. I love what you can do with open source tools!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#45
I am working on a repository for AI Intent Driven Development at https://github.com/Exadra37/ai-intent-driven-development/.

An Intent is a self-contained document that describes a user request. It is composed of three main sections: WHY (the motivation), WHAT (the requirements, often in Gherkin language), and HOW (a detailed, step-by-step implementation plan defined with tasks). This approach ensures clarity and alignment before any code is written.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#46
Basically small data tools for myself.

A non-bloated HTML, CSS and pure Vanilla JS framework to create dashboards.

A cross-platform JSONL viewer where I am learning ImGUI. Haven’t found any other open source GUI framework that‘s small, provides out of the box components for tables, sorting

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#47
I'm resurrecting peer-to-peer Matrix (https://arewep2pyet.com) thanks to the Dutch government, who started funding it in October.

The main question is which P2P overlay network to use, if any: the prior incarnation used Pinecone (a variant of Yggdrasil), whereas this time we're pondering keeping it simpler and more scalable and using Matrix itself as the backbone to connect together smallish local P2P meshes - so by default you try to route via Matrix, but failing that you look on your LAN or BLE to see if you can talk directly to whoever you're addressing. Time will tell if this works :)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#48
https://www.ottoclip.com - Create product-focused content that stays in sync with your product.

Create a script for a product demo or tutorial for your app using an extension. The script is used to generate your product content in multiple formats (narrated video, interactive demo, looping animation, and in-app guide). Whenever your product changes, just update the script and regenerate everything. No manual re-recording of video, syncing of audio, or any other post-production steps.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#49
On and off working on the Navigation API for Node, Bun, Deno, & as a browser polyfill.

Has 90% test coverage, makes use of web platform tests to verify compatibility, and is in use by some larger companies already with the Navigation API soon to become a baseline in evergreen browsers.

The Navigation API effectively is async state navigations. The likes of React has recently added Navigation API support to make use of the browser reload indicator.

https://github.com/virtualstate/navigation

Along with working on a startup day to day :)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#50
Working on adding Apple Intelligence to my macOS app built to analyze iOS app size metrics. I'm hoping to have a locally running assistant that can act like an iOS build engineer to provide optimization opportunities and more: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881.

Right now my app allows users to export build metadata as JSON which can be interpreted by LLMs for analysis, but I'd like to have this work on-device.

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