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

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

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Post by logicallee »

I am working on an AI-run and AI-owned sovereign state of Utopia that uses autonomous agents to give out free money, goods, and services from state-run companies to its citizens/beneficiaries (eventually all 8 billion people on Earth since who wouldn't want free money, goods and services), that will be at https://stateofutopia.com and https://stofut.com (an abbreviation like St. of Ut.) We have registered with the United Nations as a sovereign country, have a flag (it's all green, specifically May Green or the color of most leaves to signify growth), and have just signed our first lease for an embassy, you can visit us in person on official state business, it is a serious undertaking. The big difference from a company is that rather than act in the interests of shareholders it acts in the interests of its citizens/beneficiaries.

Registration will be free (compare Form N-400 to become a U.S. citizen which costs $640 plus an $85 biometric services fee, totaling $725), you just get free benefits.

There isn't any signup form yet but you can email the Founder Robert Viragh at rviragh@gmail.com with the message "request for citizenship in Utopia" and I can give you citizenship, by our laws anyone gets citizenship upon their request. (I will reply with confirmation within 24 hours, you can reply here if you emailed me and I didn't reply to you.)

I can hear you thinking there's no way a sovereign nation will be run and owned by AI and give out free money, goods, and services. Well here's our complete game of chess: https://taonexus.com/chess.html made by AI purely for your amusement, it's a 1500 year old game people obviously get utility from (spending $10 to $1000 on chess boards for example, with tens of millions of boards sold per year). So clearly this type of game is of some use/utility to people. I have fun playing it for example. AI just made it for you for free.

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

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Post by nazavo »

I'm making a tool for teachers to create realistic and motivational AI portraits for their students to go with "when I grow up" essays (https://agelens.com). I was not satisfied with shitty looking AI-aging tools that were on the market, and decided to make a one that looks awesome and inspiring.

The goal is to bring inspiring emotions like these to the classrooms - https://youtube.com/shorts/waLXYiV-2cE

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

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Post by avirajkhare »

Personal projects:

- [GitMentor](http://gm.srecraft.io) → 300+ users so far - [NurtiLens](http://nl.srecraft.io) → 50+ users so far

Blog post on GitMentor: https://blog.srecraft.io/posts/gitmentor

- Terminal in Notion: https://www.notion.so/Terminal-in-Notion-195668ab1a058044b0e...

Dropping Resume Optimizer: https://resume-maker.up.railway.app/ Made a video building it from scratch in 30 mins—completely freestyle. Accidentally exposed some API keys, so had to rotate them since I don’t know how to edit videos :) Video: https://youtu.be/OCcAjZ4Q-iM

Conclusion: You steer the LLM, don’t let the LLM steer you.

- [LLM Bootcamp](http://llm-bootcamp.srecraft.io) → making content

Another day, another drop. Not taking this one to production because PineconeDB costs too much for cosine similarity search. Built it anyway, here's the video: https://youtu.be/f5SIELet8JU Codebase: https://github.com/avirajkhare00/youtube-answer-finder

YT Answer Finder goes to prod today: https://ytf.srecraft.io/ Only two videos processed so far: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WPEYGr1Vs

More projects: - Real-time flight tracker: https://lofi-atc.up.railway.app/ - Music recommendation app: https://music-again.vercel.app

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

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Post by Jefro118 »

Creating a tool to automate browser tasks: https://browsable.app.

It's RPA for browsers which is not fundamentally new, what I'm trying to do that is new is use AI to make it as easy as possible to create automations. Most of the existing tools require you to locate CSS selectors, XPaths, etc. whereas this is just point, click, type, describe data you want to extract in English, etc.

Still early days and it works much better for some tasks/websites than others but it's improving rapidly and I'm quite excited about it.

Also hoping that the likes of OpenAI Operator, etc. are rolled out in a way that I can use them to build a better product rather than being runover by them.

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

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Post by jonwinstanley »

donohoe wrote: post #406

I’ve always wanted a large wall mountable e-ink display that I could update periodically - and it didn’t need to be plugged in (or drill holes in a wall to hide the power cable). The displays are really expensive so I’m looking at taking 12 kindles apart and mounting them in a 3x4 grid. They cannot seamlessly touch at the edges so I’m looking to include that as part of the larger aesthetic then ignore it. I’ve figure…

Hey, this sounds cool.

I played around with turning an old kindle into a wall mounted display a while back and got frustrated at how buggy the process was.

I managed to get my own image displayed on the device but sometimes it wouldn't update, sometimes it would drop power way too fast after a full charge.

I think I would use an eink display and a raspberry pi if I ever revive this project.

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

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Post by jasdi »

jtwaleson wrote: post #320
koliber wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds lovely. I am a spatial thinker so this is right up my alley. How do you deal with different kinds of groupings and connections? For example, some things could be connected because they are “integrations”, or because they deal with notifications, or because they’re available only in the enterprise plan. Not all related things are related in the same way.

Still a lot of thinking to be done here to be honest. I've built a very fast canvas with zoom-to-code, parsing the git history, code age overlays etc, but understanding the architecture and connections is the next big thing I have to figure out. Plenty of ideas though!

Might be useful - https://schem.io/

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

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Post by cloud8421 »

For a few months I've been working on an application to manage my physical music collection. Records I own, records I want to find, with some stats/search/metadata that actually use.

It's built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, backed by SQLite. Records are imported via MusicBrainz, and data enriched via Last.fm.

I'm looking now to add notes for each artist and record, along with arbitrary associations. Think supergroups, side projects, etc. and some trivia/quotes/stories that I can easily add for my own reference.

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

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Post by pzagor2 »

https://leadsparklabs.com/

LeadSparkLabs is an agency that assists small and medium-sized businesses in generating more leads by quickly creating customized Lead Magnet Mini Apps. These mini apps are designed to engage your target audience and convince them to give you their email.

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

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Post by nubela »

I'm building a digital B2B debt collection service with teeth (https://accountgram.com). Basically, the contrarian of most debt collection startups trying to be a nicer nag, now with AI! Instead, I want there to be real consequences for defaulting on B2B debts via means of public disclosure, and then more.
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