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

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

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Post by bcye »

kenrick95 wrote: post #182

I'm working on a travel planning application. I know a lot of other apps exist, but I'd like to build one myself. https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo So far it has some sort of activity calendar + expense tracker There's still so much ideas to implement, like adding map, improve UX of creating activities, to-do list, etc I've used it once or twice of a short trip, but in 6 months time, I'll have a 2-weeks trip, so tha…

Awesome project! Which other alternatives did you find/get inspiration from? I haven't really found great options in the (more broad) travel planning space, which is why I am building in it.

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

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Post by stevage »

EFFALO wrote: post #390

Three Kind Words ( https://threekindwords.com ) It’s a small vending machine on the internet where people anonymously send a friend three postcards, one word at a time. The first two cards are unsigned, and the last one reveals who sent them. It’s meant to be a slow, kind surprise in the mail. I shared this on HN a while back, and it gave us a quiet little push. Since then, we’ve sent 246 out of the 300 postcards we…

Just some feedback, I think this would be much more compelling with better choices of messages. It feels like the first two words are setting something up and the third should have some kind of payoff, but a lot of the messages don't work like that. The third word is usually predictable and obvious and something of a letdown "Never give....up".

There's really nothing in that list that is interesting enough to send to anyone in my life. I'd be wanting to send something very specific like "Remember cycling Iceland?" or "Soy chicken success" or something.

I get your concerns about "writing something inappropriate" but you could probably let people choose 3 words from a list of a few hundred pre-vetted words?

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

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Post by dougdonohoe »

I'm writing more software-related articles. Just finished my 2nd in the past month, this one on why you should "always be refactoring."

https://medium.com/@DougDonohoe/ce45d56c8773

Writing well is hard and takes time. Was it Mark Twain that said "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."? I can totally relate to that this month. Getting your point across without being long winded is challenging.

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

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Post by stevage »

jmkr wrote: post #66

A midi sequencer, which does or is supposed to do what you expect. In the process of adding stuff like euclydian sequences, and trying to figure out how to generate melodies. Been considering using something like a simple markov probability from a bunch of jazz standards, but also starting to read more music theory behind it. It's a programming project but it's directly related to me trying to figure out music. So no…

Ah, I have a thing vaguely like this in the pipeline too. Fun stuff!

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

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Post by nathan_douglas »

https://github.com/ndouglas/whispers

Whispers is a self-organizing, belief-driven mesh where nodes propose, verify, and evolve solutions through dynamic, decentralized consensus.

Basically a shared knowledge graph of proposed partial inferences in CRDTs using verification as a merge function. There're some issues I know I'll run into with e.g. admissibility but I have some solutions in mind.

I'm in the very early stages but I think it's a simple idea so I have high hopes for a cool demo soon.

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

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Post by sleepydog »

I'm working on a multicast dns implementation in OCaml. It's a library allowing one to build custom queries/responders, plus a conventional querier that can be used as a stub resolver for .local to get the resolver functionality of avahi.

My main motivation was to implement a service that publishes the addresses of containers and vms that I run on my workstation to my local network, but it gradually has grown into a full-blown implementation of RFC 6762, which has been fun.

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

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Post by acureau »

moechofe wrote: post #200

I'm working on a fantasy console that work on iOS and iPadOS https://github.com/moechofe/LowResRMX My goal is to create games on the go, during my commutes. It's a fork of https://lowresnx.inutilis.com/ , there is some videos of my progress on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmKVaz_2Cxe6pG7VbQfw... and a Discord channel https://discord.gg/jcT9CXDgHB

Fantasy consoles are awesome, very fun project and I love your demos. The way the bombs fall with the music in Kaboom is smart. I've thought a lot about building a hardware PICO-8. Not just running the software, but implement the APIs for real hardware and transpile the game cartridge. One of those ideas that will probably forever stay in the back of my mind.

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

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Post by casualmike »

I'm working on a site that lets you tile and watch multiple videos from different platforms all at once.

You can drag and drop links from YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, or Kick --and they show up in a grid.

You can reload or remove streams without refreshing, save mixes for later, and share them as links. It works best on a really big screen --phones aren't really supported and even notebooks are too small to get much benefit.

There's no backend, no login --everything runs in the browser.

https://panoptic.live/

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