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

#453
Currently building a suite of media inspection and encoding tools for video engineers: https://video-commander.com.

Still very much a work in progress, but expecting to release a first version by end of year. Built on Tauri, in case anyone is curious.

I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium.

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

#454
I have been tinkering on a little price drop alert scraper written in Python. It's run as a cron job, and every day it checks the prices of a list of urls (my clothing staples from various outdoor retailers, mostly) and sends me an email with any products that have gone on sale.

I've been running it for over a year, but now I have fixed it up and made a little landing page to see if there's interest for a stupid-simple price watch service like this (no need to install an extension or create an account):

https://www.curiositry.com/price-drop-alert/

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

#455
Learning that RCS is even more of a monstrosity and a lie than I thought a few years ago. Yikes. Lots of groundwork a decade ago setting the stage for "the carrier creates a common service anyone can interact with" (like sms/mms currently do, which would be great) but in practice it's pretty much 100% "only the carrier app or Google/Samsung messages has access to literally any of it".

Yeah I'm not gonna touch it and I'm going to actively encourage people to disable it. Use signal instead.

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

#456

Building the world’s first “Travel Confidence Engine.” I’ve been obsessed with how people actually make travel decisions — not how platforms think they do. From a consumer’s standpoint, travel isn’t just “search → compare → book.” It’s emotional, contextual, and full of FOMO. You open 20 tabs across Booking, Google Maps, Reddit, and Instagram trying to answer simple questions like: Is this the right area? Is this hot…

Why does it need a login though? big friction to just see the result of search

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

#458
working on https://careroute.ai - triages people to right site of care, estimates their visit cost with their insurance before they go, and lowers bills after visit by having an AI voice agent negotiate on their behalf. Triage works for all regions, cost estimates and bill negotiation is US-only.
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