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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)
#472I've been trying things for 25+ years and I'm about to kick off a test of a whole bunch of new business ideas. You might have read my article, How to Lose Money with 25 Years of Failed Businesses.
https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#473I'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 bene…
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#474I'm still developing podcast websites with transcripts[^0] while maintaining a part-time job.
This thread made me realize I've made no progress in acquiring new clients since posting about this 6 months ago. However, my part-time job ends in May, which will allow me to focus exclusively on Fanfare. It's somewhat intimidating, but I'm also looking forward to it; the prospect of resolving this uncertain situation (either through success or failure) feels liberating.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#475A social advocacy platform for small and medium sized B2B businesses.
LinkedIn is more or less the only social platform for B2B social selling and smaller firms could benefit from their posts getting a bit more augmented and coordinated engagement. So we’re building a solution for a marketing manager to request advocates (employees, partners, others) to engage or reshare (tweaked in their own voice if they want) their content.
Not world altering but shockingly underserved market. With few players who raised money and therefore have to price expensively, whereas as a bootstrapped side-hustle we can offer it in a flat-fee way that doesn’t “penalize” growth by charging per-user or for inactive users.
(Pre-launch [https://www.sevenbaton.com] would welcome feedback from marketing folks)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#476Working on a FOSS card game.
I realized after trying multiple tools like Supabase and Firebase, I really need to program my own solution. I don't need a bunch of *Enterprise* level features. I just need to read the card data from a database, and process the games with some simple server side code.
I hope to have the server, along with a basic front end done by this summer. Then it'll be released under a permissible license. Probably MIT.
I want a community of different front ends compatible with the same server. I suspect a straight up cli client without a bunch of effects might be popular with some of y'all.
If you want to code a frontend in Unreal, the server doesn't care. The game remains the same.
Of course your free to fork it privately, build a commerical product, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#477I'm working on an escape room! Initially I was working on a software/hardware bundle that I was planning to market to other escape rooms but I think that is the wrong approach. So I am going to build a bunch of modular stuff in my garage and eventually start my own, its been an awesome project so far! I want a more dynamic and action oriented experience so it might not really be an escape room anymore but I don't kno…
Some sort of escape room backbone software that links together all of the hardware according to a script is such a neat idea. It would be so cool to have something like Twine [0] to build out the story graphically, where input/output is via cues to staff/hardware rather than just text on screen. An old boss of mine used to run home-haunts for halloween. (a walk-through haunted house experience scaffolded-up in his yard) I helped him a few times, and I was always amazed by how big of a community there was. There were at least 5-6 people doing a haunt next week and would come help out at his, then he would help at their haunt the next week. My boss was even making a magazine for the community for a while. Something for those folks doing quick popup theatrical events/escape rooms that could handle some "duct tape engineering" would totally have an interested market, and if it was open source you'd get great patches.
BUT I also get what you mean, have find out what works first. Do you have a blog for your escape room progress? That sounds like such a cool thing to follow you making!
[0] (https://twinery.org/)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#478A few things:
- Snapshot (https://apps.shopify.com/snapshot): AI generated product photos for Shopify. Previously used Flux and Stable Diffusion but always had quality problems. Was very tricky ensuring text remained the same and the product fit into the generated background. Just integrated the new OpenAI image generation model and results are much better however their masking feature doesn't work properly so need to wait for them to fix that before I can offer the same feature of keeping text/fine details the same
- Lurk (https://apps.shopify.com/lurk): New one I just launched - allows Shopify merchants to track the prices of competitors and adjust their own in response with dynamic pricing rules. It's cool because you just have to paste a URL and it uses AI to figure out the price. Again, there's a surprising amount of things you need to figure out to make this work reliably at scale (e.g. popups, ambiguous HTML, location-based pricing, etc.)
- Origin UTM Tracking (https://apps.shopify.com/origin-utm-tracking): Simple UTM analytics for Shopify stores. Acquired this last year and its being growing nicely.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#479https://drawbeats.com This is one of my long-standing passion projects, a simple web-based music sequencer built to have a very low barrier to entry.
I am very interested in web based music creation, have you seen web-synth on github? https://github.com/Ameobea/web-synth
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#480The first ever SQL debugger – runs & visualizes your query step-by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY, aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated ones!), CTEs, you name it. You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query lineage – which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries contributed to the result you're searching for. Entirely offline & no usage o…
This is awesome! I’m work with a team of analysts and data engineers who own a pretty big snowflake data warehouse. We write a ton of dbt models and have a range of sql skill levels on the team. This would be the perfect way to allow more junior devs to build their skills quickly and support more complex models. I would recommend you target data warehouses like snowflake and bigquery where the query complexity and th…
Thank you, nice to get some idea validation from folks in the industry. For sure data warehouses are the top priority on my TODO list, I picked PG first because that's what I'm familiar with.
I can ping you via email when the debugger is ready, if you're interested. My email is in my profile