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

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

#471
I’m working on https://plennur.com, a scheduling tool for planning meetings, receiving sign-ups, etc.

Many alternatives (like Doodle) are full of ads, which makes their products unusable. My goal is to try and make the internet a little better place by offering a free version without ads.

Currently rethinking what a scheduling platform should look like in 2025, perhaps with AI integration to ease the planning process.

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

#473
We're working on a Container Registry for https://molnett.com. We don't really want to use Harbour as we want to manage our own AuthN/AuthZ and are fully multi-tenant, so we decided to build our own on top of Distribution.

Going from Manifest to OCI is a bit tricky and performance for calculating total storage based on metadata is hard to get right. But the result is that we own our full registry implementation and can take it any direction we want. Quite happy with that!

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

#474
I am bootstrapping Appio.so

Appio lets you add mobile widgets and native push notifications to your web app within minutes—without building or maintaining mobile apps, hiring developers, or dealing with app stores. You can try it at: https://demo.appio.so/

If you’re building a web-based product without a mobile app, or just want to try Appio, I’d love to chat! You can reach me directly via https://my.appio.so/ or drop a comment here.

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

#475
Me and my friend are working on Workback[1], a tool that can fix a11y issues end-to-end.

First we built it as a tool to fix any bug. After talking to a few folks, we realized that it is too broad. From my own personal experience, we realized how messy it is within organizations to address accessibility issues. Everybody scrambles around last minute. No body loves the work - developers, PMs, TPMs etc. And often external contractors or auditors are involved.

Now with Workback, we are hoping to solve the issues using the agentic loop.

If you personally experienced this problem, would love to chat and learn from your experience.

[1] https://workback.ai

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

#476
I'm building StaticBot.dev. I was surprised how tedious the manual setup for hosting static websites on AWS infra still was after 2 decades in the industry, and as I wanted to put a few websites out there to test waters for some ideas I had recently, decided to tackle it myself. So basically scratching very own specific itch: deploying and managing a fleet of static project websites in AWS infrastructure with IaC and nice UI. I wouldn't myself use something with (hidden) vendor lock-in, so opted for "hybrid" approach where user can deploy conveniently using the tool but has up-to-date terraform code avaiable in s3 so can take over project deployment anytime. Not much of a business mind so I might open source the whole thing later on (though the value of code kind of plumetted lately as AI can generate it so well).

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

#478
This weekend, my modified Android/mobile Point of Sale (POS) app was used to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our village's volunteer firefighting organization.

The standard fiscal POS app was adapted to support a sort of low-trust swarm of waiters who used the app to collect orders. These orders were then transferred to a few high-trust cashiers by scanning QR codes generated on the waiters' apps.

After receiving payments, the cashiers' apps printed invoices and multiple "order tickets" categorized by "food," "drinks", "sweets"... This allowed waiters to retrieve items and deliver them to customers.

The system was used by around 40 users, with new waiters joining or leaving throughout the event. They used their own phones, and the app functioned without internet or Wi-Fi, gracefully downgraded (If a waiter didn't use the app due by choice or due to technical problems, they could manually relay orders to cashiers), Customers also had the option to approach cashiers directly, receive their order tickets, and pick up items themselves.

This is not that technically interesting, but I liked how the old manual system, the 70+ year village firefighting org. main cashier had, got digitalized in non-centralized way. (and I took this chance in trying to explain it, as I will have to, to maybe find more users for it)

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

#479

After 10 years in defense tech, watching missile attacks in Ukraine and the Middle East made it clear how little most people really get about air defense. So I'm builiding this simulator which drops you into the operator’s seat. You can test out different scenarios and build an air defense network against various types of threats (stats from real world). Also have Ukraine, Israel-Iran scenarios. https://airdefense.de…

Reminds me of a nuclear war simulator I had on my Amstrad many years ago, very cool
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