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

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

#474
We have been building https://finbodhi.com/ a local-first browser app (PWA) for personal finance, based on double-entry accounting.

FinBodhi uses double entry so complicated set of transactions and accounts can be modeled (which happen often enough in users financial journey). We wrote about double-entry here: https://finbodhi.com/docs/understanding-double-entry

We do use online services like firebase for auth, and some service to fetch commodity prices etc. But all your financial data is on your system (we use sqlite over opfs, in browser). For synching across devices, that data is encrypted with your key before it leaves your device. You can backup the data locally (if you are using chrome) and/or to your dropbox. It's designed so that we (the people building it) can't access your data.

There are many more features, like multi-currency, visualizations, a sheet to use your data to do complex calculations like taxes, planning for your future etc.

Feel free to try it out with the demo account (no sign-in required). Note: app doesn't work in Firefox private mode.

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

#475

A tool for creating custom Tailwind-style color palettes for web and UI design that pass WCAG contrast requirements: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ The interface is optimized to let you quickly explore and tweak multiple tints/shades at once so you can customize all colors exactly how you want e.g. try dragging vertically through the saturation curve in one motion to edit all the tints/shades at once, or shift whol…

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

#476
I've been working on a little game for my daughter to help her learn the movement of chess pieces. https://www.minichessgames.com

It's currently just a "maze" type game where you have to get to a goal square in the minimum number of moves (there are rocks placed on the board to act as obstacles)

I'm in the process of making some very simple games like battling knights where they leave poo and you try to trap your opponent.

Fun making it even if it's just the two of us who'll enjoy it :). Partly I wanted her to learn that you can create for the internet not just consume...

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

#477
I’m working on a platform to run a friendly competition in “who builds the best reasoning AI Agent”.

Each participating team (got 300 signups so far) will get a set of text tasks and a set of simulated APIs to solve them.

For instance the task (a typical chatbot task) could say something like: “Schedule 30m knowledge exchange next week between the most experienced Python expert in the company and 3-5 people that are most interested in learning it “

AI agent will have to solve through this by using a set of simulated APIs and playing a bit of calendar Tetris (in this case - Calendar API, Email API, SkillWill API).

Since API instances are simulated and isolated (per team per task), it becomes fairly easy to automatically check correctness of each solution and rank different agents in a global leaderboard.

Code of agents stays external, but participants fill and submit brief questionnaires about their architectures.

By benchmarking different agentic implementations on the same tasks - we get to see patterns in performance, accuracy and costs of various architectures.

Codebase of the platform is written mostly in golang (to support thousands of concurrent simulations). I’m using coding agents (Claude Code and Codex) for exploration and easy coding tasks, but the core has still to be handcrafted.

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

#478
https://www.bsub.io - batch processing for developers.

You submit heavy duty jobs without worrying about infra, and we take care of execution. We're starting with PDF extraction. Audio transcoding + STT (speech to text) is next. Video transcoding will follow.

This allows you to have $5/mo VPS and get media operations figured out.

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

#479
Working on a little project to make Spotify recommendations better.

You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.

https://riffradar.org/

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