Currently trying to bring my NetBSD build workflow staggering back to life -- again. This time I'm using hg, which seems to have some official support, rather than git. The goal is to resume work on my filesystem code -- specifically ext3 journal support, which has recently attracted interest from the FreeBSD community.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#482I'm building https://signwith.co/ - a pay per doc alternative to DocuSign
We used to run a content and product studio, and every time we had to get NDAs or service agreements signed, it felt ridiculous to pay $30/month for 2-3 documents.
So we built SignWith — no subscriptions, just simple pay-per-document pricing. ESIGN act and UETA Complaint.
Every month you get 3 free signatures - and then you can pay per document. So best ROI.
Works great for freelancers, early-stage founders, agency folks, or anyone who doesn’t need to send docs every day but still wants something secure and professional.
Launched recently. Early traction's been interesting. Would love feedback if you’re in this space or use e-sign tools regularly.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#483Trying to replace everything I use daily, outside money/banking, with my own fully customizable software. I had enough depending on others.
I'm looking for a replacement simple accounting software. I'm still using Quicken 96, which will stop working at the end of next year. I'm tired of subscription software that sucks. Give me simple and reliable, without the enshittification.
I've looked at a number of open source projects, but they are more complicated than what I'm looking for. Just let me manually enter my data or import a CSV into a ledger. All my data should stay local.
Suggestions?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#484A geometry processing library in the Odin language - https://github.com/nahumfarchi/odin-geometry.
Not much yet, it includes a basic half-edge implementation and a couple of small examples.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#485Nest Thermostats of the 1st and 2nd generation will no longer be supported by Google starting in October. I'm working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant
I hate to rain on a cool personal project but you could just get a cheap z-wave dumb thermostat like a CT101 for $50 and hook it up to home assistant. Solves the problem permanently, no risk of future deprecations.
The CT101 looks awful compared to the nest thermostat. I don't think you are raining on a cool personal project.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#486I'm working on a desktop app called runik that lets you generate and manage e-reader dictionaries for fictional books and series.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#487Art project. Counter Productive
A random button in a park with a countdown timer.
Instructions:
- Press the button to reset the 24-hour countdown timer.
- If the timer ever reaches zero, the project ends and the project will be removed.
- To keep the project alive — press the button
Its been running for 56 days with 820 button presses.
Write up: https://blog.abluestar.com/projects/2025-counterproductive/
Stats page https://blog.abluestar.com/other/counterproductive.html
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#488https://avrhut.com/web-clipper-to-apple-notes.html
Working on solving my own pain point, around saving web pages to apple notes. While there are workarounds like singlefile and apple shortcuts, it ends up being a multi-step process, and limited search functionality within apple notes.
Also, experimenting with using texting to manage family calendars: https://textconcierge.ai/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#489An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos, without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot. At the moment, the flow goes like this: 1. During the week, write posts for things that have happened. 2. Posts can be assigned to groups. (family, friends etc). 3. At the end of the week…
Can a recipient be a member of multiple groups, for example, if I happen to be among coworkers and family (or whatever)? If so, hopefully I would get one newsletter containing all the posts tagged as any of my groups. But this means the potential number of different newsletters grows exponentially relative to the number of groups (although in practice, it would be extremely unlikely that a huge number of combinations actually exist) which might or might not matter, depending on whether each recipient already gets a bespoke copy (greeting them by name, click tracking, etc.) or if you're relying on listserv style distribution.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#490A visual exploration tool for mapping large-scale public opinion data (derived from conversations hosted with the Pol.is public engagement tool), but using more advanced dimensional reduction algorithms like PaCMAP/LocalMAP:
https://patcon.github.io/polislike-opinion-map-painting/
Am also working on a python library to generalize the pipeline of Pol.is, so that more projects can use its features without recreating from scratch: