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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by riffraff »

nullderef wrote: post #178

Building an app where 1 pushup = 1 minute of scrolling allowed [1]. We've fiiinally started to grow and reached a whooping $30k in the last month!! I was literally thinking about quitting in August. My motivation is now at an all-time high - some users have done >8k pushups :) As always, the key has been the marketing (10M views on Instagram). But we have to improve the product to make people love it even more. So th…

Neat idea, but how does that work? Can an app limit other apps? I didn't know it was possible.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by omkar8888 »

Thinking about vibe coding a Behaviour Change App as opposed to a simple habit tracking app. I have personally used the habit tracking apps, and they are absolutely useless. My app will help the users learn how to actually change their behaviour, teaching them micro skills like value alignment, self-compassion, etc. These micro skills will help them in all aspects of their life and mainly to change bad habits.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by tsv_ »

I'm working on Vedro, a Python testing framework as a pytest alternative without the magic and with clear output.

The main idea is that tests should just be Python: plain `assert` statements instead of custom matchers, no fixture magic, and when tests fail you get readable diffs that actually show what went wrong. Tests can be simple functions or structured with steps that self-document in the output.

https://vedro.io

I would be very happy to receive any feedback!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by chaosharmonic »

Tech side project: crawlers that doomscroll job boards for me, and a Tinder clone that swipes through them. I recently broke out the actual automation logic into something more recyclable for scaling out to new targets (and broke out the HTML parsing for possible use outside my browser automation flow). Still figuring out how I want to handle datasources as both an API and a plugin architecture, but the goal is to eventually be able to configure searches through the API, to manually trigger and/or setup scheduled runs.

github: [username]/escape-rope, /escape-rope-ui | UI demo: escape-rope.bhmt.dev

Personal side project: extensive cleanup of my family's place. I'm just now approaching a decent first pass at the outside, and have to tear apart a basement next. It's taken most of this year. It's not the specific reason I've farmed collecting search results off to a bot

For-fun thing: CTF puzzles. I'm not very good at them, but they're useful for other things. I fell down the scraping rabbit hole this way, and I'm currently using a series of them to finally get some exposure to Python. I also have a writeup half-written about this exact process

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by rkomorn »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #466
wvlia5 wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do the same for chicken eggs

Are you making a joke, or is there some use for that? (I would think of all species on earth, chickens are the easiest to get eggs for once you exclude the insects, but lack of domain knowledge means I could easily be missing something)

Not OP but I think there are a lot of people (maybe mostly vegans) who would be interested. I have no thought on whether it would be financially viable.

I'd be interested just because I'd rather use non-animal alternatives if available.

I hope lab-made milk becomes a viable thing even though I'm not vegan or vegetarian. Lab-made eggs would be good too.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by riffraff »

kilroy123 wrote: post #84

I started a newsletter that tries to recreate the original magic of stumble upon. To feature cool random stuff from across the internet. I believe the old internet is still alive and well. It's just buried under a mountain of shit. https://randomdailyurls.com/

Neat! I don't love newsletters though, any chance you may be publishing this using ActivityPub too?

(Sorry if this sounds entitled, it's a genuine "do you have plans" question)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by aleda145 »

czbond wrote: post #111
aleda145 wrote: post #93

I'm building Kavla, its an infinite multiplayer canvas for data analytics. I have a video on how it works on https://kavla.dev/ And a live demo here: https://demo.kavla.dev/ I've been working in the data space for five years now. Kavla is something that I personally feel would make my job more fun! Built with tldraw and duckdb

This is cool - I like the concept and the usefulness.

Thank you! It means a lot!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by ishyfishyy »

I’ve been building Flare (https://www.getflare.app/), an app for people with chronic skin conditions (eczema, rosacea, etc).

It lets you log symptoms and triggers, but the bigger vision is being able to discover patterns, ask questions about your own data, etc.

Being able to answer questions like “Do my flare-ups correlate with stress?” or “What foods make things worse?” backed with personalized data has been helpful with my own flares.

Still early, but curious to hear thoughts from folks!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Post by osullivj »

ml- wrote: post #100

Still working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep adding things. Next addition will be to add health inspection data from countries that have that in open datasets or APIs, so if anyone know of that I'd be appreciative of…

Would be great to know which pubs have gluten free beer. I recently became gluten intolerant, and it's ended my 40 year beer career!
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