Do you guys think it's too late to start building yet another AI Agent for writing software?
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#523My first iOS app, a book reading tracker. I used to set a timer every time I was reading a book, but I decided to create an app for myself to track the time, log sessions, organize my books into bookshelves, see progress, etc.
- https://bookreadinghabit.com/ - https://apps.apple.com/app/book-reading-habit/id6742913266
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#524Art 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 h…
Is it dead? According to the stats there’s a 25 hour gap :( great idea btw!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#525Continuing to work on my MMORPG made with Elixir and Godot. The game has been live for 2 months but there's still lots to do. A lot of the architecture revolves around the AI simulation run in Elixir. I started working on this game after quitting my job on a whim (18 months ago!). I've started to get some daily players which is exciting. https://swarmmo.games The game is playable in browser! And theres no sign-up req…
Impressive, keep going!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#526DragoChat - https://www.facebook.com/ai.drago.chat TINY attempt to fight the growing divide between "AI haves" and "AI have-not" with
- PREPAID access (+ bring-your-own-API-keys alternatives for more technical users) to premium models (ChatGPR plus and above)
- multi-channel access (SMS/MMS, Whatsapp + many many more) to give ANYONE, ANYWHERE, regardless of how non-technical they are access to absolute TOP/SOTA model advisors with easy access in their language + fact checkers + more (think african farmers looking for intelligence to grow best crops, former delinquents lookeing for rehavilitation, absolutely anyone deservers ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE)
- zero lock-in - paid (freemium, but no adds) product, but 100% open data formats, sharing, import/export etc.
STAGE: prototype for personal use as a whatsapp bot+ webui, somewhat usable for us but still wip, next stage is building accounts and payments for EU access, next for US/international
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#527I am currently working on thethoughtcatcher.com It started as a side project to explore the latest AI trends. Now it’s something we use daily — and others are starting to as well. Thoughtcatcher is a lightweight, AI-powered notes + reminders app that acts like a memory companion. It helps you: - Capture raw thoughts and auto-tag them using AI - Set smart reminders triggered by context and meaning - This was a game ch…
Ingesting idea! I've been looking for an alternative to using Android's Tasks app for jotting down thoughts. I prefer it over the Notes app because I can curate categories as different lists.
Random callout: the copy in your app store preview images would benefit from some proof reading. Example: "WE dont just store thoughts, but makes sense of them" should likely be "ThoughtCatcher doesn't just store thoughts, it makes sense of them". My 2 cents is to also rework "Capture your mind" as it's a little awkward. Maybe "Organize your thoughts", "Supercharge your thoughts", or something along those lines.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#528I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. My most recent addition has been public moderation logs to keep the admin accountable.
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#529The second version of https://www.physician.fyi/ , a database of doctors and other medical practitioners with their disciplinary actions for patients to check. In this version, I’m expanding it to include all 6.5 million practitioners in the US, and integrating more data like how much doctors have been paid by drug/device companies. I’m planning on adding patient reviews/complaints too.
It’s the biggest and dirtiest dataset I’ve ever worked with, so it’s been interesting to figure out practical solutions to run things fast and generalize cleaning tasks. Of course it’ll be impossible to get every case (I can only match about half of the state licenses to national records at the moment), so I’ll have to figure out a user-edit/consensus system for the rest.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#530Trying to build a small tool that will allow me to edit files in my local text editor from within SSH sessions, with as few dependencies on the remote as possible, so I don't have to depend on whatever `vi` happens to be where I'm working.
I started the project around a year ago, then got a little stuck and forgot about it for a while, until now.
For anyone curious about the technical details, it's a Rust program that wraps `ssh`, copies a small statically compiled binary to the remote, and uses SSHFS/SFTP (haven't decided yet, maybe configurable?) to allow your local editor to access the remote files as easily as local ones