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

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https://terminalwire.com

It’s “Hotwire for command-line apps”, meaning you can ship a CLI in a Rails app without building an API. The dream is to make it work for all major web frameworks.

Terminalwire streams stdio, browser launch commands, and a few more things needs to ship a CLI for a SaaS quickly.

The best part is when you want to ship a feature for the CLI, you don’t have to worry about pushing out updates to clients and making sure it’s compatible with your API.

A more interesting development are companies that are using it as a replacement for MCP in AI stacks. They’re reporting less token usage and better overall results.

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

#534
After reading an article about doing 10,000 pushups in a year (https://wjgilmore.com/articles/10000-pushups), I created "push10k", an iOS app to help me keep track and stay motivated. It's free (no money, no ads) in the iOS app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/push10k/id6754811078.

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

#535
https://golazito.com/

I built a daily football (soccer) quiz a bit like Wordle but identifying 5 footballers by their career path.

Stating to get a quite a few people playing it each day now.

I suppose if it is ever to make any money it will need ads at some point but for now it is ad-free.

I’ve enjoyed making something simple and shipping it rather than trying to do something more grand.

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

#536
https://potniq.com

It's a travel tool for business travelers that figures out your suggested departure times for your entire itinerary based on predicted traffic patterns. Think Flighty but for all the non-flight parts of your trip.

You first build a travel itinerary with your legs - flights, activities, hotels (and hotel returns) and it tells you things like "leave your hotel at 7:40am" before your 8:30 meeting - in a single itinerary, no need to do the google maps acrobatics for every two items in your itinerary. While it's aimed at frequent business travellers I personally use it for all family leisure travel and daily itineraries around town as well - "do I have time for lunch at home after my son's class or should we bring packed lunch". I built it as during my time working in developer relations I traveled a lot, and always built unnecessary buffers and kept nervously glancing at my watch or phone to see if my planned time to leave still holds.

Tech-wise, currently it's Remix web app with a NodeJS/Fastify backend and Supabase for storage, and relying on google maps for route duration calculations. I want to expand it to native mobile clients in the future as well.

I am using it as playground on product thinking, ruthless prioritisation based on user benefit, figuring out unit pricing and economics, sensible architectural design, and exploring how including AI-enhanced features here and there can help make the product better, not just include them for their own sake.

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

#537
https://kubegrade.com

We are building a K8s management platform based on AI Agents and smart visualization. It's surprisingly hard to distill common issues down to generalizable agents which can solve real world issues but we've made some very exciting progress in the space.

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

#538
Been casually working on some AI projects lately. Open-sourced both: LLM Archive Downloader. Got paranoid one night about open-source models potentially disappearing (licensing changes, restrictions, who knows). So I built a script to download and archive them locally. One command, pick what you want — Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Whisper, the works. ~200GB total or grab the essentials (~40GB). Now they're sitting on my hard drive. Offline forever.

→ github.com/Ashwinsuriya/llm-archive-downloader

YouTube Shorts Generator Converts long YouTube videos into Shorts automatically. Whisper handles transcription, LLaVA analyzes frames to find interesting moments, Mistral picks clips and writes captions. Everything runs locally in a parallel pipeline. No APIs, no subscriptions. → https://github.com/Ashwinsuriya/yt-shorts-generator Nothing fancy.

Just scratching my own itch and sharing in case anyone finds them useful.

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

#539
For the past week, I’m working on creating device with a screen to show my indian parents if i’m in a meeting or not. So they don’t trouble me and come in my room unannounced when im in a meeting.

It’s build using ESP32 and a small screen which shows On and Off and the time till meeting is over. I learnt Fusion 360 and designed a small snap fit case and got it 3d printed.

I have a small electron app running in my mac os system tray which connect to esp using BLE and it also checks if Mac Camera is in use (using Apple logs) and then communicate it with the device.

Calling it Door Frame. Had quite fun making it as i learnt 3d design, c++ code using Platform IO and other fun stuff. Even designed a small binary protocol to exchange data over BLE

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