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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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Post by ryanmentor »

Most of what I'm working on ends up being social clubs.

Tech Pizza Mondays has been going well, as the Toronto HN meetup. If you're reading this on HN, you're welcome to join us -> URL Mondays.Pizza details on fedi.

We just finished Toronto's Pizza Day, our fifth year in a row and most successful so far. toronto.pizzadao.xyz will eventually get updated to next year's event invite.

I threw a fun experimental comedy party, and I plan to throw another in August. Having a volunteer cast was great, the clown burlesque was shockingly great. I hope to find some team members who want to join forces and put on the greatest talent show this town has ever seen!

Working on founding a school in Toronto has been very difficult, feels like I'm making zero real progress over time. If anyone cares deeply about education, I'd be happy to talk. I'm extremely enthusiastic about the Sudbury Valley School model.

And this last week I started a fitness club, where most weekdays we do strength training with giant wooden swords. Looking for people who want to join up and get strong and have fun!

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

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Post by chrisvalleybay »

I'm building a cross-over between Linear and Obsidian. Think Linear for personal use but with full VIM-support in the editor. Every action in the application can be bound to a key.

I still don't have a landing page, but if you are curious you can test it out here: https://lindon.app

If you do test it out you can see all keyboard shortcuts with 'Shift+?' and you'll have to enable VIM-support in the settings (Cmd + K to open).

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

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Post by yoz-y »

A workout app that uses human readable/writable text file as input. I’m on the 4th iteration.

It started as a bunch of spiral bound notebooks. I made an iOS prototype but realised it’s so niche that it would never get approved. Made a PWA that I’m currently using for about a year. Now I’m building a second version which I finally plan to share.

The reason I’m making it is that I realized that any other style (mainly, tabular input, dropdown boxes, input fields) just doesn’t fit my routine.

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

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Post by whiskey-one »

A web app which we plan to be always free for personal use. It's called MyMirror 360 [1].

The goal is for you to get complete and honest feedback from the team you work with. The killer feature is we make it quick and easy. And your reflectors can never initiate the instance of giving of feedback, the system invites them; this avoids the "but I am angry now" situation.

You can add the team members you work with in any setting and specify how often you work together. Depending on that, they will get the chance to reflect on you between every four weeks and every eight weeks. A reflection takes literally seconds.

Sign up is invite-only atm but invites are handed out pretty quickly since we want the feedback! Just sign up for the wait list on the site [1]. It will be free because we have a business version [2] that will support it; and the personal app will hopefully generate interest in the company one.

You can send feedback to "admin" at the domain of the company one [2].

[1] Personal: https://www.mymirror360.com/ [2] Company: https://www.mirror360.org/

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

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Post by rorylaitila »

mNovak wrote: post #455
rorylaitila wrote: post #63

I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…

Really cool collection! It seems like these are just photographed on a desk? Would recommend a flatbed scanner if you don't have one already!

Thank you! Yep, just photographed. I considered scanning but because of the volume I need to save every second possible of effort per ad. I have about 50k ads already and that is at best only 1% of the source material out there! Only full page ads are being published to the site but I'm cataloging every single minor ad too. I want to rig up a static camera and better lighting and I think that will get a better overall image quality.

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

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Post by whiskey-one »

rorylaitila wrote: post #63

I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…

This is a really cool project! I would love to see a timeline view where the ads from particular decade are shown together, followed by subsequent ones!

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

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Post by ayugarg567 »

gervwyk wrote: post #501
ayugarg567 wrote: post #482

I'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…

Looks useful. Add a developer tier and an npm module for user to embed in their apps.

That’s a great suggestion - thank you!

We're releasing a lightweight API in a week and even bundling an npm module to make embedding signatures seamless inside other apps. Especially for internal tools and client dashboards.

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