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

#541
I am currently working on a small side-project focused on React Native apps to manage their version update and maintenance mode. - https://appcockpit.dev

Right now I am getting my first users and already getting great feedback. Many things on the roadmap.

Always eager to learn more about others pain points when it comes to React Native/mobile development. Let me know what you think!

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

#542
I am working on a microkernel for arm-m33 microcontrollers. Targeting the RP2350 first.

It’s going to feature a synchronous IPC model where the inter-task ‘call graph’ is known at compilation. Function call semantics to pass data between tasks. Call() recieve() reply()

A build tool that reads TOML will generate the kernel calls so that tasks can be totally isolated — all calls go though supervisor trap so we have true memory isolation.

Preemptions are possible but control is yielded only at IPC boundary so it’s not hard realtime.

So that makes things super robust and auditable behavior at compile time. Total isolation means tasks can crash catastrophically without affecting the rest of the system. Big downsides are huge increase in flash usage, constrained programming model, complex build system, task switching overhead. Just a very different model than what I’m used to at $dayjob.

I want to basically find out, hey what happens when we go full safety!? What’s hard about it? What tradeoffs do we need to make? And also kinda like what’s a different model for multitasking. Written in Rust of course.

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

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I am working on a microkernel for arm-m33 microcontrollers. Targeting the RP2350 first. It’s going to feature a synchronous IPC model where the inter-task ‘call graph’ is known at compilation. Function call semantics to pass data between tasks. Call() recieve() reply() A build tool that reads TOML will generate the kernel calls so that tasks can be totally isolated — all calls go though supervisor trap so we have tru…

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

#544

I’m building a small side project called https://www.localgeoguessr.com/ — a fun geography game that tests how well you know your local area. It’s still in a very early stage, not polished yet, but it’s somewhat playable. The idea is to eventually add more categories like “restaurants,” “theaters,” “roads,” etc., so you can play based on local themes. I’d love to hear your thoughts - any feedback on what you’d like t…

It's really fun! Thank you. On the result screen, let me click on the locations so that I can learn more about them. Some museums I didn't know and would click immediately to learn more about them. Or even add a little explanation of what they are.

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

#545

I'm working on a little website that helps me and my friends to decide easier what to play on a gamenight, because it always goes like this: - I want to play x and y - I want to play y and z - I don't have z - I don't really feel x - Lets play b - I'd rater play c - Let's settle on d - Today H is joining, he does not have d It'll work in sessions where first everyone can suggest games, then in the second phase veto o…

Sounds great. Would everyone "accept" the result, or would it be worth adding a little LLM explanation of why the result should content everyone by explaining how the game retains elements or this other voted game and that other voted game, to try and make people go "ok, sure"? I'm not a huge gamer so maybe this is an obvious reaction they would get from their own experience when seeing the result without needing a L…

Maybe far down the road. For now I'm fine with a minimal tool that does not aim to take out the human interaction in the group haha. If the tool finds a small community more features might be added like content-based recommendations, but I don't want to drive up the costs right now

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

#546
I needed to let off steam regarding Chatcontrol, so I created a little site, where people can post and comment while sitting on the toilet since we take our smartphones everywhere with us, right? It surely is not influencial but it gave me a good time and a better feeling. https://shitcontrol.eu/

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

#547
I've been building a pretty visualisation of HN. You can see this Ask HN on this link: https://hackernews.life/?s=top&id=45561428&c=0

If you zoom out it's meant to look something like a thermal vent with cellular life. Rank and karma cause the cells to bio-illuminate. Each cell is a submission, each organelle is a comment thread, and every shape represents a live connection to the Firebase HN API. It also has features to search, filter, and go back in time as far as the backend has been running.

It's been a passion project of mine. My little Temple OS. And I'll keep adding little features that please me.

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

#548
I'm a dev and also a private pilot. Currently I'm working on Pilot Kit: https://air.club/ , a mobile app born from my own frustration with the amount of tedious paperwork in aviation.

It's an all-in-one toolkit designed to automate the boring stuff so you can focus on flying. Core features include: automatic flight tracking that turns into a digital logbook entry, a full suite of E6B/conversion calculators, customizable checklists, and live weather decoding.

It’s definitely not a ForeFlight killer, but it's a passion project I'm hoping can be useful for other student and private pilots.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/pilot-kit/id6749793975 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=club.air.pilot...

Any feedback is welcome!

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

#549

I'm building decision-making software: https://orgtools.com Not sure what the market is for something like this but it's something I've been thinking a lot about since stepping down as CEO of my previous company. My goal is two-fold: 1. Help teams make better, faster decisions with all context populating a source-of-truth. 2. Help leaders stay eyes-on, and circumstantially hands-on, without slowing everything down. W…

Great idea! Great website! Terrible video. The 90 second format is great, this is how much I would like to spend learning what exactly your product does. But the whole video is just clicking some user interfaces with no result. After watching the video, I have even less idea of what it the product is for. I would love to see a video that goes through the "next, next, next" in the wizard and then shows the actual outc…

Great feedback, I'll work on the video ASAP. I intended to immediately create a follow-up video that steps through each component of a newly created decision, got distracted, never circled back.

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

#550
Working on my SaaS that monitors third-party status pages - https://incidenthub.cloud/ It's a one-person project I started last year.

My biggest technical challenge remains dealing with the immense number of different APIs (and not-APIs) in the different status pages out there. Marketing remains my biggest overall challenge as my background is engineering, but I've learnt quite a bit since I launched this.

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