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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 rorylaitila »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #381
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…

Ads are like graffiti. When they first appear, they are a nuisance, a menace. But in the fullness of time they become interesting relics.

Yep! I feel ads capture a certain authenticity of the time. Changing aspirations, preferences and values.

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

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Post by steveharrison »

Imagenuity wrote: post #483
anonzzzies wrote: post #472

Trying to replace everything I use daily, outside money/banking, with my own fully customizable software. I had enough depending on others.

I'm looking for a replacement simple accounting software. I'm still using Quicken 96, which will stop working at the end of next year. I'm tired of subscription software that sucks. Give me simple and reliable, without the enshittification. I've looked at a number of open source projects, but they are more complicated than what I'm looking for. Just let me manually enter my data or import a CSV into a ledger. All my…

I'm building an app to do this, will let you know when it's in beta. :) Meanwhile, some of the similar apps that store data locally I've come across are: - https://copilot.money/ (nice UI; partly local—think it might use CloudKit for syncing) - https://ufincs.com/ - https://actualbudget.org/

I feel like http://monarchmoney.com is still the best UI I've come across, but I can't believe how common it is for all these providers to store your transactions in their cloud... seems like a fundamental security flaw to me, no matter how much they claim to lock down access to customer support agents/etc.

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

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Post by etewiah »

samsk wrote: post #512

I'm building MLSync.io [1], an ETL platform that helps real estate companies easily access and use MLS (Multiple Listing Service) property data without the technical headaches. I've originally developed this for internal use in an IDX startup, but the complexity of RESO synchronization led me to spin it off into its own dedicated tool. [1] https://MLSync.io

Looks good. I created propertywebbuilder.com as an open source real estate website builder some years ago. Had wanted to do something similar to mlsync next but never got round to it.

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

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Post by rorylaitila »

atlgator wrote: post #433
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 really cool! What are you using to digitize the ads?

Thank you! I've written a web application (I call the adverdex) to assist the process and automatically publish to the site. Magazines are inventoried, then camera images taken for each ad. Each image is cleaned up and cropped, then I use OpenAI to extract the brand, product, tagline and other details. Then I manually review and add more details for the published version. Only full page ads are currently being published but I intend to catalog every ad I encounter.

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

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Post by mazzystar »

I'm making a fun app that allows people to share what they're doing right now, and you can see what others are doing right now. It reminds me of what it was like when the internet was first born - seeing what others are living makes me not feel so alone anymore.

If you'd like to play, visit: https://cike.app

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

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Post by rorylaitila »

whiskey-one wrote: post #549
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!

Thank you, will do!
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