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

#561
https://github.com/bhavesh-kratos/type-faster

Its a Offline-first desktop app with auto suggestion and auto correct feature to help you type faster.

A hobby project to learn AI techniques RAG, vector databses etc. Wrote something about it haha. Its been inactive for last 2 months tho coz of travelling, but I am going to revive it this week https://bhavepant.substack.com/p/typingfast-my-journey-into-...

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

#562
post #158

I’ve been dissecting stock market data with code to see how dark pool and automated trading behaviors are evolving and impacting the market. The market is the most adverse possible brain battle where actors constantly try to outsmart and make money off of each-other. Greed and fear playing out and conditions changing constantly. AI is also used but it gets funny when the market adapts and plays against past behavior…

Also curious about what you find out. I also thought that the cool billionaire kids were using "private rooms"[0] now and dark pools were for poor boomer hundred-millionaires! :-)

[0]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/darker-dark-pool-welcome-wall...

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

#563
post #85

I'm working on a geography guessing game. This is mostly in order to learn the technologies that the team I manage is working on, as I don't get as much hands-on time as I'd like at work. But it's a fun game and it's improving at a rapid clip. I'd love your feedback. https://guesshole.com/

Really fun, I love playing GeoGuessr, but really like the idea of using videos.

Some notes on the UI:

* I found the 50/50 split between video / map a bit annoying, especially on a 13" MacBook

* The volume slider takes up a lot of valuable space, and felt like your normal scrubber to scroll through the video

* Once you confirm a location, the whole UI changes again

* Overall (especially on my smaller screen), there was a lot of scrolling involved to get to buttons

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

#565

To aid my process to shortlist house for purchase I am creating a web app for this. The app will use genai to extract the details of houses listed for sale and then update my custom database. For example I can input a youtube url and it will fetch the transcript and use llm to generate Json response based on predefined schema. I can review and shortlist the houses based on various custom parameters using the web inte…

Hi there, I'm working on something similar for the UK. Happy to chat if you'd be interested in exchanging ideas.

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

#566
post #89

Myself. Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love that word) shortly. Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects. Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter) of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things. I'm excited.

Good luck. I plan on doing something similar once I get my permanent residence later this year.

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

#567
I've been building a productivity tool for content writing teams called Vewrite (https://vewrite.com/).

The problem that I'm trying to solve is that when you are writing a lot of content as a team you often lose track of the state of things because it is passed through email or google docs (or whatever). People tend to manually manage these types of projects with spreadsheets or trello or whatever, but that means that you are manually updating the status.

Vewrite has an integrated editor and a workflow manager, meaning that as you progress through the workflow while doing the actual work, your project management status is constantly kept up to date, too.

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

#568
I dusted off an old app (2012 or so) that I wrote for me and my girlfriend who are in a long-distance relationship which I call "Date Night Movie Player". It needs updates and she mentioned that she missed using it. Basically it lets two people sync watching a video/movie together, while chatting in a side transparent overlay and has a remote control with interesting buttons like timed "beer break", "bathroom break", along with pause so you can draw an arrow on the screen or circle something of interest. There is also a button that might (it is random chance and you can only do it a few times) let you steal the remote control from the other user. Only the person with the remote can really pause after all! It gives the experience of watching a movie together and being able to comment about things happening like when we are together.

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

#569
I’m building a on-device AI App that supports a good variety of open-weight LLM Models. It’s mostly so that I can gain an intuition on what goes on when we do inferencing, but my longer term plan is

1. Support on-device RAG to allow chatting with your own documents on mobile offline 2. Support MCP on-device, taking advantage of information that’s (only) available on your phone, like calendar events, health data, etc. These shouldn’t need to be anywhere but on-device. 3. Allow on-device AI to use shortcuts(?)

I think most of the functionality are well served on desktop front with Ollama and LM Studio, but moving these functionality to mobile offers a great learning opportunity.

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

#570
Been slowly chipping away at my browser mmo game http://everwilds.io. I've always been curious about MMO software/netcode architecture thanks to playing Guild Wars (the original) in my youth. It's the reason I became a programmer, I wanted to learn how to make games like those. For those interested in following the progress I made a discord channel: https://discord.gg/b3REbeavaT
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