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

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

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Post by m-a-t-t-i »

adityaathalye wrote: post #549
m-a-t-t-i wrote: post #525

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I've tried some footwear! These had a really soft rubber soles, but I've also made ones where the soles were cut from a sheet of hard Vibram rubber: https://self-assembly.fi/canvas-shoes

So cool! So, I buy this brand of thin-sole shoes called Xero. Their Do It Yourself kit is a simple Vibram sole I can cut to size, a hole punch to find the right fit, and a long lace that I can tie in many different ways, including as a slipper, or sandal, or greek-style laced-up huarache. Tie style, with different colour combinations of sole and lace make for distinctive personalisation. Your stuff takes it to a whol…

Yeah, morphing is really the key idea here. You don't have to make all design decisions beforehand, but can wear something for a while and then make changes based on your needs & observations.

I haven't quite figured out how to apply this thinking to seam sealing though. The current garments that have taped / waterproof seams are locked into the taped configuration. For tents I have some geometrically water repellent structures (that guide the water away as long as it's coming from above), but for the soles of footwear, you might want something 100% sealed.

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

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Post by naiquevin »

I've been building a desktop app on the side that addresses the problem of screenshots getting accumulated on disk over a period of time. It provides an alternate workflow for capturing screenshots, where the app let's the user select tags before taking the screenshot. Tags can be associated with actions such as "move to trash after 1 day", "delete after 7 days" or "store in /specific/location".

I have got the main functionality working and I've been using it myself in a crude way (using sqlite client directly for data entry etc.) for about a week. It was not meant to be a serious project to begin with - I just wanted to build something to evaluate Tauri for desktop apps. I am still not 100% convinced if such a tool is worth building, so the code hasn't been published anywhere. Do you care enough about "screenshots management and cleanup" to use something like this?

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

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Post by thewheyguy »

juxtaposicion wrote: post #360

I’m building Popgot ( https://popgot.com ): compare unit prices (per oz/sheet/lb) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. We normalize fuzzy sizes (“family,” “mega,” multipacks) so you see the actually cheapest option for staples. New: a deep research mode that, on demand, crawls thousands of product pages and uses visual LLMs to read label photos (ingredients, counts, square footage) when the text is messy. Firs…

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

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Post by zikani_03 »

I'm working on pact[0], a tool to enable developers and hopefully less technical users to interact with Playwright and perform actions and tests on web-based user interfaces and applications using either a YAML file or a simple DSL (in a .pact file).

Initially this started off as a feature for a PR on venom[1], an integration testing tool, but as I thought about it more - it made sense to maybe make a standalone tool that can evolve a bit different from venom. It's still very early but it works to perform some basic actions using typical CSS selectors that playwright supports.

[0]: https://github.com/zikani03/pact [1]: https://github.com/ovh/venom

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

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Post by justbees »

rorylaitila wrote: post #203

I'm digitally cataloging all US vintage print advertisements I can get my hands on ( https://adretro.com ). The backend is built on MySQL and Lucee and the full page ads published with Notion and Super.so. I'm using OpenAI vision to extract entity data from the images. So far I've cataloged about 1500 advertisements out of the ~100,000 in my possession. Of which that is probably only 0.1% of all the major material ou…

What about having a contribute button? I know this must be a lot of work and it's such a cool idea! If you had a way to contribute on the join page I would chip in for sure :) My husband is a writer and he uses newspapers.com to research a lot of vintage newspapers for historical context. I can imagine this being a great resource for him.

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

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Post by sujee »

I'm working on a decade old problem - searching files in macOS. Started building to solve my own issues after realising none of the tools supports what I need. Very excited about the upcoming feature that I'm releasing this week as it lets you search inside specific folders - something that is not offered by other tools

https://www.fileminutes.com

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

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Post by soontimes »

I noticed this for some companies: there are 10+ spreadsheets which should have the same structure, but different data. For example one spreadsheet per country for purposes of budgeting, modeling, or just inputs. These spreadsheets tend to break and it’s hard to update them centrally. There is of course an option with moving to a proper admin app, but it requires development and quite often results in less UX, because users are familiar with spreadsheets - they can write formulas, analyze the data, or connect with other systems.

This is why I’m writing a tool to simplify administrative work with these files, so you can quickly see where spreadsheets diverge, propagate updates, make them version controlled, and many other good things, which we have in typical app development, but still miss in spreadsheets management.

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