Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

571–580 of 1001 posts

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

#571

A couple of months ago, I saw a tweet from @awilkinson: “I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped. What's the best alternative?” Me being naive, I thought “how hard could would it actually be to build a free e-sign tool?” Turns out not that hard. In about a weekend, I built a UETA and ESIGN compliant tool. And it was free. And it cost me less than $50. Unlimited free e-sign. https://useinkless…

FYI: DocuSign’s moat/USP is trust, not software. DocuSign customers buy trust.

Really? Trust to send an email with a link? What else is making it trustworthy?

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

#572
I'm building telegram bot working with LLMs https://t.me/experai_bot?start=cj1obl9vY3RfMjU . Core ideas are

* LLMs are accessible where telegram is accessible

* Multitude of models to choose from (chatgpt, claude, gemini) and more is coming.

* Full control over the bot behaviour is in user's hands: I don't add any system messages or temperature/top_p. I give UI for full control over system messages, temperature, top_p, thinking, web searching/scrapping and more to come.

* Q/A like context handling. Context is not carried through the whole bot, it's rather carried through chaing of replies. Naturally could be branched or use various models cross messages.

--

This is my hobby project and one of main tools for working with LLMs, thus I'm going to stick to it for quite a while.

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

#574
A static site generator for German laws.

The goal is to serve the laws in a format that is easy to cite, monitor, or machine-read. It should also have predictable URLs that can be inferred from the law’s name. It will also have side by side AI translations (marked as such).

I cite a lot of laws in my content and I want to automatically flag content for review when a specific paragraph of the law changes. I also want to automatically update my tax calculator when the values change.

Basically, a refresh of gestetze-im-internet.de and buzer.de.

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

#575
I'm currently chipping away at DSC, a tensor library I wrote from scratch to play with large language models. Last week I re-wrote flash attention from scratch in CUDA and was able to get good perf.

[1]: https://github.com/nirw4nna/dsc

[2]: https://x.com/nirw4nna/status/1968812772944126329

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

#576

I'm working on a tool for creating custom color palettes for web designs that pass WCAG contrast requirements: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ - You can precisely tweak every shade/tint so you can incorporate your own brand colors. No AI or auto generation! - It helps you build palettes that have simple to follow color contrast guarantees by design e.g. all grade 600 colors have 4.5:1 WCAG contrast (for body text) a…

I get that you say it is for advanced users, but I think a "how to use this" link with a video in it that explained a few things would probably open it up to a lot more users. There's so much more to do with tools like this, and I'm really glad to see it.

Yes, I liked the description of what it does, but at first glance am not sure what to do with the interface.

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

#577
post #574

A static site generator for German laws. The goal is to serve the laws in a format that is easy to cite, monitor, or machine-read. It should also have predictable URLs that can be inferred from the law’s name. It will also have side by side AI translations (marked as such). I cite a lot of laws in my content and I want to automatically flag content for review when a specific paragraph of the law changes. I also want…

Danke für deinen Einsatz

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

#579
I'm building FlightWise (https://flightwise.io), an all-in-one SaaS platform for flight school operations.

After acquiring a flight school, I quickly realized how challenging the day-to-day operations were. To solve the problems of aircraft fleet management, scheduling, and student course progress tracking, I developed a comprehensive platform that handles all aspects of running a flight school. Existing software is often outdated and expensive, offering poor value for its high cost. FlightWise was built off the real world experiences of my own school, where it has delivered immediate and invaluable benefits to our entire team, from students to administrative staff. We've just recently started to offer this platform publicly to other flight schools.

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

#580
I'm working on mTOR (https://mtor.club), a free, science-based workout tracker I built to automate progressive overload. It's a local-first PWA that works completely offline, syncs encrypted between your devices using, passwordless passkeys, and allows for plan sharing via a simple link.

The core idea is to make progression easier to track and follow. After a workout, it analyzes your performance (weight, reps, and RIR), highlights new personal records (PRs), and generates specific targets for your next session. It also reviews your entire program to provide scientific analysis on weekly volume, frequency, and recovery for each muscle group. This gets displayed visually on an anatomy model to help you learn which muscles are involved, and you can track your gains over time with historical performance charts for each exercise.

During a workout, you get a total session timer, an automatic rest timer, and can see your performance from the last session for a clear target to beat. It automatically advances to the next incomplete exercise, and when you need to swap an exercise, it provides context-aware alternatives targeting the same muscles.

It's also deeply customizable:

- The UI has a dark theme, supports multiple languages (English, Spanish, German), lets you adjust the UI scale, and toggle the visibility of detailed muscle names, exercise types, historical performance badges, and a full history card. - You can set global defaults for weight units (kg/lbs), rest times, and plan targets, or enable/disable metrics like Reps in Reserve (RIR) and estimated 1-Rep Max. The exercise library can be filtered by your available equipment, you can create your own custom exercises with global notes, and there's a built-in weight plate calculator. - The progression system lets you define default rep ranges and RIR targets, or create specific overrides for different lifts (e.g., a 3-5 rep range for strength, 10-15 for accessories). - Editing is flexible: you can drag-and-drop to reorder days, exercises, and sets, duplicate workout days, track unilateral exercises (left/right side), and enter data with a quick wheel picker.

Post reply on HN