Far less spectacular or impressive than other projects I've seen here bu I wrote a quite small blogging engine
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#582An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos, without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot. At the moment, the flow goes like this: 1. During the week, write posts for things that have happened. 2. Posts can be assigned to groups. (family, friends etc). 3. At the end of the week…
Once I add private blogs/post support to Pagecord, it will kinda do this automatically. Maybe. Sort of. https://pagecord.com.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#583Finally want to make a start this week on a database manager that doesn't suck.
DBeaver was my go-to but the UI became too buggy for me. Alternatives all cost a buttload of money for basic features and I couldn't be bothered spending money just so I can make a backup of my DB
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#584I have been making a photo management app for myself (https://viroop.com/) since i hate paying the monthly Adobe tax for Lightroom. I like Lightroom but for my needs, paying $10 per month is too much.
I have built the basic photo management functionality. I have also added conversational search using the CLIP model, which is working really well.
I hope to add a photo editor to the app because that's the part i love about Lightroom. It's a photo management app with a built in photo editor (which is really good).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#585I am currently working on thethoughtcatcher.com It started as a side project to explore the latest AI trends. Now it’s something we use daily — and others are starting to as well. Thoughtcatcher is a lightweight, AI-powered notes + reminders app that acts like a memory companion. It helps you: - Capture raw thoughts and auto-tag them using AI - Set smart reminders triggered by context and meaning - This was a game ch…
Nice to see an entirely new category of program, based on the core data type "thought", which is what I would call pre-organized information. A spontaneous thought could become a task or a whole project plan, a project or product, once refined, or a memo, even a book. The value proposition is to capture early where other tools force more orgnization before or at capture. So one problem you solve is losing a nucleus o…
Thank you so much for this deeply thoughtful comment,you’ve articulated the core intent behind ThoughtCatcher better than I could myself!. The idea of capturing a "nucleus of a thought" before it dissolves exactly that!. I absolutely agree with your suggestion on APIs and plain text import/export. That’s on my roadmap, I want users to feel like they own their thoughts and can plug them into any workflow, from personal journaling to enterprise systems. Thanks again for taking the time — it means a lot!
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#586I'm making a website for learning languages through comprehensible input: https://input.emanuelrylke.com/
The idea is to aggregate videos by language and then sort them by difficulty.
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#587EyesOff a privacy focused macOS app (other platform support coming soon) - https://www.eyesoff.app
Built using python the app alerts you to when someone is looking at your screen, using locally running deep learning models + your webcam.
I developed the app when I felt uncomfortable with working in public spaces, I wanted EyesOff to give an extra barrier of security to shoulder surfing scenarios
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#589I got tired of using SplitWise, personal finance app, and Tab to manage budgets/expenses. So I vibecoded a small web app (https://web.savida.ai) to do it all in one place (and pay much less for it too with no limits). Since I made it, it fills all my needs. But would be nice to get feature requests from other people if they want to use it too.
First time trying vibe coding as a staff SWE at F, so it’s been a lot of fun to try things out. 100K+ lines of code without a single line myself. Working on a new process to one shot the mobile app from scratch (even deployment). Learned a lot that I apply to my day job. Hoping to make an agent builder next!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#590A program that will play chess (written in Go). My 18yo daughter can now beat me at chess (not that I'm any good). I figured if I can't beat her, I'll see if I can write a program to beat her instead. My idea for v1 is that I'd write the algorithm myself, without looking up anything about how to write a chess program (I'm sure such literature abounds). I've just about finished v1; still a few bugs to iron out. To be…
I'm a big chess buff, and will say that the hard part is not making an engine (which is hard!), but making an engine that plays poorly, well. What I mean is: engines are very smart and better than the best human. When you make a "dumb" engine, you are telling a chess god to intentionally make mistakes. The mistakes they make, however, are not the same mistakes a beginner chess player would make. Today, beginners are…
Check out chessiverse (I’m not affiliated just found from YouTubers). They purport to be a collection of bots that play like humans with human-like mistakes matched to ELO levels. I like it so far - the main value for me (vs lichess/chess.com) is knowing that who’s on the other end isn’t constantly cheating.