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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 scroogey »

I'm (slowly and haphazardly) working on https://pianobooth.com. Give it a midi file and it should visualise the playing on a piano (though I make no promises and at least currently it doesn't parse all files correctly, but it's mostly there).

I think I've finally gotten it to a point where it's usable and it seems to work on my phone as well. Hopefully baking in the lighting for the 3d models will give a small performance boost and I don't think it will be noticeable at all with the color changes and small movements.

I've also been going through the fastai course so hopefully I'll be able to put that to use on this project by generating midi files from audio! I might be underestimating the difficulties there but it should be fun.

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

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Post by nichol4s »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #166

I'm working on a chrome extension for use in a headless browser in marginalia search to capture information about network traffic, ads, and popovers when visiting a website, to better identify nuisance websites. A bit of a janky setup, but I've mostly gotten it to do what I want it to do after some head scratching.

Holy shit, so you are uh building a search engine from scratch. Do you crawl yourself? What is your infrastructure? What is your goal for search.marginalia ?

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

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Post by hbroadbent »

I'm still building AttendList, a Google Meet attendance tracking extension (https://attendlist.com).

It's starting to pick up! Which is cool — a few new users are trickling in each week. I think it's about time I invest more time in marketing now though (which is probably what I should be doing now instead of posting on HN!)

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

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Post by nichol4s »

parsabg wrote: post #266

I've been working on a browser use agent embedded within a Chrome extension: https://github.com/parsaghaffari/browserbee You can use it to check and summarize news and social media, fill out forms, send messages, book holidays, do your online shopping, conduct research, and pretty much anything else that can be done within a browser.

Nice - would you be interested in making this into a saas service? We are starting to open up our "automation API" and could maybe work together on bringing your extension to something that does not use playwright and a remote browser.

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

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Post by habi »

wcedmisten wrote: post #81

I got tired of trying to pick a date spot with my girlfriend, so I made this website to randomly pick an restaurant/date activity for me based on OpenStreetMap data. I've also used the data corrections submitted by users to contribute over 3,000 edits back into OSM! https://surprisedatespot.com/

As an avid mapper (and liking to go on dinner-dates with my wife) I absolutely love this. Very slick and quick search, congratulations! Do you also parse the `opening_hours` tag to filter for currently open restaurants?

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

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Post by estsauver »

I shipped a tool that uses logprobs to generate pretty detailed estimates about how long tasks are going to take (i.e., give a new product manager/business person/sales person this tool and then they'll have reasonable estimates for how long various tasks will take.) If anyone wants to try it at universalestimator.com, it's free with code "TYHN".

I'm also making a picture book generator for my kids. I want to be from some pictures, a description of a story, and will then pop out a ready-to-print picture book for them.

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