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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#621
Working on turning individual disparate services into a unified zero-trust overlay network (what we're calling a Synthetic Environment™) where mocks and real services can be integrated or work seamlessly together, accessible through traditional networking or exposed public tunnels.

This is a developers tool, that can be used during development to seamlessly integrate mocks and changes into existing systems. Or easily expose internal work through a public tunnel. Or if been in an position where its hard to push to staging, pre-prod or other environments because of many competing constraints, then this product may help.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#623
Working on https://ottex.ai/ - BYOK alternative to Wispr Flow and Raycast AI shortcuts.

I love global voice-to-text transcription (especially when working with Claude Code or Cursor) and simple AI shortcuts like "Fix Grammar" and "Translate to {Language}".

I realized I was spending around €35/mo (€420 a year) on two apps for AI features that cost just pennies to run.

So I built Ottex - a native macOS app with a tiny footprint. Add your OpenRouter API key and get solid voice-to-text using Gemini 2.5 Flash, plus any OpenRouter model for AI shortcuts.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#624
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https://mytinycafe.com/ An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available bev…

This made me ovulate, and I'm not even a woman.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#625
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I'm working on https://techposts.eu - Hacker News for Europe. Focused on all the interesting and exciting happenings in tech here, from AI to defence to deeptech, and posting the most interesting job openings too. Did you know Europe had two space launch startups? I didn't until I started this project! Feedback very welcome :)

If you could add API on top of it, and make it compatible with HN clients, it would be very nice!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#626
Working on my app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mintflow-netstack/id6742394218

As an engineer working on networking and fiddle with various networking OS on router and switch, I finally port my favorite fd.io vpp to darwin platform and built a app to management multiple VPN/Proxy in one profile.

Also in this project I start writing some rust code with many years experience in C but rust's memory and high performance really impressed me a lot.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#627
OpenSpend is an open-source, free-to-use, self-hosted payment gateway for your next app, project, or business. It lets end users send money directly to businesses using their online banking app or website. And businesses can check live and instantly whether the money has been deposited or not.

Learn more at https://github.com/openspend/openspend

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#629

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blazingban... Completely free, no ads, no in-app purchases and no accounts / network required offline voice transcription. I have also built the macOS/Windows/Linux versions which I'll also make free to download and available on my site soon ( https://blazingbanana.com/ ). iOS version is built and works (extremely well), just waiting for the Apple Developer signup pro…

nice app!

if I am talking in german the text is translating it to english. Didn't expect that

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