I’m working on Alaska, a serverless compute platform I built entirely from scratch — no Kubernetes, no existing orchestration layers. It can spin up dozens of containers in parallel in just a few seconds. The platform is designed around a fast feedback loop — you write code locally, test instantly, and run it remotely with minimal friction. There’s a Python SDK that uses decorators to define what runs on the platform, so your local functions become distributed services without extra boilerplate. I also built a custom filesystem using FUSE to handle code, data, and runtime synchronization cleanly across nodes. It started as a personal exploration of distributed systems, but it’s grown into something that feels genuinely exciting! It's created by a developer for developers. Planning to open it up for beta testing soon.
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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#632Plug-That-In [https://plugthat.in] (Mac App; Paid)
An annoying little laptop charging reminder utility that does the job.
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There are times when I am deeply involved in a focus-work session, a meeting, OR watching some sort of engaging video content, and don't pay timely attention to the standard low battery notifications from my MacBook.
After the laptop shuts down suddenly, what follows is the most annoying walk to find the charger or the charging outlet. It's frustrating at times, sometimes embarrassing because you have to say, "Sorry, my battery died down" as you join back the session after 2-3 minutes.
Over the last 3-4 weekends, I have been building Plug-That-In, which has floating notifications. Essentially, a notification that follows my cursor movement, so I get a stronger nudge irrespective of what I am doing.
There are a few other critical features, such as Reminder Mode and Do-Not-Disturb Settings.
- Reminder Mode: On critical/lower battery levels, it will keep beeping like a car's seat belt alert for some time (configurable) when the battery is really low.
- Do-Not-Disturb settings: Configure what sort of alert/sound it will generate when I have system audio playing or video playing, or the camera is active.
It has addressed a personal need and has already proven useful a few times over the last weeks.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#633We are building https://ceogenerator.com/ to help investors, founders and product teams validate product–market fit in minutes, not months. We also offer Generative Engine Optimization + Competition monitoring.
We are looking for an angel! Please reach out at hello@ceogenerator.com
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#634Spent the last three months building a competitor/lookalike ML model + API. Started using plain embedding similarity and quickly realized you end up with similar noisy results as ocean.io. Ended up using similarity learning which works quite well with little data. Launched this as an API and small web app. Hardest part right now is to fend off scrapers honestly.
Examples:
- YC: https://markets.apistemic.com/companies/y-combinator-goaq9
- uber: https://markets.apistemic.com/companies/uber-com-ojj2j
- Anthropic: https://markets.apistemic.com/companies/anthropicresearch-yx...
Try it for any company here: https://markets.apistemic.com
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#635Have been working on compgeo for a few months now and came up with a neat algo for our configurator at work!
https://substack.com/@xlogiclabs/note/p-177713038?r=6s54sx&u...
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#636Untrusted code execution paired with AI to make explorative data analysis more simple [0]. I've spent a lot of time with web development in the past. This is breath of fresh air honestly.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#637Since I got a baby and we’re still adjusting to their schedule, I’m still working on the same project, Librario[1]. Librario is a simple book metadata aggregation API written in Go. It fetches information about books from multiple sources, merges everything intelligently, and then saves it all to a PostgreSQL database for future lookups.
You can think of it as a data source, or a knowledgeable companion that can provide comprehensive book information for online booksellers, libraries, book-related startups, bookworms, and more.
I got a pre-alpha build running for those that want to test it out[2], but the code is still not out there, as there are a few things I want to refactor. Wrote comprehensive documentation for it this weekend, now I need to refactor the merger package with some new rules, and write something to decrease the number of genres returned.
Been tough to find time to work on it because of the baby, but AI has been helping a lot to speed things up, and the work has been quite fun. Not sure if there will be interest in the idea, but it solves a problem I have, so I had to work on it anyway.
Hope to have the code on GitHub by the end of this week. AGPL licensed.
[1]: https://github.com/pagina394/librario
[2]: https://paste.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/5612eaa80fc7eee8b6180a31...
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#638Building a cheaper DMARC service with no ssotax. https://dmarcdefender.io
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#639https://peterspath.net
My own blog, which I mainly write for myself. But it is getting steadily more readers. Last week I wrote some scripts to help me with creating OG images quicker.
Tech:
- Zola, static site generator made in Rust
- Swift, writing scripts for custom generating stuff
- HTML and CSS
- Cloudflare Pages
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
#640Resterm - Terminal client for HTTP/GraphQL/gRPC. It includes support for WebSockets, SSE, workflows, profiling, OpenAPI, response diffs and many more.