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

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

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Post by christopher8827 »

I am working on an AI-powered fitness and food tracker that automatically logs your food based on the photo. One of the difficulties I had when going to the gym is keeping up and sharing macros weekly with my personal trainer. Manually logging food is a hassle and massive pain point - so my app, Eat n Snap attempts to solve this problem. You can also set weight and BMI goals and see your progress on a weekly basis.

Sign up for my waitlist (or DM me if you want to know more) here: https://www.getsnapneat.com

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

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Post by darkstarsys »

As a mostly-retired dev, I have a few interesting side projects to keep me busy:

- 3D visualization of sea surface temps over time, very much a work in progress: https://globe-viz.oberbrunner.com

- Also a Deep Time log-scaled timeline of the history of the universe at https://deep-timeline.org

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

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Post by thevivekshukla »

I am working on Daestro[0], which is a cloud agnostic job orchestrator with built-in support for AWS, Vultr, DigitalOcean and Linode to run jobs on. Daestro can spawn and terminate compute instances based on requirement. It is suitable for running batch jobs or data engineering related jobs.

Self-hosted compute can also be linked to Daestro to run jobs on.

[0]: https://daestro.com

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

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Post by christopher8827 »

christopher8827 wrote: post #641

I am working on an AI-powered fitness and food tracker that automatically logs your food based on the photo. One of the difficulties I had when going to the gym is keeping up and sharing macros weekly with my personal trainer. Manually logging food is a hassle and massive pain point - so my app, Eat n Snap attempts to solve this problem. You can also set weight and BMI goals and see your progress on a weekly basis. S…

Gym goers and calorie tracking folks, lend me your ears!

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

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Post by alfg »

Currently building a suite of media inspection and encoding tools for video engineers: https://video-commander.com.

Still a work in progress, but expecting to release by end of year. Built on Rust + Tauri, in case anyone is curious.

I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium.

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

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Post by tamnd »

MASNeo wrote: post #607
tamnd wrote: post #341

I am working on the little book of algorithms: https://github.com/little-book-of/algorithms A project to implement 1000 algorithms. I have finished around 400 so far and I am now focusing on adding test cases, writing implementations in Python and C, and creating formal proofs in Lean. It has been a fun way to dive deeper into how algorithms work and to see the differences between practical coding and formal reasonin…

Great idea. I had been thinking about pretty much the same but perhaps targeted at executives and perhaps including AI/Cloud. I usually feel to many people wildly through around terms they hardly understand, in the belief they cannot possibly understand. That’s so wrong, every executive should understand some of what determines button line. It’s not like people skip economics because it’s hard. Would love to perhaps…

Thanks! I completely agree. For more than ten years consulting, training and architecting systems for clients across government and enterprise, I have seen the same pattern. Long before "big data", "cloud" and now with "AI" and "GenAI" these buzzwords have often been misunderstood by most of the C-suite. In my entire career, explaining the basics and setting the right expectations has always been the hardest part.

I really like your idea of targeting executives and connecting it to real business outcomes. Getting decision makers to truly understand the fundamentals behind the technology would make a huge difference.

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

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Post by tamnd »

MASNeo wrote: post #607
tamnd wrote: post #341

I am working on the little book of algorithms: https://github.com/little-book-of/algorithms A project to implement 1000 algorithms. I have finished around 400 so far and I am now focusing on adding test cases, writing implementations in Python and C, and creating formal proofs in Lean. It has been a fun way to dive deeper into how algorithms work and to see the differences between practical coding and formal reasonin…

Great idea. I had been thinking about pretty much the same but perhaps targeted at executives and perhaps including AI/Cloud. I usually feel to many people wildly through around terms they hardly understand, in the belief they cannot possibly understand. That’s so wrong, every executive should understand some of what determines button line. It’s not like people skip economics because it’s hard. Would love to perhaps…

I hope the next generation learns to love "C" and Algorithms again. I have rediscovered my appreciation for C recently, even though Go is my main professional programming language.

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

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Post by BuildItBusk »

christopher8827 wrote: post #644
christopher8827 wrote: post #641

I am working on an AI-powered fitness and food tracker that automatically logs your food based on the photo. One of the difficulties I had when going to the gym is keeping up and sharing macros weekly with my personal trainer. Manually logging food is a hassle and massive pain point - so my app, Eat n Snap attempts to solve this problem. You can also set weight and BMI goals and see your progress on a weekly basis. S…

Gym goers and calorie tracking folks, lend me your ears!

This is already a feature in an app called MacroFactor. But there is definitely room for improvement in the field.

One thing that I miss in MacroFactor is that it should have some memory of my previous choice.

Example: If I take a picture of a glass of milk, it always assumes it to be whole milk (3.5% fat). Then I change it to a low fat milk (0.5% fat). But no matter how many times I do that, it keeps assuming that the milk in the photo is whole milk.

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

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Post by d1sxeyes »

block_dagger wrote: post #316
ttruett wrote: post #301

I'm building decision-making software: https://orgtools.com Not sure what the market is for something like this but it's something I've been thinking a lot about since stepping down as CEO of my previous company. My goal is two-fold: 1. Help teams make better, faster decisions with all context populating a source-of-truth. 2. Help leaders stay eyes-on, and circumstantially hands-on, without slowing everything down. W…

“Fewer meetings.” Not “less.”

That's not really true, at least, outside of prescriptivist linguistics.

> Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less

More reading on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

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