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

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

#661
I am building https://balancing.services to improve transparency of European balancing markets.

The balancing markets are used to keep the power grid in good shape, by smoothing out any last minute mismatches between energy production and consumption.

The project started out of frustration of not being able to get this information without friction.

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

#663
Working on a advanced analytics application for 0DTE trades, that allows to analyse thousands of possible trade curves in the least amount of time.

The process itself is extremely time consuming, when done manually. My application speeds up the process by a factor of 50 up to 150, depending on how you measure it.

Finally it allows "everybody", to find the 0DTE trades, that are really profitable - something, that currently only the "Pros" can do.

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

#664
I am working on an app to detect tooth problems. I envision it as something you can use for a quick check for the large majority who don't have regular dental care. It will be late detection but a good alternative to doing nothing.

I am experimenting with the current SOTA multimodal LLMs, but performance is still not yet there, they still hallucinate non-existent teeth. (As an aside, I have found a simple but very telling test, I have an image with only 4 teeth visible up and 10 down, so I prompt the modal to count, non have been able to, but Gemini 2.5 pro is the closest of the lot, performance is worse in the description when the counting test fails).

I am going to try segmenting the image to see if I will have better results by prompting to describe segment by segment.

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

#665
Working on two projects right now:

- LegalJoe: AI-powered contract reviews for startups, at the "tech demo" phase right now: https://www.legaljoe.ai/

- ClipMommy: A macOS tool to help (professionals who record a lot of videos | influencers) organize their raw video clips. Simply drag a folder of "disorganized" videos onto ClipMommy, and ClipMommy organizes the videos into folders / subfolders, adding tags, based upon some special statements that you can make at either the start or the end of your video (think audio-based "clapboard"). I'm expecting to release this within a week or two on the Mac App Store (Apple allowing...).

As an aside, I've been very impressed with Claude Code, it's (for me at least!) leading the way for how the next generation of business software might leverage AI. I plan to iterate on LegalJoe to make more "agentic" as a result of what I've seen is possible in Claude Code.

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

#666
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Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe. This seemed like a solvable problem. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of s…

How do you hold the money for up to 1 year? Does it go into escrow until the project is funded?

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

#668
Working on "context engineering" for coding agents. Specifically for complex dev environments and targets, like robotics, digital twins and games. Been able to witness agents go from 100% failure rate to contributing nearly 90% of the plumbing code. I'm helping agents understand how to use simulators and game engines; configure, build and deploy DevOps/MLOps pipelines.

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

#669
A comic book curation app:

https://github.com/rishighan/threetwo

Think of it as a Plex for the digital copies of comics. Point it to a folder full of comics, and it will infer metadata, and present your collection in a Plex-like manner.

ThreeTwo supports Comicinfo.xml, Metron's format. Generally there is no universally agreed-upon metadata format for comic books, comic book archives are essentially .zip or .rar files with images with a fragmented naming convention. ThreeTwo itself uses regexes to parse filenames and match that against ComicVine to extract metadata from there. This is currently the problem I am trying to attack.

Other than that, it integrates with DC++ via AirDC++, and also incorporates an OPDS server.

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