Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by wrdsmsh321 » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:07 PM UTC

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

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Post by carlnewton » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:08 PM UTC

I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. Just this weekend I began adding cypress tests. I can finally see an official release in the distance!

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2

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

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Post by gooseus » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC

I recently published this library for routing messages within an application using the same kind of wildcard semantics that NATS uses - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gooseus/natsrun

Currently just test driving it in some relatively simple work scenarios, but I imagine it could be a useful tool for consuming a NATS firehose of messages in a single application and routing them internally using the same semantics subject rules so that it would be easy to split them out as separate consumers when/if that became necessary.

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

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Post by mynameisash » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:14 PM UTC

juxtaposicion wrote: post #411

I’m working on Popgot ( https://popgot.com ), a tool that tracks unit prices (cost per ounce, sheet, pound) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. It normalizes confusing listings (“family size”, “mega pack”, etc.) to surface the actual cheapest option for daily essentials. On top of that, it uses a lightweight AI model to read product descriptions and filter based on things like ingredients (e.g., flagging pean…

I like that you have the ability to exclude on some dimension (eg, I don't use Amazon.com). Do you have or are you considering adding more retailers beyond the four you mentioned? For example, I buy a lot of unroasted coffee from sweetmarias.com, and excluding Amazon from Popgot results eliminates all but one listing (from Walmart).

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

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Post by kmdupree » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:16 PM UTC

http://makefizz.buzz/

I work at a small startup trying to hire engineers and got tired of looking through resumes. As Joel Spolsky points out, they're not great indications of technical ability. Instead, I decided to throw together a take-home challenge that applicants could access via an API. "If they can't solve the challenge, I don't need to see their resume," I told myself.

FizzBuzz.md is a better version of the solution I built for work. It lets applicants send questions and submissions to configurable email addresses via API so the email addresses aren't exposed directly. (Less spam, FTW)

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

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Post by marvinblum » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

I'm still working like crazy on our privacy-friendly web analytics tool Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) :) I've been doing this for more than 4 years now and I'm still super motivated, especially because it's challenging from a technical point of view and very rewarding (I live from it now).

There is still a lot to do and learn (especially in the marketing department), but we have plans for a new product in the privacy space. I don't want to say too much about it until we've started working on it, but it's in the compliance space and fits quite well with our existing product. I think it's always a good starting point to solve your own problems.

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

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Post by jsiva » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:25 PM UTC

Working on a python library for combining shell commands and python functions with pipeline operator syntax. Hasn't progressed beyond an experimental prototype, some of the tests (i.e. test_bash_pipe.py) show how it works.

- repo: https://github.com/JanukanS/cudgel/tree/main

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

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Post by pistoriusp » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:25 PM UTC

https://docs.rwsdk.com

RedwoodSDK is a React Framework for Cloudflare. We wanted to build something that allows people to focus on the software that they want to write, rather than the infrastructure that it runs on. Writing software isn't really a barrier anymore, the parts that developers find annoying can be shortcut with generated code, but you can't gloss over pushing to production.

Cloudflare gives us the ability to offer developers compute, database, storage, queues, AI, realtime with durable objects, etc... and to emulate that locally with just a single package installation.

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

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Post by Two_hands » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

A privacy app for macOS which tells you when someone is looking at your screen.

It uses the webcam and a locally running facial detection model to alert you if it detects someone in frame.

It's FOSS and available @ https://www.eyesoff.app

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

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Post by artpani » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 9:29 PM UTC

Setting up new projects shouldn’t be a chore. We built DevExp (dx) to fix it. -Secrets stay local (or sync across devices). -Tunnels with unlimited subdomains + WebSocket support. -Full HTTP/WebSocket traffic inspector. -Git profiles per project — no more editing .gitconfig. -Instant deploys to lightweight Deno isolates.

Coming soon: embedded DB, password manager, dotfile manager, boilerplate generator — all inside the CLI. waitlist: https://devexp.pro