I'm putting the finishing touches on my free daily word game, Omiword[1][2]. I had it basically finished, with the option for players to make a one-time $5 payment to unlock access to the archives, but then Stripe shut down my account, claiming it was a "restricted business".[3] I'm now reworking it to try to fund it through Patreon, we'll see how that goes.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#672I just took a fortnight off work with the intent of getting away from my laptop, but accidentally ended up making a listings site for London's independent / arts cinemas. As far as I can tell no such thing currently exists, and I feel like it should. Obviously the main thing is getting the listings data, which as far as I know (mostly) isn't readily available any other way that scraping the cinemas' websites, for whi…
Hey I'm doing something similar for NYC! But focused on screenings with special appearances only. There's a lot going on here. Happy to share notes.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#673Working on a physical and digital archive of all American vintage print advertising. I've built the archival and database software on Lucee & MySQL to store images and automate, and I use OpenAI to analyze images and extra meta data. All of the full page ads are pushed to https://adretro.com . I've gotten the process to fully catalog all of the advertisements in a magazine (about 150 on average) down from over a week…
It's funny...I absolutely despise being advertised to, yet I find vintage ads fascinating. I don't know what that says about me.
I feel the same about a lot graffiti; if it's recent, it's an eyesore, but old graffiti can be extremely interesting. I guess both domains expose some elements of the zeitgeist seldom explored in other mediums. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nice site, by the way!
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#674The last couple of weeks I've been building 'Recivo', a very simple way to receive emails programmatically. There are plenty of API-based services that can be used to send emails, but receiving them is harder. My service exposes a simple REST endpoint + event webhook that makes it a 5 min setup to start receiving. Attachments are included as well. The main use-cases I'm thinking of right now is triggering agents usin…
this is awesome, good work!
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#675An iOS app which connects parents with their children's screen time via screenshots and AI. Makes your kid's screen as visible as the living room TV. When screenshots are off, you choose what to allow; everything else is blocked. When screenshots are on, you choose what to block; everything else is allowed.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#676A film screening aggregator website for independent film theaters in NYC powered by LLM agents.
Right now it's able to collect data from more than 30 sites with all very funky html formats with no custom code for each site.
When I began I had around 20% errors/hallucinations, right now it's way lower at around 3% errors in extraction. It's been fun and gave me a lot of experience building LLM powered data pipelines.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#677It has been about 4 weeks that I am only vibe coding. I am building https://github.com/brainless/SmartCrawler and it has been an interesting journey. Being an engineer I always find it easy to stay focused on development and not so much on users, marketing, story telling.
Now I am getting a lot more time to focus on creating content about my journey and sharing it. Test coverage is still pretty bad but I do not feel the generated product is worse than it would have been if I coded it with or without LLM assistance. Right now, I barely see generated code.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#678Building a strong body, goal is to do planche by end of the year!
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#679I'm finally getting my online presence in order... This week, I'll set up a Hugo blog with the Ed theme, love it, looks exactly what I'm looking for, and as a former LaTeX enthusiast, it's pretty close. It's readable, minimalist. I'll need to customize the theme, though. I plan to publish blog posts about anything I find interesting. https://gohugo-theme-ed.netlify.app/ In parallel to this work, I'm setting up a simp…
I've been having the thought that I should curate my mostly-anonymous online presence for my career. Is that why you're doing it? Curious what inspired you to do this and what steps you're taking
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#680Just built a last-mile logistics management solution to replace a SaaS solution for a delivery company I used to be involved with. Handles everything from real-time driver tracking, public order tracking links, finding suitable drivers for orders, batch push notifications for automatic order assignment, etc. Backend: Feathers.JS, Postgres + TimescaleDB & PostGIS, BullMQ, Valhalla (for multi-stop route optimization al…
> I built it initially as a favor
That's a hell of a favor. Is this something you built by yourself or were you part of a larger team?