Currently, I am exploring one of the simplest and fastest ways to create a command-line utility (in TypeScript) and its distribution mechanism
- repo: https://github.com/vseplet/PPORT
Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#682I'm hacking on Trailbound, a hiking and backpacking planning tool. The goal is combining a light version of the routing capability of Caltopo or GaiaGPS with more granular "leg" mapping based on how I learned to plan off trail trips and sharing functions that make it easy for my wife to know where I'm going to be, who I'm with, and who to contact if I'm not back in touch when I said I would be.
Its been a blast to build. At one point I was hosting my own ORS server but that's extremely silly to do when Mapbox has a very generous free tier. Learning about all of the open source tooling and open data available in the mapping world has been incredible.
The cost of the Hetzner box it runs on isn't much more than a Caltopo pro subscription with the added bonus of being much easier to share with non-hikers.
A quick demo: https://www.loom.com/share/a5f7a7c23457400aa92b3f0f71a0008f
The app: https://go.trailboundapp.com
No marketing site, no onboarding, or any real UX attention paid to the app at this point, it is mostly Just For Me and will probably remain that way once I land a job again.
I'm starting to chip away at an iOS app so I can get offline access to maps and routes, but I'm not a Swift dev so the going is slow.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#683I'm building Meteor (https://browse.dev) - an agentic browser.
The goal is to remove the prompting layer in CUA, and to have a browser that just gets you and can do actions like a personal assistant.
I got tired of waiting for Perplexity to launch Comet, so me and a friend just decided to build our own. This is probably the most fun I have had building a project.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#684https://github.com/runsecret/rsec
An easier and more secure way to work with secrets during local development. It’s open source, cloud/vault agnostic, and doesn’t require a single line of code change to use. I call it RunSecret.
RunSecret is a CLI that replaces your static secrets with “secret references” in your ENV VARs (or .env files). These references are then replaced when your application starts up by reaching out to your secret vault of choice - making your .env safe to share across your whole team and removing a slew of gotchas when you use git ignored env files. Even better RunSecret redacts any instance of these secrets from your application output, reducing your chances for accidental leaks.
The approach is inspired by the 1password CLI, but built for the rest of us. I’ve got AWS Secrets Manager support pretty well baked, but the goal is to support all major secret vaults within the next couple of months (Azure KeyVault is already in progress).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#685I just finished a small personal project: a self-hosted web app which stores and indexes my archived emails. None of the existing options I tried were very good so I made my own. A simple Rails app that ingests .eml files and stores the text in postgres for full-text search.
I learned a lot about text encodings, multipart emails, inline attachments, postgres' tsvector/tsquery, etc. I'm particularly proud of how I was able to use `WITH RECURSIVE` to get an email's entire thread, which seems basic but the other archive apps I tried didn't have that feature.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#686Fourth year of Wide Angle Analytics and going strong :)
More advanced digital marketing features, scaling and what's typical for mature product, an upgrade cycle of for major 3rd party dependencies.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#687https://monadicdna.com
Open, secure personal genomics using fully homomorphic encryption.
With 23andMe bankrupt, I want to put out somewhere secure people can put their genomic data and receive insights. In a few months, I'll have a protocol in place to open up the data to third party apps (with user consent). The data does not have to be decrypted ever to be operated upon!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#688As a side project, I'm creating resources for learning Tamil, my parents' native language:
https://akprasad.github.io/tamil/
It's been a lot of fun getting the basic tools going: transliterators, morphological generators and analyzers, and some other things on top. But the main goal is to improve fluency as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#689https://indiantranslate.com
It's a translation map of Indian languages - type in a word, see the translations across 22 languages.
I was inspired by this HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152587), and wanted to make something similar for India (which has similar linguistic diversity). Translations are fetched with Google Translate, but I also display 'romanizations' (transliterated into Latin script), which are generated with a local ML model.
Now that it's done, I've mostly been working on a little Markdown-to-HTML parser in Haskell.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#690https://github.com/runsecret/rsec An easier and more secure way to work with secrets during local development. It’s open source, cloud/vault agnostic, and doesn’t require a single line of code change to use. I call it RunSecret. RunSecret is a CLI that replaces your static secrets with “secret references” in your ENV VARs (or .env files). These references are then replaced when your application starts up by reaching…
Interesting approach. Why this over GitLab secrets that are integrated with a vault of choice?
I assume this is to cover the non-CI/CD scenario.