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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)

#701
My team and I are building a web app that enables any business to chat with any other business in any language. Details:

It's B2B only - can't register with a free email provider, gotta own a real domain -Therefore identities are collective - companies, not company employees --Therefore all interactions are persisted at the org level rather than assigned to individual inboxes

-It allows you not just to talk but also to work together on contracts. We built a contract parser that turns contract clauses into smart, plain language objects

We're calling it Geneva and doing a friends/family/acquaintances exploratory release as I type this.

http://genevabm.com http://x.com/genevab2b https://www.linkedin.com/company/genevabm/

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

#702

I'm working on a system to help people write their Family History. You upload interviews with family members (text, audio or video all work) and the system automatically transcribes the text, finds key people or events, and puts it together with other information you may have gathered about those events or people before. Like building a genealogical tree but with the actual details about people's lives. In the works…

Would be great to understand topics from family via AI (givem all the interviews are fed there) that they can’t discuss face to face

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

#703

Working on Cursor for Excel: https://www.tryalphaexcel.com/ As there is no open source version of Excel except Libreoffice, working to build the core Excel functionality with other open source packages. Then bringing in agentic editing functionality for real world data. What is also has been interesting is to introduce banker/consultant formatting guidelines to the agent and making it beautify its work whether in tab…

Just emailed you

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

#704
Preparing a new country (Switzerland) for a tiny daily birdwatching game I've been running with my gf for a few years in collaboration with a local organisation.

And at the same time working on getting the first play testing version ready for our new geo-location based game also about birdwatching.

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

#705
More and more people are more cognizant of their alcohol consumption, and like calories - it can be hard to eyeball them compared to the "standard unit" (14g alcohol).

I build an iOS app (https://quenchai.app) that uses a carefully constructed Multimodal LLM workflow to convert photos to standard drinks and track consumption over time.

Did you know a standard margarita is ~2.5 standard drinks and a light beer is ~0.8?

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

#706
https://hnbooks.pieterma.es

I scraped HN's 1000 most mentioned books and visualised them. This month I used a new embedding model (Nomic), switch out UMAP for PaCMAP, and added automatic cluster labelling.

The clustering and dimensionality reduction aren't quite as stable as I'd like, but most seeds give decent results now.

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

#707

After 10 years in defense tech, watching missile attacks in Ukraine and the Middle East made it clear how little most people really get about air defense. So I'm builiding this simulator which drops you into the operator’s seat. You can test out different scenarios and build an air defense network against various types of threats (stats from real world). Also have Ukraine, Israel-Iran scenarios. https://airdefense.de…

Poked at it for a few minutes. And yes, it's clear how very little I get about air defense.

I would consider adding a tutorial or a toy version that's simplified a bit.

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

#708
I'm working on an online photo gallery platform for professional photographers. The MVP is ready, but I'm also using the opportunity to learn more about SEO, marketing, and communication. This is the URL: https://picstack.com

One interesting lesson is to see the effort involved in acquiring new customers and setting up funnels, especially when bootstrapping with a small budget. Sometimes, as developers, we are in our bubbles and don't realize how much skill one needs to figure out the customer acquisition domain.

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

#709
https://www.creaturedash.com

A platform to host virtual races for fundraising events. Think Race Nights from the 90s/00s. Currently working on this with my brother, as we've both been out at risk of redundancy.

Had our first event over the weekend. Now we're focusing on marketing to local social clubs, charities and school groups.

Got a long list of future features and improvements, but this is a solid MVP. Made in react with redux, Pixi.js and prisma with sqlLite for a db.

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

#710
https://tinkerdeck.com/projects/rent-buy-growth

I've been basing one of the biggest financial decisions in my life - whether to buy a house - in large part on NYT/NerdWallet Rent-Buy calculators. But when I dig in, it seems that the model is both extremely sensitive to home/S&P500 growth assumptions, and that their defaults aren't well thought through.

This site is my attempt to organize my thoughts on what reasonable defaults should be, and provides an interactive tool to explore housing and S&P500 growth historical growth rates.

I'd appreciate feedback!

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