I am working on tcx-ls. It is quite niche, TCX is an XML file format used in sports tracking devices. Tcx-ls is a CLI that displays the information contained in the TCX file (like accumulated time and distance, etc.) in a more user-friendly way. I hope it is useful for many people.
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#712Currently 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…
This is really cool - it'd be great to test for other chemicals like heavy metals.
Specifically, rice seems to contain a good deal of arsenic (https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-muc...) and I've been interested for a while in trying to find some that has the least, as I eat a lot of rice.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#713I’m working on Great Rift Safari — an AI-powered platform that helps travelers design fully personalized safari itineraries in East Africa (think Kenya and Tanzania).
Instead of wading through endless lodge options, park fees, and confusing seasonal details, you just share your interests (big cats, birding, photography, budget, luxury, etc.), and our AI planner (plus input from local experts) builds a detailed, day-by-day itinerary for you.
We also show realistic price estimates and handle all the local logistics, so you can focus on the adventure, not the spreadsheets.
If anyone here has struggled to plan a safari (or has feedback on what would make it easier), I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Website: https://www.greatriftsafari.com
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#714Launched a couple of weeks ago:
Vibe Interview simulates real job interviews using AI. Master every interview stage, from recruiter to technical rounds. Reply and I'll give you free minutes for call simulations.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#715a browser extension for writing to the web. Link your browser to an s3 bucket and llm service:
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#716Currently 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…
Super compelling project. When I saw PlasticList, my first thought was how to get the results to create pressure on the food companies. The interactivity and investment of your project might do that. Best of luck.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#717As a European missing a managed hosting solution, me and a buddy of mine are building an alternative: https://ploi.cloud
The goal is quite simple, allow developers to host their application with easy straight forward pricing. We are about to launch very soon. Everything is built on Laravel/PHP.
We are open to beta testers, so if you feel you want to test this please drop me and email in my profile.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#718Website where you can download lists of all registered domain names for each domain zone in the world.
Currently available: 274 million domain names across 1570 domain zones.
Domain lists are updated daily.
Download via website or via HTTP REST API.
Can be used for parsing, marketing, automation, research and whatever else.
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#719A TV-TV video calling system (raspberry PI + off shelf camera and mic). Idea is have a more immersive experience where you can talk to entire family instead of just a persons face (or parts of face in the hands of my parents or kid). Next stage is to add games to the calls. Have some games already prototyped with good feedback from kids.
Still thinking of how, what and when to open source.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
#720I'm tinkering with a little DSL for declaring embedded in-memory databases, to be emitted as C++ code. I've noticed that I keep creating assemblages of STL containers which feel like tiny databases, optimized for specific queries and constraints: a couple of vectors with structs, some maps or sets, maybe some running totals or min/max references, all wrapped up in an "engine" object governing whatever process it is that uses the data. Wouldn't it be nice if I could declare such a thing, SQL-style, and let the machine work out the details?
There's a little inspiration from the MLIR ecosystem here, which makes heavy use of `.td` files for code generation. I want to write a schema file, defining some tables and indexes along with the queries and procedures which will operate on them, then have this compiled to a C++ header file I can include, where the schema is a class and the queries/procs are methods.
I have no idea how far I'll get with this, but it's always fun messing about with weird little languages, and I'd like to see what programming in this style would feel like.