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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)

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Post by blipvert »

Joeboy wrote: post #436

I 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…

Neat. Just notice that the ICA has a Genesis P. Orridge bio through your site, so will likely go and see that. Thanks!

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

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Post by NotAnOtter »

ttd wrote: post #132

I'm working on a new app for creating technical diagrams - https://vexlio.com . It's an area with some heavyweight incumbents (e.g. Visio, Lucid) but I think there's good opportunity here to differentiate in simplicity and overall experience. I'm still in the fairly early phase, and I suspect I haven't quite found the best match of features to customers yet. From a dev perspective this area has a ton of super interes…

What's your long term revenue model?

Enterprise licensing? Donation based? Hosting fees with value-add mark up?

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

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Post by dayvid »

cjflog wrote: post #637

Currently 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…

Seems odd that two different flavors of the same product would have different phthalate content? Would that mean that shelf life could have an impact?

Vanilla (high): https://laboratory.love/plasticlist/59 Strawberry (medium): https://laboratory.love/plasticlist/60

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

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Post by ta12653421 »

geminiboy wrote: post #343

Still building. https://tosreview.org/ Reading through the Terms of service in websites is a pain. Most of the users skip reading that and click accept. The risk is that they enter into a legally binding contract with a corporation without any idea what they are getting themselves into. How it started: I read news about Disney blocking a wrongful death lawsuit, since the victim agreed to a arbitration clause when the…

Thats interesting!

How does your product do in the age of AI?

I could imagine this could be sold to a whatever-legal-tech company, or maybe to a compliance company or similar.

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

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Post by landyrev »

subscreen.app — working on an app that synchronizes with the movie/show you watch and displays subtitles on your phone (in the original language or a language of your choice).

Tech stack: - Python + opensubtitles.org for the data pipeline - Whisper for speech recognition - React Native for the mobile client

Current state: tech demo. The app works fine and already helps a lot — for me and my wife (both non-native English speakers) it makes watching movies in Dutch cinemas much easier, by showing English subtitles on our phones instead of the Dutch ones provided by the theater.

The biggest issue now is subtitle quality and legal status. Opensubtitles provides a lot of data, but the quality is often questionable, and the legal status is rather gray/black.

Any legal or data-related advice would be appreciated!

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

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Post by jmstfv »

I've been working on my business for 4 years now, sometimes taking extended breaks when I run out of motivation.

Lately, I've noticed that my (beefy) server is always clogged with background jobs that tend to run longer than they used to. It’s started impacting operations, as customers have been complaining about their backups running a bit late.

We're network bound, so I can't just add more compute power (Notion's API has a rate limit of 2700 req/15 mins). I suspect we're being getting rate limited left and right, which is causing these delays.

https://notionbackups.com

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

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Post by hazrmard »

I am working on a budgeting app!

Features:

  - Local. No internet connection needed.  
  - Manual. Every transaction is added by the user.
  - One-off or arbitrarily recurring transactions.  
  - No lock-in. Check out your data any time.  
  - Arbitrary metrics to track performance. 
  - Hosting on the cloud for mobile access.
Why?

I've been using Google sheets + forms for the last 8 years to track my finances. It's worked well, except for minor inconveniences. This app is my answer to my own problems.

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