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

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

#741
Ugh. It's time for me to start transitioning my iOS/Watch/Mac programs to be "Liquid Glass-native."

I should be able to do it with my various personal apps, but one app I've written, was done in concert with a professional graphic designer, and he is not happy with LG, so I expect that app to be a pain.

These are my apps: https://littlegreenviper.com/AppDocs/

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

#742
Pretty much finished my photo gallery app for Windows -- https://github.com/Bloomca/Piktosaur. It is a pretty standard gallery viewer, the main feature is that you can point it at any folder and it will recursively search nested folders for extra images, e.g. an external hard drive.

Really happy with it as I wanted exactly that for myself.

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The next idea I am going to work on is the audio player. I already wrote a Rust library to read TOC + raw track data from audio CDs (https://github.com/Bloomca/rust-cd-da-reader) and a CLI tool to do so + convert to FLAC and embed metadata from MusicBrainz (https://github.com/Bloomca/audio-cd-ripper).

I've been researching this topic and while my background is related to digital signal processing, I think I will use a library, there seem to be too many edge cases to work with WASAPI and such directly.

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

#745
I'm building Envelope — a banking product purpose-built for envelope-style budgeting.

Most “budgeting banks” (Ally Buckets, Wells Fargo Budget Watch, etc.) bolt budgeting on after the fact. Envelope was designed from day one as an integrated budgeting bank account. The checking, savings, and debit cards are all built around real-time envelope balances.

Each envelope acts like a dedicated account with its own balance and optional virtual card. Spending directly from an envelope means your budget is always accurate — no syncing, no spreadsheets, no “catch-up” categorization. Everything runs on-ledger with automatic spend-locking and instant visibility.

We’re a small YC-backed team (former Robinhood and Apple Card team members) focused on rebuilding personal finance from the ground up to be simple, and transparent https://envelopebudgeting.com

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

#747
UI exploration for interacting with LLMs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldJTjwhqKy4

Currently popular AI chat interfaces feel restrictive when exploring or learning complex concepts/ideas. I often want to revisit earlier parts of a conversation, ask branching follow up questions, connect related concepts, compare and contrast between various chain of thoughts. This UI exploration aims to solve some of these limitations.

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

#748
I'm building a Jellyfin client focused on music using Rust + GTK:

https://github.com/Fingel/gelly

I've been enjoying rebuilding my music collection from both old hard drives and ripping old CDs. Jellyfin is great but I wanted a native application focused on music, not video. Thus Gelly. It's been really fun to work on.

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

#749

I'm making an HID translation dongle. In programming mode, its a flash drive you can put LUA scripts on. In run mode, you can select a lua script to run. Lua scripts can take HID input and produce HID output. All open source, hardware and software: https://github.com/cedarhacks/ReMapper It can do things like keyboard -> joystick mapping, key logging, macros, mouse wiggling etc etc

Hey cool! I've been wanting something like this for a while.

Would it be able to take multiple inputs?

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

#750
I'm working on Sum Buddy an AI spreadsheet. I didn't like the way Microsoft and Google were integrating their AI by essentially tacking on a chatbox and I wanted to explore more native integrations, like its another part of the tool bar.

https://www.sumbuddy.net/sumbuddy.html

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