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Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by rollinDyno »

sgoto wrote: post #743
rollinDyno wrote: post #113

Have you ever wanted to write your life story but found it too overwhelming? I’m developing an app that acts as your personal interviewer, guiding you through your memories and helping you share them with your loved ones. The app is designed for older adults who enjoy reminiscing but struggle to organize their thoughts into a coherent narrative. The goal is to preserve their hard-won insights and pass them down—to fa…

This sounds super interesting! I'd love to beta test it if you are looking for people to try! You can find me at: http://twitter.com/samuelgoto

Sure, I'd love to have your feedback. Let me package this into my first beta and I'll reach out.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by rollinDyno »

DeltaCoast wrote: post #349
rollinDyno wrote: post #113

Have you ever wanted to write your life story but found it too overwhelming? I’m developing an app that acts as your personal interviewer, guiding you through your memories and helping you share them with your loved ones. The app is designed for older adults who enjoy reminiscing but struggle to organize their thoughts into a coherent narrative. The goal is to preserve their hard-won insights and pass them down—to fa…

Would love a link to the demo if and when you’re open to sharing. I’m a product designer but not looking for projects, I’m mostly curious - this is one of the more unique ideas I’ve heard.

Yea, let me send it your way once I have it! Please update your profile with contact info.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by WiggleGuy »

nzach wrote: post #694
WiggleGuy wrote: post #428

Currently thinking about better ways to spread the word about https://theretowhere.com (my website that makes it easier to find apartments and Airbnbs/hotels close to things you care about). I've actually started getting some back and fourth feedback with a couple users, which has kept me motivated and validated. But I need more organic traffic somehow. I've recently released a new usecase ( https://theretowhere.com/…

I'm starting to think about moving to a new city and was considering to build a tool like this. And now I'm excited to see this already exists! For my use-case the interface you created isn't the best. Now that I'm searching for a new home I'm interested in finding a place that has a bakery nearby, but it doesn't really matter what bakery. The same goes for restaurants, pubs, ... For this case there are too many plac…

You don't have to add them in manually - the heatmap interface supports "Open searches", where you can add in pins for a bunch of locations at a time based on a query (like "bakeries").

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by tracker1 »

bee_rider wrote: post #662
possiblelion wrote: post #642

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 building 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. The new version is a l…

That seems neat. Modern missile command, haha. After 10 years in defense tech I’m sure you are very aware of this sort of thing, but how worried are you about accidentally leaking some non-public info? I guess one nice thing about public info is, well, it is public, so you can just use whatever’s public.

You'd be surprised how much "secure" info is public somewhere else. Like when you're working on training materials for a certain engine that is considered "military secrets" based on the govt you're doing the work for, that takes literally weeks and weeks to get various design materials, that's considered public information for one of your nation's partners, and you can just download it from them instead of waiting for weeks.

Not that I know from personal experience or anything... /sarc

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by yu3zhou4 »

tombert wrote: post #725
yu3zhou4 wrote: post #713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I wish there were more options than that. Also, remote phd or master+phd would be even better, but these are even more uncommon and pricey (unless you know about a one that is good and cheap and remote then I’d love to learn more)

I was doing the University of York online PhD in computer science (formal methods), and it was actually pretty great, but it was costing me like $17,000 per year, and it was a huge time sink when I was already working full time. That said, if you feel like you're organized enough to pull it off, I do recommend looking into University of York. It's a very good school.

Thanks, that's actually useful and I will be happy to consider it once I have more spare time in life!

Why did you complete WGU masters in computer science after already having a PhD in computer science?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by elektor »

rorylaitila wrote: post #203

I'm digitally cataloging all US vintage print advertisements I can get my hands on ( https://adretro.com ). The backend is built on MySQL and Lucee and the full page ads published with Notion and Super.so. I'm using OpenAI vision to extract entity data from the images. So far I've cataloged about 1500 advertisements out of the ~100,000 in my possession. Of which that is probably only 0.1% of all the major material ou…

This may be of interest to you:

The Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (SRITA; https://tobacco.stanford.edu/) collection currently contains 62,553 tobacco advertisements.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by tracker1 »

bennyg wrote: post #721

I built https://www.stoodious.app for my wife while she was studying for her California Real Estate Broker's Exam. She was frustrated with the price gouging on text books, or being the "state-of-the-art" study platforms being video only, having no/poor mobile UX or just feeling outright dated. So I built Stoodious as a study guide platform that intends to give you the material and get out of your way, as opposed to t…

If you want to expand into other areas, it might be worth adding Amateur Radio (HAM) License training materials as a next step. Relatively well defined, also an area of technology that deserves more attention.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by tracker1 »

samwillis wrote: post #40

Tanstack DB - a new client side store for web apps, with transactions, optimistic state, and live queries spanning multiple collections. It's designed for sync, so rather than fetching you can hook it up to a sync engine (any!) to keep your front end in sync with your backend. It's built on Tanstack Query, making the sync engine optional, and a great path for incremental adoption. The query engine uses a typescript i…

Interesting, I'll have to look at this in the near future. Definitely like what I see at a glance. One problem I've had with some other client sync/db options is that they don't support the use case for public, shared and private tables/collections. A lot of real world apps may have items that are available to all users (read only or not), some users (by group or management chain) or private (but reassignable by managers) in order to support real world workflows and potentially confrontational work (think avoiding stealing other worker's contacts/commissions).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by agcat »

m-a-t-t-i wrote: post #174

Working on fabric construction blocks (like Lego of clothing), that you can use to build clothing and accessories completely by hand without any tools or machines. Intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eKc6c5tDw

This is actually very therapeutic to watch! All the best

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

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Post by agcat »

juxtaposicion wrote: post #360

I’m building Popgot ( https://popgot.com ): compare unit prices (per oz/sheet/lb) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. We normalize fuzzy sizes (“family,” “mega,” multipacks) so you see the actually cheapest option for staples. New: a deep research mode that, on demand, crawls thousands of product pages and uses visual LLMs to read label photos (ingredients, counts, square footage) when the text is messy. Firs…

haha this is fun. shared with my partner.. he spends hours doing it manually
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