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

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

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Post by ChrisGermano »

I'm building a platform to help employees prepare for large high-value meetings and presentations with note taking and on-demand AI summarization and sentiment analysis to best prepare and deliver information. The main driver was first-hand experience with expensive team meetings that use time inefficiently and result in "circling back" or "taking it offline" to actually make decisions, which results in information silos and even more inefficient use of time.

The platform also supports HR for the organization by presenting in-depth anonymized data surrounding team interactions, exceptional individuals, and potential bottlenecks within the organization caused by qualitative issues. Aiming to launch by end of year and working with small businesses as free test users for feedback and validation.

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

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Post by pepperonipboy »

I'm building a website to pull strava activities into my google/apple calendar (without needing permissions or logins)

https://stravatocalendar.com/

It's working well and I think I can use the same "backend" to pull this data into a spreadsheet which could be useful for data hungry users/coaches/club and event organizers/etc.

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

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Post by NiloCK »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #396
NiloCK wrote: post #310

My on again, off again life's work has been a foss dev stack for interactive tutoring systems. Something like a general purpose Math Academy, with mechanics to permit UGC and courses that are both adaptive (to the user's background and demonstrated skill) and inter-adaptive (to the userbase's expressed priorities). http://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder , docs-in-progress at https://patched.network/skuilder I…

The docs seem to be highly targeted towards software engineers who want to build the system. There is scant information on how teachers would find this useful. It's like inventing the refrigerator and all the brochure talk about is the internal engineering of the machine, rather than how keeping food cold is useful from the economic and culinary perspectives.

This is a fair point, but I'll emphasize that this is developer documentation and there isn't really an existing product or service targeting consumers, teachers or institutions.

My focus on that front is the LettersPractice app. I taught my own kids (6, 4) to read using early versions of the same software, and I'm pretty confident about the efficacy of the approach.

As far as the broader project moving toward being a consumer facing applications, there are a few options.

The existing platform-ui is a skeleton / concept sketch of one category. A web platform that allows users to create and subscribe to different courses, and then study sessions aggregate content from all subscribed courses. reddit for knowing stuff and having skills, rather than .

Another broad category is in NoCode ITSaaS (interactive tutoring system as a service?) platform. EG, a specialized bolt.new for EdTech that uses agentic workflows to create courses that cover a given domain or specific input documents (eg, textbooks, curriculum documents).

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

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Post by NiloCK »

Ozzie_osman wrote: post #356
NiloCK wrote: post #310

My on again, off again life's work has been a foss dev stack for interactive tutoring systems. Something like a general purpose Math Academy, with mechanics to permit UGC and courses that are both adaptive (to the user's background and demonstrated skill) and inter-adaptive (to the userbase's expressed priorities). http://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder , docs-in-progress at https://patched.network/skuilder I…

Tried the email list. Got an error. Very interested in this sort of stuff.

Whoops, sorry about that. I updated that submission right after writing this post, and re-published the front-end without having committed the changes.

Should be working now.

Really appreciate the interest.

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

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Post by luizfelberti »

azianmike wrote: post #326

A couple of months ago, I saw a tweet from @awilkinson: “I just found out how much we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped. What's the best alternative?” Me being naive, I thought “how hard could would it actually be to build a free e-sign tool?” Turns out not that hard. In about a weekend, I built a UETA and ESIGN compliant tool. And it was free. And it cost me less than $50. Unlimited free e-sign. https://useinkless…

Documenso[0] is a pretty cool alternative that is increasingly compliant with more and more e-signature standards

https://documenso.com/

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

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Post by moralestapia »

jesse__ wrote: post #70

I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy. https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai I also wrote a metaprogramming…

Wow, it looks amazing, congratulations :)!

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

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Post by jedberg »

hugofromboss wrote: post #604

Currently working on an open-source agent for privilege access management (PAM) and just-in-time access (JIT) to cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications and local systems. It's using serverless workflows ( https://serverlessworkflow.io/ ) and https://www.temporal.io to guarantee robust deterministic workflow execution. Temporal is used to orchestrate elevations across environments and systems. It tasks “agents” to gr…

Curious why you chose Temporal, which requires your users to either run an external coordination server or pay Temporal money for theirs? Did you look at DBOS (which doesn't required an external server and can just use your existing database)?
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