I'm working on a small project to bring plain-old-telephones back into our children's lives. Quick, screen-less connections with grandparents, cousins, and friends is as quick as picking up the phone and pressing one button. Imagine that.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#762Working on my personal blog ( https://bryanhogan.com/ ) recently. Updated some older posts such as the one on creating a gaming backlog (or similar) within Obsidian. Also making a customizable self-tracking app that can be used as a habit tracker, health log, journal or similar. Goal is to make daily manual entries efficient and worthwhile. It will be local first and without an annoying subscription. If anyone is per…
Sounds fun! Subscribed. Always interested in more tinkering with note-taking systems and methods.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#763Working on a small SQL-based streaming ETL tool.
It reads from a replication stream and allows you to trim/enrich the replicated data by running SQL queries from the database, then writing the result out to another database (also using a custom SQL query, so it's easy to do upserts or joining with other data on the destination database).
It's working really well, and I'm just sprucing up logging and documentation a bit before making the source code public on github. The idea is for it to be a much simpler alternative to things like Debezium for small to medium sized projects.
Currently supports postgres for input, and postgres and clickhouse for output with more databases coming down the road.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#764My pursuit of happiness, I'm in fear of quitting my current job and go for a working holiday to Australia, I'm excited while still trying to overcome the fear of not having a stable and well paying job because I don't find any joy in this job no more , so I am working on mentally getting out of this, I want to truly let go "money is more important than my happiness" idea.
I am doing this myself. I turned in my two weeks' notice a few days ago
I am worried about my decision too, but I think about a few things:
- You got your current job (plus all of the previous roles), so why wouldn't you be able to do it again if and when the time comes?
- Job gaps don't look as bad as they used to. People understand burnout and being stuck in a bad job. Breaking away from those can be seen as a positive, especially if you are pursuing your own health and interests
- There's more to life than draining your useful waking hours for a paycheck at a place that offers little else. With more time and energy, you can explore interests and projects on your own terms
Best of luck in your future endeavors
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#765Does “vibe coding” count :-) I’m from west Africa and lately been very interested in African fairy tales to read to my daughter. Ended up building (
a GPT-backed interface that can insert her in any African story she wants. We also have a list of African queens who’re not famous anymore but did amazing things (look up Queen Nzinga for example). So I’m doing a series of little children’s books about each queen - have them exported to PDF so I can print them out and bind for her: her own little
Collection of fairytales. I plan to put it online later - even if you’re not African I think it’s a great way to explore our history.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#766If anyone is interested, i'm looking for someone to take over a port of Windows alt+tab window switching for the Mac. The app is very mature, yet it could still be improved in interesting ways. https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/1179
Happy user for many years!
Wishing you good luck with finding a maintainer.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#767Does “vibe coding” count :-) I’m from west Africa and lately been very interested in African fairy tales to read to my daughter. Ended up building ( a GPT-backed interface that can insert her in any African story she wants. We also have a list of African queens who’re not famous anymore but did amazing things (look up Queen Nzinga for example). So I’m doing a series of little children’s books about each queen - have…
Would love to do something similar. Have you written about the technicals/set up somewhere?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#768Lots of things! I'm in a gap year. To start with, there's https://nuenki.app . It's a browser extension that selectively translates sentences into the language you're learning, so you're constantly immersing yourself in text at your knowledge level. I've also been working with a friend on a device to help blind people without light perception. I'm quite new to electronics. It's pretty simple, conceptually - a coin-si…
amazing!
I just installed it and enjoying the integration.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#769A buddy and me have been working on https://microfn.dev for a while: A platform for creating, managing and composing tiny (micro) javascript functions and using them from different places like webhooks, cron, MCP or AI agents.
It's still very heavy in development but the gist is: Say you have a cool idea for something small you want to automate or run - instead of thinking about hosting, workers, lambdas and what not, you just open microfn, open the editor (or the function generator), write your function, hit save - done! All the complexity is tucked away on microfn, and your place of use just has to authenticate with microfn and nothing else. We run it for you and keep you productive.
Now you can use that function from anywhere: From the terminal, periodically with a cron, add it to an AI agent as skill, use it through an MCP (not released yet), through Siri shortcuts, share it with your friends and so on.
Say you want to have an agent or function that gets the weather and sends it through Telegram: You can either quickly generate 2 functions through the AI function generator that get the weather ("I want a function that gets the weather for Tokyo") and another one for sending a message on telegram, or you can use what's already available (such as https://microfn.dev/david/getweathertokyo). Equipping them to an agent works like in a video game - each function is a new "skill" or "tool" the agent can use, and if someone else already has some cool skills, you can fork them without needint to re-implement everything from scratch.
So like a toolbox full of small composable hammers and tools that can be used across different scenarios and places, to be plugged into existing workflows, automation or to even be used in autonomous agents and through MCP.
Again, super heavy in development and not really a 1.0 yet, more like an early alpha, but wanted to share here anyway. Feedback greatly appreciated!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#770I'm building modular home audio speakers. Wireless, self-powered, upgradeable, repairable. Think Sonos meets the Framework laptop. Check out my prelaunch page here: https://prelaunch.com/projects/audioblocs-audioblocs
This seems cool, but I think many people have been burned by smart speakers of various types. If your system does Spotify and Pandora and such then it's going to have a phone app and then if the phone app enshittifies the entire investment in the 'ecosystem' goes to waste. Nobody wants to throw out their speakers because of software updates. I think a better smart amplifier could be a good product -- and then people…
I would respectfully disagree with your assertion regarding Framework laptops. Their entire business model is predicated on building computers that DO last more than a few years....
There are plenty of streaming audio amp solutions currently on the market - Wiim builds a nice one. But some of us don't want to run speaker wires through the walls for a home theater.
I've given a lot of thought to building a system that will work without a dedicated internet connection and this system won't require a central server to check-in to. I too have 25+ year old speakers that work just fine (Paradigm Titan's from 1998) and that's partly my inspiration. I wanted more sound from them but there's no way to upgrade traditional passive speakers. I don't want these speakers to be bricked if my company fails. They also don't need an app to work. The TV can control it through the eARC connection.
I appreciate your thoughts!