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

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

#771

I originally built https://prontopic.com/ to help my girlfriend take better photos of her clothes for Vinted. Turns out people really like it, especially for food photography :)

I'm curious as I have not idea how you do this, but do you prompt a GenAI model with an image to generate an output image? What happens if the image is not 1:1 accurate?

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

#772
Robot technician/builder and I'm working on finding another job, because I just got laid off. Shame. I liked this job (mostly), because I could combine craftsmanship (I'm an electrician) with nerdy electrical and hardware/software/mechanical debugging and occasionally development. And I learned so much. Onwards to new things I guess, but I loathe the job application process.

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

#773

I was reading a lot of technical books and kept highlighting things I wanted to remember — but I rarely went back to review them. The notes just sat there, on my Kindle or in the reading app. So I started building something simple: a tool that lets me turn highlights into flashcards with as little friction as possible. Just select text on your iPhone, share it with the app, and it creates a flashcard using AI — a Q&A…

I really like this. I'm going to grab some of my kiddos 7th grade biology notes (handwritten), and see what it does. I did notice that's it's a little hard to manage your deck: removing and shuffling are not obvious?

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

#774

https://www.saintbeluga.org/ I was a YC founder in 2006 and still do software engineering and data science full-time, but on the side I also do Christian apologetics, helping fellow engineers/scientists/mathematicians seek answers to life's deepest questions. Some cool articles for the HN crowd: - My interview of Evan O'Dorney, a three-time Putnam Fellow and two-time IMO gold medalist, who converted to Catholic Chris…

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" Epicurus

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

#775

Art project. Counter Productive A random button in a park with a countdown timer. Instructions: - Press the button to reset the 24-hour countdown timer. - If the timer ever reaches zero, the project ends and the project will be removed. - To keep the project alive — press the button Its been running for 56 days with 820 button presses. Write up: https://blog.abluestar.com/projects/2025-counterproductive/ Stats page h…

Can you have it do something good for the park when it's been running for x days? Or would that make it mundane (productive) and de-art it.

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

#776
The Cursor for SQL - getgalaxy.io

We think theres a huge gap in tooling for devs associated with writing SQL. We've reimagined the SQL editor to make it modern, fast, beautiful, and have a AI copilot that actually works. Importantly, we've also added sharing and collaboration in a Postman / GDrive nature so you never have to share queries with your team via slack or notion again.

Check us out and ping me on LI. getgalaxy.io linkedin.com/in/garrettawolfe

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

#777

I originally built https://prontopic.com/ to help my girlfriend take better photos of her clothes for Vinted. Turns out people really like it, especially for food photography :)

Even in the demo image in the hero section you can notice that the "AI generated" costume is not the same as the "real image" one.

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

#778
I’m working on https://rejobs.org - a job board dedicated to careers in the renewable energy industry.

It aggregates job ads from various sources and lets employers post directly. The goal is to help more people find meaningful work in wind, solar, BESS, etc.

Built with PHP, PostGIS, and a swarm of GPT-assisted cron jobs. I’d love your feedback.

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

#779
Would like to suggest a possible need to the dev wizards on HN, and also request pointers to something good that may already be out there:

I would like a phone app that would disable anything that a user doesn't actually need (not something like the existing google android feature that identifies apps that haven't been used in x months). It may ask a user what they actually need (for example, calling, SMS, a browser, etc.). The app would identify all the software/apps on the phone that are not required for the above needs and identify / disable them (say for example Location services). When you get a new phone one could start off with an absolute minimum.

It would need ongoing updates, as the app universe and surveillance technologies continuously evolve.

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