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

#791
I'm still working on Marketing Agents (marketingagents.net) in my free time. Trying to make an open source, self hostable app that will allow founders scale their marketing efforts.

Thinking about future monetization efforts and found myself liking Posthog approach for that.

Host for large companies looking to automate marketing, yet leaving it free (self hostable) for smaller companies that can't pay.

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

#792
Two things! - Videogame, you live inside a mechanical ladybird called a Clomper, which you control by making pipes to power machines with steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2349380/Clomper/

- Building plastic self organising maps (Lang 2002) using Python CUDA build to parallelise the more expensive bits. Also fancy building the directed graph half in Unity 3D.

- Also doing some data engineering pre-training and AIIA at work but no deets, sadly.

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

#793
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 language which generates a lot of the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.

https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof

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

#795
I'm working on Valuate! An AI powered hotel acquisition underwriting platform. I'm currently iterating based off of feedback I've been collecting from brokers and hotel investors.

I'm also available for other work/projects. I'm a full stack developer with a decade of experience working in government tech and real estate. Feel free to reach out!

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

#797
A toolkit for SaaS startups, especially solo founders and small teams, that combines web & product analytics, session replays, error reporting, chat support and knowledge base in one place.

Instead of integrating, maintaining and paying for multiple tools, everything is available in one simple to use dashboard.

For those familiar with PostHog, you can think of it a simple version of that.

I've been developing it and testing with few startups and plan to start promoting it more soon once the MVP is bit more polished. Also more tools are on the roadmap.

https://overcentric.com/

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

#798
I'm working on a programming language called Mech: https://github.com/mech-lang

It's for building robots, scientific computations, user interfaces, reactive systems, and so forth. Currently working on docs for this new version that I'm about to release. I'll post a Show HN when I do. Here's the spec so far it's a very WIP, maybe 20% done: https://docs.mech-lang.org/v0.2/II.reference/specification.h...

The cool part about the spec is it's a valid Mech program which is formatted into html by the formatter! https://gitlab.com/mech-lang/docs/-/raw/main/II.reference/sp...

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

#799

I'm working on Valuate! An AI powered hotel acquisition underwriting platform. I'm currently iterating based off of feedback I've been collecting from brokers and hotel investors. I'm also available for other work/projects. I'm a full stack developer with a decade of experience working in government tech and real estate. Feel free to reach out!

I'd be interested in this for different REI -- multi-family, storage, single family, co-living, sober living, etc.

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

#800
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Nest Thermostats of the 1st and 2nd generation will no longer be supported by Google starting in October. I'm working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant

What microcontroller would you use?
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