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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by Vermin2000 »

I'm working on an app to display charts, analysis, and data on English football league games.

The real goal is to figure out how to use code gen AI (Cursor) effectively for data science projects and to figure out rapid deployment. I'm pushing things a bit harder than you typically see in demo apps (e.g. different chart types (e.g. violin plots, heatmaps, line charts), interactive charts, JavaScript widgets interacting with Bokeh charts, etc).

I'm trying to figure out all the skills, processes, and training you need to build a technical app very quickly. I'm at the deployment stage now.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by vitaly-pavlenko »

I'm working as a school teacher of Computer Science for Year 6..9. Currently I develop an online collection of exercises for intro to programming.

I have exercises:

- on turtle, using my DSL with three commands: 4[100 r90] draws a square

- on robot (blockly)

- a 2D replica of Replicube to teach conditions in JS.

I've started vibe-coding it two months ago and I add new stuff whenever I need it for my classroom.

I'll soon add signups.

The platform will be free forever, monetized via banner ads somewhere in the future. The target audience is middle school teachers of CS.

https://chessnawk.vercel.app/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by weagle05 »

For the first time in years I'm working somewhere that doesn't use JIRA or Trello and find myself without a Kanban system. I'm having serious withdrawals. I have limitations on using a non-approved IT system because I use customer data so I vibed a PWA Kanban system. Stores data in browser and only vanilla code. No external dependencies.

https://github.com/efriese/ikanban

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

ChristopherDrum wrote: post #157

Continuing with my retro productivity software blog, Stone Tools: https://stonetools.ghost.io I was getting a little bored of retrocomputing discourse being so centered on gaming, so I'm exploring the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. I put real effort into learning and using the programs, giving my light-hearted but heartfelt assessment of its form and function for both its time and today. Using the softwar…

That's interesting. I agree that outside of gaming you really don't see much being done with the old systems.

My first job out of college was with a tiny, now-defunct company that built simple I/O hardware for 8-bit systems. One of the "side products" was a MacPaint clone for the Radio Shack Color Computer II called CoCoMax. We didn't write it: AFAIK, the programmer for the original version contacted the company and asked if they wanted to buy it and pay him royalties. He later went off and built an even more successful product used in TV stations called the Video Toaster. Side product or not, CoCoMax was a cash cow!

On the heels of that success, another programmer who'd written a more advanced version for the Color Computer 3 offered the same deal. From what I recall, they both made buttloads of money from their royalties.

Sometimes I wish I had kept some of that old hardware & software, but it's long gone.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by chrisischris »

I was hitting Claude Code's rate limit pretty often while paying for their max subscription. Started thinking – I've got a decent GPU sitting at home doing nothing most of the day.

So I'm building a distributed AI inference platform where you can run models on your own hardware and access it from anywhere privately. Keep your data on infrastructure you control, but also leverage a credit system to tap into more powerful compute when you need it. Your idle GPU time can earn credits for accessing bigger models. The goal is making it dead simple to use your home hardware from wherever you're working.

It's for anyone who wants infrastructure optionality: developers who don't want vendor lock-in, businesses with compliance requirements, or just people who don't want their data sent to third parties.

Get notified when we launch: https://sporeintel.com

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by ata_aman »

ml- wrote: post #761

Started work on a project to put local history on a map. If I go somewhere I would ideally want to just open this webapp and immediately get presented with cool or interesting history that happened close by. Maybe it's a story about named local fishermen from the early 1900s, with pictures, the history of a statue and videos of the process, or the state of a graffiti wall over time. Currently in a phase of UI develop…

Built something similar almost a year ago during the holidays [1]. Open-source if you want to check it out [2]. I use the mobile app version from time to time when I'm going on walking adventures around the city.

[1] https://smartmap.ai [2] https://github.com/space0blaster/smartmap

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by var_let »

I’m working on a Chrome extension called Console Dock, which adds a floating dev console window directly inside the page. I built it as a fun side project because I often work on smaller screens and hate constantly switching or resizing panels. Still very experimental, but it’s already proving useful for quick debugging sessions.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/console-dock/biplbp...

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