Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

#81

Post by wcedmisten » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

I got tired of trying to pick a date spot with my girlfriend, so I made this website to randomly pick an restaurant/date activity for me based on OpenStreetMap data.

I've also used the data corrections submitted by users to contribute over 3,000 edits back into OSM!

https://surprisedatespot.com/

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

#82

Post by lunarcave » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

ParseLM: https://github.com/parselm/parselm

It's a Typescript library that allows you to wrangle structured outputs from LLMs and pipe them to programmatically useful control flow or structured data.

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

#83

Post by clone1018 » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

piker wrote: post #61

https://tritium.legal Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to…

I'm not a customer, but having seen the workflows lawyers go through with documents this product would be extremely useful. I suspect your challenge will be that most laywers are likely risk averse, and would hesitate to put any important changes through something that is not well vetted. I wonder if there's a way to combat that by keeping your product compatible with their usual format, therefor making it a less risky product to try?

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

#84

Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

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

#85

Post by pabna » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

I'm working on a data-visualization blog. Hoping it will lead to some cool projects / apps.

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

#86

Post by frainfreeze » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

piker wrote: post #61

https://tritium.legal Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to…

Now my lawyer will be using vscode too, sweet!

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

#87

Post by wcedmisten » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

xandrius wrote: post #79

Started working on a geo-location game about birdwatching. Imagine Pokémon GO but for taking photos and audio recordings of birds around the world. Planning to have a first testing session some time next month. Really excited but still lots to go!

That's awesome! I recently picked up bird photography as a hobby and have contributed a few pictures to wiki commons.

Do you have a website I can follow?

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

#88

Post by qu0b » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

We’re building conversational product discovery tools for e-commerce stores, moving beyond the limitations of traditional search bars. Our system lets shoppers explore and find products naturally—using their own words. We’re about to launch with our second customer, and early results show a faster, more intuitive, and more convenient shopping experience. For our retail customer we've had users just copy and paste their complete shopping list and be done within one conversation turn. https://www.isartech.io/

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

#89

Post by clone1018 » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

35mm wrote: post #12

Email newsletter tracking the latest VC rounds, built in Rust: https://gtmintel.com

Really like your web design!

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

#90

Post by piker » Sun, May 25, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

clone1018 wrote: post #83

piker wrote: post #61

https://tritium.legal Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to…

I'm not a customer, but having seen the workflows lawyers go through with documents this product would be extremely useful. I suspect your challenge will be that most laywers are likely risk averse, and would hesitate to put any important changes through something that is not well vetted. I wonder if there's a way to combat that by keeping your product compatible with their usual format, therefor making it a less ris…

Great question - it aims for 100% compatibility with MS Word documents. It falls over on the rendering side, but guarantees not to drop data or miss any text. If you see it on your screen, someone using Word will see it too.

Getting it onto the desktop is the big challenge for the moment!