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

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

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Post by meinstein »

I'm one of the creators of a tool called PBRgen, which is an AI-powered online PBR material generator. The idea is that it can generate seamless materials for games and 3D animations etc. We’re still in early beta and really want to shape this with input from artists, so we are looking for artists and creators to help test and give feedback on the tool.

Here’s the link to try it out: https://pbrgen.aixpoly.com/ (limited spots available)

Let us know what works, what doesn’t, or what you wish it did. All feedback is so helpful right now.

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

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Post by tomcam »

Old guy here. My precious side projects are out the window. My sole "project" is getting my blood sugar down and losing weight. Have no energy for anything else except practicing musical instruments.

My credit rating has literally plummeted 200 points for reasons I don't even have the energy to investigate (I have a pretty good retirement fund, no debts/mortgage/care payments). Just no energy to do anything except hang around trying not to eat.

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

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Post by messagebus »

I've been working on a simple, multi-protocol, global pub/sub system. https://messagebus.org/

It currently supports subscribing, publishing, and unsubscribing in JMS, MQTT5, Redis, and Websockets, and send-only in SNS.

I'm not really sure who might use it, but it's been fun.

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

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Post by redbackthomson »

Just published my Chrome extension that makes finding new content on YouTube easier!

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/relevant/fdhnccpldk...

Two months ago I posted an update that I had begun work on my Chrome extension [1] for Relevant. Relevant is a crowdsourcing website where users can categorize the channels they watch into a defined hierarchy of categories ranging from broad topics like "Science" and "Gaming" to more specific ones like "Phone Reviews" or "Speedrunning".

Although I had a little bit of engagement on the website, I found myself looking for something that could bring the experience onto YouTube, so I began work on a Chrome extension. It turns out there's a lot more complexity in building a Chrome extension than I realised. It's basically like building a website for the popup window, a javascript server for the background service workers and a message bus for the service worker.

After 2 months' of working weekends, I finally released a version of it that lets users see the categories of the content on the page, discover more channels matching those categories and contribute to the categorisation effort!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822671

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

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Post by klous »

rsktaker wrote: post #787

https://www.dreamsign.ai/ An AI-native DocuSign It's been around a month I've been working on it. Struggling with getting people to actually use it - this week I've set the ambitious goal of 10 new contracts sent *and completed* by people I don't know (last week's was 10...by people I do know). It's hard because I feel I'm in a weird hole - in order to have a good product I need people to use it and give me feedback,…

Interesting, nice landing page. But I wonder if users care that it is "AI-native" As in, do users look for contract generation or eSignature that is infused with AI? Or rather are users interested in their own "job to be done" - whether that be creating a contract, agreement, or getting it signed efficiently.

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

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Post by usmanity »

cjflog wrote: post #637

Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe. This seemed like a solvable problem. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of s…

this is cool, if you'd like some help on the web UI stuff, I'd love to contribute.

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

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Post by stripekit »

softservo wrote: post #797

I built a simple web app that helped make me more present during a family tragedy: https://touchgrass.fm/ Brief backstory: While visiting us overseas, my in-laws were in a very bad car accident. Everyone involved is alive and going to be okay. But what followed was a series of emotional, physical and logistical challenges that pushed my wife and her parents to their limits. During this time I found myself (shamefully…

That's a really cool idea!

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

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Post by seriocomic »

Getting close to dark-launching a web-app that scans a domain for common issues - there's a heap of "performance measurement", "security analysis", "SEO scan" sites - but nothing that really does them all - a one-stop-shop if you will.

It's been a fun ride co-coding with Claude (Sonnet 3.5 > 3.7 > Code). Already it found a bunch of interesting bugs on a heap of my own sites, older employer sites, friend's sites.

Started as a simple Django web app, extended to Celery+Redis, now also leveraging CF Workers and R2 storage.

Was bourne out of an observation that some sites I have been working on missed some crucial things like domain expiration of asset-domains, mis-configured CORS or SSL certificates, http header and meta collisions, missing/wrong redirects for http/https/www/no-www etc.

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