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

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

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Post by avyfain »

rollinDyno wrote: post #113

Have you ever wanted to write your life story but found it too overwhelming? I’m developing an app that acts as your personal interviewer, guiding you through your memories and helping you share them with your loved ones. The app is designed for older adults who enjoy reminiscing but struggle to organize their thoughts into a coherent narrative. The goal is to preserve their hard-won insights and pass them down—to fa…

Very cool! Would love to check this out. Have been meaning to interview my aunts for years to write down my family history now that my dad is no longer with us. A tool like what you describe could be super helpful.

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

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

anhldbk wrote: post #450

I'm working on Beam, a web app that lets you transfer files between nearby devices using QR codes - completely offline, with no servers involved, and leaving absolutely no trace. Beam is perfect for sharing sensitive documents, transferring files when you can't use USB, email, or cloud storage. Try it here: https://get-beam.vercel.app

Bluetooth, or animated QR?

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

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

ksh74 wrote: post #540

I have been working on building a site where you search by phrases which you have heard in some youtube shorts and are not able to remember which video was it, my project would give the users the videos in which the phrase has been said or mentioned

I could really use that for YouTube Poops

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

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

IrgT wrote: post #242
marc101 wrote: post #163

Finally caved and built a custom AI newsletter curation platform for a friend who's been pestering me to automate his GPT news digests. Still no idea if there's real demand, but the learning experience with Cursor and Claude Code has been worth it. After growing my own newsletter to 800 subscribers, I'm convinced aggregation beats adding another newsletter to the pile. Thanks to Claude, it works way better than I sho…

Hey, as the friend who nudged you into this, this really helps me in my work with (former) elite athletes now entrepreneurs/investors and with high-octane executives. These folks receive too many calls, emails, messages, and yes, of course, newsletters and reports. I understood, the last thing they need is another newsletter or report. Instead, they need sharp, AI-driven tools to sift through the noise and surface ac…

I didn't wanna read all that

Here is what the bot said

This helps me turn inbox noise into useful briefings for busy clients. Cool use of AI—curious what others think.

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

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

zero_shift wrote: post #13

I just finished a YouTube video on why PlayStation had multiple names ( https://youtu.be/m4rpN_oQF2s ) After that, I'm not sure. I have four big ideas: 1. (continuation) Another video, this one about my experiences writing a homebrew PSOne game 2. (useful) a command line tool (or native desktop app) that generates white noise 3. (fanciful) See if I can unpack FFVII's world map data into OBJ models and UV mapped textu…

I think that video was in my recommendations, funny seeing you here

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

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Post by amitprayal »

rovr138 wrote: post #671
amitprayal wrote: post #648

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No to discourage you ,but how do you handle a real world cluttered room where mosquito's will be able to shelter in the clutter, under table, drawers etc.

Not OP, but they have to come out to be a problem. If they're out of sight and not bothering me, I don't really care. If they're out and possibly annoying and biting me, that's a problem.

mosquito generally bite you on your legs , say when you are sitting in a chair...the area under the chair is a pretty complex space to navigate for a flying bot

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

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Post by barrenko »

piker wrote: post #633
barrenko wrote: post #603

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever thought about a kind of a diff format for legal texts / documents / cases? And what are transactional lawyers btw?

Thanks for checking it out, and yes! If you type some text into one of the documents in the web preview, click the triangle and click the name of that document, you'll get a redline. That's the current industry-standard diff format. Redlines don't standardize around any kind of metadata format, though, so parsing them (unlike a diff) is non-trivial. There's an opportunity for improvement. As mentioned elsewhere, tran…

Thank you. So this red squigeee line is the industry standard?

I built a simple "gpt wrapper" focused on legal - in the process of fine-tuning an llm, I've noticed that Gemini / Google scraped the hell out of a certain legal forum (phbb board) in my country. After that I've started focusing on court legal cases entries (since there's a public website for that) and thinking a bit about what would a diff in a court case ideally look like, and it's an interesting problem.

Your product reminds me a bit of quantus.finance (also here on HN) even though the space is not really related, but it caters to a business area in an interesting way. What are you planning on doing next (on a high level)?

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

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Post by barrenko »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #625
barrenko wrote: post #603

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever thought about a kind of a diff format for legal texts / documents / cases? And what are transactional lawyers btw?

Transactional lawyers are lawyers that primarily work on transactions, eg, mergers and acquisition, bond or share issuances, etc. It means they spend most of their time drafting, reviewing and negotiating deal documents rather than, eg, going to court. I'm not the person you responded to but there are various diff programmes out there that lawyers use. I think they tend to be proprietary formats though. Lawyers prett…

Thank you Noboru! So there are proprietary diff formats for text formats?

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

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Post by knuckleheads »

slig wrote: post #761
knuckleheads wrote: post #519

https://www.threeemojis.com/ , a daily word game for learning foreign languages. It's been a lot of fun to work on, and it's almost something that I am very proud of. For now it's only playable in German, and someday I hope that it will include many more languages. Today's puzzle shows the challenges of making something like this because there are a lot of old ancient words in there (that I am working on filtering ou…

Hoping to see the English version soon! By the way, I'm also working on a daily games website with a subscription model (it's not live yet!), and I'm considering a price range exactly like yours. Are you having success with your subscription model? This thread [1], specifically this comment [2], was a letdown, but I haven't given up. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595184 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com…

Ask me in a few months about subscriptions, I'm only a few weeks into having this thing be something even remotely playable. It's more or less the nytimes model and they seem to make it work. Right now, my girlfriend is very helpfully finding very obvious bugs in it most nights that I am fixing, and then after that I hope to get English in there.

I have also read that thread previously and disagree with ads being the only way to go. I think if the game is good enough and, for three emojis in particular, people learn more about their target language, that they will happily pay for it. I know I would at least, and I personally don't think I'm so weird. Friends have surprised me by signing up as soon as I sent it to them, specifically on the language learning value proposition, so I think there's something there. But, if it was just a puzzle game for fun only, then I might agree that the model doesn't work. We will just have to see!

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