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

#822

I am working on a handful of ADHD projects. Currently my biggest focus is my MUD Server I'm working on. Allows a developer to create a simple MUD game, (locations, items, combat), but all NPCs are actually just LLM controlled MUD clients. Uses Server-Sent Events for the client + HTTP post for sending actions. Not a traditional direct TELNET style MUD server, but works well in the modern world. Definitely not 100% han…

I'm pretty interested in following the progress of your MUD server, if you have any way for me to do that. I was a heavy player back the day, mostly Circle/Diku MUDs, and still try one out from time to time.

Lately, I have been considering creating my own as a "something to do in my downtime" project, using Coffee or Evennia, but if you're creating a full server environment that makes rolling out a playable world more convenient, sign me up.

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

#823
I've been sporadically working on a passion-project web app that displays a map of where my family's native language is spoken and where different dialectal variations of a user-supplied word are spoken.

This all started when I was first learning the language and was having a lot of trouble understanding different dialects, I want to make sure this is not a problem for future learners!

It's my first major project so it has been quite the learning experience, especially when it comes to infrastructure/hosting. The project is still pretty early on but I hope to show it off soon.

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

#824

I got tired of trying to find a good MP3 player that just worked so I created a website to function as an online MP3 player. I started adding sources for content and ended up supporting YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, Instagram, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Rumble, WSHH, Facebook and X. So now you can create playlists from all of those sources with features you would find on any decent MP3 player such as loop, repeat, etc. I also dr…

Reminds me of Kottke's project https://kottke.org/25/10/the-underscore-music-player

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

#825
I’m still developing Oliphaunt, a native macOS client for Mastodon, designed to offer a fully native desktop experience that feels at home on the platform. You can find more details, including screenshots and a project overview, here: https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support. You can try the TestFlight build here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Epq1P3Cw

I’m also working on the next version of HacKit, a macOS Hacker News reader focused on simplicity, performance and adherence to macOS design language. It’s already available on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549557075 and further information can be found here: https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support.

I’d be delighted to hear any feedback, suggestions, or ideas — or simply to connect with others working on Apple platform development.

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

#827
Been working on Forvard https://forvard.org — a tiny desktop app to help people remember what they actually did at work.

It’s offline-first and totally local (no cloud, no tracking). You just drop in your accomplishments, metrics, or files as you go, and later it helps you summarize them (ML model that runs locally) for performance reviews, promotions, or interviews.

Basically built it because I got tired of trying to reconstruct a year’s worth of work from Slack and Jira the night before review time.

It’s a one-time $0.99 download for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Curious if others have tried building similar “career memory” tools or have thoughts on what’s missing.

Would love feedback from people who’ve struggled to keep track of their work accomplishments or prep for performance reviews!

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

#828
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Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…

This is really cool and I was hoping something similar existed earlier this year when looking into protein powders following the Clean Label Transparency Project report [1]. Basically they said about half of protein powders tested showed signs of heavy metals, but did not disclose which brands. I would be interested in funding testing for some specific brands as I am sure others would as well. I did a bit of digging on a few brands and found lawsuits against them for violating prop 65, sometimes multiple [2][3] from the same brand.

Some testing has been done on https://labdoor.com/ where they basically fund the testing with affiliate links, which I think could be another revenue source for your site. I did contact them in January and they said they would add the brands I requested to the list, it's just not crowdsourced the same way your site is. They received some form of backing from Mark Cuban [4].

(edit) To make this more clear - If you are looking for expansion or making it a little wider, allowing users to request other types of testing besides the plastics would be cool.

[1] - https://www.texashealth.org/areyouawellbeing/Eating-Right/Le... [2] - https://www.erc501c3.org/settlements/6f2zxji0o3m2k4jhcwgg7hd... [3] - https://www.erc501c3.org/settlements/k7p29rie5whpc5qek5kdha2... [4] - https://markcubancompanies.com/companies/labdoor/

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

#829
Im working on a simple website that converts PDFs into audio. I made it essentially because I didn't find a similar website offering the service at a sane price. Also the TTS services in Swedish (where Im from) is pretty limited... it relies on Google TTS. Have a try and feel free to comment if you have suggestions. https://pagevoice.ai

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

#830

One man project for 4 years: https://kastanj.ch/ Most recipes are a failure for beginners on the first try. I aim to make recipes bulletproof so anyone can pick up any recipe and it will just work. The goal is to make the best recipe app ever. On a technical level recipes are built as graphs and assembled on demand. This makes multilanguage support easy, any recipe can use any unit imaginable, blind people could have…

I admire the dedication and love to idea / how much you've thought it trough from the app / logic side. From the marketing side... I'd make a selection on the website on first visit - I'm a chef / creator - I like to cook Your cta (call to action) is... Not very effective Instagram only has 7 followers and no posts. ... I like the dedication but I'd definitely recommend to improve your marketing / promotion skills (i…

Yes the marketing is weak. Will definitely have to spend time on that. Currently prioritizing topics related to onboarding beta users. What do you specialize in?
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