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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)

#841
I'm trying to systematically track & collect historical MICHELIN awards for restaurants globally. It's been fun to look at the results!

site: https://michelindb.jerrynsh.com/michelin

and I wrote about my journey here: https://jerrynsh.com/building-what-michelin-wouldnt-its-awar...

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

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Still building https://ongoingthings.com - a way to document and privately share life updates with close people. I used to post personal updates in group chats - scattered, repetitive, and easy to miss. Now each topic (like raising a child, a trip, a project) gets its own private space - an Ongoing Thing - where updates stay organized. People get email notifications for new posts. There's no feed, no comments, no ads…

This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently! My friends group all seem burnt out by the direction social media is going, with what you're building seeming like a better return to the norm. Will follow along to see your progress! One thing that kept tripping me up when thinking about this was pricing - everyone is so conditioned to think that social media is free that this will be a huge hill to overcome…

Yeah, even calling it anything close to "social media" turns some people off. And most people are totally fine using group chats or DMs — which are free, for now.

It felt weird paying for email after using Gmail for so long. Even now, most people do not care enough in order to justify paying for it. This feels similar.

We can't afford to offer free-forever accounts to everyone - not without compromising on principles. But we are thinking of ways to make it more accessible at least for some people. Open to ideas!

The "social media" baggage, and the pricing bit you pointed, those are definitely the two biggest challenges imo. If this was not something we needed and used ourselves, we probably wouldn't have built it.

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

#843

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Oh I get it now, thanks! Please let me know if you decide to enroll to math master's in OU, maybe we can help each other! I think I'll do the same on the next semester (so early 2026)

I actually just registered for it :) Assuming I'm approved I'll be starting in October. Feel free to email me (address in profile) if you want to talk about it.

Thanks! Keeping fingers crossed for your success with this degree

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

#844
Hit some speed bumps but still building out a Discord-based digital TCG platform. Discord felt like a natural social context for an accessible and customizable experience. Users can use their own media for card images, but it's also integrated with a free pixel art AI that generates cards based on description. Would love feedback, even if basic or high level suggestions.

https://discordtcg.com

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

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Somewhat similar is https://paradigmai.com .

Kind of looks a bit like what Clay is built to do...?

Okay, I'll bite. There are many clever people out there who figured out that spreadsheets is a great UI paradigm for building low-code AI workflows. That is good for users. And I find it is good for me. Thanks for validating the idea guys.

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

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to me that's exciting and optimistic because any marginal efficiency in animal testing pays off in net-humane treatment of lab animals. it's counter intuitive, but if even a small portion of animal rights money went into tech solutions like this, they could have an orders of magnitude greater impact on welfare.

I appreciate the perspective, but I think that tech solutions like this have plenty of opportunities to bootstrap and apply for various grants and funds (which we are doing). I'd rather see more money go towards non-tech solutions and direct care for animals. Shelters are notoriously underfunded and understaffed, and the number of pets people have adopted and given up has boomed since the pandemic. Not to mention the…

indeed, though i was thinking more in terms of actual investment with an expected return on growth rather than just patronage. it sounded valuable and worth investing in.

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

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Somewhat similar is https://paradigmai.com .

Looks very similar yes, it is a great UI paradigm for running many prompts. I think of spreadsheets as the OG low-code tool and with just a sprinkle of LLMs, people can do so much more with tools they already know

Totally agree! And to be clear, I'm not intending to discourage you (or anyone else) from working on it. A bunch of smart people separately working and iterating to create the best version of spreadsheet + LLMs makes me a happy user

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

#850

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What did the total cost for your MS?

Not very much, around $4,400. https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science-maste... WGU charges "per term", and you can take as many courses as you'd like per term, as long as you can complete them.

So you completed 10 courses within the span of 6 months? Did you find the workload to be heavy?
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