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

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

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Post by strnisa »

zufallsheld wrote: post #836
strnisa wrote: post #557

I'm working on Small Transfers ( https://smalltransfers.com/ ), a payment platform that makes it very convenient for SaaS / API makers to provide a pay-as-you-go model to their customers. You can charge as little as 0.000001 USD per request. The platform uses our own system for tracking usage, which is settled through Stripe. No crypto, tokens, or wallets. If combined with subscriptions, the pricing can work similarl…

Do you know https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr ? They did something similar.

Flattr was a micro-donation subscription service where users set a monthly budget that was allocated to creators.

Small Transfers is for usage-based billing of online services and APIs. There is no monthly budget, wallet, or pre-funding. Customers are charged only for actual usage.

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

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Post by m3047 »

I have a steep pitch (1:1) roof, and I'm building ladders so I can get on top of it for cleaning, etc. I actually did this a decade ago out of wood, but it apparently hadn't been inspected / seasoned / treated correctly (by the people who produced the lumber) and after a couple of years the thing started growing mushrooms so I had to tear it all out. Just re-roofed a month ago. Building it this time out of mild steel. Cutting, drilling, bending, welding... oh my! Plus there's the risky business of assembling it in place on aforesaid slope.

If I don't have a consulting gig where risk is taken seriously, I can always work on my house or my motorcycles. :-p

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

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Post by andoando »

claviska wrote: post #151

I launched Quiet UI this week: https://quietui.org/ It prioritizes accessibility, longevity, performance, and simplicity. With the autoloader, one script tag loads components dynamically without downloading the entire library. (npm also available.) Theming uses color-mix() and OKLAB to create uniform color palettes from a single CSS property. Adaptive palettes are used for dark mode. All form controls are form-associ…

Very nice, will definitely be using this in the future.

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

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Post by RagnarD »

After leaving active involvement in a still-extant biotech I co-founded in 2020, I'm focusing on some ideas I've kicked around for awhile but didn't have time to work on.

The first is a document search system for over 200,000 high quality OCRed pages from successful CD/DVD-ROM products I developed some years ago, covering the official records of the American Civil War as well as 19th century documents on Native American history. The technology stack involves BaseX for indexed document search, Postgres for user data, Redis for transient session information, and Blazor WASM for the UI. (I coded all of it.) It can be seen at https://allhistory.us (currently desktop oriented.)

After working extensively with Coda (and much less with Notion), and becoming frustrated with its limitations, I decided to work on a considerably more powerful and programmable system to compete with both. No externally viewable progress so far, but soon ...

I'm developing on a new system I assembled, for general development but also to be able to seriously work on local AI - an EPYC 9755 CPU (128 core) on a Supermicro motherboard, 384GB RAM, and an RTX 6000 Pro Max-Q. I also have ideas for some AI products but too early to talk about.

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

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Post by coolspot »

dodobirdy wrote: post #811

My uni is called NUST so I made a better LMS for it called NUTS lms. https://www.nutslms.com . It's a chrome extension that serves as agentic interface for my University's LMS. The AI Agent is called "Deez Nust" and it can do pretty much everything a human can do: - Check deadlines - Download assignments - Even do a quiz for you

I like the mobile version and pricing page.

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

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Post by ryanrasti »

ramon156 wrote: post #608
ryanrasti wrote: post #394

I'm working on Typegres, a new data layer for the modern stack (TypeScript + PostgreSQL). My take is that for years, ORMs have hidden the power of PostgreSQL behind generic, database-agnostic abstractions. This made sense in 2010, but now it's a bottleneck. Typegres rejects this. It's a "translator, not an abstraction," designed to express the full power of PostgreSQL (all statements, built-in functions, etc.) in a t…

Interesting! have u taken a look at safeql? https://safeql.dev/ I'm personally not a fan of query builders for SQL. it's already a defined language, why are we trying to move away from queries? On top of that SafeQL is only a dev dependency, there's no abstraction. it gets ran through any query client you want

Thanks for the great points and link to SafeQL! I'm a big fan of its approach to bringing type safety to raw SQL strings. For static queries, it's a fantastic solution.

My take is that while "Just use SQL" is healthy pushback against heavy ORMs, a good query builder solves two fundamental problems that raw SQL can't in the application context:

1. Dynamic composition: A query builder is the macro system that SQL is missing. The moment you need to build a query programatically (e.g., conditional filters or joins) you're left with messy/unsafe string concatenation

2. Handling Relations (and other common patterns): Using raw SQL, a complex query with JOINs returns a flat list of rows that now becomes the application's job to properly denormalize. It greatly reduces cognitive load to think in terms of relations, not just join conditions.

Again, showing is stronger than telling. To illustrate, I'd urge you to go through the first couple of examples in the playground and think about how you'd express them (e.g., the composability of the "example1" query) in something like SafeQL: https://typegres.com/play/

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

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Post by ideashower »

A side project that takes legal documents and uses TTS models to create a narrated read out of the whole document.

Part of the reason I'm building my own solution is that legal documents are often distributed in PDFs which can have all kinds of formatting issues when converted to plain text. There's also specific jargon and formatting that may or may not need to be included, or spoken, or even spoken differently, that I am finding no commercial TTS platform like ElevenLabs really accounts for well. It's all about the pre-processing and chunking.

Also, the commercial models are expensive when you're routinely throwing dozens of pages of text at it.

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

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Post by paulhebert »

hacb wrote: post #622
paulhebert wrote: post #88

I’m building a daily word puzzle game with a twist! In Tiled Words you rearrange tiles to solve clues and rebuild a broken crossword. You can play a demo at https://tiledwords.com - it’s free and web based so it works on whatever device you’ve got. I’ll be officially launching on October 19th at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. You can sign up to be notified on launch. Starting then there will be a new puzzle every da…

Really cool, congrats! The UI is clean, everything is smooth, I like it :) Can't wait for the release

Thank you!

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

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Post by paulhebert »

robtaylor wrote: post #621
paulhebert wrote: post #88

I’m building a daily word puzzle game with a twist! In Tiled Words you rearrange tiles to solve clues and rebuild a broken crossword. You can play a demo at https://tiledwords.com - it’s free and web based so it works on whatever device you’ve got. I’ll be officially launching on October 19th at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. You can sign up to be notified on launch. Starting then there will be a new puzzle every da…

Love this - did you buy the name or was it free to reg? (nosey!)

It was available to register at a normal rate!
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