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

#851

I recently launched a daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com It’s inspired by tile placement board games like Patchwork and crosswords. You rotate and move tiles to rebuild a broken crossword. It’s free, web based, and responsive. I currently have several hundred daily players and growing. My wife and I create the puzzles and I’m continuing to fix bugs and add new features. I just launched a ”community puzzle” fea…

Amazing game, perfect for me.

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

#852
I’m building DB Pro, a modern database workbench that makes working with Postgres, SQLite, and MySQL fast and intuitive.

I’m documenting the journey in monthly devlogs.

Here’s the first devlog: https://youtu.be/cSY-C8oiUU8

You can check it out here. We're very close to launching a v1: https://dbpro.app

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

#853
I'm working on 3 projects right now:

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Backdoor: https://github.com/tanin47/backdoor

A self-hosted database querying and editing tool for you and your team. Modern and elegant UI. Supports Postgres and ClickHouse. It can be embedded into any JVM app or runs as a standalone.

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Embeddable Java Web Framework: https://github.com/tanin47/embeddable-java-web-framework

A lightweight production-ready Java web framework that comes with batteries (e.g Svelte, Tailwind, Github Actions, browser testing).

It is packaged into a single fat jar with no external dependencies. The starting size is 350KB. This is great for embedding into your larger JVM app or runs a lightweight website.

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PlayFast: https://github.com/tanin47/playfast

An opinionated production-ready PlayFramework that comes with batteries (e.g Svelte, Tailwind, Github Actions, browser testing).

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

#854

I recently launched a daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com It’s inspired by tile placement board games like Patchwork and crosswords. You rotate and move tiles to rebuild a broken crossword. It’s free, web based, and responsive. I currently have several hundred daily players and growing. My wife and I create the puzzles and I’m continuing to fix bugs and add new features. I just launched a ”community puzzle” fea…

Just played it, really super. Great job.

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

#855
Currently working on two OSS projects:

Laketower: https://github.com/datalpia/laketower A lightweight data lakehouse exploration and management app (web+cli), using DuckDB as the default query engine. It can run locally or self hosted, and for now statically configured only. Hope to integrate Iceberg and Ducklake support by end of year.

Modelship: https://github.com/datalpia/modelship An ML model to app generator. For now, only ONNX models are supported as input, and only static website as target (onnx runtime web wasm/webgpu). I intend to also work more on it the following weeks/months, especially to support more model I/O types, and add support for more targets (REST API, CLI, etc).

These 2 projects were born from professional activity needs but are a nice playground to learn and try new things

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

#856
I'm building https://localhero.ai. Automated i18n translations that run in your CI pipeline.

I have worked as dev in many different constellations of the years, and seen many teams choose between bad options like delay feature launches for manual translations, ship incomplete translations and promise "we'll translate it later," or lately use ChatGPT/LLMs that lose consistency/context and require coordination.

Localhero starts from the premise that translations are part of CI. New strings get translated automatically in GitHub Actions, with glossaries and style guides so it sounds like your product and not generic AI output.

Goal is to help product teams ship localized features without all the coordination/delay.

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

#857

I recently launched a daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com It’s inspired by tile placement board games like Patchwork and crosswords. You rotate and move tiles to rebuild a broken crossword. It’s free, web based, and responsive. I currently have several hundred daily players and growing. My wife and I create the puzzles and I’m continuing to fix bugs and add new features. I just launched a ”community puzzle” fea…

I love it!

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

#858
A few things:

https://terminalwire.com streams a TUI/CLI from web apps without having to build an API and

I recently finished 45 videos at https://beautifulruby.com/phlex, so now I’m talking more about them and

Updating https://sitepress.cc to work with Rails 8.1 and thinking about another set of videos for it at https://beautifulruby.com/sitepress.

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

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I’ve been working on https://canine.sh which is a free, open source Heroku alternative for 2 years now. It’s exactly the product I wish I had when I started my previous company. Running on PaaS is incredible for devex but the pricing is bonkers, and the vendor lock in makes it really hard to deal with annual price increases. We spent close to 400k / year for just 128GB combined fleet in our last startup on Heroku. Ca…

This looks really cool, will try it out!
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