I work my contextual macOS Shortcuts launcher a bit back: BarCuts (https://actions.work/barcuts).
Now I struggle with a marketing strategy, quite a bit. But hey, I was told it's part of the job ;)
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#862I've been trying to put the finishing touches on my daily word game Omiword ( https://www.omiword.com/ ), but I've been waylaid by Stripe because they decided that a simple daily word game is a "restricted business," and they shut down my account.[1] Now I need to figure out an alternate payment handler, or just give up on my modest monetization plan where players can pay a small one-time fee to unlock all of the arc…
Have you considered crypto payments?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#863Build user-facing prototypes with your real data.
Every startup/company I work for I've had to jury rig ways to get new product ideas in front of users. Google sheets, Grafana boards, Chartio (RIP), etc all to go "SQL query" -> "user-accessible website". For some reason Retool doesn't have a "make externally available to these people".
So I'm playing around with how to build a generic interface between db and user access panel.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#864I vibe coded a chrome extension that highlights new links on HN frontpage since your last visit, so that you dont have to waste time looking for which links are new. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-new-links-highli...
I've been using a js bookmarklet every single day for over a decade. It sorts the entries by most voted and dims the ones already shown last visit. I won't post it here as it may mess up with formatting, so here is a link to pastebin:
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#865Trying to replace everything I use daily, outside money/banking, with my own fully customizable software. I had enough depending on others.
I'm looking for a replacement simple accounting software. I'm still using Quicken 96, which will stop working at the end of next year. I'm tired of subscription software that sucks. Give me simple and reliable, without the enshittification. I've looked at a number of open source projects, but they are more complicated than what I'm looking for. Just let me manually enter my data or import a CSV into a ledger. All my…
I am working on an administrative app for small businesses and it has some accounting functionality, take a look at it and let me know how I can improve it to suit your needs
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#866I'm working on a programming language aiming to replace Bash. It specifically targets CLI scripts where Python or Rust are overkill, but it contains a bunch of constructs that make it particularly well suited for CLI scripts, including arg parsing, table formatting, HTTP querying, Bash command invocation, etc.
Keen to hear people's thoughts and feedback! GitHub here: https://github.com/amterp/rad
The docs site also contains a guide for getting started, including some of the unique features: https://amterp.github.io/rad/guide/getting-started/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#867We’re looking to improve signal and reduce noise for energy traders. Currently, power is a niche market that relies heavily on day-ahead forecasts to set prices for energy contracts. When they’re actually exercised, it can be problematic for the buyer and/or seller if energy demand is significantly lower or higher than anticipated.
We currently are focused on hydroelectric power in the PNW region - converting river flow to tradable metrics.
Check us out -> https://askcrystal.info/dashboard
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#868Building ( https://estan.ai ), an AI that reverse-engineers real estate listings by pulling not just from public records, but also social media, neighborhood forums, historical sales, and user reviews. It flags red flags—like crime trends, sketchy development patterns, neighborhood trends, and so on—then presents them in plain, opinionated language. Goal: replace the vague boilerplate of listings with something close…
Think this is a great idea, I would have paid for this when we were buying our house. Especially for one feature: let me give you a list of properties (perhaps forwarded from my agent, or e.g. a Zillow search) and get back the "enriched" listings with your added insights. It'd be great if I could then weight different factors (local schools, walkability, etc.) to stack rank them.
With a once-in-a-century shakeup in commission structure for Realtors, you're building this at a very interesting time.
Happy to chat more if you'd like to bounce ideas around.
edit: Also, I think you could easily monetize this by charging agents (or their brokers) for it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#869Planning a hobby alpaca farm (3-4 alpacas), very early stage. Everything from farm related stuff (water, food, shelter, etc.) to self-sufficiency (solar, etc.) to real time monitoring (which cameras, affecting power supply). Who knows if it'll ever happen, but just planning everything in detail is a lot of fun. Especially with weird regulatory constraints where I'm living, there's a lot to watch out for. Example: Sol…
Do you forsee the tariff situation improving demand for domestically produced wool? I have land and am speculating that the economics of livestock may actually improve.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#870I’m building a system for free universal ai access for the important things in life - education, health, government etc Stuff that should be open source, open data Made state of the art datasets, health models, research systems & agents so far @ www.ii.inc but the plan is ai first open source full stack systems for every regulated sector Have a distributed ledger announcing soon to tie it all together and create a fl…
Amazing mr Emad. Open datasets are hugely important nowadays. I was thinking in the future I could make myself a database of small programming problems and solutions, 5 to 10 lines each, but a lot of of them, so as new LLMs become better and better at coding.
We should try our best when it comes to coding, open datasets should be better than proprietary ones.