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

#863
currently in the process of building a small CPG/food lab/accelerator/incubator. I have access to talent, supply chain, logistics network, retail space and a little bit of capital. I want to take and implement the VC model for SaaS startups in Mexico. I'll have a very specific selection process for products we would take on and I'll provide all the infrastructure to get the product onto store shelves in Mexico, USA and hopefully Europe.

I have no idea what I'm doing but I never really have. I've always just figured it out on the way.

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

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Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe. This seemed like a solvable problem. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of s…

Great initiative! Would it not be cheaper to produce home testing kits that can consumers can purchase?

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

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post #637

Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe. This seemed like a solvable problem. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of s…

> the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe

I thought it was an exaggeration so I checked. It's actually even worse:

EU is 0.2 ng/kg body weight and US is 50 µg/kg body weight. So the US limit is 250,000 times higher.

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

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I'm making a kind of "Tinder for hiking trails".

I live in Switzerland and am (like many people here) an avid hiker. There are a lot of great hiking websites but they all suffer from the same problem: They are ultimately just a list of hiking routes that you need to plan around. Because I do a hike almost every week, the extra planning has become an overhead that takes time out of my life: how far away is it, what train should I take, whats the weather situation like, do I need to bring snowshoes, etc. The 65,000km of trails in this country also gives me decision paralysis!

So I'm building an app (React native/django) which takes a users current situation and preferences and then algorithmically suggests a few best options for them that they can quickly give a yes/no to. It's integrated with a lot of data like the train timetables, snow data, weather forecast etc.

I was able to reduce an hour of planning down to 5 minutes last week, so it's definitely working for me. What I am currently trying to do is figure out if other people have this problem and there's interest in the app concept.

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

#867

I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted platform for communities to discover their local area. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. I've made some good progress recently. I've added the ability to temporarily freeze user accounts, custom WYSIWYG editing for sidebar content and functionality that allows the administrator to set site-wide announcements to appear…

Nice idea.

I'd encourage you to embrace full decentralization via blockchain technology. Why? Any successful tech that empowers and connects local communities becomes very politically interesting very quickly.

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