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

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

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Post by mohaabdulahi »

I’m Moha from Somalia .

I’m building Cigaal, a super-ecosystem app that blends social media, commerce, payments, crypto rewards, and AI. Think of it as a lightweight alternative to WeChat, Grab, and Temu – but designed for underrepresented regions first.

Key Features: Marketplace + Delivery + Travel Booking

ZooCoin: our in-app crypto rewards system

AR shopping, short videos, stories, and chat

Cigaal ID: unified profile & wallet

A2A/B2A Agent Economy: agents handle cash deposits, deliveries, and API integrations with businesses

CoreIQ: an AI memory core that assists users across all Cigaal mini-apps (wallet, health, travel, shopping, etc.)

Why it matters: Cigaal helps bring modern digital experiences to places with limited infrastructure, enabling creators, travelers, small businesses, and buyers to thrive in a shared economy without being locked into Big Tech platforms.

Would love feedback, suggestions, or partnerships – especially from people building in fintech, agent networks, or AI-driven apps for underserved markets.

Site (coming soon): [cigaal.com]

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

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Post by jwineinger »

tetris11 wrote: post #280

A tree cutting tool. Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree. The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side). I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping…

I was thinking of something similar during pruning season for my apple trees a few months ago. I even went so far as to take a scan of one of my trees with Luma and had it generate a 3D render of it. This worked surprisingly well, though it did take several days to get it rendered as it seemed their service was saturated.

My need/idea was to post that some where (r/backyardorchard probably) to get help in determining which limbs to prune. However, there didn't seem to be an easy way to share that sort of thing and time was of the essence, so I just forged ahead on my own.

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

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Post by franklin_p_dyer »

Kelvinidan wrote: post #870

A standardized dictionary/lexicon for the variant of pidgin English that is spoken around Western-Africa. https://yarnz.app/ It contains words and phrases with their accompanying context.

This is really cool. Do you speak this pidgin or are you trying to document it as a non-native?

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

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Post by thevivekshukla »

Working on adding Job schedule and cron features in Daestro[1].

About Daestro: Daestro is workload orchestrator that can run compute jobs across cloud providers and on your own compute as well. More like cloud agnostic batch jobs or step functions.

[1]: https://daestro.com

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

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Post by mark_mcnally_je »

I'm working on Monitor Monkey[1]

It's attempting to be the easiest and nicest way to monitor Linux servers. I'm currently implementing 0 config custom alerting. All you will have to do is write a file to a home directory with some json in it e.g event_name:blah,interval:1m,data=10 - no server side config at all!

So should be quite suitable for big deployments :)

[1]: https://monitormonkey.io

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

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Post by urbanisierung »

A tool to organize my life.

All the things that are important to me in one place: notes, habit tracker, brag doc, action log, todos, events, data collection, biolinks, and a lot more.

That certainly sounds a bit boring, and rightly reminds of great tools like Obsidian. However, there was always something missing from the tools, or the configuration was too complex. That's why I started to build one myself. It's a mix of pwa and local-first and Github sync. I don't want a tool that only works in the browser, I also need to be able to continue working seamlessly on my smartphone, and Github offers an endless history that I can view. Plus: I can clone the repo locally at any time.

I don't need a habit tracker service, a tool for notes or a brag doc service anymore. Everything is stored as files that I can access at any time. Other nice features are forms (like typeform) or an infinite number of biolinks.

I've been using it daily for a few months now and have already been able to replace a few services with it.

https://lifosy.com/

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

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Post by to-too-two »

cmdrk wrote: post #588

I'm still tinkering on my multiplayer game server framework when not grinding away at my day job. The idea is essentially: An Erlang-based control plane, supporting ENet and WebSocket connection modes, with Protobuf for messages. Erlang has an excellent concurrency story, and I think it's a great fit for game servers. I've wrapped up a bunch of this work into behaviors on the Erlang side, such that developers can tar…

Sounds cool. I'm interested in netcode using Godot. Is there a Git repo I can check out?

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

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

I'm almost finished with a project that has taken up quite a lot of my life for the past few years, a book on Estonia! After working for their government and returning to the U.S. I wanted to better understand how the country modernized so effectively after gaining their independence from the Soviet Union so I did a fair amount of research into the topic and many interviews which culminated in a book, Rebooting a Nation.

If you're interested in Estonia, e-government, building tech hubs, and the future of the nation state I'd love if you take a look (and let me know what you think). It's available on Kindle now but Oxford University Press will be shipping out physical copies May 15 and buying from a smaller press is always appreciated!

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rebooting-a-nation-9...

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