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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 to-too-two »

tudorrr wrote: post #50

I'm building an open source game backend for Unity and Godot: https://trytalo.com . GitHub: https://github.com/talodev . Talo makes it easy to add systems that traditionally need extra non-gameplay build time like authentication, player analytics and game stats. Right now you can drop Talo into your game or use the API directly. Importantly, I’ve made Talo easy to self-host and you can point the Unity package/Godot p…

Is this a competitor to Heroiclabs (Nakama, Hiro, Satori)? Just trying to understand more where Talo fits. Seems like it's Hiro + Satori wrapped in one, but minus Nakama which would be the game server.

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

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Post by obayesshelton »

Pretty nervous as this is my V0.1

MindJam helps brands, studios and creators understand their YouTube communities.

MindJam analyses millions of YouTube comments to instantly reveal the unfiltered voice of your audience – their true sentiment, emerging themes, and the topics they really care about.

Here is a sample analysis - https://mind-jam.co.uk/analysis/HPMh3AO4Gm0?utm_source=hacke...

I didn't intend on building MindJam... I wanted to learn about LLMs.

At first I wanted to see how Laravel would/could work with an LLM and after doing some reading I ended up learning about OpenAPI 3.0 Schema and Multi-Modal RAG.

In the last few months I have built on top of Gemini, Claude and OpenAI. All have their perks and quirks.

I am hoping this learning is only the start of a pretty cool journey.

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

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Post by to-too-two »

truetaurus wrote: post #523

https://interestingbars.com : Discover the best, most interesting bars in your area https://tallytabby.com : The simplest way to keep track of anything in your life. From habits to inventory, TallyTabby makes counting effortless. https://qrfeedback.app : Get honest customer feedback with a simple QR code https://skillriskaudit.com : Knowledge Risk Management https://shiftingtictactoe.com : The classic game with a twi…

> https://interestingbars.com

How does this work? I searched Boston and got zero results?

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

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Post by mtlynch »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #879

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 Nat…

Is the digital version available for purchase anywhere outside of Amazon?

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

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Post by shkurski_ »

https://shkur.ski/notai A tool that automatically shows you relevant information as you work so you don't have to search for things manually. With privacy guarantees.

Being sick of where things are headed, I didn't want to join the "trend". Instead, there is NotAI. I built it for myself first and foremost, as I am:

  1. Too lazy to Alt+Tab into Notion in order to write a note or find it. Instead, I want to select text and write a note in-place. Next time when I see something relevant on screen, I want it to appear.

  2. Usually distracted with the need to structure information manually. If you see it on screen, it should be enough. With NotAI you see a name in messenger -- it adds contact automatically. You see meeting caps -- it memorises them. Etc.

  3. Tired of bloatware, all those 500MB text editors draining the battery. I wanted it to be fast, small and smooth. NotAI is fully native, consumes a few tens of MBs and runs even on modest 5-7 y.o. laptops. It's fully local, meaning no network requests / server-side processing -> reaction time is usually within 40ms.

  4. Sick of marketing bs. Privacy-first products with telemetry and requests to ChatGPT. Attempts to achieve "privacy" by redefining the meaning of it. I no longer believe what I read. If it's private, I want guarantees! So NotAI is fully local. It's a single executable program. You go Windows Defender (or any other firewall) and block it from network. Period.
Here is an old tech demo from last year: https://shkur.ski/notai/demo.mp4

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

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Post by jwineinger »

nake89 wrote: post #459

Creating a modern development environment for win98. Currently I’m working on a git client. I have no patience for learning C. So backporting git is not an option. I also don’t want to use cygwin. So I’m using a server to expose git as http endpoints and coding a git client in php to use in msdos. I have Vim 7.3 and and gnu coreutils working in msdos already. So soon I will have a very nice dev environment. I want to…

I'd love to hear WHY you want to do this.

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

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Post by lnsru »

9dev wrote: post #800
lnsru wrote: post #111

So many cool technical projects here. But I am doing something completely different - masonry. Repairing walls in 3 rooms. It includes reinstalling dozens of falling off bricks, installing 30 or so power outlets, replacing old windows with bigger modern ones, fixing openings for the doors and plastering everything afterwards. On one hand it’s interesting, because it’s very different from the dayjob. But doing it by m…

If you had a YouTube channel or a flickr feed of that project or something, I'd watch it :)

Thanks. It is not sexy. There also many YouTube building channels. They concentrate on nice content while I live in construction site and would love to finish it asap. It’s also not really interesting topic - nobody builds brick houses anymore. Mortar was replaced with glue and bricks with much bigger building blocks.

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

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Post by mcbishop »

A framework for Excel spreadsheets, written in Excel VBA. A nine-minute demo video is here: https://www.cabin.wtf (the file is 4mb, not 4kb)

If nothing else, this shows that the Excel UX can be radically changed thru one small Excel file... so much of the object model is exposed to VBA.

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

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Post by SeanAnderson »

I'm building https://www.howbazaar.gg/ which is a companion website for the video game https://playthebazaar.com/!

I was enjoying playing the game, there were some shortcomings in the info it provided, I dug around and found the info in game files, and decided to make that info more accessible. It was quickly a hit with the community and got official support from the game company. Trying to add enough features to take on the big players in this space and make working on it sustainable.

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