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

I've finally come around to set on a journey to develop my first game. It followed a read on Gamedev in 2025 that actually popped on HN a few months ago[0].

I've mostly scribbled notes on paper for now, trying to be exhaustive about all that before scoping MVP (maybe SLC[1] would be better but I'm first doing that for myself so I'm not really pressuring myself for now).

I'm using modern C++, and will probably start from SDL3, plus a couple other libraries, but nothing too big or framework-y beyond that.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038209 [1] https://longform.asmartbear.com/slc/

ADHD-supportive notepad. A distraction-reduced space for writing quick thoughts. I have two huge monitors covered with dozens of windows and hundreds of tabs. Notepad text goes to the edges of its window and is black on white, way too visually noisy, so I open a sticky behind it and give myself an inch of buffer. But then I need to look at something else and the layers get upended.

I’m a non-technical manager of a development team and couldn’t conscionably ask one of my devs to do it, so I downloaded Delphi (we are very old school) and got to work with ChatGPT. It’s been fussier than I ever imagined, but now I’ve got the minimal functions, autosave, buffer zones and color options I’ve been dreaming of, plus new insight into what my devs go through when I ask “how hard can it be to just…” Mopping up some issues with resizing. I’ll post a free version soon.

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Still working on Orbiter[1] but with some big changes.

Orbiter started as static website and web app hosting, but we recently added what we call server functions (what you call serverless functions). So now you can build full stack apps. Our preferred development stack to support is the new bhvr[2] stack.

1. https://orbiter.host 2. https://bhvr.dev

I'm working on an app that I use to track my sets/reps. I've added in a trends screen (both for muscle groups and for individual exercises) to check on if I'm actually progressively overloading on a consistent basis. I'm currently adding an AI wrapper around the data to figure out better insights about certain exercises, what I'm missing, etc.

https://www.kri8.fit/