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

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

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Post by sotix »

cjflog wrote: post #31

Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…

FYI your website seems to trigger a filter/search every time I type a character. However, this causes the keyboard on iOS to collapse, which makes typing a tough task!

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

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Post by tiniuclx »

yogurtboy wrote: post #771
tiniuclx wrote: post #504

I'm working on Botnet of Ares, a hacking simulator game for PC [0]. It's an homage to classics such as Uplink and Hacknet, and also a commentary on the state of the IoT security industry. Recently I've managed to port the game onto a real-world cyberdeck, the uConsole. [1] [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3627290/Botnet_of_Ares/ [1] https://tiniuc.com/hacksim-on-cyberdeck/

This looks really cool. What are you doing for music? I have been looking for a new project to continue working on my production skills.

Thanks for the interest! I'll be handling the music myself, I'm a producer & multi-instrumentalist and two tracks for the game have already been composed.

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

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

999900000999 wrote: post #406
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #262

I'm attempting to work on a "spiritual successor" to Dramatica Story Expert, a crazy story theory/brainstorming program of days gone by. Technically, Dramatica is still around, but they never made a 64-bit version for Macs, and both the Mac and Windows version have been tenaciously clinging to the trailing edge of technology for decades. (The Mac version somehow never got retina fonts. I'm not sure how you even do th…

If you're planning on open sourcing it, I can help with Flutter. I really really want something like this, that I can run locally without paying 100$ a year for Arc Studio.

I don't think I'm planning to go open source, although I have to get through the whole "have an actual application to start letting people beta test" stage first. Even if it's a commercial program my thought is "pay a single price once, not a subscription," and probably under $100.

Arc Studio looks like it's a screenwriting program, which is a different animal, though. Have you tried out Fade In (https://www.fadeinpro.com), which is a $79 one-time fee? I haven't used it, I confess, but I hear great things about it. (I used the even cheaper Highland Pro for my one try at screenwriting so far, but that was a learning exercise.)

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

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Post by rasulkireev »

I'm working alone on an Open Source Blog Automation tool: - https://tuxseo.com/ - https://github.com/rasulkireev/TuxSEO

Built a ton of side projects in the last 5 years with none of them going anywhere. Realized the distribution is a problem. So after reading a bunch of marketing books, I decided to give SEO a try. And after some playing around realized there is potential there and decided to automate this process for all my projects.

Keep struggling with moving away from building more features and focusing on marketing.

Recorded a demo today, will start cold-emailing and reaching out to people who hhopefully will find it useful.

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

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Post by binarybard »

mamsouuu wrote: post #846
binarybard wrote: post #827

Been working on Forvard https://forvard.org — a tiny desktop app to help people remember what they actually did at work. It’s offline-first and totally local (no cloud, no tracking). You just drop in your accomplishments, metrics, or files as you go, and later it helps you summarize them (ML model that runs locally) for performance reviews, promotions, or interviews. Basically built it because I got tired of trying t…

Love the idea, absolutely can relate (forget even overnight sometimes)! How does Forvard make it easy to retrieve the entries you're looking for when you have plenty and time has passed?

Right now you can retrieve older entries in couple of ways:

1. filter via tags , one has to manually tag the entries though.

2. filter by company -- maybe way too broad based

3. specific word search.

4. filter by date range -- probably this + tags should help one find those entries which happened last quarter etc

Open to considering other ideas! So glad to see someone being excited about this!!

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

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Post by admiralrohan »

legacynl wrote: post #893
admiralrohan wrote: post #426

Working on a original algorithm to explain human behavior from 3rd person perspective (1st stage). The whole research is divided into 6 stages. In 2nd stage, I will mathematically establish the best course of action as an individual given the base theory. In 3rd stage, I will explain common psychological phenomenon through the theory, things like narcissism, anxiety, self-doubt, how to forgive others, etc. In 4th sta…

> Working on a original algorithm to explain human behavior from 3rd person perspective (1st stage). What does that mean?

A unified theory on how humans make decisions. What is the confusion here?

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

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Post by jesse__ »

mikodin wrote: post #401
jesse__ wrote: post #70

I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy. https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai I also wrote a metaprogramming…

A simple comment, but wow I really like the look of Bonsai! The lighting, shading and shapes are really beautiful, I think a game made in this would feel really unique

Thank you!

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

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Post by jesse__ »

Lucasoato wrote: post #603
jesse__ wrote: post #70

I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy. https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai I also wrote a metaprogramming…

That’s so great, good luck with your project!

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

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Post by jesse__ »

moralestapia wrote: post #758
jesse__ wrote: post #70

I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy. https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai I also wrote a metaprogramming…

Wow, it looks amazing, congratulations :)!

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

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Post by jesse__ »

sonnig wrote: post #656
jesse__ wrote: post #70

I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy. https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai I also wrote a metaprogramming…

Looks great!

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