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

#921

I’m working on Vystery ( https://vystery.com ) - a visual puzzle game where you strategically uncover an obscured image bit by bit to figure out what it is. There's a limit to how many reveals you can do to make your guess. I’ve recently added hints, spare moves, and an easy mode, as some days are harder than others.

I played a couple of rounds, that was fun!

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

#922

I find tracking movies and series I have watched with my partner an impossible task. Spreadsheets are too fiddly for my partner, and I want to look up what is next on my phone so I have turned to Airtable and n8n for automation. input a relevant url, it will decide if it IMDB or Youtube or a list. using an llm, it will attempt to extract the movies or series from the list and find the relevant IMDB link. Then I have…

Tried justwatch.com for this?

What notes do you want to add to a movie?

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

#923

I'm creating a keyboard driven list application like Trello. It's going to be the «Obsidian of lists». Everything will be bound to a key in the spirit of VIm :-) I don't have a landing page yet, but if this sounds interesting to you, you can sign up here: https://lindon.app I'd also love to hear what would be important to you in an application like that.

Also see https://checkvist.com/

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

#926

I'm working on an escape room! Initially I was working on a software/hardware bundle that I was planning to market to other escape rooms but I think that is the wrong approach. So I am going to build a bunch of modular stuff in my garage and eventually start my own, its been an awesome project so far! I want a more dynamic and action oriented experience so it might not really be an escape room anymore but I don't kno…

A girl I went to HS went started an escape room business in my town, the first one they bought off of another company and customized it. Escape rooms need to refresh their content every so often, so the complete room or sometimes just the props end for sale. I was always curious about the tech side, if there were compatible 'systems' or if they are just one off things.

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

#927

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've been thinking for years about a safer alternative to chain saws. Something along the lines of a carbide coated wire driven by an electric motor and battery. Strap it to the tree, turn it on, walk away and some minutes later the tree falls down. The main difficulty is in how to drive the wire. Using friction would create fast wearing parts. Maybe a chain could be used instead of a wire. It could oscillate back and forth, instead of having to be wrapped and spliced to form a circle around the tree. It seems really strange that no one has come up with an alternative to chain saws for decades (except for large scale trucks that can process whole trees.) For small trees and branches even a sawz-all is safer than a chain saw. Inspired by spending some time sharing a hospital room with a guy who had a chain saw accident, but I still haven't come up with a workable idea. Maybe someone else can.

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

#928
An IDE for agents, that includes a general purpose agent inside so developers don't need to start with a framework or from scratch. It just works, out of the box.

I feel that the software development lifecycle for agents is uniquely iterative and requires a different set of tools and environment, so that's how this came to be. First we built the general purpose agent -> now we build the IDE around it.

For the curious: https://trypointer.com/

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

#929
I'm currently developing qApp, a lightweight queue and appointment reservation management system for businesses (banks, clinics, shops, etc.). The idea is to let customers join a queue through a simple online form and receive updates via SMS — no apps, no complicated logins.

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

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post #927

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've been thinking for years about a safer alternative to chain saws. Something along the lines of a carbide coated wire driven by an electric motor and battery. Strap it to the tree, turn it on, walk away and some minutes later the tree falls down. The main difficulty is in how to drive the wire. Using friction would create fast wearing parts. Maybe a chain could be used instead of a wire. It could oscillate back an…

We use a winch to guide the branches down, but would never apply the winch directly to the tree in case of whiplash when the branch finally breaks
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