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

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

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Post by paulsabandal »

Solo building this project: https://www.usesubwise.com/

A side project that started out of personal frustration: I kept getting charged for subscriptions I forgot I even signed up for.

Subwise helps you track all your recurring payments across platforms — with smart reminders, spending insights, and cost optimization tips (like switching to annual billing or downgrading tiers you don’t use). Think of it as Mint meets a subscription-focused dashboard, with a browser extension that auto-detects subscriptions during checkout.

The bigger picture: I want to reduce "subscription fatigue" and help users stay financially aware, especially as more services go SaaS/paywalled. Eventually thinking about small biz or team-level use cases too.

Tech-wise: Built with Next.js + TypeScript, Postgres + Drizzle ORM, and a lightweight Chrome extension. Stripe is integrated for premium features. Everything’s still MVP, but slowly improving!

Would love feedback if anyone here manages a bunch of subscriptions (or forgets them like I do).

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

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Post by okinok »

Working on my subscription manager to help me get an overview, and focus on unsubscribing from subscriptions that I do not need to have continuous access to.

I realized that a lot of the subscriptions I have would have been better treated as one time payment for 30 days access. Since, I often can go a few days between using it. So when the subscription expires, and it takes a few days until I use it next and decide to resubscribe, I would have saved a bit of days compared to being constantly subscribed.

It still very early development, and lots of features are missing, so wasn't sure I wanted to share it yet. It got very basic features for tracking subscriptions manually and getting reminders before renewals. Still, is testable at https://unsub.cash

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

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Post by brachkow »

I'm making a public wishlist platform — https://thingstohave.app. I started it for my friends, but now have intentions to bring it to public.

I procrastinate on my plans to making it into true public-facing product. I can't make myself doing any marketing, have very vague monetization plans, miss some feature that people for some reason want a lot, and occasionally put crap into prod!

That said enjoy building it, learned a lot of backend stuff, felt in love with svelte, and, most important, me and my friends enjoy using it.

To balance enjoyment and pressure i'm trying have some small wins constantly, even if they are very low effort. For example current landing page was procrastinated for six month and built in 30 minutes. It's not fancy and good but it's better than 0!

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

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Post by ccarnino »

I'm working on https://thinktotem.com

Can't focus on reading anymore? ThinkTotem transforms books into conversations so you stop re-reading the same paragraph 5 times.

Phones and social media rewired our brains for quick hits, making traditional reading feel impossible. ThinkTotem solves this by turning books into active conversations with questions, examples, and 'explain-it-back' prompts. Instead of fighting your modern attention span, we work with it.

Does anyone want to help me figure out how to successfully do outreach?

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

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Post by dardeaup »

ttd wrote: post #132

I'm working on a new app for creating technical diagrams - https://vexlio.com . It's an area with some heavyweight incumbents (e.g. Visio, Lucid) but I think there's good opportunity here to differentiate in simplicity and overall experience. I'm still in the fairly early phase, and I suspect I haven't quite found the best match of features to customers yet. From a dev perspective this area has a ton of super interes…

Super impressive! Your software product looks phenomenal and your website is also extremely nice! Best of luck to you.

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

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Post by dardeaup »

shutty wrote: post #888

https://github.com/nixiesearch/nixiesearch A Lucene-based search engine on top of S3 block storage. Index schema is immutable (but supports migrations), so you cannot just screw up your index. Separate indexer/searcher tiers, so heavy indexing load does not affect search latency. And embedding/reranker local inference, so you can run the whole AI search within a single docker container.

Looks nice! What did you use to make the first diagram (one with documents on left and 3 searcher boxes on right)?

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

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Post by jdex »

Building Ongoing Things

https://ongoingthings.com

Most of my personal life updates were shared in group chats. Those chat updates were scattered, repetitive, and for some people easy to miss.

When my son was born, I wanted to start telling his story to the people in my life. I started developing Ongoing Things with a baby in a carrier on my chest.

The app is now where we share the real stuff - raising a child, a trip, a project - each in its own place that we call a "thing", with just the people it's meant for. No feed. No comments. No signup required - people need only an email to follow along.

We have a small user base, and tons of features are still missing. We are working on making it better. Our roadmap includes:

- "Partner Things" to allow few people to share updates to one thing

- E2E encryption for posts

- Customizable layout of posts

- RSS feeds

Would love feedback if anyone is interested in trying it.

Edit: formatting.

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

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Post by mentos »

jesse__ wrote: post #57

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…

Curious if you have started using LLMs to speed up any of your development yet?
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