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

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

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Post by snark_sr »

We’re working on an AI-first interview platform for developers: Valuate.dev

The usual approach to coding tasks doesn’t work anymore - companies are looking for AI engineers, yet it’s still unclear how to assess AI proficiency.

Our goal is to design challenges that combine prompting + coding, allowing us to score both how well a candidate prompts and how good the resulting code is. The aim is to bring measurement to AI prompting skills - how well-aligned prompts are and how candidates handle LLM-generated code.

At the same time, we want to keep a strong human balance in the process: hiring is a two-way street, and screening shouldn’t be fully offloaded to AI. We’re human-first.

Several tasks are already live - you can try them here: https://valuate.dev

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

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Post by michaelmior »

I'm working on a JSON schema discovery tool, JSONoid[0]. JSONoid can discover many more features of JSON Schema than existing tools such as regular expression patterns, formats, and dependencies. I'm also working on integrating this with some past work I've done on using LLMs to augment JSON Schemas[1,2].

There are a number of use cases for such a tool. One is for helping data analysts who are handed a pile of JSON documents to be able to more quickly and effectively craft analytics pipelines for heterogeneous data where just inspecting a few documents isn't sufficient. Another is to help automate API specification generation and regression testing. Definitely interested in any feedback.

[0] https://github.com/dataunitylab/jsonoid-discovery/ [1] https://michael.mior.ca/blog/llms-for-schema-augmentation/ [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03286

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

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Post by gnavadev »

Prediction model for false positives to help my University SOC.

Automatic dataset builder and cleaner. (End product would be something like, you type that you want a dataset for dog breeds, and it builds and cleans the data automatically)

A flashcard app for my main stakeholder (My wife)

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

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Post by wry_discontent »

I've been working on a web framework in Clojure. There are already a few others, but they're, in my opinion, too focused on the Clojure community, and are much harder to sell to people I know who might otherwise use Clojure. I wanted something that was more like a Rails or a Phoenix or a Next.js. We'll see if it goes anywhere.

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

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Post by hamzaawan »

I am building https://pagereport.app where you can talk to agents purpose built to help you improve your conversions from your landing pages but at fraction of the costs.

I aim to make it into a agentic system that provides you expert level CRO analysis but at fraction of the costs then those expensive CRO consultants

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

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Post by cade »

paulhebert wrote: post #198

I recently launched a daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com It’s inspired by tile placement board games like Patchwork and crosswords. You rotate and move tiles to rebuild a broken crossword. It’s free, web based, and responsive. I currently have several hundred daily players and growing. My wife and I create the puzzles and I’m continuing to fix bugs and add new features. I just launched a ”community puzzle” fea…

With all my heart, I want to cheer you on. Making stuff is damn hard, and shipping is even harder. You did that, and I applaud you for it.

I do a lot of NYT puzzle stuff every day and some other random puzzle sites before I get out of bed. That said, I'm over 40, love puzzles, love complicated board games, went through your brief explainer, and could not get a sensible handle on how to even start this thing. A new player has to really care about how to even try to begin to figure out whatever this is. I gave it about 20 seconds after the "how does it work?" Honestly, I gave up. I'm really not trying to rain on your parade. You might find a niche audience, and it'll be what you're going for, but I think you need a much, much better rules explainer if you want to be even remotely in the vicinity of a Wordle-level banger.

This thing might be really awesome, but not being able to figure out how to use it is a hard out for me.

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