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

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

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Post by reisr3 »

gzmihai wrote: post #908

I’ve been building Velty[1] over the past year as a tool to tame my ever-growing YouTube subscriptions. It’s a web app (PWA) that lets you organize your YouTube channels and videos into folders (with sub-folders), and view all the latest videos in one chronological feed with powerful filtering/sorting. I built it because I was frustrated with how hard it was to manage a large number of channel subscriptions using You…

This is great! It's very close to something I desperately want to exist: a way to peruse the YouTube videos' my friends are watching.

My algo often gets bad, and the best recommendations for YouTube videos come from friends' suggestions. And sometimes I just want to be recommended something totally different than what my algo would know about.

Would it be possible to add that feature?

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

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Post by gremlinsinc »

Currently homeless, driving Uber and Lyft. I've fixed my mental health after a shit storm of life events, mostly using AI as therapist.

I'm going back to school soon for psychology (figure financial aid can also pay room and board).

I'm wanting to build a mobile journal app with a bunch of AI guided 'games' to help learn DBT skills or work out trauma or do Shadow work or just guided CBT for a purpose.

I've changed my MBTI from intp-t to enfp-a...(I find I revert sometimes when I don't feel safe)... in other words I've become a very outgoing people person at least I'm a lot less afraid in social situations or to act like a fool on the dance floor... etc...

I also want to write a book and do videos on hacking your brain using AI... nobody seems to be doing this... there's a lot of potential for this niche I think.

I fixed hobbies, depression, and social life, all that's left is physical and financial and those are kind of easy when emotions are in check.

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

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Post by ermir »

I have way too many things that catch my interest, but right now I am designing a paper and aluminum foil based linear electric motor. The idea is to create an electromechanical display that pushes a colored piece of paper into place to create a pixel, and see if this can be done cheaply and at scale. The electronics that I have selected look very promising, all I have to do is test the idea and see if this is worth pursuing further.

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

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Post by scryers_bloom »

taejavu wrote: post #191

I've been putting together a no-nonsense free invoice generator, for people (like myself) that only occasionally send invoices. It's more-or-less a WYSIWYG editor, and the state is stored in the URL, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you stored your copy - if you've sent someone an email with the link, you've got a copy. This project was born out of the frustration of trying to generate an invoi…

I really like this, I'll maybe use it once I actually get some clients to respond ;)

I tried implementing my own on my own website, but between all my projects and work I keep pushing my own business website backward...

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

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Post by john_the_writer »

Cyphase wrote: post #89

Myself. Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love that word) shortly. Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects. Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter) of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things. I'm excited.

Yeah.. I'm starting a LIT-RPG style blog for my personal growth. Skills/attributes tied to personal goals. Spirit as it relates to learning guitar (for instance), Mana as it relates to tech skills.

Right now it's all a flat index.html and simple.css hosted on github pages, but I'll get a site eventually. Writing a blog is part of my goals to become a profitable author. (Creativity ~= blogging, sketching, animation)

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

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Post by gzmihai »

reisr3 wrote: post #951
gzmihai wrote: post #908

I’ve been building Velty[1] over the past year as a tool to tame my ever-growing YouTube subscriptions. It’s a web app (PWA) that lets you organize your YouTube channels and videos into folders (with sub-folders), and view all the latest videos in one chronological feed with powerful filtering/sorting. I built it because I was frustrated with how hard it was to manage a large number of channel subscriptions using You…

This is great! It's very close to something I desperately want to exist: a way to peruse the YouTube videos' my friends are watching. My algo often gets bad, and the best recommendations for YouTube videos come from friends' suggestions. And sometimes I just want to be recommended something totally different than what my algo would know about. Would it be possible to add that feature?

The idea behind Velty is to let you consume your YouTube videos mainly in chronological order, without being at the mercy of the YouTube algorithm.

Sorry, I don’t plan to add that feature.

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

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Post by absoluteunit1 »

thorio wrote: post #15

Considering quitting my mind-melting corporate job to have the freedom of mind to pursue another attempt of starting my own business. So the decision is, what I'm working on. Background: they announced large scale restructurings last week and that could be my chance of getting some money for leaving (region beta paradox in full swing here). Anyone else?

Today is my second last day of employment - resigned recently for the same reason. Feels exciting and nerve wrecking at the same time

I wish you luck :)

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

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Post by dansult »

wjgilmore wrote: post #868

I recently launched SpiesInDC, a Cold War history subscription service that delivers reproductions of historical documents and speeches, maps, photos, and even coins and stamps to your real mailbox. I have always loved reading about Cold War history, and I'm an avid stamp collector, so I combined the two together and people really seem to love it. https://spiesindc.com/

Very cool man. Love this!
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