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

#963

A framework for Excel spreadsheets, written in Excel VBA. A nine-minute demo video is here: https://www.cabin.wtf (the file is 4mb, not 4kb) If nothing else, this shows that the Excel UX can be radically changed thru one small Excel file... so much of the object model is exposed to VBA.

Reminds me of Emacs for Excel nerds. I like it! Do you plan to open-source it?

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

#964
I have been working with a small team on a platform that allows luxury brokers to do due diligence on clients, ownership transfer and receive/issue payment all in one platform. We are pretty much merging the luxury retail market with banking.

Brokers (cars, planes, houses, boats, watches, etc) never have to worry about chargebacks, they get instant payment, free deposits and payment (compared to payment processors and marketplaces charging 2-10% per transaction).

We are currently onboarding luxury buyers, brokers, and brands you can check us out and apply to be part of the ecosystem. https://nezzapp.com

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

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Working on supporting MCP (model context protocol) in my LSP (language server protocol) proxy: https://github.com/noredeen/lspwatch . I wrote this tool to make instrumenting language servers very easy. MCP (both protocol and architecture) seems heavily inspired by LSP which made me curious about what it would take to support it through my telemetry-capturing proxy. Haven't thought too deeply about how useful an MCP p…

Super interesting! I'm also working on something related to MCP and LSP: https://github.com/isaacphi/mcp-language-server it's an MCP server that runs a language server.

Do I understand this properly, you're building a telemetry tool for MCP similar to your telemetry tool for LSP, or is it something else?

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

#967

I'm working on my second self-published technical book related to Elixir. The first one has been a surprising success, but since it was about learning to use Ecto on the basis of an old pedagogical toy database (and tiny dataset), the new book is about the development of a production-grade REST API with Elixir and Phoenix. I find that many books out there are focused on documenting the "happy path" for rather small a…

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

#970
on Orchestra, a chat-centered tool that addresses the collaboration gap. it’s when your software drives you crazy with all its complex features and integrations, when all it should really do is help you work. simple as that.

startups and small teams like ours don’t need a monster setup. we just need the basics to communicate and manage (as god intended). a few years back, the three of us – me and two fellow CTOs – got tired of searching for the right tool, so we built one ourselves.

so, here’s Orchestra – https://orch.so/.

if you’re up for trying it out and sharing some feedback – please do!

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