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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#982Ive almost finished the first version of a desktop video library app I've been writing for myself. I had the idea last year, but the cost of sending images to an LLM made it too expensive (to run over about 1500 videos), but now it's fairly reasonable. In the app you pick a folder with videos in it and it stores the path, metadata, extracts frames as images, uses a local whisper model to transcribe the audio into sub…
This isn't entirely on-topic but I've been trying to understand why AI video editing isn't more common, and thought you might know. I've had an idea for a while to make tennis match highlight videos that show every single point of the match. Tennis has a lot of downtime between points (and even more between games and sets). I just want to tell an LLM: here's a two-hour long video of a tennis match. Strip out all the…
Yeah, it's probably too expensive and complicated to send all the frames to an LLM. I only send about 30 images at 576x324 which is around 15000 tokens a video, and comes to about $0.045 per video. First I save one frame every second and then loop through them comparing each to find the differences, and send just screenshots which have changed significantly, up to a max of 30. Claude only allows 100 images per API call, so it would be a bit fiddly and costly to handle 7000 frames.
Though, now that I'm thinking about it, you could probably do this locally and just look at the part of the image that has the current score, do some local OCR on it to check if the score has changed each frame, if it has, store the timestamp and then use ffmpeg to extract the correct parts. Probably wouldn't need an LLM at all.
As for editing, one thing I do in my videos is audio keywords so my app can do specific things. For example, I can say "AI, mark what I just said as important." Then when it transcribes the audio and the LLM processes it, it will mark that part as a Distinct Moment with a start and end timestamp, a title and description that will show in my app as a clickable link to that part of the video. I'm thinking of adding more commands for more complex editing too.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#983Fostrom ( https://fostrom.io ) A developer-focused IoT Cloud Platform. The idea stems from pain points experienced while automating an indoor farm a few years ago where I had to spend way too much time building the data collection and analysis infrastructure instead of focusing on the actual automation. Devices connect via secure MQTT, HTTP, or WebSockets and send structured, typed data. Each device gets its own sequ…
What is your plan for time-series analytics?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#984An AI tool for data analytics so that companies can get data insights by chatting, all data in one platform. I have worked at multiple start-ups, and each company struggles with getting data insights quickly and easily. Would love to hear your feedback. https://www.dataglide.ai
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#985A computer algebra system hosted online at http://axcas.net
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#986iOS app size analysis tool that runs locally on your mac https://dotipa.app
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#987I'm building a stock portfolio tracker, because I've found myself managing many portfolios with spreadsheets and Python scripts, which became a massive time sink. At the same time I couldn't find a tracker that was 100% what I wanted, while at the same time I wanted to learn web dev, web services & cloud deployment.
I've decided to release an MVP so I can gauge interest, and after ~8 months of deployment and 2 releases there has been some great feedback. It's definitely a much much bigger and more complex project than I originally anticipated though!
At the moment I paused new sign ups as it's not scaling up nicely, so I'm now refactoring the services to use async / message queue for the heavy Python tasks using Celery / RabbitMQ.
It was quite difficult to get the product in front of people that might interested and even though I found enough users to test and give feedback, it's been tough to find them. So my strategy now is to try and release blog posts on my architecture, approaches, pros/cons, etc, and build in public regularly. This takes away time from the actual development but hopefully I'll have a big enough community that I can tap into for testers when the new release is out.
I'm not posting a link to the project or even mention the name as I got a shadow-ban in Reddit when I posted a summary to my MVP post-mortem (no link) and now I'm terrified!
I'd appreciate any suggestions / different approaches you might have in terms of reaching more users!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#988I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…
Really cool project!
This brought to my mind to do something similar for digital advertisement, i.e. collecting various ads on the web and (automatically) label them through their metadata. I’m not quite sure yet we’re this could go. I imagine different categories: SaaS ads, video game ads, company ads, e-commerce ads, and so on, all categorized by company, date, site, etc. You could then see how ads changed for a specific tag/category over time or how ads for a single company, say SAP, changed.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#989I stared on building my first macOS (SwiftUI) window-based sticky notes app. It’s a combination of the default Sticky Notes app and the Notes app, making it possible to stick notes to a specific window or file.
Attaching a note to a window shows the note when this specific application window is started/active, e.g. an IDE window with your repository selected.
I’m also planning on extending this by adding browser tab notes as well as email (document) notes.
I always felt like collecting all my todos / notes in a single notes app is not enough. Sometimes you want to remember something just for the next time you open this app/window. Attaching the note directly onto the window makes sure you won’t forget on it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#990I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…
Really cool project! This brought to my mind to do something similar for digital advertisement, i.e. collecting various ads on the web and (automatically) label them through their metadata. I’m not quite sure yet we’re this could go. I imagine different categories: SaaS ads, video game ads, company ads, e-commerce ads, and so on, all categorized by company, date, site, etc. You could then see how ads changed for a sp…
Nice! And thank you. Yeah I am also cataloging all of the small ads, local or obscure. I want to see what trends I find in them. But they admittedly are not that interesting, unless you are looking for that product. The 1990s and after are not yet interesting to me either. I wonder if web ads will be interesting in 30 years...