Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

#981

Post by webmaister » Sat, Jul 05, 2025, 6:30 AM UTC

I'm currently building a suite of free AI tools for the beauty niche:

https://www.nose-shapes.com Upload a selfie and an AI model classifies over a dozen nose types (Greek, button, fleshy, flat, etc.), plus tips on contouring and finding complementary glasses.

https://www.foundation-shade-finder.com Snap a photo and our AI analyzes your skin tone + undertone, then recommends exact foundation shades from brands like MAC, Fenty, L’Oréal, Estée Lauder.

https://www.golden-ratio-face.com Measures facial proportions against the "golden ratio" to reveal symmetry and aesthetic balance—perfect for beauty enthusiasts and content creators seeking visual harmony.

All of them are no‑login, instant‑result web tools. I'd love the get any feedback from accuracy and UI to feature ideas or niche extensions.

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

#982

Post by splice-cad » Sat, Jul 05, 2025, 11:43 PM UTC

splice-cad wrote: post #150

I've been working on Splice CAD – an in-browser cable-harness designer. https://splice-cad.com Building cables for multiple personal and professional projects, I was frustrated by having to cobble together harness diagrams in Illustrator or Visio, cut snippets from from PDFs for connector outlines, map pin-outs, wire specs, cable constructions, mating terminals, and manually updating an Excel BOM. Splice gives you: A…

Continuing to make some additions and changes to ease use and improve the appearance of the harness design:

[1] Added many standard DSub, M8/M12, and USB connector outlines/pin arrangements to aid in the creation of connectors not currently in the library

[2] In concert with the addition of more connector outlines, added a Magic Button on the Connector and Cable Creator pages that pulls all fields for an entered MPN from Digikey or Mouser. Now, you can just enter your part number (like CDM806-04A-MP-F011-67 for this CUI connector, https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/same-sky-formerly...) and the fields will populate automatically. If a standard outline is recognized, you have the option to load the outline and pin arrangement too. For cables, this will pull the core count and other cable properties.

[3] The Harness Builder now features a grid and snap-to functionality to align items. You can also share a link (ie, https://splice-cad.com/#/shared/lgcy2htze9zlqs4igdgycfncy98f...) to a harness design that a collaborator can view or clone/edit).

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

#983

Post by mdnahas » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 9:46 AM UTC

ruieduardolopes wrote: post #220

I am a PhD student and for a while now I'm designing and developing a distributed network protocol that enables dynamic resource allocation across heterogeneous nodes, to which I called Rank. It's designed to handle computational, network, and temporal resources in fully distributed environments without central controllers, but that could also handle a centralized environment. Rank implements four core functions: dis…

This sounds interesting. If you want to discuss it or just want a proofreader, please email me. I have done research in both distributed algorithms and economics. hackernews@mike.nahasmail.com

If you don’t know about these already, read about “self stabilizing algorithms”. They are fault-tolerant (to a certain definition) which is important in large distributed algorithms. I used one to build virtual networks with 10,000 nodes.

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

#984

Post by tha_infra_guy » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

Currently working on a project for EU region to compare supermarkets prices across certain countries it’s called https://compears.shop/nl

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

#985

Post by FerkiHN » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 12:48 PM UTC

I am developing a utility for viewing photos directly in the terminal. The image is rendered using the ASCII character " " filling it with different colors and shades, this allows you to open the image in even on older computers.

Anyone interested can follow the link and star it on GitHub.

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...

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

#986

Post by polymoth » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 8:56 PM UTC

gwbas1c wrote: post #808

I moved my blog over to Jekyll hosted via Github: https://blog.andrewrondeau.com/ The site itself isn't anything "special." I've had a personal website for about 25 years; the past few years I finally moved from making HTML by hand to using various CMSes. I tried a "no database" CMS that my hosting page had, then I wrote my own CMS, https://github.com/GWBasic/z3 , to learn node.js, but then I had to go back because H…

nice website. However, when I clock on the site header (your name), it redirects to 404 instead of your home page.

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

#987

Post by nateb2022 » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 4:22 AM UTC

rsktaker wrote: post #787

https://www.dreamsign.ai/ An AI-native DocuSign It's been around a month I've been working on it. Struggling with getting people to actually use it - this week I've set the ambitious goal of 10 new contracts sent *and completed* by people I don't know (last week's was 10...by people I do know). It's hard because I feel I'm in a weird hole - in order to have a good product I need people to use it and give me feedback,…

Having pricing upfront would help I think, the lack of having that up-front is probably deterring people

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

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Post by muzani » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 4:26 AM UTC

stonlyb wrote: post #308

https://inlovingmem.com/ - is a tribute to my recently deceased mom that I vibe coded over the last week. I felt her life deserved to be celebrated widely but wanted to be sensitive to her privacy. I've also built in a number of interactive features for participation in funeral services etc, before, during, and after. Folks have reached out about having an 'In Loving Memory Of' site for their loved ones, so I'm turni…

https://inlovingmemory.to is available and you can add names at the end e.g. inlovingmemory.to/marie and then give people their own segments

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

#989

Post by nateb2022 » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 4:41 AM UTC

WildGreenLeave wrote: post #717

As a European missing a managed hosting solution, me and a buddy of mine are building an alternative: https://ploi.cloud The goal is quite simple, allow developers to host their application with easy straight forward pricing. We are about to launch very soon. Everything is built on Laravel/PHP. We are open to beta testers, so if you feel you want to test this please drop me and email in my profile.

Nice job! Site is extremely tastefully designed, and you convey the important features very nicely. The effort you put in to the UI gives me a lot of confidence in the backend, and in the quality of your upcoming product.

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

#990

Post by hiAndrewQuinn » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC

https://finbug.xyz/ - Free software tools for Finnish language learners. Although most of my time goes towards actually learning Finnish, so I don't think I'll make any actual updates to the software suite in July.