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

#991

I've been working on a documentation system that improves how AI assistants understand project context. The problem I'm solving is that traditional documentation approaches are too fragmented for AI to effectively process. After struggling with vague outputs from AI coding assistants, I started experimenting with MECE principles (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) to organize technical documentation hierarc…

Would love to try it out. Is it for large code bases or what specifically?

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

#992

It's an OKLCH color picker, as well as a converter for other color spaces. https://cmringmaker.github.io/OKLCH-Picker/ https://github.com/cmRingmaker/OKLCH-Picker/ I was inspired by the article over at evilmartians[0] about OKLCH, and I loved their oklch picker. Decided I wanted to learn more about OKLCH by implementing my own tool that I've released this week. Had a lot of fun with this project, and am getting plent…

We used this in our project: https://github.com/CaptainCodeman/svelte-color-select

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

#993

I'm working on https://photoboost.app , a tool that turns a handful of selfies into professional AI-generated headshots. Think studio-quality photos without the studio — powered by LoRA fine-tuning and smart prompting. The goal: minimal input, fast turnaround, and results good enough to use on LinkedIn or resumes. Currently experimenting with ways to reduce training time and improve accuracy with as little as 5-8 ima…

What are you doing for privacy and security of both the models, and inferences? Also, do you train for body shape as well?

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

#994
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I am building an image gallery as a side project to play with AI coding tools. I got really far in just 2 days and plan to open source it soon. It: - Uses an encrypted badgerdb to keep track of metadata - Uses rclone (with an encrypted backend) for file storage in s3 or any backend rclone supports - Automatically indexes and generates video thumbnails and transcodes to webm to be streamed in the browser - Slideshows…

Maybe replace Pixave with a better product if you're at it.

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

#995

I was trying to reproduce the NeuralSVG paper but it's hard. In the process I had to learn about diffusion and flow matching.

Regardless if this or other paper is what you end up implementing, I wanted to say kudos for doing the right thing - having the right approach. Building stuff that's just now possible - in AI, from research papers - and productizing it, is how you get ahead of everyone else.

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

#996
post #524

Not a coding project, but I have been writing a sci-fi novel about a world where time goes backwards and forwards. It has some interesting history in it too. I'm looking for beta readers.

Feel free to hit me up with a link if it's in english @andupoto on Twitter.

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

#997

creating a gamified novel writing app that will be a duolingo for novel writing. AI can help you write, review what you've written, all while encouraging engagement by playing for points. Looking for some beta testers if anyone is interested in trying it. Best part, I'm only taking 5% cut of all sales in my shop. Amazon and Barnes and Noble take between 30% and 40%. Hoping it becomes the go to app for future novelist…

I can check it out, feel free to send a link to @andupoto on Twitter

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

#1000
I'm vibe-coding a vibe-coding platform.

I'm going to speak this update because that way I can have the text written more naturally. So, let's do that. So, since October last year, this means about six months, I've been using Cursor as a non-coder. Actually, I've been coding the last time, I guess, back in the days of Flash in ActionScript. So, I used Cursor for the past six months, maybe around 12 to 15 hours a day on average, you know, some days off, more hours in other days. And I've been working together with my co-founder, who's a developer, but he's also using AI, except he's using AI less than I do. So, we've been working on several things, of which one of them is closest to being released, maybe 80% done, which is, as I said, a vibe coding platform.

So this particular vibe coding platform will actually not compete with the likes of Replit, Bold, Loveable and about 40 other platforms that are basically the same: chat + IDE + preview area. What we're doing is actually different because we are rewriting a project that we built about 10 years ago. And I guess in a way similar to how Replit and Bolt had completely pivoted because of AI. The same thing is happening with this project of ours. So the project was actually about offering interactive widgets to people for their websites, but we had to build those manually. So now we have rewritten the platform from scratch using AI. And we offer zero widgets because with AI we are able to offer an infinity of widgets. That's exciting.

So this was supposed to stay a side project and frankly I'm pretty surprised that there's so much demand and the growth is amazing for all these AI code gen platforms. And if that happens to us, to this project, I don't know exactly what we are going to do because our plan is actually to tackle a bigger project that we are also working on. And the strategy here is to do what we call compounding startups. So instead of building a larger project with many features, we actually split that in several projects and we are doing them one at a time and giving each the ability to actually generate revenue. At some point we are likely going to raise capital. We had this plan before but with AI things have completely changed. We are able to do now in a week what five developers were doing in six months.

So the other projects are Talbo, Reclona and Tradul. Talbo is the what they compound into. But I am not ready to talk too much about them right now. :)

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