Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

Building a book recommendation system - This is a side project. I am an avid reader and I have found that the book recommendations on Goodreads are not good and mostly useless so trying to build the recommendation system myself. Turns out the hardest thing in this project is getting well labelled/tagged books data that can be fed into the model.

working on a static typechecking system for Elixir: https://github.com/ityonemo/mavis (it looks like it's not being worked on but one of the development branches is in the middle of a very painful refactor I've been grinding through all week)

I’m wanting to build a documentation tool for tech teams. There are many but I have various problems with each of them. I just want some quick and easy markdown based docs.

One thing stopping me, for some reason, is building a user system. I don’t want to support 3rd party login systems and I’m also having trouble getting motivation to roll my own.

Building an ecommerce platform, initially targeted at a niche. I aim to then use foundation from the niche platform to spin off a general platform (if that doesn't take, it'll be fine if the niche is successful regardless) that will link up with the initial niche. The niche will act as a feeder for the general platform.

I haven't built anything in the ecommerce space in about 16 years, so it's a fun return home. One of the first things I ever built of consequence, not quite two decades ago, was a competitor to eBay.

Very boring initial stack. Ubuntu, Nginx, Redis, MySQL, PHP, Go, JavaScript. No frameworks (I almost never use frameworks for anything; I've built up my own stock and reuse it and evolve it year after year). Various caching with Nginx and Redis. It won't need anything else for a while.

Solo built over about seven months roughly. Going to attempt to self-fund indefinitely, not interested in sharing ownership with investors (specifically it's just so much easier to not deal with investors if you don't have to; I don't have to worry about generating a return for them, or getting them an exit).

Working on a way to write Oculus Quest apps in Golang. The entire thing is a tower of yak shaving. Current adventure: attempting to write a reactive UI system that doesn't need to dynamically allocate memory.