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

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

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Post by josters »

Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the lock screen. Didn‘t find one, so I first created a shortcut which would change my lock screen background image each night and overlay the number of days on it.

This didn’t feel integrated enough and could fail if the phone was off, so I started looking into Swift and created my first app [1] with added features like contact import and notifications for other people‘s ages in days.

It‘s still very much a work in progress but the core functionality of the lock screen widget is something I use almost every day to quickly get the current number and use it for notes etc. I just like having an incrementing unique-to-me number to reference stuff.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/days-of-life-milestones/id6738...

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

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Post by rijavecb »

I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too.

I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow.

[0] https://gorby.app/

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

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Post by indulona »

Past two years, i've been working on sales platform for digital content creators where they can sell digital content(files), online courses or memberships to access content. I'll be going online next month, hopefully. Right now I am refactoring front-end into production design. Front-end eats always the most time, and i still have things to do in relation to servers/infra and testing. It took this long because i manage the finances(i do not use stripe or any other 3rd party service) and it uses event sourcing, which has large overhead. But i am almost there. Hope to go online next month, beta-test in production for Q2 with small amount of users, and come Q3 go into full production.

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

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Post by apnew »

brainless wrote: post #40

I have been working full-time for about 15 months on a product to store real-world entity-relations in a graph (using AI/ML for extraction). The idea is to extract entities and relations deterministically from text (using AI/ML for clues about type and position of entities in text). It is very much a work in progress with lots of commented out code which are just experiments. https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI

hey Sumit!

Great seeing you here on and good luck!

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

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Post by kilowatt »

timtimmy wrote: post #34

Optimizing our rendering algorithms for Apple Vision Pro. Trying to render a 300-million atom cell model at 90fps stereo. It's trivial on a 4090, it's pretty hard on a ~30W mobile GPU (W correct??). I'm thinking about a bunch of immersive mesoscale biology stuff next.

Curious—Do you have a best Metal project to learn from? Foveated rendering and temporal reprojection important here I imagine.

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

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Post by sschueller »

I am working on a departure board [1] for your home or business. Currently only for Swiss Public transport but the plan is to support more countries. Next goal is to update the website which needs work.

The hardware is based around a ESP32. The server that gathers and prepares the data is running on Symfony php. The app to configure the device is written in vue and is using capacitor by ionic. More technical details are here: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...

[1] https://www.stationdisplay.com/

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

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Post by kaonwarb »

rijavecb wrote: post #72

I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too. I'm also building a custome…

Gorby looks interesting. Any future potential for operating on local markdown files?

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

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Post by valorzard »

I’ve been mostly struggling with really bad creative burnout.

I pushed myself to do a couple of game jams cuz I thought it would make the burnout go away, but it’s basically only made it worse.

It’s the first time in my life where i haven’t had a billion ideas in my brain and im not sure what to do with myself. Been trying to listen to history podcasts and read manga to inspire myself again but it’s not working…

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