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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 elvis10ten »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #138

I continue to spend most of my free energy learning Finnish. Only a few more years and I should be able to finally focus on my career again :') Two new projects of note this month, one specific to Finnish language learners, and one that is probably useful for language learners in general: * https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial thing I've…

Are you relocating permanently to Finland? Do you have a blog post of your experience there?

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

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Post by threeseed »

muxneo wrote: post #90

My family uses multiple messenger apps - WhatsApp, Slack, Discord etc. I get so many messages on these everyday. I am also member of multiple WhatsApp groups and slack channels. Needless to say, I miss out on a lot (actually every) important message in groups and channels and sometimes DMs. I am working on ML solution to summarize the messages and info in these messengers for people whenever they access my service. T…

This sounds an awful like Siri Intelligence.

And sorry to say it's a pretty underwhelming experience.

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

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Post by MichaelEstes »

I've been working on language for a little over a year now. There's no documentation at all, just some examples if you can figure out how to run them. I thought building a compiler would take less time than it has, but it's been feeling like a good investment in my future of making things. It's a project I can just keep moving with forever.

https://github.com/MichaelEstes/Spite

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

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Post by JimmyBuckets »

jeanlucas wrote: post #183

I'm building tools for my own community on WhatsApp, from a simple bot to summarize texts and give some simple statistics to full on subscriptions through WhatsApp itself. Yes, I'm aware I relying on WhatsApp and that it is a risk.

This is cool! What types of stats? Can you give more detail on the types of tools?

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

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Post by martinraag »

I've been working on an iOS app that aggregates cinema showtimes across chains and independent theaters in the UK.

I moved to London some years back, and was pleasantly surprised by the vibrant cinema scene, that seems to be in a steep decline in so many places. On any day of the week, one can find independent films, old and new classics, Q&A's with filmmakers etc. playing in one of the many theaters across the city. Staying on top of it all is a chore though, and I found myself missing out on screenings regularly, because I didn't check that one cinema's website on time.

This is also my first time building and releasing an independent app. The journey from research, backend development and learning SwiftUI has been a trip. Released on TestFlight a couple of weeks ago.

https://qino.app

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

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Post by fratimo66 »

I’m currently developing a link-in-bio tool that requires no cookies, no trackers, and no signups—a true “privacy-first” approach. I’m building it with lovable, which has really helped me overcome the fine-tuning and bug-fixing procrastination that used to slow down my projects.

After spending a lot of time in an acquired startup and becoming more specialized in my role, I realized I needed to switch back to “build mode.” It’s been a rewarding exercise to try generating some organic traffic (no-ads by design) and a much needed escape from excel sheets.

https://barelink.lovable.app/

Wondering if being still on a third level domain is messing up my SEO efforts.

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

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Post by vermilingua »

tiniuclx wrote: post #194

I'm working on Botnet of Ares [0], an incremental hacking game where you exploit millions of devices in order to evolve a superintelligent AI. [0] https://tiniuc.com/botnet-of-ares/

This looks cool, will be following along! Were you inspired at all by Endgame: Singularity?

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

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Post by jatins »

AJRF wrote: post #127

I recently made a little tool for people interested in running local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM in GPU memory. https://canirunthisllm.com/

can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?

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

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Post by rijavecb »

kaonwarb wrote: post #78
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?

Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.

I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)

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

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Post by flippinbits »

I'm working on a SaaS that will detect publicly shared AWS resources. Not by evaluating policies but by actually testing the availability. Some examples: can a KMS key be used from a 3rd party AWS account, are there any object in an S3 truly exposed publicly, and similar. The motivation is to find truly critical issues in AWS account setup by addressing the first priority items - public exposure.

Another project that is currently only happening in my head - I am thinking about security operations teams that I think often do the same things in different companies. Namely there is a lot of tinkering with detections and alerting, often for the same services. I think this could be cost optimized by being offered as a SaaS.

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