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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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I'm working on an Android/iOS database client to quickly insert data (currently supporting Postgres). I use it to record my workouts, journal, etc.

It's in open testing phase for Android users if anyone wants to check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manugo.bit...

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

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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/

It doesn't work for all GPU/device in Simple tab: "Exception: Failed to calculate information for model. Error: Could not extract VRAM from: System Shared".

Ah sorry, I will fix that.

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

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I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the simple goal of buying less clothes, and thro…

How do you monetize something that is based on a trait that most lack (vanity)?

To me, vanity is only tangential to the purchasing of clothes, particularly fast fashion, where 'it looks good on the model' is often enough to part with money, not 'will it look good on me', or 'do I need it', which are often never even considered, surprisingly. The individual thinking they will look good is actually not always a factor; it can be a kind of addiction. Source comes from my previous employer (fast fashion related industry).

This app doesn't directly answer those questions, but it gives the data needed to stop and think about the answer (quickly). I don't consider myself a vain person, but I consider myself a person who makes poor decisions with their disposable income (fashion).

The main selling point would be this: You could avoid buying 2 shirts that will be unused then thrown away every year, for the cost of 1 shirt. Save money, and textile waste.

But also, why must everything be profitable? I most I could ever hope for is that the hosting costs are paid for.

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

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I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

Publish to Twitter along with number plates and tag the local council.

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

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I am working on HN wrapper which summarize topic discussions and outline main themes of it https://hn-distilled.fly.dev/ Recently added Similar Topics feature which uses Scikit-learn's TF-IDF vectors

It look fun. Good look and feel. Resumés are quite ok. Witch AI service do you use ?

I started using openrouter.ai to have unified api for different models, for HN Distilled I use gemini-2.0-flash-001 – it has huge context window and decent price (much cheaper for the same quality than others)

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

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I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

What about placing a fake speed camera? It might just get the job done

What about just faking speed limit signs? If it's in The Netherlands, everybody should respect traffic signs, whether they are fake or not.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do the banks offer email notifications for transactions? That could be another approach if you automate pulling info from the emails

For individual transactions, it's not really reliable, unfortunately. But for monthly reporting, they do have it, so that could be the next step. There's an app here that does something similar, but it doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore. It’s a free app, so I guess there’s no reason for them to keep investing in it. Fair enough. Looks like they’re shifting toward a B2B solution instead, so that might be my…

I was wondering about building a payment SMS notification -> Tracking app.

It would be more real-time and give me heartaches everytime I go out of budget :D:D:D

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

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I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

i think part of the problem is 30mph/48kmph doesnt feel fast - and to get people to drive slower manufacturers need to design cars so 20mph/32kmph feels faster

There is another way: make the road feel fast. Thankfully it doesn't need to be via bad road surfaces or horrible things like speed bumps that only encourage boy racers and reward large vehicles, making the road narrower with high kerbs or other physical obstacles force drivers to drive slowly and pay attention, otherwise they'll physically damage their vehicle. In a way it evens the playing field, currently cars can kill you, but they are untouchable, there are no consequences for speeding or being distracted. The main downside I can think of is the route becomes difficult for emergency vehicles to use, but with the saved space there could be a dedicated lane for public vehicles.
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