https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery
cool app!! will be super cool if I can share some of my stats with people, similar to Spotify Wrapped
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
Went through your profile searching for a demo and discovered fractional CTO. Could you share a bit about how you evaluate new gigs and figure out how much time each one would need?
People ask if I'm available and if I find the work interesting and they can pay me I say yes. I have never looked for work since starting and have slightly more requests than I can fulfill (almost everything through my network). For efficiency I do full days of work + ad-hoc meetings when necessary and no more than 2 days per week per client. Note that I'm not always a CTO in the strictest sense of the word, I like d…
Sorry to off topic further but I also have a question - how do you deal with recruiters? As a consultant I get grilled and rejected if I ever have overlapping projects or anything that even remotely looks like more than 40h a week. They're very intimidated with implications of being "overemployed"
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#363I'm working on an educational game to try and replace or augment some security awareness training. To start with, the focus is phishing.
I'm also writing again. A story that's becoming more cyberpunk than I originally intended. It'll probably never be read by anyone but me, but getting it out of my head feels nice.
Also started going to the gym and working on my health.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#364I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the…
Sounds like amazing project. Have you considered teaming up with someone from other parts of Europe? BTW checkout https://github.com/codegen-sh/codegen-sdk
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#365Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow. Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back). Made a little web app that helped me communicate: https://azriel.im/tears/ (I c…
Good luck, it can be tough, but you're worth the effort.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#366I'm working on a compiler for asynchronous circuits. Once I have modules, placement, and routing working, I'll have an MVP. Hopefully, this will allow people without any computer engineering expertise to make chips. For now it has a couple of useful tools.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#367I discovered the world of specialty coffee last year, fell into the rabbit hole and am now building a coffee journal and bean tracking app called Coffee Library ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coffee-library/id6664071528?uo... ). Probably the best way to develop your taste and understand the spectrum of different coffees available is to do comparative tasting aka try a small number of coffees in parallel to compare a…
This is awesome. I was considering building something very similar, but great to see it already exists. How are you building the app? The interface makes me think it's native SwiftUI?
Yeah, all SwiftUI. I'm curious, was there anything specific that you saw in the interface that makes it obvious (vs UIKit)?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#368I've been working on https://github.com/nickjj/plutus, it's a command line income and expense tracker. It's a zero dependency Python script that you can curl down.
It generates reports to show you your numbers in a bunch of customizable ways, it generates these reports in less than a second and uses a single CSV file as your data source.
I've gotten things to the point where I can do my books every quarter in about 5 minutes with complete accuracy since it supports importing arbitrary CSV files such as bank exports with a way to automate categorizing things in any way you see fit. I currently use it to track my income, business expenses and personal expenses.
Basically I ran into issues using different finance tracking tools over the last decade which always made me feel unhappy to use those tools so I built Plutus with intent to resolve all of those issues I had and make me happy while using it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
People ask if I'm available and if I find the work interesting and they can pay me I say yes. I have never looked for work since starting and have slightly more requests than I can fulfill (almost everything through my network). For efficiency I do full days of work + ad-hoc meetings when necessary and no more than 2 days per week per client. Note that I'm not always a CTO in the strictest sense of the word, I like d…
Sorry to off topic further but I also have a question - how do you deal with recruiters? As a consultant I get grilled and rejected if I ever have overlapping projects or anything that even remotely looks like more than 40h a week. They're very intimidated with implications of being "overemployed"
This isn't a problem for me. I mostly stopped getting interest from recruiters when I became CTO. Now I just get calls from CEOs or CPOs etc and they understand what I offer them. I have a rule for myself to never charge for hours when I'm not productive and never charge overlapping hours though.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#370Building a multi-modal llm app across multiple platforms and syncs. Doing this is both harder and easier than I expected. Can’t wait to ship it out into the real world soon.