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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)

#381
I’m building an open source static website hosting platform. The idea was to get back to less complexity. There are so many static sites and apps out there that jump through crazy deployment hoops just for something that should just be a simple file upload.

Recently open sourced everything.

https://github.com/orbiterhost/.github

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

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post #146

Building a wheeled robot with arms to help automate household chores - https://x.com/ajhai/status/1891933005729747096 I have been working with LLMs and VLMs to automate browser based workflows among other things for the last couple of years. Given how good the vision models have gotten lately, the perception problem is solved to level where it opens up a lot of possibilities. Manipulation is not generally solved yet…

Amazing, lol

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

#383

I'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 interesting! How did you validate the idea?

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

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post #357

I 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…

nice, fun project!

there is a really great app that i found super useful called roastguide (roastguide.app). i have tried many of them but this is by far the most complete one

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

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I'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…

What’s the general algorithms or patterns for these infinite canvas type things? I’ve always wondered. How do you handle interactivity also? Seems all very complex with a html canvas…

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

#388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast. The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the spe…

Just out of curiousity, do you signal that you are going to turn left when you slow down compared to the average of the other drivers?

I don’t know about this person’s experience, but there are an overwhelming number of drivers here that don’t notice signals. I can be in the right lane (two lanes in both directions), signal a right turn, slow to turn and they’ll still ride right up on me and look pissed rather than go around.

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

#389
I am still working in my epaper calendars, now making a 10 inch display: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...

More broadly, I’m working on replacing my day job with something more exciting and impactful.

I think the most excitement and impact can be found in a startup, so that’s what im trying to get into now!

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

#390
I'm a professional trader for a commodity company and there is lots of friends/family that asked me where to invest. I've therefore decided to put my portfolio as a SaaS: https://thesimpleportfol.io . I've traded that portfolio for the last 8 years and the live execution is even better than the backtest.
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