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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 okucu »

As an avid language learner I'm trying to create the best tool for intermediate to advanced learners, so for those who know that there is no silver bullet and learning takes years of effort, instead of some magical hack that AI-bros are trying to sell you.

https://okuread.com/ is a desktop App that works completely offline and helps you read foreign language texts and learn vocabulary that way. No AI-garbage included.

Right now I'm working on an open source platform for enabling human pronunciations in Oku. Anki/Flashcard integration and a UI redesign are also all scheduled sometime in Q2.

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

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Post by jtwaleson »

m0rde wrote: post #421
jtwaleson wrote: post #165

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…

Any chance of a demo you can show?

Only to prospective buyers/partners/team members for now, as I need to carefully manage my time. If that's you, please reach out :) In any case, based on the interest in this thread I'll do a separate Show HN thread in a couple of weeks/months!

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

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Post by igeligel_dev »

Multiple things

* An open-source desk scheduling solution: https://workplacify.com/ (GitHub: https://github.com/igeligel/workplacify)

* A bit passively: https://sheetsinterview.com/ - Hackerrank for Excel/Google sheets (I need to add some more task templates, hopefully with AI)

* A Chakra UI v3 component library for SaaS

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

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Post by halftheopposite »

I’m creating an observability tool that I’m trying to make user-centric while staying developer friendly. Most of the tools for remote logging, live dashboards and alerts are either too big, too expensive, or have a “per seat” plan, and incorporate the famous “home” screen with metrics and tips you absolutely never care of. I’m also trying to stay cheap and focused on very few techs (node, Postgres, docker, react) and make it stay as a monolith.

So far I’ve put all the side projects I manage (5 of them) and it’s working great. I can follow and query the logs, the JSON payloads by path, see live metrics like number of users currently online, etc. Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs! Will soon be adding alerts through webhooks, slack, discord, etc.

If you want to try it out: https://app.getboringmetrics.com (no landing page yet).

Edit: just want to say that if you want to try the software but not keep it, you can create an account in under 10 seconds, send a curl request to see logs arrive in realtime, and delete your account in 5 seconds. I do not track anything and do not keep a single piece of data.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

rambambram wrote: post #308
digibeet wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There will be speed limit signs, but they're easily ignored. Maybe one of these plastic "watch out for our kids" things that people place on the street themselves? https://verkeersmaatje.nl/

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

someothherguyy wrote: post #275
mavamaarten wrote: post #81

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…

Has anyone been hit by a car there ever? I think people used to use science to set speed limits.

They did, 30 km/h is a lot safer than higher speeds. You seem to imply someone has to be hit by a car before enforcing the speed limit, am I correct?

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

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Post by sschueller »

4ndrewl wrote: post #245
sschueller wrote: post #77

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…

That looks awesome!

Thank you

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

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Post by ideashower »

donohoe wrote: post #406

I’ve always wanted a large wall mountable e-ink display that I could update periodically - and it didn’t need to be plugged in (or drill holes in a wall to hide the power cable). The displays are really expensive so I’m looking at taking 12 kindles apart and mounting them in a 3x4 grid. They cannot seamlessly touch at the edges so I’m looking to include that as part of the larger aesthetic then ignore it. I’ve figure…

Dang this is a cool project, I'd love to follow along anywhere. Are you posting about your progress online?

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

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Post by krthr »

- An instagram e-commerce search engine for LATAM (starting with Colombia): https://dev.dommo.app (still in development)

- poesia.pics - to generate poetry (spanish) from pictures

- podtafolio.co - a podcast directory (colombia). it generates a summary of the episodes and provide a search experience

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

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Post by scottydelta »

psviderski wrote: post #405

Working on Uncloud[1][2] — think Fly.io but self-hosted. A lightweight Docker clustering tool for running web apps on your own servers (from cloud VMs to bare metal) with no control plane to maintain. Perfect for teams who want cloud-like deployments without Kubernetes complexity. Early days but seeing promising results with eventually consistent state sync, zero-config mesh networking, and automatic HTTPS ingress. […

How is it different than using coolify with API?

https://coolify.io, An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

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