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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 conductr »

modo_mario wrote: post #329

After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers. There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try. I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons. Additionally I'm considering where I should move to.…

My family owned a salon growing up, I’m pretty in tuned with this if you need help. I’d just copy the features of another app for starters. Most the features are common and a core expectation of your user (scheduling, etc). You should signup as a stylist on some of these apps to see what they offer, how they solve, and put your own spin on it. ( https://glossgenius.com/ ).

I’m In the US male hair market as a user these days and i think you could add value by increasing LTV of a customer for the stylists. I always wonder by they don’t offer a discount if you book your next appointment during your visit. Or offer a discount for annual prepayments, etc. The goal would be to have their customer 1) repeat and 2) repeat often. You could move the needle with some good incentives and marketing strategies for the stylist. If their walkins converted to repeats more often and their regulars had better “adherence” coming every 18 days on average instead of 20 days on average then you have a strong value prop for any stylist should use your tool and pay you for it!!

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

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Post by conductr »

aantix wrote: post #599

A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…

My kid is still too young for YT and I’m not sure what age group you’re targeting but there’s a huge mass of people that do not like YT for the early years. And try to avoid it for as long as possible. I think this is a niche to tap into if you are interested in monetizing this as a better experience for these types of parents. This could be the toddler to 10+ just whenever parent decides to allow it but wants to do it in a controlled way. I don’t know if I’m in the minority, because I’m kind of in a bubble (fancy private school environment), but a lot of the other parents I know are YT-free homes and even iPad free but that’s at age 6 right now. I’m hoping to stay away from it for at least a few more years with my son. Anywho.

I’d definitely use an app that gave the kid recommendations and some discover-ablilty that the YT algorithm provides (probably with some more pre-filtering) except just as tiles/gifs previews and they had to “request access” to any video to play. Or have some redefined categories as you mentioned. Then once a video was allowed, it would appear as available in the app via yt-dlp or similar.

This does 2 main things I prefer as a parent. I get control over the content. It removes the instant feedback /random access loop of on-demand streaming. For some things it might even be good to control how many times they can watch it , or if they have to ask permission again, etc. Not sure if you could bolt on / use as a base but this kind of customizations for stacher would be perfect.

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

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Post by conductr »

arcadium3D wrote: post #341

I'm building a fast, lightweight 3D house modelling tool. Revit/AutoDesk are hugely cumbersome and expensive. Sketchup died when Trimble took over. I'm glad to say it's gaining traction - here's an unsolicited post by Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind: https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1889134672866582617 And here's the site: https://arcadium3d.com/

I’m going to give this a try. I build as a hobby, working my way up to building my own home, and it feels like cad software of all types is always too complicated for me. I shouldn’t need to be an expert in this tool to design a simple house that’s just a few boxes.

I generally don’t like AI, but I could see having a chat prompt “making changes to a car file” that I’ve described in my natural language could be a killer feature. Especially if you let me describe components like layers if a wall. Then use said wall in an area. Basically BIM level of detail.

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

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Post by mpourismaiel »

I'm building a dashboard called UniDeck (https://dash.unideck.app) which allows connecting to different services and viewing their data in widgets. It's a great tool for creating home pages for teams and companies and we're working on adding more integrations and tools.

It works by connecting to apis of services like github, gitlab, jira, trello and more with user's account and provides widgets for those services with various configurations.

Our most recent feature has been a widget that allows configuring a table that can connect to whatever api the user provides, all handled in the browser so only user can see the data. You can connect to any api endpoint you like and customize the table to your needs.

It was a side project that we needed for our own projects but came to realize there was a huge demand for it when we showcased it on ProductHunt.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

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

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Post by dtgmzac »

Been working on a platform for applicants to find out who is applying to the same job and whether we got ghosted.

It was frustrating to apply for jobs, with no rejection emails and no updates, not knowing whether to keep waiting or move on. The plan is to answer questions like:

1. Has anyone heard back from this role?

2. How long does it usually take to hear back?

3. What are the online assessments/interview rounds like for company X?

https://github.com/didtheyghostme/didtheyghostme

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

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Post by cookiengineer »

m3047 wrote: post #670

I've been working on something I call "Poor Fred's SIEM" (a play on Poor Richard's Almanac) for several years, rethinking an approach to observability based on the functional difference between diagnostic and evaluative observables: cooking evaluatives at the edge, presuming that diagnostics will be investigated on the (well-implemented) network segment where they are recorded. I've also rethought PTR records based o…

Wait, so you've been turning DNS into a remote debugging and netflow/log analysis protocol?

I tried to understand the code and how it's used among the nodes. The thoughts in my head right now are similar to "wow this is so cool but I have no idea what it does".

I've been experimenting with DNS a lot lately, and e.g. used DNS exfil techniques to build a mesh router (mostly for privacy related reasons). [1]

But this kind of protocol layer inside PTR/TXT/URI(?) records could be really useful, as it could bypass firewalls which is super important while remote debugging a potentially compromised node. With DNSSEC or OPT record support, you could probably also reflect an authentication workflow, so that the following sessions could be handled in an encrypted-per-session manner.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/warps

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