Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

#71

Post by iyn » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10:08 PM UTC

fabianlindfors wrote: post #57

I've been working on extending Postgres to run on top of FoundationDB, effectively turning Postgres into a distributed database with all the modern features one would expect. Hoping to release an initial version for people to try out very soon!

Can you provide more info? Use-cases, how would it work, where will you publish it?

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

#72

Post by rglullis » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10:08 PM UTC

- A typescript SDK for creating local-first applications to browse the Fediverse (https://codeberg.org/mushroomlabs/activitypub-client). I want to be able to use this SDK to work on a fork of Elk (Mastodon client) and Voyager (Lemmy Client) and swap the API-based libraries they use.

- Adding support to WhatsApp/Discord/Signal bridges to Communick's Matrix server. For some reason, last week I got a handful of handful of customers saying that they would be willing to pay more than the $29/year of the standard plan if they could get those bridges on Communick's Matrix server

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

#73

Post by clueless » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10:08 PM UTC

greysteil wrote: post #37

I've been building mentions.us[1] - it sends you alerts when your keywords are mentioned on Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky, LinkedIn and a few other places. For anyone who uses F5Bot, it's similar but with some extra data sources and a Slack integration. It's been a fun project. Dealing with the scale of Reddit (~300 posts/second) creates some interesting technical challenges. It's also let me polish up my frontend dev…

how do you get real time acsess to reddit posts?

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

#74

Post by SubGenius » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10:09 PM UTC

I'm building Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.

https://matrixbird.com

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

#75

Post by niraj-agarwal » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10:10 PM UTC

KNOWRA - A tool to learn about a topic quickly https://knowra.ai Looks at multiple sources and links expand in place.

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

#76

Post by ohgr » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10:11 PM UTC

I’ve been mostly been getting all my shit out of various clouds and trying to get more things offline where I can control the tenancy, risk and cost.

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

#77

Post by 1ilit » Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10:11 PM UTC

Have been building drawDB[1] for a while now. It's a database schema visualizer. Currently working on adding support for oracle databases. Wrote a parser[2] to allow importing from oracle sql. Have been struggling with motivation though, the pieces are pretty much there but I've been procrastinating on putting it all together. This has been my main side project for almost 2 years now.. I miss the feeling of novelty.. but can't come up with something worth building..idk

[1] https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb

[2] https://github.com/1ilit/oracle-sql-parser