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

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

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Post by elpalek »

Japan Top 100 (restaurants) app

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/japan-top-100/id6741251616

Only public on iOS store for now, due to Google requires larger # of testers to authenticate the app.

This app idea came from my last Japan trip. I had a hard time finding good local restaurants (not tourist traps). So I decided to build this app with Japanese-oriented lists, due to lists' lacked of maps, etc. The app actually helped me discover some great spots, since it lists places all over Japan. Please give it a try and let me know if you have any feature requests or ideas.

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

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Post by hedayet »

btbuildem wrote: post #120
hedayet wrote: post #109

https://aponlink.com/ I built a no-AI, human-only social network focused on ONLY one thing - keeping people connected. I'd stepped away from mainstream social media last year due to the overwhelming negativity, privacy violation, etc. Then around early this year, I started to feel I was missing updates from people who actually matter in my life. Instead of going back to traditional platforms, I decided to create a si…

Something like this has been on my mind for a while now -- take the useful, positive elements from across the socials (network of connections, media sharing, events, etc) and create mini-nets that let people who want to, stay in touch. How do you envision onboarding? Do I join, and then try to convince a handful of people to join as well?

Glad this resonates with you! That’s exactly the goal—keeping the useful parts of social networking while removing the noise and AI-driven manipulation.

> How do you envision onboarding? Do I join, and then try to convince a handful of people to join as well?

Yes, that's been the idea so far for onboarding. But we’re also exploring ways to make the platform more organically discoverable and valuable from day one (without AI).

In my case, it's been easy to convince my network to move and I found they shared a similar level of dismay towards traditional networks.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions on the onboarding process

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

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Post by wingworks »

For those few living in NZ, I've made a site that lists all the bank saving rates (and TDs), and ranks them by best to worst. This is mostly intended for people who know what they're doing. So don't just pick the highest and roll with it. Higher return usually comes with more risk.

Also, the biggest banks usually have the worst rates, this also goes for Kiwisaver, don't put your Kiwisaver with a bank, it'll do poorly compared to the lowest fee options we got in NZ. e.g. InvestNow (Foundation Series funds) / Kernel / Simplicity.

Still needs some work, like showing which rates are variable, or extra high risk.

Pretty quickly hacked together, to be very utilitarian, and practical. Don't see ever making money on it, made it more for me.

https://savingrates.netlify.app/

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

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Post by Syntaf »

I'm trying to make it easier to run clubs, associations & organizations with a platform called embolt.app[1].

We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.

It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.

[1] https://embolt.app

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

hedayet wrote: post #109

https://aponlink.com/ I built a no-AI, human-only social network focused on ONLY one thing - keeping people connected. I'd stepped away from mainstream social media last year due to the overwhelming negativity, privacy violation, etc. Then around early this year, I started to feel I was missing updates from people who actually matter in my life. Instead of going back to traditional platforms, I decided to create a si…

You need an about page with screenshots, ect. I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I invest my extremely valuable time and attention into your site.

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The links on the bottom of the page (about, privacy policy, ect) don't work.

In general: Non-functioning links / buttons are a huge no-no. When I encounter non-functioning links / buttons in software, I just assume I'm going to waste my time and move on.

I know that sometimes when designing a UI, you want to be able to "see" what the final product will look like. Leaving them in before they work is sloppy, and gives the impression that your product also has more loose ends.

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

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Post by owenpalmer »

pedalpete wrote: post #84

We're increasing the brain's restorative function during sleep. Over the last 4.5 years, we've been developing slow-wave enhancement technology which increases the effectiveness of deep sleep. We've developed the full stack, our own hardware, soft conductive dry (no paste or gel) electrodes, comfortable EEG headband, embedded sleep stage classification and stimulation models, the list goes on and on. We're currently…

Very interesting, what do you estimate the price will be?

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

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Post by jetbalsa »

Hyper-V as a Service ish?

I have a use case to have a need to provision at will hyper-v instances for others to have control over fully. I've looked into proper things for things like SCVMM and Azure local and really they do suck..

So off to build a set of automation scripts to provision hyper-v inside of hyper-v attached to S2D shares and give students admin access to them and work in teams to build things on their own.

Its going to suck... I've done this exact use case using openstack, incus, proxmox and they all kinda suck...

I need project isolation, I need freedom, I need compliance.

The compliance is where I'm stuck with hyper-v due to the powers to be....

Wish me luck!

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

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Post by smine »

Making a webapp (an inside-messenger mini-app) to create, hold and manage local amateur tennis tournaments.

So far I've built stuff like automatically created and advanced tournament brackets with group stage, match schedules, participation queue and achievements. Not that hard, really, but helped me get into the backend side of web-development.

We currently organize 2-4 events each weekend for 300 people of different skill levels.

So far it's exclusive for our small community, but I'm thinking of offering it to similar groups of people in other cities.

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