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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 taejavu »

colincooke wrote: post #231
taejavu wrote: post #191

I've been putting together a no-nonsense free invoice generator, for people (like myself) that only occasionally send invoices. It's more-or-less a WYSIWYG editor, and the state is stored in the URL, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you stored your copy - if you've sent someone an email with the link, you've got a copy. This project was born out of the frustration of trying to generate an invoi…

Nice work! Would totally have used this when I was freelancing. Honestly love the serif'd fonts, would love to see everything serif'd tbh. Also back when I had to do these (I used Wave) having a notes section was very useful to include a few things (i.e. I used to include conversion rates). Would probably be pretty easy.

Thanks for the feedback, a notes section is a great idea!

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

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Post by taejavu »

pcdoodle wrote: post #290
taejavu wrote: post #191

I've been putting together a no-nonsense free invoice generator, for people (like myself) that only occasionally send invoices. It's more-or-less a WYSIWYG editor, and the state is stored in the URL, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you stored your copy - if you've sent someone an email with the link, you've got a copy. This project was born out of the frustration of trying to generate an invoi…

Great friggin name! Love that it dumps you right into the experience.

Haha thank you, I was amazed the domain was available! And yeah jumping through hoops just to get to the invoice generator is something that frustrated me with existing alternatives, so dumping the user straight into it was one of the foremost decisions the design centered around.

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

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Post by pveierland »

I'm building v2 of MyNixOS, which is an experimental platform to help users navigate, create, and run software configurations using Nix/NixOS.

Just shipped the first phase of v2 which lets you navigate Nix store objects.

Give it a spin here: https://v2.mynixos.com/nix/store/16s8kjwv6zz7xyv3hjr890n7v0d...

(Adjust settings in the upper right corner menu to control what is streamed).

More info here and in FAQ on front page: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/mynixos-v2-release-updates/622...

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

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Post by yqiang »

I'm working on a calorie & macro tracker called FitBee. Tracking my food has been tremendously helpful in terms of improving my health, but it's always been kind of a PITA. These past couple of months have been really exciting as I'm leaning into using AI to make it less of a hassle to track & provide more insights.

https://fitbee.app

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

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Post by tessierashpool »

maxwelljoslyn wrote: post #215

My master's thesis[1] was half research, half dev project, exploring how we can continue to fully fuse traditional RPGs with computers. This goal is my life quest, my life's work. I think virtual tabletops (VTTs) as they currently stand are barking up the wrong tree[2]. I want a computer-augmented RPG to allow the GM to do everything he does in the analog form of the game. On-the-fly addition of content to the game w…

how do you feel about Talespire? it allows pretty fast on-the-fly map-making as long you’re not dealing with significant vertical distances, although it’s got very little in common with LambdaMOO. but MUDs generally seem to be MMRPG precursors at this point, unless there’s an underground community I’m unaware of.

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

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Post by taejavu »

nodesocket wrote: post #278
taejavu wrote: post #191

I've been putting together a no-nonsense free invoice generator, for people (like myself) that only occasionally send invoices. It's more-or-less a WYSIWYG editor, and the state is stored in the URL, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you stored your copy - if you've sent someone an email with the link, you've got a copy. This project was born out of the frustration of trying to generate an invoi…

Interesting, I’ve been using https://simpleinvoices.io for a couple of years and really like it. Integrates with my Stripe and super easy to configure. Best of luck!

It looks nice at a glance, but there's just no way I can justify $15/mth for the few times a year I need to send an invoice. If https://bestfreeinvoice.com gains some amount of traction I'd love to extend the feature set to justify a paid tier, but the basic experience (i.e. what's currently live) will always be free and genuinely useful.

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

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Post by wanderingbit »

andrethegiant wrote: post #97

I'm working on pure.md[1], which lets your scripts, APIs, apps, agents, etc reliably access web content in markdown format. Simply prefix any URL with `pure.md/` and you get the unblocked markdown content of that webpage. It avoids bot detection and renders JavaScript-heavy websites, and can convert HTML, PDFs, images, and more into pure markdown. pure.md acts as a global caching layer between LLMs and web content. I…

What a great idea, I will soon be a paying customer. This solves a problem of an app I'm using that I was hesitant to try to develop myself.

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

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Post by crummy »

johnpaulkiser wrote: post #189

A platform for indie devs to publish WIP web games: ( https://flipkick.gg ) The goal is to build a discovery system/algo that surfaces stickiness and fun to give developers a tighter publish/iterate feedback loop so they can really hone their craft on a shorter time frame. If you have a prototype of a game that can be hosted as a static frontend web rotting away in your "projects/" directory feel free to toss it up o…

high score: 88

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

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Post by imjustaghost »

I don't know how people are so smart here. You people are really so incredibly clever and driven. I've found myself in a data analyst job where we do lots of python and linux stuff. That's cool and all but I am such an exhausted and deeply demotivated person. I don't know what to do next with my career. I am largely banking on building strong passive income streams. I don't think I'm in the right job or career - but I don't know what I'd do otherwise. I am not sure I can afford to do an apprenticeship. Maybe I should speak to a psychologist.

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

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Post by taejavu »

niraj-agarwal wrote: post #242
taejavu wrote: post #191

I've been putting together a no-nonsense free invoice generator, for people (like myself) that only occasionally send invoices. It's more-or-less a WYSIWYG editor, and the state is stored in the URL, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of where you stored your copy - if you've sent someone an email with the link, you've got a copy. This project was born out of the frustration of trying to generate an invoi…

Useful and simple. The pattern could be applied to any templatized document we need to generate.

Yeah it'd be cool to consider this approach for some other domains. Sometime soon I'll make it so you can change the word in the top-left from "INVOICE" to "QUOTE" or "RECEIPT". The nice thing about an invoice is you know there's going to be a relatively small amount of data, so storing the state in the URL is a plausible approach (even if it looks obscene to discerning users ).
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