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

I'm working on https://inboto.com, an AI agent for email support. I'm tried out sending receptive emails, or switching between different platforms to find unified information about the customer.

Thinking of putting together web app that uses an LLM for conversion of a resume to json resume

Wait 3 months for me to finish.

So far it's basically just a Django server. You're responsible for self hosting ( although I imagine I'll put up a demo server), you can define your own cards.

You can play the game by literally just using curl calls if you want to be hardcore about it.

I *might* make a nice closed source game client one day with a bunch of cool effects, but that's not my focus right now.

I like the virtual clips feature because it does a better job of getting out of the way of how many people think. Before, I was just telling people 'here's your entire video file, good luck.' If you had 5 hours of footage from a sports tournament but your kid was only doing something interesting for 10 minutes total, you were stuck with the whole file.

My perspective is all those hours of raw footage are just raw materials waiting to be shaped into stories, highlights, or presentations. The value is concentrated in a few hotspots.

Jellyfin and Plex appear to have been built on fundamentally different technical assumptions than Video Clip Library. They expect media to remain connected and accessible to the server at all times - when drives disconnect, they often purge those entries from their databases, requiring full rescans when reconnected. It appears Jellyfin only fixed this in Oct 2024.

The reality for many isn't sleek network storage - it's often just a plastic container filled with labeled hard drives sitting in a closet.

Video Clip Library is architected specifically for the archival cold storage workflow where most media is physically offline. The database maintains complete metadata even when drives are disconnected. When you search for 'soccer highlights from 2018,' it not only tells you what file contains that footage but precisely where that physical drive is located: 'in the blue SSD in Alice's desk, bottom drawer'. You can upload pictures of each drive, print out barcodes, write detailed notes. Organization stuff.

This workflow doesn't necessarily make sense for full-time professionals with dedicated workstations, but it's ideal for the long-tail use cases that originally drove me to build this software - normal people with occasional video projects. Of course, as is often the case, people bring it to their day job and start pushing for more business-oriented features. But the genesis of this software was for the individual creator, the freelancer, or small teams of auteurs collaborating on creative projects. A tool to accommodate the stop-and-start reality of passion projects. A poor man's editing with Proxies.

I'm working on MailTrigger — a customizable SMTP server that turns any email notification into a message on platforms like LINE, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, SMS, or pretty much anything else.

The idea is simple: if your app can send an email, it can trigger notifications across multiple channels with no extra coding. Think of it as "SMTP Server to Anything."

One of the cool parts is MailTrigger supports WebAssembly (WASM), so you can customize your own notification logic and automate workflows. I’ve used it for tasks like monitoring internal systems, forwarding alerts to different chat platforms, and even adding basic decision-making logic before sending notifications. It’s been a huge time saver.

I’ve also experimented with using LLMs to assist in rule creation — you can configure notification rules using natural language instead of writing manual code. It’s like giving your infrastructure a smarter way to handle incidents.

At my company, I’m using MailTrigger for real-time price drop alerts and server health monitoring, along with integrations like Jenkins and Sentry to forward alerts to our DevOps Telegram channel.

It’s still super early, and things like the docs, pricing, and overall user experience are definitely a work in progress. But I’m iterating quickly and would love to hear feedback from this community!

Check it out here: https://mailtrigger.app/

Curious to hear your thoughts!