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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)

#581
Whisp [1] - Pure* PHP SSH server specifically designed for devs to build fun TUIs

Ended up having to write a decent chunk of C using FFI mind, no wonder people write SSH servers in Go/C, and why every AI tool told me it's really difficult and shouldn't be done :D

Bit of fun though, and I know more than I would ever want to know about the SSH protocol now!

- [1] https://github.com/whispphp/whisp

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

#582

I am building DollarDeploy [1] - platform to deploy apps to your own server. Think of it as a Vercel but without serverless or public cloud confusing pricing - DollarDeploy + VPS of your choice. DD supports NextJS, React, Python, Docker Compose apps. NextJS and React runs without docker and deploy super fast - around 1min from GitHub push to live with HTPPS, Postgres and Redis db alongside. Currently in progress of i…

I love this!

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

#583

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…

Sounds very cool. I'm curious how you manage to monitor Linkedin though. The only tool that seems capable of monitoring Linkedin is https://kwatch.io , so if you manage to achieve that too it's impressive.

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

#585
Trappist, a space exploration / city builder game in the Trappist-1 solar system. It is inspired by the classic Alien Legacy, with more modern gameplay in the style of the Anno-series.

I've been working to time an update and demo release with the Steam City Builder & Colony Sim fest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769820/Trappist/

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

#586

We’re building AI PSY HELP – an AI-powered mental health assistant offering 24/7 anonymous support via voice and text, without appointments or waiting. It’s used by 100,000+ people in Ukraine, including veterans, teens, and first responders. The AI is trained on 40,000+ hours of real psychotherapy sessions and provides individualized emotional guidance to help users manage stress, anxiety, and trauma. We partner with…

How did you get people to agree to training a chatbot on their sessions? That strikes me as extremely intimate text. Is it a "it's in the T&Cs" deal, or did you seek a separate opt-in?

I'm askng because the answer will shed light on the level of privacy "the average consumer" is comfortable with.

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