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

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

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Post by absqueued » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 10:51 AM UTC

Working on (mostly weekends) https://pluswhois.com> (part-time) – a tool to simplify brand name research. It checks domain availability, allows one to monitor taken domains, checks social handle availability, and links to basic trademark search tools.

If a domain is taken, it shows full ownership data with great UX — not just a raw JSON dump. Clickable links to social profiles, business info, tech stack, DNS records, and more.

Built it to streamline my own workflow for naming and branding projects. Still early, but already saving me time. More features coming!

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

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Post by farmin » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 10:52 AM UTC

janosch_123 wrote: post #514

I am sharing what I learnt building electric cars. On YouTube: https://youtube.com/@foxev-content In a learning app: https://foxev.io/academy/ On a physical board where people can explore electric car tech on their desk: https://foxev.io/ev-mastermind-kit/ Backstory: from 2018-2023 I converted London taxis to be electric and built three prototypes. We also raised £300k and were featured in The Guardian. I have a day-…

Thanks for sharing. I watched some of canbus video and came back to say it looks really interesting. I am building a prototype diesel electric autonomous vehicle for farm applications at the moment so the videos are somewhat relevant to me.

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

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Post by ghoshbishakh » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 10:55 AM UTC

I am working on supporting wildcard custom domains for https://pinggy.io

What we found is that we can issue certificates for a wildcard domain even without asking the user to setup TXT records. If one CNAME record is set, we can set the TXT records on our domain to validate the wildcard domain.

Very excited about it.

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

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Post by ghoshbishakh » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 10:57 AM UTC

delduca wrote: post #606

I’m slowly (on free time) working on my first commercial game for Steam in my spare time, using my open-source 2D engine named Carimbo. See here: https://imgur.com/a/e3Xo9Io Carimbo source code: https://github.com/willtobyte/carimbo More information: https://nullonerror.org/2024/10/08/my-first-game-with-carimb...

I can never wrap my head around game development. Respect. All the best.

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

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Post by ghoshbishakh » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 10:59 AM UTC

enisberk wrote: post #443

Finishing up my PhD thesis on low-resource audio classification for ecoacoustics. Our partners deployed 98 recorders in remote Arctic/sub-Arctic regions, collecting a massive (~19.5 years) dataset to monitor wildlife and human noise. Labeled data is the bottleneck, so my work focuses on getting good results with less data. Key parts: - Created EDANSA [1], the first public dataset of its kind from these areas, using a…

Very interesting. All the best for your thesis. Mine is not nearly as interesting enough.

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

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Post by alabhyajindal » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 11:03 AM UTC

_cn0w wrote: post #593

Working on [redacted], a Chrome extension to make YouTube more time-efficient (and way more fun). Its main differentiator: hover any thumbnail (homepage, search, shorts, etc.) for an instant mini-summary, like Wikipedia link previews. Also includes detailed summaries w/ timestamps, chat w/ video, chat w/ entire channels, and comment summaries. Hover & Detailed summaries are free if you plug in your own OpenAI API key…

Love the idea and the name! Do you think whether this will worsen the YouTube experience? Because it encourages consuming content at a faster pace than watching the videos themselves.

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

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Post by candiddevmike » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 11:11 AM UTC

cdfuller wrote: post #261

candiddevmike wrote: post #31

I built a reverse proxy similar to Cloudflare Tunnels that can be self-hosted: https://tunlr.dev This came about because of how awkward Cloudflare Tunnels is to use in a development environment.

I'd love something like this, however the pricing isn't clear. It looks like I have to pay for a $100/yr server license and self-host it?

If you want to use your own domain and certificates, yes. Otherwise you can use the Cloud version for free with a dynamic hostname, or you can contact us for a static hostname setup.

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

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Post by ZoeNews » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

dmos62 wrote: post #532

I'm working on a plaintext, decetralized, distributed (multi-device), trustless (multi-user), immutable, schemaless database that's syncable via SyncThing. The trustless part, fundamentally, comes from records being signed by the authors, each device/user keeping track of signatures (ids) seen, and each device periodically publishing all ids it's aware of: that seems to defeat all attacks or accidental corruptions I…

As someone that uses Syncthing for pretty much all the usecases you mentioned that sounds very interesting! Do you mind sharing some details about the process so far?

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

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Post by gimenete » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

I'm working on an alternative frontend for GitHub https://githero.app/

The focus is on providing a better experience: faster, with smoother interactions, with higher information density and a lot more focused on your daily work (with features such as bookmarks and drafts).

It's web-based but there will be also desktop apps (thanks to tauri) that will integrate with your local git.

If you start using it and want to ask for feature requests or notify bug reports please go to the discord server: https://discord.gg/RHCJvUSbr5 Thanks!!

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

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Post by dgellow » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 11:15 AM UTC

Earlier this year I started making music with an m8 tracker, from Dirtywave. Fantastic device, I highly recommend. It’s my first tracker and took only half a day to feel comfortable and being able to produce simple songs!

It’s so effective that I can have a chord idea at noon, and a song done before the evening