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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 Summerbud »

I am working a SaaS document asset management services called Doccie

At the same time I am exploring the boundary of my ability to think deeper

Thus writing a monthly newsletter that will span for 10 years. Right now it has a open rate over 70%

https://connectingdotsessay.substack.com/

Here are the essays

## Eight Grade syndrome - why grand narrative vision is killing your startup

If you think crafting a grand narratives of your idea is the crucial first step of building a startup, this essay is for you.

## Explorer Mindset - In a world where algorithms decide what we see, how can we rediscover the joy of unexpected discoveries?

If you feel trapped in a narrow view point, surrounded by the veil, and lack of creation muse, this article is for you.

## Why I show up everyday. The peddle, podium, creators and us.

If you are interested in why I started this newsletter and what I learned from it so far, this essay is for you.

Any feedback is appreciated!

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

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Post by elric »

NationOfJoe wrote: post #467
udev4096 wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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i have no skin in the game and honestly i am wondering how this idea contributes to enshittifying the web more? this idea just seems like it provides the same content as visiting the site in a different view, like reader mode?

I think the parent is referring to the goal of making the web more "LLM friendly".

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

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Post by dailydetour123 »

greysteil wrote: post #37

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…

This is really interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm keen to know how it compares to a tool like Pulsar? I've been quoted a huge amount to use their service, and it looks like mention.us basically fulfills the same social listening function? If it does then I will definitely push my org to sign up!

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

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Post by shawa_a_a »

I have been bedroom DJing, and wanting to expand what I can do with the hardware I already have.

Using `midiex` for Elixir I’ve written a fully fledged driver for Ableton Push, letting me use it as essentially a 4-deck version of Pioneer’s DDJ-XP2 sub controller with Rekordbox.

It implements basic statefulness so that the rotary encoders can be used, as well as a paging system so the 64 performance pads can be mapped to different functions. It also supports track browsing and loading, which is helpful if you want to use say DVS with an external mixer and don’t want to be hunched over a laptop dragging tracks around.

It’s also got some additional capabilities which I’ve not seen on other hardware like dedicated faders for stem separation levels.

It’s been a great exercise in combing two hobbies, learning about MIDI as well as being able to personalise my setup for my own use. I haven’t open sourced any of it just yet whilst I’m still tweaking things but I’d be interested in collaborating with anyone who also has one of these devices and has programmed it. I’m looking to use the display on it next, whose protocol Ableton have some (albeit scant) documentation for.

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

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Post by joseda-hg »

Havoc wrote: post #626
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…

Think you’d need to make it country specific. Some countries have specific requirements around invoices and what needs to be on it

If you could add custom templates, you could let the community add the country specific things

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

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Post by jweatherby »

Very much WIP: I'm working on an alternative to subscriptions for online publications. Instead of subscribing to entire publications / blogs, publishers would register their publication on this network and configure thresholds and pricing. Add a bit of code to the site and a paywall will show up, allowing readers to pay for individual articles. The prices would be minimal, amounting to less than a dollar in most cases. i.e. reading articles using micro-transactions

I know it's been tried before, but I thought I'd attack it with a few different angles - web based, no chrome extension, and thresholds to help verify the article is worth it.

You can see the proof-of-concept here: https://paperwall.io/

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

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Post by bushido »

I'm building an ERP to encapsulate the whole "customer" journey. I'm building it to be a business operating system of sorts with a goal of creating clear line-of-sight visibility for all activities along journey's like lead-gen to churn (but in a variety of settings).

The goal is make it easier for organizations to work with external parties that affect finances (customers, investors, vendors, etc.).

The idea was born out of personal frustration that I've faced in a variety of leadership roles in organizations, that lead to wasted effort, slower decision making, bad decisions made with equally unhygienic data.

I've solved this successfully in the past form of internal tools and a data governance layer (data warehouse with much more authority).

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

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Post by scroogey »

I've been re-energized to work on some programming things I'd mostly left on the shelf or only picked up once in a blue moon on some quiet weekends. Mostly this is all thanks to LLMs and how enjoyable tools like Claude Code can be to use (when they actually give you what you want!), and how much more social they make the experience for me.

Not a professional developer so I suspect these projects look a lot more like slugging through mud and trying to navigate through a maze in a pitch black environment, and I've found these tools to be helpful especially in small refactorings that would normally result in me just slowly losing interest in the project.

Anyways, https://pianobooth.com is the latest one! Gave me an excuse to learn some Blender as well. It'll play your midi files (well, it might play your midi file) and show the notes being played on a keyboard. :)

Lots of room for improvement. It now works on most of the midi files I've tried, but it's still glitchy and buggy. But at least it works sometimes!

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

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Post by sexy_seedbox »

karmicthreat wrote: post #273

I've been "Vibe Coding" this weekend with the vibe of a micromanaging tech lead or PM. Actually, it's not terrible if you just accept that you need to treat the AI like a year 0 engineer who is really good at googling. I've run the project through cline and roo. Also tried Claude 3.7 and the 1M context Gemni 2.5 pro model. I'd say Gemini is less creative. But it's still good. I can see how it is a productivity booste…

Try `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324` from 7 days ago.
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