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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 dailydetour123 »

greysteil wrote: post #667
dailydetour123 wrote: post #653

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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!

Thanks! I haven't used Pulsar, but the general answer is that mentions.us is focussed on sending you alerts for notifications, whereas more sophisticated social listening tools provide a lot more analytics (e.g., sentiment analysis). If your company just wants alerts when their keywords are mentioned on social media then mentions.us should work great for them. If you work for Coca Cola then you likely need something…

Thanks for clarifying, we're a small org and so the few mentions we get could be analysed manually I'm sure. I will flag it to the marketing team!

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

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Post by n1c »

scroogey wrote: post #659

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…

This is great well done! I was literally chatting to an llm about what it'd take to make something just like this on the weekend :)

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

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Post by hafley66 »

I got really good at rxjs and saw a way to make a custom jsx transform where every element is an Observable of string. I've been using it to make my site/blog and just got done writing a mini self contained jira board to iron out the interactivity aspects.

Since it's strings, I just render to file for backend static site generation, then frontend I use diffDom library to do efficient (enough) updates from html string without destroying dom state.

It works really well, but I also don't allow inline event listeners (they make everything much harder), so I've been learning how to leverage event delegation. All in all a pretty fun side project.

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

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Post by mmlkrx »

I've started working on a shared shopping list for group vacations. No sign-up, just create a list and share the link with friends. Emphasis on good sync performance even in bad network conditions, automatic sorting of the list based on where food is found in the supermarket, tags for items on the list. If anybody has ideas for this use-case please comment or email me :).

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

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Post by admiralrohan »

Writing a book on my unique theory on human psychology based on cynicism, military theory, and evolution.

Is has helped me to address all of my problems, from mental health to productivity to learning across all domains like economics, writing, coding, marketing.

Writing daily blog posts, and then piecing together everything into the book. https://www.moderncynicism.com/

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

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Post by jlahijani »

I'm working on an order and production management system for a company that fulfills orders for print-on-demand ecommerce sites. It handles things like graphics manipulation, imposition layouts (gang sheets), cutlines, printing, order batching and tracking during the production and fulfillment stages (barcodes) and everything necessary from what an order is received via API to when it is shipped.

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

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Post by martylamb »

I just finished adding support for ChatGPT's new GPT4o image generator to https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper> and it's working great. Testing it over the next few days and then it'll be ready for release.

This is a tool meant for heavy users of ChatGPT who want to sync their *entire* conversation history to local markdown files. If that describes you, I invite you to check it out!

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

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Post by flanbiscuit »

mmlkrx wrote: post #674

I've started working on a shared shopping list for group vacations. No sign-up, just create a list and share the link with friends. Emphasis on good sync performance even in bad network conditions, automatic sorting of the list based on where food is found in the supermarket, tags for items on the list. If anybody has ideas for this use-case please comment or email me :).

Not exactly the same but this reminds me of an idea I had for shareable shopping carts. You add things to a shopping cart and then you share it via a link (text, dm, chat, email, etc) and the receiver of that link clicks on it and the contents get added to their cart (alternative could be an import button that you paste the link in to make it more explicit).

Why? Plenty of times I've been ordering food with friends and we just pass around a phone to put in the order or someone dictates their order. Sometimes this can involve a friend who is not physically there and so they text you their order in just plain text. I thought it would be cool for everyone to be able to get on the same site, customize their order how they want, and share their link. That way there's no way that anyone misunderstood or forgot anything when placing the final order.

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