I am working on https://wakana.io an open source alternative to Wakatime
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#842A blog about burnout and recovery that chronicles my experiences going on an extended sabbatical for the last 3 years. The good, the bad, the unexpected, what I'd do differently, what I've learned along the way, etc. I started the project 1.5 years ago after many people I spoke to expressed interest, but life got complicated and I had to focus on health among other things. It's now back on the front burner, and I'm h…
Do you mind sharing link?
I'm currently hosting this in my private homelab while I build it out, but if you shoot me an email (profile), I'd be happy to share it once it's up and running.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#843Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not be negative about bestfreevoice, or any other invoicing tool, but it always seems like developers and early-stage entrepreneurs don't understand invoicing. First major disconnect is that not every country uses invoices, but may use receipts instead. This is true for the USA for example, so many US devs (for example: Stripe in the early days) are not familiar with the concept of invoicing. Technically there is no…
>First major disconnect is that not every country uses invoices, but may use receipts instead. This is true for the USA for example, so many US devs (for example: Stripe in the early days) are not familiar with the concept of invoicing. Technically there is no difference between receipts and invoices, so if you're not familiar with the concept of invoicing, just read this post with /s/invoice/receipt in mind. I find…
> But how can a country not have something that represents a formal request for payment by some future time?
There are plenty countries where the vendor will charge the account of the customer, like a 'pull' mechanism. In many countries they'll use (or used) checks/cheques for that, or a different payment account like a credit card. The agreement for this would have been a contract. They may still use invoices for larger transactions, but they aren't always required by law.
I remember that in the old days, Google, Stripe, etc wouldn't send invoices, sometimes you'd get a minimal receipt message by email, but that was about it. This was particularly annoying for EU-based companies where there are minimal requirements for invoices and/or receipts.
Times have changed though. Most companies, including US-based, will now offer invoices that comply with most international regulations.
Except PayPal of course, for some reason they still seem to get away with not offering invoices. You'll have to download your monthly account overview in PDF from their merchant portal, and they just slapped the following text on it: "This statement may serve as a receipt for accounting and tax related purposes.".
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#844I'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…
Perhaps it would be of interest to people into social media marketing or people trying to build social media presence. Keywords mean a lot to them. I'm sure you've thought of it. Perhaps that is where market potential exists for it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#845I'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 :)
Thank you!
Maybe I'll finally get some of the more obvious improvements done and have something a bit more polished this week. :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#846Very slowly working on a prototype for a game where you learn about a deceased relative by using their old (C64-type) computer, reading their files and playing the games they made.
Because I can't fucking stop myself, I created a fantasy ISA and am working on an assembler and basic interpreter for said fantasy ISA.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#847I dusted off an old app (2012 or so) that I wrote for me and my girlfriend who are in a long-distance relationship which I call "Date Night Movie Player". It needs updates and she mentioned that she missed using it. Basically it lets two people sync watching a video/movie together, while chatting in a side transparent overlay and has a remote control with interesting buttons like timed "beer break", "bathroom break",…
Would love to learn about this. I am building something similar for my family
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#848My own functional programming language. I'd done an imperative before but wanted one that has pattern matching, would let me do currying _and_ uses a bidirectional type-checker. All of this is currently implemented but not for all type constructs. It's name? Marmelade. Because Lady Marmelade and thus files with a lady suffix. m.lady.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#849FOSS MTG inspired digital card game. I love card games, but for digital card games the business model is beyond predatory. If you need a specific card your option is to basically buy a pack. Let’s say this is about 3$ give or take. But if it’s a specific rare card, you can open a dozen of so packs and still not get the specific card you want. This can go on indefinitely, and apologists will claim you can just work ar…
Have you heard about Mindbug[0]? It's a recent MTG-inspired (co-created by one of the authors of MTG) card game. Plays quick and is full of interesting and consequential decisions.
[0]: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/345584/mindbug-first-con...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
#850I'm building CAIL – an AI that makes and answers phone calls for you. You type what needs to be done – it calls, talks, waits on hold, asks questions, and sends you a summary. Kind of like a voice assistant, but for actual phone calls. Also built an AI voicemail agent – it can answer missed or declined calls, figure out what they wanted, book a meeting in your free calendar slot, or even mess with spammers if needed.…
sweet. how would you hook into my inbound phone calls?
App in review right now in App Store & Google Play! I will send you a link to LinkedIn on release, but now you can try it in web ui on https://app.cail.io
But on the web platform you need to deal with forwarding on your own, in our app we have a bunch of instructions for each carrier.