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

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I wanted to know what my kids were doing on the computer: homework or watching youtube shorts, so I built https://screenspy.app to monitor them. Now I’m working on turning it into a product.

If you add some remote command execution, you basically created some sort of a trojan ;-)

Really like to look of the product page!

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

#93
I’m working on LookAway (https://lookaway.app) to help people stay healthier and more productive during prolonged screen time.

My main challenge has been making meeting detection more robust -- it currently uses both mic and camera activity, which led to a lot of false positives. In the next version I’m switching to mic only (the camera caused most of the noise) and I’ve added a way to identify which app is using the mic, so users can exclude non-meeting apps.

I’ve also added plenty of small tweaks throughout to make LookAway even less interruptive. I’m excited for the next release!

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

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LLM document editor using your voice only.

Sounds basic, and it is, but I've yet to find any open source project (let alone product) that does this.

All I want to tap a button, talk to the little guy about how to update my document, and see the changes flow. I guess Claude projects or similar might do this but I'm making it more for friends and family. Current use case is keeping track of a house renovation project going on.

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

#96
I am working on the sunflower plant density estimation problem. The goal is to be able to estimate the germination rate as early as possible. Farmers benefit from such information, because:

- there are lots of expenses still to be made (fertilizer, pesticide, salaries), which may not be worth it if germination is under certain threshold

- if detected early, there is still time to plant another grain or to fill up the missing plants (requires precision seeders and seeding maps)

- is a very good proxy for yield estimation (farmers often trade futures even before they have harvested)

For the purpose I have created a dataset (a collaboration between my employer and Sofia University) and published it in order to enable scientific collaboration with other interested parties. Still working on the dataset annotations.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/su-fmi/sunflower-density-est...

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

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I develop Chips of Fury, a poker app for playing privately with friends. Currently I am building support for lots of home game variations like pineapple (regular, crazy, lazy), different Holdem variations like Super, reverse, super reverse, blind man's bluff etc and many more. I am thinking about how to implement AI bots for a wide range of variations.

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

#99
I am working on a PromptLibrary (https://promptlib.prashamhtrivedi.in/) to organise my prompts and make it accessible from multiple clients (Including chatbots (via chrome extensions), CLIs, IDE extensions amongst the few).

I wanted a library to store my own prompts once and retrieve it in multiple locations (i.e. Try something on claude desktop and then once I wrinkle out the edges, load it in Roo code or claude code and use it.) Give some variables to the prompt and creating infinite versions of same prompt by providing the value. Or having the versions of each prompt.

Currently I have the landing page, soon (In max 10 days) I will make it live for everyone to use.

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