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

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

#121
I’ve been making photography software as an indie developer for a bit over a year now:

https://heliographe.net

A few released apps for now that are iOS/macOS, with some exciting more things in the pipeline.

If you’re a photographer who has frustrations with current mainstream photography software (whether capture/edit/publishing), I’d also love to hear from you - you can find me as Héliographe on (mastodon,bluesky,threads,x) or just email me at contact@heliographe.net :)

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

#122
I manage remote engineering teams and I'm building a series of tools to help facilitate our standard ceremonies (standups, retros, ice-breakers etc.).

I'm trying to capture a sense of fun, wonder and connection through these tools which I feel has been lost in recent times with remote working.

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

#123
Working on redesigning my SaaS template. It uses Dokploy to deploy the NodeJS app, and Pocketbase instance within the same server, so DB reads and writes are very fast. Also doesn't use the Pocketbase client library at all, all calls are wrapped in their own API routes and everything is server side rendered.

You might ask why use Pocketbase at all, and I'm not sure anymore. I suppose the dashboard is great, built in auth is great (although I've had to write cookie middleware to make it SSR anyway). I wish there was a lightweight Pocketbase/Supabase style "backend in a box" setup that didn't push the whole client library directly communicating to DB paradigm.

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

#125
As a teacher of computer science, I'm working on various free resources for teachers and students, such as a guide to simulating forces and collisions in JavaScript (https://www.mathsuniverse.com/particles) and super simple real-time forms for lessons (https://www.mathsuniverse.com/forms). What brings me joy is seeing that they are actually useful for people other than just me.

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

#126

I was recently looking for a simple minimalist app launcher for iPhone that would respect my privacy and didn’t come with a stupid subscription plan, so instead I made my own! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/applist/id6743515756 I also published the list of url schemes / universal links on GitHub: http://github.com/sxp-studio/app-list-catalog

Just downloaded this. This is a great format for how my head thinks, especially for apps I use periodically but not so often that I want them on the main screen. Thank you.

(Minor note: The Setup Tutorial says, "Swipe right to continue" when the user actually swipes left.)

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

#129
I’m working on a simple app that logs Karting activity and data. My son has been karting for a year or so, and there is so much data to collect - times, pressures, sprocket set up, track location, weather and more (about 30 datapoints a session)

Collecting the data helps with recording engine performance, tyre ages, best lap times but is also really useful for recalling how well each setup performed for future reference.

I’m deliberately doing this all in a very low-tech way as my son will be creating a more polished version for a school project. We’re front-running that a bit to give him a good dataset and explore various ideas.

On that note, they do Python in school. For the backend it will be SqlLite and Flask. Any suggestions for the front end tech? This will mostly be forms- and grids-based so nothing sophisticated needed, but some simple client-side logic (e.g. validation, geolocation, simple stop watch) would be good. Ideally this would be python as well. We could use WebAssembly but am wondering if there is a suitable framework that does the is out-of-the-box.

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

#130
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A midi sequencer, which does or is supposed to do what you expect. In the process of adding stuff like euclydian sequences, and trying to figure out how to generate melodies. Been considering using something like a simple markov probability from a bunch of jazz standards, but also starting to read more music theory behind it. It's a programming project but it's directly related to me trying to figure out music. So no…

That's a cool project, but learning music via music theory is a bit like trying to learn English via grammar theory. It's backwards, and out of the hundreds of musicians I've met, I've never met one that walked that path.

Strong recommendation: Hire a teacher. Even with experience playing four instruments, and when I decided to learn another, I still hired a teacher.

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