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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)

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I'm working on a desktop-based, performance- and privacy-first note-taking app that lets you quickly capture notes from any selected text using hotkeys. I'm curious: what are your must-haves in a note-taking application?

I thought about doing something similar some time ago, because I never quite found the perfect note taking app for myself. There's a million ways how to do notes, and it feels like there's just as many different notes apps.

Eventually, I've settled with Obsidian because of its simplicity and extensibility. You can leave it with basic features and truly own your notes in a simple format (you can also put them into any cloud, as long as that cloud reaches your filesystem). It doesn't do everything just like I'd want to, but I've thought about just building another notes app that reads and writes to the same path your Obsidian notes are in, instead of trying to cover every possible editing feature like most big notes apps. Then I'd use different apps for different needs, with one place to store data.

Since you're focusing on privacy, have you considered using Obsidian? Is there anything particular you want to do differently?

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

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https://mitte.ai — an AI image generator with focus on quality and details so you can get logos / icons that doesn’t look AI generated. it comes with Photoshop-like editor ( https://mitte.ai/editor ) so you can zoom into details and change / remove anything, or upscale, etc. I built it for myself but now there’s good amount of paying users as well.

So I wanted to try this and it turns out you can't sign up?

simply go to the sign in button and then there is a reset password and then when you click on it , there adds an optional sign up and when you click on it , it leads you to mitte.ai/join which says Not Found.

Kind of interesting, wappanalyzer shows its written in erlang? So are you raw dogging erlang or maybe elixir or gleam? What's the tech stack behind this.

Where are you generating the images / videos at? Are you using something like openrouter api or are you self hosting the gpu / using aws for it??

I am also interested in what percentage of users are paying? and also the abuse vector that might arise from generating some pretty down bad images... , are all images that are generated here public or what exactly??

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

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I am working on a telegram bot deployed on cloudflare which is just a basic app for van drivers to sign up on a fixed location near my area and see which drivers are online and see how many people have sit in a van which the drivers can increment/decrement by just chatting with the telegram bot who want to go to a popular spot where I have to go to quite daily because I am studying at a place which is way far away and its the most economical and sane method to travel..

Yet my problem really arises that its too luck based, sometimes I can be the last guy, Sometimes I can be the first guy so I have to wait for the van to get fully occupied which will take a lot of time...

I have just made it, and I find it pretty nifty, I made it all completely via AI and this one absolutely crazy good youtube video on deploying telegram bots on cloudflare...

Also, I had seen this telegram bot ai maker idea on HN a few days ago, So I had also created a project which you can chat with the microsoft deepseek r1 post training bot for free because the api key of open router for this model is free, It doesn't have incremental streaming or multi chats, really basic, and It can generate me the code but I am not sure how I would deploy that code .. , I used to think its easy but not... ,any resources out there? (Though I want to open source this, but I am not going to be building this ai idea further because I lack time and I have to study)

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

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Reverse typesetting: reflowing page layouts where you don't have knowledge of the typesetting structure, i.e. a scanned physical book or PDF paper. Naive rules-based heuristics based on the dimensions of bounding boxes and gaps. Point is to reflow things for resizing to eink readers. (Specifically the size that fits in my pocket which I carry around. User #1 is me). Building in Common Lisp and targeting an Emacs mode for interactive execution with manual feedback.

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

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I’m working on a review website for Generative AI. Targeted at people who want to use GenAI to build stuff.

e.g.: Following up on one of my HN comments on OpenAI ImageGen gpt-image-1 quality: Side by side comparison of more challenging prompts at Low/Medium/High:

https://generative-ai.review/2025/04/apple-a-dog-how-quality...

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

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I've been working on onsite deployments for https://www.keystash.io, which is a Linux SSH Key and User management system. It's been going for a while now and I am finally implementing onsite deployments as so many customers actually want to run this themselves. When we started, we really thought customers wouldn't want the hassle of another piece of infrastructure to manage, guess we were wrong :-)

Onsite deployment is a lot more difficult to make slick and easy. We've been thinking about the best way for our customers to deploy while reducing the load on our support team. So far, we are thinking about RPM's, Debs and Docker and trying to make this as close to a '5 step process' as possible.

I would love to hear people's thoughts on other mechanisms that make it easier for SRM's / DevOps to manage key platform infrastructure software.

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