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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)

#221

I’m working on Catchcam - https://hackaday.io/project/199220-catchcam-speed-camera-det... , a privacy-first, offline speed camera detector for drivers. Unlike apps like Waze or Radarbot, Catchcam doesn’t track your location or require an internet connection. Just plug it into your USB socket, and you’re good to go. Key features: • Built-in speaker and LED for alerts • Preloaded with 66,000+ known speed camera locatio…

in what way does this help drivers "stay safe"?

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

#223

We’re building BLUO - https://bluo.cms a modern multi-website CMS focused on simplicity and performance. Key features: - Multi-website management with single sign-on (one dashboard for all sites) - Static rendering via Cloudflare KV for 100% uptime and blazing speed - Real-time editor with AI-powered automated internal backlinks - Theme switching without breaking functionality We're currently serving 100+ websites. I…

Can't access your link, is it https://bluocms.com/ ?

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

#225
After trying to start a business for a year, I basically gave up negotiating with VCs.

My current goal is to spend half of my time on the development and maintenance of open source projects, such as Glicol (https://glicol.org/).

The other half of my time is to do some business that can generate profit from day 1.

I just found that the VC model is not suitable for my current situation.

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

#226

I'm working on GPU-accelerated SQL+Spark in a zero-hassle package: https://paraquery.com Been prod for a few months, recently ripping through 900TB with ~5x efficiency (customer was on BigQuery). If anyone has any data/infra challenges, or just wanna talk about this kind of tech, lemme know :D

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

#227

I am working on Grog, the “grug-brained” alternative to Bazel. A mono-repo build tool where all you do is provide your build commands and interdependencies and the tool will run everything in parallel while caching as much as possible.

Why should I use this and how is it better than Bazel?

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

#229
universalestimator.com

I started experimenting and I think this builds out pretty neat estimations from jira tickets/other descriptions. When I was sitting in the CTO role, I spent a ton of time talking with people about how long/short various projects would be. When I was a developer, I hated the estimation piece because it felt like it was both keeping me from building and was almost never done with enough context to get really accurate results.

I was playing with the OpenAI API and I noticed that they can actually return a set of probability x next tokens and I thought that it might actually give you kind of cool ways to see the distribution of potential outcomes. (You can see an example here: https://universalestimator.com/estimates/c68db45b-7622-4bab-... that looks at a detailed ticket for implementing filtering on a dashboard.)

Let me know if you have any feedback, it's free with the promo code TYHN. If you run into any issues, please send me an email at earl@unbrandedsoftware.com

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

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I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to feel really good. If anyone is learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I’m looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it supports 120+). In what I believe is sti…

i signed up and tried to use it. The UI is very confusing. i couldn't find the place to setup what language i want to learn and what language i know (for translation). It is best if you can have a video or images documenting how to use it.

Agreed. I’m getting close to a video to put on the landing page, probably some time next week.

The first time user experience is really bad, but the app itself makes a lot of sense once you see it in action. Feel free to get in touch with me (there are several methods listed when you log in) and I can give you a personal introduction!

If not then check back in a few weeks for a cool video :)

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