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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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Post by juxtaposicion »

I’m working on Popgot (https://popgot.com), a tool that tracks unit prices (cost per ounce, sheet, pound) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. It normalizes confusing listings (“family size”, “mega pack”, etc.) to surface the actual cheapest option for daily essentials.

On top of that, it uses a lightweight AI model to read product descriptions and filter based on things like ingredients (e.g., flagging peanut butter with BPA by checking every photograph of the plastic or avoiding palm oil by reading the nutrition facts) or brand lists (e.g., only showing WSAVA-compliant dog foods). Still reviewing results manually to catch bad extractions.

Started this to replace a spreadsheet I was keeping for bulk purchases. Slowly adding more automation like alerting on price drops or restocking when under a threshold.

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

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Post by 1010s1011 »

kukkeliskuu wrote: post #258

(1) Business process modeling tool where processes are data and not graphs. I am doing it according to the USM method. USM is kind of "open source" service management method, although it works on different level than other frameworks and standards, and is compatible with all of them. This makes it possible to create a kind of requirement "programming language" where the requirements can be evaluated. With this langua…

Do you have any more information about your USM modelling tool? It sounds interesting.

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

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Post by shibel »

A custom Python/Django based mini-app (mini — at least for now) that will allow me to import transactions sanely and safely to my local GnuCash install.

I’ve been doing tedious manual entry for a bit over two years now and after having missed three consecutive months, the only other option was to bail.

As a start it should help with 3 main things:

- Translation, categorization: my source documents aren’t in English but my GnuCash entries are. This is one of the reasons I don’t use the built-in imports. (This should shave off at least 90% of time spent entering data)

- Human-error prevention: there were at least 5 times where it took me over 15 minutes to reconcile a discrepancy because I entered some number or some account wrong somewhere.

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

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Post by 9dev »

vallode wrote: post #410
9dev wrote: post #402

https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/ Colibri—a self-hostable web application to manage your (and your family's) ebook library, intended as a companion to Calibre. I want it to be a friendly, simple, capable, opinionated app to review your books, add metadata to them, get them onto your reader, share them with family and (few) friends, create a public shelf for bragging, connect with Goodreads etc., and exchange com…

A fan chiming in. I'm really happy someone someone is tackling this and it's looking good. One thing: can we get a demo instance just for initial snooping? A screenshot or two is fine but to get a feel for features it would be nice to have something (even heavily limited) we can just interact with?

That's the first thing I'm going to do as soon as it's possible! I recently refactored the code base to a monorepo, and still need to make some adjustments so it'll run stable again. Stay tuned :)

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

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Post by abound »

Cyphase wrote: post #187

Myself. Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love that word) imminently. Just moved to reduced hours, still in the transition and unwinding phase. Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects. Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter) of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things. I'm excited.

Depending on how long you're planning on sabbatical-ing, you might consider applying to the Recurse Center [1]. It's basically a (free) 6- or 12-week self-directed learning program that you do with others.

I had done a half batch last year and really enjoyed the experience.

[1] https://recurse.com

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

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Post by thingscoledoes »

I built a tool to help hiring managers scan and categorize resumes against a job description: https://app.joinrunway.io/rank/create.

It gives you a ranked list so you can quickly spot the strongest candidates, or at least get a solid starting point without reading every resume manually.

It scores applicants based on job requirements, flags any concerns, and suggests interview questions you might want to ask.

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

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Post by bcye »

I'm working on a mobile app for exploring places with Wikivoyage (https://mapvoyage.app) and a wikitext to structured JSON-tree parser to support that (https://github.com/bcye/structured-wikivoyage-exports) and am finally getting pretty close to a beta version :) I hope to unify the workflow of going back and forth between Wikivoyage, the favourites list on Google Maps and notes into a single app.

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

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Post by KerryJones »

juxtaposicion wrote: post #411

I’m working on Popgot ( https://popgot.com ), a tool that tracks unit prices (cost per ounce, sheet, pound) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. It normalizes confusing listings (“family size”, “mega pack”, etc.) to surface the actual cheapest option for daily essentials. On top of that, it uses a lightweight AI model to read product descriptions and filter based on things like ingredients (e.g., flagging pean…

I like this idea a lot -- feels like there's a lot of room to grow here. Do you have any sort of historical price tracking/alerting?

And/or also curious if there is a way to enter in a list of items I want and for it to calculate which store - in aggregate - is the cheapest.

For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper than alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my shopping cart in multiple stores to compare.

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

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Post by weakfish »

weakfish wrote: post #398

A note taking app - I know, I know, been done a billion times. But really, no software I’ve found works the way I want it to, so I’m just trying to write my own, starting with a front-end agnostic core and a TUI. If it strikes a chord with anyone, I’d love to collaborate! The concept is centered around organization bubbling up naturally from dumping info in with tags, and “typing” your tags so that when you go to a t…

Expanding some - the tags concept is similar to AnyType[0] types, but the rest of the software I’m writing is more oriented towards dump-first, tag, and let it sort itself out, whereas AnyType requires careful management and configuration of the workspace.

[0] https://anytype.io/

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