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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 mgkimsal »

tikotus wrote: post #407

I just put live a daily logic puzzle, Clues by Sam. I've been working on it for a while now, mainly on the level generator. It was tricky to generate levels that are solvable using logic (no guessing needed), and also fun to solve (no crazy long deduction chains, but also not just obvious things). I'm sure the implementation still has some quirks on some devices, so would love to hear if you encounter issues! https:/…

frustrating. i eventually just clicked every single one, and keep getting the "This choice can't be made based on pure logic" message. maybe i'm just dumb...

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

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Post by unvalley »

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…

Cool! I hope it's coming to Japan (I live) near future.

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

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Post by abiraja »

Working on a web app builder that generates code via AI, much like hundreds of other tools out there. The differentiator is that the tool automatically sets up a Postgres DB (using Neon) for you. So, it's a lot easier to get started and it can handle large complex apps that require auth and database, but it can also build simple websites. The stack is next.js and code is easy to export and view.

Primarily uses Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Gemini Pro 2.5. But you can choose other models too.

You can try it for free while I'm beta testing it here: https://lumosbuilder.com?ref=hn

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

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Post by matt_heimer »

It tried out vibe coding this weekend. I've been using AI to get smaller examples and ask questions and its been great but past attempts to have it do everything for me have produced code that still needed a lot of changes.

I hit an OpenSearch bug this week where you can't get any browser based requests to work. Its due to zstd becoming a standard part of Accept-Encoding and OpenSearch not correctly supporting it so I wanted to install a browser plugin that modified the browser HTTP request headers to my servers.

I don't know about everyone else but I love that browser plugins are possible but I hate having to find them. Its mostly due to never knowing if you can trust a plugin and even if you find one, you have to worry about it being bought out in the future. With vibe coding I was able to build a browser extension in 45 minutes that had more features than I originally planned for.

I spend more time documenting the experience than building which is wild. If you are interesting you can look at the README in https://github.com/mattheimer/vibe-headers

But I left the experience with two thoughts.

Even seasoned developers will be using vibe coding in the future.

I think in the near future the browser plugin market will partially collapse because eventually browsers will build extensions themselves on the fly using natural language.

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

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Post by graypegg »

Oras wrote: post #324

Resume builder 7 months ago, I was looking for a job and got frustrated with the current resume builders, so decided to build one exactly how I wanted a resume builder to be. - Free (like really free). - No signup, no login. - Has AI features to improve text. - Find jobs matching the resume. https://resumeyay.com

Really neat app! A button that says "instantly" and actually does the thing instantly already makes this better than every alternative! ;)

Maybe just an idea I think would be worth charging for to offset costs on yourself: if you could get a few accounts on different recruiting software packs (BambooHR, smartrecruiters, etc) and then let users test their resume with different recruiting software's AI filtering tools, that could help a ton of people. You'd have to make a lot of different job descriptions/postings in each one, but you could probably craft them all generically enough to fit most careers.

Once that's going, maybe a pay-per-use fee to test your resume that gives the paying user a couple unique recruiting links to a few job postings, and then use playwright or something to capture screenshots of their profile in the backend(s).

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

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Post by tlb »

Robot walking. But really, a programming language and tools to make it easy to solve hard nonlinear control problems like walking. There are videos & source code for 2-legged walking robots (in simulation) at https://throbol.com/post/how-to-walk, and videos & source code for 4-legged walking robots (on real hardware) at https://throbol.com/
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