Working on a site to help people find stained glass windows to visit in their towns/cities. No exciting tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS) and lots of data entry, but making some decent progress!
Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#512AI has taken over the hype in sales and go-to-market strategies. But for independents, solopreneurs, professionals, and many founders or CEOs, relationships and partnerships are still central.
I think sales will bifurcate: either fully automated self-sale, or fully relationship based. All of the major CRMs (customer relationship management) software are going all in on AI and sales automation.
I think relationship sales is going to see an increase in comparative advantage. I've always been a relationship seller but the current crop of CRMs are not designed for me. So I've built https://humancrm.io/ to scratch my own itch.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#513I’ve been working on a side project called jobswithgpt — after months of building and refining, the first version is finally live: https://jobswithgpt.com
The idea is simple: a job search site that actually works for job seekers. It focuses on listings posted directly by companies (no spam, no middlemen, no bloated sponsored posts drowning out real opportunities). It uses AI to surface better matches, recommend jobs intelligently, and pull out the most important info from job listings automatically. You can also bookmark jobs you’re interested in and track them easily — no signup needed unless you want personalized suggestions.
It’s still early, and we’re improving it constantly. Would love for you to check it out, try a search, and let me know what you think — good, bad, rough — all feedback helps. Thanks a lot for the early support!
Site: https://jobswithgpt.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#514Main work: tokenization of real-world assets, but on the side I’m building two projects as a solo dev:
- XRoll.io — a fully on-chain gaming framework on the XRP Ledger, inspired by SatoshiDice but built for compliance. Commit-reveal fairness (HMAC_SHA256(secret, bet_txn_hash)), full transparency on-chain. Integrated KYC, AML, self-limits at the protocol level. Frontend is optional; ledger is the source of truth.
- Nexula — an evolutionary image generation system. Embeddings extracted with CLIP, clustered via HDBSCAN, visualized with UMAP. User behavior (time spent) drives fitness scores; top samples recombine through weighted interpolation to generate new images. Built on Django backend, session-based personalization without login.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#515Currently building a CORS Proxy.
After working on it for a while, I noticed there’s a stigma around using CORS proxies, often associated with fetching undocumented APIs.
While that’s sometimes true, I’m hoping to change that perception, to show that they can also be used for accessing real APIs. It just requires the proxy to correctly handle credentials and secrets.
The idea is to open up more possibilities for building static-first apps without worrying about CORS.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#516Some music control using Wii balance boards thing: https://gitlab.com/TOGoS/SG-P27
So far this has means orchestrating a set of processes just to talk to bluetoothd, automatically connect to boards, guess which /dev/input/event* device each one is associated with, and start reading those and sending data somewhere over OSC. Every step of the process is about 10 times as difficult as I initially expected it would be, which is why, after months of work, I'm still putzing around with process orchestration instead of actually doing anything with music.
The bit of hair on this yak that I'm currently shaving is building a TUI library for Deno so that I can build a nice dashboard for keeping tabs on the state of all the different pieces. I prototyped a bit of the orchestration process in Node-RED, which was neat, but not exactly what I'm going for. There is a TUI library for Deno already, but it's kind of buggy and non-ergonomic for my brain.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#517I'm working on an open-source Pivotal Tracker. I just started a week ago but if anyone is interested in following please checkout the repo: https://github.com/bendangelo/Iterator
I'll have a working project in about a month. But for now it's just a readme.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#518https://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…
Ooh, this looks fantastic. I'd love to help, but I'm spending almost all of my off-work hours looking for jobs right now. Maybe I'll find a good one sooner rather than later...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#519so I'm working on side project to make managing and exploring your music library easier.
The idea is you can set a few filters (like bpm, key, decade, genre) and then swipe through random songs, accept or reject them for inspiration or playlists. Kinda like Tinder but for digging through your own tracks.
It also tracks what's trending on TikTok/YouTube/SoundCloud weekly, so you can find stuff that’s blowing up, filterable by region. Plus it can build smart playlists automatically based on rules you set (like “new 90s house under 120bpm” every month).
It is just a tool to make working with your existing local/Apple/Spotify/SoundCloud library faster and more creative.
Here's a demo of it: https://filtered-f.web.app/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#520Working on supporting MCP (model context protocol) in my LSP (language server protocol) proxy: https://github.com/noredeen/lspwatch.
I wrote this tool to make instrumenting language servers very easy. MCP (both protocol and architecture) seems heavily inspired by LSP which made me curious about what it would take to support it through my telemetry-capturing proxy.
Haven't thought too deeply about how useful an MCP proxy can be but I see it as potentially a general platform for monitoring or debugging MCP servers or clients.