Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by johnxie » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

Working on Taskade (https://www.taskade.com), building the execution layer for AI collaboration.

Taskade started as a real-time workspace for teams to organize projects and ideas. It's evolved into something bigger — a platform where humans and AI work side by side.

We’re moving past simple chatbots into real agentic workflows, where teams can generate structured task lists, mind maps, and tables, train custom AI agents with dynamic knowledge, and automate work from start to finish.

Today, Taskade is built around three core pillars: Projects, Agents, and Automation. It’s like giving your team a second brain that can think, plan, and get work done across projects, automations, and real-time collaboration. If you’re interested in the future of human-AI collaboration, take a look!

https://www.taskade.com

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

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Post by awaseem » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

I launched Foqos here a few months back: https://github.com/awaseem/foqos and just working on the feedback. Since then added QR codes, breaks, ability to block apps manually and even a mini redesign. It’s been a ton of fun so far!

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

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Post by ian-g » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

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…

This is super interesting. Where do you store the ebooks and the metadata?

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

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Post by bjornlouser » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

Detected a signal from extraterrestrials!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/warm-sesam3/id6744872364

Please take a look at the 'About' in settings

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

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Post by deenadz » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

https://www.cobolcopilot.com/

We use a combination of 1) static analysis/PL theory and 2) Large Language Models to help large enterprises decode their legacy COBOL systems

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

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Post by defterGoose » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

tetris11 wrote: post #280

A tree cutting tool. Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree. The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side). I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping…

I would love to have such a model tell me how to prune my fruit trees as they grow up. Should be a fairly straightforward supervised problem with the right front end for the graph generation.

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

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:37 PM UTC

earksiinni wrote: post #494

AI bookkeeping for solopreneurs. As a freelance web dev who also has an Airbnb side hustle, I got tired of expensive bookkeeping for a few transactions per month. I tried DIY, but my time is worth more than that. Most importantly, both pros and DIY got subtle things wrong and caused me to miss out on thousands of dollars in deductions and credits. So I’m making an AI bookkeeping chatbot that will handle all that for…

I'll keep this in bookmark.

I procrastinate on taxes for the silliest of reasons: I don't want to spend the time to create a P&L for my side gig to give to my accountant. Takes less than an hour but it is just annoyingly tedious.

All my income and the majority of my expenses are done through PayPal because I want to minimize the bookkeeping effort. For some unknown reason, they don't have an annual P&L statement as a standard report. This year I tried a bunch of things with Copilot using PayPal reports. The most eye-opening result was that I could give it a .csv file with all my transactions for the year and tell it to generate a P&L statement with expense categories. It managed the task almost flawlessly. The only cleanup I had to do was to recategorize a couple of items. To say that I was blown away is an understatement.

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

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Post by hakcermani » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #265

7 years ago I posted my dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles . 4 years ago I made an install script that worked for Debian, Ubuntu and macOS. This made it easier to get going with them. Over the last week or so I extended and polished that script to make it even easier and customizable, including adding Arch Linux support. The next step is to start installing and configuring GUI tools instead of only focusi…

Hey cool will see how much more it is from what I have. (Ubuntu/bash only atm) .. https://github.com/appsmatics/linux-setup

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

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Post by SteveMorin » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:46 PM UTC

Batteries included python starter template `py-launch-blueprint`

- https://github.com/smorin/py-launch-blueprint

Features TLDR

  - Bootstrap commands
  - Command Runner
  - Dev Tools: Ruff (linting/formatting), MyPy (type checking), Pre-commit hooks
  - AI Ready: Default configs for Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code
  - Production: Python 3.10+, uv package manager, testing setup
  - DX - Developer Experience: VS Code integration, sensible defaults, quality documentation
  - CI/CD: GitHub Actions workflows, automatic testing, version management
  - Task Templates, PR Templates
  - License and Contributor License Agreement Checks

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

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Post by BSOhealth » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:47 PM UTC

I’m working on https://dropbag.co (fyi, not optimized for mobile web yet)

It’s a service for endurance athletes to configure nutrition packs to be available along the course at aid stations.

Right now it’s just a cool tool to build the bags based on your nutrition goals. I’m still doing a lot of outreach to race directors to get an opportunity to pilot the distribution of bags at an event.