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

#151

I’m working on https://voicecast.app/ but struggling to get users. It’s a way for podcasts to get voice messages for their shows. Any advice appreciated!

Looks like a cool idea but not immediately apparent how it works. E.g. there dont' seem to be voice messages visible when I go to the example?

Have you thought about using the landing page itself as a demo? I.e. to allow users to post voice messages on your main page. Would at least be intriguing.

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

#152
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https://tritium.legal Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to…

Nice idea! Some possible really good reading here for you: https://substack.com/@jordanbryan - YC 2021 building out “git for lawyers”

Concur with most of that.

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

#154
I am reverse-engineering a PKCS#11 module for Gemalto smart cards and re-implementing it in Zig (https://github.com/ubavic/srb-id-pkcs11). The original module is published only for Windows, and my implementation targets *nix platforms. This is my first project in Zig, and I am very happy with the language.

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

#155
For the past almost 3 years - full-stack vertically integrated business AI systems. We got a nearly perfectly timed start on this.

We’re solving the problem of “How can agentic AI interface with legacy and existing business systems.” - if you’ve got a boring job and are tired of filling out forms in business software or swapping between 10 different systems, convince management to let us come and have AI do it for you.

https://mindfront.ai

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

#156
Working on my Mill build tool, aiming to bring a modern developer experience to the JVM ecosystem:

- https://mill-build.org

Build tools are generally an un-sexy field, and JVM build tools perhaps doubly so. But Mill demonstrates that with some thought put into the design and architecture, we can speed up JVM development workflows by 3-6x over traditional JVM tools like Maven or Gradle, and make it subjectively much easier to navigate in IDEs and extend with custom logic.

If you're passionate about developer experience and work on the JVM, I encourage you to give Mill a try!

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

#157
Currently developing templates and resources for a consulting business to enhance B2B and B2G contracting process - specifically selling against AI in the same space. The English language used for business is nuanced and must have factual basis, especially in Procurement and Contracting in the US, and clients therefore cannot afford to trust AI content. As such my platform and service connecting SBEs with skilled, knowledgeable Humans will provide a solid ROI.

A totally bootstrapped, professional services undertaking with no investors needed. The value is in the knowledge acquired over a decade plus in sales support roles and learning about an underserved, viable market.

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

#158
A web os; it's full recreation of the Lisa Office System GUI in Javascript. The entire thing is output to a single canvas element, which has forced me to write a number of the UI components from scratch that I'd normally take for granted. It's got an IndexedDB filesystem, and it's got apps. I'm almost done working on the first real app for it - a word processor akin to LisaWrite. Once I roll that out, I intend to do a ShowHN post.

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

#159

Working on my Mill build tool, aiming to bring a modern developer experience to the JVM ecosystem: - https://mill-build.org Build tools are generally an un-sexy field, and JVM build tools perhaps doubly so. But Mill demonstrates that with some thought put into the design and architecture, we can speed up JVM development workflows by 3-6x over traditional JVM tools like Maven or Gradle, and make it subjectively much e…

Is mill ready to be used in production ?

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

#160
I still haven't found what an actual working product in AI Agents could be and write about my journey into capabilities, frameworks, and restrictions here: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/

Initially I thought there is a use-case in finance, but the barriers of entry are incredibly small and the value add is not that large.

Currently, there seems to be a lot of traction in code generation (Cursor, Lovable, et al), but I have not seen that work on a useable code base/workflow.

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