Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by tderflinger » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:35 PM UTC

wtf242 wrote: post #430

Still working on my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org that I started in 2008. It's been a 1 man team the entire time. I recently made some major algorithm changes that I think greatly improves the rankings. My algorithm code is open source https://github.com/ssherman/weighted_list_rank I do plan on open sourcing more of the code over time. I also have started working on other sites using the same algorithm impl…

I like the idea of a books list. This gives me new inspiration for books that I could read. Other languages like Spanish and French would also be great. :)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by d_burfoot » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:35 PM UTC

WilcoKruijer wrote: post #449

The last couple of weeks I've been building 'Recivo', a very simple way to receive emails programmatically. There are plenty of API-based services that can be used to send emails, but receiving them is harder. My service exposes a simple REST endpoint + event webhook that makes it a 5 min setup to start receiving. Attachments are included as well. The main use-cases I'm thinking of right now is triggering agents usin…

This is a good idea. I think email is poised to become a more influential user interface tool, due to the advent of LLMs.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by Koshima » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

I am working on building Flexprice(https://flexprice.io/), an open source monetization platform for AI and Agentic companies.

This week, we’re doing a 5-day launch week, where we’re shipping a new set of billing features every day. Github link: https://github.com/flexprice/flexprice

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by dado3212 » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

Recently, a lot of reverse engineering. I’ve been writing them up on my blog, so there’s a growing list of technical deep dives from this year: around Letterboxd with mitmproxy[0], iOS Shortcuts deeplinks[1], the QR codes for Fitness SF[2], and binary patching some non-open source code[3]. Hopefully followable even if you don’t have as much debugging or reverse engineering experience.

[0]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/extracting-letterboxd-token...

[1]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/reverse-engineering-ios-dee...

[2]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/debugging-fitness-sf-qr

[3]: https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/start-process-extensions

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by mkovach » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:45 PM UTC

I am taking a slightly different route this month and working on my Half Fast DevOps writing project. Borne from 25+ years in the trenches of software development, IT, DevOps, and any number of popularized names from the past two plus decades, it is part therapy, part satire, but mainly an attempt to make my tech-writing less soul-crushing.

Most of the documentation I read seems to have been created by a sleep-deprived robot in a stand-up or by a caffeinated squirrel with memory issues. So, I am searching for a voice to bring something different to talking about broken pipelines, observability bills expanding faster than my waistline, and heroic config file linting for the impatient.

I aim to make writing (and reading) my documentation tolerable (and perhaps even FUN!). I hope to make the next person who has to read my written word laugh and absolutely confirm my clear lack of sanity.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by scrollaway » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:45 PM UTC

I’ve been working on a platform for devs and agencies that need to deploy multi-platform chatbots/ai agents for their clients or projects.

https://fabrile.app

It’s built in nextjs and Django, with integrations for OpenAI, perplexity and all bedrock models. And MCP of course.

Feedback and requests welcome, I’m terrible at marketing so we have very few users but we use the platform ourselves and we’re super happy with it.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by cjflog » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:45 PM UTC

Currently a one-man side project:

https://laboratory.love

Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.

This seemed like a solvable problem.

Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.

Here's how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn't reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. Laboratory.love uses the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to test, you do.

The bigger picture: Companies respond to market pressure. Transparency creates that pressure. When consumers have data, supply chains get cleaner.

Technical details: Laboratory.love works with ISO 17025-accredited labs, test three samples from different production lots, detect chemicals down to parts per billion. The testing protocol is public.

You can browse products, add your own, or just follow specific items you're curious about: https://laboratory.love

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by RonSkufca » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:48 PM UTC

Even though I am not actively looking for work I am reading Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview. https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Cracking-Coding-Interview-Succ.... It’s a dense read and I find myself oddly attracted to mulling over the questions and trying various solutions. I would be doing yard work, walking, hiking, biking and thinking about how to best solve the question I attempted yesterday. I feel more interested in solving the problems the same way people work crossword puzzles or attempt those 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles than trying to game the interview process.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by xiwenc » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

I'm working on Internal Developer Platform for private clouds. Kind of like private Heroku. It works standalone and installed fully automatic. With primary focus on Low Operations and Self-service where app developers can focus on delivering real business value instead of boilerplate tasks or waiting for other teams to plan and execute standard tasks.

We originally started supporting Low-code solution called Mendix. Now we support any type of web app that can be packaged as an OCI image.

You can read or try it at: https://low-ops.com

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by Lazy4676 » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 2:52 PM UTC

I'm trying to get started in Flask[1]. Right now I'm building a VERY simple app that allows to check links for backlinks on reddit and hacker news. Let me know if there is any interest in me opening the repo to the public.

[1]: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/