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

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

#261
Still working on https://periplus.app!

It's an environment for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, exams, flashcards, maps and more!

Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time (very Obsidian-esque).

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

#263
I'm working on a webapp for home inspectors. Early phases, no demo yet, just occasional updates and screenshots: https://wonger.dev/nuggets#n166

It's been tough to find work, so I figured I'd revisit an old SaaS idea. I worked for a home inspector in the past and saw a need for better (cheaper/faster/easier) report software.

Even if the business side flops, I'd still be satisfied with the experience. I've learned a lot about new tools like WASM and web components. I also like the UX challenge of designing for inspectors filling out reports on their phones.

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

#265

I'm digitally cataloging all US vintage print advertisements I can get my hands on ( https://adretro.com ). The backend is built on MySQL and Lucee and the full page ads published with Notion and Super.so. I'm using OpenAI vision to extract entity data from the images. So far I've cataloged about 1500 advertisements out of the ~100,000 in my possession. Of which that is probably only 0.1% of all the major material ou…

This is awesome! Cigarette ads are so seductively cool, yet the embodiment of selling you a fantasy

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

#266
Working on a combination note-taking app, cloud drive, and AI assistant, all on a server you own. You can vibe-code apps in your notebook, use your notebook's underlying filesystem, and serve apps to the public, all from your new cloud computer. Still early, but would love feedback!

https://www.zo.computer

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

#267
https://attachedapp.com

We focus on people with relationship issues, and so far it's been deeply fulfilling. So many people have written in about how this has helped them heal.

Launched with React Native about 8 weeks ago, and continuing to grow fast. This is a niche space with lots of potential over the next few years I think.

Just submitted an update to help people compare their unique relationship needs to others which is so cool.

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

#268
I am working on a platform called ikverdienbeter.nl (i deserve better) that educates people on recognizing healthy behaviour and healthy boundaries. I take snippets from popular tv, like dating shows, and mark the "red flags" on a timeline. For instance: "here at time 1:05 you see the woman gaslight the man. Gaslighting means [...]".

Using AI for auto subtitles and actor matching. Will build some auto deploy fragment to social media as well. I think these short fragments will do well op TikTok.

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

#269
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I'm building Collie ( https://collie.ink/ ). It's a tool to help teachers detect student assignments that have been written by AI. Unlike other solutions out there, it's an entire web-based text editor that analyses not just the final assignment, but all the keystrokes used during the writing process. My theory is that analysing the final text only is a futile struggle - billions are being pumped into making LLM text…

I can't help but immediately think about a counteracting piece of software, which asks an LLM for variations of a paragraph, or a phrase, or a few synonyms, and types it the way a human would, with pauses, typos, navigation, rearranging pieces via copy-paste, etc.

Not that your software is going to be useless. But as long as there is an incentive to cheat, new and better tools that facilitate cheating will crop up. Something else should change.

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