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

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

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Post by jsd1982 »

lblack00 wrote: post #152

Building an iOS app for metronome sequencing to get faster at playing guitar and reaching "shred" speeds at different subdivisions/time signatures in a single sequence. Planning on adding accuracy indicators and scoring so rushing or dragging can be easily identified when finishing a saved routine. I.e., some post-routine metrics. I've been playing guitar for a little under 6 years and ran into the common problem amo…

Reminds me of John Petrucci's Rock Discipline instructional video where he outlines exactly this technique on how to build up speed.

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

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Post by LandenLove »

I had problems sharing my photos on Instagram so I made an alternative: https://phofee.com/

I made an install script for Arch Linux that sets up the bare essentials for a new install. You can fork it and edit it to your own liking. https://github.com/QCgeneral29/AIP

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

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Post by vasilzhigilei »

https://pleasetrymyapp.com

I've been working on a map that shows which neighborhoods in a city are nice/not nice with a short description.

Whenever I visit a new city, just looking at Google Maps is pretty meaningless - it's just a bunch of gray land and streets. I end up looking up Reddit posts for where to go, searching for crime maps, trying to find annotated maps, etc. to get a better idea of where to visit in a city (or even live, like when I had moved to Austin). AI generated scoring and descriptions, while imperfect, have already helped me when visiting SF recently. Early stage, so please help with submitting corrections, if you'd like!

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

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Post by dateutli »

I'm working on Listening Facts[0], a music habits visualization tool based on your top tracks. Inspired by Receiptify and every day nutrition facts labels[1].

It started out as a Spotify oriented project but due to their recent API changes[2] I ended up focusing more on a Last FM integration. This wasn't that bad as their API provides more details such as play count per song. I've also added an Apple Music integration.

I posted about it[3] on Last FM's subreddit and I was pleasantly surprised to see that a lot of people shared their labels on the comments and seemed to like it.

I'm currently working on language detection, I think it'd be cool to get a language breakdown of the songs you listen to and for that to be part of the displayed items within the label. Something along the lines of EN- 80%, ES- 15%, FR - 5%

I've also tried getting Adsense on the website but I keep getting denied on "Low Content Value" grounds. I tried some alternatives but the quality of their ads was ridiculous (stuff like "your device has a virus, click here to clean it up")

[0] - https://listeningfacts.com/

[1] - https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-education-resources-mater...

[2] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Upda...

[3] - https://www.reddit.com/r/lastfm/comments/1mnk5wj/listening_f...

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

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Post by jsdwarf »

pptx-tools, a collection of cli tools for interacting with Powerpoint presentations. Covers use cases that PowerPoint doesn't support. Currently in the making:

* pptx-grep - find text across multiple powerpoints, yield file/slide no and text excerpt of match

* pptx-dump - dumps extended info about a powerpoint, such as number of slides, applied master slides, used fonts etc.

* pptx-lint - allows to define validation rules for pptx based on content and/or formatting. E.g. presentation must not contain word "TBD", all text must be formatted in Arial etc.

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

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Post by Aliabid94 »

vasilzhigilei wrote: post #344

https://pleasetrymyapp.com I've been working on a map that shows which neighborhoods in a city are nice/not nice with a short description. Whenever I visit a new city, just looking at Google Maps is pretty meaningless - it's just a bunch of gray land and streets. I end up looking up Reddit posts for where to go, searching for crime maps, trying to find annotated maps, etc. to get a better idea of where to visit in a…

I like the idea! In my opinion (looking at SF) it’s still too low resolution. SF in particular can vary greatly in safety, walkability, etc. even a few blocks over within a neighborhood.

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

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Post by blakepelton »

lucasfdacunha wrote: post #291

I've been building a website to find great blog posts related to the programming/tech world called https://greatreads.dev/ There are a lot of things that I still want to polish, but it's in a usable state already, and I'm very happy with it. If someone takes a look and has any suggestions, feedback, or ideas, they are all welcome. Also, any suggestions for blogs that could be added as sources is appreciated.

Looks cool. I would be honored if you added my blog. Each post is a summary of a recent computer science research paper.

https://danglingpointers.substack.com/

Also, maybe add a place on your website where people could submit blogs for your consideration? I didn't see one at first glance.

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

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Post by joewhale »

I built a fantasy football rankings app using claude code, and it has been blowing up in the fantasy football subreddit. Funny enough, it's forcing Yahoo to change their site and improve their layout which ruined all my automation. Surprised how much traffic it's receiving every week just for a better layout.

https://boonerankings.com/

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