Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 1001 posts

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

#41

Post by vladoh »

I'm working on a open-source tool to create photo galleries from a folder of photos: https://simple.photo. It creates galleries as static sites that are easy to self-host.

I started this out of frustration that there is no good tool I could use to share photos from my travel and of my kids with friends and family. I wanted to have a beautiful web gallery that works on all devices, where I can add rich descriptions and that I could share with a simple link.

Turned out more people wanted this (got 200+ GitHub stars for the V1) so I recently released the V2 and I'm working on it with another dev. Down the road we plan a SaaS offer for people that don't want to fiddle with the CLI and self-host the gallery.

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

#42

Post by andreygrehov »

Building a tool that automatically generates living infrastructure diagrams from your IaC files and turns them into real-time incident dashboards. Think Figma meets Datadog - beautiful visualization that updates during outages to show you exactly what's failing and how to fix it.

The insight: your architecture diagram shouldn't be a stale PNG in Confluence. It should be your war room during incidents.

Going to be available as both web app and native desktop.

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

#45

Post by rhl314 »

BusterBladeZX wrote: post #35
rhl314 wrote: post #18

I am working on Magnetron ( https://magnetron.ai ) It is a tool that lets you create whiteboard explainers. You can prompt it with an idea or upload a document and it will create a video with illustrations and voiceover. All the design and animations are done by using AI apis, you dont need any design skills. Here is a video explainer of the popular "Attention is all you need" paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7…

I really like the idea! One issue though is that the content seems to "stream" much slower than what's being spoken. The result is that I'm sitting there waiting to see whats going to come, even though its already been said which makes it hard to focus on whatever new information is coming. The animations / drawings themselves are solid too. I think there's more to play with wrt the dimensions and space of the backgr…

Thanks for the feedback. Will work on making the narration and the animations sync better.

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

#46

Post by koeng »

I am working on making ultra-low cost freeze-dried enzymes for synthetic biology.

For example, 1 PCR reaction (a common reaction used to amplify DNA) costs about $1 each, and we're doing tons every day. Since it is $1, nobody really tries to do anything about it - even if you do 20 PCRs in one day, eh it's not that expensive vs everything else you're doing in lab. But that calculus changes once you start scaling up with robots, and that's where I want to be.

Approximately $30 of culture media can produce >10,000,000 reactions worth of PCR enzyme, but you need the right strain and the right equipment. So, I'm producing the strain and I have the equipment! I'm working on automating the QC (usually very expensive if done by hand) and lyophilizing for super simple logistics.

My idea is that every day you can just put a tube on your robot and it can do however many PCR reactions you need that day, and when the next day, you just throw it out! Bring the price from $1 each to $0.01 + greatly simplify logistics!

Of course, you can't really make that much money off of this... but will still be fun and impactful :)

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

#47

Post by vunderba »

phaser wrote: post #23

Microlandia, the brutally honest city builder. Posting this for a second time, because i’ve been working super hard on a steam release. last month’s “what are you working on” thread impulsed me to upload this game to itch and 1 month later, i’ve got a small community, lots of feedback and iterations. It brought a whole new life to a project that was on the verge of abandoning. So, I’m really grateful for this thread.…

Big fan of Dwarf Fortress deep simulations - would love to see a viciously realistic SimCity. Good luck!

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

#48

Post by rhl314 »

phaser wrote: post #38
rhl314 wrote: post #18

I am working on Magnetron ( https://magnetron.ai ) It is a tool that lets you create whiteboard explainers. You can prompt it with an idea or upload a document and it will create a video with illustrations and voiceover. All the design and animations are done by using AI apis, you dont need any design skills. Here is a video explainer of the popular "Attention is all you need" paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7…

this look super cool but is it hugged to death? i can’t upload the document :( how does it work with long papers? will it ever work with small books? will try it out tomorrow again

> how does it work with long papers? will it ever work with small books?

yes it should work.

> i can’t upload the document

Could you please drop an email to rahul at magnetron dot ai with the document. I will set things up for you

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

#49

Post by luhsprwhkv2 »

A spooky game for this Halloween. https://github.com/luhsprwhk/iOuija73K

Haunted house trope, but it's a chatbot. Not done yet, but it's going well. The only real blocker is that I ran into the parental controls on the commercial models right away when trying to make gory images, so I had to spin up my own generators. (Compositing by hand definitely taking forever).

Post reply on HN