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

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

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I've been suffering from migraines for the last month, so have channeled my (non-migraine) time into a migraine tracker to try and find the root causes. All the tracking apps I tried all have nice complex forms, which is all well and good, unless...you are having a migraine.

Rough idea is easy to use voice mode to record data, then analyze unstructured data with AI later on.

I want to track all relevant life information, so what I'm eating, meds I'm taking, headache/nausea levels, etc.

Adding records is as easy as pressing record on my apple watch and speaking some kind of information. Uses Deepgram for voice transcription since it's the best transcription API I've found.

Will then send all information through to a LLM for analysis. It has a "chat with your data" page to ask questions and try and draw conclusions.

Main webapp is done, now working on packaging it into an iOS app so I can pull biometrics from Healthkit. Will then look into releasing it, either on github or possibly in the app store. It's admittedly mostly vibe coded, so not sure if it'll be something releasable, but we'll see...

Let me know if this would interest anyone!

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

#412
Launched my first couple of apps this year!

A scanner for pilots to convert handwritten flight logs to CSV files: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flightlogscan/id6739791303

And a silly, fun, speed-based word game: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scramble-game/id6748549424 (my record is Let me know what you think :D

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

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https://finbodhi.com — It helps you track, understand, and plan your personal finances — with a double-entry accounting. You own your data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit. Supports multi-currency. We are in it for long term. Not a startup, not looking for investment. Just plain paid product (free while in beta) by a few people. We have a few active users, and are looking…

Looks great, I’ll check it out!

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

#414
User Mastery: https://usermastery.com

A unified platform for product teams to announce updates, maintain a changelog, share roadmaps, provide help documentation and collect feedback with the help of AI.

My goal is to help product teams tell users about new features (so they actually use them), gather meaningful feedback (so they build the right things), share plans (so users know what's coming), and provide help (so users don't get stuck).

Doing it as an indie hacker + solo founder + lean. Started 13 days ago. Posting about my journey on Youtube every week day https://www.youtube.com/@dave_cheong

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

#415
To prove my expertise in anything from infrastructure, over backend to frontend, I learned how to use terraform to provision a managed kubernetes cluster (on oracle clouds excellent free forever tier).

I am currently developing a web app consisting of a spring/kotlin backend for an angular frontend that is meant to provide a UI for kubectl. It has oAuth login and allows you to store several kubernetes configs, select which one to use and makes it unnecessary to remember all the kubectl commands I can never remember.

It's what I'd like to have if I had to interact with a kubernetes cluster at work. Yes, I know there are several kubernetes UIs already, but remember, this is for 1) learning and 2) following through and completing a project at least somewhat.

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

#416
Still a one-person project (since 2021): https://onlineornot.com

I'm still rebuilding OnlineOrNot's frontend to be powered by the public REST API. Uptime checks are now fully powered by a public API (still have heartbeat checks, maintenance windows, and status pages to go).

Doing this both as a means of dogfooding, and adding features to the REST API that I easily dumped into the private GraphQL API without thinking too hard. That, and after I finish the first milestone (uptime checks + heartbeat/cron job monitors), I'll be able to start building a proper terraform provider, and audit logs.

Basically at the start of the year I realised GraphQL has taken me as far as it can, and I should've gone with REST to start with.

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

#417
One man project for 4 years: https://kastanj.ch/

Most recipes are a failure for beginners on the first try. I aim to make recipes bulletproof so anyone can pick up any recipe and it will just work.

The goal is to make the best recipe app ever. On a technical level recipes are built as graphs and assembled on demand. This makes multilanguage support easy, any recipe can use any unit imaginable, blind people could have custom recipe settings for their needs, search becomes OP, and there is also a wikipedia like database with information that links to all recipes. Because of the graphs; nutritional information, environmental impact, cost etc. can simply be calculated accurately by following linked graphs. Most recipe apps are very targeted to specific geographical regions and languages, this graph system removes a lot of barriers between countries and will also be a blessing to expats. Imagine an American in Europe that wish to use imperial units, english recipes, but with ingredients native to their new homeland. No problem, just follow a different set of nodes and the recipe is created that way for them.

The website is slightly outdated but gives a good idea of what is coming. Current goal is to do beta launch in 2026.

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

#418

This one's going to be out of left field, but last Thursday I launched Countdown Treasure ( https://countdowntreasure.com ) It's a real life treasure hunt in the Blue Ridge Mountains with a current total prize of $31,200+ in gold coins and a growing side pot. I modeled it off of last year's Project Skydrop ( https://projectskydrop.com ) which was in the Boston area. * Shrinking search area (today, Day 5, it will be 1…

I don't know enough astronomy, but can the angle of any shadows visible via the webcam help narrow down the location?

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

#420
I’ve been working on https://redditdeep.com to solve a problem I’ve had for a while.

I regularly browse Reddit (and Hacker News) to keep up with new trends and research topics, but it's really time-consuming.

- It’s hard to find the right communities. Search and recommendation features aren’t quite there, and I don’t want to just passively scroll a feed.

- Going through all the comments takes too long. I just want to quickly grasp the main points people are making. If interested, I can dive in further.

So I started this project to help streamline that process—kind of like a “deep research” workflow for my own browsing.

It’s still early, but it’s already saving me time. If anyone knows of similar tools out there, I’d love to hear about them.

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