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

#671
Working on https://fileboost.dev –– A Ruby on Rails Active Storage plugin that is a plug and play gem for image transformation without making any code changes.

Being a Ruby on Rails consultant, I frequently see active storage transformation becoming a bottleneck for web servers by eating up resources and making them sweat.

I built Fileboost to solve this problem for my customers. I'd love any feedback.

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

#672

I am working on an AI-powered fitness and food tracker that automatically logs your food based on the photo. One of the difficulties I had when going to the gym is keeping up and sharing macros weekly with my personal trainer. Manually logging food is a hassle and massive pain point - so my app, Eat n Snap attempts to solve this problem. You can also set weight and BMI goals and see your progress on a weekly basis. S…

I suppose you must know this already if you have done research on alternatives, but there are already a plethora of apps like this — Lifesum, Cal AI, MacroFactor, just to name a few.

I'm curious what sets your app apart?

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

#673

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…

Interesting, I has a similar idea for this problem of being overwhelmed with sources and the need to go into each submission and its comments. But I went in a different direction, it is a mix of RSS reader with summarization. https://rss.sabino.me/ It is open source, and hosted for free on github pages, so you can customize the feeds and reddit communities. There is also a configuration ready to use the locall llama…

Like it, quite neat reports

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

#674
Currently a video editor for educators.

Recording video lessons is a lot of work, often a few hours for a 10min lesson

And then after recording the lesson it’s hard to keep it up to date and often just easier to re-record the whole video

So i’m bringing together slides, screen recorder + camera recorder and timeline editor into a unified workflow

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

#676
I have been working on an open-source automotive controller that can run TockOS (embedded operating system written in Rust).

The rough overview is on my X post here: https://x.com/BobAdamsEE/status/1965573686884434278

It's a long running process, and the HW is mostly defined (but not laid out) but on pause while I work on porting TockOS to an ATSAMV71 to make sure I won't run into any project ending issues with the SW before I build the hardware.

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

#677
I have been building a workout tracking app specifically aimed at weightlifting/strength training.

My perfect user being someone who is either a body builder, powerlifter, or someone who just takes weightlifting seriously.

I've also been obsessed with making it iOS native and a one-time purchase.

Been trying to build in public on Bluesky: @tobu.bsky.social

Simple landing page with a waitlist: https://plates.framer.website/

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

#680
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I’m working on a free and open-source invoice generator: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/?template=stripe - No sign-up, works entirely in-browser - Live PDF preview + instant download - VAT EU support - Shareable invoice links - Multi-language (10+) & multi-currency - Multiple templates (incl. Stripe-style) - Mobile-friendly GitHub: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas f…

I think this is amazing. I work in the construction sector and there are so so so many small one-man tradesperson companies that need to know about this.

Thank you. Appreciate it
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