I'm working full time on growing my app https://lookaway.app. I've been working on it for more than a year now and it's been growing organically since.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#102I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding themes, tropes, and moods).
Our reader's fav reads of 2024: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#103A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :) https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ > Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together. > Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors. > See which color pairs contrast as you…
Responding to some feedback I got: I need to add better UI feedback for this, but you can drag whole hue/saturation/lightness curves if you click/drag between points on the curves.
Feel free to message me if you've got any tricky or tedious problems to do with creating color palettes that extra tooling like this might help with! I have more feature ideas but I want to understand more what others need.
I'm planning to write some articles for giving a more intuitive sense about WCAG color contrast rules and picking accessible colors too. From working with designers, I find many give up here because it takes a while to get your head around and it's often not obvious how to fix designs with failing contrast.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#104Still working on https://mockoon.com, an open-source API mocking desktop tool, after 7 years.
My focus is now on the cloud version which is key to guarantee a future where the tool is still actively maintained and independent (read: free from high growth/high profits pressure).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#105I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…
Man, please share a tutorial
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology? What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered you/users?
The work thus far has mostly been on a seamless mobile UI, & to make engaging with the LLM like less of a chat and more like browsing an interesting dynamic wiki about your own life. But also, yes, a highlight for me re: having your journal in context can be to search and find commonalities, patterns. I would say the insights frontier models have given me, at a high level, match some of those offered by professionals…
I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't be reached.
Sounds very cool. Good luck with it!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#107We’re building a new git collaboration platform on top of atproto! Here’s a sneak preview (best viewed on desktop for now; the UI is mostly WIP): https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core
It’s going to be fully decentralised from day 1—we borrowed the PDS model from Bluesky to allow users to run their own “knots” to self-host their git repositories.
https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_E1XeFuW0tGbDxqnhDiLRT?d=v-286....
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#108I'm working on http://unwrangle.com solo, it's Ecommerce APIs for people building AI and BI apps for ecommerce stuff, it supports querying search results, product info and customer reviews from over 15 major e-commerce marketplaces
Cool! How are you getting your data? Public API?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#109I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…
What about placing a fake speed camera? It might just get the job done
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#110Merging data from spreadsheets with db, with schema mismatches nightmare...