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

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

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post #161

Noodling away on game called Nitronauts in my spare time—just released the demo! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539310/Nitronauts_Demo/ It’s built on a custom C++ engine (using SDL2) and uses WebRTC for networking, so a browser version is coming very soon. It’s a 2-6 player couch/online party game with Bomberman-like mechanics, plus wacky items and power-ups across nine stages.

Nice, can you share the browser version when it's ready?

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

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post #269

I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the simple goal of buying less clothes, and thro…

How do you monetize something that is based on a trait that most lack (vanity)?

I'll just hop in and say I enjoy putting outfits togther, it's fun, it's creative. I don't think of myself as vain, it's more like interior design, it's fun to put things togther that I find pleasent to look at.

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

#903

After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers. There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try. I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons. Additionally I'm considering where I should move to.…

My family owned a salon growing up, I’m pretty in tuned with this if you need help. I’d just copy the features of another app for starters. Most the features are common and a core expectation of your user (scheduling, etc). You should signup as a stylist on some of these apps to see what they offer, how they solve, and put your own spin on it. ( https://glossgenius.com/ ). I’m In the US male hair market as a user the…

>You should signup as a stylist on some of these apps to see what they offer, how they solve, and put your own spin on it.

I'll discuss some more with local salons who use or have used competitors instead i think. Perhaps it's dumb but I'm a bit skittish about being obvious when i'm looking at features of a competitor worth hundreds of millions. (I think a stake in treatwell went for 180 million a good while ago.)

> I always wonder by they don’t offer a discount if you book your next appointment during your visit.

This as a pre-configured option in the scheduling UI on the business end of things is something i haven't added yet. I'm guessing this is not an option glossgenius?

Ps: How can I hit you up once i have an easily shared demo?

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

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After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers. There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try. I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons. Additionally I'm considering where I should move to.…

My wife and I own a salon in Idaho, USA. You're welcome to reach out. Email in my profile.

Thank you very much! Once i have an easily shared demo I definitely will!

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

#906
Two things:

Stella – Inspired by Jack Quaid being interviewed at the Emmy's (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2a1mcfT/). I created Stella (https://usestella.app/) an app that acts as an assistant that helps actors run lines! It is at the very early stages now, but the goal is to have AI do the voices, just in case you aren't as talented as our friend Jack over there! Also the famous little women scene is on their to try out, cause I think running lines is fun just do to when bored.

Doctours – Similarly inspired by TikTok, I started something to help people getting hair transplants overseas. It was crazy for me to think people are still paying in cash for these procedures. Like idk about you but I am not bringing $5k across the border to any country. So I mainly created this as a way to solve the cross border payments problem (https://www.doctours.health/).

edit: added the link to the tiktok.

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

#908
I’m currently building “Denorite” — A WebSocket server application built in Deno that enables real-time communication and event handling between Minecraft servers and TypeScript applications.

A realtime webOS interacting with it is also nearly ready to be released.

https://github.com/Denorite/Server

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

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post #217

I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products across 243 grocery categories). GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg Blonde). I'…

I gotta agree with the other poster that it might be worth looking at openfoodfacts. I encountered them at fosdem and they seemed eager to accept contributors.

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

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post #377

A Django UI Desktop app, a là Docker Desktop, but for manage Django projects. Some people prefer UI apps instead of CLI, and it could be good for juniors and starters, to get familiarized with how Django works before jumping into the command line. It is more an excuse to create a simlpe Electron app, though.

I'm using django for my backend so far and am fine just using cli and code but I'm quite curious about this. Anywhere where you're tracking progress?
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