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

I'm working on a geography guessing game. This is mostly in order to learn the technologies that the team I manage is working on, as I don't get as much hands-on time as I'd like at work. But it's a fun game and it's improving at a rapid clip. I'd love your feedback.

https://guesshole.com/

I'm working on a small project to bring plain-old-telephones back into our children's lives. Quick, screen-less connections with grandparents, cousins, and friends is as quick as picking up the phone and pressing one button. Imagine that.

https://www.beanstalk.club/

I have been working on an open-source customizable start page like iGoogle or Netvibes (I know I am showing my age with these references)

URL: https://boxento.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/sushaantu/boxento/

A DNS zone management tool, made for having decent interface when using coredns as authoritative DNS: https://github.com/holysoles/zoneforge

Also considering working on a traefik plugin + helm chart for sending LLMs that ignore robots.txt to a tarpit like iocaine/nepenthes

Late to the game here, but I'm working on Basic Memory (https://memory.basicmachines.co/docs/introduction), a knowledge management system for the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

What makes it different:

* Claude (and other MCP AIs) can both read from and write to your local markdown files

* Creates a connected network of notes that Claude can navigate between

* All data stays as markdown files on your computer

* When you chat with Claude, it automatically builds structure with simple patterns

* You can start a new chat and just say "Let's continue discussing X" without uploading files or copy/pasting

* Files are available locally, so you can edit them in and editor, like Obsidian, VS Code, etc.

I built this because I was tired of repeating myself to AI assistants and wanted my conversations to accumulate into something useful over time. It's basically a way to give Claude persistent memory while keeping your data local and be easily readable and editable my humans.

Some people are using it to maintain project context across sessions, document systems, and build topic maps without having to manually organize everything.

Demo video: https://basicmachines.co/images/Claude-Obsidian-Demo.mp4 GitHub: https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory

I've got a couple different things I've been hacking on on and off over the last few months.

The one that's furthest along is a database and (currently extremely crude) webapp for asking interesting data type questions about Lotus setlists. I built a little scraper for Nugs and have all their setlists, I just need to take it further and get some of the queries I want implemented and put some kind of halfway decent interface in front.

I also built a little app that uses your Claude API key to generate "generative art," so you send in a prompt and it sends back some visualization code and renders it. It's fun to mess with but I haven't seen anything come out that's wowed me yet.

Got some other little hackeries going too, a lot of my recent hacking time has gone towards getting the -arr apps and their whole little ecosystem set up on my home server. I got a little N100 machine back in December and have been having tons of fun hosting little docker gewgaws.

I've been working since November on an integration between a Quest VR app called Fluid, and MacOS and Windows hosts. The app itself is called Fluid Link, launched just after new years, and has been rolled into official Fluid offerings. It supports full desktop and individual window streaming into the Quest app, shared keyboard and mouse control, and unlike competitor apps also supports multiple hosts and cross platform clipboard sync.

Fluid's website is https://fluid.so and Fluid Link is available for download at https://fluid.so/fluid-link

Fluid is currently free (until tomorrow?) and Fluid Link is free to try up to 15 minutes at a time, with no restrictions on functionality. There's a discord server and in-app support chat for support questions, and videos demonstrating Installation and usage on YouTube.

I'm just drawing stuff, including a comic book about a future run by horrible AIs that find they get the best response from humans when they present as horrible, unctuous clowns.

http://egypt.urnash.com

If you have lots of money to burn and want to support a queer artist in the Gulf South, I have a Patreon.

I have a startup idea and I’m curious what others think.

Setting up AI agents is way too complicated. I am constantly being sent to GitHub pages with installation instructions that require way too many dependencies, API connections, and more. We’re talking hours of setup and config.

So what if there was an open-source marketplace where you could just search, find an agent, click deploy, get launched into an already configured agent, and just have it do its thing? Essentially a marketplace discoverablity, automated deployment infrastructure and an interface to manage your agents.

I’d also probably create some kind of open-source solution, probably a custom Docker container, so developers can easily build agents and wrap them in a container and upload them for deployment.

Thoughts? Does anything like this already exist?

P.S. No, I don’t want to build or use another crappy AI agent builder. I want to deploy open-source agents already built by actual developers.

I'm working on scraper bot filtering software! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis. This week I'm going to publish the plans for building binary packages (both distribution-specific packages and tarballs full of binaries).

3D Drone Wargame.

(https://horus.sh)

I'm developing a wargame-like 3D simulator designed to train AI drones into elite stealth pilots. By integrating reinforcement learning techniques and utilizing real-life local landscape data, the simulator offers highly realistic mission scenarios.

Currently rewiring some my home's electricity so I can monitor my PV power production locally (without the shitty built in Chinese cloud garbage with hardcoded wifi passwords).

Using the Shelly Pro EM for energy monitoring (it has 2 CT clamps, one is going on the PV output, the other on the grid input).

The data will be collected in Home Assistant on a HA Green device. Additionally, we have "smart" electricity meters here, these have a port which can be used to fine grained power & gas monitoring, should be possible to integrate that into Home Assistant as well.

It's not anything particularly challenging, it's mostly refactoring my electrical distribution board to make room for the Shelly device, routing ethernet cables, and installing some power sockets and a network switch to tie everything together.

I'm working on adding something like https://graphtoy.com/ to my lisp-based 3D art tool https://bauble.studio/. It's really useful to visualize functions like this, especially when writing animation curves that vary over time.

It's easy to add it as a plain overlay over the screen if you're graphing a function, but I really want it to be able to plot arbitrary expressions with free variables where it just infers the axes, so you can just see values overload in the orthographic view (press alt-q to see that). That way you can just write something like (ss p.x 0 10 | graph) on any expression and visualize it as you go. I haven't quite figured out how to make it seamless though...

I have been working on Hostup, with which I recently got accepted into Antler's residency program.

It's currently an upsell management and fulfillment platform built for hosts and property managers who list on Airbnb, Booking.com, and other travel websites. My goal is to make staying at Airbnbs as great as staying at a hotel (without the downsides) by building experiences for guests.

This currently includes the ability for the hosts to offer things like meal plans, at-home massages, etc. In the future, it will help them offer a faster check-in process, make personal recommendations, add interactive guides, and maybe even neighbourhood treasure hunts that involve other travelers.

[1] https://hostup.ae [2] https://antler.co

A language learning platform for Arabic.

https://parallel-arabic.com/about https://github.com/selmetwa/parallel-arabic

Working on Circuitscript, a language based on python to describe electronic schematics/circuits: https://circuitscript.net/

The motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs. I have used different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCAD) in the past and wanted to spend more time thinking about the schematic design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs.

The main language goals are to be easy to write and reason, generated graphical schematics should be displayed according to how the designer wishes so and to encourage code reuse.

Currently trying to improve the docs and also release an online IDE. Please check it out and I look forward to feedback!

I'm building and running a Bluesky analytics and post scheduler site, with a couple of tools on top. The network is showing good growth and promise at 33M users at the moment so I'm optimistic about it.

https://theblue.social

I am trying to finish the first draft of my whodunnit novel, before I hit the two-year anniversary from when I started out. I've had good periods with streaks where I write 45 minutes in the morning, but also longer periods where the project lies dormant. 100 pages in so far.

I have been curating a gaming newsletter for a little over 5 years now called The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/

This year, I started my first original content, Unmuted, which is a series of interviews with regular gamers about how gaming is part of their lives and their gaming habits. It's going pretty good so far with 2 interviews done. This is the latest one: https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/unmuted-002-mateus-kar...

The hardest part is sourcing the people to be interviewed.

I'm building a lock-free deque in Rust. I'm not sure what you might need it for, or that it will even pan out to be functional, but, it's a start.

https://github.com/meltyness/joque

I've used Notational Velocity for years, but couldn't get a working binary on latest MacOS/Chips and the newer variants I found seem to miss the mark on what made Notational Velocity great (imo).

So I'm working on an electron version[1] that has what I remember of the core UX. I wasn't the best user of NV – I'm sure it had features that I didn't use. If there are features that it had that you used, I'd certainly like to be aware of them.

[1]: https://github.com/ralphsaunders/nv-electron

For the last while I've been working on a link sharing site that allows you to follow subsets of someone's tags, rather than the whole person. It's a kind of "alts by default", moving counter to the audience capture of so many social media sites that forces you to over-simplify yourself.

Reverse chronological is sacrosanct, and it will never have ads (there is a recently added subscription option). I plan to do a proper launch soon but I'll admit anyone who signs up to the waitlist from this post.

I've already found so many cool resources from it and we literally just got our 1000th post!

Other fun milestones:

[x] First user I don't know

[x] First paying customer

[x] First user to surpass my usage

[ ] First lynkmi marriage

Check it out at https://lynkmi.com/

Working on a small SQL-based streaming ETL tool.

It reads from a replication stream and allows you to trim/enrich the replicated data by running SQL queries from the database, then writing the result out to another database (also using a custom SQL query, so it's easy to do upserts or joining with other data on the destination database).

It's working really well, and I'm just sprucing up logging and documentation a bit before making the source code public on github. The idea is for it to be a much simpler alternative to things like Debezium for small to medium sized projects.

Currently supports postgres for input, and postgres and clickhouse for output with more databases coming down the road.

I wrote a small business preventive maintenance and calibration tracker (https://pmcal.net) as a side project.

A few manufacturing companies that I have a close relationship with are using it and love it, but I have kind of hit a wall with other growth avenues (Google Ads, organic promotion on the web).

I have been thinking of marketing directly to ISO 9001 auditors, because “can you get email reminders” is a question they have asked at multiple companies I have worked at. I feel like cold mailing them something branded (e.g. notepads) might work, but I am not sure how much money I want to spend on it if it doesn’t and it’s also a bit nerve-wracking to put myself out there like that.

I've been working on an open source game backend for Unity and Godot: https://trytalo.com. GitHub: https://github.com/talodev.

I'm aiming to solve the problem of wanting to build a game but having to build all these extra "other" systems around it (leaderboards, stats/analytics, saving and loading game state).

Right now you can drop Talo into your game for player management, authentication, leaderboards, analytics, game saves and player segmentation. There's a dashboard too so you can visualise all of your game's data.

I'm working on https://reynote.com (not optimized for mobile in case you want to try it out).

It's an AI-powered relationship coach supported by an specialized AI swarm following integrative therapy principles. It started off by me thinking "how would an AI relationship therapist work if they could see both sides of an argument" to me reading up a lot about integrative therapy, experimenting with various AI agent architectures and landing on this approach now.

I'm pretty happy now with how it works. Even my wife, which is not really into AI and is a coach herself is using it regularly.

I'm working on Botnet of Ares [0], an incremental hacking game set in a cyberpunk world where everything is connected.

[0] https://tiniuc.com/botnet-of-ares/

I got really good at rxjs and saw a way to make a custom jsx transform where every element is an Observable of string. I've been using it to make my site/blog and just got done writing a mini self contained jira board to iron out the interactivity aspects.

Since it's strings, I just render to file for backend static site generation, then frontend I use diffDom library to do efficient (enough) updates from html string without destroying dom state.

It works really well, but I also don't allow inline event listeners (they make everything much harder), so I've been learning how to leverage event delegation. All in all a pretty fun side project.

I have 2 fronts actually:

1. Hardware a. Trying to create my own mechanical keyboard: already modeled, how finding a suitable printer. b. Waiting for a display to arrive so I can wire into my digital calendar. c. Waiting my modem HAT to arrive to go to phase 2 of my self hosted server.

1. Software a. Preparing my next blog post. b. Working on my distro.

References:

- Blog: https://blog.terminal.pink - Distro: https://terminal.pink/lin0/tree/index.html

NB: I know my certificate expired.

I'm working on a GenAI learning platform (focusing on software engineering). I want it to not suck, not to be another LLM wrapper. I will make it public as soon as I find it useful myself.

I am finishing up a 32 year old stretch project (as of this month). 99.9% sure I nailed it. Technically a 42 year old project, but it took me 10 years to find the right way to think about it and craft a formal definition.

The theory seems to check, but I can't/won't be convinced until the tools based on it are complete and working without friction or exception. Many times it has felt like I was tilting at windmills, but every challenge eventually caved.

An epic (for me) black triangle moment approaches! (Discovered that term here on HN.) An algorithmic triad the color of space without light is a poetic, but not misleading description.

Wish me luck!

I've been dipping my toe further into gamedev. Been working on a game/maybe minimal engine? Been writing about it on a site. It uses a basic raycaster style rendering with billboard sprite. Shout out to pikuma for getting me started down this path. But started as C, tried it in Zig and ended up rewriting the whole thing in C++. Front page of the site has a little demo scene. Dev log contains just some mad scribblings about thing I am doing, thinking about, and trying.

https://forgottenelixir.com

I’ve been building Velty[1] over the past year as a tool to tame my ever-growing YouTube subscriptions. It’s a web app (PWA) that lets you organize your YouTube channels and videos into folders (with sub-folders), and view all the latest videos in one chronological feed with powerful filtering/sorting.

I built it because I was frustrated with how hard it was to manage a large number of channel subscriptions using YouTube’s default interface.

https://velty.app

I made an RSS reader. I have an idea for an infinite canvas dashboard that I meant to use for various things other than RSS because I wanted something to put on my touchscreen portable monitor and projector.

I tried to make the dashboard experience really seamless and even used a physics engine in there. I think I did achieve this though, but I ended up spending more time on the UI than the dashboard contents. IMO infinite canvas UIs are not utilized enough.

Try it out and tell me what you think. Currently, it only shows what I put up there.

https://nitbit.dev/zoopboard

I am building DollarDeploy [1] - platform to deploy apps to your own server. Think of it as a Vercel but without serverless or public cloud confusing pricing - DollarDeploy + VPS of your choice. DD supports NextJS, React, Python, Docker Compose apps. NextJS and React runs without docker and deploy super fast - around 1min from GitHub push to live with HTPPS, Postgres and Redis db alongside.

Currently in progress of implementing DevOps AI which will configure properly your deployment based on the source code.

- [1] https://dollardeploy.com

For context, I work as a QA tester who (currently) does exclusively manual testing. I'm trying very hard to get into automated testing, or possibly move over to Web Development.

At the moment, I've been doing very little. I had been hyperfixated on going "above and beyond" at work, doing close to 60 hours per week when I was only getting paid for 40 since January. I had been hoping that if I had been putting in an excessive amount of effort in terms of productivity, I would get some recognition for it, and more importantly: be given the opportunity to work on professional development things, in terms of, say, classes or training so I could learn more about automated testing. I really want to move towards something more intellectually stimulating the grinding manual process we have - I see so much room to improve. I really just want to learn more things, so I can become a better asset to the my employer, and so I don't feel like I'm just "treading water" in terms of industry knowledge.

Instead of things going that way, I was basically told that doing what I had been doing is... appreciated... but doesn't really change anything, because no one had asked or expected me to do it.

It was demoralizing to get the brush off in that way, but I've decided the best course of action then, is to forge my own way. Do the hours I'm required to do (and do them sincerely well), but put that creative hunger into building a website, building some repos, and finding my own way forward.

At this point, I've already bought a domain. Now I just need to figure out how to build one, and start making some cool stuff.

Its hard to set tone through text... I'm not bitter about what happened, everything they said was technically true. Heck, I'm not even angry about it. It was naive of me to get my hopes up thinking I would get my way, if I put in the effort up front. It just feels... bad to not really feel any kind of positive reinforcement for professional development, or even for working as hard as I’ve been working for the past 3-ish months. In fairness, what they said isn't unreasonable, but it sucks they don't want to invest into me, the way I invested into them.

I have been working towards building and understanding the shift in search / information retrieval.

To that end, I just did a show HN on a couple of my projects

What if google did not focus on hyper commercialisation? 10 Blue links, but sorted by how they answer your query- https://www.unlob.com

Can we answer questions with lesser hallucinations? A snippet cited answer engine which only picks links that focus on answering your query - https://www.unzoi.com

I don't know how people are so smart here. You people are really so incredibly clever and driven. I've found myself in a data analyst job where we do lots of python and linux stuff. That's cool and all but I am such an exhausted and deeply demotivated person. I don't know what to do next with my career. I am largely banking on building strong passive income streams. I don't think I'm in the right job or career - but I don't know what I'd do otherwise. I am not sure I can afford to do an apprenticeship. Maybe I should speak to a psychologist.

I developed multi-ssh, it's a command-line utility designed to simplify the management of simultaneous SSH connections to multiple remote servers. It leverages tmux to create organized sessions, allowing you to interact with servers in separate panes within a single window or in individual windows per server. Features include synchronized input across panes, executing commands on all servers, copying files using rsync, and customizable configurations via a config file.

https://github.com/arakis/multi-ssh

I am currently working on and beta testing an app called Malak. It is an opensource version of Visible VC/Carta/Angelist. as a previous founder, toolings to send and manage investors' updates, decks, fundraising and others were ridiculously expensive and now I have built one completely open sourced but I have an hosted cloud version.

Product live at https://malak.vc OSS source code at https://github.com/ayinke-llc/malak

A reactive computational notebook with an effect system. Kinda like a "factorio for workflow processes." I want to use it to build backend pipelines or AI RAG pipelines. I'd be able to replay network effects for debugging. It is multiplayer and can be easily deployed to a server.

I'd always found web app backends to eventually need something that chained background jobs together. And inevitably, it was something bespoke without a lot of observability. It was always frustrating to maintain. And while building AI RAG pipelines, I've run into the same problems.

I've been "Vibe Coding" this weekend with the vibe of a micromanaging tech lead or PM. Actually, it's not terrible if you just accept that you need to treat the AI like a year 0 engineer who is really good at googling.

I've run the project through cline and roo. Also tried Claude 3.7 and the 1M context Gemni 2.5 pro model. I'd say Gemini is less creative. But it's still good.

I can see how it is a productivity booster. Or at least it gives you the illusion of one. Really I think best part of it is just building out detailed documentation. That's really the killer app for me.

Hyper-V as a Service ish?

I have a use case to have a need to provision at will hyper-v instances for others to have control over fully. I've looked into proper things for things like SCVMM and Azure local and really they do suck..

So off to build a set of automation scripts to provision hyper-v inside of hyper-v attached to S2D shares and give students admin access to them and work in teams to build things on their own.

Its going to suck... I've done this exact use case using openstack, incus, proxmox and they all kinda suck...

I need project isolation, I need freedom, I need compliance.

The compliance is where I'm stuck with hyper-v due to the powers to be....

Wish me luck!

RubyExamples.com [1]

Got inspired by Go by Example [1] while learning Go. Realised there's nothing for Ruby like that and decided to build.

Goal is to have simple urls for one-click navigation for each topic where the page covers a single topic briefly with examples, with relevant links and historic artifacts (for example, it links to the "Programming with Nothing" talk in procs/lamdba page [3]).

It's still a work in progress and I'm not rushing it.

The examples are all my own. It's easy to do with AI, but I'm not going that way. I'm explaining things based on my own 12+ years of ruby experience.

Like GoByExample, this is also desktop only, but mobile-friendly is on the roadmap. The CSS also will change to be someting like RailsGuides. Might also add a video for each topic explaining the code.

[1] - https://rubyexamples.com/ [2] - https://gobyexample.com/ [3] - https://rubyexamples.com/p_and_l

My side project now is a websockets based dashboard that acts as a todo list for my easily distracted children in the morning. The tv remote is an lg one that can be used as a mouse, and they pop the tasks on the screen. I used chatgpt to generate some kawaii style stickers (think big eyes and sparkes). They love it. The reward is (in the morning at least) however many Blueys they can watch before the predetermined departure time.

A few improvements to go, but from what I hear from other parents (without raising it) is that they'd take advantage of something like this.

Working on a schema migration tool for tortoise-orm (Python async ORM)

https://github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm/

I've been working on a decentralized group chat called River[1], which will be the first truly decentralized group chat and the flagship application on Freenet[1], a general purpose platform for decentralized apps.

Just 2 or 3 bugs remaining before people can start playing with both River and Freenet which hopefully means we're days away (touch wood).

[1] https://github.com/freenet/river [2] https://freenet.org/

I'm working on a combined registration and timing system [0] for motorsports organizers, mostly rallycross atm. Most RX organizers in CA are using it now. In 2023 32 events ran their timing with it!

It's designed to save organizers time and solve reg & timing problems I got tired of dealing with as a competitor.

Soon I'll be adding QR code support, so we can just scan a QR code on your helmet or car at lap (which helps handle multi driver cars etc).

I plan to rebrand it into other verticals later.

[0] https://sidewaysdata.com

I continue to build the best hardware product design firm in the world. We have designed surgical robots, implanted devices including blood pumps, down bore oil drilling robots, high volume disposables, helped companies bring injection molding in house. On and on.

We are based in the SOMA neighborhood of SF and would love to help anyone with their hardware!!

http://www.iancollmceachern.com http://www.goldebgatemolders.com

I'm building an experimental a JSX-like language that embraces more functional features --- has stronger type guarantees that TS, ADTs, and pattern matching, but it's also more familiar than alternatives like Elm (or, I would argue, even Rescript).

My current tag line is "JS with guardrails, without footguns"

https://chicory-lang.github.io/

https://github.com/chicory-lang/compiler

Currently homeless, driving Uber and Lyft. I've fixed my mental health after a shit storm of life events, mostly using AI as therapist.

I'm going back to school soon for psychology (figure financial aid can also pay room and board).

I'm wanting to build a mobile journal app with a bunch of AI guided 'games' to help learn DBT skills or work out trauma or do Shadow work or just guided CBT for a purpose.

I've changed my MBTI from intp-t to enfp-a...(I find I revert sometimes when I don't feel safe)... in other words I've become a very outgoing people person at least I'm a lot less afraid in social situations or to act like a fool on the dance floor... etc...

I also want to write a book and do videos on hacking your brain using AI... nobody seems to be doing this... there's a lot of potential for this niche I think.

I fixed hobbies, depression, and social life, all that's left is physical and financial and those are kind of easy when emotions are in check.

I just finished adding support for ChatGPT's new GPT4o image generator to <https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper> and it's working great. Testing it over the next few days and then it'll be ready for release.

This is a tool meant for heavy users of ChatGPT who want to sync their *entire* conversation history to local markdown files. If that describes you, I invite you to check it out!

A lead generator called snappy leads: https://snappyleads.co.uk/

Input: The website of a company. Any company. Apple.com or Ycombinator.com if you want.

Output: The verified email of every Apple/YC employee we've managed to find. Works for linkedin profiles too — put a linkedin profile in, you get a verified email out.

It's currently cheap as fuck ($10/mo) because it's a hacky piece of software. It doesn't work every time, but it gets improved every 48 hours so it'll be really good soon.

We're also teaching people how to hack sales and advertising, stuff like how to get a 30% response rate with targeted cold email. Basically everyone who's bought a subscription gets a lesson once per week. I've got 10 years of experience teaching skills, so in my opinion it's cool.

Join the discord server here if you want to talk about that: https://discord.gg/2RNwH8ta4A

If you want proof that I can even write an email as good as that: https://imgur.com/a/z9gNgGH

I've been working on a free, in-browser "pre" video editor. Upload your clip, use a transcript interface to cut it down to the takes and salient bits you want to keep, then export your cuts to FCP or Resolve to complete your editing. This tool saves me about 25-30% of my editing time.

Uses transformers.js & WebGPU for running transcription, so it's pretty fast. It's still a bit rough around the edges, so I'm looking for feedback.

https://matcha.video

I've been and still working on code input (https://codeinput.com). A merge conflict resolution tool that integrates with GitHub. I'm close to move from an alpha to a beta and hopefully it'll be ready to launch in a couple months time. If you dread merge conflicts, or currently have a Pull Request stuck in a conflict state, give it a try. I should re-mention it is still in an alpha state and might bug out during the process.

A single address space operating system called Fusion¹ implemented in Nim. It currently has the basic building blocks for the kernel. The rest is being built incrementally as time permits. I've also taken the time to document everything I'm doing², which some people found useful.

¹https://github.com/khaledh/fusion

²https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app/osdev

Working on ʻŌlelo Honua, a free and open-source internationalization (i18n) tool that uses AI to translate app content. Now building a CLI so it can integrate seamlessly with tools like Shopify and other platforms. The goal is to make localization effortless for developers without relying on expensive translation services.

https://www.olelohonua.com

Would love feedback—especially on CLI features you'd find useful!

I'm working on Dronygon, a map of cool drone flying locations.

Well I just put it live couple of days ago, now I'm just starting to post my own locations.

Had this idea when I wanted to take my drone out but didn't know where to go. And as a plus I really wanted to learn more about working with maps and geolocation for an upcoming project, so this was a perfect way to learn it and make something useful.

https://dronygon.com/

I'm working on MindRoot, which is a plugin-focused agent framework with a fully customizable chat UI and swappable services and commands as well as pipes, agents and personas. The goal is to be fully user-friendly while also easily expandable for programmers. And to make it easy to share tool commands and agents. Hopefully someday with a public plugin+agent+persona registry built in.

https://github.com/runvnc/mindroot

Paid In Bio https://www.paidinbio.com

HN is probably not the target audience for this, but I've become really obsessed about solving my own problem of building apps, but struggling to market them. There are very few places online that welcome you to post links, enable you to post a link quickly, and drive targeted traffic at reasonable cost.

So I'm trying to bootstrap a new ad network on Link In Bio platforms that offers this trifecta (welcoming, quick, cost effective).

Started working on a case discussion platform for students around 18 months ago. Mostly for dentistry and medicine, but it's template-based so works well for other purposes (e.g. teachers, social workers, etc.). It's going well and is being used by three universities right now.

On the way, I developed lightweight image editor and 3D model viewer components, which I've open sourced [1].

[1]: https://github.com/kigun-org/

Working on my plain text cricket live cricket site[1]. Just realised after starting that getting reliable live cricket or sport data is super hard. Tried a paid provider[2] and it’s frustratingly inaccurate. Need to figure out a better way!

Also, figuring out a way to visualise manhattan chart, score worm, wagon wheels etc using plain text ascii

[1] https://criclite.com [2] https://cricdata.org

All kinds of personal FOSS projects I have mostly yet to release.

[1] noscrypt - portable C cryptography library for nostr [2] vnlib - C# + C libraries for server applications, eventual high performance alternative to ASP.NET. It's really just a collection of libraries that are optimized for long running server applications. [3] vncache - vnlib cache extensions and cluster cache server over web-sockets [4] cmnext - self-hosted, vnlib based, json-file CMS + podcast 2.0 server [5] simple-bookmark - kind of deprecated, vnlib based, self hosted bookmark server

My software homepage (most up-to-date) https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules

I know most of yall will probably want GitHub links so here [1] https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt [2] https://github.com/VnUgE/vnlib.core [3] https://github.com/VnUgE/VNLib.Data.Caching [4] https://github.com/VnUgE/cmnext [5] https://github.com/VnUgE/simple-bookmark

I've got two main projects I'm working concurrently on in my free time:

- Repairing an Apple II+. So far I've converted it to run on 230V and picked up the A2DVI to connect to modern displays. Next working on cleaning up the floppy drives and repairing the one that doesn't work.

- Reverse engineering the Tandy Z-PDA. I want to be able to synchronize with modern desktop Linux applications, and also eventually write my own PEN/GEOS applications for the PDA.

I'm working on a few closed source projects that are all built on https://github.com/1backend/1backend, my dream microservices platform I've had in mind for 12 years before starting to implement it.

On the frontend I'm rather happy with Angular but backend-wise I was never really happy. So it was time to build it. Been developing it for more than a year now.

Https://AppGoblin.info

Free online database of all apps and their third party trackers.

I made an Android app that lists the trackers on your phone.

You can checkout that app by going to https://AppGoblin.info/about and clicking the link there. It is a test url for an open source ad tracking software. (ie track where an install came from, in this case the about page of the site).

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in either project.

I'm working on a Dutch dictionary for immersion learning; https://hetnederlands.com. Structured outputs combined with react router renders a chain of thought on demand. With most "learners dictionaries", you're limited to the basic words. This enables getting a perfectly laid out learners dictionary explanation of any word in the entire language.

To aid my process to shortlist house for purchase I am creating a web app for this.

The app will use genai to extract the details of houses listed for sale and then update my custom database.

For example I can input a youtube url and it will fetch the transcript and use llm to generate Json response based on predefined schema.

I can review and shortlist the houses based on various custom parameters using the web interface.

The mvp is done in a proprietary tech stack, I just need to port it to open source tech stack with React and FastAPI

I got frustrated with the current web becoming more and more unusable and made a browser extension to fix that.

It's an addon that allows one to modify any web page behavior. You can write rules for things like redirecting reddit to old reddit or keeping youtube videos playing in the background.

It's like Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey/etc but it works on HTTP request level and can modify scripts/styles/markup before they are ever rendered making it considerably more powerful.

Currently it only works on Firefox (and Firefox Mobile) because it's the only browser that supports the necessary APIs. It's seen its first release already but the UI is a bit lacking :)

AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-defuser/

Sources: https://gitlab.com/gear54/web-defuser

Example rules: https://gitlab.com/gear54/web-defuser/-/snippets

Writing a book on my unique theory on human psychology based on cynicism, military theory, and evolution.

Is has helped me to address all of my problems, from mental health to productivity to learning across all domains like economics, writing, coding, marketing.

Writing daily blog posts, and then piecing together everything into the book. https://www.moderncynicism.com/

Have been building a design tool for Spatial Computing [0] Me and my co-founder struggled for over a decade working in XR and wanted to simplify the design process for us and everyone else. We've been focused on reducing steps between design iterations by as much as humanly possible. So the tool works live, multi-user, in real-time and immediately across all compatible devices.

Here's a recent example of whats possible from one of our users [1], and a recent project I made for fun that you can try on your iOS [2] or Meta Quest [3] device.

[0]: https://ordinary.space

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-rice-sennep_mixedreality...

[2]: https://app.ordinary.space/#/share/b2d3d7

[3]: https://app.ordinary.space/#/share/96b9cf

Working on an embedded DSL for writing typed LLM workflows in Haskell: https://github.com/outervation/promptyped . It handles the "LLM in a loop" structuring for e.g. forcing an LLM to keep making changes in a loop until unit tests pass, and custom validation so the LLM is forced to retry a task if the validation fails (validation can include using a LLM to check the result, or plain Haskell function, or e.g. running a compiler/unit tests). It also allows structured context management, allowing the user to specify which files are initially provided as context to a task (which may itself be the result of a LLM query), as well as providing the LLM tools to open files it deems relevant, and prompting it to close the least important file when it has too many open (and compressing non-recently-modified source files when many are open).

Currently heavily WIP though and only has a working Go compile/test backend (Go seems particularly easy for smaller LLMs like o3-mini to work with due to being a relatively non-complex language).

We are working on a fast reading font which works by using just opentype features (no server or other script required)

https://github.com/Born2Root/Fast-Font

We also created some emoji fonts: https://github.com/Born2Root/Feature-Fonts

I’m wrapping up the final audio plug-in in my “Loudness Series” which was designed to bring compressors and limiters into modernity by upgrading their circuitry to using LUFS and True Peak in place of RMS/Peak.

The final plugin is an equalizer which will be focused on loudness but expand the filtering to include more advanced equal loudness contours.

https://apu.software

I have a good understanding of how to create likely-correct software: https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html

Now I'm learning AI/LLMs from the perspective of correctness. So far I have two 'maxims' to guide me:

- AI shines where humans struggle (for prompt engineering)

- An LLM is nothing but an API call (for software engineering with AI)

Busy building some personal infrastructure around information. Think mix of scrapping and filtering, scoring and summarization.

Clearly all of the info space is getting ever more polluted and I just don’t trust anyone else (with their own agenda) to manage and filter that for me. If one is to abdicate that sort of responsibility to a system wholesale then I think it has to be fully under one’s control, own data, own design, self hosted etc

A declarative OSINT VM builder utilizing Nix Flakes. The goal is to quickly generate a fresh QCOW2 image with all necessary applications installed and configured, mainly Firefox with numerous settings and extensions.

I think this can be really useful as it allows you to maintain separate QCOW2 files for each investigation, since they can be generated in just a few seconds.

Using a Nix Flake also provides an easy way to add or remove tools, offering extensive customization based on your needs.

Writing a science fiction book this year - after a year of planning (while working on other projects).

Also hoping to find some time to add a feature or two to my Video Hub App

https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

I have been bedroom DJing, and wanting to expand what I can do with the hardware I already have.

Using `midiex` for Elixir I’ve written a fully fledged driver for Ableton Push, letting me use it as essentially a 4-deck version of Pioneer’s DDJ-XP2 sub controller with Rekordbox.

It implements basic statefulness so that the rotary encoders can be used, as well as a paging system so the 64 performance pads can be mapped to different functions. It also supports track browsing and loading, which is helpful if you want to use say DVS with an external mixer and don’t want to be hunched over a laptop dragging tracks around.

It’s also got some additional capabilities which I’ve not seen on other hardware like dedicated faders for stem separation levels.

It’s been a great exercise in combing two hobbies, learning about MIDI as well as being able to personalise my setup for my own use. I haven’t open sourced any of it just yet whilst I’m still tweaking things but I’d be interested in collaborating with anyone who also has one of these devices and has programmed it. I’m looking to use the display on it next, whose protocol Ableton have some (albeit scant) documentation for.

I'm working on a correlation matrix with Svelte 5.

It includes rolling correlation charts, hierarchical clustering, and a terminal-style interface with high data density. It uses a 2D windowing/virtualization approach to render only visible matrix cells to the DOM. It's early WIP. The landing page is particularly bad.

https://covary.xyz

I've been slowly building https://www.hamradiolog.net/

As part of that, I made an ADIF (ham radio logs) parser to learn go. It's more than 2x faster than parsing the same data in json format with the go standard library.

https://github.com/hamradiolog-net/adif

Reimagining personalized food, prepared on demand and directly from fresh ingredients, as an always available urban utility. A vertically integrated ready to eat food retail and logistics network with order of magnitude improvements to value proposition, unit economics, scalability and risk profile. Consolidating nearly a decade of R&D for US go to market, our systems are way ahead of the competition by footprint (2m²/20ft²), cost per location (~$25K), degree of automation (complete) and drone integration (integrated multi-drone airport with autonomous handover, recharge, precision recapture). Think last mile delivery aggregator with zero people in prep/packaging/pickup/(post FAA BVLOS normalization ~2Q 2026 in some areas)delivery, meaningful personalization, fresher food, and 24×7 operations. Rough complexity ~10K parts BOM. Internal manufacturing. We aim to grow at ~2× historic QSR rates right out of the gate, then accelerate. Simultaneously, spinning off a few industrial ventures filling gaps in what's available on the market we've had to build for ourselves. Prior unicorn. Currently raising for US GTM, email in profile.

I’m building an AI chatbot for businesses to handle sales and lead qualification via WhatsApp and Telegram — https://ziriusai.xyz/en

Doing it completely solo — built the product, run the ads, do the outreach, everything. Struggling with sales now. Thinking of narrowing focus and solving a more specific pain point.

Curious if anyone else here is grinding through early-stage B2B SaaS — would love to hear how you're tackling this.

While reading AI Engineering[1], I was inspired to take a crack at an idea I've had for a while - diffusion-based LLM. The accessibility of shakespeare.txt[2] and the proliferation of tinyGPT implementations has made vibe-coding LLM research on the brink of possibility. It does help to have a familiarity in the datascience/ML/AI space in order to check and guide appropriately, but it's amazing how well the virtuous cycle is beginning to work.

1. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ai-engineering/97810981...

2. https://gist.github.com/blakesanie/dde3a2b7e698f52f389532b4b...

Working on adding features to my app. I wrote BVCalc because I wanted a calculator that would show not only the numerical result value but also show the corresponding algebraic expression that I entered so that I could check for entry mistakes and more easily keep track of calculations. I also wanted this feature to work even when the calculator is in RPN mode. That is, I wanted to be able to use RPN entry, and have the calculator show both the result value and the corresponding algebraic expression (displayed using infix notation, not RPN) for each item on the stack.

I was surprised that such a feature was not available on any existing calculators and so I wrote my own. Runs on macOS, iPhone, and iPad.

BVCalc Lite (free version, no ads): https://apps.apple.com/app/bvcalc-lite/id6544784034

BVCalc (paid version): https://apps.apple.com/app/bvcalc/id6560108221

I'm working on a calorie & macro tracker called FitBee. Tracking my food has been tremendously helpful in terms of improving my health, but it's always been kind of a PITA. These past couple of months have been really exciting as I'm leaning into using AI to make it less of a hassle to track & provide more insights.

https://fitbee.app

I'm thinking about how to properly test AWS Step Functions. The problem is that I can either mock the entire response for every state in JSON only, or call out to a lambda. What I want is to type check the evaluated JSONPath payload and the mocked JSON response, to ensure that my tests always adheres to global contracts/types written in JSON Schema.

I think it's doable by dynamically creating lambdas based on test cases I define in one way or another, perhaps like mocked integration services, that does nothing but validate if the event from SFN matches a schema, and that the mocked response also matches a schema.

My concern is that I can't find prior projects doing this. My use case is mostly (exclusively at the moment) calling out to lambdas, so perhaps I can get away with this kind of type checking. But it's just weird that something like this doesn't already exist! Past experiences have taught me that if no one have tried it before, my idea is usually not that good.

Let me know what you think!

(Would have liked to use durable execution which totally solves the typing issue, but can't in this case)

Working on the Monokai Pro website for my color theme for code editors, and the Monokai Pro plugin for JetBrains, which has just been released. Working out some optimizations, which will be pushed in the next update.

Monokai Pro has been running for more than 5 years now for VSCode and Sublime Text, and the original Monokai almost 20 years.

https://monokai.pro

I have been filling my brain.

A long time ago I played around with neural net stuff and had some fun making tiny little things. To give an idea of time frame, this was before people were using ReLU.

Going back to it after the recent advances was incredible seeing how much has happened. So many times I'd see something and wondered how I could have missed it the first time only to realise it hadn't been invented yet when I did things last time.

It feels like there is a much higher focus on statistical mathematics now in a way that it permeates everything. That in itself requires a whole lot of new learning to get to grips with, but I also feel like there might be some value in looking at a lot of these things from a different perspective. I think I tend to look at things from a more geometric point of view.

In that vein I have been looking at some transformers using unit n-sphere embeddings with V values as geodesics, just to see what happens.

As I learn new things, I keep finding fun new ideas to muck around with, I'm just an amateur, so I'm not really restricted by areas I look at. Today I'm wondering about whether Wasserstein distance could be quickly approximated by a learnable method (especially if the inputs had access to parts of the ml components that generated the things being Wasserstein compared).

I'm almost certainly treading ground well explored by others, but my way of learning seems to be to rapidly jump between many different things picking up a small understanding of each as I go until I just seem to know things that I didn't before. Focusing on a topic and pushing in that direction never seemed to work for me so much. This is probably why I am an amateur :-)

I’ve been building two things that kinda go hand-in-hand to scratch a few personal itches. [1] is an interactive fretboard tool for guitarists. I wasn’t quite happy with the way existing tools approached visualization, so I made my own. Too many felt littered with ads or just didn’t work the way I was hoping for.

It goes beyond just plotting notes there are options to show scales using intervals, roots, note names, etc., plus a chord mode that highlights triads, voicings, and inversions. I’ve found it useful for routine practice start the built-in metronome, pick a voicing or scale pattern, and run through it in time.

There are also pages covering theory topics like modes and progressions, but the fretboard’s the main draw. It’s something I built for myself and figured others might get some use out of too. I plan to keep adding to it as I think of more things I want to reference probably adding support for additional strings or tunings next?

The other solves a very specific problem (mostly out of laziness) I do most of my playing using the standalone Neural DSP application on Windows, but I don’t really want to do any mixing in it. So I built a dead simple recording application [2] that doesn’t require firing up a DAW, but still offers a decent UX. It lets me quickly capture riffs and ideas, and later I can just send them to my Mac for mixing if anything seems promising. Haven’t shipped it yet, but I’ve been using it daily and having some friends try it out.

[1] https://www.theorycrvft.com/fretboard

[2] https://theorycrvft.gumroad.com/l/otocapture

I've been working on a library for Node (using TypeScript) that encrypts environment variables and generates typings for accessing said environment variables.

e.g. you init a project (`obelisq init`) and use `obelisq set -k <key> -v <value>` (e.g. `obelisq set -k SERVICE_KEY -v ABCDEF`) to set your environment variables:

  OBELISQ_PUBLIC_KEY=0344ecbf96c3e01262402247b97231a22c0197d17121dd9c7d1b999faed1d54ac4
  SERVICE_KEY=047ca044c1a59114246d5c5122ad1bdecfafa3c999fae5629181df54[...]
  MY_SECRET=049072d4ffc233ed77f8d682d9fe3a75114987d496b06d44269600e8be[...]

  // `get` is type-safe, `mySecret` is number
  // decryption of the value occurs when `get` is called
  const mySecret= obelisq.get('MY_SECRET')

I built an app to help in improving English vocabulary:

https://www.woor.app/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/woor-vocabulary/id6740453162

Initially started as small webapp to help me learn Dutch words. Made it out of the frustration that in Duolingo I cannot specify the words I want to learn and Quizlet exercising and progression felt limited. I also wanted to target the specific meanings of the words.

Then I decided to try out CapacitorJS and wrapped it into the mobile app. For now only English is available as the target language as it was easier to validate the content, but more languages are coming.

Along with it also started the podcast with language tutors about the teaching & tech. Please find the links here: https://www.woor.app/tutorandtech

- A FOSS Python package for record linkage and deduplication at scale called Splink: https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/

- A library for fast, accurate matching (geocoding) of UK addresses that uses Splink under the hood: https://github.com/RobinL/uk_address_matcher

- An npm library that generates maths mental arithmetic problems that align to the UK national curriculum, that can be used to power maths games: https://github.com/RobinL/maths-game-problem-generator

- A breakout maths game that uses the above: https://github.com/RobinL/maths-game-problem-generator

I'm working on a PostScript interpreter. This is a retirement project. I wanted something substantial to sink my teeth into without any commercial pressure. I wanted to see if I could get back that intrinsic motivation that I for had for programming before I started my career. Back in the eighties I worked for the QMS distributor in the UK, QMS were Adobe's second OEM after Apple and made a range of PostScript printers. I was working in support at the time and would never have thought of taking on a project like this.

I have an original Apple LaserWriter which I can use through the serial port (but it won't print). I've pulled the ROM's in it and got them working through the MAME game emulator. This is great as I can debug the 68000 code, for instance I was able to reverse engineer the random number generator and the password for internaldict. Ghostscript is handy as well although I try not to rely on it too much as there are some differences between the two implementations.

The plan is to keep it as close as possible to the LaserWriter so that means level 1. PostScript is quite interesting in that it starts executing PostScript code as soon as you power on the printer. That code is responsible for initialising the printer, handling errors, managing the serial ports then receiving and executing the incoming PostScript job. You can load and dump this internal code with a simple script.

The interpreter is complete along with the 125 programming operators, core types and error handlers. The next stage is the graphics operators. I'm going to target PDF for output as the drawing model is the same as PostScript. I'm assuming that handling the fonts is going to be the bulk of the work.

It's written in Rust, so far about 14,000 lines and 650 unit tests. In some ways it would have been easier in C as I could have followed the exact memory layout in the original interpreter however I really dislike C.

I've been thinking about hobby projects I can work on in retirement (in a few years) that have a large scope that I would find fun. So, I've started work on a game development library in C that combines a few projects I've started over the years but never finished. It's not very far yet.

I'm building the 2d parts of it in the GLFW library and modern OpenGL (this will eventually also be used as an overlay system when I get to the 3d portions of the project). I'm also adding in simple text menuing so I can quickly build text prototypes of the games so I can also be working on game data structures and basic mechanics while the graphical engine comes together.

So far I've started two basic games, an old school rogue-like on a large scale using tiles and a similar game that combines factory building with the rogue-like parts. I have plans to bring in some other games that will stretch different parts of the engine.

This week I got back into Zig. I wanted to build a Zig library from end to end to find out all the wrinkles in publishing it as a package. Ended up building a topological sorting library that does the followings:

- Build dependency graph from dependency pairs.

- Generate the topological sort from the graph.

- Ordered parallel task sets (i.e. subsets of nodes that can run in parallel, within the overall topological order).

- Cycle detection and reporting the cyclical nodes.

https://github.com/williamw520/toposort

It's feature complete, but I still have problem publishing it as a library. Kept getting "unable to find module 'toposort'" error when importing it in a separate project.

Edit: Alright, finally figured out why the module was not published. The default project creation template in Zig 15 uses createModule() in the generated build.zig, which creates a private module. Switched to use addModule() to create a public module and my library can be imported and used by other projects.

The AI company I've been working at ran out of money last week so I'm taking a month long break.

I've been playing around with defining a standard that is easy to implement for serializing tabular data using the ASCII delimiters.

So far I've got:

    <group> ::= GS | <record>
    <record> ::= RS <group> | <unit>
    <unit> ::=  <high-ascii> | US <record>
    <high-ascii> ::= 0x20 <unit> | ... | 0x7E <unit>
    

I also accidentally found another test that _all_ LLMs fail at (including all the reasoning models): the ability to decide if a given string is derivable from a grammar. I was asking for tests before I started coding and _every_ frontier model gave me obvious garbage. I've not seen such bad performance on such low hanging fruit for automated training in over a year.

I'm working on an interactive book that introduces young readers to the world of entrepreneurship. Readers get to join the protagonist, Daphne, on a fun, week-long adventure launching her own mini-businesses. Readers help her make smart decisions, solve fun challenges, and learn about money and problem-solving in the process. Featuring several storylines in a single book, readers learn about the fundamentals of business, smart saving, and the rewards of creative effort.

https://tendollaradventure.com

The book has been a fun endeavor in both writing the manuscript and code! On the latter, I wrote an exporter for Twinery to Org Mode and an Emacs Org export backend to do the reverse.

The book is currently open to beta readers - Happy to let a few more in through the sign up page here: https://tendollaradventure.com/#get-notified

Working on a text client for the web: https://youtu.be/Q_w6_zDwNWM

JavaScript works, scrolling - but layout is still being figured out! Also missing are form controls, etc etc.

It's meant to just be text (no images, etc) and to work in your terminal. It's NOT meant to alter/condense the layout to something like "reader mode" - just to be a faithful "GUI -> TUI" rendering in the terminal.

Like Lynx, but upgraded for the modern web. So maybe I'll call it Jaguar, but probably not! The idea is that other options like Brow.sh may be overcomplicated, hard to maintain, focused on a kind of graphical fidelity. Whereas this is more BBS style text only, but still usable. Minimum viable text, so to speak.

Leave your email if you want to know when it's ready to try out: https://tally.so/r/wbzYzo

I built https://emojithis.com, which automatically adds emojis to text. Although it’s essentially an AI wrapper, with meaningful UX and some useful touches, there’s something surprisingly useful in there. My friends and I use it a lot, and the people who try it tend to come back!

I'm building modular home audio speakers. Wireless, self-powered, upgradeable, repairable. Think Sonos meets the Framework laptop. Check out my prelaunch page here:

https://prelaunch.com/projects/audioblocs-audioblocs

I just launched ‘The Phonics App’ to teach kids phonics.

I made a v1 about 5 years ago just for my daughter because I didn’t like any of the apps available. They were just games with a sprinkling of learning on top. She’d spend hours on there and learn F all except how to be addicted to dopamine.

So I made something very clean and very simple that we’d do together for 3 minutes a day. She learned to read really fast!

But… then I forgot all about it for 4 years, only remembering it when my second daughter needed to learn to read. She’s 3 and I taught her the first 26 sounds already.

At this point I wondered if it’d be good for other people so I contacted a phonics expert and they liked it too, so we spent the last 6 months making it into a proper app.

https://apps.apple.com/app/the-phonics-app/id6742649576

It’s going well so far. Lots of lovely messages from parents! If you have a 3-6 y old please let me know what you think of it!

Dusting off the game I made during the pandemic and trying to actually grow the player base in earnest.

It's turn-based two-player game sorta like chess, but the pieces take up multiple spaces.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/kingbit/id1565583669

I am working a SaaS document asset management services called Doccie

At the same time I am exploring the boundary of my ability to think deeper

Thus writing a monthly newsletter that will span for 10 years. Right now it has a open rate over 70%

https://connectingdotsessay.substack.com/

Here are the essays

## Eight Grade syndrome - why grand narrative vision is killing your startup

If you think crafting a grand narratives of your idea is the crucial first step of building a startup, this essay is for you.

## Explorer Mindset - In a world where algorithms decide what we see, how can we rediscover the joy of unexpected discoveries?

If you feel trapped in a narrow view point, surrounded by the veil, and lack of creation muse, this article is for you.

## Why I show up everyday. The peddle, podium, creators and us.

If you are interested in why I started this newsletter and what I learned from it so far, this essay is for you.

Any feedback is appreciated!

I’m writing a journaling app, for myself first. It’s already usable and I’ve gone from not writing to writing each day.

The idea is the app should be very easy to submit entries (entries can be small) as a way to get thoughts and emotions out of your head.

I want to focus on an interesting search functionality that aggregates entires into a single document about similar subjects.

I've been polishing up an old project that allows people to play games on Discord, e.g. Pokemon, via text chat

I'd love to make this a free/break-even service at some point!

https://github.com/shepherdjerred/discord-plays-pokemon

I've been thinking about the natural handicaps certain sports teams have. Things like weather, elevation, travel distance in a season, etc.

I think it's interesting to think about how much something like that might affect the career of an athlete, especially early in their career or someone who is on the margin of getting into professional sports. Would choosing to play at a university that has a lot of natural handicaps be the difference between making it into pro sports? I wonder.

Anyway, I ended up making a page showing how much baseball teams in MLB have to travel this season: https://calcubest.com/sports/mlb2025 which I think does an OK job of highlighting how much less time athletes playing on central division teams have to travel.

I'm working on designing a survey to help assess the degree to which enterprise tech buyers believe that they need to invest in improving data access, metadata management, architecture, storage, and integration as a necessary prerequisite to getting value out of AI investments.

The backstory is that AI investments are proceeding, but companies seem to be struggling to get things into production, so the ROIs are beginning to slip. Where I have first party knowledge, there is a (small sample size) trend of businesses kicking off significant data modernization processes.

Most interesting to me, is that organizations finally seem to be figuring out that it is worth managing "information" for the business and "data" in their applications as separate work streams, and seem to be acting on separating those responsibilities.

For anyone interested in the tabletop Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight Games / Edge Studio - a friend and I have been working on some small typescript libraries starting with dice rolling and monte carlo simulations that we can eventually use with web apps.

Open source tools and art assets: https://github.com/swrpg-online

A quick repl.it one-shot UI using the monte carlo library: https://dice-pool-simulator-chrispan5.replit.app/

SWRPG Combat Simulator: https://swrpg-combat-sim.com/

Working on a frontend dice roller that utilizes the open source dice SVG files and rolling utility.

We could also stand to fill a slot in our online play group if you want to reach out! :)

A website that lets users create and collect digital trading cards (not NFC or blockchain stuff). Currently trying to get the first active artists to join but it's hard. At least its a place for me to create my little artworks.

https://misocards.com

Continuing to build on my programmable server for Server-Sent Events. Built in Rust/Tokio, programmable with Lua.

https://tinysse.com/

https://github.com/benwilber/tinysse

I'm working full time but looking at these streams outside of work

SaaS - I'm working on this https://prfrmhq.com - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538744 [Show HN: My SaaS for performance reviews setting goals and driving success] - Shows I can use AI and I've integrated into AWS Bedrock - Shows I can integrate with Stripe for payments

Consulting (Architecture, Strategy, Tech) - I'm working on getting my consultancy running but the market is hard atm. https://architectfwd.com

Next SaaS - Starting a SaaS for managing core strategy and tech concepts

Hi folks,

Ive written a simple app [1] that crawls tech corporate sites daily looking for job postings, and sends you an email with the new jobs that match your profile.

The profile matching is currently very basic - just job title category and location(s). There is also a recommendation agent that is yet to be released (WIP).

I would be grateful for feedback and thoughts. So far I have personally (and others) found this to be very helpful in allowing me automate the daily checking of hundreds of sites.

You can also add specific companies to the crawler, which is nice if you are passively looking at specific companies. A possible feature addition might be to limit the search to only pre-defined companies that interest you.

I would appreciate any thoughts and feedback.

[1] https://www.hoofhires.com/

I am writing a newsletter, https://www.clientserver.dev, which started with the writing prompt “what if someone tried to make Money Stuff for software engineering?” I’m still iterating on the format a bit, but I just crossed 100 subscribers and made the Hacker News front page, so I feel like I’m on the right track.

I had a daughter almost 2 years ago, and for a while I didn’t have any free time. But once I started getting a few hours in the evening, I wanted to start up side projects again. I found it frustrating to work on coding projects in 1-2 hour windows. But writing is a little easier; I feel like progress is a little more linear with writing, and having the Monday/Thursday deadline has helped me just ship.

Payroll desktop application with python that works closely with an old time clock that only generates xls files (i know i should use c++ but I'm too lazy to learn it and I just need to get it done lol). I'm planning on open sourcing the project once it's in a more usable state.

Also, I just started on building a web application with golang that will make it easier for hobbyists to share their creative works (like manga, paintings, etc.) by providing a much better platform for their creativity to show. Right now it's pretty bare bones but it'll be a cross between myspace and patreon essentially. Main difference being the ease of use and the ability to showcase your work directly on the same app, without having to host your works on a separate service and promote it on another.

Lots of ideas, so little time to implement them.

I'm making a log search engine that fits in your pocket: https://humanlog.io/

The idea is to be able to ingest your logs locally and run queries against them without having to resort to a hosted prod-like environment. It's all focused on localdev-first experience. I use it when the o11y tools at work don't do what I need: I can just pull the raw logs locally and run my queries there.

It's still very rough around the edges but it gets better day by day. I want to add features like alerts and monitoring, metrics and tracing. A full o11y platform in a single binary with zero config. I would love any feedback.

(Also please excuse the poor onboarding experience, I haven't polished it as this is a side project and I have a day job)

It's an OKLCH color picker, as well as a converter for other color spaces.

https://cmringmaker.github.io/OKLCH-Picker/

https://github.com/cmRingmaker/OKLCH-Picker/

I was inspired by the article over at evilmartians[0] about OKLCH, and I loved their oklch picker. Decided I wanted to learn more about OKLCH by implementing my own tool that I've released this week. Had a lot of fun with this project, and am getting plenty of usage out of it already.

[0] https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...

I'm building a new terminal multiplexer called cy: https://cfoust.github.io/cy/index.html

It records your sessions and is configurable with Janet, a Lisp. I'm having a lot of fun with it! (It's also the only thing I ever seem to post about on HN, heh)

I've been working on Zigpoll as a one-man project for a while now: https://www.zigpoll.com/ it has traction and solid growth (~100% YoY for the past 3 years) but the larger the numbers the harder it gets to double each year.

In a past life I would have thought this would be the easy part given the product market fit but it's hard to figure out growth channels that are scalable and cost-effective at this stage. Burning what would otherwise be a large salary month on month in search of growth is mentally taxing when it doesn't deliver. Metrics across the board only seem to tell part of the story so it's tricky to figure out what needs changing and what's worth doubling down on.

If anyone has experience doing this sort of thing - please get in touch!

For those few living in NZ, I've made a site that lists all the bank saving rates (and TDs), and ranks them by best to worst. This is mostly intended for people who know what they're doing. So don't just pick the highest and roll with it. Higher return usually comes with more risk.

Also, the biggest banks usually have the worst rates, this also goes for Kiwisaver, don't put your Kiwisaver with a bank, it'll do poorly compared to the lowest fee options we got in NZ. e.g. InvestNow (Foundation Series funds) / Kernel / Simplicity.

Still needs some work, like showing which rates are variable, or extra high risk.

Pretty quickly hacked together, to be very utilitarian, and practical. Don't see ever making money on it, made it more for me.

https://savingrates.netlify.app/

Taking shader programs (they have a main() functions), hacking up their source code / AST to turn the into modularized code packages, and then enabling composition of shaders by injecting the output of one module into another (essentially calling the main function of one shader in another). This enables arbitrary shader composition. One application is Photoshop-style stacking of shaders as layers, like https://shaderfrog.com/2/editor/cm6y90vai002mpaxio3zjhfvq

Or getting real freaky with it by composing many effects deep https://shaderfrog.com/2/editor/cm1s7w23w000apar738s9d1x0

RSS reader through Bluesky custom feeds: https://github.com/tfederman/stroma-news

Bluesky API library spun off from the other project: https://github.com/tfederman/pysky

Haven't really started it yet, but a master list of RSS feeds and the code I used to source them: https://github.com/tfederman/huge-rss-list

And also a new project to fetch all links seen in the Bluesky firehose and gather metadata to build a database of sites and pages at a more granular level than the domain. For example, is account X posting video links from one YT channel or many?

I'm building an AI DJ for Spotify called Listen to Luther. It's open source here: https://github.com/jacobheric/luther. Currently it responds to prompts with a list of songs that can be queued, played or added to playlists on Spotify. Next I'll give it proper memory and the ability to adjust and remix on the fly. I built it because I was frustrated by the mostly passive experience of Spotify's own AI DJ. There is no path to commercialization here as Spotify's TOS does not permit it (I asked them). So I host it for myself and a few friends and made it open source for anyone who's handy enough to run it themselves.

A buddy and me have been working on https://microfn.dev for a while: A platform for creating, managing and composing tiny (micro) javascript functions and using them from different places like webhooks, cron, MCP or AI agents.

It's still very heavy in development but the gist is: Say you have a cool idea for something small you want to automate or run - instead of thinking about hosting, workers, lambdas and what not, you just open microfn, open the editor (or the function generator), write your function, hit save - done! All the complexity is tucked away on microfn, and your place of use just has to authenticate with microfn and nothing else. We run it for you and keep you productive.

Now you can use that function from anywhere: From the terminal, periodically with a cron, add it to an AI agent as skill, use it through an MCP (not released yet), through Siri shortcuts, share it with your friends and so on.

Say you want to have an agent or function that gets the weather and sends it through Telegram: You can either quickly generate 2 functions through the AI function generator that get the weather ("I want a function that gets the weather for Tokyo") and another one for sending a message on telegram, or you can use what's already available (such as https://microfn.dev/david/getweathertokyo). Equipping them to an agent works like in a video game - each function is a new "skill" or "tool" the agent can use, and if someone else already has some cool skills, you can fork them without needint to re-implement everything from scratch.

So like a toolbox full of small composable hammers and tools that can be used across different scenarios and places, to be plugged into existing workflows, automation or to even be used in autonomous agents and through MCP.

Again, super heavy in development and not really a 1.0 yet, more like an early alpha, but wanted to share here anyway. Feedback greatly appreciated!

We're building the killer app for books

Starting with a native iOS app to to track and discover books [1]

Focusing on notetaking and cozy social this year as we try to grow from 100k to 1m+ users

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718

I'm in the exploratory phase of a few projects, meaning I haven't decided if they are compelling enough (or within my skillset) to push me to develop them properly. That said, the one project I've explored multiple times, each time getting a little closer to making the full mental commitment, is a word processor.

Not a "text editor" for code and whatnot, but a real-deal word processor for writing novels and such. I cloned Visicalc (onto the Pico-8), so my "How does a spreadsheet work?" itch has been scratched. I think it's finally time to answer for myself, "How does a word processor work?" (in pure C, to level-up those skills as well) So lately I've been working on small programmatic experiments to understand the underlying subsystems necessary to build one.

I'm beta testing a SaaS called ChimeraHR that helps bridge the divide between developers and HR when it comes to assessing programmer's skill. The main idea is that the programming languages we use reveal a lot about how we think and problem solve.

When devs put their top languages on their resumes, they are also saying a bit about how they prefer to work and what they value. This signal is largely lost on HR since a lot of it is insight you get from actually coding over time. I strongly believe that we can get more people hired and into the right organizations and cultures if people could see beyond the surface level of the keywords on a resume.

I'm looking for first customers now and people to give feedback on the idea and the upcoming offerings. There's a proof of concept now that hints at how it all works.

I've been building https://notionbackups.com for almost 4 years now.

It's mostly feature complete at this point, but there are still some rough edges.

Notion's API is far from complete, and updates are few and far between. This has led me to work around some of its limitations in creative ways. For example, there is still no way to create top-level pages in Notion, which makes restores impossible. Instead, I ask customers to create a top-level page themselves and write backups there.

Personally, the hardest part of working on a project for an extended period is not getting burnt out repeteadly. Sometimes it helps to work on something else, and other times you just need to step away from the game entirely for a while

I'm working on Torch Lens Maker [1], an open-source Python library for differential geometric optics. The goal of this project is to design optical systems with modern numerical optimization (PyTorch autograd). The website has a detailed roadmap of what I have planned.

I also had a recent blog post [2] do fairly well on HN, and now I'm kinda thinking about a new design for version 2 of that project because I can't help it I guess.

[1] https://victorpoughon.github.io/torchlensmaker/

[2] https://victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-making-artificial-sunlight-...

Rewriting the Elixir parser for QueueMetrics live for Teams, my company's service to keep track of call and queue statistics for Microsoft Teams telephony, in a way that's better than the PowerBI examples that come in the box. It's at https://www.queuemetrics.com/teams.jsp?lid=H990

It's quite a mess as we have to aggregate multiple data sources that come with their own timing and sequence issues - plus we are seeing massive adoption so resource usage will be interesting for v2.

The plus side is that building massively parallel and redundant services in Elixir is, if not actually fun, at least more feasible than in other environments.

I'm building an ERP to encapsulate the whole "customer" journey. I'm building it to be a business operating system of sorts with a goal of creating clear line-of-sight visibility for all activities along journey's like lead-gen to churn (but in a variety of settings).

The goal is make it easier for organizations to work with external parties that affect finances (customers, investors, vendors, etc.).

The idea was born out of personal frustration that I've faced in a variety of leadership roles in organizations, that lead to wasted effort, slower decision making, bad decisions made with equally unhygienic data.

I've solved this successfully in the past form of internal tools and a data governance layer (data warehouse with much more authority).

I'm building v2 of MyNixOS, which is an experimental platform to help users navigate, create, and run software configurations using Nix/NixOS.

Just shipped the first phase of v2 which lets you navigate Nix store objects.

Give it a spin here: https://v2.mynixos.com/nix/store/16s8kjwv6zz7xyv3hjr890n7v0d...

(Adjust settings in the upper right corner menu to control what is streamed).

More info here and in FAQ on front page: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/mynixos-v2-release-updates/622...

Bacon Wrapped Urns: https://baconwrappedurns.com

Mortality is so hot right now so why not celebrate with a custom urn to enjoy your journey into the spirit world in style.

Recipin: https://recipin.com

Private recipe archiving/bookmarking. No ads, no AI, no javascript . Join a server or host your own (https://github.com/bradly/recipin). Screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bradly/recipin/main/public...

I fell in love with Mexico because of the colorful architecture. I've found that many buildings would make for good color palettes. So I made an app to convert 145 photos of mine into color palettes.

https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/

Highlights.Email [1] - a service to email yourself book highlights from your Kobo E-Reader!

Exporting book highlights from a Kobo was slow and inconvenient; you’d need to connect the device to your computer via USB and run a script, or upload the onboard sqlite database to a website to extract book highlights. With Highlights.Email, you tap a button on-device and in a few seconds have a nicely formatted email with all your book highlights!

So, I’m just scratching my own itch mainly while learning how to build and launch something to the world. There’s two parts to this service: Rust program that runs on-device and a SveltKit app (w/ a Supabase backend) for auth and sending emails.

[1]: https://highlights.email

I'm working on https://photoboost.app, a tool that turns a handful of selfies into professional AI-generated headshots. Think studio-quality photos without the studio — powered by LoRA fine-tuning and smart prompting.

The goal: minimal input, fast turnaround, and results good enough to use on LinkedIn or resumes. Currently experimenting with ways to reduce training time and improve accuracy with as little as 5-8 images. Also exploring automatic gender/style detection to optimize prompts while keeping everything privacy-friendly.

Would love feedback — what would you expect from a tool like this? What features or improvements would make it a no-brainer to use?

I am working on a versatile and powerful platform for ingesting, transforming, and searching through structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data. It allows for interactive searches, dashboards, alerts, and more.

We are in open Alpha at the moment, but plan on offering affordable plans while keeping the source code available. While in open Alpha and during the upcoming Beta, it is free to use for any purpose.

We will be selling Fair-Source license, meaning that the source code will be released under MIT 2 years after release.

Check it out here: https://github.com/DelveCorp/flashlight/

Feel free to ask any questions here or open an issue in the repo.

Continuing to grow MedAngle, the world's first Super App for future and current doctors. Everything that students and graduates could need for premed/medical and dental school, in one place. 90k+ users, 100m+ questions solved, billions of seconds spent on the apps.

I've been building a productivity tool for content writing teams called Vewrite (https://vewrite.com/).

The problem that I'm trying to solve is that when you are writing a lot of content as a team you often lose track of the state of things because it is passed through email or google docs (or whatever). People tend to manually manage these types of projects with spreadsheets or trello or whatever, but that means that you are manually updating the status.

Vewrite has an integrated editor and a workflow manager, meaning that as you progress through the workflow while doing the actual work, your project management status is constantly kept up to date, too.

I made this spectrum analyzer/music visualizer recently. It's meant to be easy to use by just going to the URL and looks great on a 4K screen, jameskdouglas.github.io/frequenSee/

For some clients, electronics for a low impedance guitar pickup (pick up all the signal then process it later instead of building in filtering to the pickup).

And an automated design app that turns a 3D model from Fusion into something that's easy to change the parameters on. That way people can easily just type stuff in and move on to manufacturing. This started for staircases - for companies that make like 20 sets of wood staircases on site every day they want to turn that 1hr of drawing into 60s of data input.

Reasoning Gym (https://github.com/open-thought/reasoning-gym)

A library that procedurally generates datasets for training reasoning models (like o1/r1) with verifiable rewards.

I'm making an NES emulator in Go. Not because other ones don't exist, but because I've been wanting to get more familiar with low level system principles, and there ain't a better way than building one.

I suppose I'll post the link someday. I literally just started today.

https://link-society.github.io/flowg/

It's a log management/processing software, with visual scripting.

Started out of frustration towards OpenObserve and its inability (at the time) to properly/easily refine/categorize logs: we had many VMs, with many Docker containers, with some containers running multiple processes. Parsing the logs and routing them to different storages was crucial to ease debugging/monitoring.

It was initially built in Go + HTMX + React Flow encapsulated in a WebComponent, I then migrated to React (no SSR). It integrates VRL using Rust+CGO.

It is by far easier to use than Logstash and similar tools, and in fact it aims to replace it.

Contributors are welcome :)

Working on treetags[0] an effort to use tree-sitter to get basic code navigation support for multiple languages on vim/nvim.

[0] https://github.com/jha-naman/treetags

I'm working on Babla, an open-source tool that helps doctors spend less time on documentation. It transcribes and structures medical conversations automatically. What's cool is the flexibility - you can deploy it with Docker and either run it completely locally with open models for HIPAA compliance or connect to external providers. It exports to multiple formats that work with existing systems. We just launched it as free, open-source software. Now we are looking how to make it even better.

https://notetaker.healthion.dev/

This is probably one of the most redundant project out there, but a RSS reader app designed with Tauri, Sveltekit, Tailwind. I wanted to build this to stay in sync with product development as I don't get to do this a lot in my day-to-day job. I also want to build a game, but it is so much effort. I do wish to pursue it in near future.

https://github.com/rahuldshetty/reader-project/releases/tag/...

I'm still working on my newsletter: https://ciamweekly.substack.com/ , all about customer identity and access management (CIAM).

Recently added a free tier, so working on making sure both the free subscribers and the paid ones get value out of it. I've asked people to pay for my time as a consultant and books I've written in the past, but it is pretty scary to ask folks to pay for my knowledge via a newsletter.

Finding the balance between technical dives, standards reviews, interviews, and CIAM use cases while doing this as a side hustle is an interesting balance as well. And, the weekly cadence can be brutal. But it does keep me on my toes.

Still working on my software project for live music production [1]. At the moment, it only creates, forwards, and records MIDI note events, so it can't produce audio on its own. It has to be connected to external or virtual MIDI devices that can create sound. Turns out this is too much of a hassle and kind of a deal-breaker for most people (and to be fair, it is a hassle), so now I'm working on adding VST hosting support directly inside the app. If you're not familiar, VST (Steinberg Virtual Studio Technology) is pretty much the industry standard plugin system that most DAWs support. Different VSTs can create and filter audio data, and in a hosted context audio data can be sent between VST instances before going out to the speakers.

It's been tricky but interesting. VST plugins are basically packaged as DLL files of Windows COM(-ish) objects. Despite primarily being a Windows dev myself, I never worked directly with COM libraries or objects before. My app is written in C#, and .NET does have built-in "COM Interop" support, so it is possible. A few years ago, .NET added a new COM Interop Source Generator system [2, 3], and I'm trying to get it working with that. So far I've been making some progress, but it's still a lot of tedious work to setup.

(There are libraries/packages out there that implement VST in .NET already, but they mostly focus on plugin creation while I only need hosting. They're a lot heavier and more capable than I need. They also didn't use the newer Source Generator approach, so I figured I'd give it a shot myself.)

1. https://www.pulselyre.com/

2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-int...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZd1SGd7dSU

working on TRMNL[1], a hardware startup with a web app companion (Ruby / Rails 8).

this weekend specifically, setting up an in-house assembly area. decided to renovate my barn and be our own fulfillment center.

[1]: https://trmnl.ink

I’m working on SocialWeaver, an employee advocacy platform that helps businesses scale their marketing and reach by getting employees engaged with social content directly from Slack and Microsoft Teams.

I’m sure many of you were asked to engage with some product announcement, hiring post, or whatever on LinkedIn. With SocialWeaver, we remove all friction from that process by letting employees like, share, and comment directly within Slack and Teams. On top of the core use case, marketing teams also get analytics, employee leaderboards, content scheduling, etc.

https://www.socialweaver.com

I'm working on an alternative frontend for GitHub https://githero.app/

The focus is on providing a better experience: faster, with smoother interactions, with higher information density and a lot more focused on your daily work (with features such as bookmarks and drafts).

It's web-based but there will be also desktop apps (thanks to tauri) that will integrate with your local git.

If you start using it and want to ask for feature requests or notify bug reports please go to the discord server: https://discord.gg/RHCJvUSbr5 Thanks!!

I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers.

I'm happy to say I'm no longer stuck on endless little business logic decisions. Now I'm mostly stuck on essentially creating a (more) complicated google calendar interface. (React + MUI) I stopped work when everything was still wonky but i could quickly make appointments on the fly with it. A few days ago when trying to wrap my head around my own code i kind of regretted that decision. It's a bit more complex of a UI piece than what i've tried my hand at before and my current holdup is (re-)implementing proper drag & drop to edit appointments after i rewrote a piece of the underlying stuff.

Hacking on new online music apps for http://dopeloop.ai and also fixing bugs in my online daily roguelike at http://rogule.com.

- A typescript SDK for creating local-first applications to browse the Fediverse (https://codeberg.org/mushroomlabs/activitypub-client). I want to be able to use this SDK to work on a fork of Elk (Mastodon client) and Voyager (Lemmy Client) and swap the API-based libraries they use.

- Adding support to WhatsApp/Discord/Signal bridges to Communick's Matrix server. For some reason, last week I got a handful of handful of customers saying that they would be willing to pay more than the $29/year of the standard plan if they could get those bridges on Communick's Matrix server

CTHULOOT, a fun arcade coop game that will soon be released on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283410/CTHULOOT/

Building Based Security (https://www.basedsec.io), a startup in the zero trust/identity space creating immovable, attestable, hardware backed identities that can be used for strong and continuous authentication but not moved from the device. We can guarantee the user and the device are known, the user is assigned the device they are using, and characteristics of the identity matches the defined policy. The initial product offering is tied to GitHub/GitLab, offering secure authentication for git over ssh operations with plans to expand to general ssh access and additional systems with pluggable access control.

I’m building a on-device AI App that supports a good variety of open-weight LLM Models. It’s mostly so that I can gain an intuition on what goes on when we do inferencing, but my longer term plan is

1. Support on-device RAG to allow chatting with your own documents on mobile offline 2. Support MCP on-device, taking advantage of information that’s (only) available on your phone, like calendar events, health data, etc. These shouldn’t need to be anywhere but on-device. 3. Allow on-device AI to use shortcuts(?)

I think most of the functionality are well served on desktop front with Ollama and LM Studio, but moving these functionality to mobile offers a great learning opportunity.

Just partnered with an old friend. We want to see if we can tackle movie recommendations in the streaming age. Exited to begin the journey. https://pressplay.app/

A mostly vibe coded(since I don't plan to ever go commercial with it) app for music composition, which I suspect real musicians would mostly not like..

You can create patterns, play those patterns on a specific beats, add melodies(HTML tables of notes!) with lyrics, add chord changes to determine how the patterns are played, etc.

It's meant to be CAD-like, so you're working as high level as possible, not looking at some raw notes and having to go look up what chord it is every five seconds.

There's plenty of features that don't exist but look like they do, but it does work.

https://eternityforest.github.io/songcad/

I’ve been developing an observability platform [0] for small teams and indie developers where they can track logs, live metrics, and get alerted in realtime through webhooks. I intend to develop a dead simple on-call calendar as well in the coming weeks.

After using tools like Sentry on apps serving millions of users, I always felt I was missing a cheap and dead simple approach to following what happened in my apps and apis, and basically became my first customer for all of my side projects and even got some friends using it for their SaaS and apps.

[0] https://app.getboringmetrics.com

I'm building Recon Wave (https://reconwave.com) - we monitor companies online perimeter and let them know when something's wrong.

Recon Wave basically finds and scans all their services - DNS, IPs, Apps, Ports - and notify customers when it breaks some policy (aka. "no ports than 443 should be open") or when some service is straight vulnerable.

I'm former security engineer and I hated all that "critical reports" that reported missing CSP header.

We're now playing with an idea to build LLM pentesting agent that could run agains the whole infra of our customers.

I've always wanted workout tracking apps to take into respect how to track gymnastic rings, but no luck. So I decided to build my own: https://gravitygainsapp.com/

I'm working on a configuration file format. I see a lot of complexity in the current space, and not enough thought put into the use-cases for a configuration language.

YAML is prone to typos, TOML does not seem obvious to me, and JSON is not as easy to edit.

I've been designing CLEO:https://code.nicktrevino.com/cleo/

The focus is on a configuration language that a single application would use. Not a system-level configuration that might need control flow, etc.

It is at a solid state right now, though it's not officially released yet as I slowly validate it with usage.

I'm working on a personal AI notebook called Lightpage.

I've always found it useful to have scratch notes about whatever's on my mind -- a mix of journaling/reflection, planning, project ideas, notes on things I'm reading, etc. But I wanted to be able to chat with an LLM that has full context & memory from these notes.

It's been surprisingly helpful for me and some of my friends! Some ways I've used it:

- Talking through fuzzy ideas & ideas to clarify them

- Having it re-inforce the healthy habits I want to build

- Using it to reflect on feelings or whatever's been bothering me

https://lightpage.com

I have way too many things that catch my interest, but right now I am designing a paper and aluminum foil based linear electric motor. The idea is to create an electromechanical display that pushes a colored piece of paper into place to create a pixel, and see if this can be done cheaply and at scale. The electronics that I have selected look very promising, all I have to do is test the idea and see if this is worth pursuing further.

I'm working on a VS Code extension, so I don't have to write code

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ridvay.r...

I'm an app developer, and I've had such a terrible experience with deferred deep linking providers like Branch and Appsflyer that I decided to build a competitor - https://DeepLinkNow.com

Why I think it's good: deferred deep linking has become an also-ran feature for MMPs whose primary focus is tracking users and advertising.

It's so bad that I can't even open deep links for Tiktok on my home network, because onelink links are blocked by adguard.

So that's why I built DLN. It's brand new and open for beta testing, I'd love some feedback and feature requests + to know how people use deferred deep linking.

https://github.com/bhavesh-kratos/type-faster

Its a Offline-first desktop app with auto suggestion and auto correct feature to help you type faster.

A hobby project to learn AI techniques RAG, vector databses etc. Wrote something about it haha. Its been inactive for last 2 months tho coz of travelling, but I am going to revive it this week https://bhavepant.substack.com/p/typingfast-my-journey-into-...

I was getting stuck in some manager <> direct report situations and wanted to figure out a way to practice tough conversations, so I started putting together https://practicecallai.com/.

You can choose from common difficult scenarios or create a custom one and get connected with a conversational AI voice agent to practice. Started out with just manager use cases but now testing out sales calls, interviews, pitches, etc.

Mostly built on Replit (would recommend - is amazing & keeps getting better) and relying on a mix of ElevenLabs / OpenAI / Anthropic for the voice & LLM tech.

A site to find the right weather for your next trip or relocation:

https://weatherflip.com/

I'm looking for co-founders to explore monetization routes. Feel free to reach out.

Japan Top 100 (restaurants) app

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/japan-top-100/id6741251616

Only public on iOS store for now, due to Google requires larger # of testers to authenticate the app.

This app idea came from my last Japan trip. I had a hard time finding good local restaurants (not tourist traps). So I decided to build this app with Japanese-oriented lists, due to lists' lacked of maps, etc. The app actually helped me discover some great spots, since it lists places all over Japan. Please give it a try and let me know if you have any feature requests or ideas.

I am building "Scharf", a blazing-fast security scanner for reporting and hardening third-party GitHub actions.

For whoever aware of recent `tj-actions/changed-files` security incident, I built a mutable-reference scanner that performs a deep scan across branches to identify all third-party GitHub actions used in organization Git projects. The output report can be exported to CSV or JSON (default).

Using mutable references (version tags, main/master/dev etc.) is a security vulnerability that can result in supply-chain attacks.

Project link:

https://github.com/cybrota/scharf

This weekend I’m working on mobile app that allows you to upload photos and it turns everything into a stitched anime (ghibli or not) with movements and eventually sound and script. Great to make mini animes from your day or travels or anything.

Working on (mostly weekends) <https://pluswhois.com> (part-time) – a tool to simplify brand name research. It checks domain availability, allows one to monitor taken domains, checks social handle availability, and links to basic trademark search tools.

If a domain is taken, it shows full ownership data with great UX — not just a raw JSON dump. Clickable links to social profiles, business info, tech stack, DNS records, and more.

Built it to streamline my own workflow for naming and branding projects. Still early, but already saving me time. More features coming!

I recently built a quick SwiftUI app to pin quotes and posts from X to my home screen.

I found I was liking/bookmarking insightful content on X I rarely saw again and wanted a way to resurface them somewhere I would see multiple times per day.

Can import from X via share sheet or manually enter them. It's minimal, but I've found having:

"i hate how well asking myself "if i had 10x the agency i have what would i do" works"

there every time I unlock my phone, was worth the development effort.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lumatta/id6740705796

I have an idea that you can steal (would be cool if you send me some of the spoils if it moons lol). This might be right up your alley, Google and Apple devs.

Generated voice profiles (you can use "AI" to sell it to your bosses) to narrate text messages in the sender's voice. Many texts are already sent by speech to text, why not carry that voice to the reciever? Simply recording is not ideal due to the background noise and extra bandwidth, so regenerating the speech on the reciever side seems to be the better approach after generating the speech profile from some sample of initial messages.