alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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Working on a advanced analytics application for 0DTE trades, that allows to analyse thousands of possible trade curves in the least amount of time.
The process itself is extremely time consuming, when done manually. My application speeds up the process by a factor of 50 up to 150, depending on how you measure it.
Finally it allows "everybody", to find the 0DTE trades, that are really profitable - something, that currently only the "Pros" can do.
Finally learning TLA+ by plugging a very simplified multithreaded Java simulation of an old project's distributed, (hopefully) eventually-consistent algorithm into LLMs and asking for translations.
I'd previously tried to learn TLA+ a few times but always eventually lost interest and gave up. This approach was quick and easy. Disappointed that TLC can't really exhaustively check more than 8 steps; being O(n!), 9 steps would take months, even after all the symmetry optimizations. Maybe will look at TLAPS next.
Exploring n8n these days for automation/AI Agents. I am a software developer, but I enjoy this no-code/semi-code tool, already found a few use cases via Upwork and SEMRush that I am going to implement.
Besides, I have initiated two series on my blog: T4P and GenAI on my blog and writing about Algo trading and GenAI stuff(https://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/)
PS: If anyone has any interesting ideas, then do ping me
I’m working on https://plennur.com, a scheduling tool for planning meetings, receiving sign-ups, etc.
Many alternatives (like Doodle) are full of ads, which makes their products unusable. My goal is to try and make the internet a little better place by offering a free version without ads.
Currently rethinking what a scheduling platform should look like in 2025, perhaps with AI integration to ease the planning process.
A plug and play user management system based on OpenFGA that allows you to manage user permissions and roles locally.
I built it to help save time for folks building internal enterprise apps
My start-up Backtick https://backtickai.com
An AI native issue tracker without manual task management
I'm building my personal finance App Percento for iOS. More than 10 years after I switched my career from accountant to Dev, and it has been more than 5 years that I worked on this project, how time flies.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/percento-net-worth-tracker/id1...
I am working on https://deepmarketscan.com/
It synthesizes unusual market activity, insider moves, options flow, sentiment, technical and news analysis to deliver specific, actionable trade setups.
This is only good for paper trading, as most of the setups are very counterintuitive. You won't be able to execute them, and if you did try, you would end up losing sleep and your health even when you are correct.
I am mostly continuing to work on Super ZZ Zero, which is a game engine, like ZZT and MegaZeux in many ways. The program is FOSS and is written in C.
I also have some ideas of a programming language designed mainly to process files in DER format (as well as data from stdin and to stdout), but have not actually implemented anything so far.
I also have ideas about an operating system design and computer design, and should have help to write the specification properly, and then it can be implemented afterward.
I’m building a platform to help homebuyers with personalized checklists for house tours. Even after doing tons of research and planning for my own purchase, I still missed a bunch of things, only to find out during the inspection. But by then, I was already emotionally committed and just wanted to close. It’s a super specific problem, but it’s coming along. :)
An inventory system for my games in unreal engine.
Supporting grid, multiplayer, predictive moves, item locking and more.
https://github.com/brokenrockstudios/RockInventory
It's been interesting and challenging. Probably the most important part is I've been learning a lot.
It was a lot of fun earlier on but it's becoming less fun the more I work on it.
I built a platform that lets you run QA test in plain english for free.
Just type what you what to test in plain english and include the URL in your prompt.
After running your test, sign up to save your test history and access more test functions with the link below:
Visit: https://timetotest.tech/
Working on a 1.0.0 launch for Flyde - https://flyde.dev/, an open-source visual programming language. It works great for embedding visual AI flows for backend logic. Integrates with TypeScript code, runs on VSCode & Node.js (via a runtime library, in-repo, no containers needed)
Would love to chat with people looking to combine n8n-ish capabilities in their code!
Still chugging away at:
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
Currently finishing up a re-write which changes from using union commands (which resulted in an ever more deeply nested CSG tree) to collecting everything in a pair of lists using append/extend and then applying one each union operation, resulting a flatter structure.
Once all that is done I'm hoping to add support for METAFONT/POST curves....
I'm preparing to re-enter the tech job market and have been building a Chrome extension for tracking Catan resources during games on colonist.io. It's been a fun side project (my first time developing a browser extension) and it's involved some interesting probabilistic logic to estimate players' hands after unknown card steals.
I’m playing around with the idea of a location intelligence data union. I work in an adjacent space, and it drives me crazy that there’s all this data about humans moving around that could make a huge positive difference in the world but it doesn’t, because ‘good’ actors won’t touch the shadily data broked data.
I figure the solution is to pay people for their location data, and be up front and transparent about collecting it.
I took a break from a toxic big tech job.
I spent a couple months travelling.
Then I spent a couple months trying to use transformer-based models of sorts to detect short-lived inefficiencies in the stock market to try to create a passive income trading bot. I know short-term quant trading is super hard to be profitable, but Rentech did it, so I figured I'd throw a couple months at it.
Then I spent another couple months on AI for science, robotic lab automation, and trying to get AI to do AI research inside a Docker container.
https://DevOptimize.org - The Art of Packaging
There isn't a site that collects all packaging practices and how-tos in one organized collection. Now there is.
RPM, Deb, IaC, Chocolatey, optimizing packages, build tools, repo strategy, file system usage, and more.
Anonymously send someone a rainbow, one postcard at a time:
I got 4 rainbows running now with 34 postcards sent so far. Use the code "HN" at checkout to save 20% (until Friday, July 4th).
Would love some feedback! Stay gold, keep making & sharing!
Just vibe build a Table Viewer based on Markdown table syntax you can share via links. https://v0-markdown-to-table-view-snipped.vercel.app/ Eventually I would like to make it embeddable into LinkedIn posts.
I am working on tcx-ls. It is quite niche, TCX is an XML file format used in sports tracking devices. Tcx-ls is a CLI that displays the information contained in the TCX file (like accumulated time and distance, etc.) in a more user-friendly way. I hope it is useful for many people.
Repo: https://github.com/1backend/1backend
After some 12+ years of collecting microservices platform ideas in my head and implementing them at various companies and open-source projects, I decided to create a system that contains all of them.
1Backend is the result. Mostly built it for myself so I have a foundation to build projects on but I'd love if others would also use it!
Just launched NanoAPI Cloud, a tool to auto-generate visual views of your software architecture.
In the coming weeks we’ll also be launching linking and AI functionality to provide better context to AI and humans alike.
We’re launching today! https://launch.nanoapi.io
I am working on https://vimgolf.ai , a site where users play vim golf with each other and try to beat a bot powered by O3.
I've been meaning to wrap the project up for a while. Went down a rabbit hole trying to make the vim containers fault tolerant and scalable using kubernetes. But, after a friend told me I could do everything using cloudflare containers, I've been changing my backend to use that instead.
I’m working on canine.sh - an open source alternative to Heroku / render / fly.io / etc.
Desperately wanted something like this at my last company because it didn’t feel like the cost of PaaS should be 3-4x higher than underlying cloud costs.
I've been working on this little Splitwise clone type app I've been calling Medici: https://github.com/mrkaye97/medici
Mostly to learn some Rust and because I thought most of the features of Splitwise worth paying for would be fun to build. Been loving working in Axum and getting to implement some fun database things
Building a lightweight alternative to CoderPad with clean UX, transparent pricing, and fast code execution. Designed to feel like a tool devs actually want to use.
Not live yet, but feel free to bookmark https://coderscreen.com
Working on "context engineering" for coding agents. Specifically for complex dev environments and targets, like robotics, digital twins and games. Been able to witness agents go from 100% failure rate to contributing nearly 90% of the plumbing code. I'm helping agents understand how to use simulators and game engines; configure, build and deploy DevOps/MLOps pipelines.
Got Phonex.new to finally build a working prototype of my open source MTG style card game.
Gonna wait until the LLM credits refresh next month to continue, but I'm very happy so far.
Elixir has been cool.
I am building a collection of Y Combinator video transcripts: https://videotobe.com/play/playlist/ycombinator.
The goal is to transcribe and provide summaries, topics, notable quotes, and companies and people discussed.
Feel free to send more ideas!
I scraped HN's 1000 most mentioned books and visualised them. This month I used a new embedding model (Nomic), switch out UMAP for PaCMAP, and added automatic cluster labelling.
The clustering and dimensionality reduction aren't quite as stable as I'd like, but most seeds give decent results now.
I'm trying to get started in Flask[1]. Right now I'm building a VERY simple app that allows to check links for backlinks on reddit and hacker news. Let me know if there is any interest in me opening the repo to the public.
working on a cross web, self organizing digital footprint that serves as a human memory and identity for LLMs
https://github.com/saxenauts/persona
90 percent of the AI companion use cases today can work well with just a vector DB to retrieve facts, and chunks of memory, but a connected digital footprint would need a graph+vector hybrid.
memory in the coming future will not just be about fact retrieval but need backlinks of memetics, new streams of data, holistic analysis, infinite schema-less key value store, causal reasoning and other things that define "who and why" of a human and imitate neuroscience's understanding of how our identities work today. this then needs to be translated as language chunks to LLMs
benchmarking this against popular tools, on longmemeval. getting good results so far. i would love to learn from you guys, what's your take on identity and human representation for LLMs in the coming future
https://thecoderssage.com Trying to build a platform for creating specific tailored coding lessons from prompts or your own code, with interactive coding, quizzes and exercises.Kind of youtube shorts but for coding lessons, on demand.
I'm a solo founder, and this month, I just got into Cursor vide coding development (from Emacs). Still working and getting accustomed to this new vibe coding as it's easy to mess everything up.
Been developing this AI agent framework for 1 year now. It's very similar to n8n, but exclusively for open-source LLMs. It also just recently got MCP support.
The project is https://kdeps.com
Working on Lunova — a QuickBooks Online app that you can create custom alerts via SMS/email such as when big deposits land, invoices go overdue, or vendor prices spike. Just cleared Intuit’s tech/security + marketing review (Took over 3 months... after building the MVP) and we’re now live on the QBO App Store. Feedback and feature requests welcome: https://uselunova.com
gemini-copilot: https://github.com/binora/gemini-copilot
Just trying to make gemini-cli work with my enterprise copilot subscription.
I’m the technical co-founder of Visibil (https://visibil.ai), an LLMO and SEO automation platform. It’s unique in that (unlike similar solutions) it doesn’t have a brittle JS-based content “hijacker” (which normally pulls the content changes from the SaaS’ database and therefore stops if you stop paying), but rather it updates the user’s CMS.
You area a Site Reliability Engineer and you get a page notifying your service is down and you rush to see your logs, metrics and other dashboards, start communicating in Slack and entering checking commands in a shell prompt.
In the same way pilots get put in emergency situations in flight simulators, I'm building an "SRE incident simulator" , a generalization of SadServers.
I built a tool that surfaces engineering issues for my VIP customers at https://customercanary.com/. It's a layer that sits on top of our existing error tracker.
It's something I've needed for a while working in engineering teams in B2B SaaS. Currently technical co-founder of AdQuick.com, an outdoor advertising marketplace backed by Initialized.
A desktop environment for Linux, inspired by macOS. Coming with compositor, apps like dock, finder, status bar, and a UI framework like AppKit.
A tool for materials mixology exploration and stats for Noita: https://bartender.runfast.stream/
Just made public the first 10% of the functionality. Built with Observable Framework
Aiming to have a small-feature release of my Video Hub App this summer:
https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/
If you have videos you want to browse, preview, search, tag, sort, etc on your computer, my software might be great for you :)
More or less the same project since Feb 2021: OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com).
Idea is to be the uptime monitoring + status page solution software teams choose. Next big project I'm looking at is making a terraform provider for uptime checks, so setting up alerts for your new microservice becomes seamless.
Still years away from employing me full time, but we're getting there.
I'm still working on a German health insurance calculator. It evolved into a very elaborate recommendation tool.
Health insurance is one of the earliest, most important decisions immigrants make, and they often choose wrong. It can delay visa applications, cause coverage issues, or create expensive problems down the road.
Now they click a few buttons and get very specific recommendations explained in plain English. If they're confused, they can involve an independent insurance expert for free. The guy replies within an hour or two, and is cool with Whatsapp. The way I gather feedback from users, he's strongly incentivised to stay honest.
There is no AI involved, just good old-fashioned business logic. It means that the advice is sound, well-tested and verified by multiple competing experts.
It's such a far cry from either trusting whatever reddit or your employer tells you, or the slow back and forth of getting a quote from a (possibly dishonest) broker.
The second version[0] has been live for about a month, and the results are phenomenal. This third version vastly improves the quality of the advice, adding information about gap insurance for visa applicants, and making actual recommendations instead of listing all options.
It's a really fun project, even if the topic is boring. It's a great research, UX, copywriting, coding and business project. It's the product of a few months of hard work, and so far it seems to pay for itself.
[0] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/german-health-insurance
Working on a free teleradiology platform: https://globalrad.cloud/.
There are lots of clinics around the world with X-ray machines but no way to easily share the images or radiologists to read them. I’ve gotten the price for reading an X-ray to under $1 and piloting with hospitals in East Africa.
Building tools to improve the developer experience especially in regarding to Git and CI/CD. Currently, working on an improved CodeOwners for GitHub. CLI is already completed and open source: https://github.com/CodeInputCorp/cli
Working on a platform to host and share 3D Gaussian Splatting models.
The key goal is that the creators of 3DGS models can use Blurry as a powerful tool to build the 3D experience that is performant, simple, and aesthetically pleasant for end users (viewers).
3DGS models can be shared via a link or embedded on a website, notion, etc..
Link: https://useblurry.com
I'm building the JavaScript version of Semantic Kernel: https://kerneljs.com
> Semantic Kernel is a lightweight, open-source development kit that lets you easily build AI agents and integrate the latest AI models. It serves as an efficient middleware that enables rapid delivery of enterprise-grade solutions.
I'm building an alternative to Lulu. Native macOS app, strictly follows Apple Human Interface Guidelines, powered by Network Extension for better performance. I also try to convert IPs to domains (LuLu only shows the IPs) from DNS or get the SNI on the wire. It allows you to monitor all traffic from your Mac and block it if needed.
Simple license, no subscription, perpetual license with 2 years of updates.
https://tinyshield.proxyman.com/