alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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I'm working on WishKeeper https://wishkeeper.io.
It's a webapp that lets you create wish lists and share them with family and friends. The key feature is the claim system: when someone decides to buy you an item, they can claim it so others know it's taken, but you never see who claimed what or even that it was claimed at all. The surprise stays intact. You can also split big purchases. If someone wants a $400 stand mixer, multiple people can chip in allowing family tight on cash to feel like they're contributing without having family members feel like they have to put small items on their list just so everyone can contribute.
I kept it deliberately simple. No social features, no feeds, no ads. Just lists with items, links, prices, and notes. You create a list, share the link, and you're done. No group chat gymnastics required. It's free to use. I built this because I wanted it to exist, not because I had some grand monetization plan. You can sign up and create lists without a credit card.
Suggestions welcome!
I'm building a yet another AI chat app.
My initial goal is to make a functional SillyTavern (AI roleplaying) replacement. SillyTavern builds prompts from a few rigid buckets (character, scenario, lore, system prompt, author's note...), which makes complex setups hard to manage. Content gets duplicated, settings have to be toggled in multiple places, and it’s easy to accidentally carry or modify state across conversations. Over time, it becomes difficult to tell what context is actually in effect.
I’m building an alternative that treats context as small, reusable pieces that can be composed and organized flexibly, rather than locked into fixed categories. Characters, settings, and behaviors can be mixed, reused, or temporarily enabled without duplication or manual cleanup, and edits preserve clear history instead of rewriting the past. The goal is to make managing complex context deliberate and controlled instead of fragile.
Although I’m trying to get the functionality required for roleplaying done first, the app is generic enough for other AI workflows where fine-grained, explicit context control is an improvement over existing chat interfaces. Think: start a new conversation with an assistant and start checking off rules, documents, and instructions to apply to the chat. Regenerate responses with clarifications or additional one-time context layers.
I don't have a link to share just yet, but I'm working on an LLM coding agent that can modify its own context and is given hints on when and why that would be useful.
I expect it to make it possible to not think about when to reset back to a clean session. I also expect it to be more efficient as it will clear out all the "garbage context" that only serves to "confuse" the LLM, cost more tokens, make responses slower, etc.
Once I get a working prototype, then I will test the feature by using it while reimplementing it in other open source agents to get a feel for whether it has the effects I'm expecting.
I no link yet but I'm working on a little telegram (for now) bot to help me stay on top of the projects I want to do.
Basically LLM + Todoist MCP + some scheduling and clever prompts.
thecutline.ai , a Product Management Suite. I call it "A Product Manager That Says No", which stems from previous challenges I had using AI that was too sycophantic and optimistic to help with product decisions.
Working heavily right now on Customer Personas to use in validating/invalidating , which are configured with viewpoints, biases, and tendencies. Coming very soon will be Persona Journeys, in which you can get live, goal-oriented evaluation of your web app by a Persona.
I am working on enviroment variables scanner - NPM package
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I'm working on https://www.polyingo.com.
An interactive way of learning a new language.
Raygum, a way to track and share your favourite music _outside_ of the big streamers: https://raygum.com
https://EasyAnalytica.com - Unified platform to build dashboards from spreadsheets
I have an image of a box that got owned by what looks like multiple people/groups who were trying to frame Iran as the source of the attack.
Will be interesting to poke at over the holiday.
RailsBilling - Stripe subscriptions for Rails app in one command.
Killer feature is multiple plans per customer.
working on a new interface for llm chats, that allows you to branch the conversation to multiple streams
actually started as a new chat app but eventually I figured it could be used for LLMs
A programming language for the web: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
A lightweight and simple task management tool based on the Eisenhower Matrix
Cassette, a simple VPS provider for the rest of us. https://cassette.sh
WebGPU backend for PyTorch
I'm working on Ward, a Chrome extension that detects browser scams/phishing using lightweight LLM models. Our target persona is elders, young children, and anyone who's not as tech savvy. When explaining it to people, I call it a "modern antivirus", because it can detect anything from malicious scripts on a page to grey-area misinformation on social media.
I'm bootstrapping and covering LLM costs for Ward's first couple hundred users (got about 50 users at the moment) to improve it. We have a local mode for added privacy and are dipping our feet to gauge biz. interest (client-side phishing protection is unparalleled).
I've recommended it to friends, colleagues and loved ones. I dogfood my own product, and it even surprises me every day how much more mindful it makes me of my browsing of harmful content. Would love to get feedback and testers from HN.
On the Chrome Web Store -> https://tryward.app
I recently built a text based fishing game in Godot.
Eventually I'll open source it, but I'm a bit shy so I want to open source it once it's done without a commit history.
Working on computeprices.com - a cloud GPU rental price tracker
Working on an AEO engine which focuses on optimising webflow website so they show at searches when someone is doing at chatgpt, perplexity and other tools.
The Legal IDE, Tritium: https://tritium.legal/preview
A kids edutainment cartoon https://www.youtube.com/@studyturtlehq
I am trying to make a game that sits squarely between AE2 style request-based on-demand crafting VS fully passive production akin to Factorio :) Making games is fun!
https://air-books.app - turn your book shelf into an online book store
Working on a bot for chatrooms (irc, discord) that will drop in and roast you (llm powers) in front of the whole server randomly, completely out of the blue.
Fightingwithai.com - a collection of vendor agnostic patterns for operating ai coding agents in the style of gang of four / fowler
I dug out a few of my $5 raspberry pi zeros, setting them up for various things. hosting server, vpn server, digital picture frame, home assistant device.
I remade the homepage for my website: https://phofee.com/
Starting to get into finetuning, LoRAS, small llms. Want to read good stuff during the xmas holidays. But I really need to rest and unplug too :/
Memecoin launchpad and dex on the solana chain. One giant player in the space and we’re going to shake things up a bit. Should launch January - send.fun
https://vizbull.com/collage-maker
Mini canva alternative
A few years ago, I made a model skinner for Tribes 2, a ~25 year old game that still has a loyal following: https://exogen.github.io/t2-model-skinner/ (if you check out the Gallery link there, you'll notice this app resulted in a whole new wave of skins, and even a Halloween skin contest)
To satisfy the urge of doing something else ambitious in the browser, I'm now doing the same thing for Tribes 2 maps: trying to make a web-based map viewer and editor: https://exogen.github.io/t2-mapper/ (editing/creation part still in progress)
I got this working for most maps pretty quickly. It translates the mission object tree from the Torque .mis files into a Three.js scene graph. Eventually though, I noticed that some mission definitions were more dynamic – Torque .mis files are really just TorqueScript .cs files with a different extension and some pragma/magic comments. So, to actually handle every map would require not just a mission file parser, but a whole TorqueScript runtime. Implementing THAT part seemed really tedious and, frankly, uninteresting to me. So I had Claude Code get a whole TorqueScript transpiler and runtime working. Now, when you load a mission, it actually runs all the same scripts that Tribes 2 runs to load the mission, all the way from server.cs and its `CreateServer()` function.
Currently, I'm continuing to get its rendering matching Tribes 2 as closely as possible, and setting things up so that live editing of missions will work.
padel clubs availability aggregator
A jupyter notebook as a guide to the Hebrew calendar. The text is Maimonides; after each section is some code "explaining" the text.
https://nimble.com.ua Guided munitions for Ukraine
working on https://socdefenders.ai, reddit + HN for cybersecurity
Reinforced learning platform
Working on Ai agent (not chatbot) for customer support with automatic human handoff to Slack( in future for Zendesk, Teams, Jira)
Started doing architecture and pre-launch reviews targetting vibe-coders; to make my bootstrapped product more sustainable.
Give users easy access to trade insights.
Building postgres server as a library. Some early success, but initdb and in-process restarts are much harder than expected
working on a way to ease the burden of the firehose of information that is current AI news and research. there are hunderds of new research papers everyday, and yeah, skimming is a thing, but i feel like there is a ton of alpha distributed thorugh all of them that would just require a superhuman ability to read, comprehend and test all of it
Trying to make anything car related easier - Cardog.app
Buying, researching and analyzing automotive data is broken. Trying to fix that bit by bit
A gun that shoots snow bullets 5-10 feet. Basically a glock shell with nerf mechanisms and a custom mag that molds the bullets.
3d printed.
A new word processor for the post-AI age! Try it out.
Find and Connect with the Right Journalists
tascli: https://github.com/Aperocky/tascli
A local, cli based task and record manager, focused on simplicity and speed but includes support like managing schedules and records and searches etc to support it being a structured schedule helper.
I’m working on Matricsy: a tool that helps teams turn unclear expectations into clear, actionable goals using skills and competency matrices. It gives managers and employees a shared understanding of what’s expected, how to grow, and how performance is measured.
If u are interested: https://matricsy.com :)
https://plowshare.social/
Platform for sharing Magic the Gathering EDH games.