Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
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.
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
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/
On March 31, 2025, Microsoft is officially shutting down the CodePush project, leaving thousands of teams without an alternative for OTA updates.
We took the open-source version of the SDK as our foundation and created a managed cloud solution. This allows both small teams and large enterprises to retain the functionality of CodePush with minimal migration effort.
Our roadmap includes further development of the project, launching a CodePush 2.0 version. In it, we'll deliver features that the community has long requested, remove legacy accumulated over the years, and adapt the SDK to modern development standards.
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.
It's a worthwhile project to build yourself. If nothing else I found out that I definitely do not like the date-fns library in JavaScript. I built it using AWS Amplify, and although I like that it scales to zero, but I think there are too many gotchas to Amplify, and especially DynamoDB, for a startup app that you want to move quickly on. I wrote up one of the major ones after I got really frustrated. [1]
Like I said in my original post, I am trying to figure out how to get it in front of the right people (who are less likely to be on HN). I have kind of decided that the B2C sales experience is not great unless you get a critical mass; my experience doing sales in manufacturing is working the booth at trade shows, talking to people about engineering, and using our process tools to develop a solution to the customer's problem. The more scattered "compete for attention" advertising/promotion sales model doesn't seem great unless you have a lot of money behind it.
I'm rambling, but if anyone likes this or feels it needs a certain feature, feel free to reach out. If you're in Boston / Providence I'll happily grab a drink with you.
[1] https://gist.github.com/rchowe/1db32f1f26d74688a9b4083a19f6a...
reddit /r/manufacturing
PracticalMachinist.com has a Metrology section and there's always a healthy discussion going on in the General forum.
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.
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.
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.