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Posted by david927 3/30/2025

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

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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matcha-video 3/31/2025|
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

khaledh 3/30/2025||
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

csomar 3/31/2025||
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.
ilaksh 3/30/2025||
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

gzmihai 4/1/2025||
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

reisr3 4/2/2025|
This is great! It's very close to something I desperately want to exist: a way to peruse the YouTube videos' my friends are watching.

My algo often gets bad, and the best recommendations for YouTube videos come from friends' suggestions. And sometimes I just want to be recommended something totally different than what my algo would know about.

Would it be possible to add that feature?

gzmihai 4/2/2025||
The idea behind Velty is to let you consume your YouTube videos mainly in chronological order, without being at the mercy of the YouTube algorithm.

Sorry, I don’t plan to add that feature.

mishu2 3/30/2025||
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/

rishikeshs 3/30/2025||
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

martylamb 3/31/2025||
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!

vnuge 3/30/2025||
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

ddxv 3/31/2025|
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.

prestonlibby 3/31/2025|
Just a friendly ping that your first link is throwing a 502, could be a gentle hug of death? Will check back later, it sounds very intriguing to me!
ddxv 3/31/2025||
Thanks! I think it was, though the hug was gentle, haha.
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