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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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bigwindow1 3/31/2025|
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/

rbrownmh 3/31/2025||
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!

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.
ringofchaos 3/30/2025||
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

etewiah 3/31/2025|
Hi there, I'm working on something similar for the UK. Happy to chat if you'd be interested in exchanging ideas.
friendly_chap 3/31/2025||
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.

InfiniteBox 4/1/2025||
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

terinjokes 3/31/2025||
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.

mrwww 3/31/2025||
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.
npras1 4/2/2025||
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

gear54rus 3/31/2025|
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

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