Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
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
Would love feedback—especially on CLI features you'd find useful!
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.
On the way, I developed lightweight image editor and 3D model viewer components, which I've open sourced [1].
Also, figuring out a way to visualise manhattan chart, score worm, wagon wheels etc using plain text ascii
[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
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.
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.
- 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.
I'm going back to school soon for psychology (figure financial aid can also pay room and board).
I'm wanting to build a mobile journal app with a bunch of AI guided 'games' to help learn DBT skills or work out trauma or do Shadow work or just guided CBT for a purpose.
I've changed my MBTI from intp-t to enfp-a...(I find I revert sometimes when I don't feel safe)... in other words I've become a very outgoing people person at least I'm a lot less afraid in social situations or to act like a fool on the dance floor... etc...
I also want to write a book and do videos on hacking your brain using AI... nobody seems to be doing this... there's a lot of potential for this niche I think.
I fixed hobbies, depression, and social life, all that's left is physical and financial and those are kind of easy when emotions are in check.