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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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matzie 3/31/2025|
A website that lets users create and collect digital trading cards (not NFC or blockchain stuff). Currently trying to get the first active artists to join but it's hard. At least its a place for me to create my little artworks.

https://misocards.com

abakker 3/31/2025||
I'm working on designing a survey to help assess the degree to which enterprise tech buyers believe that they need to invest in improving data access, metadata management, architecture, storage, and integration as a necessary prerequisite to getting value out of AI investments.

The backstory is that AI investments are proceeding, but companies seem to be struggling to get things into production, so the ROIs are beginning to slip. Where I have first party knowledge, there is a (small sample size) trend of businesses kicking off significant data modernization processes.

Most interesting to me, is that organizations finally seem to be figuring out that it is worth managing "information" for the business and "data" in their applications as separate work streams, and seem to be acting on separating those responsibilities.

spiderfarmer 3/31/2025|
It would be interesting to ask if EU companies are now looking for EU based solutions and shunning the US.
abakker 3/31/2025||
We are definitely seeing a renewed interested in "Sovereign Cloud" A.K.A. cloud with local ownership and regional AZs that are regulatorially aware.
wingworks 3/30/2025||
For those few living in NZ, I've made a site that lists all the bank saving rates (and TDs), and ranks them by best to worst. This is mostly intended for people who know what they're doing. So don't just pick the highest and roll with it. Higher return usually comes with more risk.

Also, the biggest banks usually have the worst rates, this also goes for Kiwisaver, don't put your Kiwisaver with a bank, it'll do poorly compared to the lowest fee options we got in NZ. e.g. InvestNow (Foundation Series funds) / Kernel / Simplicity.

Still needs some work, like showing which rates are variable, or extra high risk.

Pretty quickly hacked together, to be very utilitarian, and practical. Don't see ever making money on it, made it more for me.

https://savingrates.netlify.app/

tfederman 3/30/2025||
RSS reader through Bluesky custom feeds: https://github.com/tfederman/stroma-news

Bluesky API library spun off from the other project: https://github.com/tfederman/pysky

Haven't really started it yet, but a master list of RSS feeds and the code I used to source them: https://github.com/tfederman/huge-rss-list

And also a new project to fetch all links seen in the Bluesky firehose and gather metadata to build a database of sites and pages at a more granular level than the domain. For example, is account X posting video links from one YT channel or many?

tangyorigami 3/31/2025||
Payroll desktop application with python that works closely with an old time clock that only generates xls files (i know i should use c++ but I'm too lazy to learn it and I just need to get it done lol). I'm planning on open sourcing the project once it's in a more usable state.

Also, I just started on building a web application with golang that will make it easier for hobbyists to share their creative works (like manga, paintings, etc.) by providing a much better platform for their creativity to show. Right now it's pretty bare bones but it'll be a cross between myspace and patreon essentially. Main difference being the ease of use and the ability to showcase your work directly on the same app, without having to host your works on a separate service and promote it on another.

Lots of ideas, so little time to implement them.

ringmaker 3/31/2025||
It's an OKLCH color picker, as well as a converter for other color spaces.

https://cmringmaker.github.io/OKLCH-Picker/

https://github.com/cmRingmaker/OKLCH-Picker/

I was inspired by the article over at evilmartians[0] about OKLCH, and I loved their oklch picker. Decided I wanted to learn more about OKLCH by implementing my own tool that I've released this week. Had a lot of fun with this project, and am getting plenty of usage out of it already.

[0] https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...

andupotorac 4/8/2025|
We used this in our project: https://github.com/CaptainCodeman/svelte-color-select
jason_zig 3/31/2025||
I've been working on Zigpoll as a one-man project for a while now: https://www.zigpoll.com/ it has traction and solid growth (~100% YoY for the past 3 years) but the larger the numbers the harder it gets to double each year.

In a past life I would have thought this would be the easy part given the product market fit but it's hard to figure out growth channels that are scalable and cost-effective at this stage. Burning what would otherwise be a large salary month on month in search of growth is mentally taxing when it doesn't deliver. Metrics across the board only seem to tell part of the story so it's tricky to figure out what needs changing and what's worth doubling down on.

If anyone has experience doing this sort of thing - please get in touch!

paulwarren 3/30/2025||
We're building the killer app for books

Starting with a native iOS app to to track and discover books [1]

Focusing on notetaking and cozy social this year as we try to grow from 100k to 1m+ users

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737528718

vnce 3/31/2025|
Neat. Will try :)
paulwarren 4/3/2025||
:) hmu at paul@margins.app with any questions or feedback!
hoofhires 3/31/2025|
Hi folks,

Ive written a simple app [1] that crawls tech corporate sites daily looking for job postings, and sends you an email with the new jobs that match your profile.

The profile matching is currently very basic - just job title category and location(s). There is also a recommendation agent that is yet to be released (WIP).

I would be grateful for feedback and thoughts. So far I have personally (and others) found this to be very helpful in allowing me automate the daily checking of hundreds of sites.

You can also add specific companies to the crawler, which is nice if you are passively looking at specific companies. A possible feature addition might be to limit the search to only pre-defined companies that interest you.

I would appreciate any thoughts and feedback.

[1] https://www.hoofhires.com/

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