Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
YAML is prone to typos, TOML does not seem obvious to me, and JSON is not as easy to edit.
I've been designing CLEO:https://code.nicktrevino.com/cleo/
The focus is on a configuration language that a single application would use. Not a system-level configuration that might need control flow, etc.
It is at a solid state right now, though it's not officially released yet as I slowly validate it with usage.
I've always found it useful to have scratch notes about whatever's on my mind -- a mix of journaling/reflection, planning, project ideas, notes on things I'm reading, etc. But I wanted to be able to chat with an LLM that has full context & memory from these notes.
It's been surprisingly helpful for me and some of my friends! Some ways I've used it:
- Talking through fuzzy ideas & ideas to clarify them
- Having it re-inforce the healthy habits I want to build
- Using it to reflect on feelings or whatever's been bothering me
The end goal is a community-focused study/prayer/chill sound generator for an Orthodox Christian audience
I'm looking for co-founders to explore monetization routes. Feel free to reach out.
I found I was liking/bookmarking insightful content on X I rarely saw again and wanted a way to resurface them somewhere I would see multiple times per day.
Can import from X via share sheet or manually enter them. It's minimal, but I've found having:
"i hate how well asking myself "if i had 10x the agency i have what would i do" works"
there every time I unlock my phone, was worth the development effort.
If a domain is taken, it shows full ownership data with great UX — not just a raw JSON dump. Clickable links to social profiles, business info, tech stack, DNS records, and more.
Built it to streamline my own workflow for naming and branding projects. Still early, but already saving me time. More features coming!
- Uses an encrypted badgerdb to keep track of metadata - Uses rclone (with an encrypted backend) for file storage in s3 or any backend rclone supports - Automatically indexes and generates video thumbnails and transcodes to webm to be streamed in the browser - Slideshows - has a fairly decent ui that doesn’t look like it was developed by a backend engineer
The goal was to be able to attach my own s3 storage and keep all data encrypted at rest. It’s written in go and deploys as a single binary.
But for real, I've also been working on large-scale photo/video management, and the question of where to keep additionally metadata has bothered me. It seems right to want to keep it "in" the file, and so I want to write it into EXIF, or even steganography, or something.
Generated voice profiles (you can use "AI" to sell it to your bosses) to narrate text messages in the sender's voice. Many texts are already sent by speech to text, why not carry that voice to the reciever? Simply recording is not ideal due to the background noise and extra bandwidth, so regenerating the speech on the reciever side seems to be the better approach after generating the speech profile from some sample of initial messages.