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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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Hyperlisk 3/31/2025|
I'm working on a configuration file format. I see a lot of complexity in the current space, and not enough thought put into the use-cases for a configuration language.

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.

kasrak 3/31/2025||
I'm working on a personal AI notebook called Lightpage.

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

https://lightpage.com

pravenj 3/31/2025||
I am working on this mobile app that is a cross between karaoke and musical instrument practice. Through playing music for a long time, I realize that playing with a band or with the actual song is important to get a good feel of music, specially for starting musicians. Hence the app. Currently I have Nepali songs up. I am finding it difficult to get more subtitle files or generate them quickly (for lyrics layout). Through this I would want to ask how I can quickly generate lyrics file. I really would appreciate the help.

https://guitaraoke-app.web.app/

egglemonsoup 3/30/2025||
I'm working on a parody of the lofi hip-hop radio YouTube streams, but for Byzantine music (chanting) of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The end goal is a community-focused study/prayer/chill sound generator for an Orthodox Christian audience

pppone 3/31/2025||
A site to find the right weather for your next trip or relocation:

https://weatherflip.com/

I'm looking for co-founders to explore monetization routes. Feel free to reach out.

greatbahram 3/31/2025|
It would be great to have the option to select a specific region or continent; right now, it searches the entire globe.
andrewgleave 3/31/2025||
I recently built a quick SwiftUI app to pin quotes and posts from X to my home screen.

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.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lumatta/id6740705796

absqueued 3/31/2025||
Working on (mostly weekends) <https://pluswhois.com> (part-time) – a tool to simplify brand name research. It checks domain availability, allows one to monitor taken domains, checks social handle availability, and links to basic trademark search tools.

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!

aurelien 3/31/2025||
I am working on nothing which by the is something important and precious because it is something to works on nothing. By the way, nothing else matter, which mean that everything keep my mind on working on the thing of nothing.
b0dhimind 3/31/2025|
Nothing is something indeed
memset 3/31/2025||
I am building an image gallery as a side project to play with AI coding tools. I got really far in just 2 days and plan to open source it soon. It:

- 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.

escapecharacter 3/31/2025||
Maybe you should be friends with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529823

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.

andupotorac 4/8/2025||
Maybe replace Pixave with a better product if you're at it.
giantg2 3/31/2025|
I have an idea that you can steal (would be cool if you send me some of the spoils if it moons lol). This might be right up your alley, Google and Apple devs.

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.

zombitack 3/31/2025|
I used to work for an assistive tech company that did part of this. For people who have degenerative diseases like ALS, we would create speech profiles for them before they lost their voice so that once they did, their computer-generated voice (through eye tracking software and hardware) would be their own and not a generic voice.
costcopizza 3/31/2025||
What company if you don't mind? Sounds like work I've been interested in. Thanks!
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