Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

Posted by david927 3/30/2025

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

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vldszn 3/31/2025|

I built a free and open-source invoice generator with a live PDF preview that runs in your browser.

It supports multiple currencies, VAT tax deductions, and lets you download PDFs in multiple languages (English and Polish for now, with more coming soon). You can also share your invoice by clicking “Generate a link to invoice” button.

Try it out: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/

Check it out on GitHub as well:

https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf

Would love to hear your feedback =)

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!

snide 3/30/2025||

I just launched the beta for Table Slayer. It lets you build animated maps for in person RPG games (DnD, Pathfinder...etc) where you have a digital table top. It's built on Svelte + Turso + websockets.

The video here best shows it off. The source is available and free to use for non-compete, personal use.

https://bsky.app/profile/davesnider.com/post/3lkvum6xtjs2e

Mostly a labor of love. I don't expect there to be a super large audience for this one, it was just something I needed myself.

teucris 3/31/2025||

I’m working on a live voice chat for settling rule disputes during tabletop gaming. It uses OpenAI’s realtime API to allow anyone to call in a “ref”, trained on the rules of the games, to answer questions about the rules.

jathrone 4/1/2025|

How do you feed rules to OpenAI?

zebomon 3/31/2025||

I'm expanding my website Bingeclock (online since 2014) into mobile. Both the iOS and Android apps were approved for open testing last week, so I'm very happy about that!

https://www.bingeclock.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bingeclock...

https://testflight.apple.com/join/YtfK4enW

jll29 3/30/2025||

BiasScanner - a non-profit project to fight non-neutral news reporting with a special LLM model wrapped in a Firefox plugin (that marks biased sentences yellow when you read your news online). In JavaScript and Python -- see https://biasscanner.org

IdeaFunnel - capturing, tracking and evaluating ideas in organizations; as innovation is topic that I am conducting research in and will be teaching a block course in July on. (Being rapid prototyped in PHP.)

ltools -- a set of command line tools in Rust.

Also starting a new multi-year computer science book project...

jaredwiener 3/31/2025||

Half of a team here of former journalists building a platform for news -- its a news feed, where all posts come from pre-vetted journalists:

https://www.forth.news

paulmooreparks 3/31/2025||

I've been working on an alternative to JSON called XferLang, and along with that a "CLI construction kit" that will let the user create a CLI for interacting with RESTful APIs (and, eventually, more).

https://github.com/paulmooreparks/Xfer https://github.com/paulmooreparks/Xfer/tree/master/ParksComp...

npodbielski 3/31/2025|

Seems interesting tough more complicated. In json you can't have multi line strings? Does your format supports it?

fatliverfreddy 3/31/2025||

I'm working on the next release of Cyphernetes. It's a query language for Kubernetes that allows doing most complex k8s management operations in a much more compact and concise form (compared to writing shell scripts, using jsonpath+jq, nested kubectl, writing API code etc.). Recently merged a visual overhaul to the Cyphernetes web UI and now working on adding support for ORDER BY, LIMIT and SKIP to the language.

Github: https://github.com/AvitalTamir/cyphernetes

else42 3/31/2025|

I am currently contributing to [1], a preconfigured *arr stack on NixOS.

I am also working on Plundrio [2], a put.io Download Client for *arr.

My other project Server Radar [3] has been neglected lately, but I wanna move to D1 completely (currently still using DuckDB on the frontend).

[1] https://nixarr.com/

[2] https://github.com/elsbrock/plundrio/

[3] https://radar.iodev.org/

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