Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
At the moment, I am validating demand for Rank And File, a platform for employee activism. Think Institutional Investors but instead of suits, it is employees who own a large number of shares in their own company and act as a collective.
R&F aims to provide a private forum for employees to discuss company policies and act as a platform where employees can connect with legal experts and activists who will help them
It is designed for users who want to create interactive animations on their websites without the need for coding, making it easier and giving more precise control of the animations.
If you are a web developer and think you will be a good beta tester, then fill out the beta test form on the website.
+hint system for when players get stuck
+swipe navigation for easier moving
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/mummy-maze-pocket-edition/id67381...
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.itch.ksylve...
Now I am building into it some features so other people can help me to run it, such as ticketing system (with AI), and statically generated copy of the site to improve availability.
I am also working on a service management tool, based on USM method. USM method is kind of "open source" version of ITIL, although it works on a different level than ITIL.
If you know of a webhook provider not in my list - https://webhooks.fyi/docs/webhook-directory - let me know and I'll make sure it's added.
It generates interconnected learning documents, a bit like personalized wiki articles. Features include courses on any topic, generative flashcards for spaced repetition (think Anki), as well as a chat alongside each document.
Would love to hear your feedback!
I started the project 1.5 years ago after many people I spoke to expressed interest, but life got complicated and I had to focus on health among other things. It's now back on the front burner, and I'm hoping to launch it later this spring or early summer.
It's a double entry based personal finance tool, to help families and individuals, track, understand and plan their finances.
It's local first. Synched across devices via a sync server. Financial data is encrypted before it leaves your local devices. By design, we don't have access to your data.
We are still in early phase, and looking for active users, and their feedback.
to make DXFs and G-code:
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
The next big step is a house-cleaning one, need a vendor-agnostic system for numbering tools:
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/what-tooling-are-folks-usin...
Been learning a lot in the process: brushed up on trigonometry and so-forth using _Make:Geometry/Trigonometry/Calculus_[1] and various other books, some of which I am still reading through; lots about programming, esp. useful was John Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_[2] and the next stages are Bézier curves/NURBS, a system for single line fonts (which may get extended into an interactive METAFONT programming system), and a mastery of conic sections _and_ algorithms sufficiently efficient that the 1" x 2" x 1" test case which took ~18 minutes to calculate on an i7 and which generated a ~127MB toolpath file can be done a bit more reasonably.
The big thing it makes me thing about is whether I should try to get a Master's and then go on to get a PhD (but that's a hard sell w/ the finance committee when I'm 59 and still making house payments).
1 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make
2 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...
Ended up having to write a decent chunk of C using FFI mind, no wonder people write SSH servers in Go/C, and why every AI tool told me it's really difficult and shouldn't be done :D
Bit of fun though, and I know more than I would ever want to know about the SSH protocol now!