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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numpad0 3/31/2025|

A 3D printable HP Voyager style clone shell, based on my 12c Platinum, Internet photos and lots of eyeballing. It was on the back burner for a while, but I'm moving on to something else. STEP file available publicly, no electrical work had been done.

https://numpad0.com/calculatorshell/

mmlkrx 3/31/2025||

I've started working on a shared shopping list for group vacations. No sign-up, just create a list and share the link with friends. Emphasis on good sync performance even in bad network conditions, automatic sorting of the list based on where food is found in the supermarket, tags for items on the list. If anybody has ideas for this use-case please comment or email me :).

flanbiscuit 3/31/2025|

Not exactly the same but this reminds me of an idea I had for shareable shopping carts. You add things to a shopping cart and then you share it via a link (text, dm, chat, email, etc) and the receiver of that link clicks on it and the contents get added to their cart (alternative could be an import button that you paste the link in to make it more explicit).

Why? Plenty of times I've been ordering food with friends and we just pass around a phone to put in the order or someone dictates their order. Sometimes this can involve a friend who is not physically there and so they text you their order in just plain text. I thought it would be cool for everyone to be able to get on the same site, customize their order how they want, and share their link. That way there's no way that anyone misunderstood or forgot anything when placing the final order.

mmlkrx 3/31/2025||

Actually I really like this idea, especially in the context of shared food ordering it makes a lot of sense!

kiruio 3/31/2025||

I am working on journaling app targeted at language learners: You write inna target language and see mistakes and corrections. It’s as pre-order in the app store: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/language-diary-writing-w-ai/id...

njx 3/31/2025||

Multiple things AI Wireframe to https://wireframes.org/

SEO Extension Enhancements https://www.crawlspider.com/seo-pataka/

Two more chrome extension: Youtube Transcript Summary

Wirify like extension to generate wireframes from any website

n1c 3/31/2025||

Tinkering with a platform for people who're interested in doing analysis/visualisation of data from professional Counter Strike games.

i.e. instead of them having to download demos, extract them, parse them and then only query data. I want to just have a database available so they get to skip all those steps.

Not gonna make me rich but if I can get it to cover it's own costs I'll be stoked.

jprokay13 3/31/2025||

For a long time I used an app called Slowtube to practice guitar. I recently built my own version with features I always wanted like the ability to save sections of songs for future practice, search YouTube (instead of copying links), and provide cross device synchronization. I’m using it daily for practice now and after a bit of polish I plan to put it up on my website

netrap 3/31/2025||

I'm trying to make an edison battery (Nickel Iron). My first attempt failed due to expired silver epoxy... I'm now planning to try a nickel paint (meant for electron microscopy).

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/february2012_Noon

oleggromov 3/31/2025||

Working on an interactive SQL tutorial for intermediate+ SQL developers, introducing you to and showing the power of such concepts as JOINs, pivoting (flipping rows to columns & vice versa), subqueries and common table expressions, including recursion, UNIONs, row locks, and some other small things.

The thing will be browser-based and, hopefully, both entertatining and educational.

Toby1VC 3/30/2025|

For the last couple of months I've been building a file upload platform.

https://github.com/Merkoba/Harambe

But the last thing I did was this function to make my irc bot program itself:

https://rentry.org/aircprogramrule

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