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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owenpalmer 3/30/2025|

I'm working on a webpage to share my notes from science/engineering classes. It includes a node graph of all the topics in a particular course, and you can click on a node to find what I've written about that topic.

Here's a demo (click on "Limiting Reactant"):

https://owenpalmer.com/webnotes/

sillysideprojs 4/4/2025||

I fell in love with Mexico because of the colorful architecture. I've found that many buildings would make for good color palettes. So I made an app to convert 145 photos of mine into color palettes.

https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/

Zu_ 3/30/2025||

I am working on a battle simulation for the game 'The Bazaar'.

I was quite frustrated with how the original devs handled monetization going into open beta, which sparked my motivation.

Trying out Kotlin for the first time and having a blast so far!

Also using an ECS architecture for the first time. It's quite a different way of reasoning about things, but it definitely helps with the dynamic fights that need to be simulated.

Benjamin_Dobell 3/30/2025|

Watch out for DMCAs. They're, ah, not very fond of third-party development.

Best wishes,

The former developer of Bizarre Insights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2yQXDFVRPQ

Zu_ 3/31/2025||

Thanks for the heads up! But that's what I figured, based on how they dealt with the other trackers and overlays.

I am planning to open source it (when I am at least somewhat happy with the implementation) but without any references to the bazaar. It just so happens that it uses items with cooldown and similar systems that deal with burn, poison, haste etc. ;)

You can then bring your own items and play out the simulations and maybe your items just so happen to be based on the bazaar or maybe you create your own custom items based on lord of the rings or whatever.

Right now, the project's primary purpose is to be an interesting problem that needs to be solved and helping me learn new things.

Btw. your tool looks great! A shame that team tempo is against these kinds of community driven tools

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!

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

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...

tommy_axle 3/30/2025||

Working on some starter templates for going from plain English requirements to a ready-to-use applications in a few minutes. Are you a small team looking to go from Excel to something a bit more streamlined but would like to avoid a time-consuming and costly process? Schedule a live demo today. https://genatron.ai

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.

davidanekstein 3/30/2025||

An app called Reflect to run self experiments, to prove your new habit or supplement is doing what you want, or to get to the bottom of what relationship your mood has with your lifestyle changes:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

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

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