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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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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.

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
prakashn27 3/31/2025||
Working on “AI automations for Jira” to help Jira admins create automation scripts using AI.

- secure and complaint as it runs on Atlassian

- easy to create automation as AI does the heavy lifting of creating the automation scripts for Jira

- unlimited which was a major limitation in native Atlassian offering.

https://ai-automation.123x.dev/

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

lwouis 3/31/2025||
If anyone is interested, i'm looking for someone to take over a port of Windows alt+tab window switching for the Mac.

The app is very mature, yet it could still be improved in interesting ways.

https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/1179

PotatoNinja 3/31/2025|
Happy user for many years!

Wishing you good luck with finding a maintainer.

coreyp_1 3/30/2025||
I'm trying to make my own GUI library in cross-platform C, based on Vulcan. Because evidently I'm a glutton for punishment.

I'm only a couple of weeks in. But it's giving me a break from my programming language that I was working on. (It's a template language, also written in C, also cross-platform, that has a jit compiler with a bytecode fallback.)

neal_ 3/31/2025||
Im building retro style text editor with Open GL shaders, its a work in progress. I have ported st.c to imgui and have mostly working terminal emulator, now im working on LSP adapters and extending language support. https://github.com/nealmick/ned
PaulRobinson 3/31/2025|
I'm thinking a lot about RSS/Atom, how great email is to read content, and the intersection of these ideas with the W3C WebMonetization spec.

I think there's an opportunity to do novel things in this space, and LLMs might help in terms of providing summaries that people actually want.

I'm building this for me, but I think it could be useful for other people, too.

hallman76 3/31/2025||
TIL that there is a W3C WebMonetization spec - thanks for sharing.

Taking a look, it seems quite underwhelming[0] :( Lack of monetization on the web gave us the ad-driven content model that LLMs are now hovering up.

Have there been any other proposals for monetization?

[0] https://webmonetization.org/specification/

spiderfarmer 3/31/2025||
Make a combination of RSS/Atom and the MCP protocol.
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