Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

Posted by david927 6/29/2025

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

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kat_tax 6/30/2025|

Plugin to convert Figma designs to React Native code fully client-side.

And a complimentary service that syncs the code directly to your filesystem in real-time, as well as an optional MCP server to flex the generated code to your codebase to fit your framework/libraries.

Source: https://github.com/kat-tax/figma-to-react-native

(includes cool tech like lightningcss-wasm for styles conversion and esbuild-wasm for client-side previews)

manx 7/4/2025||

Project Frottage: An automated constant stream of high quality AI wallpapers for mobile and desktop. We manually curate a list of ~150 prompts. Every 6h a random prompt is selected, a picture generated and uploaded to static hosting, free to use:

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-mobile-latest.jpg

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-desktop-latest.jpg

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-desktop-light-latest.j...

We just finished an android app, to set the wallpaper automatically on mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frottage

arispen 7/4/2025||

I am trying to quit IT and become full-time games/books/gamebooks publisher. I tried crowdfunding once and it turned out very well so I am working on next projects now :) https://gamefound.com/en/creators/arispen

barrell 6/30/2025||

I’ve built the best way to learn over 120 languages to advanced levels (optimized for studying multiple languages in parallel): https://phrasing.app

I got the demo video produced, and a blog set up and seeded. You can see some of the science behind learning multiple languages at https://phrasing.app/blog/multiple-languages or follow my progress using Phrasing to learn 18+ languages at https://phrasing.app/blog/language-log-000

Now I’m working on the onboarding process, which I’m very excited about on both a product and a technical level. On the product level, it dovetails nicely into most of the shortcomings of the app. One solution to a dozen problems.

On the technical level, I’m starting to migrate away from reagent (ClojureScript react wrapper). The first step was adapting preact/signals-react to support r/atom, r/cursor, and r/reaction. This has worked beautifully so far and the whole module, with helpers, is less than 100 LoC. I’m irrationally excited about it, and every time I use any method it brings me a stupid amount of joy… especially since it’s exactly the same API as reagent.

For those curious, the next steps in the migration will be: upgrading to React 19 support once reagent ships with it (in alpha currently), then replacing the leaf components with hsx and working my way up the tree. No real code changes, just a lot of testing needed. Maybe at the end of it all, I can switch the whole app over to preact — will be interesting to test the performance differences.

As far as ideas I’m thinking about, I’m currently planning the next task in my head. This will be an (internal) clojure library that will hopefully have ClojErl (erlang), ClojureScript (js), and jank (C) interfaces, which means I’ll be able to write clojure once, and run on the server, browser, and mobile — all in their native environment. Needless to say, being able to write isomorphic clojure without running JavaScript everywhere has me almost as excited as my signals wrapper :D

benjaminbenben 6/29/2025||

I've been working on https://stacks.camera - it's an idea about overlaying the previous picture when you're taking a photo so you can create a timelapse or animation.

For example, you can scroll through 60 pictures from my window https://stacks.camera/u/ben/89n1HJNT

Most of the challenges are around handling images & rendering, but I've also been playing with Passkey-only authentication which I'm finding really interesting.

preetsojitra 6/30/2025||

Working on a silly side project called SinkedIn — a parody of LinkedIn but just for posting failures, screwups, and embarrassing moments. Staging is live here: https://sinkedin-staging.vercel.app/ and GitHub repo is: https://github.com/Preet-Sojitra/sinkedin. Pushing to production soon. UI is rough, I’m not a frontend person — bear with me! All sorts of contributions are welcome.

genewitch 6/30/2025|

similar to thedailywtf.com ?

preetsojitra 6/30/2025||

Maybe. Actually I was not aware of this site when I started working on this. I am thinking to give pure anti-linkedin vibes to sinkedin. I still don’t really have a proper vision of which direction to take this in.

kolleraa 6/29/2025||

I'm working on inq - a real ink pen that writes on real paper while simultaneously digitizing everything you write. Specifically working on the software for our mobile and web apps.

Among other things, my team has implemented access-based sharing using web links, like Google Docs for real paper handwriting. And we've just launched Quin, our AI assistant for real paper handwriting. Super useful for getting help with math, language learning, looking up relevant facts, generating ideas, etc.

See https://inq.shop/pages/app

polishdude20 6/29/2025||

How does it work? Some imu / accelerometer sensing?

kolleraa 6/29/2025||

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_paper

nateb2022 6/29/2025||

I don't see any ink refills, when I run out do I have to buy a new $165 pen?

kolleraa 6/29/2025||

No, the pens take standard D1 refills and are easy to change - they'll be available soon in the shop there.

nateb2022 6/30/2025||

Oh that's quite a feature! I think a lot of people would love to customize their pen with different colors/types of ink that way, you should definitely add it somewhere in the description or to the FAQ

chantepierre 6/30/2025||

Still working on Alzo [1], my services startup for french architecture companies. These days I spend most of my time writing client-specific apps [2] that are hot loaded on demand into my Elixir monolith. So far I like this architecture a lot because it is hard to break anything in it.

[1] https://alzo.archi

[2] https://lucassifoni.info/blog/leveraging-hot-code-loading-fo...

ramijames 6/30/2025||

I've been building a satirical t-shirt brand for the miserably employed: https://www.miserablyemployed.com/

cantor_S_drug 6/30/2025|

This is a rising creator's channel on happily unemployed. I loved every bit of it.

My 5th gap year (unemployed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwJ5E8VJcI0

ramijames 6/30/2025||

Must be nice. I have kids and a wife and a house to support.

keithgroves 6/30/2025|

I'm building the Enact Protocol: https://enactprotocol.com

Turn any command into an AI-discoverable MCP tool with a few lines of YAML:

   name: hello-world
   description: "Greets the world"  
   command: "echo 'Hello, World"

Any AI agent can search for "greeting" and use your tool. I'm also building the first registry at https://enact.tools

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