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

Posted by david927 11/9/2025

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

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shubham13596 11/10/2025|

There are many language-learning apps, but almost none that focus on improving conversational Hindi for kids.

Made this web app for my nephew, based in Singapore, after watching him struggle to find anyone to practice Hindi with outside of family calls (since most of his friends are Chinese). The idea is to have a 24x7 partner to speak with Hindi and make it fun. This can complement the formal Hindi classes that most kids of Indian diaspora parents take.

My nephew started using this and is enjoying it!

Link: https://www.hindispeakingtutor.in/

Looking to hear feedback from the community!

taariqlewis 11/10/2025||

I have always wanted to learn Rust, but was too distracted to get started.

So, I started working with Claude on building a postgres database replication application. I'm learning Postgres internals as well as how brittle database replication and subscription can really be. Although this is for Seren, you can replicate between any PG databases. https://github.com/serenorg/postgres-seren-replicator

Big learning: Claude Sonnet with Rust is massively productive. I'm impressed, but code bloat is a thing.

casid 11/10/2025||

I‘m working on Astroloot, think of a Diablo/PoE like ARPG but in space.

I‘ve just finished the final pinnacle boss of the endgame in the version released last weekend.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3498390/Astroloot

skrig 11/9/2025||

I'm working on boiling the ocean - we're building a new CRM to compete with some of the big players. I tried very hard to avoid doing this, but I've helped enough business owner friends set up CRMs to realize there's MUCH to be desired. My goal is to create a CRM that people rave about - something that is very rare. Pretty much everyone I help views CRMs as a necessary evil. Our bold challenge is - can we make a CRM that is delightful to use?

Of course we have to slap "AI" on it in this market, but we plan on adding AI features that are actually thoughtful and not just a glorified chatbot.

ebbi 11/9/2025||

Sounds interesting! As someone who works in Revenue Operations the CRM space is ripe for disruption, especially around using CRM data to help sales teams explore the data.

I vibecoded a POC of what something I think would work (around the latter part around exploring the data). Need to complete it and start testing it.

skrig 11/10/2025||

Thanks! I totally agree. It starts with getting the basics right. I think this is where most CRMs get it wrong - getting users to correctly enter and maintain clean data is a challenge. We're trying to build smarter schemas for contacts, quotes, sales, etc. but we're also making a really intuitive UI for easily updating information. Further still, we're trying to automatically fill in data for the customer. Many fields can be automatically inferred based on the context of a deal.

Once we get this right, I think the next step is exactly what you said, building really good tools to explore the data. Making it easy for non-technical users to run machine learning on their data to make business decisions or see cool visualizations. We realize that so many of our customers want to know this stuff and have no way of getting at it! We've got a lot of ideas for both visualizing and analyzing the data. I think there's a ton of potential for cool things here. Heatmaps, spiderwebs, interactive charts, etc. Stuff that brings the data to life. One of the common asks from some of our early customers is a heatmap of the world to visualize their sales/reach and see changes over time. Visualizing progress per sales region, etc. I think sales especially has a lot of opportunities for better lead generation and qualification as well.

joewhale 11/10/2025||

i'm currently unemployed but i have experience as a CSM and account manager for multiple companies (all have used Salesforce) if you ever want feedback or bounce ideas.

skrig 11/10/2025||

This would be awesome, we're in hardcore MVP build mode right now - when we get closer to launch I'll hit you up.

I'm a little delusional, but I think there's ground to steal back from Salesforce. Most folks I talk to hate how complicated Salesforce is (one even calls it Salesfarce). I've heard a story or two about smaller companies trying to adopt it and wasting a hundred thousand or two implementing Salesforce only to have it never get used. On top of that, you need to train your employees to use Salesforce effectively.

The key is simplicity, building a CRM that anyone can instantly understand just by looking at it. This is insanely hard but I think we'll pull it off. I'll show you more what I mean when I reach out. Thanks!

elwafa 11/13/2025||

I'm working on Volt-Test, a performance testing engine I started building after repeatedly debugging concurrency and race-condition issues in Laravel/PHP applications.

The idea is to bring something like k6 to the PHP ecosystem:

A Go-based load-testing engine

A PHP SDK that lets developers write performance tests inside PHPUnit

Assertions for latency, error rates, and business logic

Can spin up local servers and run in CI/CD

Working on distributed mode to scale tests across multiple nodes

Currently building the cloud version so teams can run large tests without managing infrastructure

For Laravel developers, I also released a package that integrates Volt-Test directly into the framework:

https://github.com/volt-test/laravel-performance-testing

It supports automatic route discovery and makes it easy to write performance scenarios using familiar testing patterns.

Docs + examples: https://php.volt-test.com

If anyone here has experience building or running distributed load-testing systems, I’d appreciate any feedback or pointers.

ParanoidShroom 11/10/2025||

Reverse image search to match dirty XTC tablets to lab reports https://pillscanner.app/

https://kauwenofspauwen.be/en Belgian food hygiene rating from official gov reports

matty22 11/10/2025||

Been working on documenting as much publicly-accessible stained glass as possible with https://stainedglassatlas.com/. No fancy tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). Come document any local stained glass in your area!

michaelmior 11/11/2025||

I'm working on a JSON schema discovery tool, JSONoid[0]. JSONoid can discover many more features of JSON Schema than existing tools such as regular expression patterns, formats, and dependencies. I'm also working on integrating this with some past work I've done on using LLMs to augment JSON Schemas[1,2].

There are a number of use cases for such a tool. One is for helping data analysts who are handed a pile of JSON documents to be able to more quickly and effectively craft analytics pipelines for heterogeneous data where just inspecting a few documents isn't sufficient. Another is to help automate API specification generation and regression testing. Definitely interested in any feedback.

[0] https://github.com/dataunitylab/jsonoid-discovery/ [1] https://michael.mior.ca/blog/llms-for-schema-augmentation/ [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03286

michelangelodev 11/9/2025||

https://www.saintbeluga.org/

I was a YC founder in 2006 and now work as a data scientist full-time, but on the side I also do Christian apologetics, helping fellow engineers/scientists/mathematicians seek answers to life's deepest questions.

Some cool articles for the HN crowd:

- [published several days ago] Medical miracles in Lourdes, France recognized by the Catholic Church 2018-2025: https://www.saintbeluga.org/our-lady-of-lourdes-immaculate-c...

- My interview of Evan O'Dorney, a three-time Putnam Fellow and two-time IMO gold medalist, who converted to Catholic Christianity: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-i-conversion-of-a-p...

- In-depth scientific overview of Eucharistic miracles: https://www.saintbeluga.org/eucharistic-miracles-god-under-t...

- Conversion testimony by Harvard astronomy professor Karin Oberg: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-ii-conversions-at-h...

BJones12 11/10/2025|

If we collect DNA from eucharistic miracles can we clone Jesus?

michelangelodev 11/10/2025||

I know you're being facetious, but DNA tests in the Tixtla case said the DNA was too degraded to analyze.

Genego 11/10/2025|

For the past 2 months I have been doing a heavy deep dive into image generation and image generation editing capabilities. This then had me discover that you can generate storyboards for short stories, and automate the creation of these as videos with video generation models. This is a topic that interests me heavily, and as such I am now building my own workflows around that. I am documenting the entire journey here:

https://edwin.genego.io/blog

https://edwin.genego.io/blog/lpa-studio

https://edwin.genego.io/blog/ai-branding

It's not something I am looking to commercialize, but I actually did drop out of film school (with semesters in creative storytelling) to pursue software 15 years ago. And I feel like this will open up a whole new way of visual storytelling as well as personal and product branding. I have gotten quite some emails about it, from interesting people in different industries, as some more strongly worded (not so nice) emails from someone in the VFX industry since I started. Its by far one of the most interesting tangents I have ever went on.

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