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?

464 points | 1369 commentspage 16

g_host56 11/9/2025|

Working on therapy software, for porn addiction.

https://zenstreak.app/

nasir 11/10/2025||

I'm building a tool for managing Google Ads campaing called Rudys.AI:

- Search campaigns: - automatically crawl website, find the offerings and generate new campaigns - Provide qualitative recommendations such as, relevant terms to include/exclude, e.g. including typos as keywords, improvements on landing page

- Shopping campaign: - Smart labeling of all products to allocate the budget among Top performers, Rising and Ghost products to avoid draining the budget. E.g. instead of a campaign with 10k products with one budget , turn it into 5 campaigns with different budgets doubling down on what works.

Feel free to reach out for a demo

tleyden5iwx 11/10/2025||

I built Arty: https://github.com/vibemachine-labs/arty

It's an open-source iOS voice agent that uses the OpenAI Realtime API (bring your own key).

Current connectors: Hacker News (check demo in readme!), Google Drive, GitHub, and web search.

I got frustrated with the limitations of the OpenAI Realtime Voice iOS app—for example, it can't even connect to Google Drive.

Arty is self-contained except for the OpenAI model and any third-party services you connect to. Uses local tools—no MCP support yet.

If you'd like additional connectors, feel free to open an issue.

lifty 11/10/2025|

This is super cool. I noticed that you mention that you will add MCP support soon. I was wondering, do you think it would be possible to control MacOS via voice, remotely, through one of the available MCP servers that allow MacOS control. Do you think that would be feasible?

saturatedfat 11/10/2025||

yes but ud ideally want ur own high uptime mac mini

lifty 11/10/2025||

Got it. But you could just use it on your MacBook on those occasions where you want to "talk" to your computer remotely to check on some progress it made on a specific job. My use case would involve switching desktops, activating specific windows, and reading their content and taking some action. But depends more specifically on the MCP that exposes that functionality, and not your app. I was asking because you're probably more familiar on how reliable such an approach might be.

tpae 11/9/2025||

I've been building with local AI, on Apple Silicon. It's only 8mb, but runs 30% faster than Ollama.

https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus

mattfrommars 11/11/2025|

did you really solo develop this entire application? including dinoki-ai which appears to be SAAS?

justhw 11/10/2025||

I've working on an AI Thumbnail Generator for making YouTube thumbnails and social media images the last few months. https://thumbnail.ai/

rriley 11/10/2025|

Nice work. I am bookmarking this. Looks really good!

danbrooks 11/9/2025||

Built a web interface for Magic: the Gathering draft pick advice, trained on top player data.

Website: https://statisticaldrafting.com

Turns out to be a small niche, but I enjoy it!

ramon156 11/9/2025||

Updating partijgedrag, which is a voting compass based on how parties vote on motions in the Netherlands!

Apart from that I have a personal SaaS idea I want to release soon. Its something that started as a joke but the joke is still not finished

thecopy 11/10/2025||

Building an MCP Gateway: https://www.gatana.ai/

Idea came from one of my clients, where they wanted to use AI agents throughout the organization but at that moment there was no centralized governance or security concepts. This pulls everything at one place and tries to solve the security concept with per-user credentials, which can be provided out-of-band through the MCP protocol (generated a one-time link end-user can use to sign in to the underlying MCP server with OAuth or provide API key)

OfflineSergio 11/10/2025||

I'm still working on WithAudio (https://desktop.with.audio). A one time payment Text To Speech Desktop App. Because I think everything doesn't have to be a subscription.

In October I finished the PDF parser. It was a big challenge extracting PDF contect with correct paragraph breaks on user's computer locally. I'm gonna write about this soon.

Now I'm working on a web extension that talks to the app that run locally on your system so you can use WithAudio in your browser with very good performance, 100% local and private.

var_let 11/10/2025|

I’m working on a Chrome extension called Console Dock, which adds a floating dev console window directly inside the page. I built it as a fun side project because I often work on smaller screens and hate constantly switching or resizing panels. Still very experimental, but it’s already proving useful for quick debugging sessions.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/console-dock/biplbp...

Sateeshm 11/10/2025|

I used Eruda before. Is it similar?

Looks great BTW. Installed.

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