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Posted by david927 11/9/2025

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

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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robowo 11/10/2025|
I have been working on https://easymiet.eu/ It is specific to the German rental market. Basically if you want to rent an appartment in Germany most landlords require you to fill out a non-standardized self-disclosure form. That can be annoying to the landlord because especially in larger cities you might have a couple of hundret applicants and it is also annoying to the possible renter since they have to fill out the same information for every apartment they apply for. This is where easymiet comes in. As a landlord you can generate a viewing, shared it through QR or a link. Interested renters can apply using their profile. It also has a application approve and dismissal workflow automatically sending emails to the applicant. My plan was to monitize it selling applicants the ability to add more info to their profile like a picture or relevant documents. However so far I haven't been able to generate much interest. The tech stack is Next JS with BetterAuth, Drizzle and Postgres. It is hosted on a Hetzner VPS using Kamal ( wrote a blogpost about that if you are interested: https://markow.dev/blog/complex-next-js-app-kamal )
RamblingCTO 11/10/2025|
Quick feedback: looks way too empty for me to look real. Could also just be a scam. Also: why would I as an applicant add more data for money? The landlord has the benefit, they should pay for that.

> Wir sind nicht bereit oder verpflichtet, an Streitbeilegungsverfahren vor einer Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle teilzunehmen.

Doesn't help haha. Maybe explain why?

dewey 11/10/2025||
To be fair, the thread is called "What are you working on", so it's by definition work-in-progress.

> Also: why would I as an applicant add more data for money? The landlord has the benefit, they should pay for that.

In many hot rental markets (My experience mostly with Berlin), you are mostly not in a position to say "the landlord should pay that" and everyone is desperate to supply the best, most complete and most convincing documents even if it feels bad to fork over that much personal data to a random stranger on a platform.

wowczarek 11/9/2025||
Bread and butter stuff. Pulling together all of the assorted algorithms and data structures I implemented in C over the years out of necessity - lists, trees, stacks, queues, hash tables, memory pools, etc. - aligning the APIs, cleaning up and merging into a library. It's a background project but super fun. This and several parsers - JSON, some config file formats, and parsers for some GPS / GNSS receiver data protocols. FSMs also always feel like nice, clean fun. And prematurely optimising every bit.
ssiddharth 11/9/2025||
I’m building Sink It for Reddit (https://gosinkit.com), a browser extension to make Reddit usable on the web. It’s similar to RES with broader support for all the different Reddit UIs (there are 4).

It’s mostly free with only old Reddit features gated behind a one time $5 fee. The app has a few hundred thousand users on the Apple platforms but recently it was invited to join Mozilla’s Recommended Extensions program so I’m hoping to grow the non-Apple user base.

Benjamin_Dobell 11/10/2025||
Creativity and game development clubs for kids:

https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids

Basically, I'm building tooling and providing these to community run clubs that help turn kids from consumers into creators. I'm focusing on game development initially, but have plans to expand into other areas of creativity.

We're using Godot + GodotJS (which I'm a maintainer of): https://breaka.club/blog/godots-most-powerful-scripting-lang...

I've much experience building software for creators. I'm a (core) developer of Tabletop Simulator. I worked at a now defunct startup which allowed people to create and distribute their own interactive fiction stories using partner third-party IPs.

I have a background in EdTech. I used to be Head of Engineering at Ender, where we ran custom Minecraft servers for kids: https://joinender.com/ and prior to that I was Head of Engineering at Prequel / Beta Camp, where we ran courses that helped teenagers learn about entrepreneurship: https://www.beta.camp/. During peak COVID I also ran a social emotion development book subscription service with my wife, a primary school teacher.

65 11/9/2025||
Sewing my own clothing.

But of course the programmer in me needs to make my own software to design patterns with code. Enjoying using paper.js to do all the complicated math to calculate lengths and angles.

rimmontrieu 11/9/2025||
Month three working on my game development resources website: https://raizensoft.com/tutorials/

I write almost daily article about libGDX - my most favorite code-centric game framework. There are now over 100 articles covering topics from basics to advances. I plan to post more because this is more or less a passionate project.

In the future I hope it evolves into a definitive resource for learning game development with Java and libGDX.

jonhohle 11/10/2025||
A tool for “grep”ing MIPS binaries[0] to find duplicate code (functions, segments, sections) primarily to aid in decompiling.

It does some neat things to match instructions while avoiding location dependent references, then creates a hash that can be used to used to search binaries in linear (or faster!) time.

Still a WIP, but being used on at least one decomp project.

0 - https://github.com/ttkb-oss/mipsmatch

ChrisMarshallNY 11/10/2025||
Ugh. It's time for me to start transitioning my iOS/Watch/Mac programs to be "Liquid Glass-native."

I should be able to do it with my various personal apps, but one app I've written, was done in concert with a professional graphic designer, and he is not happy with LG, so I expect that app to be a pain.

These are my apps: https://littlegreenviper.com/AppDocs/

userium 11/11/2025||
I'm working on https://www.evcourse.com/ (I work in the EV industry)
tillcarlos 11/11/2025|
This is pretty cool. can imagine it being useful for people thinking to switch to am EV.

the popup for miles/km stays too much on top. it should go away after selecting it once.

userium 11/12/2025||
Thank you! Good tip, I'll update the miles/km
zizhouwang 11/13/2025|
Built min., it's like Airtable on top of an email client. Add any column you want, extract structured data from emails automatically, so you can sort, group, emails for your team.

First use case is hello@ email addresses for fellow founders. Free for founders!

https://getmin.ai

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