Posted by david927 11/9/2025
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I would love feedback on the post, how do you see the tech stack for software control evolving into this new category.
I've spent several years since Covid times solo-developing an ad-free website with 50+ solitaire/puzzle games.
I've gathered some feedback from users from HN already and now trying to fix things.
I'm looking to genuinely improve the experience so would be incredibly grateful for any feedback. I'm also wondering what it lacks – any particular games or modes?
The iron rule is no direct interaction with the world. These are things that players can in theory always start on their own as long as they can communicate.
Loads of similar products out there, but non that did all of: open source code with attested releases, recorded mic and system audio to work with any meeting app and used Apple Intelligence for private summarisation. In beta, and also just released a experimental version with self hosted Ollama support.
You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every day - think a better version of the Daily Mixes. You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to customise what music you'll get.
What it allows you to do, though, is create your playlists with extended filters. E.g. you can select genres, and at the same time exclude genres - that helps with the "cross-contamination". You also get a view of all the artists that match your selections and you can add exclusions for them as well. It is a bit of manual work, but it works pretty good for me personally.
It's been going well for a side project and now I'm thinking of expanding to have a directory of urbanists on a map so you can easily find people involved in the local discourse and how to get involved.
It's still early in development, but it has a large number of features that I've always wanted. A dynamic entity system so users can create their own entities with their own traits. Random tables. A madlibs still generator. All of these things work together, too. You can have tables that randomly pick other tables values, or you can reference your own custom entities. And all this can be tied to maps or a calendar. Again, all something users can create. And of course, all of this can be shared out so you can have a published gazetteer and encyclopedia of your world that is easy to manage.
Mostly done because existing systems were too clunky, and wikis don't offer the same level of control and reuse. For example, you can reference entities parameters in other entities allowing you to embed data in multiple places and have it have a single source of truth.
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You can try it yourself at https://playground.keyframelabs.com/playground/persona-1 and there's a (semi)technical blog post at https://www.keyframelabs.com/blog/persona-1
The main use case we designed for was language learning, particularly having a conversational partner -- generally we've found that adding a face to the voice really helps trigger the fight or flight response, which we've found to be the hardest part of speaking a new language with confidence.
But in building out the system around the model to enable that use case (tool use on a canvas for speaking prompts and images, memory to make conversations less stale, etc.), we think there's potential for other use cases too.