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Posted by david927 2 days ago

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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blurayfin 2 days ago|
I'm working on Chatolia, an AI chatbot builder.

The goal is to let anyone create task‑specific agents, train with their own data and an embed it into any site.

Training is simple: paste text, upload files (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, CSV), or paste URLs and it will crawl/index them into a per‑agent knowledge base.

https://www.chatolia.com/

I'd love to know what you think.

vulkoingim 2 days ago||
Working on a little project to make Spotify recommendations better.

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.

https://riffradar.org/

zamalek 2 days ago|
Does this deal with, what I call the "Armin Problem?" I typically listen to EDM and there is an extremely popular DJ named Armin van Buuren, and he has other aliases (which exacerbates the issue). His sets end up directly on music platforms, and he pulls in a ton of EDM sub-genres (which makes him a great DJ!). Any recommendation algorithm that visits one of his aliases is doomed to be connected to every other sub-genre, so I might be listening to progressive trance, and be in the mood for that, and end up on deep house (as an extreme example). Within EDM, genres can be as different as blues is to metal.
vulkoingim 2 days ago||
Not directly, no. I still rely on the data that Spotify gives me that relates to artists' information; and it's not great a lot of the time. E.g. there are obvious cases where artists belong to genres that they should not belong to. I do have some ideas for improvement, but they are still WIP.

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.

veryrandomguy 2 days ago||
Building an ai powered threats deception proxy.

It's a honeypot system that uses AI to mess with attackers. When someone tries to hack your app, it detects them and serves up fake responses based on attack type.

The system learns from attackers behavior and creates convincing decoys to waste their time and frustrate their efforts. It's basically a trap that gets smarter the more attackers poke at it.

https://github.com/0tSystemsPublicRepos/IfritProxy

al_x_t 2 days ago||
I'm currently working on a directory of apps and tools, created by indie makers and small teams: https://www.discoverindie.tools.

Only indie make products, fully bootstrapped.

The idea is to both give founders another space to showcase their products and for early adopters and general public to browse through bootstrapped alternatives.

jvink 1 day ago||
Working on cross-flock discovery in sanctum [1] so I can cut a 1.0 release hopefully before Christmas.

I am always looking for more people to test and play with it or even review the code. We've got a nice little user community going.

Usually this comments drowns in the crowd of the massive amount of awesome stuff people are building, but if you find sanctum useful, hit me up. Good things are happening.

Stay happy

[1] https://sanctorum.se

65 2 days ago||
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.

letsgetcracking 2 days ago||
My friend and I working on PennyPost, financial analyst that solely focuses on your spending.

It looks at your spending across all your accounts, categorizes, identifies patterns, trends, runs predictions and sends weekly/monthly summary email.

No apps or dashboards, just insight.

Plug in once and forget. Takes 5 minutes to keep track of your spending.

We are still at early stages but you can check it out here

https://pennypost-landing.vercel.app/

Appreciate any feedback you might have!

allywilson 2 days ago||
Made a game: https://fourmula.awsum.info

I think it's too difficult in its current form.

sbinnee 2 days ago||
I am finally making my own blog. I have been only planning for ages. I found that I had a lot to say for the past years working on AI, and I want to record them somewhere. I do not expect a lot of visitors or at all in fact. The blog is going to be just for me to remember stuffs and to keep track of them.

I am using hugo to build suckless static pages. LLM helped me so that I don't need to read all their docs. I haven't finished it yet nor posted a single blog. But there will be one soon.

kkarpkkarp 2 days ago|
How big of a threat is AI to your career? Upload your CV and it will be analyzed. You'll also get steps on how to reduce this risk.

https://www.isairisk.com/

Still working on this and some things will definitely change, but IMO the system prompt is already solid, so that the response isn't unnecessarily scary on one hand, but not too general on the other

starik36 2 days ago|
Tried it, but it says it can't extract text from PDF resume.
kkarpkkarp 2 days ago||
Unfrotunatelly, it happens and I am aware of this. In that case:

a) you are lucky because your CV is not scannable by AI so it's good if you want to keepyoru carieer as far as possible from AI tools ;)

b) you are unlucky: most likely the software recruiters are using to pre-screen applications (and they are using it a lot) is not seeing your CV either so you will be dropped on the first stage, :( work on this if you consider finding new job nowadays

c) if you still want to use my tool consider extracting CV's text to .txt or reformat PDF (this will help you with point b)

starik36 18 hours ago||
I am confused. What makes it not scannable? It's just a Word doc exported to PDF.
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