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Posted by david927 3 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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singlepaynews 1 day ago|
I’ve built a small suite of honey-do automations for public defense attorneys in Washington (selenium scripts and OS calls to do docket intake / organization)

Currently packaging as a windows desktop app, recording a demo video, and then distributing

sharms 1 day ago||
Created https://www.spreadcheer.net - a Christmas list app that can store locally, isn't full of ads, no login required and should be pretty fast
patrickdavey 3 days ago||
I've been working on a little game for my daughter to help her learn the movement of chess pieces. https://www.minichessgames.com

It's currently just a "maze" type game where you have to get to a goal square in the minimum number of moves (there are rocks placed on the board to act as obstacles)

I'm in the process of making some very simple games like battling knights where they leave poo and you try to trap your opponent.

Fun making it even if it's just the two of us who'll enjoy it :). Partly I wanted her to learn that you can create for the internet not just consume...

Curiositry 3 days ago||
I have been tinkering on a little price drop alert scraper written in Python. It's run as a cron job, and every day it checks the prices of a list of urls (my clothing staples from various outdoor retailers, mostly) and sends me an email with any products that have gone on sale.

I've been running it for over a year, but now I have fixed it up and made a little landing page to see if there's interest for a stupid-simple price watch service like this (no need to install an extension or create an account):

https://www.curiositry.com/price-drop-alert/

stanleyv 3 days ago||
I'm building a better language learning Chrome extension. I wanted it to offer not just tools, but also the best Comprehensible Input practices.

Here’s what I plan to add that other tools don’t have:

- Super smooth Anki integration — saves words/sentences with full video context, native audio, screenshots, etc.

- A structured way to improve step by step.

- Real dictionaries for each language (as long as I can afford them ), not just AI translations.

What I’ve built so far:

- Word meanings in real context

- Real-time subtitle translation

- Auto detection of common collocations

- Target languages: English/Spanish/French/German/Japanese/Korean/Chinese. Native languages: English and Chinese.

If you also like learning languages through videos or podcast/audiobook, I’d love your feedback and ideas!

tikotus 3 days ago||
I posted in this monthly thread first time in May when I launched a daily logic puzzle, Clues by Sam. Since then it's grown significantly, and I couldn't be happier!

The game has a farily simple frontend, but there is a fairly complex constraint solving algorithm as part of the puzzle making process. What makes the puzzle quite unique is that you can't "guess". You can only make guesses that are provable by logic. The algorithm ensuring this has worked flawlessly for months now (though I've manually inserted some silly mistakes once or twice).

Today's puzzle is one of the hardest to date. The difficulty resets on Mondays, and then gets harder again towards Sunday.

https://cluesbysam.com

devonostendorf 3 days ago|
Clues By Sam has become THE morning fixation in our household since I first heard mention of it a few weeks ago - super fun, thank you!
tarasyarema 3 days ago||
We are building https://desplega.ai which is a QA agent that help teams ship fast without compromising quality.

We focus on making it as fast as possible, integrated into CI, MCP for local dev, and support both an autonomous (we call it discovery) and guided test creation approach.

We believe that in the era of vibe-coding, quality is key, as we are lazer focus on building a solution that scales with your product, and removes the burden of QA from your team.

Technically, we built an in-house engine that is in charge of generating the tests, that speeds up and gets better the more you use it.

biinjo 3 days ago||
Im finalizing the Google Calendar integration for Ganttify. https://gantt-chart.com

It will allow users to fully manage their calendar in a Gantt chart. Complete with customizations like dependencies between events, custom colors for time blocks and custom icons for single-day events (“milestone”-like).

Ganttify is a Gantt chart add-on for web applications or services that can benefit from a Gantt view. My goal is to expand the number of integrations for Ganttify and release a new integration every month or so. If any of you have an interesting (niche or non-niche) idea to integrate Ganttify with feel free to contact me.

gnavadev 1 day ago||
Prediction model for false positives to help my University SOC.

Automatic dataset builder and cleaner. (End product would be something like, you type that you want a dataset for dog breeds, and it builds and cleans the data automatically)

A flashcard app for my main stakeholder (My wife)

scratchylabs 3 days ago|
I'm working on some documentation for my framework/ide (https://glitter.nz). I'm thinking about all the new things I'm really hoping to add.
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