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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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weagle05 11/10/2025|
For the first time in years I'm working somewhere that doesn't use JIRA or Trello and find myself without a Kanban system. I'm having serious withdrawals. I have limitations on using a non-approved IT system because I use customer data so I vibed a PWA Kanban system. Stores data in browser and only vanilla code. No external dependencies.

https://github.com/efriese/ikanban

goldenCeasar 11/9/2025||
I’m building a typed, array-oriented dataflow compiler that takes small declarative schemas and emits plain Ruby and JavaScript, with a C path. It has a mid-end with inlining, common subexpression elimination, constant folding, dead code elimination, loop fusion, and LICM.

Demo to try it out: https://kumi-play-web.fly.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/amuta/kumi

jvink 11/11/2025||
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

osigurdson 11/10/2025||
I created a small / 20 line Jupyter notebook that uses the Nthesis api which shapes, tags, and makes the data searchable, chattable and allows you to visualize relationships / data clusters (yep lots of games this month!). https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-working-on

I've always loved the "What are you working on" post. So many niche and interesting projects!

discordance 11/10/2025||
Problem: I collect a lot of music I come across in playlists on Youtube/YT music/Bandcamp, but tracks often disappear for various reasons.

Working on: Offline Youtube playlist download manager. It uses YT-DLP to get all my music and then enriches artist/track metadata using MusicBrainz, AcoustID, Discogs, LastFM, Spotify. Runs as an offline webapp so I can browse and play music locally. Might play around with recommendations for fun later.

Happy to publish the repo if anyone else would find this useful.

pbrum 11/11/2025||
We are close to landing our first customer - an enterprise-level one at that! We're Geneva Business Messaging, a tool to centralize, persist, and if necessary escalate critical interactions between large companies and their partners. For actual collaborative cross-company work in fields like engineering, logistics, or security - not spam, marketing, sales, or the other frequent purposes of B2B apps.

We're at genevabm.com if you want to check it out!

langitbiru 11/10/2025||
I'm building an app that helps users memorize Kanji and vocabulary with AI-generated visual and story mnemonics.

Right now, I'm adding a feature to practice writing Kanji and another that creates AI comics based on vocabulary you've learned.

Web: https://kanjipalace.com

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/id/app/kanjipalace/id6753351224

erikcapkovic 11/10/2025||
Me and my friends are working on a fitness companion app, used for tracking both nutrition intake and workouts. Taking the best from well known nutrition apps and workout apps like Hevy. In the core of it will be an AI Agent which can analyze the overall progress based on food and exercise logs and give personalized suggestions.

https://thefithub.sk

Maybe a bit too complex project for me to handle but hopefully will take it somewhere

dukedylan 11/10/2025||
I made a direnv-like utility which hooks into your shell to allow using Nix flakes for dev envs / dev shells anywhere:

https://github.com/dfrankland/envoluntary

This helped me bridge the gap between installing packages declaratively via NixOS / home-manager and defining them for each project being worked in via flake.nix / direnv / nix-direnv; which was needed since most projects don't use Nix.

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