Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Pagecord

Pagecord (https://pagecord.com) - an open source blogging platform written in Rails. Post by email, reply by email, subscribe by email. Who needs Substack?

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 8 social mentions

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Catchup Rocks

Support for bigger group sizes (5 - 8 users) for https://catchup.rocks.

#Communication #Slack #Bots 1 social mentions

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Orbiter.Host

I’m working on Orbiter, simple static web hosting that allows anyone to upload a directory of files, use a CLI tool, or use a GitHub action to host their sites and apps in seconds. My co-worker and I started this as a side project because we were building so many sample apps, proofs of concept, and engineering as marketing apps and we were feeling more and more locked into Vercel every day. So we wanted to go back to client and server separation and when we did that, we realized most hosting providers have moved toward server-side rendering as the default. Client-side rendering isn’t for everyone, but plenty of people still make simple websites or even complex CSR web apps and don’t want to deal with fully integrated solutions like Vercel (and Netlify now to a lesser extent). Plus they want the flexibility of choosing different tools for their frontend and backend. This remains a fully bootstrapped side project for us, but it’s gotten the most traction of any side project either of us has worked on. https://orbiter.host.

#Hosting #Web Hosting #Static Web Hosting 2 social mentions

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UXWizz

Trying to do better marketing for my self-hosted analytics apps (https://uxwizz.com/ and https://wplytic.com/).

#Web Analytics #Heatmaps #Analytics 13 social mentions

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Use Digest

A daily briefing that bundles content from every source you care about into a simple newsletter format. https://usedigest.com.

#Email #RSS Reader #Productivity 6 social mentions

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The Coders Sage

Basic idea is to use 'AI'(yeah I know...) to increase our coding knowledge and curiosity about other languages and overall fingers memory, instead of just copy/pasting from LLMs. https://thecoderssage.com/.

#Education #Online Learning #Programming 1 social mentions

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OnlineOrNot

I added dark mode to OnlineOrNot's web app (https://onlineornot.com) recently, as part of a new focus on making the user experience as world-class as I can.

#Uptime Monitoring #Website Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 64 social mentions

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AttendList

I'm still building AttendList, a Google Meet attendance tracking extension (https://attendlist.com). It's starting to pick up! Which is cool — a few new users are trickling in each week. I think it's about time I invest more time in marketing now though (which is probably what I should be doing now instead of posting on HN!).

#Meetings #Meeting Tools #Attendance Management Software 1 social mentions

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Strateamic

I’m working on TalkCue.app: an simple, clean and intuitive tool to generate 1on1 questions for more useful and engaging 1on1s [1]. This is a lightweight alternative to my earlier startup attempt Strateamic [2]. [1]: https://talkcue.app [2]: https://strateamic.com.

#Productivity #Geolocation #Developer Tools 1 social mentions

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Scraping Fish

Adding a support for direct CDP connection with our custom browsers cluster that powers our web scraping API (https://scrapingfish.com/) so that our customers can integrate it into their existing workflows.

#Data Extraction #Web Scraping #Web Scraping API 33 social mentions

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Lichess

I'm a big chess buff, and will say that the hard part is not making an engine (which is hard!), but making an engine that plays poorly, well. What I mean is: engines are very smart and better than the best human. When you make a "dumb" engine, you are telling a chess god to intentionally make mistakes. The mistakes they make, however, are not the same mistakes a beginner chess player would make. Today, beginners are discouraged from learning by playing against bots because of this; It simply doesn't serve you in human games. Lichess has a "humanlike" bot[1] but I haven't played with it yet. I think this problem will haunt you, if you get past the whole "create a chess engine" problem :) I have tried and failed to do this in the past. [1] https://lichess.org/@/maia1.

#Chess #Games #Online Games 913 social mentions

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Promptwatch

AI SEO/GEO (or whatever it will be called eventually) monitoring for companies. We monitor how companies/brands rank in LLMs/AI Search, we don't use the API but the user interfaces (since these are totally different). We run thousands of prompts to analyse responses and combine that with website traffic to get an understanding of what is being said and how well you rank. I didn't anticipate Google moving to AI mode so fast, to be totally honest, which makes it really interesting because we likely see rank tracking and keyword tracking disappear in the near future. website: https://promptwatch.com As a fun side project, I run https://homestra.com a kind of Zillow for Europe but for second/vacation homes.

#Reputation Management #SEO Tools #AI 1 social mentions

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SendBroadcast.net

I have been working on Broadcast (https://sendbroadcast.net). It’s an email marketing tool, self-hosted, for use with existing ESPs like Postmark, Mailgun, Amazon SES, etc. Been working on this since September 2024, and have been consistently hacking away at it weekly. Been making updates weekly: https://sendbroadcast.net/changelog.

#Email Marketing #Email Marketing Platforms #Email Automation 1 social mentions

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ComputePrices.com

I’ve been researching cloud GPU providers and collecting per hour prices at https://computeprices.com. My thesis is that the next few decades will be driven by the prices of compute and kWh. This is my way of getting a better understanding of the ecosystem.

#Cloud Computing #Price Comparison #Productivity 1 social mentions

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Webhooks.fyi

Updating https://webhooks.fyi/ as a resource on designing, building, and consuming webhooks.

#Developer Tools #APIs #API Tools 4 social mentions

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Periplus

Https://periplus.app A website for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, quizzes and flashcards. Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time. Currently using the graph for topic suggestions, though I've also been playing around with steering document generation with it as well.

#AI #Writing Tools #Productivity 1 social mentions

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TheBlue.social

I have been building a Bluesky+X cross-posting tool with Bluesky analytics — https://theblue.social for the last few months. 2nd time I've gone full indie in 30 years.

#Social Media Tools #Social Media Scheduling #Bluesky 3 social mentions

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Replyhub

Replyhub (https://replyhub.co), a tool that helps businesses find potential customers by monitoring Reddit and X conversations. The idea is simple: instead of manually searching for posts where people are asking for recommendations or comparing products, you set up Replyhub with your business details and keywords. It then tracks relevant conversations and notifies you when there’s a good opportunity to join in. It also suggests context-aware replies and helps collect leads from people who show real interest. If you want to reach niche communities where people are actively discussing products, it might be useful. Would love to hear feedback or questions from folks here.

#Productivity #Geolocation #Developer Tools 5 social mentions

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Vocabuo - The vocabulary app

Https://vocabuo.com App with dynamic/flexible spaced repetition flashcards for language learning. Recently I've added dialog & definition cards, so I can learn German from short dialogs with images and audio.

#AI #Photos & Graphics #Web Development Tools 10 social mentions

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dateit

Https://dateit.com A social event planning app to capture the fun my friends and I had with facebook events, but without the facebook. We have native apps for iOS, Android and the web. Dateit has a generous free features compared to competing apps (SMS invites, photo upload, customization). My cofounder and I have fully bootstrapped this and now it mostly self sustains which is an exciting achievement! It's been a fun project to hack on for the last couple years and spawned several interesting side quests. For example, the backend is in Swift (as I started as an iOS dev) so that has been an exciting space to work in.

#Events #Event Management #Event Registration 5 social mentions

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Livedocs

#Data Automation #Document Automation #Productivity 1 social mentions

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ResumeBuildAI.com

Tailor your resume and cover letter in minutes: https://resumebuildai.com.

#Careers #CV Tools #Resume Builder 1 social mentions

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Luau

I am building a webserver using Luau[1] and Lune[2], which will be used to host my own website. I haven't been this excited in a long time, when it comes to trying out a new programming language. Luau seems to make Lua _perfect_ (except for the classic 1 based indexing). And with Lune it also includes a very simple way to serve requests, which has always been a headache to do with regular Lua in a cross-platform way. I am hoping this will be the way in which I write most of my future scripts and projects. [1]: https://luau.org/ [2]: https://lune-org.github.io/docs.

#Web App #Green Tech #Tech 32 social mentions

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IPLocate

Working on expanding https://iplocate.io - an IP geolocation and threat data service I've worked on since 2017. I've found it really satisfying to solve the data challenges that come along the way, from "where on earth could this data come from" to collecting, storing, parsing, validating and serving constantly. It's also - by nature - something that's never going to be "done". There's always something to improve. I love it! We now offer more types of data (ASN/whois, proxy/threat detection, so on) than most other providers, more accurate and more frequently updated, at a tenth of the cost, which is something I'm really happy about. For anyone interested, you can make 1,000 requests day free, or reach out if you have an open source/public interest project for an unlimited key or access to the data. I'd also love to hear any suggestions for additional data types to add.

#Geolocation #Geocoding #Developer Tools 2 social mentions

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Shuffle.dev

Https://shuffle.dev For the last few weeks, we have been working on catching up on features for vibe coders (prompt -> project), but now we are back to our strengths (visual editor and new beautiful UI libraries for Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, and more). We realized there are just too many apps for vibe coders, and it would be better to work on something unique that we are really good at!

#Design Tools #Website Builder #Web Development Tools 25 social mentions

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Routing24

I'm still working on Routing24 https://routing24.com - free route optimization and planning app without stops or vehicles limit. It's been 6 month since our first appearance on Show HN [1], and I'm working with first free users on bugs, improved workflows and UX, geocoding, solver features, future mobile app etc. etc. We officially crossed the limits of 1500 stops per optimization with some waste collection guys, all still running fully client-side in the browser. [1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995427">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995427</a>.

#Fleet Management And Logistics #Transportation And Logistic #Logistics And Supply Chain 1 social mentions

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Frigate NVR

#3D #WebCamera Apps #Group Chat & Notifications 82 social mentions