Currently a one-man side project:

https://laboratory.love

Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their “safe” BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.

This seemed like a solvable problem.

Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid’s snacks, whatever you’re curious about.

Here’s how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn’t reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. Laboratory.love uses the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to test, you do.

The bigger picture: Companies respond to market pressure. Transparency creates that pressure. When consumers have data, supply chains get cleaner.

Technical details: Laboratory.love works with ISO 17025-accredited labs, test three samples from different production lots, detect chemicals down to parts per billion. The testing protocol is public.

So far a couple dozen products have received some funding, six products have been fully funded (five product results published, the sixth is at the lab as I write this!)

You can browse products, add your own, or just follow specific items you’re curious about: https://laboratory.love

Looking at the tofu reports, I really don’t know what to make of them. Is there a way to give more meaning to them for the average person? Also, I’d love to see a sort by “almost funded” option.

This is so incredibly important, well done. The problem of our food being steeped in plastic hits the news here and there, but it should be front and center in my opinion. Testosterone has been plummeting for decades and it scares the heck out of me. The hormone whose job is “form goals, shrug off failure, and try again!” is being destroyed and corporations are given a free pass to pump us full of phthalates and bisphenol. It’s infuriating.

I’m currently building Visirya, an app that helps people record their night dreams and transforms them into short videos and written journals. The bigger goal is to use this dream data to create dream cartographies, essentially maps of recurring themes, emotions, and symbols—to uncover patterns and insights across dreams over time.

So far, we’ve built the video generation and dream journaling features. The app is live on TestFlight, and we’re preparing a major update soon that includes a new better UI, and dream questionnaire to help with pattern recognition and dream mapping.

Would love to hear thoughts, feedback, or connect with others working on similar intersections of tech and the mind! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can find the TestFlight link on our website: https://visirya.com

I’m working on a system that helps surgeons make precise bone cuts during knee replacement surgery. Believe it or not, manual cuts are still the standard in that type of procedure. Robotic systems exist but they are very costly, big, and actually add time to the surgery (bad news when you are under anesthesia and your leg is in a tourniquet).

It uses 4k stereoscopic capture and bunch of ML models to match bone position with sub-millimeter precision. The surgeon screws a metal base piece into the bone, and we detect where that is in space. Then, a Stewart Platform adjusts another part that is placed onto the base. The robotic adjustment allows the base to be placed in a ballpark area, with the robotically-adjusted piece oriented in the exact spot where the surgeon needs to cut.

The net result is a robotic system that is many times cheaper than the least expensive incumbent, decreases surgery time significantly, reduces error, and basically “just works” as opposed to requiring a ton of training. We are debuting at a tradeshow in October.

I’m working on an ISBN database that fetches information from several other services, such as Hardcover.app, Google Books, and ISBNDB, merges that information, and return something more complete than using them alone. It also saves that information in the database for future lookups.

Mostly because I’m working on a personal library management service called Shelvica to solve my own problems[1], and none of those services provided all the information on a book. One might provide the series, the other might provide genres, and yet another might provide a cover with good dimensions, but none provided everything, so I decided to work on something of my own (called Librario).

While Shelvica is the focus, Librario could become its own thing in time, so I don’t mind the sidetracking.

I also plan on having a “ISBN Search” kind of website that feeds from that database as a way to let users search for information about books, which then feeds the service’s database, making it stronger for Shelvica.

I open source everything I make, but I’m still wondering if these will be open sourced or not. I’ll probably go with the EUPL 1.2 license if I do decide on open sourcing them.

[1]: My wife and I have a personal library with around 1800 books, but most applications for management are either focused on ebooks or choke with this many books. Libib is the exception, but I wanted a little more.

Didn’t have the time yet, but it’s on my todo list. I have extractors for Google Books, Hardcover.app, and ISBNDB already working, and Amazon, Goodreads, and Anna’s Archive in the todo list.

I do plan on including a link to the book on Anna’s Archive in the “ISBN Search” website. At least to the search page with the filters already filled.

I’ve been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy.

https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of the editor UI for the engine. It’s a bespoke C parser that supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user through a ‘scripting-like’ language you embed directly in your source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.

https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof

That is so neat. I built something a little bit like this for a simulator of a 3D portal mill. Trying it on real wood got expensive fast so for debugging runs and trials of designs I would run a simulation where the toolbit would hack out the shape out of a three dimensional array of voxels. This was then displayed using a very simple engine built with PyGame. I got a lot of use out of that and it saved days (and a small forest).

Great to see something along those lines but with much better visuals.

I finally collected the courage to release my operating system into the wild:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400006

I’m super curious if anybody will pick it up and do something useful with it. This was a couple of years of my life and I absolutely loved working on it but having a child put a hard stop to such entertainment for many years. Now, a good 30 years later I finally found the time to resurrect it.

I’m not sure yet if I am going to do more work on it or leave it as it is, it’s good enough to give someone new to OS development a running start and a foundation to build on.

I’m building TypeQuicker: https://www.typequicker.com

Typing is an extremely underrated skill and especially in the age of LLMs, it is the bottle neck in a lot of cases.

I’ve never been fond of existing typing apps; excessive ads, typing random words, etc so I built my own.

You can practice typing code, use your own text, etc

We have a paid plan for features where you can type natural text that targets your weak points (via SmartPractice) and many others. Other than that, it’s both free to use (and ad-free)

nice!

i open and close parens, brackets and curlies at the same time.

is there a mode/setting to capture this intent?

A new type of development environment for working with agents

https://github.com/stravu/crystal

It supports Claude Code and Codex, but has you constantly working on multiple features in Git worktrees. This way you are always able to stay busy while waiting on your agents.

It has built in tools for review, such as a diff viewer, and a quick button to run your application in different worktrees for testing. It has completely transformed the way I work.

Earth Meta Insights

Since a few months back I am working on a side project to give a snapshot of the regional and global species and natural ecosystems.

I use manual (me) and automated tools (web and literature search tools, llms, visualizers …) to search, extract, organize and visualize ecosystem literature and data.

A regional example of mountain gorilla’s of Rwanda:
https://www.earthmetainsights.com/emi-cards-gorillas-of-rwan…

A global example of Elephants across the world:
https://www.earthmetainsights.com/emi-cards-state-of-elephan…

If there are some species that are you would like to see a snapshot of, and the region/location let me know and i will try to get a similar visualization.
DM or as reply to the chat.
Share the species name (common or scientific) and location (can be a city, town, region, province, country).

It is a work 8n progress, but I would be very happy to recieve feedback.

I’ve been working on https://fontofweb.com, a search engine for real-world web design.

Most design inspiration sites lean heavily on curated mockups (Dribbble) or award-winning showcases (Awwwards, Mobbin). That makes them polished, but they don’t reflect what most production sites actually look like. Font of Web takes a different approach: it sources directly from live websites, and the community can clip specific elements instead of entire pages. That means you can browse navbars, pricing cards, dashboards, etc., not just full screenshots.

Each clip is enriched with metadata (fonts, color palettes, original domain). Search works across that metadata, natural language queries (“minimalist fintech dashboard”), and even visual similarity — so you can find results either by text or by image.

There’s also a Chrome extension to snip and save from any site.

I’d like to hear from designers and frontend engineers: is this useful in your workflow? Anything obviously missing?

Building an iOS app for metronome sequencing to get faster at playing guitar and reaching “shred” speeds at different subdivisions/time signatures in a single sequence. Planning on adding accuracy indicators and scoring so rushing or dragging can be easily identified when finishing a saved routine. I.e., some post-routine metrics.

I’ve been playing guitar for a little under 6 years and ran into the common problem among many intermediate guitarists fall into, which is stagnating into a plateau at a certain BPM.

The most effective solution I’ve found is to take the top speed hit playing a chunk of a lick and simply increase it 20-50 BPM past that limit, attempting one’s best to stay in tempo. Regardless of how sloppy it sounds. Then roughly halve that increased addition of BPM, it will become relatively easier to play. For example, if you are stuck at 120 BPM, upping it to 150 BPM with sloppy attempts, then dropping it back down to 130-140 BPM.

I’ve gone cleanly from alternate picked 140 BPM triplets to 220 BPM triplets in two months after being stuck at 140 BPM for over a year with this method. Sometimes even hitting 280 BPM triplets when I have the focus and time for it.

Even then, I want a more consistent, and variable way of customizing a practice session using a metronome from a hobbyist perspective without using a DAW. With a simpler interface for doing so. As well as encourage with said method above for other guitarists in the pursuit of speed.

At least a couple more weeks. Hopefully less than a month out from now.

I have most of the UI done for sequencing. Workflows for speed building and metronome sequencing will be completely free, which is also a top priority for me to get out the door first.

On the side, custom coloring books for kids using nano banana, started with a project for my son, and its a little janky for some photos but have had some interest already: https://bespokebooks.io. I think it needs to be a phone app to really work for most people though, so that’s next on my to do list besides some prompt tweaking.

Notebook to do it yourself here: https://github.com/dbish/bespoke-books-ai-example

I think there are a lot of really fun projects possible now in the child book creation space, particularly as you build tools that they can use themselves (like adding voice interfaces to building a book or story).

This is outside my 996 job of AI Agent/Assistant infra + ops 🙂

I’ve been working on a few utility libraries to make it easier to develop web services, basically exporting packages that I find myself using or rewriting often and exporting them as their own modules.

I recently published https://github.com/hxtk/sqlt for SQL query generation with Go templates.

I’m working on https://github.com/hxtk/aip as a collection of libraries giving safe default choices to implement Google’s API improvement proposals in ConnectRPC services. It borrows (with attribution per the license) an unexported implementation of AUP-160 filters from the LuCI project, and I intend to expand it to support data sources other than SQL databases and page tokens, and it also exports an implementation of AIP-161 field masks (which have different semantics compared to standard field masks) and middleware to help with using them for AIP-157 read filtering. I intend to export more middleware that I use frequently, but I don’t know if it’ll live in this module or its own yet.

I launched Quiet UI this week:

https://quietui.org/

It prioritizes accessibility, longevity, performance, and simplicity.

With the autoloader, one script tag loads components dynamically without downloading the entire library. (npm also available.)

Theming uses color-mix() and OKLAB to create uniform color palettes from a single CSS property. Adaptive palettes are used for dark mode.

All form controls are form-associated via ElementInternals and work with native validation APIs (required, pattern, etc.).

Dialogs, popovers, tooltips, etc. use Popover API for top-layer access without having to portal or hoist.

Some of the more fun components include: Joystick, Stamp, Mesh Gradient, Flip Card, Random Content, Intersection Observer, Typewriter, Lorem Ipsum, Slide Activator

The library is free for personal, educational, non-profit use. Commercial use requires a license.

Enhancing the restorative function of sleep, without altering sleep time.

https://affectablesleep.com

Our patent-pending neurostimulation builds on over a decade of research in slow-wave enhancement, and more than 50+ published peer-reviewed papers.

Today we’re building our last 3D printed unit. In October we start our first tooling run.

https://spanara.app

Spanara – A word game inspired by the “license plate game” my wife taught me while we lived in Finland. License plates in Finland always start with 3 letters, so out on our walks we’d try to come up with a word quickly, and got more kudos for “good” words. This was a first attempt at a personal project using AI.

I am currently working on a new mode that is more like what played walking around: a few rounds in rapid fire, very little time to think before the next round.

I might be taking a contracted job to help provide AI/ML guidance for a friend’s company here soon, but all I really do is use ChatGPT/Claude Code a lot and don’t really have explicit AI/ML tool building experience. They know this and mostly just want me for competency and comfort going from 0-1 with a new project, but I’m still pretty nervous! So I’m trying to conjure up some simple ideas to inspire me to learn 🙂

Currently trying to predict student absenteeism in the future based on historical indicators with synthetic data using basic ML modeling and then using LLMs to generate helpful guidance for relevant parties. Basically letting parents know there’s concern and citing leading indicators.

Not sure what I’ll do next, but hoping to come up with a few other ideas to put my mind at ease. It’s fun having some actual motivation to keep up with the current hype instead of just being a consumer, though!

I’m finally organising 20 years of voice notes. Some were quite outdated – I probably no longer need the mozzarella cheese I reminded myself to buy in early 2008.

To organize them, I’m writing a Python Qt application with Claude Code. It started off as vibe coding, but I’m now developing it using processes very similar to those I would use when managing software teams. I’ve picked up a lot of good tips about that here on HN. I’ve got Whisper, and fallback online services, transcribing the audio and summarizing it and adding tags. After much UI experimentation, I’ve landed on something that looks not unlike an email client, with tags in the left pane, a center pane which lists transcriptions and notes about each audio file, and a right pane with more detailed information about the selected audio file.

Next step is to serve it all as a model context protocol server – I need to pick an agent.

Working on a personal recruiter / talent agent for my smartest dev/product/design friends (and theirs) https://www.hedgy.works

Key problems we’re solving:

– Everyone wants to be doing meaningful, fun work that feels like their “life’s work”. Few feel like they are.

– In recruiting, the AI spam problem is real and only getting worse, essentially killing the cold application pipeline. You need a referral.

– Optimizing your career feels like annoying politicking for a lot of the most talented folks who just want to focus on building cool stuff. But, as an employee, if you don’t test the market (e.g. take a recruiter conversation) from time to time, your comp can really stagnate.

It’s funny you say that. I already do run a weekly “book club” group, but it’s at work at my $dayjob employer. And, for various reasons, we’ve drifted away from the book focus and turned into a more presentation/discussion oriented group. But I still love to read physical books, and wouldn’t be opposed to trying to come up with something to structure some discussion around some of these “outside of work” readings that I do.

If you want, drop me and email (prhodes@fogbeam.com) and maybe we can set something up.

Going solo on

https://meldsecurity.com/

I’m putting a bunch of security tools / data feeds together as a service. The goal is to help teams and individuals run scans/analysis/security project management for “freemium” (certain number of scans/projects for free each month, haven’t locked in on how it’ll pan out fully $$ wise).

I want to help lower the technical hurdles to running and maintaining security tools for teams and individuals. There are a ton of great open source tools out there, most people either don’t know or don’t have the time to do a technical deep dive into each. So I’m adding utilities and tools by the day to the platform.

Likewise, there’s a built in expert platform for you to get help on your security problems built into the system. (Currently an expert team consisting of [me]). Longer term, I’m working on some AI plugins to help alert on CVEs custom to you, generate automated scans, and some other fun stuff.

https://meldsecurity.com/ycombinator (if you’re interested in free credits)

Building an app where 1 pushup = 1 minute of scrolling allowed [1]. We’ve fiiinally started to grow and reached a whooping $30k in the last month!!

I was literally thinking about quitting in August. My motivation is now at an all-time high – some users have done >8k pushups 🙂

As always, the key has been the marketing (10M views on Instagram). But we have to improve the product to make people love it even more. So the roadmap is more full than ever.

[1] https://pushscroll.com

Working on a webapp for critically think with others about a problem.

The idea is that you build a diagram that contains all the details about the problem and people’s thoughts on it, and it’s organized in such a way that it’s easy to just keep refining, down to the smallest detail. So you build this concrete, shared understanding, and move it forward and forward, until hopefully y’all can make some best decision to improve the situation.

There’s a lot to do. Currently working on UX to allow hiding intermediate nodes and still have indirect edges drawn. Want to add an LLM integration to generate/update diagrams via natural language, which I think will help a lot with usage barriers to using the app.

Happy to get any feedback 🙂 https://ameliorate.app/ https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate

Continuing to build https://crucialexams.com/, a platform that helps people prepare for IT certifications like CompTIA, AWS, and Microsoft/Azure. It offers realistic practice tests and study tools. I also have partnered with educators and universities who now offer it to their students and get dashboards to review student progress and identify where they are struggling.

ok this is really cool. do you do procedural animations as well or it’s still animated library of moves you blend?

No procedural animations yet, but soon we want to get there. We also want to do procedural VFX. There is a lot of meat in there!

I’m working on Zettelgarden: https://zettelgarden.com.

It’s a personal knowledge system. It’s a zettelkasten with an LLM substrate. It uses LLMs to build a model of the theses, arguments and facts used in cards, and uses these to both summarize the information on the card and to automatically link cards together based on shared concepts.

I have made a Bürgeramt appointment finder. It was down for a few weeks after the city of Berlin changed its anti-bot measures. I just released an updated version that works again: https://allaboutberlin.com/tools/appointment-finder

My citizenship wait times page (https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/citizenship-wait-times) has also gotten enough feedback to be useful since its release last month. I’d like to make it more useful with better visualisations.

Now I’m working on another iteration of my health insurance calculator (https://allaboutberlin.com/tools/health-insurance-calculator). It’s kind of a big deal both because it’s a huge financial decision for recent immigrants, and because it funds a big chunk of all the free stuff I’m putting out. This is especially important with ChatGPT and AI summaries halving my traffic. This iteration will recommend health insurance combinations that work for a visa application and for a long-term stay in Germany. It will provide far better explanations.

At the same time, I’m testing a new insurance broker with far shorter response times, so people can directly ask an expert to help them choose. They’re reachable via Whatsapp, and that made a huge difference in how people get advice. It worked so well that I want to do the same for other topics. I’m already talking with an immigration lawyer who’s interested.

I left my job to work on my side project (MCP-B: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403) full time. I set out with the goal of making the ability to vibecode a webMCP server for your website and inject it via userscript.

While building that, I basically wrote a modern version of Tampermonkey with its own marketplace built in. So you can vibe code any userscript and publish it to the marketplace all within the extension.

The automation stuff is still the core value-prop, but this is a fun bonus feature while I work on solidifying the automation features.

I’m writing a HN post for it. Excited to show everyone in a couple weeks here.

Mostly organizing my dotfiles across Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD, however, I have really fallen for Ansible. I discovered at work awhile back, but was able to grok how to make and run a playbook, and I’ve been hooked since. It also finally allowed me to click the difference between Imperative and Declarative programming!

Careful, not all ansible is declarative or idempotent. Lots of foot guns exist, still a valuable tool

Very much a hobby, but I’m working on a Pinterest alternative built on ATProto called Scrapboard[1]

The Bluesky ecosystem is a really great platform to build social media on and with Pinterest being overtaken by AI content I figured I’d give it a shot. There is definitely not as much content there, but it is of much higher quality and the culture of providing alt text on images really makes search work rather well.

1 – https://scrapboard.org

2 – https://bsky.app/profile/scrapboard.org

Still working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer

Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it’s fun for me I’ll just keep adding things.

Next addition will be to add health inspection data from countries that have that in open datasets or APIs, so if anyone know of that I’d be appreciative of hints (know of UK, Norway and might have found for France).

Most of our jobs consist of working with tools. Yet it’s very hard to get insights into which tools are required most, are growing in your area, etc. So I decided to keep track of tools and technologies mentioned in the data space by keeping track of job openings for the last two years. Now I’ve opened up that data set. Here’s an analysis for jobs per data warehouse: https://selectfrom.work/insights/data_warehouses

I’m working on a super-simple budgeting app called https://4keynumbers.com, which is based on Ramit Sethi’s Conscious Spending Plan. It currently syncs my expenses from Plaid and cooks it down into a single chart, with only savings, investments, bills/fixed, and “safe to spend” as categories.

Working on a chess / poker hybrid.

There was “choker” back in the day, which I actually never heard about since I wasn’t into chess back then. But (1) there was no web version, and (2) it had a specific gameplay that seems too slow for my taste. My version is highly customizable on the setup/rounds/rules, too. From my research, the original was also overrun by bots.

Looking up choker online I found this reddit thread:

> It’s a cool concept, but terrible app design and it’s all just bots you connect with, making it terribly easy to win almost every game

It sounds like this game needs a better AI opponent then? I don’t know anything about this game but something that learned from your gameplay and figured out how to beat you would be very cool.

I already have a better chess engine at different skill levels for 1-player mode. For two human players, I plan to start with sending a link to a friend given there won’t be enough random players on the website to find one in real-time.

Everyone’s drowning in long articles, dense PDFs, and hour-long videos. I’m working on https://unrav.io , it lets you flip any article, paper, or YouTube link into the format you actually want (summary, mindmap, podcast, infographic, etc.) in one click.

Right now I’m experimenting with a simple bookmarklet trigger instead of a browser extension. Curious: how do HN folks feel about bookmarklets in 2025, still viable, or do you prefer extensions?

An editor for creating custom accessible color palettes for web/UI design. 🙂

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

It gives you precise control over every shade/tint (no AI or auto generation!) so you can incorporate your own brand colors, and helps you build palettes that have simple to follow color contrast guarantees by design e.g. all grade 600 colors have 4.5:1 WCAG contrast (for body text) against all grade 50 colors, such as red-600 vs gray-50, or green-600 vs gray-50. There’s export options for plain CSS, Tailwind, Figma, and Adobe.

I’m really open to feedback on what problems and needs people have for creating accessible designs!

I’m still working on Danger World (https://danger.world), my casual 2D narrative adventure with turn-based RPG elements. Built in Flame, on top of Flutter for iOS, Android, Windows and MacOS.

We’re getting close! It’s just a matter of polishing and polishing and polishing, but I’m really excited about how close we are to launch.

I’m working on a partition-oriented declarative data build system. The inspiration comes from working with systems like Airflow and AWS step functions, where data orchestration is described explicitly, and the dependency relationships between input and produced data partitions is complex. Put simply, writing orchestration code for this case sucks – the goal of the project is to enable whole data platforms to be made up of jobs that declare their input and output partition deps, so that they can be automatically fulfilled, enabling kubernetes-like continuous reconciliation of desired partitions.

This means, instead of the answer to “how do we produce this output data” being “trigger and pray everything upstream is still working”, we can answer with “the system was asked to produce this output data partition and its dependencies were automatically built for it”. My hope is that this allows the interface with the system to instead be continuously telling it what partitions we want to exist, and letting it figure out the rest, instead of the byzantine DAGs that get built in airflow/etc.

This comes out of a big feeling that even more recent orchestrators like Prefect, Dagster, etc are still solving the wrong problem, and not internalizing the right complexity.

Often, when I use generative AI to produce videos, the results are close to what I envision but rarely capture my imagination exactly. Prompting the AI to fix specific details can be a cumbersome and time-consuming process. To address this, I’m developing solutions that make the creative workflow more intuitive. So far, I’ve built an app that allows users to provide visual clues as guides, along with a 3D environment where the camera can be freely manipulated within the generated scene.

The community is moving fast though. Now higgsfield allows using arrows and pointers to edit the video but so far, no one is doing a good camera control visually.

I am working on my Go UI library called gooey [1] which aims to be a one stop framework to build webview/webview apps in Go and WebASM.

It started out with bindings for the DOM, Web, and Browser APIs, but as of today I now have custom Web Components support (which is a big deal considering Go’s type system quirks).

Tomorrow I’m gonna polish some of the UI components and start refactoring my git-evac [2] repo management tool which is the first app using the gooey framework.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/gooey

[2] https://github.com/cookiengineer/git-evac

> Components are bad for web accessibility (aria- property fatigue).

I’ve been using web components as a vehicle to automate and auto validate accessibility aspects as much as possible, because I think the only way to truly make things sustainably accessible is to find a way to unburden the developer by either inferring as much as possible or making validation a natural part of development rather than a separate testing cycle that will invariably cause accessibility support to become out of sync.

It sounds like you might have similar concerns. Do you have any insights to share along these lines for Gooey?

The bindings should also work with tinygo’s compiler if you’re careful with deadlocks (see docs/ERRATA.md).

Haven’t tested the typecasting that’s required for the components yet though, they might break because of some generics quirks (e.g. Wrap/Unwrap helper methods).

I am working on PicPickr.

It is a desktop app built with Electron and React. I built to help newlywed couples to quickly sort thousands of wedding photos with a Tinder style swipe UI. It is offline first, fully private, and offers one click export of your selected pictures.

I started building it earlier this year after going through my own wedding photo experience and realizing how overwhelming it can be. I saw my wife dragging and dropping photos from one folder to other and thought there has to be a better way for non-photographer folks.

Right now, I have a working prototype, a landing page live, and I am testing distribution and feedback from early users.

https://picpickr.com

I’m building with python/fastapi, react/tailwind/vite, with Claude Code and using test-driven development.

Red-green-refactor is tedious for humans but perfect for AI. And the test names & code make great documentation of every micro decision, running in milliseconds to prevent regressions.

The software itself helps people perform construction approvals.

Old way: dozens of documents and versions sent back and forth over email. Many fiddly details that must be checked – to streamline the process we’ll use AI to provide verdicts that help humans make decisions.

I plan to create content & teach what I’ve learned.

https://approviq.com

I’m rebuilding OnlineOrNot’s frontend to be powered by the public REST API. Doing this both as a means of dogfooding, and adding features to the REST API, that I easily dumped into the private GraphQL API without thinking too hard.

Basically I’ve realised GraphQL has taken me as far as it can, and I should’ve gone with REST to start with. That, and after I finish the first milestone (uptime checks + cron job monitors), I’ll be able to start building a proper terraform provider, and audit logs.

https://onlineornot.com/, since early 2021.

I’m at a crossroads with my Speed Cubing Competitions listing app (SCComps.com). It’s an iOS app built in Flutter, has around 250 downloads, and currently generates no revenue. I’m spending about $500 a year just to keep it running. There’s little community engagement, and I’m debating whether to double down and rebuild it in Swift—or just shut it down altogether.

Adding a chat feature to my iOS app size analysis tool that runs locally on your Mac. My goal is to make everyone a build engineer, where you can chat with your builds and get insights and improvement areas. Testing out on-device Apple Intelligence models but need to find the time to do more validation testing.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881

In my free time I’m still working on My Financé (I keep getting feedback this name is confusing), which is a fairly undifferentiated personal finance tool.

It’s a labor of love, but I love it!

I’m currently building a simulation engine that lets you forecast your spending, build scenarios (like taking a year off, getting a cat, move to a new city, etc based on your current spending patterns and assets.

https://myfinancereport.com/

It’s great fun to have a project of one’s own to just toil away on.

I don’t know what it is about this name, but I read it as “My Fiancé”. My brain did not register the first “n” and it wasn’t until I read your parenthetical remark that I went back and re-read.

The name isn’t confusing, per se (“get married to/be exclusive with your finances”, OK), but it also isn’t very strong… “financé” is also very strange and awkward to pronounce as a native English speaker. Probably because it comes across more as Spanish-seeming despite it being a play on a French work.

Yeah it was meant to be along the lines of:

My Financé, because you should love your finances.

To your point, I think it’s hard to notice the spelling, and hard to figure out how to pronounce it.

It also is the same spelling as My Finance, which is tricky to rank for on Google.

Overall, it seems like it has potential to be a fun brand, but the constant confusion has led me to strongly consider a “rebrand”.

> I don’t know what it is about this name, but I read it as…

same misreading

I’m blaming typoglycemia

I am all-in on a Unity game right now. Working with one other person and hoping to ship to Steam later this year.

Thinking about play testing at scale is a new thing for me. I’ve been getting into visualization techniques like using 3d textures to build voxel heat maps in-editor. We’ve managed to accumulate quite a bit of play testing telemetry already. The power of aggregated statistics in the editor views is absolutely mind-blowing to me. For level designers it’s like having proper omniscience. Being able to see things like thousands of samples (manifesting as a bright red voxel) that wound up tripping over the same misplaced geometry is like cheating.

I’m working on a site for filmmakers to help showcase themselves!

Why? >

LinkedIn isn’t for creatives.
Actor’s Access is dated and charges a ton for basic extras
Squarespace/wix is fine but everyone in ‘the biz’ has one and nobody wants to maintain it. Plus they’re all silo’d.

Check out my site if you wanna. You get to host your own headshots, resume, and reels. You can upload your screenplay there and hear it read outloud. You can put up your cinematic scores and make a place to send people to hear your music.

https://cinesignal.com

Looking for users who wanna test the system out. Give me a shout and I’ll throw you some credits if you wanna hear your screenplay read outloud.

Working on Fraim, open-source agents for cloudsec and appsec engineers to complement existing deterministic scanners. Born out of our 3 years of learnings building such scanners for IaC. Turns out in the real world policies are subjective enough to make this hard.

Examples:

– Policies are frequently subjective. Hard to codify, but LLMs can evaluate them more like a security engineer would. “IAM policies should use least privilege.” What is “least” enough? “Admin ports shouldn’t be exposed to the Internet.” What’s an admin port?

– Security engineers are stretched thin. LLMs can watch PRs for potentially risky changes that need closer human review. “PR loosens authz/authn.” “PR changes network perimeter configuration.”

– Traditional check runs (SAST, IaC, etc.) flood PRs with findings. Security doesn’t have time to review them all. Devs tends to ignore them. Frequent false positives. LLMs can draw attention to the important ones. “If the findings are unusual for this repo, require the author to acknowledge the risk before merging.”

https://github.com/fraim-dev/fraim

https://www.fraim.dev

Full-time indie dev breathing life into next-gen terminals [0]. This is my lifelong career ambition.

If you can’t afford early access, please email me and I’ll grant you a free copy: I need all the feedback I can get!

[0] https://terminal.click

Release engineering for FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. Major releases are always a lot of work, but this is probably the biggest release in 20 years due to the new base system distribution system landing. (We’re switching from “here’s a tarball containing everything” to “here’s 500 packages”, with resulting changes in the build process, download/update mirrors, installer, etc.)

Target is 2025-12-02 00:00 UTC.

Given that this is a major release, there are fairly wide error bars on that; it could be as much as 3 weeks earlier if the first release candidate turns out to be perfect, and of course it could be later if things go badly (but I very much hope to get it out by the end of 2025).

Two side projects, as if 3 kids are not enough!

– a booking platform for surfing schools
– a tool for pelvic physiotherapy practitioners handle appointments and exercise prescriptions

Doing backend and frontend for both, but there is a small team helping with #2. Both come from actual needs of actual businesses.

Tech is pretty standard typescript, react and node.

Would love to be working on these full time.

Building an email-to-calendar-feed service for all the mails from the multitude of services and attachments that I get related to my kindergartener.

Currently I’ve been working on https://terragonlabs.com which is a way to orchestrate Claude Code and other agents (Amp, Codex) as background agents.

I feel like I am locally constantly bouncing between different agents for different tasks and really wanted to be able to do the same in a remote environment.

I started a newsletter that tries to recreate the original magic of stumble upon. To feature cool random stuff from across the internet.

I believe the old internet is still alive and well. It’s just buried under a mountain of shit.

https://randomdailyurls.com/

I’m working on a Heroku / Render / Flyio alternative thats free, open source, built on top of Kubernetes for about 2 years now.

I’ve found these services charge way too much per GB of memory (10x more than IaaS providers), but more importantly, offer terrible flexibility. You can’t schedule multiple apps on the same instance, and there aren’t many instance size options.

Canine also supports deployments of any helm package (postgres, airbyte, dagster, etc) via helm charts.

https://github.com/czhu12/canine
https://canine.sh

I’ve been making and selling my electronic social battery pin badges for a while now (https://hortus.dev/products/social-battery) and I’m expanding the range with seasonal versions like a Christmas mood badge, and a halloween themed ghost badge that’s coming soon. I’m lucky enough that these projects have gone down well and are making enough money to fund some more complicated (and expensive) projects that I wouldn’t have otherwise had the guts to try. Currently I’m working on an RGB digital sand timer with customizable timing sequences so that you can use it for things like the pomodoro technique – I have a working prototype and at the moment I’m experimenting with interfaces for setting the sequences. I wanted to use a combination of buttons and an accelerometer for this but it’s not as intuitive as I’d like so I may end up making a small smartphone app to configure it.

Working on real-time log visualization platform with wallboard/tv support, initially inspired by Logstalgia:

https://tailstream.io

Launched the initial version a couple of weeks ago and making good progress, trying to share as much of the process as I can on X.

Backend API can be used by any client, but I also built an open source agent in Go that makes setup really easy.

Currently working on a proper log viewer, alerts and visualization improvements.

Please show this to AWS. CloudWatch is such a pain, arcade visuals is what I want, if I have to look at logs.

Currently bootstrapping a SaaS side project:
https://diplomium.com

Diplomium helps educators and event organizers create and deliver authenticated certificates at scale. Instead of manually designing and emailing PDFs, you upload a simple Excel, pick a template, and the system generates + sends personalized certificates automatically—each with a unique QR code for instant validation.

The bigger picture: Certificates are often the only tangible outcome of a learning experience. By making them verifiable, permanent, and easy to distribute, organizations save admin time while learners get a trustworthy credential.

Status: Running for 2 years, used by schools and training centers in Latin America. Now building AI-powered features for design editing and data extraction from PDFs.

A burnout detector for SREs. The goal is to help teams identify incident responders who may be overworked/getting burned out.

We are looking at:

-Objective data: signals from incident management tools (Rootly/PagerDuty), GitHub, and Slack

-Self-reported data: asking the engineers how they feel via short survey

From this, we generate a CBI score (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory). We’re still in beta, but we’ve received positive feedback from our beta testers, especially from manager of large and distributed orgs.

It’s fully open-source, you can test it out locally
https://github.com/Rootly-AI-Labs/rootly-burnout-detector-we…

Alternatively, we offer a hosted version with mock data, allowing you to play with it.
https://www.oncallburnout.com/

If you have any feedback or ideas, shoot them my way 🙂

Very good idea. I could have used this multiple times in my career. I am a go until I drop type of person, and I’d just keep going.

Nothing extraordinary like yall.

I’ve been down a prime numbers rabbit hole. Trying to see the largest prime I can generate in a browser.

Testing jig for a traction control system for a locomotive. Microcontroller connected to a DDS waveform generator simulates the sensor that picks wheel speed, various ADCs and DACs read in analog voltages that are compared to determine loss of traction. 1980s analog computing at its finest. If I had a choice I would be doing anything else 😉

A command-line tool called berk that is a versatile job dispatcher written in c. It is meant to replace big clunky tools like Jenkins, Ansible etc. It has syntax similar to git. It works pretty well, just need to iron out some kinks before final release. https://github.com/jezze/berk

In my free time I’m starting a new Low Power FM community radio station for the east San Fernando Valley.

www.kpbj.fm

I’m building a daily word puzzle game with a twist!

In Tiled Words you rearrange tiles to solve clues and rebuild a broken crossword.

You can play a demo at https://tiledwords.com – it’s free and web based so it works on whatever device you’ve got.

I’ll be officially launching on October 19th at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. You can sign up to be notified on launch. Starting then there will be a new puzzle every day!

So far I’ve gotten really positive feedback and have around 100 people signed up to get notified. It’s been a lot of fun to build!

The UX is phenomenal. Easily in the top 1% of daily word puzzles. Love the concept, I’m sure it will do well at your launch!!

Thank you! Happy to feature your game, I’ve played a _lot_ putting together Playlin so I have a pretty good sense of what’s out there.

Working on the Restful Atmos Sleep Lamp, a smart bedside lamp that automatically shifts throughout the day and night for the circadian rhythm, reducing blue light at night and maximizing blue light during the day. There is a machine learning layer that learns your preferences and automatically adjusts the intensity of the light, similarly to the Nest Thermostat [0].

Also, shipping Bedtime Bulb v2 next month. This is a hybrid LED-incandescent design meant for the evening that is the best of both worlds: low blue light, high color quality, perfect compatibility with dimmers, 10x less flicker than incandescent, includes near infrared, low energy use, long lifespan [1].

[0]: https://restfullighting.com/products/restful-atmos-preorder

[1]: https://restfullighting.com/products/bedtime-bulb-v2-preorde…

I’m building Kavla, its an infinite multiplayer canvas for data analytics.

I have a video on how it works on https://kavla.dev/

And a live demo here: https://demo.kavla.dev/

I’ve been working in the data space for five years now. Kavla is something that I personally feel would make my job more fun!

Built with tldraw and duckdb

I’m trying to get my agentic software specification tool Arbiter to release (UI polish/debugging is so slow :/, browser shenanigans are harder than Rust fr). It’s basically a tool that AI agents can use to construct a project specification. The twist to Arbiter is that the specs are structured and validated, and you can compile them to get:

Services with stubbed endpoints,
UIs with placeholder components,
Dockerfiles/Terraform/K8s infra,
E2E tests (via declared flows),
Github/Gitlab epics/issues/subissues

It’s also got github/gitlab webhook integration, so you can do stuff like trigger agents reactively when events occur on a repo, it includes cloudflare tunnel support so you can set up webhooks even in a local dev environment, and the project generator is fully customizable.

Nope, it’s a structured spec agents construct using a CLI or MCP (you can also interact with the spec using a web UI). It’s CUE, and validated against a schema. Instead of taking your conversation and generating a markdown document that agents might (but often don’t) respect, the agent populates the spec in the service from your conversation, then when you’re done you can use the CLI to automatically generate a bunch of code.

I’m working on a text-based softball league simulator where you forcibly enlist your friends and family to join your co-ed softball team. You play as their manager/coach/fellow player.

Every aspect of the games are narrated in real time so you know what’s going on. I’m still in the prototype stage and I’ve seen some pretty hilarious interactions already.

I’m working on Colanode, which is built to close the gap between the convenience of cloud tools and the ownership of local software. It brings chat, docs, databases, and files into one open-source, self-hostable workspace where data lives on your devices first and syncs in the background. Unlike typical SaaS tools, Colanode is local-first: everything works instantly and offline, infrastructure stays minimal, and you keep full control of your data.

Website: https://colanode.com
Repo: https://github.com/colanode/colanode

trying to build a webapp where i apply some recommender systems knowledge to TCG deckbuilding. MtG in particular is suffering from product fatigue and as someone who is both an MLE and a casual MtG player, it has been a fun challenge to apply my skills to a domain of interest

A script which will find random pictures of anyone in the family from the Immich database, resize them and add metadata on them like where they were taken and when and put them on the TV to show as kind of a screen saver when we’re at home.

I like this Facebook feature which shows you “Today 10 years ago”, Immich, does have it in it’s UI too and perhaps I will mix in those pictures also to show on TV.

Still working on https://gridwhale.com.

This is mostly a nostalgia play–I’m pining for a time when app development was much easier. I’m trying to apply lessons from early Rapid Application Development while still providing a full-featured language.

I confess that I haven’t gotten any traction at all, but I find it incredibly useful for my own consulting business, so I’m going to keep on working on it.

I’m working on a few things, but the one that’s gaining the most traction right now in terms of users is kyoubenkyou

https://www.kyoubenkyou.com/

In short, it’s a few things:

– JA->EN dictionary

– hiragana / katakana / time reading / number reading quizzers

– learn kanji with FSRS, anki-style

– vocab quizzer

– the coolest feature (imo) is a “reader”: upload Japanese texts (light novels, children’s books, etc), then translate them to your native language to practice your reading comprehension. Select text anywhere on the page (with your cursor) to instantly do a dictionary lookup. A LLM evaluates your translation accuracy (0..100%) and suggests other possible interpretations.

It’s all elixir+liveview+postgres+pgroonga (though there are times when I would like to have SolidJS).

I’ve been considering open-sourcing it due to lack of commercial success, but might try an ad-based approach first.

I develop simulators for digital twins and games. Currently working on a simulator for LLMs to use as world models.

Working on a “Data Governance in a Box” solution for small businesses that are using out of data routers and security practices. Starting here in Canada, but open to collaboration.

Trying to build a secure, configurable and easy to use authentication system (relative to my understanding)

I have experienced knowledge gaps and blind spots that I am attempting to fix. For example most users worry about security of hashed passwords and yet they do not realize that the TOTP (eg Google Authenticator) use symmetric encryption and quite a lot of the authentication providers store the private key in plain text in their database. List goes on…

Deterministic guarantees, and corrective behavioral monitoring for ai agents (starting with claude code, and ADK). Think security + performance bumper rails. At the cost of 0 context.

I was the feature requestor for Claude Code Hooks – and have been involved in ai governance for quite awhile, this is an idea I’m excited about.

Ping below if you want to early beta test. everything is open source, no signups.

An XDP/eBPF load balancer with Golang control plane library and an application to replace high capacity legacy appliances with COTS servers.

Nice work! I’ve recently been modeling sheds in SketchUp both with and without the Framer extension and it can be really tedious.

Random question as I don’t know a ton of framing… is your sample model missing jack studs on the large door opening?

I’m working on a WordPress PaaS with dedicated lanes for bots. The status quo around WordPress is that you block bots using Cloudflare, else your site crashes. Since AI search is here to stay, we need a way to let bots crawl WordPress sites without crashing the server.

Currently at MVP stage, no domain yet.

I’m working on character.ai for learning Chinese, you chat with characters at your level, and get instant feedback on your writing. It’s a way to get a wide amount of comprehensible input in an engaging way that also practices output.

https://koucai.chat

Writing a specification for a personal library app in the hopes I can get AppSheet + Gemini to make one for me. I’m working on library science in general, so it will hopefully implement ideas I have about book classification and entity catalogs.

I got a dumb phone. Been messing around with setting a phone number to call to get SMS directions and things of that sort.
Then I wanted to build my own phone so I got a LTE module and been messing around with that.

For the past ten months I’ve been working on a way to transmit and receive around 10 kilobytes halfway across town. I’ve blown through government grants totaling in the hundreds of millions of dollars but it seems this is an unsolvable problem.

That’s pretty cool. It’s nice to see this exists.

For me, I’ll probably send an email later to support to ask (no rush, since it’s out of stock anyway), but I was checking for info on compatibility with Yamaha (e.g. my Cross Connect) ebikes. It’s not on the compatibility list. They make their own (mid-drive) motors (PW-SE on mine I think) and proprietary batteries. They pulled out of the United States market altogether so getting more batteries from them again is doubtful. (Mine currently charges to ~85% and then throws an error code, but it still works for now.) It is a Yamaha 500Wh36V battery pack on the down tube with 3 wires (I just unscrewed where the battery plugs in to see).

Still focused on metal 3D printer slicer software with Blender geometry nodes, and a microscopic positioning stage design for hobbyists.

On the weekend built a lattice-filter test jig with the LiteVNA64, so sorting though the pile of crystals is less time intensive.

Other hobbies maybe 3 other people would find amusing. =3

Yet another browser-based screen/video recorder and editor but with multiple inputs, full privacy and scriptable effects – a slow weekend project