What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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frostbyrne
Greetings! I've been working on something in the vein of a indie game for a little over a year now. It has been a passion project, but I'm starting to come around on showing it to people. I am a big fan of Telltale style narrative games. I think Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me. Taking that branching dialogue and freedom of choice, and tacking it on to a fun combat system was just everything. When text based GTRPGs started popping up, I found it hard to connect with them stylistically. I found that I needed the multimodal stimulus of visuals and audio. This led me to start building something, and it ended up being somewhat of a cross between a Telltale game, a Visual novel, and a TTRPG. Orpheus ( https://orpheus.gg ) is a fully on-the-fly generated tabletop simulator, with graphics, audio (TTS), and the freedom you can usually only find at a real TTRPG table. That means you can play a sci-fi, fantasy, or even a modern setting in your campaign. The assets are made for you as needed. It runs in your browser so nothing to install or tinker with. Getting the harness right so the AI GM can stay coherent and organized has been the biggest challenge. It took a lot of iterations to get it to a point where it could understand the scenes it was building as the player changed them. I've built it to be played with either a keyboard or a gamepad so you can play from your couch. You can switch between them as you feel like it. There is a 3D tabletop for combat, full character sheets, dice rolling, lore tracking. I want it to be dense. Mostly, I’m looking for people who want to try it, break it, and tell me what feels magical, confusing, boring, or broken. My biggest roadblock currently is that asset generation is relatively expensive. I'm currently mulling over whether a playtest would allow for a BYOK setup so people could try playing as much as they'd like, or if I should add turn limits. You can join the playtest waitlist at https://orpheus.gg/ -- and I just setup a discord ( https://discord.gg/pychWyzf ) that I will use for early playtests. (Just me right now! Come hang out!)
austin-cheney
I am working on a task manager that’s way more informative and resource efficient than the windows task manager and works on Linux. It also provides an informative dashboard for docker containers and web servers with proxy support and preference for streaming sockets supporting http and web sockets over the same ports.
blinkbat
Most fun thing is a few vibecoded games. A rtwp rpg like bg2 and an active turn-based grid crawl rpg. Bg2-like is playable at https://archipelago-sandy.vercel.app
aleda145
Still working on my SQL canvas: https://kavla.dev/ I started with this last summer. Usually I get tired of an idea, but this one is just an endless pit of things to try out. Currently seeing how we can get an analytics agent working on the canvas. Video here: https://x.com/i/status/2053410747137266070
thisdougb
After quite a few years of coming up with and implementing 'great ideas' but not being able to follow through to making them revenue generating products, I'm on my best bet so far. I always wanted to build a real-life puzzle game, which is app/mobile assisted. Had yet another eureka moment, and built a usable prototype (backend plus iOS app). Good feedback from a small circle. For a while I was aware of someone (I knew by sight) who worked in the same sort of subject matter (but a non-tech). I approached her, we had a coffee, I pitched the idea and how she could bring it to life, as I made the tech side. She jumped on board. We're two and a half weeks in, have gone full speed and are making something great (for our audience). My future co-founder is amazing, great insights, opinions, drive. We're potentially launching in a couple of weeks, a free/MVP version of a puzzle game. I've been through many iterations of trying to get something off the ground. Tried tech co-founders, and the last years of going solo (very hard after you've done the coding). But this now feels right. A puzzle app/game for every day people to have some fun. And a future co-founder whose life is outside tech, who's bring a sort of fun energy outwith let's make loads of money or isn't the framework/AI cool. Balance is good. Contact with reality is good too :)
BrunoBernardino
My wife and I continue to work on Uruky, a simpler and cheaper Kagi alternative, based in the EU [1]. Since last month we’ve stabilized the search UI/UX and have 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer. We entered May with over 50 paying customers and have recently launched Uruky Site Search [2] (for website owners, this effectively is our own search index and crawler, which we’ll be bringing into Uruky soon as another search provider option)! Customers really enjoy the simple UI (search doesn’t require JavaScript) and search personalization (from choosing the providers to the domain boosting and exclusion). We also have hashbangs (like "!g", "!d", or “!e”) when something doesn’t quite give you what you’d expect, though. You can see the main differences between Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, etc. and Uruky in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get a copy of the source code! Our main challenge right now is outreach because we want to do it ethically, and it’s hard to find communities or places to sponsor which are privacy-focused and don’t require €5k+ deals. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring a project per month (Qubes OS, The Tor Project, and Hister so far), with our limited budget of ~$100 / month. Because of bots and abuse there isn’t a free trial easily available, but if you’re a human and you’d like to try it for a week for free, reach out with your account number and we’ll set that up! Thanks. [1] https://uruky.com [2] https://uruky.com/site-search
dabinat
Just rolled out a big new update for my video cloud platform https://www.kollaborate.tv with a new player, side-by-side playback comparison and a big improvement in accessibility. Currently we’re using AWS and Backblaze B2, but I’m formulating a plan to move to colocated servers. Not being billed per GB will open up a lot of new opportunities. Even at today’s server prices the math still adds up.
ivan_gammel
Decided to cancel my personal Miro subscription, so vibe-coding* a diagram/vector graphics tool with UX I would enjoy rather than tolerate. * assisted coding, not full code generation
Centigonal
Working on an idiosyncratic tool that lets users use AI to help write statements of work without losing the high bar for accuracy and consistency that these documents require. Right now, it's somewhere between Typst and Gemini in Google Docs, but not as good as either yet.
atilimcetin
Writing detailed and a bit math heavy blog post about specular microfacet-based BRDFs.
tsoswr
https://pockli.com - I've always needed a better workflow for managing the stream of documents people hand me — then expect me to pull out of a hat months or years later, like a magician.
theusus
Working on a native non JS Http client similar to Insomnia.
division_by_0
A correlation network viz (using Cytoscape.js) of this S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 correlation matrix (built with Svelte): https://cybernetic.dev/matrix
zricethezav
I've been working on Betterleaks for the past three months. It's the successor to Gitleaks since I'm not focused on that project much anymore. I just released v1.2.0 which added GitHub as a source to scan for secrets against and a new filtering system powered by CEL for more expressiveness. https://betterleaks.com
nicoinstrument
I'm learning about inference by running vLLM on a k8s cluster (EKS), building a gateway to keep a <2s TTFT SLO. Most recent ha-ha moment: I kept wondering if it was normal that my cluster was only able to process 4 requests per second per vLLM engine (just seemed really low to me). I realized a better metric is in-flight requests... Each engine is processing 70 requests at any given time, streaming tokens for over 30s. Code: https://github.com/Nicolas-Richard/vllm-on-eks
cperciva
FreeBSD 15.1. Released BETA2 on Friday, next Friday is BETA3 and the following week is scheduled to be a Release Candidate.
dvh
In measuring how long can esp32 stream video over wifi using single 14500 battery (AA size but 3.7V lithium). So far it seems like 2h 8m is the limit. I'm using tps63020 buck-boost to 3.3V.
abdullin
Working on benchmark arena for AI agents with my wife. We grab interesting business problems, turn them into fun challenges for hundreds of AI engineers to find the best architecture for. Insights are shared back with the community. It is a fun learning process with unexpected scaling challenges.
mstaoru
[NO-AI] Being a weightlifter for 20+ years now, I'm working on a barbell speed and path tracking sensor based on newer IMU hardware technologies, which makes it both more precise and cheaper than camera- or actuator-based systems. Ultimately it helps you lift and train safer and better. It's an intersection of industrial design, hardware, firmware, and software (and some sport science, of course). This intersection is not yet dominated by LLMs so it's a breath of fresh air. In an early prototype stage as in "strap a Raspberry Pi to a bar", but it looks promising and I'm happy to move forward, also using connections from my previous 12+ years in China.
iugtmkbdfil834
:D Well, all of a sudden, now that I kinda quit my gaming time sink, all my mini projects are finally being completed. All small, but useful, things for my setup that seem to slowly become a part of a bigger personal project. And between that kid and lots of books. Ngl, it is weird for me now. If this is midlife crisis, I am loving it.
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)
frostbyrne
Greetings! I've been working on something in the vein of a indie game for a little over a year now. It has been a passion project, but I'm starting to come around on showing it to people. I am a big fan of Telltale style narrative games. I think Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest revelation of this for me. Taking that branching dialogue and freedom of choice, and tacking it on to a fun combat system was just everything. When text based GTRPGs started popping up, I found it hard to connect with them stylistically. I found that I needed the multimodal stimulus of visuals and audio. This led me to start building something, and it ended up being somewhat of a cross between a Telltale game, a Visual novel, and a TTRPG. Orpheus ( https://orpheus.gg ) is a fully on-the-fly generated tabletop simulator, with graphics, audio (TTS), and the freedom you can usually only find at a real TTRPG table. That means you can play a sci-fi, fantasy, or even a modern setting in your campaign. The assets are made for you as needed. It runs in your browser so nothing to install or tinker with. Getting the harness right so the AI GM can stay coherent and organized has been the biggest challenge. It took a lot of iterations to get it to a point where it could understand the scenes it was building as the player changed them. I've built it to be played with either a keyboard or a gamepad so you can play from your couch. You can switch between them as you feel like it. There is a 3D tabletop for combat, full character sheets, dice rolling, lore tracking. I want it to be dense. Mostly, I’m looking for people who want to try it, break it, and tell me what feels magical, confusing, boring, or broken. My biggest roadblock currently is that asset generation is relatively expensive. I'm currently mulling over whether a playtest would allow for a BYOK setup so people could try playing as much as they'd like, or if I should add turn limits. You can join the playtest waitlist at https://orpheus.gg/ -- and I just setup a discord ( https://discord.gg/pychWyzf ) that I will use for early playtests. (Just me right now! Come hang out!)
austin-cheney
I am working on a task manager that’s way more informative and resource efficient than the windows task manager and works on Linux. It also provides an informative dashboard for docker containers and web servers with proxy support and preference for streaming sockets supporting http and web sockets over the same ports.
blinkbat
Most fun thing is a few vibecoded games. A rtwp rpg like bg2 and an active turn-based grid crawl rpg. Bg2-like is playable at https://archipelago-sandy.vercel.app
aleda145
Still working on my SQL canvas: https://kavla.dev/ I started with this last summer. Usually I get tired of an idea, but this one is just an endless pit of things to try out. Currently seeing how we can get an analytics agent working on the canvas. Video here: https://x.com/i/status/2053410747137266070
thisdougb
After quite a few years of coming up with and implementing 'great ideas' but not being able to follow through to making them revenue generating products, I'm on my best bet so far. I always wanted to build a real-life puzzle game, which is app/mobile assisted. Had yet another eureka moment, and built a usable prototype (backend plus iOS app). Good feedback from a small circle. For a while I was aware of someone (I knew by sight) who worked in the same sort of subject matter (but a non-tech). I approached her, we had a coffee, I pitched the idea and how she could bring it to life, as I made the tech side. She jumped on board. We're two and a half weeks in, have gone full speed and are making something great (for our audience). My future co-founder is amazing, great insights, opinions, drive. We're potentially launching in a couple of weeks, a free/MVP version of a puzzle game. I've been through many iterations of trying to get something off the ground. Tried tech co-founders, and the last years of going solo (very hard after you've done the coding). But this now feels right. A puzzle app/game for every day people to have some fun. And a future co-founder whose life is outside tech, who's bring a sort of fun energy outwith let's make loads of money or isn't the framework/AI cool. Balance is good. Contact with reality is good too :)
BrunoBernardino
My wife and I continue to work on Uruky, a simpler and cheaper Kagi alternative, based in the EU [1]. Since last month we’ve stabilized the search UI/UX and have 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer. We entered May with over 50 paying customers and have recently launched Uruky Site Search [2] (for website owners, this effectively is our own search index and crawler, which we’ll be bringing into Uruky soon as another search provider option)! Customers really enjoy the simple UI (search doesn’t require JavaScript) and search personalization (from choosing the providers to the domain boosting and exclusion). We also have hashbangs (like "!g", "!d", or “!e”) when something doesn’t quite give you what you’d expect, though. You can see the main differences between Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, etc. and Uruky in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get a copy of the source code! Our main challenge right now is outreach because we want to do it ethically, and it’s hard to find communities or places to sponsor which are privacy-focused and don’t require €5k+ deals. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring a project per month (Qubes OS, The Tor Project, and Hister so far), with our limited budget of ~$100 / month. Because of bots and abuse there isn’t a free trial easily available, but if you’re a human and you’d like to try it for a week for free, reach out with your account number and we’ll set that up! Thanks. [1] https://uruky.com [2] https://uruky.com/site-search
dabinat
Just rolled out a big new update for my video cloud platform https://www.kollaborate.tv with a new player, side-by-side playback comparison and a big improvement in accessibility. Currently we’re using AWS and Backblaze B2, but I’m formulating a plan to move to colocated servers. Not being billed per GB will open up a lot of new opportunities. Even at today’s server prices the math still adds up.
ivan_gammel
Decided to cancel my personal Miro subscription, so vibe-coding* a diagram/vector graphics tool with UX I would enjoy rather than tolerate. * assisted coding, not full code generation
Centigonal
Working on an idiosyncratic tool that lets users use AI to help write statements of work without losing the high bar for accuracy and consistency that these documents require. Right now, it's somewhere between Typst and Gemini in Google Docs, but not as good as either yet.
atilimcetin
Writing detailed and a bit math heavy blog post about specular microfacet-based BRDFs.
tsoswr
https://pockli.com - I've always needed a better workflow for managing the stream of documents people hand me — then expect me to pull out of a hat months or years later, like a magician.
theusus
Working on a native non JS Http client similar to Insomnia.
division_by_0
A correlation network viz (using Cytoscape.js) of this S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 correlation matrix (built with Svelte): https://cybernetic.dev/matrix
zricethezav
I've been working on Betterleaks for the past three months. It's the successor to Gitleaks since I'm not focused on that project much anymore. I just released v1.2.0 which added GitHub as a source to scan for secrets against and a new filtering system powered by CEL for more expressiveness. https://betterleaks.com
nicoinstrument
I'm learning about inference by running vLLM on a k8s cluster (EKS), building a gateway to keep a <2s TTFT SLO. Most recent ha-ha moment: I kept wondering if it was normal that my cluster was only able to process 4 requests per second per vLLM engine (just seemed really low to me). I realized a better metric is in-flight requests... Each engine is processing 70 requests at any given time, streaming tokens for over 30s. Code: https://github.com/Nicolas-Richard/vllm-on-eks
cperciva
FreeBSD 15.1. Released BETA2 on Friday, next Friday is BETA3 and the following week is scheduled to be a Release Candidate.
dvh
In measuring how long can esp32 stream video over wifi using single 14500 battery (AA size but 3.7V lithium). So far it seems like 2h 8m is the limit. I'm using tps63020 buck-boost to 3.3V.
abdullin
Working on benchmark arena for AI agents with my wife. We grab interesting business problems, turn them into fun challenges for hundreds of AI engineers to find the best architecture for. Insights are shared back with the community. It is a fun learning process with unexpected scaling challenges.
mstaoru
[NO-AI] Being a weightlifter for 20+ years now, I'm working on a barbell speed and path tracking sensor based on newer IMU hardware technologies, which makes it both more precise and cheaper than camera- or actuator-based systems. Ultimately it helps you lift and train safer and better. It's an intersection of industrial design, hardware, firmware, and software (and some sport science, of course). This intersection is not yet dominated by LLMs so it's a breath of fresh air. In an early prototype stage as in "strap a Raspberry Pi to a bar", but it looks promising and I'm happy to move forward, also using connections from my previous 12+ years in China.
iugtmkbdfil834
:D Well, all of a sudden, now that I kinda quit my gaming time sink, all my mini projects are finally being completed. All small, but useful, things for my setup that seem to slowly become a part of a bigger personal project. And between that kid and lots of books. Ngl, it is weird for me now. If this is midlife crisis, I am loving it.