I'm working to fully open-source the website I've been living from since 2020. I'm not as worried about copycat websites anymore since big tech has stolen all of my work already, so I'm losing my audience either way.
I'm also working on a bilingual lease termination letter generator. The good thing with such tools is that they can be verified by lawyers and guarantee that the letter is legally compliant. The hard work only needs to be done once, then it benefits all.
I wish I had more time to make useful stuff, but the loss in traffic to LLMs is wrecking my plans for the future. I don't know how much more of a drop I can sustain.
I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1] for a couple of months, now. It's a EU-based (early) Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).
We've been using it with friends and family semi-successfully (hashbangs always work if the results aren't satisfactory).
It's really difficult to get bigger indexes other than Mojeek and Marginalia to want to work with us and improve the results further, so that's something I've been researching more, lately.
If you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human, reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of weeks for free. We're pushing improvements daily.
Oops, sorry if that wasn't clear, we're not building a search engine index (yet). We'll definitely do it if we get enough people interested in paying for such a product, though. Right now we're using APIs for other search indexes, like Mojeek and Marginalia, then sprinkling some basic local algorithms to tweak the results and apply the preferences to boost/downrank/exclude domains and TLDs (which is everyone's favorite "feature").
Stack-wise, it's very "boring" (as in, it generates and serves the HTML + bits of JS to enhance settings and such), using Deno in the backend and PostgreSQL for the DB.
II built a free USCIS form-filling tool (no Adobe required) USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard.
So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.
I've been working on an iOS app to help my mom keep track of major awards and film festivals: https://awardedapp.com
I had this project for a while in the back burner, and like many of you over the holiday I went back to it with the help of Claude Code... it's been a lot of fun.
So, after building this app with Claude - what is your feedback on that? What can be improved/done differently? Could you please share any tips/hints on how to make development of iOS app with Claude easier/better?
Laboratory.love lets you fund independent plastic chemical lab testing of the specific foods you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid’s snacks, or whatever you’re curious about.
Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, and get full lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn’t reach its goal within 365 days, you’re automatically refunded. All results are published publicly.
This project was inspired by Nat Friedman's PlasticList.org and we use the same ISO 17025-accredited methodology they did, testing three separate production lots per product (when possible) and detecting down to parts-per-billion. The entire protocol is open.
I just published new results today! Turns out Muir Glen's caned Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes are incredibly low in plastic chemicals. Yay!
You tap in what ingredients you’ve got, add a time limit + a couple of preferences, and it gives you 3 genuinely doable dinner ideas with step-by-step recipes (no “manage your pantry”, no endless scrolling).
It’s early, but people seem to like the “use up what you’ve got” angle. Feedback very welcome.
I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.
In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:
1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.
2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.
3. Get category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem)
I'm playing with repeatable development environment with incus. So, it's like in Docker, but naturally more things should be possible (eg. snap package manager is the ultimate test), but still more disposable than VMs (eg. it won't finish your laptop battery and annoy your ears with fan).
I'm a Linux user (I don't know Apple much). I use devcontainers (the repo I listed) for almost everything, because almost everything is possible to do with about zero overhead. Eg, it won't do memory fragmantation that VMs do, processes are just the same, as on host. GUI apps work just the same as the ones on host, which is really cool. Storage can be an issue if images multiply too much, but not a real issue.
Incus is a bit different, I still evaluate it, so can't comment much. By description is just the very thing I was looking for (a VM, but without VM's overhead). It's amazing, that Debian12 desktop will start in about 2 seconds. Performance is again just the same as on host's machine.
VMs are still cool, I still use them, where I want to be really sure that I won't have a bug that containers would cause them (weird networking and such).
Each day, players try to spot the real definition of an obscure word among the fakes submitted by other players the day before. Fake definitions rank on a daily leaderboard.
I love the traditional version of the game, but it's not so easy to get a session going. An asynchronous, global format is my attempt to make it more casual and accessible.
It's live for about a month now: ~100 daily players, 5000 total, some 20 people on 10-day streaks.
Thanks! Frontend is Nextjs. Flask, Postgres and Redis in the backend. Hosted on a cheap VPS.
I spent way too much time trying to automate moderation (grouping related submissions, judging similarity, removing offensive submissions) using sentence-transformers and w2v. Finally gave up and settled on using deepseek to moderate for 0.002€ a day.
One thing I'm currently working on is improving the exploration vs exploitation balance in matchmaking (selecting the fakes to present to a player). I want sessions to contain good fakes, but every fake must be played a few times to judge its quality. As a first step, I'm replacing the ELO system for definitions with one that accounts for uncertainty (like Trueskill)
I’m continuing to work on AllZonefiles.io — a domain-data hub that aggregates and serves large-scale zone files. Right now it covers ~354M domains across 1,575 zones, including ~114M domains from 317 ccTLDs, which turned out to be the hardest part operationally.
The next step is an extended dataset parsed from WHOIS: create/expire/update timestamps, NS records, and IANA registrar info. Stack is fairly boring on purpose: Go, bare-metal Linux, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap 5. The motivation is to make downloading and keeping the most complete domain lists possible automated and predictable, without manual registry workflows or fragmented sources.
I'm working to fully open-source the website I've been living from since 2020. I'm not as worried about copycat websites anymore since big tech has stolen all of my work already, so I'm losing my audience either way.
I'm also working on a bilingual lease termination letter generator. The good thing with such tools is that they can be verified by lawyers and guarantee that the letter is legally compliant. The hard work only needs to be done once, then it benefits all.
I wish I had more time to make useful stuff, but the loss in traffic to LLMs is wrecking my plans for the future. I don't know how much more of a drop I can sustain.
I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1] for a couple of months, now. It's a EU-based (early) Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).
We've been using it with friends and family semi-successfully (hashbangs always work if the results aren't satisfactory).
It's really difficult to get bigger indexes other than Mojeek and Marginalia to want to work with us and improve the results further, so that's something I've been researching more, lately.
If you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human, reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of weeks for free. We're pushing improvements daily.
[1] https://uruky.com
[2] https://kagi.com
So you build your own Internet-scale search engine, that's what you're saying?!
What stack do you use? How much data is in your indexes ?
Oops, sorry if that wasn't clear, we're not building a search engine index (yet). We'll definitely do it if we get enough people interested in paying for such a product, though. Right now we're using APIs for other search indexes, like Mojeek and Marginalia, then sprinkling some basic local algorithms to tweak the results and apply the preferences to boost/downrank/exclude domains and TLDs (which is everyone's favorite "feature").
Stack-wise, it's very "boring" (as in, it generates and serves the HTML + bits of JS to enhance settings and such), using Deno in the backend and PostgreSQL for the DB.
Voiden : A offline API client based on Markdown. Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
What are some use cases for this tool? Can it be used in integration tests as a part of CI/CD pipeline?
II built a free USCIS form-filling tool (no Adobe required) USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard. So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.
https://fillvisa.com/demo/
What Fillvisa does:
- Fill USCIS forms directly in your browser - no Adobe needed
- 100% free
- No login/account required
- Autosave as you type
- Local-only storage (your data never leaves the browser)
- Clean, mobile-friendly UI
- Generates the official USCIS PDF, ready to submit
- Built-in signature pad
I just wanted a fast, modern, free way to complete the actual USCIS form itself without the PDF headaches. This is a beta version
Sounds useful!
How do you handle data privacy concerns?
thanks. All the data stays on your browser-only.
I've been working on an iOS app to help my mom keep track of major awards and film festivals: https://awardedapp.com
I had this project for a while in the back burner, and like many of you over the holiday I went back to it with the help of Claude Code... it's been a lot of fun.
Did you have iOS development experience before ?
So, after building this app with Claude - what is your feedback on that? What can be improved/done differently? Could you please share any tips/hints on how to make development of iOS app with Claude easier/better?
I'm working on https://laboratory.love
Laboratory.love lets you fund independent plastic chemical lab testing of the specific foods you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid’s snacks, or whatever you’re curious about.
Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, and get full lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn’t reach its goal within 365 days, you’re automatically refunded. All results are published publicly.
This project was inspired by Nat Friedman's PlasticList.org and we use the same ISO 17025-accredited methodology they did, testing three separate production lots per product (when possible) and detecting down to parts-per-billion. The entire protocol is open.
I just published new results today! Turns out Muir Glen's caned Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes are incredibly low in plastic chemicals. Yay!
Browse funded tests, propose your own, or just follow along: https://laboratory.love
Wow, that is pretty cool! Do you run lab tests yourself, or have to engage a certified lab instead? How does that all work ?
The testing is surprisingly complex!
I partner with Light Labs to handle the testing → https://www.lightlabs.com/
https://spud.recipes
A tiny web app for busy weeknight cooking.
You tap in what ingredients you’ve got, add a time limit + a couple of preferences, and it gives you 3 genuinely doable dinner ideas with step-by-step recipes (no “manage your pantry”, no endless scrolling).
It’s early, but people seem to like the “use up what you’ve got” angle. Feedback very welcome.
I've tried it, looks fun!
P.S. You don't have "green onion" in the ingredients database =))
https://techtalksweekly.io/
I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week.
In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get:
1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration.
2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.
3. Get category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack, language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every major language & ecosystem)
[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly
[2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/
Useful! Subscribed!
I'm working on https://storymotion.video/
a tool for creating hand-drawn animated diagrams for educational creators or technical writer.
- You can export it as video (4k, 60fps) - Do some presentation. - or embed as iframe on to the blog posts or technical docs.
It's combined the experiences of Keynote and Excalidraw, both software I was enjoy using!
Wow, I always wanted such tool!
What is your technical stack? Do you build editor from scratch or do you use something as a baseline ?
I'm playing with repeatable development environment with incus. So, it's like in Docker, but naturally more things should be possible (eg. snap package manager is the ultimate test), but still more disposable than VMs (eg. it won't finish your laptop battery and annoy your ears with fan).
https://github.com/predkambrij/incus-container-desktop https://github.com/predkambrij/devcontainer
What are advantages compared to Docker/Apple containers/VMs like Virtual Box?
I'm a Linux user (I don't know Apple much). I use devcontainers (the repo I listed) for almost everything, because almost everything is possible to do with about zero overhead. Eg, it won't do memory fragmantation that VMs do, processes are just the same, as on host. GUI apps work just the same as the ones on host, which is really cool. Storage can be an issue if images multiply too much, but not a real issue. Incus is a bit different, I still evaluate it, so can't comment much. By description is just the very thing I was looking for (a VM, but without VM's overhead). It's amazing, that Debian12 desktop will start in about 2 seconds. Performance is again just the same as on host's machine. VMs are still cool, I still use them, where I want to be really sure that I won't have a bug that containers would cause them (weird networking and such).
A daily, async version of the dictionary game.
Each day, players try to spot the real definition of an obscure word among the fakes submitted by other players the day before. Fake definitions rank on a daily leaderboard.
I love the traditional version of the game, but it's not so easy to get a session going. An asynchronous, global format is my attempt to make it more casual and accessible.
It's live for about a month now: ~100 daily players, 5000 total, some 20 people on 10-day streaks.
https://plausiblegame.com/en
Pretty! What tech is behind it ?
Thanks! Frontend is Nextjs. Flask, Postgres and Redis in the backend. Hosted on a cheap VPS.
I spent way too much time trying to automate moderation (grouping related submissions, judging similarity, removing offensive submissions) using sentence-transformers and w2v. Finally gave up and settled on using deepseek to moderate for 0.002€ a day.
One thing I'm currently working on is improving the exploration vs exploitation balance in matchmaking (selecting the fakes to present to a player). I want sessions to contain good fakes, but every fake must be played a few times to judge its quality. As a first step, I'm replacing the ELO system for definitions with one that accounts for uncertainty (like Trueskill)
I’m continuing to work on AllZonefiles.io — a domain-data hub that aggregates and serves large-scale zone files. Right now it covers ~354M domains across 1,575 zones, including ~114M domains from 317 ccTLDs, which turned out to be the hardest part operationally.
The next step is an extended dataset parsed from WHOIS: create/expire/update timestamps, NS records, and IANA registrar info. Stack is fairly boring on purpose: Go, bare-metal Linux, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap 5. The motivation is to make downloading and keeping the most complete domain lists possible automated and predictable, without manual registry workflows or fragmented sources.