Ask HN: What are you going to build and ship in 2025?
To everyone who set a goal to build & ship something in 2025, what is it? A database abstraction layer around DynamoDB for Python. boto3 is a little messy, and I don't care for the ergonomics of PynamoDB after using it for the last several years. AWS CDK constructs to add common alerting patterns to Lambda/SQS/etc. CloudWatch is capable of a lot, and having some constructs with reasonable default strategies would be use for side projects and smaller start-ups that can't afford some of the providers or have the time to roll it themselves. Finally getting nomnominees.com into a shape where I can encourage people to use it. Simple webapp that shows you James Beard nominees/winners and Great American Beer Festival winners in a given area. I use it myself when I'm traveling to find places to check out. I monitor about a hundred pages for changes in German law. This helps me keep my content up to date. I am writing a page change monitor similar to urlwatch, but greatly simplified. Give it a URL and a CSS selector, get a weekly email diff of the changes. It will replace Wachete, for which I was paying 10€ a month. This is worth it for me. I save 120€ per year (5x more if I want to watch more than 100 pages), the watched URLs come from source-controlled text files, and I can configure the delivery schedule of notification emails. It suits my workflow a lot better. It can also tie into my static site generator. The list of legal texts to watch can be extracted from my website’s content, so that everything I mention is automatically watched. All of that from a fairly short Python script. As a follow-up to my custom track editor for the Donkey Konga games, I spent part of the holiday season working on a launcher to make playing custom tracks in the games easier and released a beta build just before Christmas: https://parham.itch.io/kongabeat/devlog/853452/konga-beat-10... My goal now is to ship the 1.0 release in the next month or two and post the source code on GitHub under the MIT license. I'm going to finally build my beat-aware video player. (Along with a musical phrase-guessing game/training tool.) I already built a quick POC (to see if the tech I want to use is viable): https://youloop.leftium.com/ Several years ago, I built another POC that does beat-tracking. (However it's slightly broken and I accidentally deleted the source code): https://phrasier.leftium.com/ I manage a whatsapp community of digital nomads in Rio de Janeiro (around 3k people). I want to turn it into an app. What is your plan and how does creating an app benefit your community? This is a fantastic idea by the way. I bet a lot of people benefit from your work. It’s so good to have a network to lean on when you’re getting settled in a new place. > What is your plan and how does creating an app benefit your community? My main idea is to create value for myself out of whatsapp after putting so much effort into creating the community. So I want to move things out of whatsapp without making the experience worse in any way (and it will probably get better for organizing the information as whatsapp is terrible for that). The app is a mix of Tinder + Meetup.com. People currently in Rio post what they plan on doing and other people join. > I bet a lot of people benefit from your work. It’s so good to have a network to lean on when you’re getting settled in a new place Yeah I love to hear stories of people that got married, found a business partner or made great friendships through meeting in this community. I myself made some of my best friends because of it. This is a very reasonable take. "Don't hitch your wagon to someone else's horse." You should look at CouchSurfing Hangouts. It was a fantastic option when it was free. I met many good friends that way while travelling. It's very close to what you describe. The implementation was a bit shoddy, then CouchSurfing torpedoed itself, but the idea was downright brilliant. Yes! CouchSurfing still works well in Rio although it looks like an abandoned ship that doesn't fix bugs for ages. It is definitely one of my inspirations! I am planning to build a muon catalyzed fusion reactor. Currently studying the possibility of absorption of hydrogen isotopes into the crystal lattice of certain metals, such as palladium, which can trap and localize these atoms at very high densities. As I believe, that one of the showstoppers is to increase of the density of the target. Finishing up yet another re-write of my current project: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview which I hope to then wrap up in a nice front-end using: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor (or maybe some other tool --- is there a stand-alone, desktop version of Blockly which is extensible?) Hopefully I'll also figure out how to write up a LaTeX package for the Literate Programming technique used and maybe a _TUGboat_ article.