czarofvan (u/czarofvan)

czarofvan commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) · Posted by u/david927

Tsarp · a month ago

Lets you hide 1000s of images, pdfs, videos, secrets, keys into a single portable innocent file like "Vacation_Summer_2024.mp4".

czarofvan · a month ago

Would be cool to get a wasm build that runs fully on browser

czarofvan commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) · Posted by u/david927

piker · a month ago

Working on Tritium, the legal IDE in Rust (https://tritium.legal/)

This month I'm improving CI/CD for e2e testing across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Also adding support for unlocking password-protected PDFs and Word docs and improving OCR. OCR runs in the background and leverages native OS OCR where available and a pure LSTM Rust implementation elsewhere. Generally improving the word processor and looking for speedups. Adding a cross-platform spellchecker leveraging native where possible, too.

Play with it online: https://tritium.legal/preview

Download for free: https://tritium.legal/download

czarofvan · a month ago

Are you having lawyers getting of MS Word. Ive tried in the past with no success.

But this is really cool. Its definitely a problem they have.

czarofvan commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

norbert515 · 2 months ago

Working on https://vide.dev, the Cursor for Flutter devs.

While Cursor stops after writing great code, Vide goes the extra mile and has full runtime integration. Vide will go the extra mile & make sure the UI looks on point, works on all screen configurations and behaves correctly. It does this by being deeply integrated into Flutters tooling, it's able to take screenshot/ place widgets on a Figma-like canvas and even interact with everything in an isolated and reproducible environment.

I currently have a web version of the IDE live but I'm going to launch a full native desktop IDE very soon.

czarofvan · 2 months ago

Any reason to not use flutter flow with all the AI stuff?

czarofvan commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

peterm4 · 2 months ago

Not as exciting or big as some of the projects on here, but just a small personal one I’ve been wanting to do for a while.

I recently impulse bought an Epson receipt printer, and I’ve started putting together a server in Go to print a morning update every day. Getting it to print the weather, my calendar and todos, news headlines, HN front page. Basically everything I pick up my phone for in the morning, to be on paper rather than looking at a screen first thing. Very early days but hacking away and learning escpos/go! (Vibecoding a lot of it)

https://github.com/petertjmills/escpos-server

czarofvan · 2 months ago

Very different from all the magic mirror sort of solutions. Nice!

czarofvan commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

Tsarp · 2 months ago

https://voicebraindump.com

Low friction Markdown based voice journaling. Locally transcribed voice memos with whisper and write as markdown files (to any folder or obsidian vault).

czarofvan · 2 months ago

Is this opensource or just open eco system?

czarofvan commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

Tsarp · 2 months ago

https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod

Lets you create encrypted containers disguised as normal files. 1000s of images, pdfs, videos, secrets, keys all stuffed into an innocent look "Vacation_Summer_2024.mp4".

I've almost got true steganography working i.e to get the carrier file to actually open in any file system(currently with mp4, pdf, png and jpeg).

Things like this have existed in the past, but nothing with a simple UI,recent encryption standards.

czarofvan · 2 months ago

Damn how is the docker image only 4Mb. Even with the docker slim images they typically are atleast double digit. Nice!

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czarofvan · 3 months ago

WER scores?

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amazingamazing · 3 months ago

Did a quick search for profit: nada.

I am genuinely curious if lay people will pay for AI. I know people who spend literally hours daily on YouTube and complain about the ads and don’t want to pay the quarter a day to get rid of em.

Will these people pay $50 a month for gpt? We will see.

czarofvan · 3 months ago

I think people who realize its not about avoiding inconvenience but a tool that will make life significantly easier will kost likely pay.

Just like paying for a smartphone or data or broadband.

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7839284023 · 4 months ago

You forgot about https://tryvoiceink.com/

19 Dollar and Open-Source.

czarofvan · 4 months ago

I've looked at the codebase. The ones I listed do a significant amount of audio processing to get better transcripts, avoid the "Thank you" issues with whisper large turbo, handle bluetooth and noisy environments.

Hopefully VoiceInk gets there. It is a neat project and really well done for a first time dev but rough around the edges. Careless is ~20$ and if you just need dictation is the best option.

czarofvan commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) · Posted by u/david927

Tsarp · 4 months ago

1. Brain dump

- Voice based note taking tool that does transcription locally

- Markdown files to any folder(s) you setup.

- Help with ideation, rumination, todolists

- Alternative to when writing is too high friction

- https://voicebraindump.com

2. VoiceType

- wisprflow, superwhisper alternative

- runs locally so no subscription

- dictation tool, best for when using cursor, windsurf, chatgpt or talking to an LLM

- https://carelesswhisper.app

czarofvan · 4 months ago

Are these running whisper underneath?

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