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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

261 points david927 | 4 comments | 23 Feb 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.009s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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jtwaleson ◴[24 Feb 25 08:27 UTC] No.43157056[source]▶
I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun: a GeoGuessr for code. Select the repos for your team (or if you feel confident, of the entire org), you get a snippet and have to guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc.

I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2 months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented cofounder in NL.

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1. potamic ◴[24 Feb 25 10:59 UTC] No.43158134[source]▶
Went through your profile searching for a demo and discovered fractional CTO. Could you share a bit about how you evaluate new gigs and figure out how much time each one would need?
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2. jtwaleson ◴[24 Feb 25 11:13 UTC] No.43158212[source]▶
People ask if I'm available and if I find the work interesting and they can pay me I say yes. I have never looked for work since starting and have slightly more requests than I can fulfill (almost everything through my network). For efficiency I do full days of work + ad-hoc meetings when necessary and no more than 2 days per week per client.

Note that I'm not always a CTO in the strictest sense of the word, I like doing complex technical challenges with software companies and sometimes just lead a complex project like implementing ISO 27001 or re-packaging a software suite for on-prem deployment.

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3. rnewme ◴[24 Feb 25 11:35 UTC] No.43158360[source]▶
Sorry to off topic further but I also have a question - how do you deal with recruiters? As a consultant I get grilled and rejected if I ever have overlapping projects or anything that even remotely looks like more than 40h a week. They're very intimidated with implications of being "overemployed"
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4. jtwaleson ◴[24 Feb 25 11:42 UTC] No.43158406{3}[source]▶
This isn't a problem for me. I mostly stopped getting interest from recruiters when I became CTO. Now I just get calls from CEOs or CPOs etc and they understand what I offer them. I have a rule for myself to never charge for hours when I'm not productive and never charge overlapping hours though.