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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

439 points david927 | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.573s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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ajd555 ◴[30 Jun 25 02:10 UTC] No.44418526[source]▶
I've been working on a fully electric last-mile delivery company: https://hudsonshipping.co

Beyond the landing page (built with Astro), I've been building all of the route optimization, the delivery and warehouse management systems. A combination of go and java has allowed me to write a few microservices in the past 6 months to handle all of my logistical processes, and I'm just testing the mobile app in the field as we speak! I hope to make some of the code open-source one day!

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1. iamnotmeet ◴[30 Jun 25 02:49 UTC] No.44418766[source]▶
This is interesting! Have you considered leveraging Google OR Tools[1] for route optimization? At a previous hyper-local eCommerce startup I worked for, we used it to solve similar problems. Although the setup and integration is not super easy, but the results far outweighed the effort.

1 - https://github.com/google/or-tools

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2. ajd555 ◴[30 Jun 25 02:55 UTC] No.44418811[source]▶
I have considered it! I've opted for a more specialized optimization library that deals specifically in the Traveling Salesman Problem (https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit). I will revisit this though, might come in handy pretty soon - thank you!