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

My background is in NLP, research, and startups. I joined a power company where I saw a clear opportunity to use AI for automating equipment inspection from drone images.

But the environment made it hard to move fast. The systems were outdated, and there wasn’t much support for building AI tools in-house. That experience made me realize I needed to grow beyond the modeling layer. There were things I wanted to build, but I didn’t yet have the full skill set to do it on my own.

So I’ve been learning full stack development. I had built a small chatbot app before, but this time I’m applying what I’m learning toward a focused MVP for the inspection work. It’s been a practical way to connect what I know with what I want to make real.

Funny, I actually have a very similar story, where the plan was also to use drones/AI for inspection of power equipment. For the same reasons as you I quit to work on my own projects, but I discarded the drone project and went another way. Best of luck!

Thanks. Would love to chat if you're available? my twitter is @taha_moji