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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: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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Joeboy ◴[30 Jun 25 07:34 UTC] No.44420489[source]▶
I just took a fortnight off work with the intent of getting away from my laptop, but accidentally ended up making a listings site for London's independent / arts cinemas. As far as I can tell no such thing currently exists, and I feel like it should.

Obviously the main thing is getting the listings data, which as far as I know (mostly) isn't readily available any other way that scraping the cinemas' websites, for which I set this up as a separate-ish project[1]

[0] https://filmhose.uk

[1] https://github.com/Joeboy/cinescrapers

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alonsonic ◴[30 Jun 25 16:00 UTC] No.44424832[source]▶
Hey I'm doing something similar for NYC! But focused on screenings with special appearances only. There's a lot going on here. Happy to share notes.

[0] https://filmspotlight.org/

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1. Joeboy ◴[30 Jun 25 21:01 UTC] No.44427834[source]▶
Cool! Yours is much prettier than mine.
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2. alonsonic ◴[02 Jul 25 15:40 UTC] No.44445079[source]▶
Pretty can get in the way sometimes. I like your site, it's easy to ingest the information quickly. I might simplify the design of mine to make it more usable. There's a reason why hackernews is still looking like this!