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j-romon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I'm trying to improve the UX of my time-zone converter. I started with my dedicated converter pages, like /est-to-ist. The goal was to make it easier to identify which times are best for scheduling meetings:

https://currenttimeutc.com/est-to-ist/

j-romon Ask HN: What are you working on?

https://currenttimeutc.com/

It's a minimalist time zone converter. The real value add, in my opinion, is that it lets you look up multiple locations and add them all to list that updates in real-time. I built this a few years ago but I made a bunch of UX and quality of life changes recently. I have metrics around usage but I would be curious to chat with some users to get their take on how it can be improved.

j-romon Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

https://rps.plus/

I built a competitive rock paper scissors game. It's got ranks, match-making, and a leaderboard.

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

A competitive rock-paper-scissors game. Something where replay-ability is high and low barrier to entry. I have completed most of the core features that I wanted and now I'm fine-tuning things, fixing bugs, etc...:

https://rps.plus/

j-romon Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball

It was a game changer once I realized you could over the net. Super fun game!

j-romon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

I built a simple PDF invoice generator a few months ago. Been polishing that up recently: https://invoiceden.com/

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

Trying to scratch my own itch by creating (yet another) todo list site. It's more for me than anyone else. I typically use a simple text file to track my tasks in a day but I wanted something just a little bit more. Still minimal but maybe 1 - 2 steps above editing a file.

Donezo: https://donezo.pages.dev/

j-romon How I got promoted to staff engineer twice

I agree that consistently shipping "impactful" work is vital for getting to staff. And "impactful" changes from company to company.

j-romon Ask HN: 2025 Resolutions?

What was your takeaway from having these days? Did you have a different mindset going into the week?

j-romon Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

- Wake up (preferably no alarm)

- Do 1 set of pushups. As many as it takes to get to failure

- Brush teeth

- Fill up and drink full water bottle, 21 oz

- Eat protein bar

- Start reading through emails and creating todo list for the day

j-romon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

I recently built a simple tool for comparing timezones and I'm currently trying my hand at SEO to try to get more traffic.

https://currenttimeutc.com/

j-romon Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

> To ensure these systems are 100% secure, equipment in the Brazil data center was returned to the manufacturers. The manufacturers’ forensic teams examined all of our systems to ensure that no access or persistence was gained. Nothing was found, but we replaced the hardware anyway.

The thoroughness is pretty amazing

j-romon Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

Reminds me of Pushbullet back in the day

j-romon Show HN: I Made a Sudoku Game

Nice! 5:28

j-romon Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

Might I interest you in https://currenttimeutc.com/. This creates shareable dashboards with different cities, timezones, and airports.

j-romon Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

Out of curiosity, would you prefer to see all the options laid out so you can quickly scan which ones would be optimal? Or would you prefer to click a button and then it just schedules the meeting for you?

j-romon Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

Very cool! I like how you use a slider to update the times.

Shameless plug for my own site that does something similar: https://currenttimeutc.com/

j-romon Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, and IH?

Good to know! How do you go about promoting your tools? Is it also through your existing content network?

j-romon Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, and IH?

That's a good idea. I've considered that but my game is more similar to Wordle where it's a daily word game. It doesn't really fit in with the other games that streamers typically play. But if the goal is to simply get the word out, promoting it on a few streams might be the way to do it.

j-romon Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, and IH?

Do you feel like doing the content is worth the ROI? I would basically be starting from zero and from what I've heard, it's a lot of effort to go from 0 -> 1.

j-romon Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, and IH?

Agreed. But this can be tough if you don't already have an existing following. I was thinking of including something like a "Change log" on my site where when I launch a feature, the user gets a pop-up that says something like "Here's all the things that we launched while you were away".

j-romon Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers are down?

Complete Pages outage for me. I have several sites hosted on Cloudflare Pages and I can't access any of them, they're all returning 500's.

j-romon Ask HN: Show me your product with your competitors and differences

My product: https://emojirades.pages.dev/

A daily emoji + charades game where users are shown 3 emojis and have to guess the word.

With regards to gameplay and being a "daily" game, I drew inspiration from Wordle: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

j-romon Ask HN: Heroku Alternative for 2023?

I've been using Cloudflare pages for the past few projects. It's fast to prototype and to get a quick proof-of-concept deployed and working.

j-romon Ask HN: Which talks blew your mind?

Very cool talk! I recently made a word game and will be applying these principals.

j-romon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

Daily Emoji + Charades game: https://emojirades.pages.dev/

j-romon Show HN: Emojirades – Emoji Charades

Thanks for the heads up! I tried to ensure the first letter was not capitalized in the input field but didn't add the validation. I just pushed a fix for this and the game should now recognize you as a proper winner :)

j-romon Bun v1.0.0

Is there an example one step above "Hello world" that new users can take a look at? There are a bunch of guides for different API's / constructs but I'm wondering if there's a canonical example to get started.

Guides: https://bun.sh/guides

j-romon Gematria

Yeah that sounds like what I was thinking of, thanks!

j-romon Gematria

Is it possible to use this technique for compression? For example, if we created a dictionary of the most commonly used words / phrases, then we could drastically reduce space. You would still need to store the dictionary but that's a one-time cost.