alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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A little static site generator using ruby templating engines:
Echoresponse - a tool for responsible disclosure. Security Researchers and companies encode some of their secret knowledge in LLMs and the LLMs have a discussion and can say one word from agreed upon list back to the party that programmed them.
https://fuzzygraph.com - aspires to be the most beautiful equation graphing app
I’m a solo entrepreneur - working on a questionnaire solving tool (think security questionnaires, RFPs and similar). Would love to hear any feedback.
Comparing world countries on as many uncorrelated statisticals factors I could get my hands on.
Fun fact: in overall top 10, there is only one country that is not in Europe.
Publishing updated FreeBSD AMIs every time there is a security or errata update. This will make life easier for FreeBSD/EC2 users since they won't need to wait for patches to download when they first launch an instance.
A mobile app for triaging GitHub notifications in seconds. Available for iOS and Android starting next week.
PyTorch compiler and runtime for WebGPU https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu
A new numbers game named Sigma. It’s like a crossword plus Sudoku (kind of). Try it out? https://jm.cool/games/sigma
I'm building FollowGuard (https://followguard.app) - it's a privacy-first Instagram analytics tool.
I got tired of seeing people lose their accounts to "unfollower" apps that require login credentials and use unofficial APIs. Instead, I built this to parse official Instagram GDPR data exports 100% client-side in the browser.
It’s a Vue 3 + TypeScript SPA. There is no backend; all the ZIP extraction and JSON parsing happen locally so the user’s data never leaves their machine. I even added a "Security Audit" feature to help people find suspicious login activity in their own data.
My biggest challenge right now is the UX friction. To stay safe, the user has to navigate an 11-step manual export process on Instagram to get their data. I’m trying to figure out if the "privacy/safety" benefit is enough to convince non-technical users to jump through those hoops.
- https://dict.press - A (language) dictionary publishing and management system.
- WIP: A FOSS, self-hosted Luma alternative (for use across our community initiatives)
Went down a DMARC rabbit hole last month or so. The holidays and some end of year commitments have kept me too busy to get much done, but I'm slowly tinkering with it.
I'm building a web-based local multiplayer party game platform. It's like a lovechild of Jackbox Games and Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com. Back in December Gaming Couch hit the front page of Hacker News, you can check it out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344573
The TL;DR:
- Currently in free Early Access with 18 competitive mini-games.
- Players use their mobile phones as controllers (you can use game pads as well!)
- Everything is completely web-based, no downloads or installs are necessary to play
- All games support up to 8 players at a time and are action based, with quick ~one minute rounds to keep a good pace. This means there are no language based trivia or asynchronous games!
- In the future the plan is to open up the platform for 3rd party developers (and Gamejams!) as well. We'd take care of the network connectivity, controllers etc.. 3rd party devs can focus on developing cool multiplayer mini-games without spending an eternity with networking code and building the infrastructure.
Made a landing page: https://shipmentplanner.com
Now I'll have to bite the bullet and start working on marketing!!!!
I’ve been working on a fontdrawing app that only uses the keyboard (inspired by vim) for a couple of months. Finally got export to ttf working this weekend and got to see a bad looking j I drew in Figma
I am working on invoicing web app https://www.haiku.lt . Currently focusing on marketing and EU e-invoicing part.
A Gradle plugin that makes developing Java modules-based libraries super easy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572154
I am working on a new Unix-style filesystem for the browser, in https://exaequos.com For local and remote storage and encrypted
Rate my professor for my university because it didn't have one: https://www.ratedeeznust.com/
At the moment I’m building a succinct data structure library, doing one algorithm at a time. There have been some very impressive papers came out recently. The numbers look promising.
Find local businesses with no websites (or check bad ones with built in SEO tools).
Build contracts, create billable invoices and track tasks for clients with a lightweight, web dev focused CRM.
Essentially, an all in one platform for web developers to find and manage their clients
Thinking of new ways to visualize market data in 3D like this helical candlestick chart:
If you work in machine learning, we are building a much more powerful and faster Neptune/Wandb replacement.
Hacking together a little 3d snake game for my steamdeck, heavily “inspired” by that spherical snake post last week.
Never published to Steam before, it’s been a fun learning process.
For personal projects:
Used ai to create my own mind mapping tool for private use.
I also created a private cursor-like / loveable-like tool that I can use for my own vibe code prototyping on the go with my phone.
tirreno ~ open safety platform
Github: https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
Live Demo: https://play.tirreno.com (admin/tirreno)
Thanks to Qwen VL, I shared my grandmother’s recipes on the web.
https://www.querybear.com - basically retool but make creating tools SUPPPPER easy
1. Developing an voice AI agent (applied AI, not research)
2. Production ready AI - mix of code and human eval
3. Understanding and building for the new agentic AI commerce
I've just released sanctum 1.0.0 and am taking 2-3 weeks off from hacking on it while I work on a little dumb game to be creative in a different way.
Working on creating dashboards from google sheets, csv or json here EasyAnalytica.com
Still working on https://cartes.app, the libre Web european Google Maps alternative.
Turtle graphics with lambda functions. I don't know if it has any interesting applications, but I wanted to learn lambda calculus
https://battlecode.org/ is in January, I look forward to it every year.
A very simple facebook-ish social media PWA that is meant to be easily selfhosted on low end raspberry pi level hardware, bun + sqlite + mantine.
My friendgroup has gotten increasingly concerned with the gradual enshittification of various services we depend upon, and are looking at various alternatives. In some cases there are good selfhostable options (nextcloud, mattermost/zulip), but I decided to write my own tiny PWA to cover facebook-like needs.
The goal isn't really to scale to >1000 users, just to be simple to spin up for a small group and be easy to manage. I'm hoping to run multiple instances, eg one for family, one for college friends, one for local friends, etc.
My process has been pretty ADHD though. I recently read the phrase "It doesn't have to be done, it just has to be perfect" and felt personally attacked.
HackerNews with a better UI (same content)
working on a free mini-game for f1 enthusiasts, completely build by claude sonnet 4 and hosted on AWS
consistently getting traffic of 30k in a month with peaks upto 10k in a day
This has been on for a few months now but I'm thinking to add new features as users are asking for multiplayer support. Would love some feedback
Made a simple anonymous feedback app - https://feedbackok.com/
building out https://www.fluidposts.com, which is a writer for SEO folks.
Thought it would be a good way to learn about one form of marketing while building out some useful tools!
Looking for beta users and would love some early feedback!
I was annoyed with how clients can book a call with me, having to use and pay for a bunch of tools (like calendly, zoom, linktree/website etc.) so I built bookcall.io over the holidays. Launching soon with integrated video calls, a landing page, custom domain, attaching documents, and all that stuff, shipping this depending on demand. Pretty fun project.
building a rest APIs that aggregates and structures data from the www
- ETL is vanilla Python - Orchestrated with Cron and SIGUSR1 - http is Nginx -> uvicorn-> FastAPI
Data lives in a CAFS indexed with Xapian and my current time to load is ~200ms
It's been A LOT of work all far. I came in with some skills and have learnt a lot along the way
Hi I have built ThreadsDelete.co
A tool for bulk mass delete posts, replies, Quotes and Reposts for Threads platform.
Still adding new features
I am currently working on developing a tool for analyzing AWS Costs, It's currently in progress I plan to share soon
I’m working on PolyMCP a simple and efficient way to interact with MCP servers using custom agents
testeranto.com
I have built a multi language bdd test framework. A human can write the bdd specs and an LLM will generate the code to match.
gthumb.ai
AI models and open source robotics for food production.
From backyard gardening, subsistence farming, urban gardening, and other forms of small scale agriculture.
We believe no one owns nature and that all growers have 100% right to repair any equipment we offer.
Our first IOT device (greenbox) is in an open beta for 2026. Please reach out to [email protected] if interested.
mock, an API creation and testing utility. Any feedback is welcome!
Making complex simple again.
Making rent as an open source developer.
Attracting new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my crappy HTML skills.
https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html