alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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A smaller better open claw : https://github.com/geongeorge/nakedclaw
https://www.astrologercat.com/
Because everyone loves astrology and cute cats. (A toy project just for kicks)
Current features:
- AI Chat with Petunia the cat Astrologer
- Daily personalized astrology email
Coming soon:
- Ephemeris calculations
- Stories of historic events from past dates which share today's astrological conditions
- Whatever else Petunia dweams up from her sweepy nap on the bookshewf
A place for open assets for developers. If you have assets you are using you can use this for distribution, either free for open or paid for closed. Based on my experience creating 3D experiences for LV, Ralph Lauren, Steelcase, and Logitech.
A git enabled local-first browser-first markdown workspace wysiwyg editor and publisher. Built with mdx-editor, code mirror 6, react, shadcn and typescript
free, open source, MIT
Adding documented API endpoints for https://uxwizz.com
I've been working on a low-code CRUD backend for AI agents to use to build software. To significantly reduce the complexity of deployment, access control, maintenance, devops, etc... Reducing the surface area for hallucinations and bugs when building complex apps.
I made a Wordle-like daily puzzle. Every day a new category matching puzzle comes up for you to solve!
My first research paper about World Model caching !
Making museum visit an online exp : https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/museeNatioRiga00...
Robinhood for Private Equity. Invest in SpaceX, Stripe, OpenAI before they go public.
Launching this tomorrow:
I'm working on a checkers game:
https://rusty-checkers.fly.dev
It's built in Rust using Rama and Yew. Trying now to get websockets going so people can actually play. A bit over my head, but that's what I do :)
Two things at once, contrary to my new year‘s resolution!
1. An app for personalized interactive audiobooks for kids - https://www.vivid.cx
2. A book about the edge of the thinkable - https://www.unthinkable.net
I’m building a tool that helps you stay on track and revise LeetCode DSA problems in a structured, stress-free way for interview prep.
I have launched it here https://dsaprep.dev
Recently fixed bugs in an audio encoder / decoder (VADPCM) I reverse engineered from the Nintendo 64, and some people are apparently using it to dub Conker’s Bad Fur Day into Spanish.
On-and-off again working on a Mystery Dungeon style game but I have a lot of obligations taking me away from it.
Planning on making demoscene entries this year.
I am working on building https://startupforstartups.com/ , single tool to manage digital presence for a small business. I have been working on it for a couple of months now.
if you need an idea: copy+paste online json visualizer (there are dozens of these) But with the one that click an element and it will show different programming language path selectors for that! i haven't found even one of this and it's difficult to see the path of element from sample data to put into an app when there are multiple levels and complex object
I'm doing a challange to build and ship 25 projects in 25 weeks. It's been tough as hell. I'm on week 16.
The goal is to build cool, interesting sites for my newsletter to show that the old web is still alive and well.
Refactoring Comment Castles [0]. It uses Express, but I previously wasn't using any of my own middleware functions. Now, I'm starting to write some middleware, and it's a nice way to reuse code.
IDE for ClaudeCode, Codex, and OpenCode https://www.producthunt.com/products/rexide
Working on a web framework that provides some guardrails around what a coding agent can and can’t touch without human approval. Makes it easier to have confidence in 5000 line code changes without having to comb through the code.
An Audio workstation with a Git like branching model.
It's free for local use (meaning no cloud sync, or collaboration features: merge requests)
I just finished an LLM enabled shell: https://yoshell.ai/
And now I’m thinking about ways to make it even better
It’s rad already though. I’m super proud of it
I am porting/adapting the Digital Euro (CBDC) specifications for Colombia to complement Bre-B (our instant payment system modeled after Pix). I plan to submit it for review to BanRep (our central bank) once it's finished.
I'm working on tablr.io, a B2B SaaS to help companies convert customer feedback into actionable insights.
I am working on an AI multi-agent system to reverse engineer old C64 games and DOS games automatically.
Building a discovery, compliance, and middleware platform for talent marketplaces to help them compete on more equal footing with the usual suspects.
Plainwire - a Text-first News and RSS reader. Still in alpha. Please feel free to take a look. https://plainwire.live
Working on a RoadTrip Planning app with focus on EV Campers. Bought one myself so it is primarily focused on my own use cases :D
I'm a humble programmer and llm prompted https://goodwikipedia.com as a hobby website to vibe code what an ai llm can do with a few simply nice prompts.
Still working on enabling llms to generate structured videos with text and formulas over at https://videozero.ai but man the marketing side feels IMPOSSIBLE. Really struggling with that one…
Something I call a relational compiler. It makes Spark batch jobs run 10x faster by turning Postgres into a compute runtime.
Making a tool to enable devs to run microvms cross platform and locally.
Idea is to give ai/agents a secure environment/computer to use.
smolmachines.com
VERDURE is still a creative plant-generation sandbox where you grow and sculpt stylized trees.
https://cliwatch.com/ for any CLI maintainers that aim to keep track of how agent ready their work is :) get in touch! very responsive to feedback
tirreno - open-source security framework. https://www.tirreno.com
https://diabetes-diary-plus.com
It's about diabetes management. website is done wirh kirby cms.
FM day job:
Interpretation of SysML activity diagrams as temporal logic for use with state machine specifications.
Module system for state machine with scoping, ownership type system and attendant theorems to carry proofs of LTL properties about individual parts forward after composition.
Focusing on marketing of https://overthink.rest
This is mainly for going to sleep instead of night time overthinking, mind racing, insomnia etc.
Working on https://toolkami.com that enables plug and play Recursive Language Model for increased context size and better recall.
I am working on Voiden. A offline api client based on blocks.
Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
Would love feedback on it.
I am working on an agent board tool powered by OpenClaw, think of it as a Trello board but tasks get handled by your agents atomically, and moves to your review.
Understanding Autonomy and Agency in Cognitive Systems https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
Working on Einwurf (“throw-in” in German, https://einwurf.app) minimalist, ad-free football scores for European leagues, experimenting with AI-generated live commentary.
An open source runtime governance engine for AI https://github.com/jnamaya/SAFi
I am working on selling my laser cut maps to hotels
themapsguy.com
and improving my language learning app:
lexical.app/white-paper
A meta video game inspired by pc98 card game : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gde4lhvsAkA