alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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I've forked Transmission, and I'm trying to implement mutable torrents. Some partial success between two hosts (seeder and leecher) on my own LAN, most of the UI stuff figured out. Will wait until I get it a little more solid before working on the Gtk, Qt, and command-line ports (I expect those to be pure interface work at that point).
I've been building grateful - a social gratitude app.
You write a short entry, keep it private or share it to a circle. A circle is a small private group of your own making — family, close friends, whoever you'd actually want to hear from.
Basically private instagram without all of the strangers and ads. What social media used to be.
https://aquablue.app - Simple, Reliable AI Automation
https://kintoun.ai - Translate Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with layout and formatting intact.
https://ricatutor.com - Your AI Language Tutor for YouTube
A cyberpunk 2077 inspired Tower Defence game https://github.com/XEonAX/TowerPunk-CyberDefence
I had already developed a tower defence game without AI long time back.
Wanted to try my hand at guided vibe engineering and see how faster was it.
https://agentskillsfinder.com/ This is the website I am working on. My goal is to make agent skills searchable, installable, and usable, and to add the function of organizing the workflow of multiple agent skills.
Working on some improvements to my video platform, https://www.kollaborate.tv . It’s a new video player with side-by-side playback comparison. Claude was really helpful at getting the drift adjustment working because I can push it further than I would be comfortable pushing a human employee in order to get things just right.
Working on figuring out onboarding for my coding tool. For someone who has been baked into building I'm struggling to put myself into the position of a new user just landing on the website. What features do I highlight without overwhelming them?
Any advice in this arena would be greatly appreciated.
I have been working on using openclaw and Claude managed agents to help me run a one-person startup. As a repeat founder, I know a lot of tasks that are very well suited for agentic systems.
so far it has been an interesting journey and I have had some success but the whole process has led me to write a lot of software around my own process so that I can scale it.
Might turn that into a product itself.
An old school WYSIWYG RAD GUI builder for native applications. Because I don't accept that native app development needs to suck as much as it does.
They say programming is dead... I built an AI Streamer platform that responds to a twitch chat
https://slidebits.com/ai-streamer
Not a trivial thing to vibe code without any domain expertise but this project took me under 2 weeks with a AI coding agent harness I built myself. I use Gemini 3 Flash as my main driver as well.
I’m working on an ATS system that integrates LLMs for helping the recruiter in writing job descriptions, parsing CVs to Markdown, making summaries of CVs and suggest which ones match the best the job offers giving pluses and minus: https://beehive-ats.com/
I'm working on a FOSS Web-based RSS reader for the Kindle that works on the Kindle browser, no need to send articles via Amazon or Calibre!
It's called Inkfeed
PricePush (pricepush.app), automating localized pricing for mobile apps. Calculates PPP-adjusted prices for 190+ countries and pushes them to App Store Connect and Google Play in one click. Built it because managing prices across 175 Apple storefronts for my own 8 apps was taking entire weekends.
https://motionparty.net/ - A collection of games you control by waving in front of your camera, similar to playstation eyetoy back in the day. It supports 1-4 players.
I think it works quite well so far, but need to tweak the camera algorithm a bit to make the buttons work better. Thinking about more games to add as well.
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I am vibe coding with Opus 4.6: https://github.com/jftuga/swiftswiss
Swiss army knife CLI tool written in Swift using only native Apple frameworks.
The primary goal of this project is to demonstrate how many Apple standard library frameworks can be meaningfully used in a single, actually-useful CLI tool.
brew install jftuga/tap/swiftswiss
A game framework for vibecoded games.
Native APIs exposed via Rust, but the core framework is written in AssemblyScript. Games or mods/libraries built in it are also written in AssemblyScript.
It builds as a binary that can run on the various PC, mobile, and web platforms. You run it and you get a claude-code-like console that has access to a sandboxed filesystem to put game code in, and a git repo, all built in.
I'm building https://hyperclast.com/ - "Smart Documents for Teams" ie a self-hostable Notion competitor. And it is much faster! Here is why I'm building it: https://hyperclast.com/about/
I've converted my 23 year old Java desktop app to a website.
It's an app to make searching eBay an actual joy. Perform a search, then highlight text to trash or group that term. Then perform the search again tomorrow and it will hide all the stuff you've already seen.
Few things actually
Yupcha AI Interviewer, handles the screening, video interviewing with conversational agents.
Check it out https://yupcha.com
Working on a oss video dubbing, cloning and design studio
Check out https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio
Suggestions are welcome.
I’m building an open source SaaS for every vertical. I’m targeting e-commerce, restaurants, gyms, hotels, grocery stores. I want to leverage these systems to build an interoperable marketplace for each vertical. I launched a Shopify alternative in December and the Toast one is almost ready. Gyms, Hotels, and Grocery stores ones are in the works.
Working on recreating Google engineer Ken Shirriff's work on chargers. His article "A dozen chargers in the lab" is what I'm trying to replicate, but with modern USB C chargers. Feel free to take a look:
A TUI written in gnuCOBOL to show and interact with the API of my cs student associations cursed member kiosk system. (Using curl, as I still want to live).
For said same association, templating and assembling a book of songs and other oddities in Typst for the associations 50th anniversary.
Next project is figuring out what to do with my personal website!
I'm working on a digital waveform viewer for VScode. I started it back when I used to work for an FPGA company, and needed to debug soft CPUs. Now it's starting to rival the proprietary software. I should probably do a show HN at some point...
We use AI to monitor hundreds of local government commissions and give real-time intelligence to B2B, residents, and governments. If you're a business trying to track what's happening in local gov for your policy, sales, or lobbying team, I'd love to chat.
I'm building a Linux desktop app that tracks laptop battery health, logs per-minute stats to a local SQLite database, and visualizes capacity trends and degradation over time. It was fun to learn about laptop batteries.
I just released https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/dux
Wanted to have a way to coordinate multiple agents on Linux either via SSH or locally and figured out why not give it a shot?
The result is a pretty cool tool, inspired by similar solutions that after trying them most fell short.
A software for managing BJJ and martial arts academies that it's both easy to use and have everything they need like assistance tracking, payments, communications, etc.
It's called MatGoat[1], and it's going quite well so far. Nowadays I'm working more on the marketing/sales side.
I've been working on an ML model capable of robust continuous learning, resistant to catastrophic forgetting without relying on replay, an external memory system, or unbounded parameter growth. Last week I confirmed the first non-toy, 580M parameter version soundly beat LoRA, EWC, and full fine tuning. This week I'm scaling up to 4.4B parameters...
A tool to detect and fix drift in GitHub repository settings: https://github.com/ArloL/drifty
I have a terraform setup right now but it’s super awkward and very slow. The goal is to be able to define settings using PKL which looks super interesting. Wanted to try it out for a while now.
I recently started using Paperless to manage all my documents and wanted to include archive serial numbers (ASNs) for all physical documents that I scan, so I built a small tool to create and print archive serial number label sheets with QR/Barcodes:
It's free, no sign up or ads - feedback welcome :)
I’ve been building the next generation of scam detection products; isthisspam.org. So far, the homepage took has been getting mildly successful, trying to build offline detection with iOS app now capable of offline detection, working on new ideas to market the tool.
Adding unit tests to a game for Game Boy Advance.
https://medium.com/@lmy/adding-unit-tests-to-a-game-for-the-...
I’m working on a mobile app called Dream Chimp.
It’s a preset editor for UAFX Dream ‘65 pedal that I decided to build because I was so frustrated with the stock app.
If you’re a Dream ‘65 owner please check it out!
A small Python library/framework for customising how the AST is walked and evaluated. I plan to use it in another project to configure a safe-ish sandboxed way of evaluating user submitted expressions and code. There are a few other libraries that enable this, but I found they bake in some stuff to the internals that I didn't want.
I have been prompting and building a pos[1] for fun. I have been improving it bit by bit. I will also admit that I have not looked at the code that AI tools have generated. I let AI test it and the AI also finds bugs and fixes it.
Its a fun project, all done using free tier.
Runtime for agents https://github.com/agentspan-ai/agentspan Built on top of Conductor OSS - https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
Building a website to list all destinations and schools around the world, focused on depth freediving, with various data points relevant to that sport.
If you do any freediving or apnea training, interested to hear what you think of the platform.
I’m working on my hobby project, a browser-grade SVG rendering library in C++20: https://github.com/jwmcglynn/donner
I recently finished <text> and <filter> support, now I’m working on a GPU-accelerated rendering backend.
I’m making an iOS app [1] that allows you to track and analyze your life. It’s all local to your device and was created to help me learn more about myself and my habits.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Game Boy app to explore 4-bit synthesis and "modular" sequencing, smth similar to https://roberthenke.com/technology/inside8032av.html but for Game Boy instead of Commodore PC
Pivoting Korean spaced repetition app towards reading features:
Video demo: https://youtu.be/cJfFAh6ox84?si=WScDPzI4rJIKe99n
I'm productizing the unique Git workflow work I do - this may be the last week I'm ever available for consulting engagements, so head to https://merge-base.com now if you're interested!
Planted a few fruit trees, some strawberries, and vegetables. Every time I water them, I think about automated irrigation.
I'm working on multi-tenant version of OpenClaw for organizations that has shared memory layer. It includes an entity based agent context layer that can be used as OpenClaw plugin and a sandbox runtime layer which uses just-bash with pi and let you expose the context via a bot an API.
I’m working on https://hilogame.cc It’s a word guessing game based on binary search. Only having around 10 users for now, but hope more people will find it fun.
https://kulikuli.app/translate I'm building a web version of my app, which has better quality than Google/DeepL and also translates the result in reversed for users to double check.
I'm training a latent diffusion model on weather radar data to predict short-term storm behavior. Decent results so far on downscaled data at +30min, training a full-res model at +1h and +2h horizons now. Excited to see how it does!
Scheduled encrypted back up of git repos via ssh/rsync to a simple server from a macOS workstation. I’m tired of the complexity to host a simple private git repo. Using this suite of scripts, I’ve been able to incrementally backup an encrypted copy of my private git repos to rsync.net (but it could be configured to be any ssh host with rsync capability).
I'm connecting LLMs directly to robots, to see how well they can perform robot things by directly controlling motors and sampling the camera/sensors. Initial results are encouraging!
https://colinator.github.io/Ariel/post1.html
I just got a bigger robot, further results forthcoming!