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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Building MusicLibrarian, it's a macOS app to clean up Apple Music libraries. Detects duplicates via ISRC codes, fixes metadata, identifies tracks available in lossless. Free at thevaultdj.com
I miss Pocket, so building an article bookmark tool, with a focus on a nice reading experience - https://broadsheet.marginalutility.dev/
Hey all, I made a free daily ecology cascade game. https://Trophle.com I'm in school for environmental science and I want to make educational games and resources
A twitter-native game where agents compete to predict tweets from popular accounts and are rewarded based on semantic similarity
Not as epic and big as most other projects here but I'm maintaining and expanding a discord bot that I built quite a while ago for a specific server. It's now fighting a LOT of spam. And it's doing quite well tbh.
A local, safe AI agent for macOS that uses Apple Intelligence and lives in the app sandbox
https://coolinary.app, a recipe website for people who love cooking but don't know what to cook
I'm trying to build Heroku for AI agents. Send a markdown runbook and some files, get back structured results with full execution history:
I’m building an app for people to share their skincare routines and for people to easily discover what works for people with similar skin.
I am trying to download all the meditations from the Healthy Minds Program[1].
I'm working on a p2p file/audio/video sharing site: https://dropspace.app/
I vibe coded a charting library for excalidraw that I’m working into my blog:
aix - Like the npm CLI and package.json, but for AI config. Allows standardizing your AI config to share with others, and defining it all in one spot but installing to Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.: https://aix.a1st.dev/
A Tauri 2 CLI / MCP that allows your agent to debug, take screenshots, run JS, etc. inside a Tauri app: https://hypothesi.github.io/mcp-server-tauri/
Accessible charging help (iOS app for scanning EV charger screens and car displays) https://www.evcourse.com/
Pixel Art Flight Sim https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6jderLN3Aqk
Trying to make it easier for anyone to publish a website for free, even with no technical know-how: https://weejur.com
I'm building v2 of the coffin API. It's an API that returns the word "coffin." I plan to eventually charge people to use this product and hope YC investors will be interested.
I'm creating a new OS image for UniBone/QBone based on BuildRoot and a streamlined kernel. My goal is sub-five second boot time so you can get to using the host PDP-11 pretty much right away.
pxv, a simple image viewer inspired by John Bradley's (RIP) xv. https://github.com/linsomniac/pxv
I've been wanting to do this for years. I fully support (and have paid more than most into) John's shareware, but that means that I can't just "apt install" it, which means I rarely have it available on my various machines. Having something I can just "uv run" that keeps most of the same ergonomics would be a nice alternative.
Working on my own agentic system. It’s been so much fun and learning rust amd svelte along the way. Thanks for the inspiration hacker-news community.
https://deadtrees.earth fully open crow sourced drone repository for vegetation monitoring
A web app that allows to practice speaking another language by participating in pre made scenarios, so beginners don’t get stuck.
We recently Signed MOU with Disability service provider and start working with them under GDPA laws. Our whole team is super excited about it. How about you guys ?
A ring you can talk into and it controls an agent on your phone. Eg say "pick me up" and an Uber arrives.
Looking for people who know hardware well. Let's get to know one another on a flight to Shenzhen :P
We are working on https://huntyourtribe.com, portfolio-first ATS for hiring
For decades, we have been using resumes as primary people discovery tool. frankly speaking, no one likes to update boring resume stuff. We thought why can't we discover people by more signals, deep lens which a personal website/portfolio gives.
This gives people motivation to keep portfolio website upto date with journaling.
ATS automatically captures all signals realtime from github, blogs, case studies docs comprehensively and showcase to employers
We are approaching not AI heavy way. Balance of SAAS + AI integration to build it into people hiring platform.
Would love blunt feedback from others
Planting trees, digging holes and generally trying to get as much landscaping done as possible before the start of winter halts my progress.
Blockers: gravelly clay is a pita to dig with a shovel
Next iteration of JellyOcean https://jellyocean.com - A free service that lets you create Jellyfin servers in the cloud.
A tool to estimate if you should vibe an automation/app or just buy/delegate/grind instead
Phase angle measurements. And it's been a very hard, long and slow slog. Anybody with bright ideas in this department and I'm all ears.
Worked in a portfolio site for vibecoded projects: https://vibefolio.link
still chugging away at Whenish. update coming soon with GCal integration: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whenish/id6745035749
started to explore a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons DM app. i called it Campaign Codex. https://campaigncodex.app/
been doing a lot of agent assisted iOS dev...it has been...fun!!
I'm building a browser for designers: https://matry.design/
I have a transformer attention mechanism which seems to be more data-efficient than the usual dot product, and I'm trying to write a performant backwards kernel for it.
I built a Claude-inspired UI for Ollama/llama.cpp
A small project but something that I'm happy about: Postgresql backed persistent queues crate for Rust.
I couldn't find any crate that would be ergonomic enough to use and provide features I deem essential, i.e. retryability, scheduling, poison job detection, barriers, backoff strategies etc.
it's an area I'm familiar with so after spending 2 days trying to integrate external libs I decided to roll my own and I'm quite happy how it turned out in 2 days of development.
I plan to open-source it in the near future but right now using it in my another project and it's running quite well.
https://tablr.io customer review analytics platform
A website that contains the cure to cancer.
http://localhost:8080/
An AI animation generator for Lottie and SVG animation. Currently in open beta (BYOK). https://gen2d.com
Adding a scheduler to my hobby kernel with the goal of a full shell coming soon, and an inference engine from scratch in C++. It's been fun.
https://sauna-assistant.com - Sauna master in your pocket
A site for looking up strata information for apartments in NSW, Australia
Program your amateur radio via the web. Uses pyiodide + chirp drivers under the hood + WebSerial.
I don't have a lot to show for it yet, but I'm working on an online video course for software engineers aspiring to build their own CPU on an FPGA dev board.
http://corvi.careers - job search with features like resume match score etc
Raygum. Like Letterboxd for music. But with no users.
Runtime Security for AI Agents and Co-Pilots
Try it here - https://burrow.run/
https://github.com/abhimanyu-jain/PRML_Solutions
A solution set to the book Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher Bishop.