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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Distributed ai inference pool for any Mac/iOS device where devices are paid for contributing unused ram. To help with the demand, also doing multiplayer AI. $0.05/million tokens - teale.com
Working on Fronteer, a project management app that (1) integrates messaging more cohesively with tasks and (2) better supports external collaborators - think agency clients, customers, etc.
Some of the biggest pain points we’ve seen is chat being separate from a solid task manager, and the pain of collaborating with people outside your own org.
We’re currently in private beta and hope to open it up to the general public soon!
https://github.com/thisisharsh7/modron-discord-bot
I am managing a discord community with over 1k+ members I found some people would regularly put spam links or message on all the channels and this been repetitive it's just take time deleting them one by one or reposting them into the specific channel. So I build a discord bot that would make this lot easier it catches the spam message post them into actual channel and also delete spam links. It's open source and easy to setup.
I've been building an HLS streaming engine with Elixir. It takes care of asset segmentation, transcoding, and streaming. It supports regular VOD playout, as well as live streaming by dynamically building HLS playlists from a variety of sources, including transcoded VOD assets and other HLS livestreams. It has a basic scheduling system and I'm integrating a lua engine to allow dynamic scheduling using user-provided scripts.
I'm hoping to continue extending it until it can act as a full internet TV delivery stack like Pluto or Roku TV. It still needs to be behind a CDN for efficient delivery but basically any CDN would work.
I made Claude build me a web app to come up with anagrams: https://github.com/egeozcan/anagramci
I'm now having immense fun trying to come up with anagrams to whole sentences in Turkish.
I guess you could even automate finding anagrams (there are even web sites which allow you to do so), but Turkish agglutination makes it so much fun, and you can make really creative ones manually.
Once upon a time I even had made a tumblr to share what I found: https://sacmanagram.tumblr.com/ (also Turkish).
Too many things
- Tool to auto create dashboards from csv/json files or rest api ( https://EasyAnalytica.com )
- Tool to preview, annotate and share html snippets ( https://easyanalytica.com/tools/html-playground/ )
- Creating agent to edit files with smaller model(<1B) not yet released.
-Prompt assember to create prompts/templates/context and easily share between ai to be released this week.
Hey Team, working on a project that makes it easier to track time on Mac.
- There's a desktop app tracking the title bar and time you spend in each app. - You can use this 100% free, or sync this back to https://heygopher.ai to match the time up with your active projects. - if you use HeyGopher you can manage your time, team, projects, quotes and invoices.
This pairs pretty well with my normal project https://goodsign.io which is a Docusign alternative that is pay as you go. No subscription.
Cooperation Cube (https://cooperationcube.com/) — A strategic 4-player memory/semi-cooperative board game I designed, played on a rotating 3D cube. Just added a daily puzzle (https://cooperationcube.com/daily) you can play without signing up. Place sticks, complete patterns, and try to beat the day's challenge.
Live Kaiwa (https://livekaiwa.com/) — A real-time Japanese conversation assistant. It listens, transcribes, translates, and suggests responses so you can follow along in conversations you'd otherwise get lost in. I built it because I live in Japan and needed something for the situations where missing a nuance actually matters — PTA meetings, bank appointments, neighborhood councils.
I'm working on a p2p file/audio/video sharing site: https://dropspace.app/
Trying out games posted to HN so i can add them to https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/
Testing out some ideas to automate data entry workflows from an italian powerlifting federation (FIPL) to OPL https://www.openpowerlifting.org/
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.
I've been working on https://game-pick.eu , a website for friends to easily decide on games to play together. It is voting-based and can show who has which game in their library to see who would yet have to buy it. I'm planning on adding features for finding new friends to play with also. It's my first real web project, so I'm excited how it will go.
We're still building https://shoehorn.dev/: an Intelligent Developer Platform (think Backstage, but opinionated and simple). With Shoehorn, you just run the thing.
"The irony of Backstage is that it was created to prevent teams from having to reinvent the wheel every time, building and maintaining their own developer portal. But that's exactly what everyone does with Backstage."
We wanted something you configure,deploy,update. thats it.
service catalog, GitHub crawler, K8s entity discovery via k8s-push-agent, Forge + molds (scaffolding/workflows, like Backstage templates), governance, scorecards, cloud provider resources, license management, event based notifications, team-context aware, API keys with scope auth alongside session RBAC. CLI and Terraform provider too.
We're aiming to release Beta end of April.
Worked in a portfolio site for vibecoded projects: https://vibefolio.link
A runtime for a long-lived LLM agent with ambient continuous self-perception, persistent memory, defined authority, domain-specific autonomy, and forensic accountability, all in a long ongoing relationship with a human. I call this type of system an Artificial Retainer, a non-human cross between a guide dog and someone like your accountant or lawyer. It is not designed to be your friend, but it could be a valuable colleague. Think of this as an attempt to build a trusted stable agent with a stable character that could last decades.
I'm working on a calorie & macro tracker called FitBee [1]. Tracking my food has been tremendously helpful in terms of improving my health, but it's always been a PITA. The focus of FitBee is food quality & speed. Tracking your food is something you have to do multiple times a day, so I tried to make it as frictionless as possible. The app is built 100% with Swift & SwiftUI.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-macro-counter/i...
I've recently found the best way to find an apartment to rent in Bangkok. It's the Facebook Groups. Tons of owners post their listings there.
So, I've built a scraper that scrapes posts from Facebook Groups and made those posts filterable/sortable.
Now I'm looking to launch the same thing for US cities. Their Facebook Groups have tons of posts around subleasing/looking for accommodations.
If you are interested, here's the site for Bangkok: https://bangkokprop.com
Making rent as an open source developer.
Shamelessly trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my crap HTML skills.
My wife has wanted a security system for a while. The turnkey cloud solutions freak me out. I've done some home automation with home aisstant before, and omg that was configuration slog. But with Claude..... It becomes fun.
dotIPA, an iOS app build size inspector that runs locally on your macOS [$4.99]
Track app size growth over time, inspect contents, spot duplication and size bloat and more.
I recently rebuilt my homelab after moving countries, and in the process updated Proxmox to v9.1.6. Been playing with centralizing my databases into their own LXCs rather than creating an individual one for each application.
When I started doing this, I also decided to try Proxmox's new OCI compatibility, which seems to be working well so far, so I am removing all my Docker VMs and recreating the containers directly on my hypervisor.
I am working on a way to edit google docs using markdown. Many tools exist to convert google docs to markdown and to import markdown to google docs - but none of them make in place edits. The core logic is to convert the google docs to md. The user then edits the md. Then diff the markdown files, and apply the changes back to the source google docs. This way, features not represented in markdown do not get overwritten.
Lots of effort has gone into testing against real world docs. Its beta quality right now.
Nitor - a discord clone with a shared/federated Identity layer, but self-hosted "servers/guilds". Trust model is to trust the guild server (e.g., so private channels work as one would expect with moderation capabilities), but to enable E2E DMs and friend/presence systems via guild servers as relays. Rust, Iced, Iroh.
Glyphcraft - a Minecraft mod (imagine if Thaumcraft, Ars Nouveau, and Hex Casting were smashed together)
I'm building my take on a static site generator.
https://get-taxus-org.pages.dev
It's inspired by Zola, but has better documentation and will hopefully be more approachable when all is said and done. I'm trying to incorporate WebAssembly, with Yew, to give "islands" for high performance stuff you might want where WebAssembly makes sense. For example, I wrote search from the ground up, and built a search widget using Yew.
You can also just write JavaScript if you want.
It's a total work in progress, but I'm enjoying what I've built so far.
Now ready to release https://mealplannr.io. The end game is no/low touch weekly meal plans sent directly to your inbox, with meals from the chefs you follow - with none of the hassle around planning the meals, shopping list etc (which I spend hours doing every week).
An important feature for me was improving the recipe discovery experience, you can build a cookbook from chefs you follow on socials (youtube for now), or import from any source (Web, or take pic of cookbook etc) - it then has tight / easy integration into recipe lists.
Utilising GenAI to auto extract recipes, manage conversions, merge/categorise shopping lists etc - as-well as the actual recommendations engine.
If anyone is interested in beta testing / wants to have a chat I'll look out for replies, or message [email protected]
For occasions like birthdays or Christmas where people want to give you gifts, I have always wanted to ask them to make donations to charities of my choosing instead. So I built an app to enable this: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/donate-your-gift/id6760786102 It is very simple but I didn't find anything quite singly-focused like it, so I built it just to scratch my own itch.
Working on m experimentall alternative to PHP's composer. Some projects took 2-3 mins to update with composer, only to fail at the end. Wanted to rework this, but the composer code is big and I honestly didn't feel like touching more PHP than I had to.
So I built my own package manager that's almost ready for alpha.
I am building ExamineIP - Free network security toolkit
Collection of 15 diagnostic tools (VPN leak test, DNS checker, port scanner, etc.) built after a WiFi security incident. All client-side, no data collection.
Feedback welcome!
Got fed up that startups and small companies having to pay for Enterprise level compliance and sustainability tools, to be considered as a supplier.
So built Sustalium (https://sustalium.com) which is designed to be easier and faster for micro-small-medium businesses to comply with majority of compliance & sustainability frameworks.
I recently built Cranki [0], a free little PWA that generates crosswords using your Anki flashcard lists. It's aimed at language learners (who find flashcards boring and crossword fun!).
To be honest I built it just for me and then decided it might be useful for others.
It's all local, no server, no database, etc. Mobile and desktop friendly.
While I look for a new job working on clean energy hardware, I’m re-habbing a weatherproof 7kWh battery I built for a Burning Man project last year.
I’m adding:
- A control hub that reads data from the batteries and the solar controller
- Remote and on-device UIs that allow a user to control all the hardware from one place
- A LoRa transceiver that allows monitoring the battery and solar status from a distance
Exploring all of this is fun — there’s a lot of DIY solar and battery hardware out there that needs to be able to sync and coordinate, but there’s not a great software solution for this.
Hit me up if you want to hire me, or give me money to work on this :)
https://openscout.app - a local first communication tool, for agent to agent communication and user to agent communication too
I am working on https://github.com/xi/xiio, a minimal async runtime for python. It is mostly feature complete with a fraction of the code of asyncio or trio. It is great fun to get into low level stuff and hopefully it helps me to better understand the finer details of async programming.
I'm working on my Open Source speaking clock (mostly for myself):
https://github.com/jcubic/speaking-clock
It uses local AI models for the voice.
Taking on a 'slow' software project with the kind of attention to quality (inside and out) that I had pre-AI. It's a tool I'll use myself, LLM-related, but not any kind of radical idea; it's main value is in careful UX design/efficiency, engineering quality, and aesthetics.
I've been shooting for the moon with one experimental idea after another (like many others) testing out LLM capabilities as they develop, for at least 2yrs now.
I'm still very excited about how these new tools are changing the nature of software development work, but it's easy to get into this frenetic mode with it, and I think the antidote is along the lines of 'slowing down'.
Like an idiot, I wrote a workflow dev library from scratch. (https://github.com/workglow-dev/workglow). Each task has either static or dynamic input, output, and config json schemas. Which makes creating a UI for it a little easier.
And I do have a basic UI at https://workglow.dev/ (where you can run the workflow, though if you use AI models, the models will run in the browser -- if you want to run GGUF models, please signup for the desktop app waitlist).
I'm working on a version 2.0 of an app that's been out for a couple of years. I won't link it from here, because, unlike almost every other software company in the world, we are not interested in MOAR UZERZ. We provide a specific Service to a specific demographic, and they know how to find us, just fine.
This project brings in a lot of AI support. It's made a massive difference. The original project took two years to finish (actually four, but we did a "back to the ol' drawing board reset).
It looks like this may only take a couple more months. I've been working on it for two months, already, and have gotten a significant amount done. The things that will slow it down, will be the usual sand in the gears: team communication overhead. Could stretch things out, quite a bit.
Hoping to release a beat tape. I've given up on trying to create new apps to try and get VC money. I tried this, often with exploitive co founders who expected me to basically make Facebook, but BETTER in a month for 3% of their company which doesn't exist.
I also make small games with Godot.
I’m building CurateKit.com - a lightweight content curation tool.
I always have growing lists of short texts, facts, and links that I wanted to host on a standalone site rather than burying them in a notes app. The workflow is simple: a browser extension to clip links with remarks, which then feeds into a public-facing list.
I’ve also added a "Substack-lite" feature. Instead of long-form writing, it lets you send simple roundup email digests (e.g., "Top 5 links this week") to opt-in subscribers.
My personal blog (wenbin.org) is currently powered by the tool.
CurateKit.com is in private beta while I'm fine-tuning a few things now, but I’m opening up invites to the waitlist over the next few days if anyone wants to give it a try.
Working on implementing the web both auth standard and a take on federated and out-of-band agent bot validation.
I am building the perma-lib on the topic of ethics and sustainable practices: Ꭰ-Library
Pronounce A-Library "The Unicode character for the Cherokee letter 'A' (Ꭰ) is U+13A0"
Launching a kick-starter for it in the coming weeks. Hoping to make a difference for the next few generations for a better world and education.
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Mirror Immich - macOS Photos exporter for Immich with full metadata: https://flowlogix.com/mirror-immich.html
Apache Shiro PMC chair (trying to get financial support for the project) https://shiro.apache.org
Jakarta EE Components: https://github.com/flowlogix/flowlogix and it's starter: https://start.flowlogix.com
Working on all of these for the last 15 years, looking for more exposure.
Still working on my urban tree visualization! Spent some time polishing the ingest pipeline to make it easier to add new cities, added a genus/species level view to aggregate across cities, and added in some basic imagery so I can see what species are. Thinking about adding in a end-user facing ingest pipeline so I can add some trees I like that I see on my walks. Probably need a performance pass to since I'm scaling up the volume quite a bit.
https://greenmtnboy.github.io/sf_tree_reporting
Posted in last thread when it was SF only: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303111#47304199
I'm building a browser for designers: https://matry.design/
I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io, a live polling/feedback/Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version, now looking at the market and making small improvements.
Well, Electric Minds Reborn is now online: https://electricminds.org
I will be continuing work on the new software that powers it, the Amsterdam Web Communities System. https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterdam
(I tried to "launch" it with a Show HN post, but it sank without a trace. I may try again, after I get back from vacation...)
I'm working on LookAway, a Mac app that reminds you to take breaks from the screen at the right moment instead of interrupting you at random. https://lookaway.com
Right now I'm focused on the stats side. It already shows how much time you spend in each app, and I'm adding website tracking too, which should make the picture much more useful.
I'm also working on better break timing for dictation. LookAway already delays a due break if you're in the middle of typing, so it does not interrupt at a bad time. Now I'm trying to extend that same behavior to dictation as well, which turns out to be a pretty interesting detection problem because it overlaps with some of the other context signals I already use.
Most of the challenge is making it smarter without making it feel more intrusive.
Building a video game adaptation of Pass The Pigs (the "dice" game where "dice" are plastic pigs).
Early preview here: https://piggy-toss.netlify.app/
The goal is to play with friends, we love this game.
Hello! Not sure if this is you, but every year I either miss my kids’ summer camp deadline or scramble to grab whatever’s left . I figured there has to be a better way — so I’m building something that helps parents like us get reminders (and maybe even auto-book if this is possible) before camps fill up.
If you’ve been through this rodeo too, please provide your feedback — your feedback will help make next summer a lot less stressful for other parents
My wife made a silly browser based arcade style Kanban board management game called Kanban Chaos https://kanbanchaos.com/