alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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MCP that lets you call chatgpt pro, grok, perplexity, gemini web, web subscriptions from codex, claude, opencode, gemini
My partner & I have been making this wordle/wheel of fortune inspired daily - https://crosses.io
Each guess can be a single letter or a full word. Revealing letters helps you make word guesses, which are more efficient since it reveals all instances of those letters across the board.
It's been really gratifying seeing friends enjoy the game, now we're trying to figure out how to get in front of more players. Leave us some feedback if you stop by
Working on an idiosyncratic tool that lets users use AI to help write statements of work without losing the high bar for accuracy and consistency that these documents require. Right now, it's somewhere between Typst and Gemini in Google Docs, but not as good as either yet.
Tryke! A Rust-based Python test runner with a Jest-style API.
I launched my live polling app https://suggestionboard.io, got some first users, now looking at how they use it and trying to improve the experience.
I'm working on app for walking based on the practice of walk, talk, meditate.
For now it's just for iOS but currently I'm working on porting to Android.
I'm working on https://releasedog.com/ - It collects changes from JIRA/slack/github and create a changelog/release notes.
Working on benchmark arena for AI agents with my wife.
We grab interesting business problems, turn them into fun challenges for hundreds of AI engineers to find the best architecture for. Insights are shared back with the community.
It is a fun learning process with unexpected scaling challenges.
Context aware local AI assistant https://hitoku.me/draft/ I believe private local AI is the future for every day's use.
https://pockli.com - I've always needed a better workflow for managing the stream of documents people hand me — then expect me to pull out of a hat months or years later, like a magician.
I'm building aiki.sh so Claude and Codex can work together without babysitting
The same thing for 10 years and every couple years it gets reimagined while trying to get to the original goal of building a replacement for Google. It's called Micro.
Smart documents for teams. Fast, Open, and Self-Hostable.
Basically a much faster Notion.
i am working on an offline weights harness for non-technical people, writers mainly. it's designed to work forever but also be adaptable as more weights get released etc.
it enforces very few paradigms, runs in the browser, and allows users to view and edit agent config files within the UI.
it's kind of a nightmare to try to figure out how to do this appropriately, but it's an interesting challenge and i have seen very few (~0?) projects with an approach like this ...
all the offline harnesses are optimized towards coding, vs. general text manipulation aka "writing."
hoping to publish v0.1.0 by the end of may.
https://emiplan.net/ - Doodle and Splitwise like alternatives for organising time with friends.
I'm a backend dev, frontend was made with AI.
Working on a md file eidtor for average users to use, by click buttons like MS word.
- Built with Tauri — installer is small and start-up is near-instant on all three OSes. - No accounts, no telemetry, no MDX server in the loop. Sync goes through whatever cloud folder you already have (iCloud / Drive / Dropbox / a plain directory). - Tab-to-accept ghost-writing is bring-your-own-key
- Exports to PDF, HTML, DOCX. Tables, math, diagrams, code blocks all live behind toolbar buttons — no syntax to memorise.
Hope to have some people like it and use it.
Took a sabbatical off tech marketing recently to focus on my creative work:
An interactive sound sculpture running on an Arduino uno+Pd
Using Mandelbulber as a visual effects layer for my experimental music AV show
https://hashmate.app - a little social platform with cool features for devs, hackers and geeks.
Making a proper product page for my stream of consciousness writing tool Ensō (preview.enso.sonnet.io)
(I’ve been procrastinating on marketing basics for seven years, so it’s… fun but still intimidating :) )
while I was using claude code, I was playing some lofi music in the background while it was 'Combobulating' and I thought what if it could auto-play lofi beats while working and stop when it has finished running. So I built a claude code plugin, I call it vibe-coding. Can check out/add the repo as a marketplace and plugin from here: https://github.com/Vinayak-Shukla/vibe-coding
A correlation network viz (using Cytoscape.js) of this S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 correlation matrix (built with Svelte):
Working on Nichess (chess with health points) - https://www.nichess.org/
I’m smelting ore!
I got into creating my own rings, and I’d really like to create one with ore I harvest myself. Gold is too hard and silver can be kinda dangerous, but malachite is pretty safe and I can just drive to Copperopolis to pick some up.
Basically: smelt the malachite with flux and charcoal to get pure copper, flow that into an ingot mold, hammer it into shape. Then I’ll have my own ring, with metal I collected with my own hands
Most fun thing is a few vibecoded games. A rtwp rpg like bg2 and an active turn-based grid crawl rpg.
Bg2-like is playable at https://archipelago-sandy.vercel.app
Isolated Web Apps - Resurrecting ancient TCP protocols using TCPSockets in the web browser (Chrome) with Newspeak.
I've been working on a set of custom PHPStan rules that started off as a replication / modernization of rules from PHPMD, but has evolved to include more than that.
Salary explorer based on US job postings: https://corvi.careers/salary-explorer/
On a platform for manufacturers, currently focused on a warehouse management system, https://pragmatech.it
text-to-cad! https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
I've got a taskboard that auto-completes easy tasks, specs out and visualises hard ones.
Draws from a bunch of sources, MCP-connects to my agents, comes with a browser plugin to invite meeting bots to calls, lets me (and my testers) leave notes on websites which also gets added in.
The goal is to make work as simple as dragging tickets around, and load as many best practices + review clarity into it
I've set a deadline to finally launch tomorrow, but frankly - I don't know how it's gonna go. Feeling proud, yet a bit anxious about it.
https://kodan.dev, if anyone wants to take a peek
In measuring how long can esp32 stream video over wifi using single 14500 battery (AA size but 3.7V lithium). So far it seems like 2h 8m is the limit. I'm using tps63020 buck-boost to 3.3V.
Trying to make a stab at improving RSS feed discoverability. There's a website portion and an app portion. Hope to have something to show off in a few weeks.
pod2book.com It converts podcasts to e-books for the deaf, hard of hearing or neurodivergent because transcripts are clunky.
Working on a 2 circle Venn diagram creator (https://Venndiagrammer.com)
Building storica.club, experimenting the adult way to learn a new language, through actual content that an adult can enjoy.
https://www.contextractor.com/ - Web content extraction tool to feed LLMs
working on https://www.focuslive.app/realtime Its a virtual body doubling tool without camera that helps people focus together anonymously
Clodhost.com … Claude code with a web interface on your own (hetzner) VPS… and free!
A JVM written exclusively in go. Now, 5000+ commits into the project.
I'm writing an M68K NeXTStep userland emulator and thunks to run NeXTStep apps under GNUStep. I'm starting today with hello world.
Decided to cancel my personal Miro subscription, so vibe-coding* a diagram/vector graphics tool with UX I would enjoy rather than tolerate.
* assisted coding, not full code generation
A few days back, a book on FreeBSD Driver Development was posted here [0], and everyone assumed a) it's LLM slop and b) a terrible introduction to the topics covered.
I scanned a couple of chapters and realised it likely wasn't LLM generated, it just needed an edit. The intro to C is a hard and weird intro, but then driver development in FreeBSD is hard and weird and people who aren't prepared to get through such intros probably aren't going to get through the rest of it.
Being the contrarian, I've started going through it. I was involved on the periphery of the FreeBSD project ~25 years ago, went to conferences, ran a BSDUG in my hometown, and so on. And I realised I've missed systems programming and FreeBSD itself a little, and in recent years became a little sentimental.
What I've discovered so far in the first few chapters:
1. I miss FreeBSD. And it's weird my muscle memory kicks in and am surprised in a lovely way to find familiar things like /etc/rc.conf work the way I remember them.
2. This is not AI slop. There are issues that I can blame on him not using the same platforms I am (if you're on Apple Silicon, just use UTM and the aarch64 ISO - don't use the VirtualBox config he suggests, as an early example), but as somebody who sees a lot of AI generated content in my day job - this isn't it
3. I have got excited about coding again for the first time in a while.
So, this is my hobby for a while. Go back to where I started, get into low-level systems programming again, I have some ideas on some hardware I want to help out on... it's different to a lot of what I've been working on for the last decade or so, but that excites me.
A Self hosted multi-player boggle game
Play a game here: https://bawgle.alifbae.dev
Hackerman Text editor.
595 days and counting.
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https://www.htmlwasher.com/ - online HTML cleaner
A browser for designers: https://www.matry.design
I can't really go into details of what I am working on. But I'd like to say that a lot of European corporations are running their stuff on Azure and are very much interested in having Data Lake(house) platforms tailor made to their business and IT requirements based on Databricks and their stack. I mention this because I find this mismatch of what I see being relevant in business and what is being upvoted on Hackernews quite interesting (for the lack of a better word).
Working on https://ottex.ai - voice ai for busy professionals.
Think wisprflow + granola with 30+ top STT models under single login and pay as you go billing model with 25% markup over API.