alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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Took a shot at recreating yahoo pool. Then just started adding more games to it: https://neonparlor.com
I _just_ published https://klar.im/ a local-first AI spam filter for Apple Mail on mac.
It is build using a model that can classify messages (ham/spam/marketing), packaged for Apple Mail but could be used in other places.
apt-cacher-ultra: To help reduce the impact of future DDoSes of Ubuntu. Just released 1.0 yesterday after working on it a couple months.
As that DDoS was going on I realized that some of our dev and staging processes were impacted by it, and that apt-cacher-ng was doing nothing to help us.
apt-cacher-ultra snapshots the repo meta-data after verifying it, and only promotes it if the metadata all checks out. Additionally, it can optionally keep a list of "hot" packages, and can include those in the snapshot calculation.
Additionally, apt-cacher-ng would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well.
Building a typing application that helps you quickly learn and improve your typing.
We believe everyone can type at 80wpm or more. It just takes a good tool and a couple months of consistent practice
I am working on a reddit lead generator that pings you when someone wants a product like yours in real time, and It does so only when the intent is high.
Was using this only for my self, but i think it might be interesting for other people as well.
Currently working on https://agentkavach.com which is a safety net for AI agents
A really cool iOS and Android screen recorder.
You can put your face on the screen in real time, record, stream, even annotate live, add text, draw, show touch indicators.
Pretty neat!
A platform to automate generation, distribution and management of verifiable E-Certificates for event organizers.
Vibecoded a simple YouTube summarizer: https://github.com/tacone/prosey
The code might be slop, but it saves me time extracting information from long-form videos that would require 20-60 minutes of my time otherwise.
Also I get to not feed the algorithm just for the sake of curiosity.
Building a Dropbox like client that work with every protocol there is: S3, SFTP, SMB, NFS, Azure Blob, IPFS, ...
PGlite - Postgres in wasm
Loads of useful things in the pipeline: multi connection support, native library, extensions and many more ideas.
https://kibbutznik.org/ - A pulse-based direct democratic engine.
Hith - A Lisp written in Python
I recently built and opensourced Inka[0], an AI journal for BOOX devices.
I continue to grow my main product BoltAI[1]
[0]: https://inka.page
[1]: https://boltai.com
I'm working on Osaurus, AI harness for local models. It's for macOS, written in Swift.
I've been playing around with https://openworm.org/index.html a lot recently...getting back into artificial life "research" more broadly.
Been pushing through SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - if your projects don't work out, feel free to submit it for sale :)
Looking to experience life outside of software, but I don't know exactly what. In short, current filters are:
high total customer face to face time// high face to face time per customer// probably not in sales
as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.
ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...
Trying to summarize my career advice reading: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2026-07-12-collected-career-...
Open to feedback and missing pieces.
Self healing test selectors and authoring test journeys with natural language for Cypress using Claude Code or self hosted models. [0]
I’m hacking on an app that helps immigration lawyers spend less time chasing client documents: https://casedaemon.com/
We just launched a couple weeks ago and we’d love any feedback or suggestions!
I'm working on Atomic Cloud, the hosted version of my open source knowledge graph project. https://atomicapp.ai/cloud/
I'm working on rustledger https://rustledger.github.io a plain-text accounting software (Beancount spec implementation) in Rust.
Nothing, I'm trying to get my passion back, lost it for a couple months now, not sure if it was from the binge drinking
I used to build hardware projects, write code but lately been coasting
- a GUI (in python) for my "ancient" 3D printer to draw circuits on copper plates
- the gcode scripts are almost done !!
- a yet another static site generator (yaml, jinja2)
- a microcontroller for a hardware project (arduino)
- enhancements and reports for a desktop application (python)
Digger Solo - a smart file explorer with semantic search and maps for your files (images, videos, text, audio). All running locally on your machine.
Golf simulator software. It's doing okay. For a side job I got a gig at a racing engine builders shop tearing down rebuilds and cleaning parts.
Working on Gaming Couch, a web-based local multiplayer party game platform. It's like a lovechild of Jackbox and Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com
Just before the weekend I shipped a new mini-game called Pop It: Desert Island (https://gamingcouch.com/blog/pop-it-desert-island-launch). Launch went well: ~3,800 players from 56 countries over the weekend, and it immediately became the most played game on the platform.
It's a battle royale with an ocean/beach themed world, taking inspiration from Roblox, Mario Kart and others. The whole game is built in JavaScript (three.js for the 3D world) using a JS SDK I've been working on. It doubled as a test drive of the same SDK I want to launch for third-party developers, so anyone can build and ship a simple, fun multiplayer party game for the platform, ideally in a single weekend.
If you're a game dev, or aspiring to be one, and want to develop and ship your own party game check out this page https://gamingcouch.com/developers
The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:
- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.
- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).
- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.
- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games.
Realize that I'm really bad at marketing. Trying to work on it.
It lets you take a picture of video games and shows price comparisons for the major buy lists.
https://timelinetranslate.com Translate any video or subtitle file into any other language. Launched yesterday and geared towards video editors with a DaVinci Resolve plugin. Delivers more control and ownership of the editorial process compared to other automated dubbing or subtitling.
kiwi, an open source implementation of the k programming language
https://github.com/kiwi-array-lang/kiwi
primitives are accelerated on CPU by SIMD
supports GPUs via Apple MLX
I continue working on SecurityBot.dev, having lately made significant improvements to the broken link monitor.
7stems.net: a Spanish verb conjugator and method for learning Spanish verb conjugation, where irregular verbs are just verbs with more than one stem. Also just self-published a book.
https://www.draftdownapp.com/ is a free open-source SketchUp clone
I’m working on improving the apps I developed for iOS by adding new features and fixing the bugs: https://fruitfulapps.com/
This month https://thingstohave.app, my calm and flexible wishlist app, reached a state I can call "feature complete". This iteration took two years of occasional work, so it's a big milestone for me. (I've posted updates on this app in previous threads)
Since the last update, I released everything that had been in testing since April, like gallery view, custom avatars, birthdays and, most importantly – autofill from link.
Now I'm preparing for a big launch – working on the landing page, SEO and onboarding experience. Here's what I've done so far:
1. I updated the landing page to actually tell users about the app and look presentable. I already see a big improvement in conversion
2. I added SEO crap to the landing page. This is painful for me, but sadly that's how Google Search works (it doesn't). It's paying off, too
3. I overhauled the onboarding experience, to make it smoother for new users
Two more features are still in testing; I plan to ship them before the release, but currently i'm not completely happy about them.
I'm working on a Mac OS memory app for AI. Not quite ready to share the link, but just wanted to put the periscope above the water.
A clone of popurls that learns what I like to read: https://perurls.onrender.com/
Still working on wordtrak’s daily mode. Would love your feedback!
A clojure / fennel dsl for generating pure data patches, looking to make a small drum machine in love2d and being able to live update the internal patches would be fun.
I am working on an agentic-driven news aggregator focused on AI Filmmaking and generative media. https://genbuzz.news
smol machines: just in time cloud infrastructure
I am building it on top of a new primitive called smolvm: a hybrid that combines isolation of VM with speed and flexibility of containers.
building https://shellular.dev, an app that let's you use your dev env from anywhere - your agents (Claude Code, Codex. OpenCode, Pi etc.), persistent terminals, local repos and code editor, in-app browser to remotely access localhost:<any-port> and js console for debugging.
For the life of me, I could never get electronics. I used to love the idea of me coming up with electronic circuit designs, but the arcane art of electronics never really clicked for me because I just couldn't intuitively grasp the maths no matter which book I read (AoE, I'm looking at you). But then it hit me, I don't need maths, I just need a formal language to represent the circuits. So over the past few weeks, I worked on a code your own spice (the electronic simulator). So now, for the first time in history, I finally understand how circuits work and how they are designed. And I did this all by coding circuits in python and making my own functional spice (which used to seem impossible at one point, it's surprising how easy it is though).
tirreno security framework
I can't believe iMovie doesn't have text overlays so I'm building a replacement at cut.donkeyuse.com
It's opensource and more modern.
secure and hide your files in plain sight.
An open pricing engine and app based on Quantlib.
I struggle with terminology so I made a little Gnome utility for easier LLM-based terminology lookups from a highlighted word/term + contextual screenshot. So far it's working pretty well, kinda like a better version of the Mac OS or Kindle ones.