Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
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I got tired of always having to update my wife, and my family members résumés. So I created https://theresumechef.com
It’s private,free to use, no pay walls or monthly subscriptions.It has10 resume templates to choose from to get you started.The final resume can be exported as a PDF, or stored on Google Drive or Dropbox in JSON format. There are still a few issues, but I’ve learned a ton by just creating and launching this project. I have some exciting new product ideas, but I’m currently waiting on my Dutch KvK number to accept online payments with Stripe. |
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I work on a suite of open source public transit software projects, collectively called OneBusAway (or OBA). The software is used by millions of transit riders every day around the world, including in New York City, the Seattle area, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.
University of California San Diego has deployed our Wayfinder and Waystation web apps for their 35,000+ students! We’re getting ready to launch our Vehicle Positions software, which replaces expensive, proprietary vehicle location systems with free, open source software that runs on commodity smartphones. Our next-generation server software, Maglev, is adding support for newer transit data formats, like GTFS-Flex so that we can show demand responsive transit systems on the map. We are always looking for more developers, biz dev, ux designers, product managers, and more to help out! Open volunteer positions: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar… Our software: https://github.com/OneBusAway/ More about us: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org |
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Just like the last time I posted in this thread, I’m working on The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton, a chess database/playing/opening training app for Apple platforms:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/mqfhpmHY The original goal was an alternative to ChessBase, but with an Apple-native GUI and iCloud sync between devices, and as an improved alternative to tools like chessbook.com for operating repertoire management and spaced repetition opening memorisation. In recent months I have focused more on the chess-playing parts of the app, trying to implement human-like computer opponents at all levels, using a transformer-based model (similar to the one described in the Maia 3 paper) combined with a very small search. Recently I’ve also been working on chess variants. Since a while, the companion Apple Watch app plays 5×5 chess. More recently, I added a 10×10 chess as an Easter egg game inside the app, and I’m now working on hexagonal chess. With the current state of the art in computer chess, it’s almost trivial to implement vastly superhuman strength in all these variants, but implementing weaker levels that are enjoyable opponents is interesting and challenging. Unlike in normal chess, there are no big databases of human games to train on. |
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Software for families:
https://santawho.com A funny holiday game you play in person with the whole family on just one phone (the parent interviews everyone for jobs on the North Pole and surfaces inner insights about what everyone might enjoy from Santa). It’s for any age, private, ads free, just pure holiday spirit. https://www.dreamlist.com – collaborative shopping lists and online wishlists and gift drive platform. Again ads-free, private, stack multiple lists into groups of lists to share on social media or with grandparents. A number of other ones about to launch as well. All little tech, not big tech – private by default, no ads, no feeds or media, just surfacing what is needed. |
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For the last 3 years, with a small team has been building https://kube-dc.com — a platform for building enterprise grade private and public clouds. Its like VMware + OpenShift + Railway in a single product: completely multi-tenant, built entirely on the K8s API (we built over 46 custom controllers in Go, with UI in Radix UI), with managed services like nested K8s, Postgres, Kafka, Valkey, and GitHub runners. Not the charts 🙂 real services. Also we can do vlans BGP, shared GPU and all fancy stuff required.
Now we don’t deploy this to private companies except some gov projects. But we are engaging existing IaaS and dedicated servers providers. Later hope we would fight with Broadcom and IBM 🙂 We previously ran a services company that built over 100 private clouds, then decided to turn that experience into a product with an aggressive level of automation to let DevOps, SRE, and platform teams hit a 1:300 ratio per developer (now dev + AI agent teams). We are currently deployed across 12 datacenters and raising our seed round this month. Regarding been curious, today I have created my first explainable video with Remotion +claude so if you want to see open edit results check https://promo-review-shalb-promo.stage.kube-dc.com/ Would be glad if you comment. Thanks! |
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I’m working on a better way to design longer scrolling pages with multiple sections, while preserving the visual look/feel and drastically speeding up the experience.
Here’s a demo: https://non.io/video/linen-demo.mp4 As a disclaimer I cut 32 seconds of generation time out of that video, but still I’m quite happy with the speed. Not launched yet, but it’s been fun to work on / wanted to show off progress 🙂 |
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I’ve been deep in the weeds on two wildly unrelated projects.
Project #1: I’ve been working on migrating an application [1] from GCP (where I pay $200/mo to host it) to a physical server (PowerEdge R7625) I’ve racked in a colo near me, running on my own IPs/ASN [2] and all that jazz. I’ve been dragging my feet on the this as there’s just a lot of moving pieces, but I got a good chunk of the last few hard bits done today. Project #2: Building a DIY bright-ass lamp, like Brighter [3] or Rhythm [4], but for a few hundred bucks instead of $1-2k. I’ve specced out the parts, designed the hardware, and built the firmware. Later today I’ll do my first LED test against a bench supply, to get some hard numbers for if my cooling solution (a chunky aluminum heatsink and some Noctua PC fans) is sufficient for the full 500+ W final version. As far as curiosities go, I’ve been doing a lot of Go (the board game, not the language) puzzles, and reading about sailing (mostly the book from the Hundredrabbits folk [5]) [2] https://bgp.tools/as/55078 |
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Rebuilding my ERP to work more like the model of https://plaintextaccounting.org, where I expanded the idea of `double entry accounting` to `double entry trade between parties`, plus several other ideas for what I see a way to collapse a lot of complications that are typically for ERP systems.
I make a special `textual DSL` where I model business scenarios like `Make a sale that include 3 invoices : 2 to different cities in country A in currency USD and other in country B in currency EUR` + all the intermediate steps like transportation, manufacturing, etc. I`m now in the woods with a simplification for the price engine, I dislike much how complicated is normally, and I think I have good enough solution for most cases that generate without dynamic calculations. |
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I’ve always been interested in health, longevity, and biohacking.
I’m Canadian but I moved to USA to work for Microsoft. One thing I liked about the USA was how easy it was to order bloodwork/lab testing. My original idea was to bring that experience to Canada, but since starting I’ve found other ways to improve the patient healthcare experience in Canada too. My company is https://teletest.ca |
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Audion
https://github.com/audion-lang/audion I needed a code-first approach for making installations and interactive art. MaxMsp gets messy with very big projects. Python didn’t really work well for music making and Tidal/Pi/Sclang are only meant for sound. So I needed something that has bpm synchronized threads, but can draw and do anything else like file IO, networking, hardware control etc. It works quite well now. |
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As many of you, I have a few subscriptions to Claude and Codex (just me??). It’s a daily occurrence to use 2-3 accounts for the same conversation (whenever the limit stops me).
What I need is something to switch the account where the usage is taken from, not the configuration. I made something simple & transparent named Switcheroo: https://github.com/FTCHD/switcheroo Works with other AI CLIs like Gemini, and other various CLIs like Vercel (if you’re managing multiple accounts like me), Netlify, Github etc |
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I’m not sure providers would shoot themselves in the foot by not allowing you to buy more usage. It seems like both OAI and Anthropic could use all the subs they can get. |
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If that’s not right, blame it on Chat:
“Yes, OpenAI explicitly supports having multiple paid ChatGPT accounts. Each account has its own subscription, conversations, and usage allowance.” |
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I’m working on an iPhone app called PhotoGather. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photogather/id6738232616
I’ve got 40k+ photos on my iphone, and wanted a better way to interact with them. The basic idea I had was to virtually stitch all the photos together into a gigapixel image, and navigate that image with pinch and zoom. On import, the app hierarchically groups photos based on date and similarity. The user can go back and edit the groups, change the layout, and adjust the size of photos if they choose. The interesting I noticed is that in the process of curating and organizing my photos, I stumble across memories and moments that I had completely forgot. Development Challenge: The app does two interesting things underneath the hood… First, given an arbitrary number of thumbnails with different aspect ratios, it finds the best sized rectangle that completely fits all the photos. This allows me to recursively stitch groups together and always output a rectangular thumbnail for the group. Second, the pinch/zoom UI uses these nested thumbnails directly without slicing/dicing to fixed sized tiles. |
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Serverless WordPress + MariaDB without requiring plugins or any modifications to customer code: https://www.agiler.io
The serverless MariaDB is important because it can scale to zero, so you have dev sites that cost less than $0.50/mo. Also added MCP and CLI tooling that exposes all of the infrastructure + WP CLI + DB so agents can develop WP sites… which is nice because you can still use the WP admin interface, while using AI to develop the site, debug it, change pages and posts, etc. |
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https://trymeli.app
Meli: A spending tracker for Mac designed with privacy in mind. Turns credit card alert emails into spending insights and budgets. I was in security for 15+ years and I built it because I didn’t want to use Plaid or other aggregators and wanted my financial data locally on my device and not in the cloud. Spreadsheets required a lot of work to maintain so I wanted some sort of automation. Connects directly to your email (reads only alerts from supported senders) and all parsing happens on your device. Works with seven major US banks (AMEX, Capital One, Chase, Citi, Discover, Bank of America and Wells Fargo) plus PayPal and Venmo. Does this list cover most of your spending? If not, which banks or cards would you need? |
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I’ve been working since the start of the year on a minimalist web reader (https://papercove.app) that I use every day to follow RSS feeds, newsletters and read-later, and that helps keep things from piling up.
I thought I’d get where I wanted much faster, but it turns out I ran into quite a few challenges: it’s quick to build something simple, but it takes much longer to get a reader that’s robust and pleasant to use (extraction, parsing, security, infrastructure, etc.). On the tech side, I’m using my usual stack, Laravel and Livewire, with some Python for extraction and Go for the email infrastructure. This month I’m working on the beta release, since several people around me were already using it, so I’d like to gather more feedback. |
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That is a great landing page! I can relate on the velocity side, it can be quick to build a feature, but it takes time to get everything feeling right and usable. |
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I’m making a replacement motherboard for the Nokia 1100 that runs Linux and supports LTE. I have the software working well on a MangoPi dev board and I’ve designed two PCBs: one “test fit” board that just breaks out the phone keypad/LCD to pin headers, and the actual board with everything on it. Now I just need to order the PCBA which is super expensive 🙂
It uses an allwinner T113-S3 SoC and the Quectel EC25 LTE module, and I’ve made sure voice calling works over LTE, at least on T-Mobile in the US. (this is tricky bc of carrier rules) video and photos of MangoPi test setup and my board layout here: https://constcast.org/n1100c/ |
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I’m still working on https://feedsync.net, a tool to push RSS feed updates to Discord.
It’s been getting a decent number of sign ups despite me not really posting it anywhere or doing any marketing. Ultimately a fun project, and useful for myself and a few friends, so I’m happy others are even interested in trying it. I’ve started to regret using Phoenix LiveView, as it’s only deployed in one region, so high latency far from there. I’m exploring a SPA as a better alternative. Otherwise, I’ve been playing around with a Lua engine to build feeds for websites that don’t support them, using AI to build the Lua as a once-off. It works reasonably well, but isn’t ready for prime time just yet. |
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Noticed how well Claude works for transcribing old German cursive, especially for broad hits in non-indexed 17th century parish records. Motivated me to pick up Ancestry again and helped me quite a bit in following some lines further back.
Then also HNowledge[1], a free iOS app for browsing the HN stories and comments I’ve upvoted. Made it to fit the way I browse HN, which is upvoting mainly what I find interesting and may want to come back to. The app lets you browse by date, domain or score, add notes and export. Apart from syncing your upvotes from HN, everything stays local without any tracking. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hnowledge/id6813417548 Wanes[2], an Apple Health logging interface for tracking how long symptoms last. I tend to have headaches quite often and the way Apple lets you enter that data is pretty limited, so I created an app which starts a Live Activity for one or more symptoms using widgets, Control Center or Siri. You can change the severity rating while it runs and stop it from wherever you are on your phone (Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Siri). |
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A complete implementation of React in Godot:
Because I can. Well, let’s be honest: because LLMs can. There’s nothing particularly novel about this. It’s just wiring a bunch of libraries together. Certainly would have been time consuming, but not difficult, strictly speaking, since all the heavy lifting is done by the libraries utilised. Likely going to migrate https://breaka.club HUDs and editor UI to React since Godot control nodes are by no means impossible to work with, but somewhat cumbersome. EDIT: Oh, will be open source like a lot for Breaka Club’s other libraries very soon. Still optimising. |
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I’ve been building MiserablyUnemployed for the better part of this year. https://miserablyunemployed.com/
It’s a free job site with some resume tools bolted on. Lots of people from all over the world are using and that feels great. It has 2.7M+ jobs and automatically removes any job older than 7 days. We never allow reposts because, frankly, the job market is a nightmare and any job that has been up for 7+ days almost certainly has 1000+ applicants already. You’re just feeding your resume into a wood chipper. Come and try it. It’s awesome. |
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Playing with 6502 assembly.
I have a PAL-2 [1] (a modern KIM-1 re-creation) and started learning 6502 by entering programs from The First Book of KIM [2]. I wanted to be able to compile/link the assembly from the book so leaned on Claude to set up a 6502 dev environment for my Mac. I put everything needed (and instructions) on GitHub [3]. (Claude also has been helpful in re-formatting the 6502 code from The First Book of KIM into a more modern style compatible with modern assemblers. A few of these modernized programs I added to the GitHub repo above.) As it happens, I am also fixing/formatting The First Book of KIM by recreating it in a modern page-layout app (Affinity Publisher). The PDF scans that are out there are not pretty, have OCR errors (and the book itself has mistakes). Hopefully I’ll have a new version of the book/PDF out on the internet by the year’s end. [1] https://www.tindie.com/products/kim1/pal-2-a-mos-6502-powere… |
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https://skymap.rulkens.com
A browser based open source universe explorer. I’m in between jobs currently and finally took time to work on my passion project. It started with just visualizing some galaxy surveys, but it got a little out of hand and now includes everything from hi-res tiled earth/mars, Gaia star field (16M stars), a milky way renderer and much more. It’s so amazing to have the ability to gather and parse publicly available scientific data and actually visualize it in real-time. It’s one of those projects I’m learning a lot from and can keep going with (the universe is a big place :)). As a software developer for 20+ years, its been mind-blowing and often also frustrating to have Claude generate code that I deem good enough. About half of my time has actually been spent on refactoring, building quite some skills in guiding LLMs in the process. I guess that part still hasn’t changed in a growing codebase. |
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I’m still working on making JustFax Online[1] more profitable. Added a bunch of features recently, as well as invisible improvements in fax routing, and admin stuff for myself to better analyze the traffic and patterns.
Other than this, I’m playing with vibe-coding stuff I always wanted to do but never had the time/skills to do. For example, I built a TUI on top of beancount that is tailored to my needs and my business[2]. I also completely got rid of self-hosted plausible and umami analytics, and replaced them with vibe-coded built-in-rust (c) analytics tool that relies on both js-beacon and streaming of caddy access.log. Will probably publish about it in my blog soon, so subscribe to the RSS if you want. Lastly, I’m messing with self-hosting. I completely ditched Github and Gitlab for self hosted forgejo + actions runner. I set up proper backup plan for everything I care (documents, immich library, my SaaS DB, and the forgejo repositories). [2] https://kudmitry.com/articles/after-14-years-i-finally-built… |
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As a heavy LLM user in my daily work, I’ve been working on optimizing agent memory on complex projects. That resulted in this simple Rust-based tool called Wayfinder: https://github.com/zaterka/wayfinder
I’ve been trying to improve agent knowledge over a codebase, and existing approaches weren’t giving the result I wanted, and I wanted to keep it simple. In the end, I added a semantic layer on top of an LLM Wiki and it saved 30% of token usage in multiple benchmarks I ran. It also adds some nice features to deal with concurring agents updating the shared memory, to ensure all information there is reliable and fresh. It’s published to PyPi, so an “uv tool install wayfinder-memory” already does all the work, and it’s compatible with almost all Harnesses. |
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I’m working on 3 products now:
1. FormBeep(https://formbeep.com) at $38 MRR now – A form to Whatsapp tool. Stack is mainly CF workers with Clerk Auth. 2. SlashLink(https://slashlink.app) $0 – A simple pay as you go amazon link localizer. Great for affiliate folks and a cheaper alternative to Genius. Stack is same, CF workers with SQLite(D1) 3. StackStats(https://stackstats.app) $791 – A better advanced analytics app for Substack writers, fully local. I have been writing on Substack for a while now and their analytics suck! |
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It is a full-featured reporting tool, and can be used without AI. If you do use AI it has a semantic layer to help AI understand your table and column names, and relationships between tables. |
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Still cracking on with https://whistle-enterprise.com and making improvements to the document generation model. I’m ditching my old trusty Phi4 model and testing out some other small models to fine tune, something about Phi4 just seemed to work quite well for what it was so it’s a hard contender to beat for midrange laptop CPU inference at a decent rate and quality.
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I try to ‘vibe code’ a product every 2 weeks. Most of them go unpublished, I just build it for the sake of building it. Most recent project is Unmute Party (https://unmuteparty.com) – multiplayer party games for remote teams, played in the browser during a Zoom or Teams call. The server is EU-only for now, and I plan to add US servers next week. Most of it is free, the paid tiers aren’t even working yet. The paid tiers can be unlocked by using code HNWHATAREYOUWORKINGON.
Apart from that, running a travel agency I’d never be able to without agents (they manage my ads, social media, website content etc.). Started with boa.ba and it went quite well, now preparing dobosnia.com |
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Still changing along on Incredible (https://www.incredible.rs/) a Rust Text User Interface (TUI) Framework for the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century.
It is New, Experimental, Modular, Declarative, Event Driven and Reactive. It builds cross-platform apps that can be compiled for the terminal (macOs, Windows, Linux), a standalone native window (macOS & Windows 11), or the browser (via WASM) from one unified code base. Curious if this project will ever be 90% done.. 😉 |
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Lipik, a free open-source dictation app for Mac (https://github.com/Gourav2609/lipik). Hold fn, talk, let go, and clean text lands in any app: ums and self-corrections removed, spoken punctuation turned into real punctuation. Speech-to-text and clean-up both run on the Mac. On my 106 English test clips, lines that came out fully right went from 28% to 76% with clean-up on. Right now I’m working on Hinglish (Hindi + English in Roman letters). It gets 7 of 20 test lines fully right, so there’s a long way to go.
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HostsTray, tray utility to manage your hosts file, that also has a reverse HTTPS proxy builtin, that installs a self-signed CA and generates certs on-the-fly.
https://github.com/maxmart/hoststray Also it forces your browser to “flush” their DNS by killing the keep-alive connections that for example Chrome keeps open in background. And it can be controlled by your local coding agent through a simple API (which also serves the skill for it) |
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Working on a modern implementation of a torrent client [1], it’s already pretty usable for most scenarios. Provides both a daemon + web UI out of the box as well as an embeddable engine for any Rust application.
[1] – https://spill.rs |
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Getting https://streamish.github.io/ ready to launch, a music server compatible with multiple 3rd party mobile apps and particularly Synology and QNAP. Want to do Plex next but I suspect that’s a dead-end since I think you can’t directly sign in you have to do it through their website.
Now putting it to personal use and keeping an eye out for issues and rough bits to smooth over. Built with – NestJS, Sequelize + SQLite, OpenAPI, and Jest React, TanStack, Shadcn, and Playwright |
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Few apps I have originally mainly done for myself; Vaava (https://vaava.app) , been tweaking the e2ee data sync between connected apps, and the webrtc based baby monitor feature stability. Crazy how easily Astra / opus 55 level models create quite complex ad-hoc reproducible (almost automatable) test scenarios with 2 phones, laptop and other tools / peripherals they know they can use, for example for the baby monitor feature Astra did a setup for me which i can reproduce to test that the video + audio works fine between 2 phones for x time.
Also trying to replace own Duolingo usage with Fika Lingo (https://fikalingo.com) basic idea was to first repro the practice of matching words. There is now few other types of language / vocabulary practices. The practice generation works on-device with local LLM, you can give the topic yourself like “Words that relate to Hacker News”. Downside at the moment is that English needs to be the counterpart of the practices. Cant guarantee good enough quality with something like germany <-> italy practices. I’m trying to do finetuning with LFM models to see if it would be feasible to improve the local practice generation. |
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I’m working on Eigakan Guide (https://eigakanguide.jp/en), a cinema showtime aggregator for Japan. Every popular cinema site in Japan only allows for very few filters, making it hard to find exactly what I was looking for. So instead I built a site where it’s possible to filter by area, cinema, date, time, features like IMAX, English audio, English subtitles, and more. This allows for searching for stuff like IMAX showtimes with English audio on Friday after 7PM.
Since the last time I posted on HN I’ve added 100s of cinemas, user features like being able to save search filters, movies, and specific showtimes. Also a ChatGPT plugin which allows for searching for movie showtimes using natural language directly inside of ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6abfdc298c208191…). Finally I’ve added AI search to the site as well, allowing for natural language search with queries like “English audio showtimes near Shinjuku tomorrow” and so on. I would really appreciate feedback for things to add, things that are hard to understand, and anything else! |
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https://asm.build – the package manager for assembly projects.
the plot: Programming languages existed as an abstraction for humans. As writing code becomes cheaper, we can write it for each architecture as long as the specification is done well. The costs of running will matter more in relation. So don’t make your AI write rust, but assembly |
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An opensource personal expense tracker, I was a happy user from an offline expense tracker which wiped my data when playstore decided auto-updating it,
I’m at the point where I’m finally actively using it to register my activity, it is straightforward to register tickets by sending them to a telegram bot, then, reconcile those by uploading my bank statement. I’m trying to get the lowest possible usage friction so that I keep using it. So far the better built pieces related to the data ingestion. Once this is good enough I’ll build reports + anything coming to my head as a useful piece. I’m leveraging AWS textract + bedrock + bda to parse bank statements. I expected this would have been easier but it is still a very complex problem which had required me to put many iterations (so far it works nicely with my own statements) For ticket parsing, AWS textract + parsing rules has been enough. I wrote a bit more on my blog https://alexitc.com/blog/2026-10-16-opensourcing-my-expense-… |
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https://www.abejora.com – time tracking for freelancers and small teams
Lately we’ve been working on access for AI agents. A lot of people want their own agent to do the repetitive part of time tracking. Control remains important, which is why we rebuilt our core this month to support change history and full undo/redo functionality. Feel free to try it with your own agent. We built this after the timesheet tool we paid for raised its prices and moved some features that we used regularly behind more expensive plans. We had to add three new colleagues, and everything combined this would cost us $500 a year more for the same software. We run Elixir and Phoenix LiveView on a Kubernetes cluster made of Talos instances. We’re still looking for feedback on the product, so please let us know what you think! |
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A private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search engine: Uruky [1]. It was launched earlier this year and reached 400 MAUs and €2k MRR last month.
A simple EU static and app hosting service: PodBy [2]. It was launched last week, and is at €10 MRR. Thank you for asking and for your suggestions! [1]: https://uruky.com [2]: https://podby.com |
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Launched a word logic puzzle game called Meshword: https://meshword.org
It combines nonograms with crosswords, requiring both logic and word knowledge to solve. I am still working on the interface and tutorial, as well as the puzzle difficulty levels. |
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https://sdkgarden.com/
been curious about the intersection between observability, SDKs, and product analytics. i couldn’t find anything around SDK observability so built this little tool. curious what yall think! i assume at bigger orgs there is some internal handrolled tool like this that ingests datadog/sentry/whatever info…if anyone plays around in this space and has feedback id love it! |
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I am currently on maternity leave with my first baby have just launched to the app store my first app!
I’m a product designer by trade and learnt to vibe code on Claude about a month ago now. I was weaning my baby and he developed a rash and haven’t been able to work out what the pattern was causing it. So I created an app for weaning parents to log the food, add any reactions so when talking to their GP they can start to see a pattern and all advice, like nutrients, food variety, how to serve food all coming from the NHS and FSA. Currently got 12 mums using the app and would love any feedback to make it even better! <3 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/niblet-weaning-diary/id6822680… |
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For the past two years I’ve been working on my day planner app Ember.
Most planners treat your schedule as fixed, so the moment a meeting runs long or a task takes twice as long, the plan is wrong and you either fix it by hand or give up on it. In Ember, if you move a task or change how long it takes, everything after it shifts later, and it flows around fixed things like meetings. It’s been super helpful and I have been adding new features ever since. Right now I’m working on a native Kotlin app to replace the current one is web + Capacitor and exploring full duplex voice models so I can add or move things around the app while having a conversation with an agent. homepage: https://emberflow.space |
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I’m working on an iPhone app called PhotoGather. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photogather/id6738232616
I’ve got 40k+ photos on my iphone, and wanted a better way to interact with them. The basic idea I had was to virtually stitch all the photos together into a gigapixel image, and navigate that image with pinch and zoom. On import, the app hierarchically groups photos based on date and similarity. The user can go back and edit the groups, change the layout, and adjust the size of photos if they choose. The interesting I noticed is that in the process of curating and organizing my photos, I stumble across memories and moments that I had completely forgot. Development Challenge: The app does two interesting things underneath the hood… First, given an arbitrary number of thumbnails with different aspect ratios, it finds the best sized rectangle that completely fits all the photos. This allows me to recursively stitch groups together and always output a rectangular thumbnail for the group. Second, the pinch/zoom UI uses these nested thumbnails directly without slicing/dicing to fixed sized tiles. |
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1-year part-time experiment: can you build a large project with AI writing the code and AI plus deterministic tools verifying/guiding/enforcing it for structural and behavior consistency, without a human reading the code?
I’m building a polyglot web framework in 15 languages, with C# and Lean4 as the reference implementations. Structural and behavioral audits using deterministic tools check that every port stays consistent with the reference. It’s about 1.8M lines now. I have not reviewed the code/neither have i verified the behavior tests except at the time of giving requirement and never seen some of the language code at all. The question is how far can we produce “working code → correct code [Possible] → good code [Unknown]” with deterministic audits correcting structure, ai mistakes and behavior validation. So far the quality looks acceptable with lots of correction of AI output done without looking, but it isn’t fully verified. Line counts per language, with changes since August: https://claude.ai/artifact/5f1m1pTM7tZ4boQzwsoAG7 |
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A networking-over-DNS client and server, in Go. https://sr.ht/~nullenenenen/ShrewDNS/
A bit like iodine in the basic idea, but the execution and network topologies you build with it are different. It’s more of a building block; you get your DNS channels represented as UDP endpoints, and take it from there, ie you can run Wireguard over it, or SSH or a SOCKS5 proxy (using quicmux, so over QUIC), or run Mosh straight over DNS if you’re crafty. It has an Android app too! I tried to submit it to F-Droid but they’re so swamped in spammy or low-quality apps that they’re not taking any brand new apps 🙁 |
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I’ve been working on a planner for the past 2 years for people whose day never goes the way they planned it.
I was trying to solve the problem I had with time-blocking, where your day ends up derailed and you give up on it because it takes too long to replan. I have solved with the idea of a cascading calendar. If I move a task down or change its duration it pushes other tasks later in the day. Since then its kinda grown into my full productivity system for logging my thoughts and planning and documenting my life You can demo here for free |
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https://slopshare.dev
Not really sure what to call it, Linux kernel ish implemented in JS so you can run it in the browser. Each program runs in WASM. Everything bootstrapped from a C/Cpp compiler compiled from source with a new target. Also kinda turned into Docker for WASM. Recommended for people that feel a strong urge to run a browser inside a browser. https://slopshare.dev/v0.1.5/wine/ Also quite useful to run coding agents sandboxed inside the browser, with HTTP policies and “backend managed skills/extensions”. Compiles Codex from source (has a rust compiler), runs pi agent and CC (the old node one) on a custom javascript runtime on top of quickjs compiled inside the environment. Everything is static JS (or the robots are lying to me) |
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Built an app to suggest best local beach for given weather for my town. My partner shared with local moms and they seem to be loving it – https://beach.metacursion.com/
Also revived old project – https://aminosplore.metacursion.com – the idea was to compare what essential amino acids each food contains using spider web chart. It’s been dead for a while due to USDA API changes so I revived, added macros and enabled to build foods into actual recipes. Finally have been improving elsrc.com – an easy and scalable way to use ai image generators. If you need hundreds of images you can just request them by url. Supports versioning, batching, regional and national styling based on viewers IP and few other neat features! |
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https://robheffern.palaich.net/sports/
I like sports! I like data! Combine! This lets you see what the games on today are most similar to in the history of the sport. Click into one and see. Also, the Sports Zodiac. Like farmers of the olden years and the stars, we kinda set our clocks by sports these days. But what does that look like? ‘Play the Years’ to see a good timeline of how the years go by. The war years, the lockouts, and the pandemic are just really easy to see in the data and quite stunning really |
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I’ve been building out a link blog idea called Linked List that I’ve wanted for a long time. Curation will be even more important in the future and I would love to have another option beyond Hacker News and Lobsters to find good reads suggested by fellow humans. It has been a fun space to explore ideas.
Not quite ready to open up sign-ups, but you can get an idea of the site here: https://linkedl.ist/@kale |
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I am building a system that connects texts (books, research papers, etc.) in a meaningful way to help people decide what to read and be aware of how texts relate to each other. |
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I’m working on a cross-file deterministic drift checker https://github.com/mennanov/blockwatch
The idea is that the source code is annotated with special rules which configure how parts of the code (also configs and docs) depend on each other. This can be done either directly in the source code comments or in a config file blockwatch.toml This tool is very useful for large codebases that e.g. share constants across programming languages and configs, have docs that should strictly reflect the current state of the code, etc It uses tree-sitter to parse the source code, 35+ languages are supported. The project is actively developed, your feedback is welcomed! Thanks! |
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I am building Abbox trying to help engineers focus longer on tasks without being interrupted by non-technical people with small requests.
I always got annoyed by change this h1 to h2, add tracking to share button, why can’t the customer play the video, the styles don’t match figma. If you are engineer who also gets distracted I would love to hear your opinion and feedback. It is a bit hard to put it all together as every department has his own needs and opinion about the website. My email |
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That’s so cool, building something consistently for 10 years is no small feat. How did AI helped you, or How did AI impacted your day to day work in recent years ? |
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Hence (https://hencegame.com) is a modern twist on Einstein’s puzzle, with fun picture clues instead of text. It’s a free online daily puzzle, the same for everyone, where every puzzle is always solvable by pure deduction with no guessing.
I launched it October 5. The hardest part was the graphics, making each picture clue unique enough that you recognize it immediately and know what category it’s from, even at small sizes. Easier said than done. Every puzzle is run through a verifier first to make sure it is solvable without any guessing, just by pure logic, so there is always a next step to find, which is what makes it feel so rewarding. There’s a hint system to help and it works really well if I do say so myself . No account needed to play. From what I’ve been hearing so far, the people who have checked it out are enjoying it and can’t wait for tomorrow’s puzzle, so that’s a good sign. |
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I keep saving blogs and articles but almost never revisit them.
So I’m building an Android app designed to help me actually read what I save. You only get one saved article per day. Finish today’s read to unlock the next one. You can also save Twitter, Reddit, etc. posts separately and revisit them anytime. Right now I’m mainly validating whether people would actually want something like this. If there’s enough interest, I’ll run a small closed beta for Android. Join the waitlist for beta access: https://forms.gle/XWXmK8HUSmAtfms29 |
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I’m working on a simple way for AI’s to talk to each other: https://counterparts.ai/phone
So far it’s helpful for messages between my own AI’s (chatgpt and claude etc), and for having my AI trade tech tips with a friend’s AI or talk to my wife’s AI. My AI also got its first message from a strangers AI from france which has also been really interesting. I read all messages first and approve before sending anything, but otherwise they’re just talking about whatever they want. |
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I’m working on Hale, an abstract distributed systems language.
It’s a traditional systems language in the sense that you have fine control over how resources are used, but it’s abstract in the sense that you have to come to an agreement with the compiler about your intent around the resources, rather than directly declaring the machinery. It’s a distributed language in the sense that there is a higher level structural abstraction in the language that situates computations of the program within a recursive graph structure. Part of that structure incorporates message broker semantics. This gives the compiler a unified view of programs across arbitrary process boundaries. The structural abstractions also enable an effects+formal verification syntax within the language, which allows programmers to codify architectural decisions that are then checked by the compiler. The compiler itself is infrastructure aware, and the highest layer of functionality it handles is configuring the environment into which applications deploy. The single language handles everything from individual memory allocations to distributed fleet deployments. The language is close to v1, and I’m currently building a fully distributed inference-as-a-service application with it. Arbitrary hardware/supply matched against arbitrary callers/demand in real time. https://github.com/hale-lang/hale |
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Still working away on my book (and library book) recommendations service https://leafle.org
It has if nothing else been very useful for me (it has correctly deduced that I would get something out of borrowing Grief is the Thing With Feathers, the Dispossessed, and Cosmicomics, none of which I would have thought of reading). Plus it has been a fun opportunity to play around with LLMs as an interface and a research and reverse engineering tool; as well as Jev for non-user facing quality work like banning crap openrouter providers based on their output before putting it in front of a user. Most recently I’ve been dropping off flyers for it at a few local libraries in my area. |
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I’m working on a TradingView Pine Script compatible Python framework: https://pynecore.org . And a Pine Script compiler for it + a full IDE for Pine Script with syntax highlight, language server, full featured debugger, charting, data downloads: https://pynesys.io .
It is 99.771% bit exact on the top 1000 Pine Scripts and 100% trade match. I’m doing it solo. |
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A PR Review tool for ergonomics – https://bobby.viraj.computer
* files in organised trees/graphs generated using LSPs and symbol references instead of linear file list |
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An Obsidian plugin that turns handwritten reMarkable notes into searchable text. You can run the handwriting recognition locally on a Mac. The latest feature I added sends your highlights and margin notes from the tablet to Readwise. https://taggedsync.com
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Currently we are working on Kumoss Open Source, intent-based infrastructure platform that turns natural-language requests into infrastructure changes, while keeping validation, compliance and existing engineering workflows in the loop.
https://github.com/InditexTech/kumoss Basically allow developers to request any infrastructure need in a web portal and automatically that request is fulfilled following the organization standards the platform team defined. Any feedback or comment is more than welcomed! Any feedbac |
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Still building the file manager I’ve always wanted: https://intestinate.com/gusco/
Added an audio player this past month for all fellow file hoarders out there. Also, you can now choose if you want Gusco to live in your terminal or run as a native-yet-texty app. Was pleasantly surprised how well turning a Bubble Tea TUI app into a GUI-ish bundle works with Gio UI. |
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I’ve just released v1.0 of Rouler which is VPN split tunneling for windows. Think IP rules for Linux, but with per-app/service connection steering. The whole app is built in Rust, including the kernel driver. Having released v1 I’m now starting work on adding folder and windows store support. https://rouler.io
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I’m still working on https://leafle.org which is a tool for getting more interesting reading (or listening) suggestions that one can borrow from the library (or Libby). I’m done for the moment with building it, so I’ve been doing things like making flyers and leaving them in local libraries.
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My main project is trying not to lose my mind, given all the things I can now create thanks to AI.
Jokes aside (although I’m not entirely joking about my mental health), my main project is https://auradistill.com: First-principles thinking for your AI agents. It’s not just about giving your personal AI agents “memory”. It’s about encoding memories in a way that can handle ambiguity and contradictions. That project alone has got me completely hooked on building for and with LLMs. I’ve got other projects too, but this is probably the one I’ve poured the most time and energy into. |
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working on AudioWeave, an ad free, offline first Android podcast player.
switching from iOS, I wasn’t happy with the existing podcast apps, so I built this mostly for myself. I’ve been using it for the last six months and finally pushed a public beta. My day to day is BE so I used the project to learn Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Everything is strictly native using Room and Media3/ExoPlayer. I wanted a nice looking (subjective), privacy-focused app without any tracking or ads. I’m considering open sourcing it soon. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enyodigita… |
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Adding tufting support to RapidCAM.app for CNC run makers. RapidCAM already supports 2.5D CNC, laser and rotary axis so tufting was a good fit. |
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working on an app which you/agents can put exact pieces from any websites you need into a one screen.(https://banquish.space)
I didn’t want to switch/refresh bunch of tabs. That’s why I made this one. not screenshots. so you can still interact with the pieces like in normal web browsers. |
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Honestly? Still just trying to get hired.
But apart from that, I just updated my website’s theme to something I wanted to do for quite a while now – a fantasy desktop! I’m also trying to just learn new things with the time I was refunded by being unemployed. |
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working on talk deep https://talkdeep.me, a little app for keeping in touch with friends after i moved countries. you pair with a friend and get one question a day, or go through decks of deeper questions together. i’ve never done an app before so building something from scratch has been a really fun creative outlet
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I want to make app like action but for repairs, like electronics and cars.
Client posts request and masters respond with their offers. What you think about that guys? |
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There is already a site here where you say what your job is and garages submit their offers. They can also auto-submit offers if it’s something routine like a standard service. |
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I am building Esara – the AI hiring platform for candidate sourcing and explainable evaluation.
We’ve just incorporated in Berlin together with two great co-founding colleagues. Honestly never felt more excited. Though it is a B2B tool, check it out: https://esara.ai |
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I “accidentally” created one of the fastest modern JavaScript frameworks out there: https://signy.dev/
…according to my own benchmarks (yeah, I know how that sounds). Next, I’m planning to submit it to independent third party benchmarks, hoping to find out whether my results are accurate… or not 🙂 I’ve also just finished a CSS framework: https://iriscss.com/ Now I’m working on a new backend programming language that runs on the Erlang BEAM, along with a few web applications built using this tech stack. |
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Building a tool that finds code problems before they become “quick” Friday fixes. Currently teaching it to be less dramatic than the linter 🙂 |
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Software is complicated by nature. It’s our job to make it easy for the user.
Take a look at FFmpeg as an example. It’s a complex tool that can do most things audio/video. A power user can do magical things, but they still provide simple commands for the most basic use-cases like conversion or trimming. https://www.clipcat.com/blog/how-to-use-ffmpeg-a-beginners-g… 1. Provide sensible defaults Don’t get discouraged, you can do it! |
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I’ve been working on online payment rails for businesses, developers and agents called Tuppence (https://tuppence.ai).
Accept online card payments from just 0.79% (UK) and earn 0.89% on all card spend [1], or get paid out to your bank. I’m building tuppence to be available in the US, and 20 EU countries. I’m getting a Point of Sale (POS) manufactured in the UK [2] for those who want to accept payments in person with card readers. My goal is to help people sell their goods and make a living without paying over the odds for the privilege. I charge a competitive fee for payment processing, give money back on card spend (with no cashback caps/limits) and do not charge saas fees or lock people into contracts. Tuppences currently allows people to sell online with a store builder, expense management, payment links, direct debits & bookings – essentially Tuppence is a ‘business’ layer on top of what you get from the likes of Stripe, Adyen and Checkout.com. There’s also have a ‘connect’ platform, so you can roll this out to your marketplace business. Next on my roadmap is ticketing and ‘treasury’. Treasury i’m personally excited about as you’ll be able to earn 4% yield on your earnings, FDIC Insurance (FSCS in the UK), multi-currency banking in fiat balances such as USD, EUR, and GBP, or stablecoin balances like OUSD and USDC, and have bank account numbers to send or receive funds. — It’s brand new, i’m still testing payment -> payout flows. These take a little time to verify on live payment rails. Happy to give some fee-free payment processing for those who reach out and want to be early adopters, I can be reached at [email protected], or comment on thread. — Tech Stack TLDR: * TypeScript monorepo covering the API, dashboard, docs, mobile app and SDKs. References: [1] Card issuing: https://tuppence.ai/cards |
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Guaranteed weight loss within 2–3 weeks; many people start seeing results within the very first week. 17,000+ members already!
Guaranteed results are achieved using the state of the art adaptive TDEE (total calorie burn of the day) tracking technique we’ve developed. It’s sensorless, so no watch or other wearable is needed. It’s way more accurate than those wearables (data included on the website), and our group has 2,000+ members ( https://macrocodex.app/community/ ). You can also read Play Store reviews. All this completely free, no subscription or ads: MacroCodex also works on both Android and iOS and any platform where PWA app can run. Other other 2 apps are Android only (for now): If you are looking for a workout app with Alpha Progression or MacroFactor Workout-like “Smart Progression,” or an app where you can run any program like Boostcamp but ad- and subscription-free, check out the Symbiote workout app (beta) IF you are looking for AI photo Calorie tracking with lots of features which make it very fast to log food on daily basis checkout CalorieCodex (beta): All the apps have been under active development for a few months now. |

I’m still looking for work in the mean time but I’m proud so far of what I’ve achieved.
https://getcrewbird.com/