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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Post by simplesocieties »

josephg wrote: post #570

I’m working on a native UI framework in rust. I want to be able to build cross platform, fully native applications with native code. And I want platform native components. I started with Leptos - which gives you a nice declarative UI syntax and reactive elements. I used Claude to get that working on iOS, cocoa and GTK. I made a nice little iOS schedule app for attendees at conferences. It works great. All rust, nativ…

What about the current ecosystem is lacking that made you want to write a new one from scratch? (gpui, Dioxus, Slint)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Post by moinism »

Been building Chat Octopus (like ChatGPT but for media and content: https://chatoctopus.com) since Feb this year. Now it's available on web, ios, and android but I'm finding it hard to market it and find users.

Which is, i think, a common thing about solo devs.How do you guys deal with that?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Post by mskalski »

Yesterday I reached a stopping point in a project I had been working on over several weekends. I wanted to connect my illumos server directly to my Japanese ISP through DS-Lite, and ended up writing and publishing two Rust crates along the way.

The tunnel itself worked, but stock illumos could not manage the DHCPv6 prefix delegation required by my connection. I also spent quite a bit of time tracing a four byte ABI mismatch between a 64 bit Rust process and a 32 bit illumos service.

There was no happy ending, but I learned more about the illumos network stack and distilled the experience into a blog post: https://skalski.dev/connecting-my-illumos-box-to-a-japanese-...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Post by sureshjayanthi »

I've been building replaypics.com. After an event, photos are scattered amongst phones and whatsapp. Difficult to search and retrieve. Creating memories on Google Photos requires some amount of effort. Started working on it after a family vacation - we had more than 400 photos across 4 phones and we had not looked at them after returning home

Replaypics allows a person to create an event and upload pictures, optionally invite others to upload their pictures. It selects the best and makes 4 collages and 2 videos (portrait and landscape). The videos are set to music that is selected as per the mood of the photos, cuts synced to the beats.

Trying a different monetisation method: Albums are free to create, users pay only to get the share link. Curious whether people will pay at the share moment.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Post by coldstartops »

KeibiDrop: A Peer to Peer Network latency hiding filesystem:

You can work on shared files instantly without uploading or downloading them.

1 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wt0NMx2_I8 Github repo: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop

Since last month hardened bidirectional edits such that people can work on video assets with Premier Pro, DaVinci, and such.

Got a pre-alpha release, where we managed to split congestion control over QUIC and bulk data transfers over TCP, and the lockless conflict resolution :D

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