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

#851

Working with agents generates a lot of markdown input and output. So I'm working on viva, a tool to help author and review docs. You tell it what kind of doc you want, attach any necessary links/files/repo paths/etc, then it asks you clarifying questions until it has the data it needs. Then it authors a doc and give you a review interface. You can approve, request more info, request changes, make direct edits, etc. T…

I really need a tool, which is going to reliably consolidate collective kniwledge of many teams, about different parts of a product, into given structure.

It feels like an impossible task. With little bips and bops being relevant across the whole project. One would have to scour through the entire document they are creating, for every bip and bop they want to write down.

Not like LLM could not do this. But, there always comes a point, where some important relation is skipped, or is just part of the tribal knowledge. Someone, somewhere just knows, that if X fails, he has to look in Z, but this fact is not noted in the knowledgebase. So, the re-write always falls apart.

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

#852
I'm still working on World Watcher (https://worldwatcher.live). It's an interactive map of livecams around the world.

The idea is to have a better experience for navigating livecam streams that are publicly available on YouTube. There are a few livecam aggregators that include maps, but I never felt that any of them were satisfying, as they always require you to open new pages to watch the streams. On World Watcher, you can jump from place to place seamlessly.

You can also filter the streams by type of place or features, for example beaches or cams with audio. And if you don't know where to go, just try out the Explore button.

I released a new UI last week and next I'd like to work on automating as much as possible the process of finding and inserting new streams on the map.

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

#853
I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and log analysis was kind of a PITA for dealing with them so I built this instead:

https://crashguard.io

My favorite feature is I built a Stream Deck plugin for it so that I can monitor things from my Stream Deck XL while I'm doing other work, then if a button goes red or whatever I can just click it and it brings up the admin portal and shows me the workflow that failed.

It's still kind of in the alpha state but it does work pretty well.

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

#857
After 30 years of corporate life, I'm rediscovering the magic of building - and yes, coding. Deep into Rust, Swift, and Claude Code these days.

One problem I keep hitting: with unattended sessions, or something done a while ago, I find it difficult to reconstruct what I asked Claude Code to do and what it actually ended up doing. Yes, there are sessions I can scroll, and there are jsonl files I can grep. And yes, there are session replays. But it is still quite time consuming. Not to mention going through all the git diffs. And then there is the issue of multiple sessions coordinating their own agents on the same repo.

So I'm working on a CLI tool that helps me reconstruct this interval by interval, and then do a deep dive where needed. So far it has been quite interesting - it is teaching me a lot about how the Claude Code harness works.

If you have a similar problem, I would be very interested to know how you solved it.

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

#860
I'm working on self-hosted local email infrastructure for agents and apps: https://github.com/churichard/fluxmail

It consists of a MCP server, a CLI, and a REST API. Everything is run and hosted locally on your computer. You can use the MCP server to give your AI agents access to email, use the CLI to interact with your email, or build your own email apps on top of the REST API.

The goal is to make it simple and easy to interact with your email through any interface you choose, and to give you control over the way that you use your email.

It supports Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP/SMTP. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

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