I am building a small utility tool to add events to calendar from text/speech/image https://text2event.com/
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#872I am building a small utility tool to add events to calendar from text/speech/image https://text2event.com/
The hardest part is a bureaucracy with Google :D
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#873I've been building the most advanced automotive diagnostic app on the market I used to be a mechanic, and spend a lot of my free time working on project vehicles, motorcycles, tractors, trucks etc. I wanted a tool to track the tasks I needed done, then a way to easily access VIN info for parts search, then I DMV records, and finally built an iphone app to scan the OBD2 diagnostic codes and hook them up to a custom ai…
From your description I hoped that you would be analyzing audio to solve problems that don't raise codes.
Years ago my daily driver had a noisy wheel hub bearing, so when I heard a similar noise in a different vehicle this year, I assumed it was the same problem. However, when a mechanic investigated, it turned out to be an issue with the breaks instead. I have now learned to discriminate between a bearing and a brake issue, but there are a ton of other conditions I've never heard before that would be obvious to an experienced repair technician.
I bet an app could become as good a seasoned mechanic at identifying mechanical issues from audio samples.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#874I've been making native Mac utility apps to solve some of my (and hopefully others') needs.
One is called WhimFiles and is a file manager for Mac that is only 9 MB. It started out with me wanting to clean up my Downloads folder and wanting an easy way to filter files. As I thought of more things I wanted in a file manager I started to add them.
Now the app has dual pane, tabs, fuzzy go-to-folder, batch rename and many other quality of life features. I use it often for my own needs and have also made a few sales (thank you if you've purchased it). The app can be found here: https://whimfiles.com
Another app I've made is called WhimPop and it's a launcher that's shown when you hold down the right-click button (the regular context menu still shows if you only click the button). WhimPop gives the option to add favorite apps, folders and URLs on a rail, plus clipboard history, snippets, a timer and much more. It can be found here: https://whimpop.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#875Otus Analytics. An EU based (and full EU stack) Google Analytics/Adobe Analytics/etc. alternative. It integrates with Mistral so that you can chat about your website traffic as if you are talking to a web analyst. It also does automated weekly reports. You can go full cookieless (plausible style) or enable cookies if they you need return visitor insights (more conventional analytics style).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#876I am working on a medicine-related product that requires PII redaction, so as a separate product that the medical app can connect to I created InkedOut - a pdf redaction tool. It runs entirely in the browser, nothing gets uploaded, the text is removed rather than covered (crucial if you're familiar with the Meta lawyers debacle from 2025), and it verifies its own output before letting the user download.
Before I created it I searched for existing tools and found that those that do it properly are paid desktop or enterprise software, while the free browser ones simply put a black box on the text without actually removing the underlying text.
Check it out at https://getinkedout.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#877A modern issue tracker enabling replay for agentic workflows (via board time-travel) and focus on ergonomics (native to the terminal).
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#879AI quant trading (so that I have another income and can stop being threatened by managers that if I don't meet their unrealistic expecations that I won't have food on the table next year).
So far it's going well, 30000% gains on my initial capital in 3 months very gradually over 100K trades. But I need to build some more sleeves because (a) the edge could die any time (b) I hit capacity of that edge and it can only grow linearly now.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#880I’ve been working on my comprehensible input reader for Spanish still. I launched the beta exactly last month and it has been going well.
The project combines the idea of graded readers with spaced repetition systems like Anki. You generate stories with LLMs that are tailored to your Spanish level, then click the words you don’t know. As you read more stories, the system brings those words back naturally in future stories so you keep seeing them in context.
That’s how it works on a high level but behinds the scenes, there is a good amount of natural language processing going on, majority with the spaCy package. I’m hoping one day to post a blog about it on here.
It’s been awesome to see it actually being used by people and I have had fun talking with users and implementing feedback. At my current job, I usually don’t get that level of customer interaction so it’s been nice.
I’m hoping to take it out of beta soon and launch a paid tier with higher story generation limits, while keeping a free tier available. The goal is mainly to start covering the cost of running the project and keep improving it.
If you’re learning Spanish and have a A2 level or higher feel free to check it out. And even if you don’t know Spanish feel free to ask me questions about it, I would love to talk more detail about it.