Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by someone654 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

fwsgonzo wrote: post #890

I'm looking for brutal feedback for my game that I'm working on. I'm working on a cozy voxel game with RPG and platforming elements. Still early days, so I'm still figuring things out. Players play on their own private instances. The world is very malleable as player instances are based on a "master tape" world that I maintain. After creation that fork is the players own, and they do whatever they want. You can play…

Need some more feedback when preparing. Said «preparing» 10 seconds on 500 Mbit WiFi with iPhone. Unsure if it’s not working or still downloading.

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

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Post by gusco » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

Very pleased with https://intestinate.com/gusco/ My orthodox file manager which now doubles as a Bitwarden client.

Feedback has been good so far, next up is proper vim modes/bindings.

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

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Post by MrLaptop » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

I have built an Instagram Story downloader to solve the biggest problem of Instagram user. check it. https://instapv.onl

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

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Post by cjflog » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which friend is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too).

It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:

iOS TestFlight access here -> https://trybeacon.chat/

Android also in beta here -> https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/afe3c44d8443c4c0

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

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Post by jasondigitized » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

taylorfinley wrote: post #135

I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…

This is 1) impressive and 2) super high utility and 3) solves a real problem. Awesome stuff.

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

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Post by whattheheckheck » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

alphaBetaGamma wrote: post #72

My wife and I are working on a math/science/CS-inspired jewelry business. We try to create pieces that stand on their own aesthetically but have a hidden meaning. We currently have two styles: lambda calculus based pieces (we depict the lambda/Tromp diagram) where we have Y-Combinator earrings (well, strictly speaking they are one beta reduction away from Y-combinator. Aesthetic oblige) and a pendant depicting a lamb…

Just use shopify

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

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Post by cmicali » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

cmicali wrote: post #568

Vibe, my Winamp-like MacOS music player. I use it every day, but had stopped dev on it a few years ago. Fable has gotten me excited to take it off the shelf and add a bunch of features I've been wanting for a while. Working on localization now. https://github.com/cmicali/vibe https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vibe-music-player/id1582482361

PS I named this before vibe coding became a thing, promise :\

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

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Post by jonotime » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #494

A Drobpox like app that works with FTP and every other storage protocol along gateways to access your Dropbox over FTP, SFTP, S3: - the desktop client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive - the web client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

Love this. Maybe consider a backend of remotestorage.io

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

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Post by coldbreeze » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

Recently worked on https://sleepsignal.app . Instead of music or long podcasts, you are given something to imagine. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one. . Simply close your eyes, listen and imagine . Try a 10-minute session tonight

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

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Post by Gooblebrai » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

elliotec wrote: post #406

I've been building https://consciousnesslibrary.org , an open library for psychedelic and consciousness research that pulls from over a dozen academic APIs every 20 minutes, dedupes them, organizes by relevance, and synthesizes evidence. I just finished my master's in Psychedelics and Consciousness Studies, and built the library I wanted while studying. I started it over a year ago, but put it down until my practicum…

What job queue system do you use that works with Postgres?