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

Building throwdown.top: a free web app for making leaderboards for club crossfit competitions. The main goal was to build a tool for a friend who owns a crossfit box. The app is kinda simple (a few forms and tables) and not overloaded with features, but I was trying my best to make the UX comfortable, because I was the first user, and my friend - the second one :) It is battle-tested at real club events, so the early kinks have already been worked out, but feedback is always welcome!

https://throwdown.top

Did you use any libraries?

Lapse (lapse.in) – a little memory space for my AI agents

I kept losing thoughts. An idea would show up while walking, half a sentence before falling asleep, some random connection I knew I’d want later — and by the time I found the right app to write it down, it was gone.

So I built Lapse for myself.

It’s a memory layer that my AI agents can read from and write to. I can talk to it, dump a thought, or send it something half-formed. I don’t have to worry about folders or organizing anything. The agent figures out where it belongs.

There’s MCP for Claude, a simple HTTP API for everything else, and an iPhone Shortcut for quick voice capture. There is alos a chrome extension that pops up on selecting a text & lets you log it as a lapse.

This is a closed system which you can use for various use-cases like Journaling, Meeting Notes, Reminder, Second Brain etc.. I’ve been using it every day for a few weeks (150+ lapses) now, mostly for the little things I would've otherwise forgotten.

It’s still a very personal project, but it’s becoming a surprisingly useful place for my thoughts to live. There are few other users as well.

Read more here - https://hariprasd.me/works/lapse

A friend of mine runs a 6 person company where they specialize in maintaining WordPress sites for SMBs.

It's definitely a viable business!

I built this cli-based project management tracker that is designed to be harness agnostic. Essentially creating a cascading pool of milestones, then sprints, then tasks, each with gates, and context requirements, into a pool for agents to claim. So multiple agents from different harnesses could all work on the same project at once without losing drift of the project's intended focus. Essentially the same project management we all use and love in our day to day. But the cli commands are made for agents while the tui commands are for humans.

https://github.com/mattrichmo/boreal-work/

The thing I love about software, is you occasionally get this holy crap moment and I got that when I had to be away for 2 days and had an orchestrator agent run this for multiple days, without drifting too much. Maybe a little overenginneered but thats whatever. I spent about an hour planning, auditing the plan and adding more so the top-level milestone and inner sprints were pretty well defined or included the relevant context locations for each task. then watching the orchestrator launch a multi-day multi-agent workflow, was quite amazing.