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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)

#971

An iOS app that tells you which of your credit cards to use at any store. The part that turned out interesting is getting your targeted bank offers (Amex Offers, Chase Offers etc) without a bank login: a Safari extension reads the offers page you're already signed into in your own browser session, and can tap all the little "add to card" buttons for you. Chase renders theirs inside shadow DOM in a virtualized grid so…

Hi! What’s the name of the app? Sounds great

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

#972

A simple browser extension that makes reading comments pages like this one much easier: clearly marks new threads (and threads with new child comments) since last opened, and makes collapsing / uncollapsing threads easier and prettier: https://github.com/bachmitre/hacker-news-comments

This is a good idea, if you like top-level comments, also check out HackerBrain.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/588721-hackerbrain-sidebar... (user-script created 2 weeks ago)

Comment reading is done with a sidebar from the listing pages without needing to go to individual item pages.

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

#973
I'm working on https://sndlnk.io, a website that allows you to paste in a sharing link from any streaming service and get back a universal link that works with all of them.

It's for those moments where you need to share something and you don't know which steaming service your friend uses. Or maybe for a group chat or social media post where people use different services.

It works with video games too!

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

#974
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I'm working on https://wireplug.org : wireplug lets you create mesh VPNs using standard WireGuard. Your wg config files stay almost the same, except you no longer have to specify an `Endpoint` for your peers. Instead, wireplug detects all your possible endpoints (including LAN) and coordinates them with your peers for you. It handles NAT traversal and works with the in-kernel WireGuard driver on Linux and OpenBSD. Th…

Sounds interesting. Tailscale without handing off key management?

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

#976

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 someth…

This looks very cool, will most likely check it out!

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

#977
post #156

I’m building FitBee, a fast, ad-free, no-nonsense calorie and macro tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The app is built with Swift and SwiftUI, with a Python backend. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-macro-counter/i...

How have you acquired users? App looks cool.

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

#978
Come hang out at Tokenstead.ai a local llm focused community where we help you understand what models can run on your local hardware, which open-weight models might be best for your use case, latest news and a bunch of other stuff.

It's still early days but this is my passion so I thought I'd turn it into a community site. More socials are coming, right now we are ok X @tokenstead and YouTube coming soon.

Would love some feedback!

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

#979
For the past couple of month, I have been building belgie (https://github.com/mplemay/belgie) with the goal of making it easy for agents to dynamically generate user interfaces / code in a sandboxed environment. At a high-level, it supports

1. Create React MCP UIs (and traditional Web UIs) from python without needing a JS runtime installed

2. Provides a deno backed typescript sandbox for agent generated code via pydantic-ai / langchain

A great example use cases is automatically generating UIs for SQL query results.

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

#980
I wanted to say I was ticking off all my dusty project ideas with LLMs one at a time. But in reality what I have been working the hardest so far is to help family in times of need, one situation after another for a few years by now.

I'm just glad I had a nice Father's day recently and it paid off. Finger's crossed for more like this.

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