Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by richarlidad » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:45 AM UTC

https://SupplementDEX.com - helping people find out if their supplements work

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by doppp » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:47 AM UTC

A family. Hope to have a little one in the next year! Wish me luck!

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by ambewas » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:48 AM UTC

still working on https://stringscales.com - fun sideproject to visualize guitar scales on a configurable fretboard, with interactive note highlighting to a backingtrack.

The backingtrack is what I'm actively improving right now. It's just a pad running now, but it will turn into a full track with bass/drums/piano/... and will feature a comprehensive chords based editor so you can add and save your own progressions with a logged in account.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by meander_water » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:49 AM UTC

WalterGR wrote: post #8

“Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679021 18 points | 1 day ago | 37 comments

Whoops didn't know about this, should have searched first

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by tobinfekkes » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC

doppp wrote: post #12

A family. Hope to have a little one in the next year! Wish me luck!

Same here! Good luck

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by kunley » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:55 AM UTC

Working on an audio streaming platform powering an indy internet radio. Looks like Icecast & friends show its age and a similar product can be easily built with the functionality cast down to simply robust streaming & handling "timed playlists". I enjoy every bit of knowing exactly what happens in the code. It's not open source atm, but will be. It's in Go, is a pleasure to write and the deployment takes minimal amount of resources.

Other project is to continue a bit stalled progress of a configuration language BCL - add functions, more structures and fix some hidden scoping issues. Making languages is an endless fun. https://github.com/wkhere/bcl

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by thevaultdj » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:56 AM UTC

MusicLibrarian, a macOS app that deep-cleans Apple Music libraries. iCloud sync duplicated my playlists up to 540x (77,542 ghost entries). Built it in Swift, uses ITunesLibrary framework + AppleScript. https://thevaultdj.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by barryvan » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:57 AM UTC

I've been working on a super-straightforward volunteering platform -- https://handsup.barryvan.com.au/ . Mainly because I got frustrated with my kids' school and sailing club activities being (mis)managed across WhatsApp, Google Forms, pieces of paper, and the like.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by richard_shelton » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:57 AM UTC

I am building educational 16-bit game console for low-cost FPGA chips.

https://github.com/true-grue/Brus-16

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by written-beyond » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 8:57 AM UTC

shivang2607 wrote: post #4

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I literally said this exact thing verbatim with someone who was worshipping ai for code. This is an insane idea, really cool.

One bit of feedback, I'd love if this could be a little more aesthetic in the visualization. The method names are a little hard to read, white on light green.