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

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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 very useful, will give it a try for sure!

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

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I have two personal projects at the moment.

First, https://agency.nu/ a personal agent platform for people who aren’t necessarily developers, but still want to connect multiple Gmail, Calendar, and other accounts and automate workflows across them. Spent a lot of time making the interaction easy and natural, so it supports chat, realtime voice and telegram.

Second, https://vinarium.one/ something I primarily built for myself to keep track of the wines in my wine fridge, when to drink them, and what pairs well with a particular dish.

Both are very much scratching my own itch, but I’m curious if either resonates with anyone else here.

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

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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…

Amazing resource if it takes off.

I wanted to build a bed frame recently and imagined software where I could choose lumber from a list and visually assemble the bed frame in the software how I see fit, choose stains, flourishes - then go order the wood and have it cut. At that point it's like taking home an IKEA bed, except of way higher quality materials and to your exact design spec.

So

> Real SKUs, a real BOM you can send to any lumberyard; understand exactly what you need down to the last nail.

Is especially interesting, it sounds like you could basically do that with this software.

Turning the woodworking process into code to be automated by an LLM is pretty ambitious, and is the part I am most skeptical about. Of course, if you get that right (plus adoption) it would be unbelievably huge.

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

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I've been slowly building [MiserablyUnemployed.com](https://miserablyunemployed.com/) for the last four or five months.

It pulls jobs from tens of thousands of company HR pages, and only keeps them for seven days (unless it sees that the job has been filled). No reposts. Only fresh jobs.

Besides that it has a resume builder, matching system, application assistance via an extension, job tracking software, and an interview preparation helper. It turned into some fairly complex software that I ended up learning a lot from!

If any of you try it, let me know what you think.

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

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I recently added autocomplete to rainfrog, the terminal UI database tool I've been working on: https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog

I initially made it as a lightweight, keyboard-centric alternative to dbeaver/pgadmin, and it now covers 95%+ of the database-related tasks I need to do at my job.

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

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Working with agents generates a lot of markdown input and output. So I'm working on viva, a tool to help author and review docs.

You tell it what kind of doc you want, attach any necessary links/files/repo paths/etc, then it asks you clarifying questions until it has the data it needs. Then it authors a doc and give you a review interface. You can approve, request more info, request changes, make direct edits, etc. Then submit and makes edits until and represents until you approve all sections.

https://github.com/jacquardlabs/viva

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

#170

A daily estimation game: https://estimatle.com Every day, players answer 5 questions that require estimating some quantity, such as distance, year, cost etc. Then you can compare against answers of other players and the real answer. Working on finding the right balance of questions that are both fun and also help understand facts about the world.

This is a wonderful well thought out game, thanks!
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