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

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

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Post by betobetinabro »

wwwkieran wrote: post #149

We're working on Drawers ( https://drawers.computer ), a macOS app to give each of your projects its own dock, space, and windows. We integrate with macOS spaces to switch out a project-specific dock on each space, containing only the resources you need for that project. We made it possible to add granular resources instead of full apps to the dock (think specific slack channels instead of the whole slack app), to ke…

Nice!! been wanting ti build something like this since I got a mac - never did - glad you did.

Does it have project context within apps (like default folders and settings)?

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

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Post by rambleraptor »

I’ve been working on an OSS backend-in-a-box called [aepbase](https://aepbase.io/).

For the past few years, a group of us from Google, Microsoft, GM, IBM, Roblox, Rubrik + more have been working on a design standard for APIs called [AEP](https://www.aep.dev). The goal is twofold: learn from our companies mistakes around APIs and enable better tooling with less configuration.

We’re at a point where AEP-compliant APIs get a resource-oriented CLI, MCP server, full UI, and Terraform provider for near-zero configuration.

Aepbase has been my way to tie the whole ecosystem together. You run a single binary and define the schema for a resource with one API call. Now, you’ve got a full set of CRUD APIs and support for CLI/TF/MCP/UI. After one API call.

It’s a really cool way to tie together all of the work AEP has been doing.

Love to hear HN’s opinions on all of this. We’re still trying to figure out the best way to sell people on AEP.

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

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Post by davidpolberger »

I'm working on turning our statically-typed formula engine -- that we use for Calcapp, our app builder -- into a real hosted solution (as well as a library). I discussed it in July last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702833#44704642) and have been working full-time on the project since the beginning of the year.

I figured "I already have a battle-tested solution, I just need to make it modern and spiffy, build a website for it and see if there's any interest -- in the age of Claude Code, this should be fast work!"

Wrong. Taking an internal library and offering it to others -- complete with documentation and modern tooling -- is an immense project, even with the help of AI agents.

Is there a market for a "formula engine in a box"? I don't know. But I also didn't know whether there would be a market for Calcapp either, and that has supported me working full-time for the past seven years. So I'm willing to take another chance.

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

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Post by vincent_s »

I’m working on what I call a Software Delegate [0].

You delegate a task or GitHub issue to it and it uses AI coding agents and developer tools to write the code, run checks, read failures, fix problems, and iterate until the result is good, then comes back with a pull request. It does everything a human dev would do, fully automated.

[0] https://www.vroni.com/

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

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Post by p2detar »

Working on new puzzles for my tiny word puzzle web game for programmers and computer science nerds.

It's a PWA and works offline. Tech: js, no libs, Canvas API, Web Audio, not vibe coded, but I did use Claude for graphics and tests. Puzzles curated by hand.

https://7coderwords.kenamick.com/

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