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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

#183
Last week my friend and I launched https://farmdoor.co.nz

A job board for travellers and backpackers on working holiday visas in New Zealand.

Most NZ job sites are built for employers. Farmdoor aims to flip that: workers can leave reviews of farms and employers, so the next person knows what they're signing up for before they show up somewhere remote.

Built it after seeing firsthand how hard it is for backpackers to find reliable work and how little recourse they have when an employer turns out to be dodgy.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

#184
Still improving copper-rs! https://github.com/copper-project/copper-rs a rust first robotics runtime and operating system. It allows you to target your algorithms for both a traditional OS and embedded targets with a perfectly deterministic replay. Our users are from all over the autonomous systems spectrum: AMRs, humanoids, drones, self driving... If you are a rust enthusiast wanting to test the robotics waters or a robotics rust curious. Come and join us!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

#185
The most versatile and secure no-code backend platform ever created for building complex web apps. The original goal was to bring junior devs on par with top senior devs in terms of application architecture. I've been trying to create a dev experience that avoids any kind of abstract technical hurdles and makes everything as light, declarative and scalable as possible. Pivoted for AI; which is even better at using it than a junior dev. I started building this project piece by piece 15 years ago.

https://saasufy.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

#186
I am working on making grocery online shopping less overwhelming and more like a rolling list, you keep adding items as you see them (missing) in your household and it silently records it at the backend. When you are ready to pick up order, you push to qfc cart via api (a button) and boom your grocery shopping is done. No need of making lists and then one by one putting them on the cart. It works with any QFC or Kroger store because to my disbelieve they actually have an open sku and cart api. Grateful to Kroger to be tech forward. Free to use , here is the link https://www.ddisco.com/sonic/customer My wife is hooked on it as she had to take time in the week to sit down ask me what to order and then build the cart. Now it’s like just typing in what you need.

Next I am making the version for folks who do not make a list and just go with past orders , for them I am automating so the cart is made based on past orders like milk usually is ordered every 2 weeks.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

#187
Crossed 100K MRR as a solo founder for Zigpoll[1] - honestly I never thought I would get this far with the product so now it's all about trying to market and keep growth strong. Doubling YoY gets harder each year so you always have to find new growth channels (or ways to improve existing channels). This is an interesting task especially given the current environment.

I used to think "if you build it they will come" but, as it turns out, it's much more nuanced than that and requires a lot of iterating and stumbling along the way. I hope to break into another vertical this year!

[1] https://www.zigpoll.com

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

#188
I’m getting ready for the first release of a story time app my wife and I have been using for reading to our son.

The scope creeped to book discovery and ebook reading with OpenLibrary from just tracking and personal library recommendations.

But we have been able to incorporate new books into the story time rotation so I’m convinced it’s worth it.

It’s definitely been fun experiencing the range of quality for kids books in the internet archive.

I’m aiming for a May 1.0 release on iOS and Android.

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