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

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

#184
ive been getting claude to reverse engineer my raybans glasses case, so i can figure out a 3d printed insert to put in thats less likely to break.

in the process, figuring out some tricks for getting opus to work with 3d a bit better

two tricks ive found is to:

1. get claude to present all the orientations to you, then pick which one after 2. convert 3d problems to 2d ones - get it to draw streamlines describing the geometry, rather than trying to look at the whole thing in 3d

fable was a fair bit better at working in 3d than opus is. well, opus mostly isnt

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

#185
I’m building https://design.withfudge.com, a Prolog-backed design search engine that lets designers/agents query structured design knowledge from real websites. It uses data from my other startup, https://fontofweb.com, to help designers find concrete inspiration e.g fonts, colors, layouts, screenshots, and patterns, so they can make better design decisions.

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

#187
VERDURE is a creative sandbox where you grow and shape plants through trimming and pruning. You can also unlock a 'recipe panel' to further customize them and build a entire collection of your creations. I like to try and recreate real plant designs with it. It is a bit unusual.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4069810/VERDURE/

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

#188
I’ve been playing D&D for a few years with friends, and over time we’ve built a rich world..full of contradictions because I can’t remember half of the improv I do as DM.

I built https://loracle.app to automatically build a wiki of various entities in our campaign and enable rag q&a with an ai assistant about specific world facts.

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

#189
Still working on my web site quality assurance software. Getting close to private beta (hopefully very soon). Back end is written in Java and built with Javalin and Jsoup and persisted to PostgreSQL. Front end is JS/React. My back end crawls the designated website and for each page runs a number of analyzers to assess the quality across the following categories: accessibility, content quality (spelling, missing spaces between words, etc), performance, security, content policy (required phrases and forbidden phrases), site integrity, and seo. Each site can be configured to have its own custom dictionary (for spell checking). It's been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to taking the wraps off it.

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

#190
I built a dictation and meetings after trying other apps (Wispr Flow, Willow Voice, Granola, open source) and realised they're either user hostile, buggy or have limited feature set. For example, many of these dictations app opt you into Context awareness, which means your entire page contents get streamed to their server. The open source apps don't have dictionary, shortcuts (say "linkedin link" → and it pastes your actual link), or ability to use any proprietary API.

So I made my own dictation app. Supports arbitrary API providers (e.g. Deepgram, Speechmatics, Elevenlabs), Offline models and a subscription if you want it. Otherwise it's free forever for BYOK and offline models. Deepgram is a YC startup from 2016, and have models that are genuinely good - so it's up to you if you want to use them.

Also, Granola doesn't let you read your own meetings after 30 days. So I added a feature in DuckType to import your data from Granola, unlocking all your meetings from their paywall.

Another app: OpenCook https://open-cook.com/ . We curated and wrote our own recipes into StashCook, which requires a subscription just to read your own recipes on the web app. So I got Codex to extract our recipes and rebuild one that is open source, OpenAPI and includes AI features.

This won me 1 year of GPT Pro at the codex event :)

I hope you can tell... I'm tired of companies designing their products to lock you in, to charge you more, with no added value. I build software for people like me. So I'll be building more apps that replace this user hostile software.

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