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

I am working on a discussion board for HN’s Who is hiring.

Too many times I have been burned by applying to scam listings or people who are just to self-promote and use people who want a job as a marketing channel (looking at you BetterStack, fu in particular).

I want people to be able to discuss and flag companies which are lying or just a waste of time, yet HN refuses to do anything about it and doesn’t allow threads as discussions and removes comments.

Hit me up if you want on the beta testers lists, already got a couple of people.

rocket.dev22@gmail.com

I'm working on https://www.amika.dev/, which lets you put sandboxed agents on cloud VMs and then message them over the internet.

It's for agent + human devboxes, for chatting with coding agents from the web, or automating them with an API. Thing like Claude Code web, but any agent and you directly control the VM, too.

We're working to make amika.dev work on any computer, homelab, or K8S cluster. For tech folks, I describe it kinda like if Tailscale and Firecracker had a baby.

Still working away on a completely offline meeting document generator that works on generic laptops with no GPU (https://whistle-enterprise.com). A new release coming very soon focusing on getting clearer audio which in turn makes the transcription and end document generated more accurate.

Inbetween that I've been working on a "software house" (don't know how else to describe it). Pretty much codex/claude running on a VPS with a web interface and the ability to actually build and publish software / webapps etc.

It came from me sitting on the train on the way home and I had an idea pop into my head for a pebble watch app, I wanted to build it and test it there and then as I still had about 45 mins left. I know you can run codex against git repos in the cloud but I didn't want to faff with that (and last I remember the allowances for this were much less generous). It's been really fun, probably many things like this out there but it works exactly how I want it to. I plan to open source it once I've tidied things up a bit more.

Lately been obsessed with learning and doing sales coming from a software engineering background. Working on https://getsolenoid.com/ to help the builders reach out to people with more buying intend.

I made a site https://snack.game where people can upload and share multiplayer games.

It uses webtransport instead of websockets for the networking transport so the games feel a lot better than normal web based multiplayer games. I'm surprised more people aren't using webtransport given it's supported now by all major browsers.