Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

#211

Post by Cyberdogs7 » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC

I built a fully locally hosted language learner app. It build language lessons based on a 4 year college curriculum, using a local LLM, Qwen TTS, local STT, and comfyUI image gen. I formulates themed lessons, around 'interesting' stories, generates dialogue, images, audio, quizzes, and pronunciation tests. Each lessons progress is tracked and new lessons are generated daily to reinforce concepts and extend past lesson story lines.

Overall it acts like a 'Choose your own adventure' book, but you learn while doing it. Currently supports Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Runs on a 4060 16GB card.

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

#212

Post by eric_khun » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC

I have ADHD, and my calendar is a graveyard of things that were totally fine right up until they were on fire.

So about to release an iOS app that sends me early notifications about what to actually prepare, or do.

Best examples so far: on my last trip it pinged me the night before with a packing list based on the weather at my destination. Also reminding me to book a table for a dinner planned.

It's here for the waiting list: https://heylife.ai

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

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

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Post by saleebmina » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

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

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Post by varun_chopra » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:30 AM UTC

Postkit: https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit

This is basically my version of "what all could you throw into Postgres?"

My problem with vibe coding/LLM assisted engineering is that it's hard to get the basic stuff that is independent of the application itself, correct, so I just use this and make sure everything I build has some consistency.

You can pop this in and use it as the base for your app and add login, permissions, etc. quite cleanly.

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

#216

Post by sureMan6 » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:33 AM UTC

Cyberdogs7 wrote: post #211

I built a fully locally hosted language learner app. It build language lessons based on a 4 year college curriculum, using a local LLM, Qwen TTS, local STT, and comfyUI image gen. I formulates themed lessons, around 'interesting' stories, generates dialogue, images, audio, quizzes, and pronunciation tests. Each lessons progress is tracked and new lessons are generated daily to reinforce concepts and extend past lesso…

Gonna try to monetise it or open source it?

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

#217

Post by vibbix » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

https://beta.mtechnic.me/

A CSS/TS React component library inspired by BeOS. Been spending the last week cutting my teeth on font issues however

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

#218

Post by jv22222 » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

I'm working on a Mac OS memory app for AI. Not quite ready to share the link, but just wanted to put the periscope above the water.

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

#219

Post by jvanderbot » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:47 AM UTC

Inspired by the Vint Cerf discussions, I'm hoping to renew my interest in space exploration as a hobby sim/ coding project.

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

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Post by digitaltrees » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 2:47 AM UTC

bryanculver wrote: post #206

I'm slowly building an IDE with mentor/skill-level awareness baked in. I've noticed that juniors and new hires often fall into an impostor-syndrome trap when reading an unfamiliar codebase or reviewing a senior peer's PR. Documentation helps, but it usually runs into the curse of knowledge: it's written by someone who's spent so much time in the code that they've lost sight of what it's like to be new to it. I've alw…

I love this. I have been building and IDE for myself. My non-technical team wants to use it after using lovable and things like that. I started building a dialect of JavaScript to make more approachable but that seems impossible the more I get into it.