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

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

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Post by Evidlo »

mgerb wrote: post #4

I'm working on Spacecap: https://github.com/mgerb/spacecap It's a screen recording tool for Linux. The goal is to make it as fast and efficient as possible, while also being simple to use and install. It's just a hobby project that I am having fun working on. Here are some notable things about it: - Written in Zig - Uses Vulkan Video for encoding - UI built with SDL3 and imgui - Features recording, replay buffer, and…

Biggest advice for exposure is to try to get it packaged on Debian. Annoying but worth it.

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

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Post by gste »

I started making a programming language that is designed to encompass frontend, backend, database, container, and cluster, so that there it is not necessary to stitch together other languages.

It uses functional programming and event sourcing to try and effectively "solve" modern distributed web application development, so that your app code in this language can be extremely simple but not have bad architecture and gaps.

I'm probably oversimplifying the complexity, so I don't even know if it's feasible, but it's pretty fun to give Claude my crazy ideas and see what happens.

https://github.com/georgestephenson/beck

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

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Post by dgellow »

taylorfinley wrote: post #134

I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…

The homepage doesn’t load well on iPad

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

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Post by josters »

Working on making an old Nokia 3210 use 4G because 2G is being shut down within the next two years in most European countries.

As it currently looks I need to design my own PCB with a modern LTE module and make it connect to all the peripherals. Thought it would be a nice project to get into electronics, soldering etc. Also really enjoying the constraints of an 84x48 LCD screen and how to implement "modern" technology like GPS navigation or design the UI for a music player.

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

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Post by needz »

I lead development on Pindigo (https://pindigo.app), a social score-tracking and ranking app for pinball players.

Most of my time lately has gone into Flippd, its successor, which we recently soft-launched. We’ve also released a tech demo that uses custom computer-vision models to identify a pinball machine from a photo and extract the player’s score.

You can try it here: https://flippd.gg/scan

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

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Post by RagnarD »

africajam wrote: post #252

I put my flat in the UK on the market recently and it has given me a lot of insights into how broken the real estate market is! One thing I found particularly annoying is how dominant rightmove is and how much of the traffic for house hunting they control. As a small way of standing up to them I created https://rigove.co.uk/ (rightmove without htm - the hidden toll machine ;) If you change rightmove to rigove while b…

I suggest considering a different domain name before this gets too popular. Rightmove might call it trademark violation for the name being too close, if they get annoyed at the competition.

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

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Post by angoragoats »

jmathai wrote: post #193

I’m exploring how to use AI for faith oriented experiences and products. There are two specific areas I’m interested in. I’m furthest along with this app in the App Store. https://trysojourn.app 1) grounding LLM scripture references in the actual text and eliminating hallucinations. This is the platform for that. https://withlattice.com 2) how to use AI to get people into scripture more as opposed to being a substitu…

Why would you not instead use your skills to "get people into" reading books that have actual verifiable truth, that advance their knowledge about the world, that educate them about history, mathematics, philosophy, logic, reason, etc?

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

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Post by kidnoodle »

I’ve been playing around with exploiting LLMs having ‘read’ every book ever written to make a chatbot to help people choose library books. You talk to it a bit about things you’ve read, and it uses the llm’s latent knowledge of books to suggest ones you might like.

It’s pretty fun! It might even work on your local library (I got carried away and spent a while making it work on a few thousand round the world - you can see the coverage here: https://leafle.nanosheep.net/coverage).

https://leafle.nanosheep.net

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

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Post by helloakariq »

Akariq has taken most of my time [0]. I sell travel eSIM plans for 190+ countries, no app or account needed! Since last time, many HN readers have tried it with very positive reviews. I reply to each and every customer who reach out to me and also implemented some feedback they gave.

On July 24 2026, all major eSIM providers including Akariq faced disruptions. However, Akariq was able to serve all customers even during the downtime either by switching to backup resources or issuing replacement eSIMs free of cost. Some customers of major providers like Airalo experienced serious down time. I wrote more about the incident here and what I am striving to be better in terms of automation etc [1].

One review from a customer in China [2] made all my effort worth it. They said that they were able to use Akariq to access Gmail, WhatsApp etc around the GFW. It even worked smoothly in areas like Beihai and Weizhou island apart from the cities. Tethering with their laptop was helpful too.

[0] https://akariq.com/

[1] https://akariq.com/en/blog/akariq-backup-esim-service-interr...

[2] https://akariq.com/en/esim/cn/

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

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Post by nhatcher »

As per usual for the last two years I'm working on an open source spreadsheet engine called IronCalc. It is super exciting. We have a proof of concept at

https://app.ironcalc.com

In the last couple of months my partner and myself quit our jobs to work on that. I am pretty sure that in a year from now the world is going to have a fairly competent spreadsheet alternative.

My capacity is fairly limited but I am trying to build a community around it. Join us!

https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc

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