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

I have been working on quite a bit of things… but lately I went back to my hobby project of the last year:

https://DuoBook.co

It’s like netflix for language, where users can select/create their personal bilangual stories.

I had quite a lot of feedback from HN, friends, random people on the internet and trying to solve the common pain points and find my way around to make it geniunely useful.

- Most people said it’s hard to come up with a story, so I added url grounding. Also added buttons (including HN :)) so people can just click click and get their stories at their level with their interests.

- Made sure people can generate stories without ever signing up

- Each word is highlighted while being read, and the meanings can be checked with a tap. I also added an option for users to read the sentence for being checked how good their pronounciation is.

- Benchmarked 7 different models to get the fastest & highest quality story generation (it’s gemini now) and it’s insanely fast. I might share more about it on the webpage because I am an engineer and I enjoy this stuff lol.

- Added CSV import in Use my words so Anki users can just import their words to study.

- Also people can download their stories as pdf so they can send it to their kindles.

- I am working on a ChatGPT app, so people can just say “@DuoBook give me a Dutch/English story on latest Iranian events” within ChatGPT, but I am a bit afraid that it might be costly lol.

I got laid off a while ago and I’m privileged enough to take time to reconsider what I want to do. I’ve been learning how to sketch which supports my bigger passion- printmaking. I’ve primarily been doing linocut which is carving negative space into linoleum, inking it up, and printing it on paper. I’ve got a membership at a local atelier and have branched out into drypoint, kitchen lithography, and what I guess is called LEGOpress. I’m sparking a lot of joy working with my hands every day. I have been finding adequate challenge in honing my craft as I try to figure out how to draw/carve the images I see in my mind.

Hoopi Pedal: A 2-channel digital effects + recording pedal, based on the Daisy Seed and the ESP32 [1]. PCB design, embedded firmware, DSP and Flutter app - all are mine. Some technical notes on firmware (OTA updates, etc.) and Flutter app dev (using native methods for vidoe-audio sync, auto cross-correlation, etc.) are published on my blog [2].

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/scope-creep-labs/hoopi-pedal [2] https://scopecreeplabs.com/blog/?tag=hoopi

https://docules.net/about

I've been building a collaborative docs tool called Docules. The short version: it's a team documentation tool that doesn't have any embedded AI features. I use Claude code daily, but putting LLM’s into every workflow and charging for it is kinda insane. Every docs tool is adding AI auto-complete, AI summaries, "generate a page" buttons. Docules has an open API and ships an MCP server, so it connects to whatever you want to use LLM-wise. They can read, search, create, and edit documents through the API. The core product is just a docs tool that tries to be good at being a docs tool:

  - Real-time collab with live cursors

  - Fast — no embedded databases or heavy view abstractions slowing things down

  - Hierarchical docs, drag-and-drop, semantic search

  - Comments, version history, public sharing

  - SSO, RBAC, audit logs, webhooks

Stack is React, Hono, PostgreSQL, WebSockets. The MCP server is a separate package so it's not coupled to the main app. I keep seeing docs tools bolt on half-baked AI features and call it innovation. I'd rather build a solid foundation and let you plug in whatever AI workflow actually makes sense for your team. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the MCP integration.

Does anything similar like this already exist? Ie how do drone shows get planned today?