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

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

#301
As a data-obsessed golfer trying to get to single digits, I need a tracking app that picks up where Arccos leaves off. So I'm building one: https://shortgamewiz.com (still a bit WIP).

After a few rounds of using it, I already know a few things I didn't before: I suck at right-to-left breaking putts, I baby uphill putts too much, and getting out of bunkers consistently is not good enough if I can't sink the occasional save. So I know what to practice now.

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

#303
BrowserBox demos: https://win9-5.com/demo

These embed a remote browser in an iframe to give you “embed anything browser view” custom elements. The demos focus on retro desktops to emphasize the browser - as these common web tropes, the retro desktop, can never actually ship a real browser without something like bbx.

https://browserbox.io https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox

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

#306
I wanted a faster, easier mapping app to plan motorcycle rides for myself and with groups, so I finally bit the bullet and started building my own at the beginning of this year.

I got to the MVP state which was useful for my personal use case in about a month. I took it further than that as a learning exercise and as a means to share it with others. Some features that came later are live cursors (like Figma), elevation chart and grade overlay, and QR-code enabled collaboration links to make in-person sharing simple.

Check it out! https://plotalong.app

Figuring out the exact UI/UX I wanted was the hardest part. I did the branding myself, handdrawn on paper, traced in Procreate, and vectored in Sketch. Fast iterations and a good test suite made it possible to try lots of different approaches and refine the one I liked the most. There are roughly 4000 unit tests and over 300 e2e tests that run on multiple environments with fully automated CI/CD.

I’m using Mapbox for the frontend and the whole app is basically just a monolithic Cloudflare Worker. Claude pretty much implemented the entire thing. I got a lot of mileage out of self hosting a Gitea project and recording all my planning sessions as Milestones and Issues. Claude has his own account without admin privileges. The process of managing a team of agents to build this practically autonomously was a bit jaw dropping and eye opening to be honest.

I would love to hear from other pleasure & sport drivers about the features they use or want the most in a routing app. I have an Android app in Play Store review, if you’d like to be an early access tester shoot me an email at my handle @plotalong.app

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

#308
3 things

- AI assisted academic progress reports so parents can effortless stay on top of kids middle/high school academics. https://www.gpa.coach

- A family economy app where parents set the rules, kids earn credits for chores and good behavior and kids redeem credits for screen time, money, and other benefits. https://www.kredz.app

- AI first fun mobile media editor your parents could use. https://www.mix.photos/

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

#310
getting my 1-person business to 2M ARR[0]

the requirements for growth keep changing plus all the AI noise means that the playbook changes regularly. staying on top of the state of the market while improving/maintaining the product and understanding our icp + exploring new verticals is a tricky (but fun) task to manage!

[0]https://www.zigpoll.com

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