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

#342
I’ve been building out https://hnarcade.com for the past weeks. Got a lot of good feedback from the ShowHN thread and others reaching out individually.

Since the ShowHN thread, I received more than 40 individual game submissions!

To give more exposure to some of the games launched during the week I also launched a newsletter. Feel free to check it out if you want to learn more about games shown over the week :)

https://hnarcade.com/newsletter

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

#343
I've been working on an offline cross-platform application currently called Dev Cleaner.

> Dev Cleaner is a desktop application for scanning and cleaning development cache files and build artifacts. It helps developers reclaim disk space by identifying and safely removing caches like node_modules, .cargo/registry, .npm, and other build artifacts.

It's closed source, as I am planning to sell a license. But if you email me, I am happy to provide a build.

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

#344
Building my dev workspace into an operating system. Not metaphorically — structurally.

  10 MCP servers as device drivers (exchange APIs, browser automation, Apple docs, issue tracking).
  200+ skills as prose runbooks that compose system calls. Agent-mail for IPC between parallel
  agents. A drift detector called "wobble" that scores skill stability using bias/variance analysis.

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

#345
I’m building True Fluency https://truefluency.org a language-learning platform focused on efficient, structured learning. I’m also thinking about future AI features, like a tutor that answers questions, AI conversation partners, personalized exercises, and even AI-generated stories or dialogues for practice.

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

#346
Since we recently moved out of the city and into the mountains of Switzerland, I had a niche problem... agreeing with my buddies which is the best ski field to meet at when we all live in different towns. So I made a little web app to help:

https://skicompromise.ch

This was a fun little project I did over the Christmas holidays but only finished off recently. Basically I precalculated the public transport time between the most populated towns in Switzerland to every ski field (about 350 of them!) and then built a little web app around it using Django.

You can choose to prioritise shortest (lowest time overall) versus fairest (smallest variance in group members).

Totally free to use. Next steps are to integrate it with live snow conditions/open lifts...

Claude did help a lot with the FE part. The biggest part was actually finding the best public transport stop for each ski field - that was a very manual process trawling through skimap.org images and Anreise info on ski resort websites.

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

#348
1. The collaboration and notation app for rock bands that I’d wished existed already: https://bandwith.rocks/about

2. A “runtime scheduler for humans” that I wished existed, too (think morning routines, travel checklists, and pomodoros in the same abstraction—but also a lot of support for ad-hoc rearrangement and addition of the task queue).

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

#349
https://next-episode.net

It's a (now more than 20 years old) TV tracking website and community.

I've been using Claude 4.5 Opus (now 4.6) more and more these days modernizing and redesigning sections that haven't been touched for a decade or two. I don't trust LLMs much, but by breaking the work into small, self-contained tasks and testing constantly - I'm making surprisingly fast progress.

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

#350
post #11

Visually I’m working on a new landing page for phrasing. It’s almost done, just need to record a few videos: https://phrasing.app/next Behind the scenes I’m rebuilding the sync engine to properly support offline mode. Trying to get to instant opens for the app (and of course work offline). It’s probably my 5th sync engine. It’s been really fun to see how much easier, faster, better, etc each new iteration is. (And th…

The short intro video is helpful in understanding what Phrasing does. The promised walk-though video would also be helpful. I am interested in software for aiding language learning, but after reading your original landing page I could not understand what exactly Phrasing is or what it does. I'm looking forward to trying this out some time this week with my target language. Nice work!
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