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

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

#371
Still working away at https://whistle-enterprise.com.

Have spent the last month giving the UI a bit of a modernisation refresh and simplifying/improving some elements based on early user feedback. There's also been a boat load of performance improvements in the dirarisation and document generation pipeline.

Feel free to download the prerelease version (its unsigned) here - https://downloads.blazingbanana.com/whistle-enterprise/unsta...

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

#372
This is a Chrome extension that records lots of details in a usage session. Stuff like network calls, console logs, screenshots and also optionally screenshots and user narration

Tools like this exist, but every one I tried is uploading the session details somewhere in their cloud and try to monetize this.

So I built the version I wanted: free, open source, and local. There is no account, no backend, no telemetry. Sessions live in IndexedDB in your browser and exported as a zip.

What it records:

* Clicks, typing, page changes, network requests and responses, console errors screenshots, video with sound

* Your voice, transcribed and placed next to what you were doing at the time

* Annotations: Arrows and boxes you draw on the page's screenshot

Note: Passwords, auth headers, and tokens are masked at capture time

All events are lined up in a timeline with timestamps

At export you pick a detail level with a live token estimate, so a long session still fits your model's context window.

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Repo: https://github.com/mohsen1/session-recorder-chrome-extension

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

#374
I am continuing to work on Akariq [0] which provides travel eSIM data plans to 180+ countries around the world. I have had many paying customers over the past few months from Vietnam to Mexico to Europe and US of course. The three benefits of using Akariq are

1) No app, no user account which leads to literally 3-click install

2) Full transparency - you know what you are getting. A lot of other eSIM providers hide details like unlimited plan speed caps etc

3) I connect to the best network available in the country. For example, someone like Airalo would connect to VTC in Vietnam, I offer Viettel which is the undisputed local network king.

And obviously, I am 2-3x cheaper than Airalo and the big players.

[0] https://akariq.com/

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

#375
Kind of tangent of what everyone else is doing but making a minifigure/garage kit painting site.

If you're in the hobby, the issue is that keeping track of paint and color combinations is annoying and is very mind numbing since wet paint color differs from dry point colors, how colors combine due to transparency of the layers, and different companies have different binders/pigments.

Currently have the paint combination setup and trying to get minifigure gaussian splatting setup from an image (Used to work in gaussian splatting for a while and actually figured out how to improve vggt to get a better one-shot)

http://paint-production-1f6c.up.railway.app

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

#376
Continuing to build my olive oil tracking site (https://www.extravirginvault.com/) and pipeline. Freshness is king in the world of olive oil, and I hope to highlight to people they can find high quality, fresh olive oil produced near them.

It's been received well from producers and olive oil enthusiasts (e.g. looking for specific chemistry, cultivars and similar oils) but I feel like I've been shadow banned from Google - I seem to get more traffic from DuckDuckGo and Bing.

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

#377
Working on Gaming Couch, a web-based local multiplayer party game platform. It's like a lovechild of Jackbox and Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com

Just before the weekend I shipped a new mini-game called Pop It: Desert Island (https://gamingcouch.com/blog/pop-it-desert-island-launch). Launch went well: ~3,800 players from 56 countries over the weekend, and it immediately became the most played game on the platform.

It's a battle royale with an ocean/beach themed world, taking inspiration from Roblox, Mario Kart and others. The whole game is built in JavaScript (three.js for the 3D world) using a JS SDK I've been working on. It doubled as a test drive of the same SDK I want to launch for third-party developers, so anyone can build and ship a simple, fun multiplayer party game for the platform, ideally in a single weekend.

If you're a game dev, or aspiring to be one, and want to develop and ship your own party game check out this page https://gamingcouch.com/developers

The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:

- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.

- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).

- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.

- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games.

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

#378
I have been working on Stencilize: https://stencilize.me/

It's a little webapp that solved a problem I had when ordering PCBs: I was too cheap to buy the stencil when ordering the PCBs from China, but then I regretted it when I had to paste by hand. Because of this, I did the PCB Designer -> DXF -> CAD -> Add margin -> Add outline -> Print workflow by hand, but that became very tedious, so I built this to automate it.

It runs entirely on your local machine and it is hosted on Cloudflare pages, with the only costs for me being a domain name.

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

#380
My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU.

Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]!

You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us!

The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL,into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!

Uruky is paid and you can get a free 2h trial when you signup if you pass a proof-of-work captcha (another suggestion made here on HN, and it uses a local Altcha).

Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications. This month was Caddy [3]!

Feature-wise, for July we’ve already shipped a lot of visible and less visible things. We’re currently looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a couple of new search providers in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you for your kindness!

[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service, here.

[1]: https://uruky.com

[2]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky

[3]: https://caddyserver.com

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