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

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

#391
I was exploring a spec development system (similar to the likes of openspec) but with specifications that are more succinct. One of my frustration with openspec is the number of files that are generated from the proposal, to the design and implementation.

https://tinyspec.dev/

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

#392

I'm building DB Pro, a better database client. I just released support for dashboards. I've kept a devlog for the past 6 months. https://youtu.be/EEA73e6MH1c And the biggest update is coming soon, DB Pro Cloud, which will let you connect to and manage any database through your browser as well as collaborate with your team. Imagine Postman but for databases. https://dbpro.app

seems interesting. whos the target demo for this though?

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

#393
I'm never clear if this Ask HN is for posting about what you're messing with or for promoting organized projects that chase github stars or are commercial.

But anyway, I've started to learn Go. By doing a vertical scrolling shooter with embiten. Kinda like fitting a square peg into a round hole. No, it's not public and will probably never be.

Studying how do do a memory pool for actors, since it doesn't look like garbage collection and hundreds of short lived bullet objects will mix well.

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

#394
Cakedesk: Fast & simple invoicing app for small businesses (Windows & Mac).

Been working on this for about 4 years. It has some cool features, like letting you create your own PDF templates with HTML/CSS. Most users love that it's so simple and just a one-time purchase.

Currently thinking about how to implement an Obsidian-style cloud sync feature since that gets requested a lot.

https://cakedesk.app

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

#395
I am working on two small apps for my dungeons & dragons group. We're playing inperson and I really like to give them printed out cards for magic items they receive and also for spells, because they are quite new to the game.

So I build these two app to create items and spell cards and print them out.

https://www.item-forge.org/

https://www.spell-forge.org/

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

#396

I vibe coded a tiny MUD-style world sim where LLMs control each character. It's basically a little toy sandbox where LLMs can play around. There's no real goal to this, I just thought that it would be fun, like a more advanced tamagochi. One of the issues I encountered initially was that the LLMs were repeating a small set of actions and never trying some of the more experimental actions. With a bit of prompt tweakin…

Sounds fun. Can't beat a good whimsical project!

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

#397

I wrote this Telegram bot that translates any video with AI-generated subtitles in about 2 minutes. You paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link, pick your language, and get back the video with burned-in subtitles. It started because my wife watches Chinese dramas and new episodes never have subtitles for our language. Turns out thousands of people have the same problem — Arabic speakers watching anime, Russian spe…

This looks cool, but what I'd really like is a self-hosted version that I could use to auto-subtitle videos I already have locally. This would help my language learning a great deal.

If any of you have already figured out a tool/workflow for this, I'd love to learn from your experience.

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

#398
I'm building AthenaOS: https://athena-os.ai/

Basically OpenClaw but with investing dashboards for my portfolio, additional tools specifically for investing, and exploring an AI-Human collaboration on researching economics (check the 'community' tab).

The data models are all in markdown and Excel so that there's no lockin and you can manually edit positions, personalities, etc.

This comes from frustration around most investing tools basically scraping your personal data + forcing you to lock into subscriptions. I think it's now possible to just vibe code most of what one needs, aside form raw data subscriptions.

It's all open source, too: https://github.com/wgryc/athena-os

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

#400
3D AI Modeling software intended for 3D printers.

https://grandpacad.com

Originally I made it for my grandpa, but I got a lot of interest so I made it into a full commercial product.

Just yesterday I published a set of 3 mini tutorials if you want to see how it works - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKt1F5TvOjAHE07oBDlPXcrHc...

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