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

A small launcher for Claude Code, to make switching between different providers and configurations easier:

https://ccode.kronis.dev/

For example, if I downgrade from Max to Pro I'd still be able to use the subscription, but also run sessions with other models (less expensive/local) as desired:

  ccode init-config          # initializes a new config file for me to set everything up
  ccode edit-config          # opens it in my editor so I can change, can also include editor as argument e.g. vim
  
  ccode                      # launches whatever my default profile is
  ccode --deepseek           # Using their API key, they have a discount this month
  ccode --openrouter         # Whatever OpenRouter model I have configured in the config file
  ccode --openrouter-preset  # Also supports OpenRouter presets e.g. if I don't want to use quantized models
  ccode --deepseek --control # launches a Remote Control session, shows up in web/desktop app as a regular session
  ccode --deepseek --auto    # overrides the default permissions, --yolo also works
  
  ... (and so on, there's more examples on the website)

Source available, pre-built binaries on itch.io, pay-what-you-want with a minimum price of 0 USD, probably get it for free first if interested in taking a look.

I finally got around to signing app for Mac, which is what this post originally was about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075366 (the new versions will be out soon)

Also thinking that I might make it an Anthropic API --> OpenAI API proxy that allows talking to providers that don't support the Anthropic API directly, alongside allowing switching models dynamically during a session (Claude Code wouldn't even have to know about it, it'd just send requests to a local endpoint and the proxy would do the rest).

Early on, but Go is lovely to work with, mdBook is great for getting a site off the ground and I'm really surprised that more people don't use Itch.io for distributing software (or the pay-what-you-want model in general), it's dead simple!

Playing Doom.

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I've been working on Mesaphore, an Excel-like spreadsheet app[0] backed by a Parquet-based file format. The premise is when Excel starts off as the starting point, then over time becomes a data exchange format between systems, and eventually becomes a bottleneck for the system. You still want to provide your users something Excel-like but also want to address the limits of Excel[1].

Majority of code (almost 70%) is generated by Gemini Pro and is extremely ugly. Due to a recent eye injury, I've not been able to code as much as I want, so I'm delegating many things to Gemini. Eventually, as my health improves, I plan to rewrite the entire thing.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/naiyer/mesaphore

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-specificati...

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