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

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

#413

I got addicted to scrolling content on my phone, so I built a digital pet whose growth and well-being depends on you staying off your phone! This way, if I spend all night scrolling the browser, my pet will get depression. Unlike similar apps such as Focus Friend or Forest, which use active timers to police screen time, my app is an inversion that works like an idle game; All screen time is tracked all day, (with dou…

I've always been very interested in these types of games. Grew up playing Neopets which was inspiration to becoming a software engineer. Am interested in gamified aspects as well. The thing I've not quite figured out is how to make these types of games _actually_ addictive? Neopets had a lot going for it IMO. Would love to know if this is actually working for you (and maybe others) personally and why.

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

#415
I've recently found the best way to find an apartment to rent in Bangkok. It's the Facebook Groups. Tons of owners post their listings there.

So, I've built a scraper that scrapes posts from Facebook Groups and made those posts filterable/sortable.

Now I'm looking to launch the same thing for US cities. Their Facebook Groups have tons of posts around subleasing/looking for accommodations.

If you are interested, here's the site for Bangkok: https://bangkokprop.com

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

#419
I (codex) made a plugin for stremio to stream my collection from real-debrid. I tried existing plug-ins first and non was working. Just prompted chatgpt to refine my initial specs, and asked on another session to build that. And later used codex for the last mile. Nothing fancy though and nothing can be particularly useful to others but damn it was too useful to me and my wife.
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