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

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

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Post by arkforge »

I'm working on ArkWatch (https://watch.arkforge.fr) - a monitoring API that you can use with just curl, no signup required.

The insight: most solo founders need basic "alert me when this changes" monitoring, but existing tools force you through signup flows, credit cards, dashboards you'll never use. So I made it dead simple:

    curl "https://watch.arkforge.fr/api/check?url=https://your-site.com&email=you@email.com"
That's it. It watches the URL and emails you when content changes. Free tier = 10 checks/day, which is enough for most side projects.

I built this because I kept forgetting to monitor my own stuff. Now it's live and I'm trying to get my first 5 beta testers. The challenge is marketing - I'm a developer, not a growth hacker. Learning as I go!

What's been your biggest challenge with your current project?

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

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Post by melting_snow »

Im working on ebpfence https://github.com/CucumisSativus/ebpfence

I want to create a tool that would automatically block the stealers from stealing your previous credentials or crypto wallets. I had this idea after the Shai-Hulud attack

It's an experimental side project, but so far it looks very promising.

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

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Post by Ecstatify »

erikpau wrote: post #409

Working on https://allscreenshots.com - a screenshot API for developers. I got frustrated with existing screenshot services choking on cookie banners, rendering half-loaded pages, and serving bloated images. So my co-founder and I built one that auto-dismisses cookie consent dialogs using Playwright heuristics, serves AVIF-first from Cloudflare R2, and supports geo-distributed rendering so you can capture pages as th…

Seems really polished, who’s the target market for this product? Developers?

You have link to the blog series?

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

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Post by strobby »

AdamMeghji wrote: post #237

https://sampler.meiji.industries/ I built a TUI sampler which cherry-picks my favourite features from modern & vintage hardware samplers, DAWs, plugins, outboard FX gear, and DJ equipment. If you know what an AKAI MPC Live, MPC 3000, SP404, SP1200, BOSS RC-202, Alesis 3630, Serato Sample, S950 filters, and stem separation does, then you'll love seeing these "greatest hits" up in a terminal interface. Last year while…

Very cool!

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

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Post by mgz »

I continue with my suite of mobile apps for parents:

* https://screenspy.app - observe what youd child is doing on desktop PC. Roblox or homework?

* https://weblock.online - a VERY restricted, whitelist-first mobile browser for kids, use it instead of Safari. I want to feel calm when my children browse the web.

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

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Post by hilti »

AdamMeghji wrote: post #237

https://sampler.meiji.industries/ I built a TUI sampler which cherry-picks my favourite features from modern & vintage hardware samplers, DAWs, plugins, outboard FX gear, and DJ equipment. If you know what an AKAI MPC Live, MPC 3000, SP404, SP1200, BOSS RC-202, Alesis 3630, Serato Sample, S950 filters, and stem separation does, then you'll love seeing these "greatest hits" up in a terminal interface. Last year while…

Looks very promising! Unfortunately Docs and GitHub repo don‘t work

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

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Post by ignoramous »

ErenayDev wrote: post #257

I'm currently working on a RethinkDNS-like (Android) and DNSCrypt-Proxy-like app built with Tauri + Svelte. It will include DNS blocklists, a custom WireGuard proxy, and potentially cross-platform device support. I'm using Mullvad's GotaTun implementation. I wanted to learn more about these networking concepts. If I finish it, I'll open-source it.

rdns dev here

I know what you're working on is all Rust (while Rethink is Go & Kotlin), but if you need any pointers, feel free to email (see profile). Good luck (:

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

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Post by marginalia_nu »

I'm going to do the hyper-literal take of what are you working on literally today, since I'm always working on the same old project Marginalia Search and I have been for going on five years now.

* Integrating website liveness data into the crawler to make more informed decisions about whether to keep or wipe data from a website if it can't be reached while crawling

* Working out why the liveness data gathering process isn't stopping as scheduled.

* Deploying a voluntary max-charge request header for the commercial API

* Making website URL elements searchable. They should be already, but are not for some reason.

* Maybe looking into an intermittent stacktrace I get on one of the index partitions.

No blockers.

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

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Post by SkyLinx »

Hey! I'm building SprintPulse - https://sprintpulse.io - a real-time retrospective tool designed with small teams in mind that transforms team feedback into concrete action items. With AI-powered summaries, merge suggestions, and sentiment tracking, every voice is heard and nothing gets lost.
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