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

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

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Post by robowo »

zkmon wrote: post #418
robowo wrote: post #396

https://stagewatch.de/ Basically a simple pizza status tracker for small German fabricators and craftsman. You define the process, instantiate it per customer order who receives the link to a status page with a possibility to subscribe to status notifications as well. The benefit is that people don't call you anymore asking for the status of their order, saving time. It's a pretty vanilla rails app running on a hetzn…

Nice idea. How does the provider receive the order from customer? Is it through phone call, or via some other app? If it is an app, won't that app have a status tracking feature?

The assumption is that there is no app. The target is mostly small businesses who receive the order via phone or face to face.

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

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Post by junaid_97 »

mvanzoest wrote: post #288
junaid_97 wrote: post #184

I'm buildingan open-source way to fill U.S. immigration forms without fighting clunky PDFs Github: https://github.com/athos2113/fillvisa-os Demo: https://fillvisa.com/demo/ US Immigration still relies on outdated XFA PDFs - you can't fill them on your browser. Most immigrants end up printing the form and fill it manually. So, I converted the PDF forms into smart web forms. They are replica of the official USCIS forms…

Interesting. I downloaded some PDFs for the adjustment of status forms recently and most of them were editable but only partially - the conditional fields couldn't be edited it seemed.

Yup. Those fields are dynamic, encoded in XFA -> JS. But, you can only access them via Adobe

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

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Post by junaid_97 »

yboris wrote: post #278
junaid_97 wrote: post #184

I'm buildingan open-source way to fill U.S. immigration forms without fighting clunky PDFs Github: https://github.com/athos2113/fillvisa-os Demo: https://fillvisa.com/demo/ US Immigration still relies on outdated XFA PDFs - you can't fill them on your browser. Most immigrants end up printing the form and fill it manually. So, I converted the PDF forms into smart web forms. They are replica of the official USCIS forms…

I was stuck unable to fill out a PDF I-864 for immigration because the required fields were non-editable. And opening the PDF in a PDF editor or Photoshop would require a password that was not available. So I had to create a PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF pipeline: https://github.com/whyboris/PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF

Interesting approach.

How would turning the PDF into JPG allow you to edit/write inside?

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

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Post by unkn0wn_root »

Been working on terminal API client that uses .http file as source-of-truth. It's more like API-as-a-code then similar tools like Postman, Bruno or Yaak. Supports gRPC, graphQL, websockets, SSE, local mocks, SSH/k8s etc.

repo: https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm

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

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Post by junaid_97 »

kittensmittens wrote: post #337
junaid_97 wrote: post #184

I'm buildingan open-source way to fill U.S. immigration forms without fighting clunky PDFs Github: https://github.com/athos2113/fillvisa-os Demo: https://fillvisa.com/demo/ US Immigration still relies on outdated XFA PDFs - you can't fill them on your browser. Most immigrants end up printing the form and fill it manually. So, I converted the PDF forms into smart web forms. They are replica of the official USCIS forms…

I hope this becomes obsolete by no longer being necessary

USCIS is working towards turning it's forms into web-forms. Some forms are available to file online : https://www.uscis.gov/file-online/forms-available-to-file-on...

But, I'm guess it'll take some time

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

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Post by agilek »

https://audioguidekit.org

It is a React-based OSS audio player I developed primarily for museums and tour guides as I am really close to this industry and i was trying to scratch my own itch. In practice, thanks to the flexible design and architecture, it can be used for any use-case where you need to deliver sequential audio. Would like to hear any feedback or connect with someone who would need a solution like this.

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

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Post by abejora »

https://www.abejora.com - timesheet software for freelancers and small teams

We created it as an alternative to the price gouging that happened over the last year at various timesheet SaaS companies. The idea is that good software should not cost 10x as much just because 10x as many people use it. In our opinion, software should also be functionally complete. There should be no arbitrary tiers that only exist to force people into more expensive plans.

The stack is Elixir with Phoenix LiveView, deployed on a Talos Kubernetes cluster. This is different from what we normally build on, and honestly quite fun.

Lately we have been thinking hard about the temporal nature of timesheet software. Many things get quite complicated once you factor in historical versions: the need to retire, lock, change, reopen records or rates, and so on. We have been working hard to polish Abejora to make everything accessible, user friendly, and intuitive.

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