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

I'm building Tela (https://github.com/paulmooreparks/tela), a self-hosted relay that tunnels TCP services through encrypted WireGuard connections. The key difference from Tailscale and similar tools is that it requires no TUN adapter, no root access, and no admin privileges on either end. It runs entirely in userspace.

My initial motivation was wanting to RDP and SSH into my home workstation from a locked-down corporate laptop when I travel. I couldn't install Tailscale on the laptop, and I didn't want to pay for a cloud VM just to do SSH port forwarding. Now I use it to tie together half a dozen machines, both locally and on Hetzner & Linode. I can SSH and RDP into remote machines, host a git repo on one machine and access it from the others, and (optionally) share files across all of them on a local mount.

You run a hub (telahubd), register machines with a lightweight agent (telad), and connect from anywhere with the client (tela). All three are single Go binaries with no external dependencies. The hub never sees your traffic. It just relays opaque WireGuard ciphertext.

All binaries run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. There is also a desktop GUI app, TelaVisor, that wraps the client and enables remote management of hubs and agents.

It's Apache 2.0-license and pre-1.0 release, but I'm polishing it for a stable 1.0 release in the next month or so.

I'm also working on an enterprise-grade management portal that works with Tela, https://awansaya.net/

I'm making capability security for distributed systems. The primitives and engine are both open source. Primitives: https://github.com/Hessra-Labs/hessra-tokens Engine: https://github.com/Hessra-Labs/hessra-cap

It's built using biscuits and written in rust. I'm really into it. Using capability security as a model makes building things feel like they snap together a lot more naturally. At least for me.

I've also got a blog post describing it in more detail: https://www.hessra.net/blog/what-problem-led-me-to-capabilit...

I'm working on an app called Limberly. It focuses on health and ergonomics for sedentary workers - probably most of us here :)

It is scientifically proven[1] that sitting is detrimental to our health, with increased mortality rates. The primary way to reduce the negative effects of sedentary work is to move.

This means doing sessions of resistance training (gym), running, biking, but also taking micro-breaks during work sessions and performing light exercises and stretches.

Research has shown[2] that taking short breaks during work reduces fatigue, and in some cases actually boosts performance.

There are plenty of running and gym apps out there, so Limberly focuses on the last part - helping you take micro-breaks, reminding you to change your posture between sitting and standing, changing which hand holds the mouse (if you're into that) etc.

It is still in early development, so if you'd like to help test and shape the app as we go, please sign up for the waitlist and I'll add you to the testers group. Feel free to also DM me here with any questions or feedback.

https://limberly.app

Oh, I am also writing a series of articles that explains it more in depth: https://prodzen.dev/articles/building-limberly-part-1-we-re-...

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10799265/

2: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

I’m working on my own markdown IDE / Google Docs competitor with an AI agentic editor that coaches on strategy in addition to proof reading. I made it as a side project. Designed it entirely by taking screenshots, annotating them, and giving feedback to codex. Basically applied everything I learned utilizing Claude code a d codex extensively at work to this side project to see how fast I could ship something that felt complete. Check it out: https://clarus.page

Im working on a all-in-one event management platform for studios, event planner etc..,

It consists of CRM, Expense tracking, Equipment Management, Event Gallery( photo share, Face Detection based download, Guest Upload) etc..,

https://eventversa.com

Currently working on moving it from cloud supabase to self hosted version.