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

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

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Post by yuegui »

I am building pagebowl: https://www.pagebowl.com/

A lightweight service for instantly hosting HTML, Markdown, and ZIP-based static pages. The goal is to make sharing simple: upload a file, get a live link, and let it expire automatically. The use case I am targeting at is: to allow users to share AI generated files easier and have a place to render and host them for a short period of time.

One thing I’ve been learning is how much faster it feels to build on cloudflare page, worker, and D1 compared to my old way of setting everything up myself with docker, postgres, nginx and etc on hetzner for a small project. (I am not affiliated with any company, product, or organization mentioned above.)

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

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Post by kukkeliskuu »

zameermfm wrote: post #411

With AI IDEs, Personally I had to generate a tons of md files for planning a task, analysis on the code for something or other, a task doc for a feature - a summary to paste into the clickup ... and I saw many devs keeps on generating them, and all tucked away into folders. Good, okay. For the company I'm currently working I had made a VSCode extension where I can sync the task doc with clickup via frontmatter. I dec…

Great idea!

I was actually working on last weekend with something that has similarities. I am working on USM.tools, which allows specifying your services in structured way.

There is a need to specify some of the data in semi-structured way, and I am using markdown for that.

So there is this interesting relationship between unstructured, semi-structured and structured data, and markdown hits that middle ground.

Can I suggest you make some Jira etc. templates on your landing page clickable, so a visitor can grasp your idea more easily? For me it was not clear whether the specs are just plain markdown, or do you have some additional tagging there.

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

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Post by puzzydunlop »

Building https://www.townhall-tracker.ca to help me and other Canadians keep tabs on their city council.

I moved to a new city 4 years ago and didn't even realize a municipal election was happening until a councillor knocked on my door.

I am building townhall-tracker to prevent this and shape the decisions that most affect my day-to-day

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

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Post by ciju »

https://finbodhi.com — It's an app for your financial journey. It helps you track, understand, benchmark and plan your finances - with double-entry accounting. You own your financial data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit (we do have your email for subscription tracking and analytics). Supports multiple-accounts (track as a family or even as an advisor), multi-currency, a custom sheet/calculator to operate on your accounts (calculate taxes etc) and much more. Supports price for most Indian investment vehicles and US stocks.

Most recently, we added support for comparing funds with leading/trailing/rolling charts and benchmarking (create custom dashboards tracking nav and value chart of subsets of your portfolio) and US stocks, etfs etc. And family dashboard (e.g. you can see networth, cashflows, income, use sheets at family level and more). See https://finbodhi.com/changelog for details.

We also write about related topics:

E.g. Benchmarking your returns: https://finbodhi.com/docs/blog/benchmark-scenarios Or, understanding double entry account: https://finbodhi.com/docs/understanding-double-entry

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

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Post by kukkeliskuu »

signalbright wrote: post #435

Building a Sentry replacement that adds logs automatically and fixes any bugs it finds ( https://superlog.sh ). The setup is done via one prompt ('Use https://skills.superlog.sh to install Superlog in this project'), and everything on the platform is usable via MCP so that you don't have to spend time configuring yet another UI.

I really like this premise.

Recently I have had trouble with Sentry. I have a site that has a lot of data coming in (2M page views per month) and Sentry starts being unusable for a solo developer. And on the other hand, I have several Django projects where I want to have common way to handle bugs.

I am feeling Sentry UI is too complex for my use cases, and on the other hand, I would like to automate the process as much as possible -- and the idea of automatic bug fixing is neat!

I am experimenting with Bugsink. Supporting Bugsink internally but build some tooling around it for automatic bug detection and fixing would actually be a sweet spot for me.

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

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Post by freakynit »

1. Prepping to release the tool behind https://sourceryintel.com as open-source. The insane levels of breadth and depth in the research reports this tool is generating has blown me away completely.

2. Released "Postlet" (https://github.com/freakynit/Postlet), a tiny markdown-based static blog generator with a plugin pipeline, markdown + frontmatter pages, and theme support. Demo: https://postlet.pagey.site/ .. working on still adding more features.

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

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Post by Loughla »

AsmaraHolding wrote: post #391

I’m developing X/D Loom ( https://xdloom.com ), a tool that helps car enthusiasts create automotive wiring diagrams. About a year ago, I engine-swapped my Nissan D21 hardbody from the Z24 petrol to a TD27T turbo diesel and also installed a whole bunch of accessories, like spotlights, a winch, and an air compressor. But being lazy, I didn’t write down any of the wiring changes I made while doing all of this. So fast f…

My son and I are about to tear into a 1987 Wrangler. This is going to be very helpful when we're undoing 40 years of modifications on this thing.

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

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Post by mnorris »

I’m making a detective themed iOS-based visual novel with React Native.

Making the game engine was easy. Making the story consistent, believable, and interesting has been the biggest challenge for me.

I’ve written a few bad novels but never any narrative games, so it’s been a good exercise for me.

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