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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)

#491
I recently built Cranki [0], a free little PWA that generates crosswords using your Anki flashcard lists. It's aimed at language learners (who find flashcards boring and crossword fun!).

To be honest I built it just for me and then decided it might be useful for others.

It's all local, no server, no database, etc. Mobile and desktop friendly.

[0] https://cranki.app

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

#493
I am working on https://github.com/xi/xiio, a minimal async runtime for python. It is mostly feature complete with a fraction of the code of asyncio or trio. It is great fun to get into low level stuff and hopefully it helps me to better understand the finer details of async programming.

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

#496
A TUI written in gnuCOBOL to show and interact with the API of my cs student associations cursed member kiosk system. (Using curl, as I still want to live).

For said same association, templating and assembling a book of songs and other oddities in Typst for the associations 50th anniversary.

Next project is figuring out what to do with my personal website!

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

#497
A small project but something that I'm happy about: Postgresql backed persistent queues crate for Rust.

I couldn't find any crate that would be ergonomic enough to use and provide features I deem essential, i.e. retryability, scheduling, poison job detection, barriers, backoff strategies etc.

it's an area I'm familiar with so after spending 2 days trying to integrate external libs I decided to roll my own and I'm quite happy how it turned out in 2 days of development.

I plan to open-source it in the near future but right now using it in my another project and it's running quite well.

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

#498

I'm continuing to hack on Tiled Words, my daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com After winning the Playlin Player's Choice award I've noticed an uptick in players as well as some people sharing videos on YouTube which has been fun. I've got a few thousand people playing every day. I just launched user accounts today so user's can now track their progress across devices and share their stats with each other. This e…

It's fun, impressed by how polished it is.

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

#500
I’m building HobbyBoard - A private(self-hosted) visual library(A Pinterest alternative).

Mostly for myself to use for my hobby. Sharing with everyone because I find it genuinely useful.

Yes, it is coded with assistance of LLMs, but I care for the details and it is not vibe-coded in hours.

https://hobbyboard.aravindh.net/

GitHub: https://github.com/aravindhsampath/hobbyboard

Demo (resets every hour): https://demo.hobbyboard.aravindh.net/

Almost ready to do a show HN :-)

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