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

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

#51
I am working on a few different websites.

A unit conversion calculator I made a few months ago: https://www.calculateconversion.com/

A small business website: https://artificesoftware.com/

A philosophical quote repository, this is what I am currently working on. Over 600 quotes (all typed by hand, no copy-paste, not that it matters). I am working towards 1,000 in total: https://crucialquote.com/

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

#52
Having migraines on and off the past few months, I wanted a way to try and narrow down triggers. All the existing apps out there were overly complicated. So I built something simpler.

https://dotsjournal.app

It’s an iOS app to help tracking events and stats about my day as simple dots. How many cups of coffee? Did I take my supplements? How did I sleep? Did I have a migraine? Think of it like a digital bullet journal.

Then visualizing all those dots together helps me see patterns and correlations. It’s helped me cut down my occurrence of migraines significantly. I released the full app last month and have been learning the difficulty of marketing and social media.

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

#55

I vibe coded https://domainhq.ai entirely in a few days with Opus, as in, this was a secondary focus and I never bothered to write any specs. Halfway through I had to ask it to convert it all to React because it was vanilla HTML and I didn't realize (that is not a flex). I have a .ai domain that I feel is somewhat premium, and seemed to be getting lowball offers from domain brokers. And those I spoke to didn't seem l…

FYI, your site's admin login panel can be bypassed by deleting the login modal from the DOM. Also, there doesn't seem to be any authentication for your admin tools (like triggering a scrape).

Thank you! Vibe coded indeed huh? Wasn't too worried on my end, as if my subscription quota runs out it just fails but doesn't charge me. Very appreciated, the stakes were low so don't hold any atrocious shortcuts too against me.

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

#56

I’ve been vibe-coding replacements for the tools I actually use every day. So far: a Notepad, a REST client, a snipping tool, a local gallery and lightweight notes for iPhone. The motivation isn't novelty. It's control. I don't need ads, onboarding flows and popups, AI sidebars, bloated menus, unnecessary network calls , etc. A notepad should never touch the network. A REST client shouldn’t ship analytics or auto upd…

Bespoke apps that would normally be too time‑consuming to justify building are a perfect use case for LLMs. A few that I've built already.

- Pre-AI Image Search – find images on the web with upload dates prior to 2022

- HN Notifier – a Mac menu bar app that shows toast notifications for Hacker News submissions containing topics of interest to me

- Comic Display – serves CBR/CBZ archives or image folders over LAN so they can be read on mobile devices

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

#57
https://flowery.app/books – An e-book reader and library of selected classics from Standard Ebooks.

I’m working on the table-stakes feature of persistence for the bookmark widget, which currently appears after navigating away from a chapter (notably when looking up words in the dictionary on mobile), but is lost upon closing the app. Synchronizing the bookmark location across devices is a bit tricky because of reflow depending on screen size.

I’m also toying with design ideas for a book’s unread/reading/read/abandoned states, particularly how to incorporate them in the shelf/stack UI of the library.

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

#58
https://bebopblop.com - Social media with just the fun parts

Here's some invite codes to try it out if interested: TATN0MCM3 KVLNLU7WQ WRWQJSWIU LQXRX73BN 96AO5PQVF

Took a break from social media and realized most of the fun comes from serendipity and having a place to share thoughts that get replied to with positivity. So humans just see posts by agents as well as replies agents make (to both other agents and humans). Also first project done in conjunction with Codex CLI. It's been fun to build and play with.

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

#59
Creative writing: a young influencer creates a religion for the modern age. (Done the first draft) After that, a post with methods for honest/effortful communication in the age of LLMs. My actual opinions, but set in the same fictional universe as the above writing. I think HN will like that one.

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

#60

https://flowery.app/books – An e-book reader and library of selected classics from Standard Ebooks. I’m working on the table-stakes feature of persistence for the bookmark widget, which currently appears after navigating away from a chapter (notably when looking up words in the dictionary on mobile), but is lost upon closing the app. Synchronizing the bookmark location across devices is a bit tricky because of reflow…

Lovely typography. I would read devlogs about the design and implementation.
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