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

#511
I started working on Rio[0], a modern TypeScript HTTP client for Node.js 24+, Deno and Bun. It's built on the native `fetch` API and fully type-safe from request to response. It's still very much a work in progress but I'm working towards an alternative to fetch/Axios/ky I wish I had.

[0] https://github.com/carlos-menezes/rio

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

#512
I'm working on an alternative solution to Ansible and Puppet, trying to mix the best of both world: The pull-based aspect of Puppet, by having an agent running on nodes, and the simplicity of Ansible, by writing playbooks and roles.

It's called Peekl, and is available on Github. Tho it's still in what I'd called "alpha". Lot of new features to come!

https://peekl.dev

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

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I changed gears and moved into the video games industry at the end of 2021. I started developing a city builder called Metropolis 1998 [1], but wanted to take the genre in new directions, building on top of what modern games have to offer: - Watch what's happening inside buildings and design your own (optional) - Change demand to a per-business level - Bring the pixel art 3D render aesthetic back from the dead (e.g R…

The aesthetic is so incredibly 1998. Reminds me not just of SimCity 2000 but the lesser played "A-Train", with its gentle day-night cycle.

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

#514
As a personal learning project on how to write efficient GPU code I'm trying to implement different shortest-path algorithms on the GPU. This is notoriously one of the cases where a simple algorithm like Dijkstra on the CPU will beat many implementations on the GPU.

It has been a lot of fun to learn about Vulkan / GLSL and the GPU execution model to figure out why the CPU is so much faster than the GPU. I'll be open sourcing the code soon but so far I'm documenting my journey in a series of blog posts. First one of the series is https://www.execfoo.de/blog/deltastep.html

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

#515
I've finally finished the long-abandoned project that I've been meaning to build for a while.

If you use Stripe Billing for subscriptions, your customers can specify reasons why they cancelled (e.g. too expensive, not using it, switched to competitor, etc.). However, to access those, you either have to use Stripe Sigma or pull them from the API. I wanted to build a more convenient way to access those (and also act upon them).

I've submitted the app to Stripe's App Marketplace, but I have a limited number of test invites to send out if you're interested (I will happily waive your subscription for 3 months).

https://dunningbear.com

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

#516
rainy-city.com! rainy-city.com is an ambient rain sound generator that is also a kind of city simulation. it is my recurse center project. it's suppose to be more of an ambient experience than a city simulator. it's a total work in progress, I've implemented buildings but haven't made a PR yet because they don't really work the way I want them to, and so I had to rebuild the tiling for them. So right now, there is no city. lol. just rain. but eventually it will have all this stuff you would expect. there are whales.

https://rainy-city.com/

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

#517
Eazip (https://eazip.io) — ZIP remote files in one API call.

I built a service that lets developers bundle remote files into a ZIP with a single POST request. You send a list of URLs, we fetch, package, and return a signed download link.

The problem: creating ZIPs from remote files (S3, R2, CDN) usually means downloading to a server, zipping locally, managing temp storage, and cleaning up. It's surprisingly painful at scale — especially with large files or thousands of items.

Eazip handles all of that. ZIP64 support for files over 4GB, up to 5,000 files per job, zero egress fees on downloads, and no infrastructure to manage.

Use cases so far: e-commerce photo bundles, document delivery (invoices/contracts), creative asset distribution, and backup/export tooling.

Free tier available, no credit card required. Would love feedback from the HN community.

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

#518

Since subreddits related to identifying AI images/videos got very popular, my wife started to send me cute AI generated videos, older family members can't distinguish AI videos at all, I've decided to code a weekend side project to train their Spidey sense for AI content. https://IsThisAI.lol The content is hand picked from tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and other AI generating platforms. Honestly I don't know w…

It would be cool if you could see the image/video again after choosing. I always want to watch it again after a wrong guess.

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

#519
Working on an all in one "platform" that runs multiple different checks on a website/domain. Got sick of having to run different checks in different places to ensure everything is at it should be - SSL, HTML, SEO, redirects etc.

Extended the checking to monitoring and change detection/alerting. You can try for free at https://www.augsentric.com - built for my own needs, but made it for others if there's interest... feedback welcome

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