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

#551
Over the last few weeks I’ve been building Pointless (https://pointless.cards), a Planning Poker webapp that’s both frictionless (no sign up) and actually fun!

I’m trying to embody the experience of a JackBox game into a Scrum ceremony that should be lightweight but is often painful and tedious. I’ve also gotten to learn a lot about Cloudflare Durable Objects building this and have been delighted with how easy they (and PartyKit) make building multiplayer apps like this.

It’s completely free (I plan to keep it that way) and full of easter eggs and delightful jokes at the expense of Jira and modern software development, of course. If your team is following Scrum and could use a bit more joy in the process you should check it out!

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

#552
Building better quality cadastral data on all of Italy for a client, pretty fun postgis work. Fuzzy string matching of government records, OSM, proprietary data and aerial remote sensing data ran through an ML pipeline.

Working on migration from Modal to a single nvidia jetson, to do low-cost monitoring of toxic emissions at the local tata steel plant. Ran this pro bono for the last 2 years, the fun is in getting this as cheap as possible but still with good accuracy

Building a SSTV ios app - you can encode images in sound and transmit these over (ham) radio. The ISS regularly broadcasts these too. And building a multi-user IRC-like chatroom over audio. Hook up your mac or ipad to a voice radio channel, and chat over very slow (31 baud) but very resilient links.

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

#554
https://hot.dev

I'm building Hot Dev, a backend workflow platform.

- Hot: a functional, expression-based language w/ types for easy integrations and built-in parallel constructs

- Event Handlers drive execution `on-event: "user:created"`

- Scheduled Events `schedule: "every hour"`

- MCP: Turn any Hot function into an MCP Tool

- API: Real-time access to running tasks; subscribe to workflow Streams with SSE updates

- Observability: System-level dashboard; Call-level tracing; Alerts to email, Slack, PagerDuty, or webhook

- Develop locally, push to production with `hot deploy`

- Coming Soon: Hot Box - run any OCI container as a Hot function

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

#555
I've been having a lot of fun modding 7 Days to Die (zombie game) using Claude Code. I have a strong development background but I've never worked on games before. Without AI it would be completely inaccessible to me without months of catching up.

7DTD is built on Unity Engine and modding is mostly done with XML/XPath and C#. I have yet to install Unity. I have a CLI setup, including a script to disassemble relevant 7DTD assembly DLLs into C# and copy other info from XML files into a directory in my repo.

This "refs" directory has about 800k lines of C# code and 300k lines of XML. Claude can figure out how to add a feature or fix a bug with a few minutes of searching the refs. At first it took 5-10 attempts to get results that actually worked, but now it's often 1-3.

Here are the mods I've released since early Jan:

- SteelUI: fixes for it to work with the latest game version[1]

- Smarter-Tools: a mod I authored from scratch to add a few tweaks to how tools work[2]

- More-Gore-Continued: has serious performance issues I'm working on - making progress[3] (adult only - requires sign-in)

If there's any interest I'm considering writing up all the details in an article and making the mod repos public.

[1]: https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/9386

[2]: https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/9410

[3]: https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/9577

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

#557
I'm building a password tray app. It's tiny cross-platform app (spotlight like search) for people who juggle multiple password managers and browser profiles.

It gives you a global quick search to find and copy credentials from different sources, regardless of browser or profile.

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

#560

https://instagit.com I’ve been shipping AI-written code for 2 years now. I can build something amazing in 40 mins but then spend 4+ hours debugging because the agent has no idea how the libraries it’s calling actually work. Docs are stale, StackOverflow is dead, training data is outdated. Every engineer I talk to has the same problem. So I built Instagit, an MCP server that lets your coding agent understand any GitHu…

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