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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#573I've been putting my applied math degree to work!
https://asunder.co/montegrid - Mainly working on a Monte Carlo Excel plugin that can run on Mac. Standard scientific computing shenanigans ... one benefit of everything being Javascript is that one can use Rust -> WASM everywhere :)
Also maintaining weaving software (https://asunder.co/bower) which has so many fun puzzles in discrete math and combinatorial optimization to think about.
Cool to see everyone else's projects!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#574I'm still tinkering with my iOS/Android app.
It allows you to get a wake up call, like you would at a hotel, but from a real, friendly person somewhere around the world. If nobody is available to make your call, you'll get an automated call with a friendly recording.
All calls happen through the app so no phone numbers exchanged.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wake-up-call-service/id6741027... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socurious....
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#575A grid-based flowchart editor designed for speed. It’s optimized for the keyboard with a spreadsheet-like selection and movement mechanism.
I started working on it because I was tired of dragging boxes/arrows around in Miro while making dependency graphs for planning projects.
A while back I did a Show HN about it, and have since rewrote and changed the concept a bit to be easier to use.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#576I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…
This sounds a lot like a project I’ve started a few times and never made it far with. I called it woodlang. It was the idea of CAD but rather than designing the shape and figuring how to make it that shape, you specify a series of shop operations like blender geometry nodes.
This was all pre AI. Super impressive that you’ve made something awesome. I’ll try it out tonight
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#577I have been building a PDF reader with dark mode that supports image properly with vimimum navigations. Been using it for the past few months and really happy with the result. Finally got around to publishing it here: https://github.com/moomou/xeil
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#578I am building my "dream tool" too, a cross-device roaming profile-experience context-focused UI. Many, many iterations that go back maybe 15y, even built a custom linux distro (iolinux) back in the day(ro root, containerized user-spac with composer-like app handling). Always worked on side-projects, consulting gigs or one-off implementations, often times across multiple customer-devices. Switching context is damn exp…
Hey - spent a lot of time in this world (solution / sales engineer, technical account manager to many clients), and thinking about this same problem.
Even experimented with per-client Linux users. Per-client calendars & routines. Per client knowledge-base, etc
Very curious to see what you come up with.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#580I’m working on a native UI framework in rust. I want to be able to build cross platform, fully native applications with native code. And I want platform native components. I started with Leptos - which gives you a nice declarative UI syntax and reactive elements. I used Claude to get that working on iOS, cocoa and GTK. I made a nice little iOS schedule app for attendees at conferences. It works great. All rust, nativ…
this is awesome was looking for something like this since i have been building tauri apps and i dont like working with like the web part of it and want something completely in rust.