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

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

#591
https://trailer.dev, a self-hostable development environment platform.

Been working on it on and off for 4 years now. I used to lead an ML consultancy and one thing I've learned is that data scientist DO NOT understand reverse proxies, nvidia drivers, docker and can not set up complex environments for their projects, especially ones that would support collaborative work.

It's been really fun to work on this, currently working on Kubernetes support.

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

#593
post #588

I'm attempting to build a coffee bean distributor that can exactly measure out beans into a cup for my morning espresso. It's really an excuse to get started with things like hardware, 3D printing, and embedded development - I've never done anything in that world before, and its been really exciting to get into! I've just started, so hopefully I'll have a better update next month.

That sounds fun! Very cool project.

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

#596
I've been working on IdleQuest for about a year. It's a from-the-ground-up recreation of the 1999 classic, EverQuest. It features a custom real-time MMO server built in Go, a very thoroughly implemented web client, and the classic UI recreated in React. I spent hundreds of hours meticulously scraping, cleaning, and organizing original data and graphics, and there's still a lot of work to do. But I've had a lot of fun with it and have had a lot of people enjoy it so far.

https://idlequest.net

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

#597
Recently worked on https://fastsleep.app - an app for nighttime overthinkers.

Instead of music or long podcasts, you are given something to imagine. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.

In short → Close your eyes, listen & imagine.

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

#598
A electronic workbook/task generator app for korean learning with AI or human feedback (although for now you have to find the humans yourself).

I grew in ideas and attempts over the years, and it finally got along far enough I actually made it available. The progress in LLMs made some things much easier that I conceived in 2020, but other things didn't get better.

https://elephant-project.net/

Now that I made it this far, I had to realize though that it is far from what I had imagined and needs much more work.

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

#599

Ive just been having a bit of fun with my homepage https://supermatt.com . Made a talking head with some idle animation and visemes and some broken crt-like effects. The meat of it is only a few hundred kB - i can probably make it even smaller with making the graphics smaller. A bit of post processing on some narration for extracting mouth shapes and it seems to work quite nice as a low-footprint retro talking head.…

really like it! intuitively knowing i had to turn it on was very cool
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