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

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I’m continuing to work on my daily word game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com I checked my analytics recently and over 100 people have 100+ day streaks which kind of blows my mind! I released custom player puzzles which has been a lot of fun! I’ve gotten dozens of submissions that I’m working through. People are submitting really clever and interesting puzzles. It’s fun to get to solve puzzles I didn’t make myself…

I had shared the game with the wife when I first saw it here on HN. She told me just a couple of days ago that she is still playing it fairly regularly!

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

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Squire - A new app for building tabletop armies for popular games

https://www.squire.games

I've been an on off off tabletop wargamer for ~ 9 years and have never been really happy with the options for list building, game tracking etc. Everything was very clunky, slow and disjointed. I came up with a product idea and brand logo but never had time to even touch it until recently.

It's still very early days, but I'm starting to test drive it out and loving it so far. Lots more to do, but would love feedback from anyone that wants to give it a whirl!

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

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Been learning electronic PCB design the last few weeks while retrofitting some IKEA window shades for Zigbee enabled motorization.

I've really enjoyed the journey of 3D printing and being able to create all kinds of mechanically useful things over the last few years, but I had always wanted to go even further and incorporate some non-trivial custom electronics.

For this project I had a space constraint for the motor controller board, so while I could have probably hacked together a working perfboard, it just wasn't going to be satisfying. So I finally took the plunge and spent 40 or so hours in KiCad learning how read IC reference documents, picking components, and of course, doing the PCB trace layout.

It's really just a 12v→5v buck circuit, all the plumbing and ancillary components for connecting a ESP32 module to a couple motor driver ICs, and some headers, but it is completely mine!

Just got 5 of my boards in the mail from JLCPCB the other day (insane turnaround, less than a week) and was very happy to find that the entire circuit worked perfectly! I did spend a fair amount of time going over the design with Claude though, so I think that paid off (the kicad files are plaintext, so it made easy work of understanding what I was doing).

Still putting together the repo here, but I'm hoping to make a little blog post out of the project too :) https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/HOPPVALS-MRF-01

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

#609

I'm working on Hiring Method ( https://hiring-method.com ). After 1.5 years of development and two exhausting pivots, I’m incredibly happy to finally have our v1 live! While most of the HR tech is rushing to use black-box AI, I built the exact opposite. It's a transparent, math-driven fitness engine. It extracts objective data from CVs and calculates how well applicants match requirements, letting you see the reasoni…

I sort of wish employers would use this and also the applicants could see the metric. How much time would be saved if neither side bothered with bad fits?

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

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I continue to work on my city builder game Microlandia, launched here in HN ~6 months ago. I originally predicted a few dozen urbanism nerds would play it, but now almost 10,000 copies sold. I'm still a solo developer but now I collaborate with 2D, 3D and music artists. Which is good because the original art that I drew myself for the launch was horrible. I'm currently working on modeling energy, climate and new poli…

Congratulations on releasing a game! It’s beautiful, looks like a mix of voxel art games and sim city

When I get time I want to buy it and play it :)

Do you work on it full time or do you have a day job too?

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