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

You create arenas, which are thematic problem statements, submit ideas to solve it, and then vote on the best one, all with help of your avatar. The idea is to use AI as a part of the ideation process, which could be for things like hackathons (what can we build to solve x), evaluating business ideas, or in general just mess around with models. And the whole thing is wrapped in a high-concept anime corporate parody style.

There are also battles, which are shorter simpler versions of arenas and showdowns, which are supposed to be a follow up to arena, where you flesh out the winning idea - answer a set of questions about the idea and again vote on the best answer.

We have a bunch of features and ideas to take the concept forward (credit style economy, where you play for "slaps"; fully automated mode, where AI driven avatars hash out the whole game-play cycle and you can observe, RPG-style attributes for the avatars that have more significant impact to the pitch generation process), but have in general enjoyed the process of using these technologies for something a little less serious.

Syntax..has name..ddot.it

The spec is ready at https://ddot.it, now working on tool support.

It’s https://napodico.it, a very simple online Neapolitan dictionary. Nothing extraordinary here but it’s something that will tremendously help me organize my notes on Neapolitan words and expressions that are currently scattered across Google docs. I’ve built https://www.schedarionapoletano.it in the past but it’s from a dictionary made my someone else and I didn’t want to mix my own definitions in.

This is not a 'product', it’s a normal free website as we used to do before the commercial Web became the norm. The front is very simple, but the entries can be edited in the back a bit like a CMS but with Wikipedia-like inter-links and redirects.

The stack I started with was SvelteKit and Drizzle for the ORM, but I quickly hit several limitations of Drizzle and I abandonned the project. Last week I asked Claude to split it into the more familiar stack that I used to use before trying to fit everything into a single TS project that is: one Python app (FastAPI/SQLAlchemy) for the backend that exposes a REST API consumed by the front app (SvelteKit). This is a lot more flexible, and it has allowed me to work again on the project.