Jumping into this "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint.app
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
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#672A single-user blogging CMS/server that acts as static site generator while having a GUI for publishing/reading and that speaks some indie web protocols. I'm implementing webmentions (vouch, private mentions, salmentions) and maybe indie auth. It's mostly to solve some annoyances I have with Hugo (and SSGs in general) and to try new things. I want it to be something between bearblog and miniflux.
I'm also writing it in java, which is quite uncommon for this type of software, but I hope it'll be way more stable in the long run (in the sense of security flaws and maintenance) than projects made in python and js.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#673I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in rust, and to really experiment with coding assistants. I'm looking for alpha/beta users https://cassava.dev/ .
I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge nicely. Does this have a better story there?
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#674Spent nights over the last six months combining AI coding agents with containers, spec-driven development, and formal verification, so that I (eventually) don't have to manually review 10k+ lines of AI code a day, or worry about the latest model wiping out my home directory:
https://www.overplane.dev/ (Apache-2.0)
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#675Here's what I _wish_ someone was working on, I'd build it myself but I'm too busy with other projects. A browser extension that's not a popup blocker but a popup minimizer. So any popup (newsletter, cookie notification, even social signin) gets sucked down into a Windows 95 style taskbar. You can restore them easily but they get out of your main browsing flow. Maybe start as a fork of one of the popup blockers?
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#676I'm working on a self-hosted MCP server to give your AI agents access to email: https://github.com/churichard/fluxmail-mcp
The main reason is because I wanted a privacy-preserving way to access my email without using ChatGPT or Claude or another hosted email connector. Also, this supports connecting multiple accounts, even multiple accounts from different email providers, with a unified API. And you can use it with any AI agent, even one you build yourself.
It supports Gmail API and IMAP/SMTP right now, with Outlook / Microsoft Graph coming soon.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#677I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in rust, and to really experiment with coding assistants. I'm looking for alpha/beta users https://cassava.dev/ .
Why use Cassava over other options, such as Excel, CSVLint, or Notepad++?
Also, have you considered supporting Windows and Linux?
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#678readme2demo: https://github.com/alphacrack/readme2demo
devtool to validate readme for human and ai use, ships working tutorial from your readme.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#679Working on the feedback I received for diffy after launching it here and on Peerlist.
diffy makes reviewing GitHub PRs easier, especially the large ones where GitHub starts freezing and memory usage spikes. I'm using Pierre's Diffs and Trees for rendering the diff and file-tree. Under 2MB, you get 50+ themes, split/side-by-side view, comments, review flow, syntax highlighting for 100+ languages and much more.
It was my first time launching a tool publicly, so it's been a great experience. The feedback so far has been incredibly helpful, and I'm using it to keep improving the product.
Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
#680A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc... I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free. I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to…
These don’t already exist?