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

#681
I’m working on an iOS app, One Million Checkmates [1]. It scratches an itch I had of chess puzzles for a long plane ride. This app has a functionally unlimited number of puzzles, all offline.

There was a decent amount of work involved in getting the download size reasonable since we need to store all valid moves in a position. There are puzzles with over 40 million valid move sequences, so I had to aggressively prune and compress the move trees.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/one-million-checkmates/id67625...

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

#683
Arcane Scholar: a local first application for all your TTRPG needs. Create and manage characters, classes, spells, and more. Then package them up to share with your table.

In the style of Sauron I’m channeling all my frustration and hatred of slow loading tools that require you to pay a subscription, buy the digital book on every platform you want to use it on, and won’t let you use the physical book from your shelf.

For my first pass I decided on focusing on a character creator for a single game and streamlining the process.

I started with the 5.5e SRD but got frustrated with the sheer amount of text without much actual content ( 100+ A4 double column pages of spells, only 1 subclass per class ). Plus a number of weird and frustrating rules that make it hard to create software for. As I’m using Nimble RPG at the table a bit recently and it has a much nicer license I’ve switched to that and been getting on a lot better. Character creation is almost done and I’be moved to character sheets and persistent object storage now. This is the first major project I’ve done with sveltekit and I’m really enjoying it.

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

#684
Still working on my Dungeons and Dragons combat tracker. It has gained a few users by now (I "launched" it last month) and I am adding features here and there. I think now the next major hurdle is marketing which I am not really good at. I post to reddit and other forums and can get some eyes on the project like that but it is slow going. I think next would be a few youtube videos/shorts explaining the features. - https://topoftheround.com

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

#686
Hi! One of the founders of Convert3D (https://convert3d.org/), client side conversion of 3D formats. These days having fun with adding more and more formats both export and import! Looking for relevant formats and tech to keep expanding the site. Would love to get some feedback!

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

#687

When I was working at amazon (left May 8) working on agents was all the rage. Combined with initiatives that set goals for nearly all services to have a MCP built and available by the end of the year agents will be even more emphasized in the future. However what happens when you actually build and launch your agent is customers try it, do some initial runs and then go ask your manager to automate their use case. Tha…

Nice! I had a similar idea and a prototype based on Temporal. Wondering, what are you using under the hood to runs the workflows?

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

#688
I continue working on my search engine for Dungeons and Dragons, basically making a specialized chatgpt for D&D + a discord bot that autorecords sessions and sends you the transcript & AI summary when it's done. At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to make it completely free without sinking too much of my own money into it. I'm thinking maybe running it on one GLM subscription or something like that, and it simply is not available whenever it runs out of tokens?

Anyways, here it is: https://lorepanic.com/landing-new

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

#690
2 things:

The HN Arcade continues chugging along https://hnarcade.com

We now have over 150+ games!

Im also working on an ASO tool AppStoreSearch or AppsToResearch :)

https://appstoresearch.grahamyooll.com

Still early days. Im making it as I have a couple of friends who were not so thrilled with the tools out there specifically for the app store. They mentioned how important it was to their income to track the positioning of their apps on stores. If their app dropped to #2, that would be a huge hit to their income.

Happy to have any feedback - but its far from complete

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