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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)

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Post by marknutter »

ksaun wrote: post #79

I was an experienced game designer and producer (mostly RTS and narrative RPG). Some years ago, my career was derailed by major health developments. Since then, I haven't been able to work as I once did. I didn't expect I'd be able to meaningfully contribute to a game again. Earlier this year, a colleague encouraged me to experiment with Claude Code. So now I have a little game project. :) Being unfamiliar with genAI…

This an inspirational comment, thanks for posting it! I love that more and more people are being enabled (or re-enabled in your case) as software developers thanks to ai.

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

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Post by sifik »

recently, i have been pondering around reddit and its api, because i was missing an "idea validator" which will harness the power of reddit and its content, so it gave me the idea to build https://signalseek.cc/

(SignalSeek watches the subreddits your buyers already hang out in, scores what it finds, and tells you if the demand is real enough to build on. When it is, it drafts the replies so you can jump into the conversation right away)

But there is so many things to do, more projects i work on this month at https://www.craftengineer.com/projects/

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

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Post by gavino »

Working on https://metner.app to give micro-preneurs (people with side-hustles) a dedicated web presence to grow businesses focused on local communities.

Goal is to help people move off of relying on Facebook/Instagram groups. And to support people who want to make some beer/coffee money off of their hobbies.

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

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Post by cjflog »

I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too).

It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:

iOS TestFlight access here -> https://trybeacon.chat/

Android also in beta here -> https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/afe3c44d8443c4c0

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

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Post by JK-Swizzle »

BrunoBernardino wrote: post #380

My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU. Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]! You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us! The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG,…

It looks good, but one of the big selling points to me with Kagi is them having their own index. It seems like you guys are working on that, but right now it sounds more like a search aggregator rather than a search engine.

You also mention not using the source for commercial use or distribution, is that only relevant before it becomes AGPL?

I am also struggling to find how to activate the 2h trial, so have not been able to test it out.

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

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Post by philote »

I'm getting out of my comfort zone (software) to work on a telepresence robot for my D&D games. My main motivator for this is that I'm often the only person remote for these sessions and it's difficult to hear just the DM talk when everyone else is talking. So I thought that having binaural audio would be helpful, and even moreso if the microphones can be aimed at the person talking. So, now I have some 3d printed pieces that fit together with a couple of servos that can turn the entire thing on a lazy susan base and also rotate the head up and down. My soldering skills suck, so I'm currently stalled while I figure out why the PWM controller isn't being seen after I rewired everything (in an attempt to clean up the cable mess). But, I have(had) gotten a Raspberry Pi set up and working with the servos and two microphones and once I get my issues sorted I can start playing more with the software for it.
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