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

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

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Post by lylo »

I’m working on my indie blogging platform, Pagecord (https://pagecord.com). It started as a fun side project but is gaining decent traction right now - I’m convinced there’s a blogging renaissance about to happen! :)

I’ve been focused on decentralising it, offering ways for bloggers to write locally (markdown, Obsidian) while hosting remotely on the platform. I think it’s a great way of working. Most people still just use the editor though!

I’ve been focused on marketing and distribution, which is mainly about content. Hard in such a crowded space but it seems to be working.

It’s been such an interesting journey technically too, from using coding agents to dealing with the crazy deluge of bot traffic.

I run it all myself which isn’t so daunting in the AI age.

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

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Post by podviaznikov »

Building native WYSIWYG Markdown editor for mac, iPhone and iPad.

I've launched it only three weeks ago but tons of people tried it already, so I'm spending more time to make it better.

It's called Wander. And it has history baked in and mostly compatible with Obsidian vaults.

https://wander.md

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

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Post by animeshjain »

jjcm wrote: post #262

A diffusion-based UI design tool I left Figma to build. My core hypothesis is that LLMs are trained to write consistent code (good for a billing function), but they also express design through code, resulting in consistent design as well. Diffusion models are just now good enough to do UI, and are trained on a much wider set of visual data, resulting in more unique outputs. LLMs are now good enough to convert images…

looking forward to trying this out!

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

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Post by yashness »

I have been working on suits of products. But the one I'd standout share is my personal productivity pet peeve. After using pushover & ntfy.sh for agent progress tracking. I felt the need for more.

A notifier which knows what agent is, allows you to approve certain decisions you'd want to be part of, while still running the agents in autopilot mode.

It periodically notifies you about agent progress & moreover, sends you proof of work artefacts like screenshots, plan.md etc files so you can review on the go.

This is the missing piece of harness, which truly removes baby sitting terminals.

It's one click install & installing ios mobile app. Android is coming soon. curl -fsSL https://notifier.aicrew.in/i | sh

Try it out at https://notifier.aicrew.in

Reach me at getnexaitech [at] gmail [dot] com

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

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Post by BrunoBernardino »

I've been working on a private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search engine: Uruky [1].

To signup you don't provide any information (a randomly-generated account number is assigned to you), and you can run a proof-of-work captcha to get 2h for free. You can choose among many different search providers (for defaults and per query), including Uruky Site Search, powering our own index.

Last month we reached 250 monthly active accounts (we’re nearing 300 now), and launched support for XMR/Monero and BTC/Bitcoin payments via ProxyStore [2]!

The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL, into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!

Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications/groups. This month was Cryptomator [3]!

Feature-wise, for August the most visible things that shipped already were our image search gallery mode and our new sponsorships page. We’re currently (slowly and sustainably) increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a new search provider in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you for your kindness!

[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service being offered, here.

[1]: https://uruky.com [2]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky [3]: https://cryptomator.org

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

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Post by gremlin0 »

I’m building a performance testing tool with a Rust core using Tokio and Reqwest, with a Python interface built around Typer and PyO3. You can use it as a regular CLI, but you can also write performance tests directly in Python. The goal is to keep the developer experience simple and familiar while using Rust for fast, concurrent, high-throughput load generation.

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

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Post by AngryGoblin »

Was reticent to post my game on here but it looks like I wouldn't actually be alone which is nice! I've been building an eldritch horror peggle survivors-like (genres are fluid ok), which has been on a bit of a mad journey from beginning as some sort of bloodbowl flavoured subbuteo, to a gravity well air hockey game, to what is now known as Disciple where you feed a hungering Abyss-god by launching yourself into it and collecting enough essence on the way down to make sure it lets you live for another go. There's builds and esoteric shops and different map biomes and enemies etc. I think its a lot of fun.

Twitter, sorry X, weirdly has a really nice and welcoming game dev community so I've mostly been posting about it over there where you can check out progress posts: https://x.com/AngryGoblinDev

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