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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 elictronic »

adim86 wrote: post #509

I am working on Sidequests HQ: SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests. The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world. The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, explo…

I really like this idea but don’t like your tagline on the Apple Store. Life’s better with cheat codes is wrong. Cheat codes make games easier and less fulfilling, your app is the opposite of that based on what you’ve said.

Life’s better when you find the way.

Be the friend with the hare brained idea.

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

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Post by midasz »

I've had a lot of side projects but I'm finally actually finishing some, and it's sort of useful so that's fun. Wanted to make it easy to see the difference between the Xbox Gamepass tiers, maybe you only need essential or premium - saving a few bucks. With Claude it's been pretty fun to add new features. Since there's no API for Leaving Soon I built a scraper, content gets parsed through an LLM call and matched to games. There's a swipe mechanism to favorite or trash games, so you comparison doesn't get cluttered up by fifa's or cod's. It's just been a fun playground, I host it on https://gamepass.fyi

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

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Post by scientifik »

Narro, it's a user-curated social media app. You add the profiles you follow on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and Narro shows their posts in chronological order, with no algorithm, no ads, and no tracking.

The "new" idea we are working on is a feed that ends. Every mainstream app is engineered with infinite scroll. Narro is finite by design. You open it, you see what the people you follow actually posted, you reach the end, and you're done.

Then the next time you open the app you're still only getting new content from the profiles you followed. It ends up creating a totally different user habit.

https://narro.info

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

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Post by fabioz »

I'm working on a tool to manage developing with Agents for teams, using a UI like a Kanban board and workflows, so the development starts from a given workflow and not from a prompt, the idea being that instead of starting from a prompt/talk with the agent you define the ticket, create a plan, review and then have workflows that cover the implementation -- I find that I have better results than trying to do a chat with the agent for implementing.

I've been full time on it for 4 months already and dogfooding: https://beolis.com -- starting to look for feedback, although I would say it's not where I want to be yet, but getting there.

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

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Post by Paarthmj »

scientifik wrote: post #696

Narro, it's a user-curated social media app. You add the profiles you follow on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and Narro shows their posts in chronological order, with no algorithm, no ads, and no tracking. The "new" idea we are working on is a feed that ends. Every mainstream app is engineered with infinite scroll. Narro is finite by design. You open it, you see what the people you follow act…

would there be any curated lists? feel like I would love to see the top ai posts/minds in one spot.

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

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Post by corytheboyd »

I have always wanted a web browser with tmux/iterm2 style tabs/panes, as well as the ability to save the window configuration and tab contents to a file that can be checked in to projects and loaded.

Load all of your project's documentation links, local development browser tools (database viewers, etc.) into a set of views that can be source controlled with the project. Don't force people to use their daily driver browsers for this, or hack side-by-side views together with their OS window managers. Zen and friends have split panes, but it's not the robust tab/panel system that I wanted.

There is a simple tab widget system, which so far has:

- Viewport manager: basically 1:1 with what is in Chrome devtools

- Session manager: create and manage browser sessions as a first-class entity, and attach/detach tabs to these sessions. Includes a simple "incognito" toggle as well.

- System light/dark override: stop flipping this on/off for your whole OS to test "system" light/dark mode (tedious)

- Reload trigger: pick a target tab. if that tab reloads, so does this one.

- Log file viewer: if the tab source is a local file, change the tab's view to a structured log file parser with search/filter, play/pause, etc.

- Screenshot/Video capture: not built yet. pretty self explanatory.

Great keyboard controls are a hard requirement for me. It's a little tricky since content in web views can capture this too, so I have a global "nav mode toggle" you enter to move around between panes and the tabs within them. Actively figuring out the correct UX, but I am liking what I have so far.

Toying with the idea of a "tab link" which allows you to store a set of "source" tabs in a view, but create "links" in other views, where the navigation is synced across all instances. Useful if you want to have, say, the Tailwind docs open to a specific page, but have that page shared across different views. For example, if you want to have one view specifically for mobile view work and another for desktop view work, and not have to manually navigate to the same Tailwind docs page in both views.

I'm honestly just using it as I work on another real project, and adding features as I think "hey wouldn't this be nice?" Which is a pretty fun and satisfying process. I don't have it published yet, because I'm not entirely sure if it's worth sharing at the moment, but I feel like I'll discover that along the way here and go from there. Maybe someone here will chime in :P

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