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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 Paarthmj »

I am building Promptster - an AI fluency platform that helps level up engineers. Engineering managers invite their teammates and Promptster analyzes the engineers work with ai coding tools (claude code, codex, cursor, copilot). The manager receives a team-aggregate dashboard where they can roll-out certain practices / skill to their whole team. Each IC receives their own dashboard where they can see their fluency statistics, skill usage, context management, and a DORA dashboard.

I'm looking for design partners, if you're interested would love to chat: https://www.promptster.ai. We also have a hiring product: https://www.promptster.ai/hire.

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

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Post by maxgaudin »

Follow the money at the local and state level. Every since followthemoney.org was absorbed by Open Secrets in 2024 we don't have a state level "follow the money" tool. BackerBase brings campaign finance data, public filings, donor networks, races, officials, and entity relationships into one source-backed workspace. Starting with Louisiana and adding more states now :)

https://backerbase.ai

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

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Post by Paarthmj »

cjflog wrote: post #685

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…

love the idea, would love a messaging version

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

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Post by zandermax »

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…

I am also interested in trying this game out! And I'm really glad to hear how agentic coding got you back in the game (literally)!

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

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Post by hoppp »

Working on a no-code tool to make it easier to self host fully compliant databases with an audit first approach.

Startups should be able to deploy their own SOC2 compliance ready databases without paying cloud providers to do the deployment for them.

Why pay $1050/month on AWS RDS when a Herzner dedicated server costs $55 a month and offers more resources?

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