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

I like this in principle. More managers should be in tune with how their people are doing because happy people lead to better work. I'm skeptical about the accuracy of wellbeing metrics when they are self-reported, though. And also whether people will just reflexively click the highest rating for each metric after the first few weeks. Managers will see "line went up" and think they fixed their team, when in reality the employees just got bored of the answering the same questions every day.

Not saying I have answers to these, but thanks for trying to move the needle the right way.

I've honestly been looking for this -- a modern slick db management app, both for local dbs and remote (just for me though, no collaboration). Existing tools are solid but they feel outdated.

Downloaded and onboarding was nice. A couple of things:

- The initial schema for my local Postgres table was showing public but there were a bunch of tables showing that clearly were not tables in my public schema. Changing the schema to something else and back worked.

- Limiting the free version on number of tabs feels... annoying. I appreciate that a lot of stuff out there doesn't even have a free version but the software automatically opened with a few tabs (or I accidentally clicked on it?) and then as soon as I clicked on my first table I was paywalled. I feel like I'll accidentally open more tabs (even though I really just wanna work on one at a time) and get frustrated, which is more likely to drive me away than to pay at this point.

Note btw that ofc you have to make money and this is a product that I feel I'd be willing to pay for but I got frustrated within 2mins of using it so it wasn't like oh I've felt the value let me pay, it was more like I haven't even gotten to value yet.

Great work anyway and I'll keep trying and provide feedback as it comes! Thanks for building this

I'm working on JRECC, a Java remotely executing caching compiler.

It's designed to integrate with Maven projects, to bring in the benefits of tools like Gradle and Bazel, where local and remote builds and tests share the same cache, and builds and tests are distributed over many machines. Cache hits greatly speed up large project builds, while also making it more reliable, since you're not potentially getting flaky test failures in your otherwise identical builds.

https://jrecc.net/

I'm working on Routing24 https://routing24.com - we are building free route optimization tool for businesses to plan multi-vehicle multi-stop routes.

Multi-threaded WebAssembly in action for route optimization, all bundled with geocoding, OSM maps and routing, and provided world-wide.

We're adding driver's PWA, saving and sharing of route optimization projects, editing of optimized routes, sharing it with others either for execution or for approval, integrations and AI-assisted data imports, auth flows, support prompts, sales automation and all that boring stuff.

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