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

#752

https://wethinkt.com The second bubble there is a tool for 3D visualization and analytics of Claude Code sessions. The sample conversation is the one that made the tool itself! That was a fun toy I learned a lot from. I’m not expanding that but am working intensely on the first bubble: thinkt a CLI/TUI/Webapp for exploring your LLM conversations. Makes it easy to see all your local projects, view them, and export the…

The Claude Code analytics space is really interesting to me right now as well, this is cool.

I'm coming at it from more of the data infrastructure side (e.g. send all of your logs and metrics to a cheap Iceberg catalog in the cloud so you have a central place to query[1]) but also check out https://github.com/tobilg/ai-observer -- duckdb popping up everything to make this interesting and easy.

[1] https://github.com/smithclay/otlp2pipeline

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

#754
A few iOS apps I’m working on:

- Daylight Goals ( https://daylightgoals.com ) - I’m releasing a major update later this month, it is an app built around pushing you to spend more time outdoors in the sun, using automatic time in daylight tracking via the Apple Watch & Apple Health. The update reorganizes the app and adds a lot more dynamic notifications.

- HourStream ( https://hourstream.com ) - A project based time tracking & invoicing app I built for myself, as I’ve moved to consulting work and I’ve disliked basically every invoice tracking app I’ve tried. Still have a lot of things I want to add, but it is getting there.

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

#755
I'm working on queueio (https://github.com/ryanhiebert/queueio), a background task runner for python that uses asyc function to communicate with the queueing system, but encourages using regular synchronous and blocking code for the actual work.

It fits the bill for me where function coloring provides something truly useful that you can't get without threading. Using Celery canvas to compose signatures is a great step, but the added power of being able to compose them in a more standard code flow is the killer feature that I wanted bad enough to write it myself.

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

#757

Building a simple iOS app that's free (ad supported) for tracking expenses/receipts. Everything out there was subscriptions and I didn't want another monthly expense to track my simple expenses ... http://loomlabs.au/docket

How do you afford OCR receipts in a free app?

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

#758
I’ve shared this a few times but I’m still having a blast building my game Tiled Words: https://tiledwords.com

It’s a daily word puzzle inspired by board games like Patchwork and My City.

You rotate and rearrange tiles to find clues and rebuild a broken crossword.

Right now I’ve got about 3,000 daily players and have had a few acquisition offers.

It’s been a ton of fun to build! My wife and I build the puzzles together every day. There are over 110 puzzles now so there’s a big backlog if you enjoy it.

I’m working on user accounts, hosting user puzzles, bug fixes and better puzzle building tools!

I’m happy to answer any questions

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

#759
CodeHydra (https://github.com/stefanhoelzl/codehydra or https://codehydra.dev) a multi-workspace IDE for parallel AI agent development.

I've been using AI coding agents for more and more tasks, but didnt have the right tool to orchestrate. I'd kick off a task, then sit there waiting for the agent to finish before I could start the next one or had multiple terminals open was constantly checking which agents are busy and which are idle. Running multiple agents against the same repo also isn't optimal, and manually creating git worktrees added a lot of friction to my workflows.

Thats why I built CodeHydra. Just it at one or multiple local or remote git repos and it creates lightweight workspaces using git worktrees. Each workspace gets its own embedded VS Code and AI agent. You see all your workspaces in a sidebar with real-time status indicators showing which agents are idle or busy. I typically run 1-3 projects with up to 6 workspaces in parallel — review one agent's workwhile others keep going. I also put some effort into good keyboard navigation. So creating, deleting or switching workspaces is very easy by keyboard.

And to really automate our whole workflow, agents can control CodeHydra itself via an MCP server. An agent can close its workspace when it's done, spin up new workspaces for sub-tasks (with an initial prompt), or automate VS Code — like opening a browser preview tab or specific files.

Built with Electron + Svelte 5 + TypeScript. Supports Claude Code and OpenCode as agents. MIT licensed, works on Linux/macOS/Windows.

Try it with `npx codehydra` or `uvx codehydra`. I appreciate any feedback!

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

#760
Most of my time goes to Group Income (https://groupincome.org) / Shelter (https://shelterprotocol.net), a protocol and platform for building rich decentralised rich (web) applications with end-to-end-encryption. The idea is building the tech for an experience rivaling or surpassing that of siloed apps but with a focus on user and data autonomy.

The rest of my time goes into a few personal projects, most with no public URL yet.

  * An IndieAuth provider based on WebAuthn, the idea being that instead of relying on delegating authentication, it could be handled directly using, e.g., U2F keys or a device.
  * A temporary e-mail address provider with deterministic addresses for attribution.
  * A self-service menu / ordering service
  * An E2EE document signing solution
Some of these have led to a few mini-projects that I actively maintain due to not finding a fitting solution, such as:

   * An HTTP media type negotiator (https://github.com/ApelegHQ/ts-http-media-type-negotiator) -- negotiate based on accept headers. This was because I couldn't find a negotiator that correctly parsed headers.
   * A JS sandbox (https://github.com/ApelegHQ/lot) -- Tried to implement something lightweight yet functional
   * A MIME multipart encoder and decoder (https://github.com/ApelegHQ/ts-multipart-parser) -- Attempt at a lightweight, general and spec-correct parser
   * A lightweight ASN.1 DER encoder (https://github.com/ApelegHQ/ts-asn1-der), meant to be used with its sister project (https://github.com/ApelegHQ/ts-cms-classes) --- Part of the document signing project
In addition, trying to move a side-side project to Svelte 5:

    * A web-based self-contained encryption/decryption tool (https://github.com/ApelegHQ/ts-cms-ep-sfx) --- Created to easily share files with maximum compatibility (ZIP archive inside a CMS payload) and minimum requirements.
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