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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 ryanisnan »

czhu12 wrote: post #749

Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years. Its basically a one-click install against a Kubernetes instance to give you a Heroku interface. I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided. Canine basically wraps a Kubernetes cluster -- gives you a heroku like interface to deploy applications to. At some point, if you get…

Kubernetes is really powerful, but IMHO, it is the wrong tool here.

It might be the thing you use to power this system, but the benefits of Heroku were precisely that it didn't need you to think about the guts of a system like Kubernetes.

The magic was in the incredibly concise API, and the fact that it "just worked".

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

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Post by andai »

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'd like to hear more about your experience using AI for game development.

I've had a strangely asymmetric experience where frontier models are failing apparently basic tasks like making changes to a Pong clone without breaking it, while the same models are successfully designing and implementing multiplayer servers with rollback netcode!

I think it has to do with what they can and cannot verify (i.e. they can't actually play pong to see if they broke it), but I'm not sure.

(Also happy to hear anyone else's experiences on this matter!)

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

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Post by conductr »

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…

Possibly related/tangental, my friends and I in high school were pretty big into the car culture of the time (90s Houston = fast and furious). Anywho, as a complement of the normal (illegal) drag race and burnout meetups we used to organize and run full city scavenger hunts. We’d run around town collecting clues, solving puzzles, and driving pretty reckless. It usually involved at least 2 people per car to be competitive. Knowledge of the greater area was important for navigating because this was right around the transition where GPS became common. We usually did it around 2am-4am so the streets were open and we could drive fast. It wasn’t safe at all but luckily nobody I know of ever got in an accident. We had about 100 cars participating when I left for college in 98. I think about it as something that was very special and the last of the fun analog lifestyle before the internet took over.

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

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Post by andai »

BrunoBernardino wrote: post #380

My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU. Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]! You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us! The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG,…

Nice, cool project.

Is Monero legal in EU? I heard something about them banning private cryptos including Monero a while back but I don't know what the situation is now. (I think it might just be that exchanges are not allowed to offer it anymore?)

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

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Post by teachrdan »

I made a fun app to share text information with your friends in a persistent, pretty format. You compose a text message, choose fonts and colors (or keep defaults), and save and/or share it via text message, etc. I realized after the fact I was basically recreating Instagram's text creation feature in Stories lol.

It's called "Hey Hannah" because it was inspired by my friend Hannah asking me for travel tips for her family's first trip to Japan. I had a few texts worth of thoughts I wanted to persist -- and prettify -- so I could share them with others in the future, too.

I personally find saving screenshots of text messages to be an unreasonably effective way of saving information. I can search by text in the Photos mobile app and share directly from there.

This was my first coding project with AI. I used Cursor and mostly Claude to write it. I had no mobile dev experience, but I did have 10 years of webdev experience, including five with React, so it was a relatively smooth process. I got a great feel for what to let Claude do and how to work around its limitations. For example, I made a secret expanded palette of background colors (and a slightly different secret palette for text), and Claude choked on sorting them by brightness -- so I made a test to check the outputs and then had Claude write a helper function to sort them client side. Good times.

I am officially converted to writing code with, at least, the assistance of LLMs. I'd love it if folks could download the app and give me any feedback they may have. It's open and free in all the ways and I collect no data!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hey-hannah/id6751516377

https://github.com/DecentralizedDan/hey-hannah

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

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Post by chickensong »

probst wrote: post #391

We are working on our two site-search search engines Monocle Search [0] and SearchCue [1]. The former is squarely aimed at people using Squarespace, whereas our newer offering SearchCue is aimed at anyone with a site that wants to add search. We used Meilisearch as the search backend in the beginning but have since replaced it with a quite sophisticated search stack built around Tantivy [2]. We now support crawling a…

What drove you away from Meilisearch?

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

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Post by zloy88 »

Just some days ago I started a closed beta for a friendship/dating app.

The idea: Everyone must answer 14 questions, then is getting matched with someone who aligns with you. Once a match is found, both have to answer another set of questions and all answers are revealed immediately. If you don't like any answer, you can quit early and land in the matching pool again. If you like each other, you can both decide to get closer. If one disagrees, you will never be matched again. Also picture reveal is only at the end of the 1on1 session and only if both agree to share it.

I got like ~80 users in about 4-5 days - and it is my personal biggest success any hobby project ever achieved, so I am happy. Especially I get so good feedback.

It's invite only, if anyone would like to join, not sure if there is any DM function here - I am new.

My web app is called https://valuepair.app

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