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

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

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Post by t_null »

t_null wrote: post #77

An exi decoder/encoder (goal is to have modes for spec conform and interop, which right now doesn't seem to be the same thing). Afterwards I also want to try to use it to encode huge XML datasets in precomp mode with good encoder (maybe ztsd). Should be pretty useful for large repetitive datasets. I also want to build a tool to visualize XML to exi de/encoding in the browser.

Ah yeah, and also a suite of web games/apps in rust wasm all based around collaborative creativity. The one for collaborative storytelling is most mature, currently playtesting with friends.

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

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Post by pedrosbmartins »

I'm working on a (somewhat) realistic surfing game. Tired of arcade-style games, I decided to try my hand at something closer to the real sport, focusing on realistic breaking waves, speed generation and carving, rather than impossible air combos.

After one year of development, it's going better than I expected, so I'm considering building a demo to gather feedback and see if there's enough traction for working towards a Steam release.

Even if that's not the case though, it's been a blast learning about game dev in Unity/C#, as well as 3D modeling and animation in Blender!

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

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Post by benbojangles »

Grovia - Lora mesh farming data: https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor

I hope to add ai data tools & saas, but really I'm just happy to have a running working live setup on my small farming plot ready for the growing season - https://benb0jangles.github.io/Remote-greenhouse-monitor/

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

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Post by philipp1234 »

I built a free app to track which animals I've seen in zoos and explore zoo inventories.

https://ZooTracker.app

You can see which animal you can see in what zoo.

And for each zoo you can see their (vertebrate) animal inventory.

You can log which animal you saw and collect lifer lists.

I have just promoted the android app from closed testing to production and I am working on the iOS app.

It has been available as a web app for a few months now.

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

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Post by stego-tech »

Finding work after a corporate restructure. Also migrating my workloads from VMs and strewn-about containers onto a Talos K8s node, so I can break the cycle of bespoke builds at home and get back to enjoying projects.

Speaking of projects, I’m roughing out a method of pulling cost data for common services (compute, storage, databases, etc) across the three major cloud providers and making recommendations as to where to put things for optimal cost; a key component of a “universal cloud” idea I’ve been kicking around since 2020 or so, where the base cloud services are abstracted away into commodities rather than bespoke products or locked-in vendors. The goal is to basically have something like Terraform that will transpose its code to the destination cloud chosen by the cost analyzer at execution, and eventually auto-migrate load as prices or needs change (e.g., a client churning early and shifting that reserved instance to another customer for a higher margin).

Write once, and trust the pricing model to deploy it where it makes the most fiscal sense. No more learning Azure/GCP/AWS for bog-standard workloads anymore.

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

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Post by timenotwasted »

I've been a word game fan for a long time and always wanted to try my hand at building a unique take on the genre since so many fall into a Wordle type clone these days. I came up with the concept for SpellRush a few months ago and finally got it to what I think is a pretty fun concept over the past few weeks. Would love feedback from anyone that is up for giving it a try! https://spellrush.com/

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

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Post by idopmstuff »

I left my job as a PM a couple of years ago to start acquiring small e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon. I'm currently running those, and mid-acquisition on one.

Because they're relatively low-effort (Amazon is terrible for sellers in many ways but man do they provide an incredible amount of infrastructure), that leaves me plenty of time to play with AI, and it just so happens that the business serves as a giant, practical eval as new models come out.

I've been vibe coding apps for internal use and using Nano Banana for listing images and whitebox photos, and more recently I've started to lean on Claude Code heavily as an assistant. It's got API creds for my Amazon account, so I use it for everything from figuring out when I need to reorder to filling out spreadsheets for companies that safety test my product.

And of course I am writing a Substack that I must shamelessly self promote that goes into the practical use cases of AI in my business: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/

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