in general apify apps. getting to a strong level that i feel i'm top 10%. now working to take it to the next level.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#842I've spent the past ~year compiling a US nationwide land parcel dataset. I posted it to kaggle a few days ago: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye... . I'm around 99% coverage of the US. Learned a lot about land records and GIS along the way.
"Please note that this dataset is for noncommercial use only" -- quite limiting. Are you planning to create a product?
Yes I offer a commercial version at https://landrecords.us. (I did not want to link to the paid site on HN)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#843Recently on my blog: https://bryanhogan.com/blog Wrote an introduction to Obsidian referencing other relevant posts, but also keeping it simple. And the post before that was about creating an app using SvelteKit + Capacitor. Currently working on some posts about AI coding and my life in Osaka after 3 months here. Other things I'm working on: - https://dailyselftrack.com/ - Got into working on it again, mainly solving…
I tested the Japanese app, in in a bit of a hurry, but here are things I noticed. - 1 time when matching pairs, two different sounds played. Not the automated and presumably yours, but two different sounding sounds. E and another one I think it was. - One run the male voice played when I clicked on the Japanese symbols to the left when matching pairs. All the other times it played together with the automated voice. -…
Thank you! I know how to fix most of these issues.
Regarding the duplicate sound, which browser & device did you use?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#844Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the reason it is so shockingly expensive?
That's what good lights go for, they're niche and people pay good money for them. I really liked my office lamps and I wanted to get the same for home, after a quick search I discovered they were 1300+ euros
1000+ is the "designer" lighting territory. Margins are enormous margins, but to charge those you need to be an established designer and have a reputation.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#845HexPickr – Extract OKLCH and Tailwind v4 palettes from photography.
I'm a 'vibe coder' returning to the IDE after 10 years. I spent the last 60 days managing a multi-agent stack (Codex + Antigravity) to get the perceptual color math right for P3 displays. The agents were great for the UI, but I had to manually step in when they started 'hallucinating' HEX values instead of wide-gamut OKLCH. It’s a niche tool for the Tailwind v4 ecosystem.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#846I am building a few catalog workflows in n8n in order to synchronize our ERP data with Akeneo.
I know it looks incredibly boring but as I progress I have to get in touch with many departments, and it raises questions about how we manage data within the company.
The people I expected to be the most reactionary about it - after all I am sticking my nose into their business - are actually the most helpful because they see an opportunity to make some tasks less painful.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#847I tend to work best with very simple productivity tools, and most task managers either don't let you work with teams, or are ridiculously expensive for just a list with extra metadata, especially if you work on many projects with different people. So I built a minimal one using HTMX + Bun + Hono.
It’s called Zadan (https://zadan.app), named after the Slavic word zadaniye (“assignment”). The goal is to keep it free and focused on getting tasks done, with only a few practical extras like file or image attachments for context which I am working on now.
I’ve only spent a few days on it, but it already feels solid and was even helpful for planning my wedding! Feedback welcome.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#848Menu Engineering (https://github.com/TravisBumgarner/menu-engineering)
I have a friend who manages their restaurant's menu via an Excel doc. Tabular data does not play well with a menu's tree structure. So I'm building them an app to more easily build and analyze the menu.
Fast Classifieds (https://travisbumgarner.dev/marketing/classifieds) A lot of the jobs I'm looking for are on smaller company job boards only. It takes me about an hour or two each time I want to browse all the sites I have bookmarked. I made a little app that automates the process and reduces the time down to about 5 minutes to look through the new posts.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#849I've been working on a voxel engine in my spare time for 10 years, this year. I wrote everything from scratch, from the memory allocators, font rasterizer and a programing language all the way to collision detection, renderer and gameplay code. It's been a journey! https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof
After seeing your renders on github, a question I always have is why voxels are stereotypically 1m square... wouldn't the ideal voxel engine immediately set the scale to something more high-res? I'm just drooling at the thought of a voxel engine where a block size is equivalent to the size of a physical pixel.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#850My game: https://apps.apple.com/np/app/geometryronin/id6757147620
Always wanted to create some fast paced game! Finally got to start it!
I will definitely evolve it over time.
All done in my spare time with help of agentic coding!