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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)

#861

Micropay - Stripe for the next billion people ( https://micropay.dev/ ) Hi HN, I built this because I got tired of fighting with integrating payments in Africa. M-Pesa processes over $300B annually, it's how 50+ million people in Kenya pay for everything from groceries to rent. People don't have bank accounts, but rather pay straight from their cell phone nummber. But integrating it into your app? That's a different…

This looks really good.... may I ask how does payments work without people having bank accounts?

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

#862
I built https://www.chatmycal.com/

Ever get an email or handout with a massive schedule - in text, image or pdf - and you have to hand re-enter dozens of events? I built ChatMyCal to fix this.

Copy/paste the email, or take a pic and it will perfectly extract the schedule and publish it as a subscribe-able calendar. Then “transfer” it to the group admin and save everyone else from the same thing.

On the inside, it’s basically Cursor for calendars. So you can use AI to batch edit things, decorate with coordinated icons, add rules to apply to all events, etc. It can also develop full schedules like “make a monthly book club for zombie books” or plan a weekend foodie trip to Miami. Not sure all the best uses yet!

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

#863
I'm building a site auditing tool with a pluggable metrics pipeline. It's implemented in Java using Javalin for API, OkHttp for fetching, and jsoup for parsing. I'm experimenting with an event sink model for metrics aggregation.

Still early, but it's definitely fun and interesting.

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

#864

I'm building DB Pro, a cross-platform database management app that lets you browse, query, and manage SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and more from a single native interface. It's been growing steadily with a community of ~1,400 subscribers on YouTube and paying users. What I'm most excited about right now is DB Pro Studio: a collaborative web-based version I'm building on top of it. The idea is simple: da…

Kudos to you! Looks very nice and well thought out. I was working on a native Windows tool for data exploration of SQLite but I shelved it.

If you don't mind my asking -- what language and toolkit do you use?

I can certainly see a lot of benefits from a team oriented web-based dashboard.

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

#865
10Cups. We pretty much all buy the same type of coffee, every time. So I added a simple NFC reader to the barista's Kitchen Display. You buy ten cups of coffee, they give you a NFC sticker for your travel mug. Tomorrow, you skip the queue, hand the barista your travel mug. They tap it on the reader, see how you like your coffee, and redeem one.

Makes your regular's lives easier, and you take regulars out of your queue.

No stupid loyalty apps, no QR Codes, no sign ups.

More "How are you?" and less "Flat White, please"

Here is an article I wrote about it

https://wherethereisawill.substack.com/p/coffee-shop-loyalty...

It is integrated into our coffee shop POS: https://www.beanpos.co.za

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

#866
Mother of All VPNs, Internet Freedom Stack

- https://moav.sh/ - https://github.com/shayanb/MoaV

Basically a one command installation of 8+ protocols with easy user management.

My idea is to make it easy to run your own battle tested VPN server for yourself (when traveling or not) and your family and friends. Pretty useful in national internet shutdown situations

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

#867
Just released a new book on using the foundation model APIs, https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals, Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python.

Up to date and has examples for all of the major foundation model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and AWS Bedrock). Goes through basics of calling the API, structured outputs, RAG, and MCP/Agents. Also has a chapter on the LLM coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, and Antigravity).

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

#868
I am organizing an academic branch prediction championship: https://cbp-ng.bpchamp.com/

This is not the first championship in branch prediction, but real-world design constraints have never been seriously considered before (How long does it take to produce a prediction? How much energy does it consume?). We wrote a new C++ library which uses operator overloading to track the latency/energy used by math operations as the predictor predicts. In addition to computation, this library models registers, RAMs, etc. The championship is open to everyone - documentation, a tutorial, etc. are on our website/repository to help you get started!

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

#869
I've been building a loyalty/membership product for small businesses. My co-founder owns an ice cream shop and complained about how awful the existing products in this space, so we decided to build something better. No apps to download, Apple/Google wallet integration, and really cool analytics for the merchant.

https://chckn.app/

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