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

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

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Post by neurodiv_dennis »

borzi wrote: post #849

A simple browser tower defense to enjoy during your lunch break. Written in Kotlin, TeaVM has made it possible to run surprisingly complex Java games, didn't expect it! https://thefakeborzi.itch.io/tower-chess

Wow, what a revelation! I didn't know you could create browser games with Kotlin. I'll definitely look into TeaVM once I find the time for it.

Thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by pgcosta »

madman_dev wrote: post #611

I'm constantly working on https://only-eu.eu/en A directory of European software and general alternatives to popular products. Think cloud storage, email, VPN, browsers, smartphones, bikes,... About 175 products across 30+ categories right now. Next categories will be: personal health, commercial e-mail and newsletter management. If you have a product that's missing here, please feel free to suggest it via the sugges…

Nice! Been looking a lot at EU based software I've been working with on an automated deeptech job board just for EU as well - https://deeptechjobs.eu/

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

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Post by tedd4u »

messh wrote: post #186

Instant linux boxes via ssh that suspend on disconnect. Checkout https://shellbox.dev The idea is to have "real" linux, exposing ipv6, supporting nested virtualization, docker, etc.

Cool, thanks for sharing. How would you compare Shellbox with exe.dev?

[1] https://exe.dev [2] https://blog.exe.dev/series-a

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

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Post by gregable »

I've been working on and off for many years on https://ssa.tools/ - a site that helps folks figure out their social security benefits for retirement planning. I recently added and continue to iterate on a new feature for specifically helping you understand the tradeoffs of choosing different filing dates at https://ssa.tools/strategy - it was interesting trying to optimize the performance enough to let the user drag sliders and get 'instant' response time, especially in typescript.

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

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Post by tsoukase »

paulhebert wrote: post #297

I’m continuing to work on my daily puzzle game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com Forbes just wrote an article about it which was a fun surprise! [1] It recently turned 6 months old which is wild to me. My wife and I have made a new puzzle every day for half a year! I wrote a blog post about this [2] I recently released user logins. That went well and a lot of people are using them. I also let you filter the backlog…

I never thought something would drag me out of HN before sleep. A nice break. Congrats and thank you.

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

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Post by deeplurker571 »

alasano wrote: post #212

I'm working on https://engine.build It's a durable orchestration system for AI code generation which solves the problem of not being able to trust LLMs to complete long running (and high quality) implementations without having to babysit them and monitor the process, which is what I think is the most exhausting part of coding with AI. You start with a spec or programmatic task list and the engine runs the whole workf…

Sounds great, matches my philosophies and approaches I've been wanting to follow. Signed up, gave you a follow on twitter and am curious about the open source angle!

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

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Post by ogou »

I was working on a site to mashup Spotify playlists. I can't stand the "weighted shuffle" Spotify uses. It is also useless for niche genres or experimental music. Last week, I got it all the way to launch and then had reports of login problems. It turns out that Spotify changed its developer terms last year and I can't accept public users unless I'm in their partner program. That has a requirement of 250k MAU. So, everyone was declined when the tried to login. I'm limited to just 5 users. That sucks, but I invited 5 friends to use it and we just bang out epic playlists.

Spotify announcement: https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2025-04-15-updating-the-c...

The app: https://sprogeny.com/

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

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Post by Meliwat »

Currently my biggest project is an MCP that's going to be able to clone other apps in the app store. I know what it sounds like: it's not a very good look. At the end of the day you can use cloud design and ChatGPT image but the better these AIs get at UI, the higher the standard is going to be for UI. Meaning if cloud design and ChatGPT get amazing at UI, or Codex gets amazing at UI, that is going to be the new standard of AI slop. The only way to combat AI slop is to "copy" production-ready apps that are making millions of dollars.

With that being said the MCP essentially will allow you to pull in directly the design specs from the top hundred (hopefully one day thousand) apps and websites. You will be able to modify them of course yourself but it'll at least enable your agent to have a grasp of what this UI looks like so you can tinker with it for your own color scheme or style from there

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