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

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

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Post by hxii »

I finally was able to have some spare time and mental clarity to fix and update my task runner Boku (https://github.com/hxii/boku) based on plans that were pending from like October 2025, and I'm finally happy with the result.

Before that, I vibe coded peek – a CLI network monitor, just because I couldn't find a solution that did what I needed it to do (think Uptime Kuma, but less and in CLI). You can try it out from here: https://github.com/hxii/peek

Now:

1. I'm trying to learn some Swift and SwiftUI so that I can give life to a ADHD-inspired idea I had a year ago that will help me maintain the "one input" framework I created for myself in 2023 (https://0xff.nu/productivity/#the-possible-solution) 2. I'm trying to find a job in a hopefully normal company

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

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Post by wjgilmore »

I build and maintain a fleet of microsaas products, all revolving around problems I have personally encountered at work:

https://npsbeacon.com NPS survey and analysis tool. I built this because I needed an easy and cost effective way to manage NPS surveys and almost had a heart attack when I learned what some of the competitors are charging.

https://contributoriq.com/ Helps tremendously with the M&A process during due diligence when you need to quickly understand who are the SMEs in specific parts of code base.

https://dependencydesk.com Another M&A tool. Useful for software company sellers who are required to disclose details related to software IP ownership such as what third-party dependencies are used in their software.

https://securitybot.dev All-in-one security, uptime, and SEO monitoring tool. I love working on this, and it has been so useful helping to identify various issues in my other products. Simple Slack alerting integration.

https://iterops.com Heatmap, rage click, dead click, simple A/B testing tool. Like NPSBeacon I built IterOps because the competing solutions are charging far too much for what they offer.

https://spiesindc.com One of these projects is not like the other lol. This is that project. Cold War history / stamp collecting subscription service. I probably lose money on this and yet will never stop running it.

My personal rule is to only build side projects that I plan on using all the time. Otherwise I'll just lose interest and they will languish. So far, so good.

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

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Post by onemoresoop »

jsomau wrote: post #112

A small thing I've been building as an antidote to doomscrolling. Open a new tab and see a public domain artwork from a real museum: https://toregard.art Mostly I wanted more art and colour in my workday - something to look at, learn through and draw inspiration from in the moments between meetings and code. You can create an account to save your favourites and curate your own gallery. Just released collections that…

Beautiful! Bookmarked.

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

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Post by soysamurai »

I got a little annoyed (okay, more than a little) with agentic developer tools and started building a replacement that I use every day now for development - both at home and at work. I have found that starting with an idea or design, using that to create a proper implementation plan, and then asking an agent to build something has been the most effective workflow for getting what I want (and that I don’t trust most models to not accidentally delete everything from my computer).

So I built an app that combines that workflow with some code dependency graph and sandboxing ideas (semi-structured build manifests with auto-installing tools / isolation) from a startup I previously co-founded, along with a handful of other tools / features (like virtualized code workspace over gRPC that works locally or remotely, starlark for scripting, a debugger with an investigation log and proposed fixes, dependency analyzer, security reviewer, and per-agent models/providers so I can use more expensive models for more complex work, like design or debugging work, and cheaper models for writing code) and built my own day-to-day development assistant that I’m pretty happy with!

As an added bonus, since I don’t like being stuck with one provider, it supports most any LLM provider (including local ones) and I can seamlessly switch between providers or models in the middle of my work if one is offline or going in circles.

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

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Post by jtap »

I’ve continued to work on a phone app + website (https://MyBulkCards.com) to scan Pokemon bulk cards and tag/organize where they are stored. I added a bunch more features like finding a friend, searching through friends cards, and trading.

It's been pretty fun to build. Trained a couple of models to identify a card that run on the phone app. They work very well and are comparable, and much better than many, to any other card identifier in the market. As the models get more complicated training is getting a bit longer. I'm at about 9 hours per epoch on my Mac M4 with 16G of memory.

The Android phone app is in public test with a couple of my local group testing. The app is built in React Native, and I’m hoping to get an iPhone version out soon since there are a bunch of iPhone peeps.

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