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

I left my job at the end of June; I'm tired of playing someone else's music and want to write my own songs (build my own apps)

So I'm building an app a week and focusing on solving niche problems I've experienced in my own life to start

I think it's never been easier to build prototypes, but because of all of the slop, building community and finding users around them are harder than ever before

This latter part I think is going to be the hardest part of going out on my own

But going to try

Things I'm working on right now:

https://a2ciple.pt/ - testing prep for a language exam required for residency & citizenship in Portugal

https://basehub.org/ - a docs site for agents to get the latest context on Base, an Ethereum L2

https://playgokab.com/ - a vocab game to learn words in diff languages

https://mru.space/ - a protocol to run software that gracefully degrades across failing hardware

https://shiponeshot.com/ - a framework to help me ship prototypes more quickly

Anyhow, cheers :)

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I am building a small utility tool to add events to calendar from text/speech/image https://text2event.com/ The hardest part is a bureaucracy with Google :D

I've been making native Mac utility apps to solve some of my (and hopefully others') needs.

One is called WhimFiles and is a file manager for Mac that is only 9 MB. It started out with me wanting to clean up my Downloads folder and wanting an easy way to filter files. As I thought of more things I wanted in a file manager I started to add them.

Now the app has dual pane, tabs, fuzzy go-to-folder, batch rename and many other quality of life features. I use it often for my own needs and have also made a few sales (thank you if you've purchased it). The app can be found here: https://whimfiles.com

Another app I've made is called WhimPop and it's a launcher that's shown when you hold down the right-click button (the regular context menu still shows if you only click the button). WhimPop gives the option to add favorite apps, folders and URLs on a rail, plus clipboard history, snippets, a timer and much more. It can be found here: https://whimpop.com

I am working on a medicine-related product that requires PII redaction, so as a separate product that the medical app can connect to I created InkedOut - a pdf redaction tool. It runs entirely in the browser, nothing gets uploaded, the text is removed rather than covered (crucial if you're familiar with the Meta lawyers debacle from 2025), and it verifies its own output before letting the user download. Before I created it I searched for existing tools and found that those that do it properly are paid desktop or enterprise software, while the free browser ones simply put a black box on the text without actually removing the underlying text.

Check it out at https://getinkedout.com