Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by makebelievelol » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

We are building the future of AI relationships and companions. Trying to make Her reality.

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

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Post by labarilem » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC

I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by the HN community. Currently I've added data up to the end of March 2024. The plan is to gather all data up to today and then keep updating the collection. Check it out here:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

Please let me know if this looks useful to you!

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

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Post by para_parolu » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 12:38 AM UTC

andreas_42 wrote: post #332

para_parolu wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it something similar to Infuse but with audio support?

Yes, roughly but audio-first and serverless.

WDYM serverless? You still have remote smb storage right? Or all data should be on device?

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

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Post by keepamovin » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC

schlauerfox wrote: post #791

keepamovin wrote: post #493

Working on a way to keep my agents running using email while I'm away from my desk. I want to spend time with the moments that matter, not babysitting agents. I want them to keep working while I'm out. Why can't I just email them?

Sounds simpler than this thing https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Yes, it is just email and it just works: https://mailpilot.chat

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

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Post by fedex_00 » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 11:39 AM UTC

Building an AI Hacker - https://aisafe.io

It managed to clear some pentesting benchmarks recently, so I'm very excited to put it through the fire against some real websites soon.

Please let me know if you have any recommendations for cool potential targets.

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

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Post by dabojula » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

Building pitchwise.se - a cost effective Docsend alternative for sending decks and Data Rooms as secure branded links and see real investor signals -- slide-level analytics, return visits, forwards, etc.

Get a feel for it here: https://app.pitchwise.se/v/founder-pack

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

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Post by voodoo_canyon » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

jftuga wrote: post #250

Script to auto-rename screenshots with Claude Code I'm sure there are a ton of other projects out there that do this, but I couldn't find one that fit my needs exactly, so I threw this together in a few hours. claude-image-renamer uses Claude Code CLI to analyze screenshots and rename them to something actually usable. It combines OCR text extraction with Claude's vision capabilities, so instead of "Screenshot 2025-1…

Very cool, I do something similar! except I don't rename the image, but I have the LLM create a matching text file in a separate folder with a description of everything in the image and a guess of the possible reasons why I took a screenshot.

I use screenshot on my phone to remember stuff, so this way it's super easy to search those text files if I'm trying to find something that I only vaguely remember.

Remembering specific words is hard for me, but I can get neighboring words and get in the ballpark, and simple text search or claude code gets me the rest of the way.

The screenshot gets uploaded from my phone to Dropbox, then on my desktop at home a script just periodically checks if there's any new screenshots. It's been running since Jan of last year, so coming up on a year now.

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

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Post by victorymakes » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 1:43 PM UTC

I’m building LaunchSaaS (https://launchsaas.org/ ) — a toolkit to help solo founders ship SaaS with fewer repeated decisions.

Recently shipped some small improvements (cache layer, email i18n), but the hardest part so far has been SEO.

This is my first time taking SEO seriously, and it’s been humbling — DR is still ~12 and trending down.

One thing I’ve found useful: comparing backlinks from Ahrefs’ free checker and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Still early, but shipping and learning steadily.

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

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Post by tmzt » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

victorymakes wrote: post #888

I’m building LaunchSaaS ( https://launchsaas.org/ ) — a toolkit to help solo founders ship SaaS with fewer repeated decisions. Recently shipped some small improvements (cache layer, email i18n), but the hardest part so far has been SEO. This is my first time taking SEO seriously, and it’s been humbling — DR is still ~12 and trending down. One thing I’ve found useful: comparing backlinks from Ahrefs’ free checker and…

I built a MIT-licensed vite plugin (deadsimpleseo.github.io) to help with SEO for developers of React apps.

It bundles and executes a static HTML pipeline in a node vm executing within the vite process, then outputs that to a folder with an index.html for each of the .md and .tsx in your seo source folder. The result does not rely on javascript or fetching content to render, it's static HTML and there's no rehydration step.

This allows it to reuse your main app layout, headers, footers, etc.

I built it for a one page tool where I wanted crawlable links in the footer served from a standard nginx setup.

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

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Post by iproduceideas » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

Salesence is an AI-powered platform for e-commerce sellers.

I’m building a platform that helps sellers manage, improve, and scale their marketplace operations from a single place, with a strong focus on time savings and decision clarity.

Current MVP: – Product listing scorecard and analysis – AI-generated product images – Product description generation (final testing phase)

Early stage, actively iterating with real sellers and shaping the roadmap based on usage and feedback.