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

#891

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 s…

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

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This is awesome, thank you for doing this work; it’s not glamorous but it’s a key feature to making computers productive. I know it’s not a popular opinion here but I think that Windows has two killer features that are always overlooked- the standard print dialog (and all the underlying plumbing), and the standard file dialog (at least until Windows 8). The ability to print and to interact with files, that just works…

Was going to say the same thing, I'm not a big fan of Windows but the printing Just Works. Having read the OPs explanation of why CUPS is the way it is, yeah, now it makes sense. Maybe CUPS needs a Heartbleed-scale problem to motivate more support.

Windows has had plenty of vulnerabilities in the print spoiler. Not surprisingly really as it has been developed over decades.

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

#895
Spent my 2025 building https://orchestera.com as a side project. The premise is simple - to give Data Engineers and Data Scientists the opportunity to spin up Apache Spark clusters on Amazon EKS without them needing to know all the infrastructure details, how Spark works on Kubernetes, auto-scaling etc.

The platform I am building allows users to launch Spark on Kubernetes in their own AWS account without adding any markup costs to the CPU/Memory on EC2 instances. For example, AWS EMR offering adds a 25% markup cost on top of the EC2 instance pricing. Databricks markup is even higher ranging anywhere from 30% to 100% markup.

To learn more, check out the docs for the project at https://docs.orchestera.com/

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

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Loosely related: my new hobby project is growing and nuturing sourdough that's optimized for gluten free bread, and I'm cultivating a couple of different kinds to find out which taste I like the most. It kind of escalated a bit once I realized that different mixtures of bacteria cultures produce differently tasting dough/bread and that you can strengthen the grow rate by optimizing the external variables.

Very neat! How do you standardize the gluten free mixes? I’ve been thinking about trying this since my mom is gluten free

Currently I have kind of two main starters where I am experimenting with:

One starter uses the same schaer flour (which is based on a corn, rice and lentil mix). This one grows veeery slowly and needs lots of maintenance. But I want to keep it because that is the flour that also guests with celiac disease can eat. I'm trying to keep this one as clean as possible, same glass, same spoon, separate baking equipment etc.

The second starter is based on spelt flour. That one grows pretty easily, I used some turkish culture for it, and it's the survivor of the previous experiment :D

For both of them the grow rate is off. The first one grows around 1/5th until it needs more flour and water, the second one grows around 1/3rd until it needs maintenance. The standardized maintenance for wheat flour is 2x growth so you always have to fill the glass half way and then mark it with a rubber band.

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

#897
https://github.com/edipofederle/sri

A Ruby interpreter implemented in Clojure with support for GraalVM native image compilation (Very initial stage) but actually run some ruby code already (check examples directory)

Just a playground to play with Clojure and Interpreters

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

#898
https://github.com/edipofederle/sri

A Ruby interpreter implemented in Clojure with support for GraalVM native image compilation (very initial stage, but can run some ruby code already, check out the examples directory)

Just a playground to play with Clojure and Interpreters

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

#899
https://kastanj.ch/

A recipe app you will actually want to use. No bloat, no ads, very minimalistic but everything works well and bugs gets fixed.

Why? Because most recipe apps and websites are frankly painful to use. I am trying to create the absolute best cooking/recipe experience possible. Something that just works.

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

#900
I'm working on a newsletter digest platform to collect your newsletters and give them back to you, summarized, in a daily (or multiple times a day) digest.

I've been using it myself for a few weeks and it's helped me actually read newsletters instead of ignoring them in my inbox.

https://hiddensignal.app

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