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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 bharatj97 »

I am currently building a SaaS for hobbyist vibe coders with a severe case of AI fomo to help them get real users for their side projects. Doing this with a 4-stage flow: idea generator (or BYOI) → idea validation → distribution-while-building → launch distribution. I'm essentially building distribution as a service.

Started working on this a week ago and hoping to launch by the end of this month.

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

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Post by pmarreck »

I'm working on 3 apps (Zig core, C FFI, Windows/Mac frontends) that haven't been released yet.

One verifies the binary data of over 200+ common filetypes, to the extent possible.

Another protects data archives/data collections with some parity, in order to survive a degree of bitrot, for those files that you don't necessarily have on a NAS.

The third is a new kind of archiver that specializes in compressing files that are already internally compressed as part of their spec.

Trivia: Did you know that the now-most-common image format in the world, Apple's HEIC/HEIF, has absolutely NO internal integrity protection, and that you can't depend on a failed decode to detect errors since all binary values are allowed in the stream format?

https://mecha.llc/software/

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

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Post by narghev »

I’m working on askdiff - a GitHub PR review style web app attached to the same claude code session that wrote the code.

2-3 weeks ago I noticed a bottleneck in my workflow. I was opening big draft PRs to check code written by CC, and then copy pasting diff back to it to ask questions.

So I built askdiff. Any feedback is highly appreciated.

https://github.com/narghev/askdiff

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

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Post by gavinh »

sailorganymede wrote: post #888

I’m working on a GitHub quality gate that checks your PRs, guesses if it’s a total vibe coded piece of shit, and then grills the dev to check if they actually understood what they wrote. This way, my time as a reviewer doesn’t get wasted. Inspired by my experience at my day job. Looking for testers if anyone wants to help out!

I'm working on something similar; are you interested in seeing whether there are opportunities to collaborate?

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

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Post by audreyfei »

a Golden Speaker technology that would help users adopt a native-like accent faster! contrary to the current norm in the speech-processing field (esp regarding voice conversion), where voice identities are lost, voice identities would be kept.

We generate a "Golden Speaker" for you -> You record yourself saying a sentence (a phonetic pangram), we keep your accent which represents your voice identity but we correct your pronunciation and then you have a Golden Speaker system. This may be in the form of a TTS or a real-time accent conversion technology.

the above has a provisional patent attached to it, but obviously that doesn't mean anything. & because I'm 16 and know very little so far, I'd very much appreciate any input on the above idea (it's currently a waitlist @ https://loxai.tech). esp if anyone's in linguistics or AI, lmk your opinion!

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

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Post by davenci »

sailorganymede wrote: post #888

I’m working on a GitHub quality gate that checks your PRs, guesses if it’s a total vibe coded piece of shit, and then grills the dev to check if they actually understood what they wrote. This way, my time as a reviewer doesn’t get wasted. Inspired by my experience at my day job. Looking for testers if anyone wants to help out!

Love this concept haha. Something like that is much needed these days
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