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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by faangguyindia »

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by kdubya »

Working on a home (or maybe more?) inventory web app that helps users record an inventory of all the appliances and other important things in their homes. Track receipts, maintenance tasks, service history, stay up to date on upcoming maintenance tasks you need to perform (ex: change the filter), and more! Been working on it for a while and looking for any feedback - what's good, what's bad, what's missing, etc.

Check it out at https://getstowly.app/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by jvanveen »

I have been working in the past with Secondlife and OpenSimulator, and since then I aspired to build a map/virtual world mashup that would be suitable for augmented reality. Lack of time and experience with 3d coding always got in the way. Recently I gave it a try with Claude Opus, Rust, Bevy and Openstreetmap data (overpass/nominatim so far) and was suprised that a google earth style tile map system, 3d buildings and global poi's in the form of layers was not that hard at all with the help of AI. So now I want to build something useful out of it, which also should include social features like avatars, gps rtk, mobile clients, chat & video. Useful feedback is welcome. The project: https://github.com/garage44/viberfox/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by sillysideprojs »

I'm building a self hosted photo gallery with lots of features minus having to share your photos with Google/Apple.

I'm a photographer and I find myself often wanting to show someone a photo but then spend minutes trying to browse all my 30,000 photos to find it. I'm not fond of Lightroom Cloud, Google Photos, Apple Photos, etc, so I built my own, Your Own Gallery (Own Your Gallery).

It can tag images for textual search ("cloudy mountains with trees"), identify dogs and humans, and supports lots of other ways of filtering/sorting/searching photos. All the processing is done on your own computer (which can be quite slow on older machines with lots of photos).

It currently has support for NearlyFreeSpeech hosting.

There's a web app you can deploy yourself or you can just deploy the backend and connect to it from the iOS app (coming soon).

https://github.com/TravisBumgarner/your-own-gallery/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

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Post by sejje »

cjflog wrote: post #685

I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep…

I hope you're still checking comments: I had an idea for a way your app can really have some impact, maybe.

In short, your app, but for an elderly grandmother. She gets lonely, but the burden of answering gets spread across the family.

I think there's a real need for this. I'm pretty sure I read a write-up here by a guy who implemented something similar for his mother with dementia. She would call up incessantly.

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