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

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

#941

A Drobpox like app that works with FTP and every other storage protocol along gateways to access your Dropbox over FTP, SFTP, S3: - the desktop client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive - the web client: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

Love this. Maybe consider a backend of remotestorage.io

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

#942
Recently worked on https://sleepsignal.app . Instead of music or long podcasts, you are given something to imagine. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one. . Simply close your eyes, listen and imagine . Try a 10-minute session tonight

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

#943

I've been building https://consciousnesslibrary.org , an open library for psychedelic and consciousness research that pulls from over a dozen academic APIs every 20 minutes, dedupes them, organizes by relevance, and synthesizes evidence. I just finished my master's in Psychedelics and Consciousness Studies, and built the library I wanted while studying. I started it over a year ago, but put it down until my practicum…

What job queue system do you use that works with Postgres?

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

#944
Building throwdown.top: a free web app for making leaderboards for club crossfit competitions. The main goal was to build a tool for a friend who owns a crossfit box. The app is kinda simple (a few forms and tables) and not overloaded with features, but I was trying my best to make the UX comfortable, because I was the first user, and my friend - the second one :) It is battle-tested at real club events, so the early kinks have already been worked out, but feedback is always welcome!

https://throwdown.top

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

#945
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I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which friend 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 their…

I like it, I've been thinking about making something similar. This is such a good alternative to current social media.

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

#946
post #894

AI quant trading (so that I have another income and can stop being threatened by managers that if I don't meet their unrealistic expecations that I won't have food on the table next year). So far it's going well, 30000% gains on my initial capital in 3 months very gradually over 100K trades. But I need to build some more sleeves because (a) the edge could die any time (b) I hit capacity of that edge and it can only g…

Did you use any libraries?

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

#947
Over the last 6-9 months, I build an app to calculate the optimum jet lag management plan from a combination of flight. It tells you the optimum times for light exposure, sleeping, taking coffee...

It started with a naive "I know the tricks, let put them in an app" based on my own travel experience and quickly turned into a pretty nasty constrained optimization problem to optimize a cost function while keeping the schedule realist. So far I have been slowly releasing with friends and family, but I am pretty happy with the results as it can handle pretty complex combination of flights and layovers, compared to other similar apps.

If anyone wants to poke at it, I'd love to have some feedback! https://www.jetlagcoach.com

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

#948
Lapse (lapse.in) – a little memory space for my AI agents

I kept losing thoughts. An idea would show up while walking, half a sentence before falling asleep, some random connection I knew I’d want later — and by the time I found the right app to write it down, it was gone.

So I built Lapse for myself.

It’s a memory layer that my AI agents can read from and write to. I can talk to it, dump a thought, or send it something half-formed. I don’t have to worry about folders or organizing anything. The agent figures out where it belongs.

There’s MCP for Claude, a simple HTTP API for everything else, and an iPhone Shortcut for quick voice capture. There is alos a chrome extension that pops up on selecting a text & lets you log it as a lapse.

This is a closed system which you can use for various use-cases like Journaling, Meeting Notes, Reminder, Second Brain etc.. I’ve been using it every day for a few weeks (150+ lapses) now, mostly for the little things I would've otherwise forgotten.

It’s still a very personal project, but it’s becoming a surprisingly useful place for my thoughts to live. There are few other users as well.

Read more here - https://hariprasd.me/works/lapse

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

#949
I'm having some success doing work on my own, so I decided to create a version of my site for the US, specializing in providing maintenance services for WordPress sites. It is not the most intellectual work, but I enjoy helping small businesses with problems that can really affect them:

https://us.alprado.com

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

#950

I'm having some success doing work on my own, so I decided to create a version of my site for the US, specializing in providing maintenance services for WordPress sites. It is not the most intellectual work, but I enjoy helping small businesses with problems that can really affect them: https://us.alprado.com

A friend of mine runs a 6 person company where they specialize in maintaining WordPress sites for SMBs.

It's definitely a viable business!

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