Looking for an alternative to HN, I decided to spend 6 months writing some code and got my first result, which is how https://comuniq.xyz was born. It's nothing compared to the power of Hacker News, but it could become an alternative. To make it stand out, I added notifications, Markdown text styling, and a layout that the community there says is pretty nice.
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
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#974I'm building a financial censorship monitor at https://nofunds.org/ , that tells a story of how money has been turned into a political weapon to silence journalists, activists, and civil society by freezing assets, blocking accounts, sanctioning, and banning payments. It's part of my master's thesis https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407 and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430596 , but now I wanted to m…
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#977I’m working on https://github.com/true-async/php-async and planning to bring it to a production-ready state.
It would be great to build a fast HTTP server.
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#979Building ThoughtSnaps (https://www.thoughtsnaps.app/), a minimal tool that turns short-form writing into social cards, and longer thoughts into SnapEssays: visual documents you can share natively instead of linking to a blog post the algorithm will bury.
Pick a color theme, pick a template, export. No drag-and-drop, no layers, no fuss. I built it to scratch my own itch.
Stack is SvelteKit on the frontend, Go/Fiber on the back. Built oAuth, some templates.
Building primarily using prompts & cursor + agy. Currently building an MCP server (why not ;-) ) for it so AI assistants can generate and export cards directly.
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#980I'm building Embed Workflow (https://embedworkflow.com), an embeddable workflow builder for SaaS platforms. Your users design and run their own workflows inside your product.
Been at it for 5+ years, bootstrapped, small team. I'm a programmer first and still get to ship code daily. Also do demo calls every week. That's where I learn the most. Own product too and say no to features a lot. No investors either, which means nobody's breathing down our neck about growth.
Finishing up a workflow testing interface today. First time we've had one. I heard "this is industry standard! You need it" on demo calls forever, but nobody ever really pushed. Workarounds were good enough for our clients, and their users don't really care, they're mostly non-technical anyway. Regardless, the other night after putting the kids down I felt like knocking it out. I'll admit though, now that I have it... I wonder how I didn't do this earlier.