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

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

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Post by BiamOS »

I spent the last two weekends hacking together BiamOS (https://github.com/BiamOS/BiamOS) because I’m tired of how static our workspace still is.

I'm an automation engineer, and I wanted to see if I could move from the "fragmented web" to a Single View Era. Instead of just jumping between isolated SaaS silos, BiamOS uses a built-in Chromium webview with persistent sessions (Ghost-Auth) so the local LLM can interact directly with the DOM.

The goal isn't just another browser; it’s a desktop layer where the AI "reads" your active context (Gmail, Notion, Slack) and generates a unified UI based on what you’re actually doing. It’s about making the apps disappear into a single, agentic dashboard.

Stack: Electron 34, React 19, Hono, SQLite.

It’s early alpha, but I’m curious: Do you think the future of OS design lies in "Generative UI" replacing traditional window management?

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

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Post by wjgilmore »

This week I launched IterOps https://iterops.com, a heat mapping, rage click, dead click, scroll mapping, and simple A/B testing tool. I originally built it to have a better idea of what people are doing on my other micro-saas projects like https://securitybot.dev and https://contributoriq.com. Already finding it so useful that I figured I'd just turn it into a product too.

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

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Post by rio2 »

spaceships wrote: post #695

I'm working on a Chess improvement app https://blunders.ai . The main goal is letting people analyze their games and improve by studying their blunders. It uses stockfish and AI for analysis. You can chat with your games like "Why would I do ___ instead of this?" Also, there are the standard puzzles and openings type learning with improvement plans.

Oh no, I did exactly the same software :(

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

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Post by hangil131 »

I’ve been working on a project called *Mimesis Protocol* — a structured semantic representation model for natural language.

The basic idea is that an utterance often has a gap between its surface form and its actual function in context. For example, a sentence like “Do you know what time it is?” may look like a question, but pragmatically function as criticism, pressure, or a prompt for reflection.

Mimesis tries to represent an utterance not just as text, but as a structured object with separate layers for: - `core`: semantic meaning and emotion - `will`: communicative purpose and influence - `flow`: discourse framing / progression - `exp`: surface realization

I’ve put together: - an English/Korean whitepaper - a schema spec - a working interactive demo

Still early, but I’m interested in whether something like this is useful as an intermediate representation layer for LLM systems, agent workflows, or discourse analysis.

Repo: https://github.com/hangil131/Mimesis-Protocol Demo: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-681be5f72cc4819191c2b12c9d89b336-mim...

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

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Post by fuxcodestudio »

I working on an app I built called Checkpoint. It’s an open source backup system for developers that protects everything Git ignores. .env files, databases, credentials, local configs.

I started it after an AI coding agent destroyed my SQLite database mid-session for the third time. Git doesn't back up databases, and it shouldn't. But nothing else was doing it either.

It runs silently in the background and watches your project, detects changes, backs up to encrypted cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud). Supports SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB. Has a native macOS menu bar dashboard.

Free and open source. v2.7.0

GitHub: https://github.com/fluxcodestudio/Checkpoint Site: https://checkpoint.fluxcode.studio

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

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Post by consumer451 »

consumer451 wrote: post #666

I just launched a free wysiwyg markdown editor. It currently uses only IndexedDB for storage making it as private as possible. The only network calls are polling for the "click to update" toast, and the feedback form. I was sick of getting cross-eyed when looking at tables in raw markdown and was just running it locally. This weekend I realized it might be useful for others. The goal was simple as possible UX. Open u…

https://md-edit.com now has an MCP server. If you choose to sync with my cloud service, you can ask Claude.ai & Cowork, Cursor, Windsurf, etc to all work on the same set of docs. The webapp has realtime, multi-device sync, version history, diffs, and so much more.

This has taken over my life. I took a week off of work to finish it.

This project was based on dogfooding, and every feature is something I wanted and now use daily. This is the most fun I have had in years.

That webapp I made in a week, is now indispensable to me as the key to human in the loop AI work. Truly, what a time to be alive!

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

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Post by PingCo »

I'm so excited to begin work on a new pair of software products geared towards professionals. I have the domain names secured and I'm actively defining the product requirements. I'm also researching infrastructure/architecture questions. Obviously I'll make mistakes and have to move things around in the future, but I'm trying to get as much right initially as I can. I don't know when I'll be able to launch, but I would be very happy if it was some time before the end of the year!

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

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Post by shloim »

do_anh_tu wrote: post #257

I wrote this Telegram bot that translates any video with AI-generated subtitles in about 2 minutes. You paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link, pick your language, and get back the video with burned-in subtitles. It started because my wife watches Chinese dramas and new episodes never have subtitles for our language. Turns out thousands of people have the same problem — Arabic speakers watching anime, Russian spe…

Cool! I built a similar bot a year ago, mostly for adding subtitles for short videos within telegram, to follow news from around the world.

Blog post here: https://medium.com/data-science-collective/breaking-language...

Check it out here: https://t.me/ktuvitbot

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