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

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My meta side project for building other side projects: https://bodge.app/ I've always had a bunch of small side projects that I want to do that aren't worth the overhead required to actually put them together & keep them maintained. So, I built a small Lua-based FaaS platform to make each individual project less work whenever inspiration strikes. So far I've built: * A current-time API for some hacked-together IoT de…

Thanks for sharing! I signed up and tried it for something simple (storing a message via POST and displaying it in HTML via GET) and it was delightfully easy & approachable.

Great to hear! And thanks for saying so. I've definitely tried to make it as simple and straight forward as possible, but I really didn't know if it would be simple and straight forward to anyone but me.

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

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I built a way to chat with the documents in this post (updates live). https://nthesis.ai/public/702445eb-f0e4-4730-b34f-f34eb06dd6... Or you can do a basic text search: https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-working-on

What LLM do you use for this? Self hosted or cloud?

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

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I’m working on a small iOS app for streaming my own media directly from a NAS.

I built it because I wanted access to my music (and videos) on my phone without running a full media server like Plex or Jellyfin, and without syncing files locally. The app streams files directly over a VPN (WireGuard / Tailscale), mainly via SFTP/FTP, and plays them as-is without re-encoding or server-side indexing.

You can browse folders directly, or let it build a lightweight local index for faster artist/album browsing on larger libraries. It started as a personal tool, but I’ve been polishing it after some feedback and opened a small TestFlight beta:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/PaQAsGcM

Still early and rough in places, but it’s already replaced my own setup.

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

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building a rest APIs that aggregates and structures data from the www

- ETL is vanilla Python - Orchestrated with Cron and SIGUSR1 - http is Nginx -> uvicorn-> FastAPI

Data lives in a CAFS indexed with Xapian and my current time to load is ~200ms

It's been A LOT of work all far. I came in with some skills and have learnt a lot along the way

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

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Spent about 2 years improving printing and scanning stack of Linux: CUPS, SANE, AirSane, as well as some legacy drivers, and also x86 proprietary driver emulation on ARM with Box86. Even that "modern" printing stack in Linux is 20+ years old, there's still such an unbelievable amount of basic bugs and low-hanging-fruit optimizations, that it's kinda sad. Not to mention that it still maintains ALL its legacy compatibi…

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

#328

I’m working on a small iOS app for streaming my own media directly from a NAS. I built it because I wanted access to my music (and videos) on my phone without running a full media server like Plex or Jellyfin, and without syncing files locally. The app streams files directly over a VPN (WireGuard / Tailscale), mainly via SFTP/FTP, and plays them as-is without re-encoding or server-side indexing. You can browse folder…

Is it something similar to Infuse but with audio support?

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

#329

I'm working on BacklogAI, an autopilot engineer for SaaS teams. You connect GitHub, CI, Sentry, and Linear, and it takes tickets all the way to production. Claude writes the changes, BacklogAI handles tests, migrations, feature flags, staged rollouts, etc... It’s clearing months of backlog work in hours, and a couple teams I’m working with have already stopped hiring because it’s cheaper than adding more developers.…

Do you have any concerns about production bugs or human-in-the-loop?

Human in the loop is no longer needed as all production bugs are fixed with a bug fix agent automatically.

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

#330

I'm working on BacklogAI, an autopilot engineer for SaaS teams. You connect GitHub, CI, Sentry, and Linear, and it takes tickets all the way to production. Claude writes the changes, BacklogAI handles tests, migrations, feature flags, staged rollouts, etc... It’s clearing months of backlog work in hours, and a couple teams I’m working with have already stopped hiring because it’s cheaper than adding more developers.…

What’s needed to make it at least 121x productivity?

Claude 5.0
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