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

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

#641
Sharing my hobby project: CodeLens - yet another AI code reviewer :)

Combines AI review (Ollama/Claude/Gemini) with static analysis in one place.

- Multi-LLM support (can run locally with Ollama),

- static analysis,

- GitHub/GitLab webhooks.

- Developer pulse and leaderboard to gamify reviews

- LLM cost monitoring to avoid surprise bills

Nothing fancy, just something I built for my own use and decided to open source.

Feedback welcome.

https://bhuvangupta.github.io/codelens/

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

#642
post #122

Over the holidays I was building a wooden birdhouse with a Unifi Protect camera and a small web interface that automatically identifies the birds and shows me a simple overview over which type of bird visited how many times. Birdhouse: https://img.notmyhostna.me/cRQ1gJfZCHjQKwFrgKQj UI: - https://img.notmyhostna.me/Hnw4qcvbg1ZQCrFxzGMn - https://img.notmyhostna.me/62TFwSXSRRbCfxDz297h - https://img.notmyhostna.me/40q…

Reminds me of a joke i heard yesterday

My wife said 'you look bored you should build a bird table'

'Now shes not speaking to me as she found out shes 5th on the list'

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

#643
I'm vibe coding a fantasy console with the feel of early 90s computing.

100% vibe coded WASM based. It runs Doom so far.

I'm building that because I'm building a free-to-use vibe coding platform (ala Lovable) but the entire world off all apps is too hard to one shot with the current set of free LLM models... So now I have something it can target.

I've spent a lot of time with free models because I use them heavily in my VibeProlog project (https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog/), which is actually in pretty good shape now. Next step is to rebuild the parser so it can load libraries in a somewhat reasonable way.

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

#644
post #374

I’m working on a free and open-source invoice generator: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/?template=stripe Features: - No Sign-Up Required + Instant PDF download - Live PDF Preview - Shareable Links - Multiple Templates (incl. Stripe-style) - Flexible Tax Support (VAT, GST, Sales Tax, and custom tax formats with automatic calculations) - Multi-Language (Support for 10+ languages and all major currencies) - Mobile-Friendly…

If you target EU customers check e-invoicing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPOL to potentially integrate with a gateway. I don't think it's a lot of work and there are test gateways but I believe a lot, if not most, EU businesses who aren't transitioning to it this year will do so very soon and thus are looking for it.

Thank you, support for e-invoices is planned. Issue to track: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf/issues/121

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

#645
I've been working for the past few years building robust, locally owned digital community infrastructure for rural areas.

The pilot is being released this month in partnership with the newspaper of record and local radio stations that cover four rural counties in the New York Catskills.

It's a modular platform that wraps current workflows, rather than replace them. If the pilot shows promise, we'll move forward with offering it to other regions using the same type of partnership model.

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

#646

https://www.votivus.org A hobby project I started putting together late last year; a little spot on the internet for prayer and reflection. https://dugnad.stavanger-digital.no/ A pro bono tech consultancy for local non profits. The idea is to help them use tech to better deliver on their mission.

this is beautiful, thank you :)

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

#647

I recently inherited my grandfather's typewriter that he inherited from his father (circa 1940). And Id like to put it to good use. My wife challenged me to make a project. Now Im getting my wheels turning with a new project to type and ship letters custom made with 280 chars and some other personal touches.

The very different idea that came to my mind is to electro-mechanically wire up the keys, and hook it up to an LLM. You type something, then it types back. Like Tom Riddle's diary.

Dont think this hasnt crossed my mind! ;)

I also like the idea of doing elaborate ascii art with a type writer.

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

#648

Vim-inspired, as in it's minimal and fast, text editor on the web. No modal-editing yet but, once the current natural input mode is decoupled, clients can bring their own modes/controllers via the extension system. It's meant to be embeddable and hackable, serving as a building block for custom IDEs as opposed to being IDE-like VSCode. I felt the web IDE space was uninspired with apps built around VScode/Monaco effec…

this looks very nice.

I see this doesn't use or contenteditable, I'm curious how close can it get to native controls or can this replace them? Things like mouse selection and usual hot keys like Cmd+A and maybe other things.

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

#649
post #550

I'm launching many landing pages these days and want to collect emails into waitlists. I have been working on Wait: https://github.com/tanin47/wait , a self-hostable CORS-enabled headless waitlist system that connects to Google Sheets. I have many landing pages hosted for free on Netlify and Github Pages as static pages. All of them have waitlist forms that send cross-domain AJAX requests to the Wait server, which th…

Is there actually demand for this?

I did one that writes to a Notion DB and is hosted for free on Cloudflare. I don't think I bothered to open source it though.

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

#650
We're building a modern self-hosted 'backstage' ish product but opinionated with fast setup, cli, modern event-driven architecture, instant search and built for kubernetes. Using golang backend microservices and svelte5 frontend. Its multitenant by design. : https://shoehorn.dev. Alpha will be released Q1 :)
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