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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)

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Post by tanin »

nl wrote: post #649
tanin wrote: 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.

It seems there are at least 2 users who need it ;)

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

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Post by junaid1460 »

Building Masonry (https://masonry.so) — a unified creative studio for AI image and video generation, mainly targeting e-commerce teams.

The core problem: there are now 45+ AI models for visual content (Kling, Sora, Veo, FLUX, Imagen, GPT-4o Image, etc.) and they each have different strengths. We aggregate them into one canvas where you can:

Generate images across 21 models and compare outputs side-by-side Convert images to video with 19 video models (Kling 2.6, Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Seedance) Use Storyboard mode to plan multi-scene videos shot-by-shot with consistent characters/assets Upscale, remove backgrounds, inpaint/outpaint — all in one workflow Main use case is e-commerce product content: lifestyle shots, 360° product reveals, unboxing videos. Upload a product image, generate variations across models, animate the best ones, export in platform-ready formats.

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

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Post by mdrzn »

jftuga wrote: post #250

Script to auto-rename screenshots with Claude Code I'm sure there are a ton of other projects out there that do this, but I couldn't find one that fit my needs exactly, so I threw this together in a few hours. claude-image-renamer uses Claude Code CLI to analyze screenshots and rename them to something actually usable. It combines OCR text extraction with Claude's vision capabilities, so instead of "Screenshot 2025-1…

Very interesting! This inspired me in making something similar to clean up my old "Download" folders from 10 years ago that are full of screenshots and random images, but I would also need it to preserve the "last-modified" of the file otherwise when I sort by date it would show me all the renamed images.

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

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Post by penetrarthur »

towledev wrote: post #675
penetrarthur wrote: post #620

I started working on a simple Telegram bot with llm backend and .md knowledgebase that would help me organize, track and research my long-term hobby projects. The problem that I am repeatedly facing is that I am trying to build a home server and I keep asking chatgpt questions, but it is hard to keep all the little details in one place. The way I see it is that I can just text my assistant bot and ask it something li…

I ran into the same problem. Tried using ChatGPT as a scrum manager. It was really good at checking off todos through conversation, but as I fleshed out the details of the project it would forget critical information - not necessarily todos, but critical information constraining the implementation of the project. In the initial stages, it was great, but it lost usefulness over time.

By ChatGPT you mean web interface of chatgpt? You were copypasting the "context" every time?

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

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Post by doubleg »

I'm working on AppQuery, a Ruby gem that makes raw SQL for Rails more intuitive https://rubygems.org/gems/appquery.

You put queries in a file `app/queries/foo.sql.erb`. Casting works and can be customised. There's ERB-support for parameterisation, with helpers like order_by and paginate.

The gem can parse and rewrite CTEs which allows for 1) rewriting the query such that basic queries (first, take, count etc.) are performant (Rails does `resultset.count`). And 2) given your query contains CTEs, it allows to write tests per CTE.

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

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Post by VoidWhisperer »

commandersaki wrote: post #612
efitz wrote: post #520

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is awesome, thank you for doing this work; it’s not glamorous but it’s a key feature to making computers productive. I know it’s not a popular opinion here but I think that Windows has two killer features that are always overlooked- the standard print dialog (and all the underlying plumbing), and the standard file dialog (at least until Windows 8). The ability to print and to interact with files, that just works…

Mac has always had print to PDF from the start, I'm not sure if even the latest windows comes with that OOB. I'm sure Linux is the same (as in the same as Mac).

Windows has had print to pdf out of the box since windows 10 (approx mid 2015)[1]

[1]: https://pdfa.org/microsoft-adds-print-to-pdf-native-to-windo...

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

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Post by cma256 »

As of yesterday I decided I want to try adding a GTK runtime for Elm. Write Elm, compile to JS, execute with QuickJS, bridge to GTK, render a native app using the JS state machine.

The goal is basically what's listed on the Elm website. No runtime errors, fearless refactoring, etc. But also improved accessibility for developers who want to create a native "Linux" app. IMO Linux should be so accessible and so amenable to rapid prototyping that it is the default choice when building a new GUI app.

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

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Post by 0dayman »

I'm building ADB Remote from the sole desire to be able to do Android development without having to commit to launching Android Studio. ADB Remote wraps common ADB and Gradle operations into a single interface. Useful for quick tasks like checking LogCat, managing devices, running builds, or testing a specific Git branch.

What it does:

File Explorer: Browse your project files and open them directly in your terminal/editor

Git Operations: Checkout and run any branch/tag directly on a device

Gradle Tasks: Run assembleDebug, installDebug, or custom tasks with streaming output

Logcat Viewer: Live filtering by level, tag, or search text

Activity Tracker: Monitor the current foreground activity

ADB Tools: Clear data, uninstall, manage permissions, input text, take screenshots

Visual Testing: Screenshot comparison tool to catch UI regressions

Terminal Integration: Open files in iTerm2, Terminal, Warp, etc.

https://saltserv.gumroad.com/l/adbremote

Feedback welcome—especially if you find yourself avoiding Android Studio for quick device tasks.

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

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Post by RamblingCTO »

I was annoyed with how clients can book a call with me, having to use and pay for a bunch of tools (like calendly, zoom, linktree/website etc.) so I built bookcall.io over the holidays. Launching soon with integrated video calls, a landing page, custom domain, attaching documents, and all that stuff, shipping this depending on demand. Pretty fun project.
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