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

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I just made a orchid journaling app. It lets you create profiles of all your orchids, give the flowers name and track their daily statistics. Kind of like those baby tracking apps for new parents, but all about orchid flowers instead. It's made using flutter so it is supposedly cross platform, but I just made it yesterday and so far I'm only trying our the android version for all my flowers.

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

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This is really cool. What do you think the remaining ~1% is?

The area inside the circles described by cloverleaf interchanges. ;)

Coverage is calculated by actual / expected # of parcels, not area. But good try :)

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

#734

I’ve been developing a rewrite of the dashboard app (admin app) for a fairly popular free app that has been out for just about 2 years. The original dashboard was written in a hurry. It’s solid and effective, but clunky. It was written in UIKit, and uses the same backend as the main app. The new app is being done in SwiftUI (with all its strengths and weaknesses), and has a new, streamlined, backend. It’s much faster…

is it mobile app or webapp?

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

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I'm working on creating Lovable for popular CMSs like wordpress, ghost, substack etc.

I've spent that last year working with news organizations to improve their online presence and a lot of my job has ended up being translating their ideas into wordpress clicks using Claude or ChatGPT. They can't take advantage of products like Lovable because the resulting code won't work with the CMS that their staff is used to.

Email me if you'd like free access! seamus@presspass.ai

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

#737

I built the running app I always wanted: https://runcoach.fly.dev You get tailored running schedules and also some body weight strength workouts and healthy meals all in one!

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It should be fixed now!

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

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I've got two going :) https://shepherd.com/ Building a really unique book recommendation platform to help readers find books they might not otherwise know about. We just started working on a full book app that will be a private book diary, along with recommendations and insights based on your Book DNA. Think Goodreads, but rebuilt for readers who want a private space to track what they read, keep notes, and get truly…

> We just started working on a full book app that will be a private book diary, along with recommendations and insights based on your Book DNA. Think Goodreads, but rebuilt for readers who want a private space to track what they read, keep notes, and get truly personalized book recommendations (like Pandora or Spotify for books). Oh! This is very similar to the project I am working on, Colibri[1], a self-hostable ebo…

Ya please, ben@shepherd.com

I'd love to chat about API etc

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

#739
Building DitchSpam (https://ditchspam.com) - temporary phone numbers specifically for enquiry forms. The problem: every time you fill out a quote form (insurance, home services, loans, B2B demos), your number enters a lead-selling ecosystem. These forms sell contact data into telemarketing databases within minutes. Result: 5–50 spam calls/day that DND and Truecaller can't block because they're real call-center numbers, not spoofed. Americans received 52.5 billion robocalls in 2025. 31% of adults get at least one scam call daily . Average loss per scam victim: $3,690. And only 44% of phone companies have fully installed mandated anti-robocall software. DitchSpam flips this. Prevention over reaction. Generate a temporary number (1–30 day validity), use it on any lead form, receive calls/SMS in your dashboard. Number auto-expires. Telemarketers hit a dead end. Built for anyone in the US, UK, or Canada who fills out high-intent forms but hates the spam spiral that follows. . Would love feedback from anyone who's dealt with this problem.

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

#740

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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...

Fair enough, for me that is very late to the game.
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