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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)
#862Still the same HID remapping project from last month (I was hoping to be done by now, but hardware is hard): https://github.com/cedarhacks/HIDMorph This is an HID ReMapping device, things like converting keyboard input to joystick input, or adding macros to specific inputs. The usage is: - It has 1 USB in and 1 USB out. - In programming mode it's a USB drive you can put LUA scripts on (or pull out log files). - In ru…
Ive dabbled in a bit of all of this, and let me say, good luck! Sounds interesting.
Unfortunately, USB is hot garbage imo. The USB-IF, really screwed up USB, especially with all the power negotiation bullshit that has to happen now. Thanks to their ever changing USB3.x super premium plus ultra megaspeed crap that they keep doing, i ended up giving up on a multi-year usb project. Because of their changes, i would have had to change my entire build, and have to mitm usb devices, which i explicitly built my device to avoid. And then theres the USB-C cable, and the stupid process of negotiation and the power cable active crap, just... uhg, i hate usb after going down that rabbit hole.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#864Building a 22-service e-commerce platform in Rust (Runs on ~300MB RAM) I'm 17. For the past 6 months, I've been diving deep into Rust to answer a question for myself: "Is Rust actually viable for complex, enterprise-grade backend architectures, or is it just hype?" To test this, I built a full distributed e-commerce system (22 microservices, gRPC, Event-Driven) using Axum and Tokio. This is not meant as “how everyone…
You'd probably get more responses if you included a link to the project. Good luck though and kudos for building something :)
Fair point — I held off on the link to fix a few last bugs and integration details before the demo.
Recording the launch video now and planning a proper Show HN later this week.
I’ll drop the link here once it’s live. Thanks for the kind words :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#865Over 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…
You may appreciate this: https://alec.is/posts/unifi-g3-flex-bird-camera/
Indeed, that was one of the posts I stumbled upon when I started building this. There's also another one which I found interesting (https://hawksley.org/2025/02/20/my-ubiquiti-unifi-protect-bi...) as it documented the way to mod a G5 camera to set the focal length as someone on Reddit also documented before.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#866I keep working on Routing24 https://routing24.com , a free route optimization tool for businesses. It's been approx. an year since we are up and running, and we helped 100+ businesses in the US and world-wide to understand the value and savings of automated route planning, and prepared tens thousands of optimized routes for companies operating from 1 to 50 vehicles. All this keeping our operational expenses low and f…
Looks like a fantastic service. Given your product/pricing structure, I would imagine that route planning is now achievable for a whole range of services that would never have been able to use it (like local paper deliveries, small shops etc). Congrats on the launch.
Thanks! I haven't figured out the commercial part yet, but plan to have forever fee tier in the future too.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#867I have built something to find the buses along different routes in southern India, along with prices and the optimal side to sit on inside a bus. It gives the real-time bus data between stations and also a map describing the route on a map. I am planning to add a price tracker (scraping from different platforms) and infuse AI to get the reviews about the route and bus conditions along with specific things in a specific area that are obvious to local people. I am also planning to add multimodal support and local place recommendations when we have time between hop-ins and hop-outs. The code is open source only, and it is currently hosted in Hugging Face space at https://hemann-bus-tracker.hf.space/ Open for any suggestions, criticism, and improvement.. Basically anything IK it is not in pretty good shape or a novel idea to reckon with .
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#868I've been working on Moments (textmoments.com). It's a journaling app that you text instead of open.
I always had the same problem with journaling. My best thoughts always came to me at inconvenient times like when I was on the subway or with friends.
So about a year and a half ago I hacked together a journaling solution for myself. I set up a Twilio phone number, a server to receive the messages, logged the message to a txt file, and committed it to a GitHub repo. It was extremely simple, but it worked surprisingly well for me. The friction was low enough that I actually used it every day... and I had perfectly timestamped journal entries with full version control.
Over time I wanted photos and voice notes, plus a better way to visualize everything. So I rebuilt this it into something more robust that other people can actually use.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#869I’m building a budgeting app called Envelope, it’s like the envelope budgeting concept but has the checking account built in. https://envelopebudgeting.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#870I'm doing on my personal town blog website. I want to have a place that is my personal town. I can put anything on it, like a small town with many houses that I want to have.