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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#651
TermWatch, a terminal-native monitoring

Monitor your infrastructure from the terminal.

Integrated GitOps flow.

Define monitors in YAML, deploy from your terminal, get alerted when things break.

No dashboards to click through.

Install via CURL, dotnet package or manual download.

https://termwatch.dev

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#652
A friend and I are building Sheet Ninja (https://sheetninja.io).

It turns your Google Sheet into a live API.

We know the "Sheet to API" space is a little crowded, but we've always wanted to get better at distribution, marketing, and growth hacking. We needed a real product as a sandbox to learn, so we built a tool that we'd use ourselves.

There's a free tier. I'd love to hear any feedback on the product (or our marketing efforts!). Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#654
This month, I'm working on VT Code, a terminal-native coding agent I've been building in Rust (https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode).

This month I'm focusing on long-pending TODO items: self-benchmarking with Terminal bench (https://www.tbench.ai/), fuzzing the security parsers (it executes shell commands, so the threat model is real), normalizing extended thinking traces across providers, and improving the agent UI/UX and TUI components and harness.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#655
Not a developer but have few ideas that I didn't pursue due to professional and personal responsibilities. One of them was a simple protein price comparison tool that allows me to find the value for money protein powder which is tested for label accuracy, heavy metals, amino spiking etc. I used to maintain an excel of my known brands and track which ones offered the best value without breaking my bank. I thought if I am looking for such data then there might be others like me. So I recently subscribed to Claude and was able to create a simple website from scratch. It's great that people can create their hobby projects so easily now.

Link to website:

https://compareproteinprices.com/index.html

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#656
I'm working on a simple, single person, self-hostable scheduling app [1] (think Calendly or Cal.com) to replace my self-hosted Cal.com instance, as it's way overkill for my needs and annoying to maintain.

I'm also using this as an experiment to see how to use AI tools to build a maintainable project of medium complexity. Too big to do in "one shot", but doable if decomposed into a few dozen tasks.

It's going well! I think I only started Saturday morning and put in maybe 4-5 hours on it, and it's in pretty decent shape. Not ready for prime time yet, but only a few hours away from replacing Cal.com for my own use. The slowest part is that I'm manually reviewing the code, but that's part of the deal for this experiment.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~bsprague/schedyou

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#658

These past weeks I finally organized some ideas I'd been sitting on and wrote two posts: From Agentic Reasoning to Deterministic Scripts: on why AI agents shouldn't reason from scratch on every repeated task, and how execution history could compile into deterministic automations https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/03/08/from-agentic-reasoning-to... The silent filter: on cognitive erosion as a quieter, more probable civiliza…

Re: the silent filter, I'm reminded of the McLuhan quote:

"Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth."

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#659
I just launched Kyaraben, it's an alternative to EmuDeck that autoconfigures Syncthing for your devices.

For those not in in that niche, the goal is to set up a Linux desktop or Steam Deck for retro (and not so retro) video game emulation, so you just drop in your ROMs, open a frontend via Steam, and play your games.

https://kyaraben.org

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

#660

Not a developer but have few ideas that I didn't pursue due to professional and personal responsibilities. One of them was a simple protein price comparison tool that allows me to find the value for money protein powder which is tested for label accuracy, heavy metals, amino spiking etc. I used to maintain an excel of my known brands and track which ones offered the best value without breaking my bank. I thought if I…

Reminds me of the chicken feed app I saw about 40 years ago, before the internet It would find the best price for protein, carbohydrates etc in chicken feed looking at raw products like bone meal and maize with current prices. Remarkable actually, I wonder what happened to it? Anyone else remember any apps before the internet?
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