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

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

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Post by davemo »

I've got a bunch of irons in the fire at the moment, most leveraging or built with agentic coding tools; my harness of choice these days is pi+codex.

- An internal apps platform built with bun, pg-boss, and railway

- A smart music setlist manager that downloads chord charts, creates spotify playlists, and automatically drafts emails with attachments and practice schedules

- A recruiting intelligence platform called Spotter that I built in a weekend[0]

- A voice-agent for a client in the banking sector, implementing deterministic workflows using openai realtime voice + finite state machines[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOedMSddGDg

[1] https://blog.davemo.com/posts/2026-02-14-deterministic-core-...

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

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Post by tracyhenry »

I'm building Eima (https://eima.app) which combines your Todo List and Calendar, allowing you to schedule your todos by simply dragging them onto the calendar.

Similar apps have existed before (like Amie), but they were nearly all VC-backed and had pretty much all pivoted to AI (e.g. being an AI note taker). Their approaches to a Todo-focused calendar has been largely unsatisfying due to the focus on Enterprise users and whatever is trendy.

Eima, in contrast, focuses on personal use and does one thing very well: scheduling your todos. In particular, I spent a lot of time making sure multi-occurrence todos work smoothly (e.g. todos that need multiple attempts or simply recurring todos). These were not addressed by prior tools at all and had been my biggest motivation to build Eima.

Would love some test users! If you end up wanting to give Eima a try please use the code EARLYEIMA to get it for free.

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

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Post by jakevoytko »

I have some blog posts coming out soon. I’m also trying an experiment where I make YouTube videos[0] on each of them. My first video was a huge lift, since it was my first time doing everything.

Random observations from my first one: - presenting my idea visually helped crystallize my thinking in a way that writing doesn’t. And writing was already very good at crystallizing my thinking. - even making a bad video was a lot of work - making a video presentable is a deep subject. Subtle changes were throwing off my setup. Now I understand why so many influencers are fitness and lifestyle; the demand side is obvious, but when you’re already camera-ready you have a huge advantage on the supply side - described something I built felt natural. I do that for a living. The intro was like 45 seconds and took me like 45 minutes to film because it was acting and I don’t know how to do that - learning about video editing features had an immediate payoff because video is so long

[0] I’m posting the videos at https://m.youtube.com/@bitlog-dev . I said if the first one got to 100 I’d commit to making at least 10, and I just crossed that threshold

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

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Post by jordanarseno »

hivemunk (hivemunk.com): hive management for beekeepers.

Data engineer, 20 yrs software / 10 in ag-tech. Picked up beekeeping and was surprised how much structured data a single inspection produces, and how nowhere useful exists to put it. It's a gloved, veiled, honey-and-propolis-covered activity. Tapping through a mobile UI mid-inspection is not ideal, and good luck getting your phone back clean.

The core is a virtual hive model. It's all mutable state: boxes, frames, components, queens, and colonies you rearrange to mirror the physical yard. Treatments, feedings, and inspections layer on top.

This summer I'm shipping voice-driven inspections: narrate what you see frame by frame, STT + LLM pipeline extracts structured data and maps it to your hive model.

If you have beekeeping friends, I'd love it if you could send it along Also open to critiques. Thanks!

https://hivemunk.com

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

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Post by SpyCoder77 »

paulhebert wrote: post #130

I'm continuing to hack on Tiled Words, my daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com After winning the Playlin Player's Choice award I've noticed an uptick in players as well as some people sharing videos on YouTube which has been fun. I've got a few thousand people playing every day. I just launched user accounts today so user's can now track their progress across devices and share their stats with each other. This e…

This is going on my daily puzzle list!

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

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Post by tele_ski »

paulhebert wrote: post #130

I'm continuing to hack on Tiled Words, my daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com After winning the Playlin Player's Choice award I've noticed an uptick in players as well as some people sharing videos on YouTube which has been fun. I've got a few thousand people playing every day. I just launched user accounts today so user's can now track their progress across devices and share their stats with each other. This e…

Very nice, the movement and snapping of the tiles is very nicely done, enjoyed today's puzzle!
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