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

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

#611
I'm constantly working on https://only-eu.eu/en

A directory of European software and general alternatives to popular products.

Think cloud storage, email, VPN, browsers, smartphones, bikes,... About 175 products across 30+ categories right now.

Next categories will be: personal health, commercial e-mail and newsletter management.

If you have a product that's missing here, please feel free to suggest it via the suggestion form on the site.

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

#612

I’m continuing to work on my daily puzzle game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com Forbes just wrote an article about it which was a fun surprise! [1] It recently turned 6 months old which is wild to me. My wife and I have made a new puzzle every day for half a year! I wrote a blog post about this [2] I recently released user logins. That went well and a lot of people are using them. I also let you filter the backlog…

I love Tiled Words, thanks for making it.

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

#613
I left my fulltime faculty position at the university. I'm only teaching two modules this semester and I'll probably fade out even more in the future.

I've also paused recording any new lectures at pikuma.com for now. I'm still taking some time to decide what's next for the website. I'm currently focusing on reviewing math & physics to help homeschool my son.

Other than that, I just improved the roof of my chicken coop and I'm slowly evolving the foundation of my study cabin. This new place will be my offline library and music room soon. My plan is to only really go online once a week starting August this year.

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

#614

European night trains search engine. The plan is not to provide the functionality where user searches for a specific route on a specific date and the engine returns prices. The plan is to provide "tips for trips", e.g. I provide a starting city and it will recommend me interesting trip ideas any time in the future. There are many flight apps that provide this functionality, but no train app. Currently I'm building sc…

This is awesome, I would list it on https://only-eu.eu , if that's ok for you?

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

#616
Working on halalcodecheck.com - a platform to verify food ingredients. Something that started as a tool to scan or upload product labels to verify ingredients has now transformed into a repository of brands, food types, and guides covering major accreditation bodies in the US, UK, Canada etc.

In April, the site receievd 3,500 clicks from Google - 7× growth month-on-month. Cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

Working as a solo founder, some of the stuff I shipped last month:

⤷ Launched a seasonal gifting vertical - new revenue surface, new content format, reusable template for future occasion launches

⤷ Audited verdicts for all brands and food items, incorporating data from various authentic sources and official accreditation bodies

⤷ Expanded programmatic SEO across ingredient and brand categories

⤷ Turned zero-result dead-ends into a list growth lever

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

#619

European night trains search engine. The plan is not to provide the functionality where user searches for a specific route on a specific date and the engine returns prices. The plan is to provide "tips for trips", e.g. I provide a starting city and it will recommend me interesting trip ideas any time in the future. There are many flight apps that provide this functionality, but no train app. Currently I'm building sc…

530 eur for return train from Prague to Frankfurt? I guess the reason why there aren't any train apps is that traveling by train seems useless at these prices... :(

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

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post #250

Fitting lines to 'xray' scans of buildings - turning pixels into vector art. Lets say you have a complex industrial plant, or datacenter you want to upgrade. You scan it with lidar and get a pointcloud and 360 panorama images. This gives you a large dataset, but what you really want is a floorplan, a lite CAD plan showing the racks, cable trays etc. You take the scan, slice the pointcloud and make an ortho image .. i…

Interesting, so you process the point cloud purely in 2D slices? do things like vertical piping cause any issues? or is 2D enough? I'm just finishing up a PhD in modelling industrial spaces from point clouds so I find this space fascinating.
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