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

I'm developing a tool that will help you easily delete your data from services. It scans the subject line and sender email address of the emails in your inbox and suggests an email draft to help you delete that service. It's open source and self-hostable, with privacy and security as top priorities. I got the idea when Saymine.com was acquired by McAfee and became total bs...

This is my first project that I want to release to the public, and the official instance will be free to use. I'll try to keep costs low without sacrificing service quality, and I hope to keep the project afloat with donations because I believe everyone should have the right to easily remove their data, regardless of cost or technical expertise. I don't have anything to share yet because it's still in the early stages of development, but it's looking good so far.

Currently I am working on a browser + server based video editing site. The site is almost 6 years old and started as something I made for friends on Discord. It's a tool based site where I add tools as friends and family request them, most tools like resizing a video, cutting a video, extracting audio use ffmpeg wasm and run in the browser but I also have the option to process it on my server which is faster. In the last couple of months I have started experimenting with AI and I have added some AI tools such as transcription, image generation with small models and stuff like that. I am also dogfooding the website for my $dayjob so I added a browser based screen recorder which allows me to create short tutorial like videos and quickly share them with clients. https://editclips.online/

Actually a pretty interesting idea. What problems does it solve? Who is your ICP? What language do they use to describe their problem? Try to answer those questions and put it in your LP.

Right now your LP reads like a technical doc rather than a product’s page.

I've been working on a framework for writing executable specs in .NET called Accordant, developed at Microsoft and open sourced recently.

Github: https://github.com/microsoft/accordant

Docs: https://microsoft.github.io/accordant

Every API has a contract - the rules for how it should behave. You can't withdraw more than the balance. You can't delete a resource with active references. You can't re-create what already exists. But usually these rules are never written down in one place. Accordant lets you write the contract directly, as executable code. Not documentation that drifts, but code - if the implementation stops behaving according to the contract, you get immediate failures. Not only can you use the executable spec to validate _arbitrary_ scenarios, you can also use the spec - a first class construct - to mechanically explore the state space of a system and generate interesting test sequences. The docs above have examples.

Also worth calling out that we've used the framework to model a number of complex, distributed real-world systems: those involving async processes, concurrency, retries and crash consistency. These are non-trivial specs (and they pair quite well with techniques like deterministic simulation testing). Great care has been taken to ensure the specs remain readable and concise despite that richness of behavior. For those of you old timers who might be familiar with Spec#/SpecExplorer and NModel, this model-based testing library is a descendant of that line of work.

With the rise in AI-assisted software development, I feel we need richer ways of specifying and validating software and I feel quite excited and bullish about the possibilities here. There's a lot more to say on the topic - follow my twitter feed if interested in more updates ;)

For a while a "cv2vec" lingered in my mind, but abandoned it due to the sheer volume of PII I'd need.

How do you deal with CVs like mine that refuse to list every I'm familiar with because it's pointless clutter? In that sense, and IME, the companies that only hire perfect fits are, more often than not, toxic.