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

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

#602
I am vibecoding a elixir/phoenix agent dashboard to manually & closely review the coding agent plans and code patches for my day job. I am at a stage where I can I use portal to work on the portal and my day job.

I have not yet figured out a way to live reload the dashboard itself after a feature addition or a bug fix. :-(

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

#603
Several projects.

1. an extension to my shop (I have a shop! I never thought I would have one of these) for water treatment and food storage.

2. an agentic framework that I started on in January - maelstrom. You can find the current code here: https://github.com/zerohumancompany2/maelstrom-code/tree/ske...

The whole point of this framework is to increase the robustness of agents so that small models (30b class) can function over long time horizons reliably. Other goals include auditability (full agent sessions are stored durably and can be branched/rolled back/restarted from any point, all over-the-wire comms are also durably stored) and reliability (sane fallbacks for common failure cases).

The current iteration (sketch 7 or draft 7 or 8) is specifically a coding agent framework. In the future I'd like to expand the core to handle a variety of tasks.

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

#605

I've been working on IdleQuest for about a year. It's a from-the-ground-up recreation of the 1999 classic, EverQuest. It features a custom real-time MMO server built in Go, a very thoroughly implemented web client, and the classic UI recreated in React. I spent hundreds of hours meticulously scraping, cleaning, and organizing original data and graphics, and there's still a lot of work to do. But I've had a lot of fun…

That's cool. I tried it out and the movement is very floaty, so much so that it's hard to navigate the first room without running headfirst into a wall every time I try to go somewhere. Is it true to the original? Performance is great though.

Considering how difficult it can be to get certain versions of the game running nowadays, it's nice to have another option to explore the world! I tried and tried to get EQ1999 running on different Linux distributions (Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS) but just couldn't. Only version that worked is the official Steam client.

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

#606

I am working on ShopSpec ( https://shopspec.io/ ), a tool for designing bookshelves and cabinets. Enter the dimensions and it generates the parts, cuts, sheet layout, and build steps. I built it because I wanted to spend less time drawing boxes in CAD and more time building them. Still early and I'd love feedback from other woodworkers.

This is super cool.

Bed frames might be a nice category to add as well :)

I have wanted to build some custom bookshelves for an oddly shaped room I have. Any plans on adding bookshelves that aren't rectangular?

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

#608
A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc...

I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.

I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.

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

#609
combining idea banks/feature request boards with popular product management surveys, with the idea to help people discover better signals from the noise of user feedback, and then follow up with interested users for in-depth research. We used to do this combining several tools for a SaaS product that we sold last year, and I thought it would be useful to build a unified service so everything is in a single tool. An early version (useful but not fully polished) is live at https://www.votito.com

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

#610

A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc... I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free. I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to…

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