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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)

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Post by Xyra »

making the internet sql queryable, crawling, cleaning, indexing, embedding many sources into source-aware schemas, solving contention problem with free-floating pricing.

Currently crawling over 1M records/sec. software is still in alpha.

scry.io.

goal is a 10PB NVMe cluster online by November (need funding champions) as a public benefit project, so prosocial researchers and builders and their agents can have low-friction access to running analytical queries over the public internet.

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

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Post by triwats »

Pulling together lots of solar data trying to promote solar panel installation in the UK.

We've had three back to back heatwaves so far this summer in the UK. THREE!

Hopefully it inspires people to make an informed decision to get the best price and starts generating more questions and leads for solar companies.

https://solarable.org

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

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Post by ggitelson »

cjflog wrote: post #685

I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep…

Very interesting. Part of my says that if it rung and I wasn't the first to answer, I would feel bad. At the same time, I like the idea of being able to reach out and just say "I feel like talking to someone". I would imagine that it is super interesting for people with depression or addiction who could add their support group too.

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

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Post by zahlman »

I've been prototyping a bunch of old ideas with the free tier of ChatGPT, bouncing off design ideas and treating it like a pair programmer. Planning a blog post writeup of the general experience (along with saved chats in nicely cleaned-up Markdown) along with a handful of Show HNs.

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

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Post by codeadict »

kingo55 wrote: post #376

Continuing to build my olive oil tracking site ( https://www.extravirginvault.com/ ) and pipeline. Freshness is king in the world of olive oil, and I hope to highlight to people they can find high quality, fresh olive oil produced near them. It's been received well from producers and olive oil enthusiasts (e.g. looking for specific chemistry, cultivars and similar oils) but I feel like I've been shadow banned from Go…

Very nice site but small dataset on producers, only 2 from Spain that produces about 50% of the Olive Oil in the planet

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

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Post by zahlman »

ksaun wrote: post #79

I was an experienced game designer and producer (mostly RTS and narrative RPG). Some years ago, my career was derailed by major health developments. Since then, I haven't been able to work as I once did. I didn't expect I'd be able to meaningfully contribute to a game again. Earlier this year, a colleague encouraged me to experiment with Claude Code. So now I have a little game project. :) Being unfamiliar with genAI…

Glad to hear. I could say I'm in a similar position actually, but my setbacks have been more psychological.

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

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Post by sntran »

I'm working on a boring e-commerce site from scratch, with the boring stack of Phoenix Live View, PostgreSQL, HTML and CSS. You know, the boring stuffs.

I just don't use AI building it. It actually brings me joy amidst all these AI news and updates.

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