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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 conrs »

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…

This is an interesting idea. I'm building https://tend2thrive.com - I could see an interesting collaboration here. Always looking for ways to re-engage your network without it feeling heavy.

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

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Post by chadbuds »

rf-monitor wrote: post #570

I'm building an RF monitoring system. It can tell you things like: - The car that parked nearby last night coincided with "Chad's Galaxy Buds" with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night. - Alert on sudden cross-specturm interference (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to knock out WiFi cameras). - Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises). - Review dev…

So you collect PII in a public space and use correlations to deanonymize, link and collect further PII. A GDPRinator 9000.

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

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Post by CarlJW »

Making a little static site to document the AV setup at my church.

Started with just an html page with buttons for shortcuts. Added a few paragraphs and then got tired of writing html. Not many simple wysiwyg desktop html editors surprisingly.

Then discovered Zola, a static site generator that takes md files as content, and adds them to template html files.

Perfect for my little use case. I'm having fun with it :D

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

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Post by physix »

https://github.com/Cyoda/cyoda-go

Business objects as state machines.

The idea is to reduce the number of moving parts and simplify processing architecture when building apps that need to be transactionally rigorous and scalable.

It stems from the patterns we used to successfully apply in banks, which worked really well. I believe it's an effective way to get shit done in a broad class of systems. You just need to first get your head around it.

https://medium.com/@paul_42036/whats-an-entity-database-11f8...

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

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Post by andrewrn »

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…

Super neat concept. One super low-lift way to improve its reception: change the styling of the landing page to not be blatant AI slop.

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

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Post by thomas_housecat »

I got so frustrated with all of the busywork that was building up in my email inbox that I built something better.

Housecat is the first email inbox that helps you get real work done. Our email connects to the other services you actually use like your Claude, Notion, Slack, CRM and Github and makes it easy to send messages and data between them. So if you need to update the CRM with a new lead, track a Github issue or ask a question of a colleague in Slack, you can do it all from right inside of your inbox. We just launched the email app in private beta.

Check out https://housecat.com/ or join the beta at https://home.housecat.com/welcome

Feedback and thoughts very welcome!

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

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Post by ryanisnan »

I made Media Den, a privacy-by-design iOS photo and video vault.

I launched in April, and I've been steadily updating it as time allows. Really happy with how far it's come. Here are the notable privacy-by-design features I've led with:

  - Bring-your-own-storage
  - End-to-end encrypted media (config stored encrypted in the secure enclave, cached data gets stored encrypted -- one exception is videos, which require on-disk passing to the native video player -- data gets stored on your cloud provider's system encrypted)
  - Multi-cloud replication (and promotion from a replica to a new primary)
  - Proximity-based no-internet local file sharing using ephemeral keys, with man-in-the-middle protection
  - All the other typical non-shady features of a good vault (metadata removal, PIN auto-lock, privacy blur on app-switching)
  - Zero telemetry, tracking, etc. There in fact no servers at all in the loop.
https://mediaden.ca

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

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Post by ryanisnan »

wwalker2112 wrote: post #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…

Amazing, do you have some example images of what the product looks like?
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