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

#893
I'm building a couple of things:

1. Creating a MacOS native personal finance tracking + networth dashboard, inspired by Gnucash but no complex business stuff (e.g., Tax invoices)

2. Creating a vision / journey board that tracks your life milestones and displays them in a personal mandala / spiral :)

3. Trying to build an visual story telling tool that lets me convert my medium to long form essays into visual animated companions for youtube. e.g.,

Press 'ENTER' to Feel_ // A Techno Phenomenology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq5tlsX8uIM

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

#894
post #884

I've been working on a general repository linter. The idea is to declaratively define a set of rules/conventions for your repo, (for things that language-specific linters don't cover), covering things from directory structure, required files, file staleness/freshness, file size, rules for binary files, rules around use of invisible Unicode, etc. - which can be checked deterministically. Many/most large repos have a s…

It would be great if I could integrate this into our existing (and rather extensive) eslint config as as a plugin of some sort rather than integrate yet another new tool to our dev environment. Any plans for that?

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

#895
I'm building smol machines, a new sandboxing primitive that works locally/remotely to introduce "branchable compute".

It's an idea I had to basically makes it possible to checkpoint, branch, rollback the entire vm kind of like git but on the entire computer.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

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

#896

My quirky wishlist app https://thingstohave.app is finally done and heading to public launch this or next week. I already partially covered the last few months of app development in this topic. But actually, its development took way longer, as only this iteration started in 2024. So it is the end of a long milestone— this launch date initially was to be a year ago, but I procrastinated and missed important for such a…

signed up last night. its simple but super useful. not sure if im the average customer but i can see myself using this for a handful of things.

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

#897

I'm building Orate, a free public speaking app: • Users are given a prompt and have 2 minutes to answer. • Speeches are reviewed by AI and other users. Speaking eloquently "off the dome" is an incredibly useful skill, improving all your interactions with other people. And like a muscle, you can train it with dedicated practice until it becomes effortless. It has been very fulfilling to listen to other people's speech…

Plans for android?

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

#899

I'm working on a real-life social app called Holler ( https://justhollerapp.com ). I'm an introvert and socially anxious, but I do enjoy hanging out with my friends. I just HATE the invitation-and-coordination game. If someone invites me and I don't want to go, I hate having to come up with a socially acceptable excuse. Inviting someone and waiting for them to make a socially acceptable excuse is equally awful to me.…

I'd be interesting it an Android app version (or heck, even a web UI or progressive web app!).

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

#900
The Restful Atmos Bedside Lamp [0], which automatically shifts between dim, low-blue light at night and energizing morning light instead of an alarm.

After 3 years of dev, we're just about finished shipping preorders. For US customers, black units will ship immediately + white within 3 weeks.

Lots of learnings on this one. Getting lots of great feedback from early customers. As always, hardware is hard!

Lately I've been playing around with GPT-6. I have a much better webpage coming this week, with scrolling animations built with Blender and three.js. We also completely rebuilt our backend from scratch and moved off of AWS.

[0] https://restfullighting.com/atmos

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