Simple recommendation app that asks 10+ AI models for the top options for whatever you’re looking for, and it pools the results to give you the overall top three: https://top3.best/ I mainly built it to explore which areas have model consensus and which have diversity of opinion.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#942I'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)
#943It's my third year on VPS Price Tracker [1], to my knowledge the largest database of VPSs with current prices and accurate specifications. It has a search form with 25 facets. Its usage has grown steadly each month since its launch, currently has 100-150 sessions per day. [1] https://vpspricetracker.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#944There are lots of open source ticket sales options but none fit the criteria of:
- Full copyleft license - No branding requirements - Connect your own domain - Very easy to host
Chobble Tickets addresses those. Chobble, my business, is a Community Interest Company - a legal structure in the UK which obliges me to adhere to a mission statement and comes with an "asset lock" which means the things Chobble owns cannot be sold, except to another CIC. This, plus AGPLv3, means it is impossible for me to "sell out" and enshittify my products. As a former Bandcamper, I'm somewhat sensitive to this.
I'm about six months into development now, hosting about 50 sites (I charge £5 per month for hosting), with a few thousand bookings processed
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#945https://fabulae.orbilii.com - A Latin language audiobook containing both volumes of A.D. Godley's "The Fables of Orbilius" which are entertaining intermediate Latin stories written at the turn of the 20th century for use in British schools. The audio itself is in delivered with the restored classical Latin pronunciation and contains spoken nuances like vowel nasalization, elision, and prodelision. I used a wav2vec2 m…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#946I'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…
Cool concept. Small feedback on the first user experience flow. I downloaded the app to listen and write constructive notes for people, but I can’t enter the app until I’ve given microphone access and recorded a 30s clip. I’m on the bus, and can’t provide that audio now, and I’ll almost certainly forget about the app before I get 30 free seconds this evening. I think you’ll drop a lot of first time users here.
You can just record a short dummy audio to get through the onboarding flow.
Microphone access is pretty central to the app. Even feedback to other speeches is given via audio (no text feedback). Though reading this makes me understand users may want to just listen and write text feedback. Especially if they're warming up to become speakers themselves.
I definitely don't want microphone access to block you from listening to others. Will be updating this. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#947I've also been working on `summond` (https://github.com/joshgummersall/summond), a developer/agent friendly way to interact with OSX Launch Control. It aims to support all relevant Launch Control triggers using a nice `toml` config format, dynamic environment control, logs, and more. I've found it super useful and it's dotfile friendly.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#948I'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…
You could “Pokémon Go” this and allow people to find performances they find interesting on a random street corner anywhere! Great idea!
Part of the beauty of the app is that it's pseudo-anonymous. Nobody knows it's you (unless they can recognize your voice). I think that helps relieve some of the pressure with public speaking.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#949The plan is to enable any tracked camera to relocalize against the same coordinate frame and share spatially-anchored data with one another, enabling across-ecosystem interoperation of spatial computing systems.
For example, a human with an iPhone can scan their home and use that map to guide their domestic robot (clean _this_ room). Data from iOT sensors can be viewed in a 3D map in their real location. Or someone in an AR headset can view yesterday’s surveillance footage in the same room where the footage took place. Android and iPhone users can share the same AR experience, and a remote viewer can observe and guide them from a birds-eye view, all from their phone’s web browser.
My problem: I’m a software guy (former Apple ARKit/Vision Pro computer vision engineer) and I’m struggling to navigate the business side of things. I’m looking for a business-savvy cofounder to help find the market and then seek funding.
If it sounds interesting, reach out and I’ll share a demo!