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

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

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Post by newswangerd »

I'm still trucking away on Digital Carrot (https://www.digitalcarrot.app/)

It's a screen time app/ app blocker that blocks distractions until certain programmable goals are met. For example:

- Block social media until you walk 10,000 steps

- Block Factorio until you physically go to the gym

- Block Netflix until you finish all your goals in todoist

The app is cross platform and available on everything (except Linux, which I'd like to change soon!).

Goals are all verified with real data from places such as your phone's GPS or fitness trackers. They can be programmed using a simple expression editor.

Right now I'm working on streamlining the plugin and goal system so that people can more easily write and share goals with one another!

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

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Post by jesse__ »

UltraSane wrote: post #967
jesse__ wrote: post #138

I've been working on a voxel game engine called Bonsai for ~10 years. Probably the most interesting thing about it at the moment is the editor. The world, and most things in it, are represented as collections of SDFs. More accurately, they're density fields, but, potato-tomato. Bonsai has undergone a large rewrite over the last couple years that's nearing completion. A world edit is defined as a bunch of SDF paramete…

This guy is creating what looks to me to be a very impressive 3D version of Noita using a custom microvoxel engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8HRCXxI0BY

Oh yeah, I've seen that guys engine before. It's super impressive.

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

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Post by sandeepkd »

Working on an opinionated identity provider from security and performance perspective (sort of next version of keycloak). My observation with existing products is that the security, performance and architecture aspect gets diluted and take a back seat when products are built incrementally, using VC money with fragmented understanding of the space. Identity is relatively a well understood problem when it comes to discovering the product requirements and there is an opportunity to make a wholistic product in one go. Will be sharing more details probably by the next month.

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

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Post by kharak »

I have become utterly obsessed with creating a 2D top down mech game. I have not worked this intensively on anything else in my life. It's really silly in some way, wish I'd have this obsession for something more valuable. Alas.

I would have never started this game without agentic coding, but now, I cannot stop working. It's amazing. So this is how some of you have felt all your life about tech or other subjects? I'd always believed it, but now, I experience the difference first hand. Before, discipline is what I needed to start working. Now, discipline is what I need to stop.

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

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

vinzenzu wrote: post #503

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> Initial allocations will open within the near-term future. For the founding investors (as we call the first clients), we also offer a portfolio review to align your portfolio with your long-term goals, a direct line to founders, and other things.

My first, probably cynical, thought was isn't this how Bernie Madoff started with his ponzi scheme?

Are you a registered broker/trader?

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