I’m building a circuit simulator (the dumbest and slowest version of one, I’m sure) from scratch in Go for fun, alongside relearning electrical engineering topics via clanker. The clanker helps me focus my ADHD and I’m the keyboard jockey doing the coding and architecture decisions myself. The clanker really just keeps me on track and records a log of my ideas and experiments while I plan the next steps I want to take, and acts like a technical advisor and researcher that I don’t really trust so I require link references to documentation, specs, or research articles for everything it tells me. It’s quite fun using a clanker as an ADHD assistive device without it thinking for me and I’m trying to see how little I can rely on AI before I start to become unproductive.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#912Working on a web-based local multiplayer party game platform called GamingCouch.com.
The idea is simple: I love local multiplayer games and game nights but felt that there was always too much hassle with switching between different titles and connecting 4-8 controllers to one PC or console. Jackbox worked great but they relied too much on language and didn't work when the group had people not fluent in english.
Therefore I decided to create a site that is dedicated to action-oriented party games. So no trivia or language based games. When I first showed the idea here on HN, other forums and game fairs, I received a lot of questions from fellow game devs asking if they could bring their own game ideas to the platform as well. I started to work on third-party development tools, which are now in private beta. The first 3rd party game has already been launched on the platform!! https://gamingcouch.com/blog/protostellar-impact-launch
I'm now looking for more game devs interested in making fun party minigames, if you're interested, check out https://gamingcouch.com/developers and hit me up either here, by mail (from my profile) or by joining the community Discord and pinging me!
The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:
- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.
- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).
- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.
- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#913I'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.…
Congrats - but isn't this the same as sending a message in a group chat that you're going somewhere?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#915I'm working on Konvoi.ai, it's a Fleet mgmt solution that integrates with all major transportation IoT in Europe.
Next to that I'm also very into CAN bus decoding these days (on the side) and building ESP32 with a screen to show the real CAN bus data on a 4" screen.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#916https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.honorfit.b...
An app that blocks your screen until you do pushups/situps/etc. Works on the honor system instead of tracking you with a camera though. Turn your screen addiction into getting fit.
iPhone version coming soon.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#917Simplesend - easy PHP shared server html page for mom and pop bloggers: adilettante.com/simplesend.html
Limit of 500 send a day.
LightOrderCode - PDFparsing lighting manufacturing spec sheets for rapid lookup and send for bids/quotations. Will update on the link in the next few months.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#918projects per year in "Ask HN: What are you working on?" year projects avg/month ---- -------- --------- 2008 123 10.2 2009 104 8.7 2010 666 55.5 2011 86 7.2 2012 46 3.8 2013 389 32.4 2014 146 12.2 2015 104 8.7 2016 471 39.2 2017 456 38.0 2018 242 20.2 2019 246 20.5 2020 882 73.5 2021 837 69.8 2022 363 30.2 2023 425 35.4 2024 2122 176.8 2025 6220 518.3 2026 6093 677.0 (Jan-Sep) Top five topics per year (% of that year…
how did you get this data ? do you work at HN ?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
#919Working on Epub Translator https://epubtranslator.net. The epub format is so fragmented. A lot of custom parsing we need to deal with.
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