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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by bel8 » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

I'm creating my first game!

- Janky screenshot of progress so far: https://i.imgur.com/4afs5lv.png

- 2D single player browser game

- infinite procedural generated world

- build your starship

- manage a crew

- explore, harvest, trade and plunder the universe

- Frontend: Phaser 3 + WebGL + TypeScript https://phaser.io

- Backend: Workerthread + EliCS + TypeScript https://elixr-games.github.io/elics

- I made a Discord for it and I post daily videos of progress: https://discord.gg/FZa6w2TP

- I might open source it but since I play to make this a commercial game, I'm not sure yet. But I'm glad to help anyone with similar projects if I can

My challenges with it are:

- Keeping FPS above 60

- Art. I'm very bad with art

- Having something playable within 20 days

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#122

Post by peibye » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

I'm building a no bs esign product, with api access by default. At a previous company, automating this stuff cost us an arm and a leg and we got locked into a bad contract. I've always been on the engineering side of things and never had the opportunity to learn how to find customers and sell. It's been a fun and rewarding experience for me. https://www.sign-n-post.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#123

Post by viermalbe » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

I've built Bubbles, a reader-curated frontpage for discovering articles from thousands of personal indie blogs. No AI, no algorithm, no signup. Auth and comments are handled via Fediverse handles. https://bubbles.town

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#124

Post by eliben » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

watgo (https://github.com/eliben/watgo) -- a WebAssembly toolkit for Go. Think something like wasm-tools or wabt, just in pure (0 dependency) Go.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#125

Post by the__alchemist » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

I'm building OSS structural biology libraries in Rust (+ CUDA), and a GUI application that ties them together. It is kind of an integration of functionality traditionally in separate tools: Viewing, editing, therapeutic properties + pharmacokinetics, molecular dynamics etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#126

Post by taroth » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

I’m building technographics for desktop apps at https://DesktopInsights.com (similar to BuiltWith.com)

Just crossed 15k Mac and windows apps analyzed!

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#127

Post by jbonatakis » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

I’ve been working on a site that makes it easier to follow the Postgres mailing lists, which can be a bit of a firehose

https://pginbox.dev

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#128

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#129

Post by csomar » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

I am building a 3-way diff editor: https://codeinput.com/products/merge-conflicts/online-diff

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Post by rationalist » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 4:59 PM UTC

bel8 wrote: post #121

I'm creating my first game! - Janky screenshot of progress so far: https://i.imgur.com/4afs5lv.png - 2D single player browser game - infinite procedural generated world - build your starship - manage a crew - explore, harvest, trade and plunder the universe - Frontend: Phaser 3 + WebGL + TypeScript https://phaser.io - Backend: Workerthread + EliCS + TypeScript https://elixr-games.github.io/elics - I made a Discord fo…

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