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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)

#491
https://wateaminbox.com

Initially started as WhatsApp Team Inbox. But, now I am adding telegram bot, emails and MCP support. Eventually, I am going to add like Messenger, Instagram, Line, Viber, Discord, Slack, etc...

So, it will be a bridge between your/your business communication and AI via MCP. If you want to create your own agent you would be able to create as well.

I vibe coded mostly, but once a while I go in and refactor heavy.

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

#492
https://chessnotate.app

It's a simple PGN app to help capturing chess notation from score sheet and fix the mistakes

Often my son and I made mistakes (mixing up b and B, or wrong rank, missing some moves) writing the notations and existing PGN parser simply stop at the first error and discard the rest. ChessNotate highlights the error while maintaining the original moves so you can see if your fix is actually fixes the remaining of the moves (or not)

Used it in the recent chess tournament and it's been really helpful

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

#493

I'm building BetterCapture: https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture It's a native, resource efficient screen recorder for macOS. It supports HEVC, H.264, ProRes 422/4444, HDR, Alpha Channels and more.

Thanks, I found this to be the most useful and least annoying screen recorder.

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

#495

I made a very basic web app to make our family meal planning a bit easier. We’ve been using it for a few months, so now I’m trying to tidy it up so others can use it too. https://mealplannertool.com/

Spaghetti on tuesday and tacos on friday? Anarchy.

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

#496
https://github.com/ChrystianSchutz/ThreadShelf I had a lot of chats in OpenRouter, google AI Studio and lm studio and no good way to view/search/combine them together. ThreadShelf started as a local archive with semantic search/MCP, and later grew support for continuing conversations through llama.cpp or OpenRouter. It is my first time creating oss so please be gentle.

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

#497
https://nonofocus.com/

I’ve always had the same problem with website blockers: I might need YouTube for a tutorial related to what I’m working on, but allowing YouTube also means allowing every unrelated video. Same with Hacker News - I might need to look something up for work, but I shouldn’t end up reading the front page for the next 30 minutes. Most blockers operate at the domain/app level, but whether something is distracting really depends on what you’re trying to do.

With Nono, you describe what you intend to work on at the start of a focus session. It then uses an on-device model to look at the active window in that context. So a relevant YT video can stay open, while an unrelated video gets blocked.

The tricky part right now is the model. It needs to be small and fast to run continuously, while still being capable enough to understand the context and not annoy you with false positives.

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

#500

https://curvefit.app it's a weight-training app that helps you train along your "pareto frontier" of weight vs reps. The idea is to train at lower weight-higher rep, medium weight medium reps, and higher weight, lower reps for every movement. I tried to develop my own weight training program following bits and pieces of advice from bodybuilding forums and ended up injuring several tendons in my first year. So I did a…

It looks interesting but as someone else noted, it needs more images and animations, way less walls of text.

There's a huge database of licensable animations that several apps I've seen use. E.g. take a look at the animations in Hevy. I forget the name of it now but you should be able to find it easily.

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