alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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A PDF generation API, Chrome-based. Most of my time lately goes into print production - browsers render everything in RGB but print needs CMYK with ICC color profiles, and getting that conversion right inside the PDF turned out to be a much deeper problem than expected. Got PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-4 working now.
Trying to get a small Saas off the ground by adapting a script I wrote for friends to help them schedule their teams -> https://skeda.app
and also Backseat Writer, a creative writing text editor that uses AI to impersonate your audience and give you feedback https://backseat-writer.vercel.app/demo which is more of an anchor for my own writing practice than anything else, but I find it fun
I've been working on an offline cross-platform application currently called Dev Cleaner.
> Dev Cleaner is a desktop application for scanning and cleaning development cache files and build artifacts. It helps developers reclaim disk space by identifying and safely removing caches like node_modules, .cargo/registry, .npm, and other build artifacts.
It's closed source, as I am planning to sell a license. But if you email me, I am happy to provide a build.
I'm working in getting my fullstack web framework Andurel to v1 (currently in beta).
The goal is to approach the developer experience you get from Rails, but in Go, while keep as many of the idioms from Go.
I am working on building a youtube supplement, not a replacement, that tries to replace the algorithm with a transparent shuffle.
The idea is that future discovery isn't limited by watch history and users on the platform can curate, showcase and amplify their favorite videos. It is an equal opportunity stage where users contribute to build a time capsule of videos.
If that sounds interesting to you, check it out at http://jadestage.com/ !
Hey! I'm building SprintPulse - https://sprintpulse.io - a real-time retrospective tool designed with small teams in mind that transforms team feedback into concrete action items. With AI-powered summaries, merge suggestions, and sentiment tracking, every voice is heard and nothing gets lost.
I built an Legaltech for Singapore with RAG architecture and triple llm backup logic
GitHub:- https://github.com/adityaprasad-sudo/Explore-Singapore Live demo :- https://adityaprasad-sudo.github.io/Explore-Singapore/
I'm working on Cyclonauts (https://cyclonauts.net), an addon for Strava to make your commute more fun.
It maps your cycling activity data against the OpenStreetMap catalogue to generate all kinds of exploration statistics.
A better alternative to Meetup.com
I’m working on Zigpoll[https://www.zigpoll.com], a lightweight survey/feedback tool for ecommerce (mostly Shopify).
Built it because most survey tools felt overgrown for what I needed. It focuses on post-purchase and on-site surveys, attribution questions, and getting clean data out.
Lately I’ve been working on:
Simpler targeting + survey logic Exposing survey data to AI tools Improving response rates without nagging users
It’s bootstrapped, profitable, and built by one person (me).
1. The collaboration and notation app for rock bands that I’d wished existed already: https://bandwith.rocks/about
2. A “runtime scheduler for humans” that I wished existed, too (think morning routines, travel checklists, and pomodoros in the same abstraction—but also a lot of support for ad-hoc rearrangement and addition of the task queue).
Minimalist Podcast player with gPodder sync focused on iOS ecosystem. (WatchOS/CarPlay/AirPlay). YourPods is a gPodder-compatible, privacy-first, and self-hosted podcast player. Sync your subscriptions and listening progress across all your devices using your own Nextcloud server, manage multiple profiles, and keep your data 100% yours. https://github.com/asecretcompany/yourpods-source
https://orrisbreathing.com Building a box breathing app for iOS. Started it to manage stress and as an excuse to get back into native development. SwiftUI with color-coded breathing phases, customizable timing, and session tracking. In TestFlight now with beta testers. Used Claude Code for most of the initial build — nearly one-shotted the whole thing, which was a bit surreal.
Experimenting with visual/audio combinations to explore aspects of a space dataset I’ve been having lots of fun with. Added in a LLM chat view with Duck DB WASM as well to try out tool use - text to SQL seems to be relatively solved with a light semantic layer; some interesting optimization around what tools to expose and result handling that need some more iteration.
I am working on versanovatech.com. Its a learning layer for AI agents that lets them remember, share and learn from their experiences. I have built novasheets.com using the tech of versanovatech.com. It extract structured information from financial excel spreadsheets and is totally free to use.
Building an AArch64 code generator.
Finally trying out Godot on a real project.
I've been pretty bummer out by Rainbow 6 Siege X announcing they will never support Linux due to a lack of kernel-level anti-cheat support. While I can use NVIDIA shield to play from my Windows pc, id rather play something natively with friends (for context, we usually play 3v3's for funsies.
My goal is not to make an exact clone, but to make a smaller map version for 3v3 that is a bit more quick paced.
For context, it's a bomb defusal game where the main goal is intel and gadgets. You need to make the other side waste their gadgets so it comes down to a gun v gun fight.
I've been having a lot of fun building https://vgstack.app
It's yet another video game backlog tracking service but I'm building this one to automate as much as I can about the actual game logging process. So for example, I'm auto-forwarding all my Nintendo and PlayStation purchase emails to a custom inbox. That email gets parsed, the game(s) and date(s) are extracted, and I get a new queue item I can approve or deny easily on my phone. It also has a documented CRUD API for easy integration for other services (like Zapier).
Yes, it also has a chatbot... I've been toying with a natural language interface for quick actions like "just beat TOTK" to mark Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as "beaten". It's a bring-your-own-Gemini-key approach... So far, its working pretty well for me. It also supports basic questions about your game library and history that would be tricky to represent without a lot of filtering options. Like for example, "How many Switch games did I beat between March and July of 2024?". Fun stuff like that.
Tech stack is Django/HTMX/Alpine/DaisyUI/Postgres/self-hosted.
If you decide to try it out, I'd love your feedback! There's a quick in-product feedback widget on the bottom-left which sends me an email :)
Working on platform around Exercise Snack concept: https://1minuteworkout.org/.
Basically it's a browsers extension: site blocker + ultra short workouts. To break 8h sitting.
An iOS build size analysis app that runs locally on your Mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881
An exi encoder/decoder in rust (spec conform and interop, which right now doesn't seem to be the same thing) / afterwards I also want to do a visualization of XML to exi and reverse translation.
I've been working on a starter kit for indie SaaS builders. Extracted from a few of my SaaS products. Been programming for 30 years and using coding agents for the past year, so it's optimized for that https://stacknaut.com
I'm working on a chrome extension that helps answering "Cover letter / Tell us about the time when... / Why do you want to work at..." questions in job application forms.
You can bookmark a job description (it will be parsed), then paste a question and it generates an answer based on your resume, the job description, and your previously given answers for similar questions in other applications. The generated answer can be refined through a follow-up chat and exported as a PDF. It also works as a simple job application tracker.
Saves me tons of time and effort every day!
I am working on a document collection app called Superdocu (https://www.superdocu.com), currently adding automated validation features for specific document types.
Building my dev workspace into an operating system. Not metaphorically — structurally.
10 MCP servers as device drivers (exchange APIs, browser automation, Apple docs, issue tracking).
200+ skills as prose runbooks that compose system calls. Agent-mail for IPC between parallel
agents. A drift detector called "wobble" that scores skill stability using bias/variance analysis.ClodHost.com ... it's basically lovable but just claude (opus 4.6) on your own root ubuntu server, with a web wrapper to claude code. And no credits, unlimited claude usage. Also free if you sign up now to help me with beta testing! thanks!!
Oh, I also used the tech to set up claudecrowd.clodhost.com .. a vps running claude code where anybody from the internet can submit the next prompt!!
I'm a solo dev working on Gaffer ( https://gaffer.sh ) - Centralized Test Reports for Teams and Agents. It's been a fun side-project test out vibe-coding and cloudflare infrastructure.
Been working on a weekly newsletter [1] to stay fully informed about agentic coding with one email, once a week. I also keep the focus narrow, only on what engineers and tech leaders would find useful for shipping code and leading teams, which means I filter out all generic AI news, or what CEO said what, or any marketing fluff.
I'm optimizing performance of PBT generation and shrinking in [elm-test](https://github.com/elm-explorations/test/compare/master...ja...) - on its own PBT-heavy test suite I got it down from 1336ms to 891ms by using JS TypedArrays.
I'm also experimenting with coverage-guided PBT input generation in the same library, AFL-style -- right now elm-test only has random input generation.
I keep working on my command line game 'Rebels in the sky' (https://rebels.frittura.org)
The game is about spacepirates playing basketball, it's kinda a basketball manager game. It's played in your terminal and works with no internet.
You can try it via ssh at `ssh frittura.org -p 3788`
I'm building a password tray app. It's tiny cross-platform app (spotlight like search) for people who juggle multiple password managers and browser profiles.
It gives you a global quick search to find and copy credentials from different sources, regardless of browser or profile.
A GBNF to json schema translator in such a way that structured responses from LLMs can be serialized back into string confirming to the original grammar.
Initial results have been surprising in that even when using structured output, some of the generated json schema breaks the generation process in a way that syntactically invalid json is returned.
I'm working through major providers to determine which are stable enough to rely on.
The end goal is to generate strings confirming to non-json grammars for common formats like CSV, SQL, Python, sed, regex, etc.
I'm running a BETA on Worn, my tape saturation VST. Made in Cmajor with some help of vibe coding.
https://stoneandsignalaudio.com/
Use code 'FREEBETA' to partake, ~25 seats left.
I'm also making music. I got Suno to do a cover of 2 songs I wrote, although eventually I want to introduce human versions. Also want to make electronic music eventually.
Adding EXORdisk-I support to my MC6800 simulator so that it can boot EDOS and EDOS-II disks.
EDOS was a direct 6800 port of FDOS. FDOS was the first DOS available for microcontrollers, using iCOM's FD360 8-inch floppy drives.
It's called Bloom. A really pretty way to shape a visual aesthetic with a client. Our users (& founders) are in things like fashion photography and video production.
I am working on a open source typescript to cpp compiler that can write human quality code for typescript programs. The code and playground are available at https://github.com/developbharat/modernc
Any issues opened on the repo are most welcome.
I'm making Letterboxd for TV, with a pretty data visualizations.
The UI/UX is a pretty interesting problem. Letterboxd has it easy because a movie is its own discrete unit, but TV shows have multiple seasons, each with many episodes, and viewer behavior is varied. Some people watch one episode. Some people watch three at a time. Others binge multiple seasons in a sitting.
https://tretto.io - market / competitive intelligence powered by agentic search. Small SaaS built with LLM assisted workflows from day 1 on top of a “classical” tech stack (.NET, Azure, Aspire, CosmosDB).
If you’re in sales, a business executive or simply curious about what’s going on around your own startup give it a go.
Maintain my blog
Today I'm writing a Postgres native function to derive UUIDs from an integer primary key using AES intrinsics. This lets me expose public UUID keys while still using an efficient 64-bit sequential primary key.
Not sure if I'll use it compared to just using conventional uuidv7 but it's nice to have options.
I've been a word game fan for a long time and always wanted to try my hand at building a unique take on the genre since so many fall into a Wordle type clone these days. I came up with the concept for SpellRush a few months ago and finally got it to what I think is a pretty fun concept over the past few weeks. Would love feedback from anyone that is up for giving it a try! https://spellrush.com/
I have started working on a SaaS for Doctors. It is basically a patient management system where Doctor's can get complete picture of their patients like visit history, diagnosis, medications suggested, billing etc. I am using Nest.js for backend and Next.js for frontend (Shadcn UI Library)
Side Note : These posts on HN motivated me to start working on this project. Cheers! to the community.
I'm building a markdown editor with minimal UI and unusual features like real-real-time chat: https://kraa.io/hackernews
More about the product itself: https://kraa.io/about
I just published the web app for https://listendock.com You can listen to your documents. I also have an iPhone app (that was first).
My most fun feature: when I connect the app to my car, I can use the skip buttons on my steering wheel to rewind or forward 10s in the playback.
I am as usual working on Marmot https://github.com/maxpert/marmot
I've got replicas now working with DML proxy. This essentially means I can now have a cluster of primaries, and then spin up replicas on demand and nodes talking to local host will never see their mutation work pretty transparently from readonly-replicas. While PoC works now the snapshot restore is extremely inefficient IMO yet.
trueflow - a code review TUI that semantically chunks code changes into reviewable “blocks”, and assembles them into a Merkle tree, so you can have an overlay of reviews of different semantic blocks of your codebase, and feedback the reviews back into agents. Similar UX vibe to magit, with a focus-mode style UX that brings semantic blocks into focus, with single-keystroke actions such as [a]ccept [c]omment [x]reject etc.
Still WIP. Feedback welcome.
Pulling apart and de-++-ing OpenTTD version 12.2 to scratch my itch of simplifying and reorganising the game back to C code. I rewrote it years ago to convert it to more realistic time (it's just way too fast), add scheduling features and make it more event based. Ended up at some complicated breaking point so I'm doing this first before adding features.
And then there's writing micro fiction and currently a YA fantasy novel.
Bedtime Bulb v2 [0]: a low blue light bulb for use before bed, with added near infrared. Now shipping!
Restful Atmos lamp: a circadian bedtime lamp that automatically shifts from energizing light during the daytime to low-blue light at night. Units are inbound, shipping in March.
[0]: https://restfullighting.com/products/bedtime-bulb-v2
[1]: https://restfullighting.com/products/restful-atmos-preorder