alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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A software for managing BJJ and martial arts academies that it's both easy to use and have everything they need like assistance tracking, payments, communications, etc.
It's called MatGoat[1], and it's going quite well so far. Nowadays I'm working more on the marketing/sales side.
I have been working on using openclaw and Claude managed agents to help me run a one-person startup. As a repeat founder, I know a lot of tasks that are very well suited for agentic systems.
so far it has been an interesting journey and I have had some success but the whole process has led me to write a lot of software around my own process so that I can scale it.
Might turn that into a product itself.
We are working on Entangle - https://entangle.cloud
developing AI agents that are easy to integrate in to websites, based in Europe and all data stored and processed in Europe to complying with regulations.
Looking forward to collaborations, and happy to talk with anyone would like to collaborate with us
Few things actually
Yupcha AI Interviewer, handles the screening, video interviewing with conversational agents.
Check it out https://yupcha.com
Working on a oss video dubbing, cloning and design studio
Check out https://github.com/debpalash/OmniVoice-Studio
Suggestions are welcome.
I'm working on a digital waveform viewer for VScode. I started it back when I used to work for an FPGA company, and needed to debug soft CPUs. Now it's starting to rival the proprietary software. I should probably do a show HN at some point...
Working on https://www.nichess.org/
Nichess is a game like chess, where pieces have special abilities and health points. This allows for much finer balancing and many more variants compared to the original chess. It will take some time, but it will become great eventually.
I'm working on a FOSS Web-based RSS reader for the Kindle that works on the Kindle browser, no need to send articles via Amazon or Calibre!
It's called Inkfeed
I've converted my 23 year old Java desktop app to a website.
It's an app to make searching eBay an actual joy. Perform a search, then highlight text to trash or group that term. Then perform the search again tomorrow and it will hide all the stuff you've already seen.
Working on database tooling around data movement + CDC.
Trying to collapse what is usually:
SQL IDE -> export/scripts -> pipeline -> CDC -> back to SQL
into a single workflow instead of stitching 3–4 tools together.
Runs locally or via Docker, no Kafka / heavy setup.
I just shipped a causal memory system for AI agents and am now working on the mcp for claude code. It's open source u can check it out on: https://github.com/CausalOS/causalos-python
I've forked Transmission, and I'm trying to implement mutable torrents. Some partial success between two hosts (seeder and leecher) on my own LAN, most of the UI stuff figured out. Will wait until I get it a little more solid before working on the Gtk, Qt, and command-line ports (I expect those to be pure interface work at that point).
I'm working on https://blunders.ai, a chess improvement app. It uses a chess engine + AI to analyze your games, generate commentary, improvement plans, and targeted puzzles. Still in beta but I'd love any feedback!
Coupon code HNAPRIL26 if you want to give it a try.
A tool to detect and fix drift in GitHub repository settings: https://github.com/ArloL/drifty
I have a terraform setup right now but it’s super awkward and very slow. The goal is to be able to define settings using PKL which looks super interesting. Wanted to try it out for a while now.
Working on recreating Google engineer Ken Shirriff's work on chargers. His article "A dozen chargers in the lab" is what I'm trying to replicate, but with modern USB C chargers. Feel free to take a look:
I recently started using Paperless to manage all my documents and wanted to include archive serial numbers (ASNs) for all physical documents that I scan, so I built a small tool to create and print archive serial number label sheets with QR/Barcodes:
It's free, no sign up or ads - feedback welcome :)
I just released https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/dux
Wanted to have a way to coordinate multiple agents on Linux either via SSH or locally and figured out why not give it a shot?
The result is a pretty cool tool, inspired by similar solutions that after trying them most fell short.
I've been working on an ML model capable of robust continuous learning, resistant to catastrophic forgetting without relying on replay, an external memory system, or unbounded parameter growth. Last week I confirmed the first non-toy, 580M parameter version soundly beat LoRA, EWC, and full fine tuning. This week I'm scaling up to 4.4B parameters...
We use AI to monitor hundreds of local government commissions and give real-time intelligence to B2B, residents, and governments. If you're a business trying to track what's happening in local gov for your policy, sales, or lobbying team, I'd love to chat.
An SVG diagram generator to substitute GraphViz in pure Rust:
Solves some problems that were hard to work around with GraphViz, e.g. default and customisable styling, light and dark mode, stable / predictable layout.
Real-time AI content attestation and verification with Revocable signatures. Actually posted on "Show HN" today.
Write up and demo here: https://lyfe.ninja/news/#know-your-agent-with-blkbolt
I'm building a Linux desktop app that tracks laptop battery health, logs per-minute stats to a local SQLite database, and visualizes capacity trends and degradation over time. It was fun to learn about laptop batteries.
I have decided to put my GAS behind me and focus on truly learning one musical instrument, the MPC Live III. I aim to learn all the features and come up with several workflows at which I become fluent. The goal is to enable me to create songs without having to worry about constantly figuring out how to do something.
I’m working on an ATS system that integrates LLMs for helping the recruiter in writing job descriptions, parsing CVs to Markdown, making summaries of CVs and suggest which ones match the best the job offers giving pluses and minus: https://beehive-ats.com/
I’m building an open source SaaS for every vertical. I’m targeting e-commerce, restaurants, gyms, hotels, grocery stores. I want to leverage these systems to build an interoperable marketplace for each vertical. I launched a Shopify alternative in December and the Toast one is almost ready. Gyms, Hotels, and Grocery stores ones are in the works.
Runtime for agents https://github.com/agentspan-ai/agentspan Built on top of Conductor OSS - https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor
I’m making an iOS app [1] that allows you to track and analyze your life. It’s all local to your device and was created to help me learn more about myself and my habits.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Pivoting Korean spaced repetition app towards reading features:
Video demo: https://youtu.be/cJfFAh6ox84?si=WScDPzI4rJIKe99n
https://dmarcdefender.io. DMARC service focused on api/integrations. Currently thinking about (1) writing an ml classifier to classify sources, and (2) using rag to automatically generate spf/dkim fix advice for different sources.
Building something that finally stops making me the tester for my own AI. You know that moment where the AI finishes writing code and then goes "can you run this and check if it works?" I got tired of that loop. So I built an IDE that just... runs it, clicks through it, finds what broke, and fixes it. You watch. Not Better Cursor , But what comes after it.
Scheduled encrypted back up of git repos via ssh/rsync to a simple server from a macOS workstation. I’m tired of the complexity to host a simple private git repo. Using this suite of scripts, I’ve been able to incrementally backup an encrypted copy of my private git repos to rsync.net (but it could be configured to be any ssh host with rsync capability).
A cyberpunk 2077 inspired Tower Defence game https://github.com/XEonAX/TowerPunk-CyberDefence
I had already developed a tower defence game without AI long time back.
Wanted to try my hand at guided vibe engineering and see how faster was it.
I'm working on multi-tenant version of OpenClaw for organizations that has shared memory layer. It includes an entity based agent context layer that can be used as OpenClaw plugin and a sandbox runtime layer which uses just-bash with pi and let you expose the context via a bot an API.
A small Python library/framework for customising how the AST is walked and evaluated. I plan to use it in another project to configure a safe-ish sandboxed way of evaluating user submitted expressions and code. There are a few other libraries that enable this, but I found they bake in some stuff to the internals that I didn't want.
On making tools for things I once had to do iteratively. I want to use some of my free time to see if people will use my programs. The last one I have been working on is a curve-fitting web app (https://fittapp.streamlit.app/).
I do a lot of data science and analytics in my real job.
I have started working on a standalone, self-hosted, service for an album club (music, that is).
Members takes turn pitching one album per week. Support comments and a handful of emoji-based reactions.
Integration with Spotify for easy pitching and playing (by links only, users are not required to have a Spotify account).
Plan is to keep the clubs fairly small and invite only.
Building it in Gleam which is a lot of fun!
An assistant agent (OpenClaw-like) that has human brain inspired cognitive architecture (episodic memory, hippocampus, amygdala, default mode network). It feels like talking with actual human assistant, not a robot. https://lethe.gg
I have been prompting and building a pos[1] for fun. I have been improving it bit by bit. I will also admit that I have not looked at the code that AI tools have generated. I let AI test it and the AI also finds bugs and fixes it.
Its a fun project, all done using free tier.
Currently working on a way to help folks setup a signal account without requiring a smartphone.
It's in rust with egui, and should help folks to do that without the cli.
Not ready for prime time yet, but available at https://github.com/almet/signal-without-smartphone
A tool to allow your agentic coding tools understand what must always be true about your systems without having to constantly remind them.
I'm probably gonna create a cut down local version for open source.
A TUI written in gnuCOBOL to show and interact with the API of my cs student associations cursed member kiosk system. (Using curl, as I still want to live).
For said same association, templating and assembling a book of songs and other oddities in Typst for the associations 50th anniversary.
Next project is figuring out what to do with my personal website!
I've revived a project I started around 20 years ago. It is a kind of graph query description/measurement tool for protein 3D data.
The query engine itself is like a DAG of 'operators', similar to a relational DB (or more like a graph one) with scanners, filters, and matchers.
Very fun, although not at all efficient and probably overengineered for what it does :)
https://agentskillsfinder.com/ This is the website I am working on. My goal is to make agent skills searchable, installable, and usable, and to add the function of organizing the workflow of multiple agent skills.
Building a website to list all destinations and schools around the world, focused on depth freediving, with various data points relevant to that sport.
If you do any freediving or apnea training, interested to hear what you think of the platform.
Planted a few fruit trees, some strawberries, and vegetables. Every time I water them, I think about automated irrigation.
I’m working on my hobby project, a browser-grade SVG rendering library in C++20: https://github.com/jwmcglynn/donner
I recently finished <text> and <filter> support, now I’m working on a GPU-accelerated rendering backend.
Still on and off on my AMDGPU native wayland compositor for linux, that written in RISC-V assembly, running on x86_64 via a small interpreter written itself in x86_64 assembly.
Need an XDG compliant config file loader (for xkb configuration of linux input event devices). Only going to mmap the first 4KiB page.
Codeboards connects to GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, and HuggingFace to generate a professional developer profile that updates itself. Your commits, contributions, and reputation — finally in one place. https://codeboards.io
I'm building a debate/writing game platform: https:argyu.fun
The mission is to incentivize better thinking. For each game there's an AI judge that scores everyone's answer based on a public rubric (style, cohesion, logic, etc).
Currently uses fake money and ELO score but thought it could be a very interesting competitive game for real stakes.
Any feedback is much appreciated.
PricePush (pricepush.app), automating localized pricing for mobile apps. Calculates PPP-adjusted prices for 190+ countries and pushes them to App Store Connect and Google Play in one click. Built it because managing prices across 175 Apple storefronts for my own 8 apps was taking entire weekends.
I'm connecting LLMs directly to robots, to see how well they can perform robot things by directly controlling motors and sampling the camera/sensors. Initial results are encouraging!
https://colinator.github.io/Ariel/post1.html
I just got a bigger robot, further results forthcoming!