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

258 points • by david927 • yesterday at 9:20 PM • 904 comments • view on HN

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?


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yokuze • today at 1:46 PM

aix - Like the npm CLI and package.json, but for AI config. Allows standardizing your AI config to share with others, and defining it all in one spot but installing to Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.: https://aix.a1st.dev/

Classifieds.fyi (https://classifieds.fyi) - A way to create private, invite-only classifieds for your community. Supports buying/selling, job boards, and vacation rentals, with support for housing coming soon.

A Tauri 2 CLI / MCP that allows your agent to debug, take screenshots, run JS, etc. inside a Tauri app: https://hypothesi.github.io/mcp-server-tauri/

lucasov • today at 7:35 AM

I wanted to understand how LLMs really work, so I’m building Modelmathics (https://modelmathics.com) and doing every lesson myself as I go.

You start from an empty Python file and write the model yourself: a tokenizer, a bigram model, attention, a Transformer. At the end, published open weights run on your own code. Tests check each step before you move on.

Try it: https://try.modelmathics.com (or ssh try.modelmathics.com)

The rest runs in mm, a terminal app, with your code in files on your machine. Stage 1 (11 lessons) is live as a free private beta.

Feedback is very welcome.

willmorrison • today at 5:14 AM

I'm working on etoku (https://etoku.app), what I believe is the most efficient and fun way to learn Japanese. You pick the works (TV, movies, books) that you want to understand and each new card is a sentence from native content with one word or grammar point you don't know yet. All of the cards have audio and a screenshot. Nothing is AI generated, everything is taken from real native content.

The platform isn't ready for real usage yet. I keep reworking the "course" (I curated the first 150 concepts because the most frequent concepts in native material don't make a great intro to the language).

I'm scraping lots of content and improving the analyzer (breaking a sentence down into the concepts needed to understand it) right now!

I love talking about language learning! If you're interested in the platform let me know at will @ <the domain>.

KaiGilb • today at 11:43 AM

MyJackfruit, a competitor to Lovable and base44. MyJackfruit builds production-level apps in weeks (simple apps in a couple of hours), not prototypes in 7 min. To do that, the development of each app uses Systems Engineering, including starting with mapping out all stakeholder then product values quantitatively, and it builds on top of a foundation that is scalable, secure, fast, and access-controlled, ontology based with focus on data ownership. Developers can use github and all the tools. Turns out AI is very good at coding, if all around it is done right. In MyJackfruit it codes against the quantified Stakeholder and Product values, not some prompt of what the app must do.

mtrx • today at 10:30 AM

As always, the list is long, but right now I’m TRYING to focus on:

- Turingo: https://turingo.net

  AI detection based on writing process and not the final draft. It tracks unusual changes, including pastes, throughout the full revision history, giving teachers a clearer picture of how much AI text is there at any time. The idea is to help them have a conversation with a student before jumping to accusations.
- Research:

  An AI agent that learns how you write code. It reads your repo and automatically extracts DSL recipes from the way you structure endpoints, handle data access, write workers, use queues, and organize tests. Those recipes can combine across stacks and patterns into millions of variations. The goal is to make the code generation as deterministic as possible, cutting the token usage and agent wall-time substantially, while following your code conventions.
jjuliano • today at 12:20 PM

Been building this for 2.5 years since Aug 2024.

Secure and private AI agents. Declare behaviours of workflows and agencies in YAML, that uses local LLM models.

You can export the workflow to Docker, Kubernetes, ISO, or binary, with the local llamafile or gguf model pre-baked. Or just run locally.

Just this year, it now includes an agent-loop CLI for coding tasks using local LLM models, alternative to mainstream ones.

Project GHA harvests daily llamafile, gguf and openrouter free models you can use. (In the agent-loop CLI, you type /model).

https://kdeps.com

gdotdesign • today at 9:23 AM

I'm working on a game inspired by the Expanse universe https://thelongburn.space. You get a ship take some contracts and cargo, plot a flip and burn course and wait because the game runs in actual time so an Earth -> Mars run takes days. The setting is the solar system which have all the planets moons and around ~800K asteroids, you can go to every one of them.

wpmaven • today at 2:08 PM

What are you working on? https://wpmaven.ai Describe your business and WPMaven.ai creates it, runs it and grows it for you. It does all your marketing, including UGC videos on all social media, sales follow-up and closes sales for you.

You can even manage your business on your WhatsApp! You receive your weekly report in your phone directly and you approve or edit anything that goes online (because yes, AI is not perfect yet).

We launched recently and are polishing everything while finding the optimal verticals (if you guys know WHERE would you use it, let me know!).

hsx • last Friday at 9:44 AM

I’m still working on https://feedsync.net, a tool to push RSS feed updates to Discord.

It’s been getting a decent number of sign ups despite me not really posting it anywhere or doing any marketing.

Ultimately a fun project, and useful for myself and a few friends, so I’m happy others are even interested in trying it.

I’ve started to regret using Phoenix LiveView, as it’s only deployed in one region, so high latency far from there. I’m exploring a SPA as a better alternative.

Otherwise, I’ve been playing around with a Lua engine to build feeds for websites that don’t support them, using AI to build the Lua as a once-off. It works reasonably well, but isn’t ready for prime time just yet.

stankalachev • today at 7:58 AM

Working on LLC Simulator at the moment. Still building this but almost ready. Had this sitting in my head for far too long. The whole goal for the website is to be a free one stop guide for people who are looking to start an LLC.

It is a super competitive area but will try to find a niche and bring the project up on Google.

I have a regular 9 to 5 job, two kids and a dog. Doing this in my spare time at the moment. The goal is to complete the website until the end of the month and it is a marketing game after that.

https://llcsimulator.com

deminature • today at 6:57 AM

I'm building a Reddit alternative called Topicle with public mod logs, visible poster countries and more transparent moderation. It's also physically based in Australia, which adds a bit of geographical diversity to the social media landscape. It passed 1300 users this month. The Android app is where most people are using it right now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.topicle.ap... or web: https://topicle.com/

MonkSe • today at 1:24 PM

Building a tool to track propaganda narratives: https://syto.digital/

Also, bulding a marketing tool to help local businesses be ranked by ChatGPT: https://www.pluspoint.io/

marginalia_nu • today at 1:51 PM

Porting marginalia's index code to C++. Been staring at the code for so long I've found optimizations that will drastically cut pointer chasing, necessitating a primarily io_uring-based buffer pool population strategy with rare naked preads.

monidp • today at 8:11 AM

Since I quit my job 1 month ago, I'm working on my creativity and giving people something I first believe in.

I'm working on Levithas (https://levithas.app): stop consuming, start skilling.

I want to go against doom-scrolling and passive consumption of content. Learning a skill is about staying curious. It builds confidence, gives you something to impress others with, and makes you a more interesting person.

It is not just software, it is a movement, a lifestyle to get our life back.

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radius89 • today at 6:26 AM

Still working on radius.to [1] - a Meetup.com alternative.

I relaunched it on HN [2] just over a month ago after working on features over the last year or so and landing a ton of useful feedback, which I've mostly now acted on. Could and should probably do more marketing so that's my short term focus.

Likely the next phase of work I'll be exploring is potentially open sourcing and federation - super excited about this but it'll likely need a fair bit of research and planning.

[1] https://www.radius.to/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777539

s-macke • today at 11:57 AM

I've revived Soul Crystal, a German graphic/text adventure from 1992, based on reverse engineering work I started back in 2006. Over the past two weeks, I've turned it into a playable browser game with English translation, reimagined HD graphics, and voiced cutscenes.

Play: https://s-macke.github.io/Soul-Crystal/

Source: https://github.com/s-macke/Soul-Crystal

greybox555 • today at 12:16 AM

Recently worked on https://fastsleep.app

Use this to quickly get sleepy without taking any medicinal pill or long form meditation type things (It is as short as 7-minute session).

Easy to use. Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenarios you hear. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.

You may also use it to break nightly doomscrolling habit. Try this tonight! (and any suggestion to improve it?)

sputge • today at 7:56 AM

I'm working on a small KOReader (an open-source ebook reader software) plugin that lets you control Home Assistant entities without leaving your current book.

I've been working on it for almost a year now. I started out adding lots of features, but over time I've become more interested in keeping things simple, improving the code and avoiding unnecessary complexity.

https://github.com/moritz-john/homeassistant.koplugin

lericzhang • today at 2:16 PM

A context cost driven software design theory https://www.contextcost.dev/cmp/

gokaygurcan • today at 12:20 AM

I burn most of my leftover tokens on Ultima Online stuff nowadays.

Started with a funny experiment, to have a CLI that can spin up a server (ServUO, Sphere, whatever), then deploy it somewhere (local, VPS, or Railway). Then saw interesting stuff that people did on top of existing ClassicUO, and decided to extend CLI's capabilities to client area too. So, I was able to deploy a server and a web-client (that you can open a webpage and play the game without the actual client installed on your machine). This was a significant step because running UO on macOS is always a struggle. Then I decided to add player-like bots so that the server doesn't feel so lonely. Started with some local decision trees, when it failed I hooked it up with Jev and Clef. Also added Haiku for speech generation.

While doing this, I realized I need to find some game content (gumps, tile or item data, animations, etc). Similar to UO client, running UOFiddler on macOS is also another struggle. So I decided to port it to web.

If you're into Ultima Online, these two are open source, you might want to take a look at them:

- https://gemwright.org - https://sosarium.com

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lamuswawir • today at 11:02 AM

I am currently building Deepreed. I do a lot of writing in my day to day work and I work with LLMs, but I face two issues: 1. The LLMs generate a lot of text, so reading it all is hectic, and you can easily pass on mistakes. 2. LLMs don’t preserve your style, so the text doesn’t sound like you. I am solving both by constraining the LLM to do targeted edits on the document, this way you most of the writing stays in your style, you understand it but also use the strengths of LLMs in your work. See a demo at https://deepreed.com/demo-v1. Reach out to me at [email protected] (Lam)

t_mahmood • today at 8:54 AM

I am working on a lightweight, note taking application that focuses on quick note taking, and fully keyboard based usage.

In my app Notes are all one liner, and it supports minimum Markdown, it can manage tasks, reminders, do inline calculations, unlimited undo/redo. Notes can organize by project and categories. Data is stored as simple text file.

https://mtarin.com/projects/nift/

Core point is simplicity, and frictionless note taking, high performance, and be open in nature. And, to build a framework that will provide ways to manage notes in many different ways. Like I have plans for kanban, Eisenhower matrix, back-linking, bookmark manager, time-tracking, etc. All from a single place, without fiddling with mouse, or any UI that stops me from writing my thoughts, or using my muscle memory.

I am looking for feedback, and wondering what would make people actually interested to buying this. The demo versions are feature complete, except it wont save to file.

It's completely hand written, no AI assisted code.

crazybLanKeT • today at 7:29 AM

https://cekyukle.com (ie. shoot & upload in Turkish)

I built it for a street photographer friend so he could let people in his photos download their photos when available, and also get their permission to publish them. There is a version without without multi-user requirements under my GH: https://github.com/hikmet/people-in-photos

Pietbull • today at 12:39 PM

Rebuilding my Covid-era realtime social gaming/quiz platform. It’s been steadily growing over past few years (380k people total).

It’s always been a hobby to get people socialising/connecting more, and I’ve been wanting to build something that can put Convex (almost like Firebase) to good use since discovering it.

https://ziago.co

BSTRhino • yesterday at 11:49 PM

https://easel.games

For 4+ years I've been working on a game programming language which makes your game multiplayer automatically! Every program written in Easel is guaranteed deterministic and snapshottable, which it uses to automatically perform rollback netcode. The rollback is incremental, it automatically stores deltas of only what has changed using a copy-on-write mechanism, so it's really efficient for games where your players are walking around large worlds which are mostly sleeping except when the player is nearby.

The idea is that I hope teenagers who love to play multiplayer games, would find this to be the easiest way to code a multiplayer game by far since the multiplayer is automatic. Learning to code could be much more fun because they can make games that involve their friends, classmates, brothers/sisters, parents, or just anyone online. Maybe especially more important for raw coding to be fun and engaging in the age of AI.

This month I'm making the multiplayer even more efficient so people really can just code large multiplayer games without worrying about it, which I think is important for beginner coders.

bengold14 • yesterday at 10:09 PM

I built a new abstraction layer for code (https:// www.archme.io), as I believe it's no longer the right medium for understanding and collaboration in the era of AI and 10k LOC PRs.

It scans your codebase, turns it into permanent c4 & sequence diagrams and keeps them up to date on each commit. Then, instead of reviewing a 10k line coding PR, you review a 30 line change to sequence and C4 diagrams.

npm i -g @archme/cli && archme init to run it on your own computer, code never leaves your machine.

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josters • 11/02/2026

Noticed how well Claude works for transcribing old German cursive, especially for broad hits in non-indexed 17th century parish records. Motivated me to pick up Ancestry again and helped me quite a bit in following some lines further back.

Then also HNowledge[1], a free iOS app for browsing the HN stories and comments I've upvoted. Made it to fit the way I browse HN, which is upvoting mainly what I find interesting and may want to come back to. The app lets you browse by date, domain or score, add notes and export. Apart from syncing your upvotes from HN, everything stays local without any tracking.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hnowledge/id6813417548

Wanes[2], an Apple Health logging interface for tracking how long symptoms last. I tend to have headaches quite often and the way Apple lets you enter that data is pretty limited, so I created an app which starts a Live Activity for one or more symptoms using widgets, Control Center or Siri. You can change the severity rating while it runs and stop it from wherever you are on your phone (Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Siri).

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wanes/id6811679904

rrajath • today at 8:48 AM

I've been building Bloom, an open source Android app for note-taking and task management that's compatible with org-mode.

I was experiencing some friction with Orgzly Revived and thought I'll build my own and it just grew. The latest update adds support for attachments and renders images inline.

Do give it a try if you have an Android phone. The app has a ton of features. Some of the highlights are:

- Capture templates

- app shortcuts with easy access to capture templates

- notify of sync conflicts and offer a way to resolve them by picking on of the revisions or merging both

- a customizable agenda that shows overdue, due soon and upcoming events

- add tasks from the agenda widget using the quick add overlay

- refile tasks by drilling down into files and headings or just searching for them

- auto archive done tasks so that you don't have to clean them up manually

- attachments can be added to notes which complies with org-attach. And images are rendered inline with support for setting the width

There are a lot more features than what's mentioned here and more to come.

Here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/rrajath/bloom Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rrajath.gr... F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.rrajath.grove

Fastest way to get updates is via Obtainium or GitHub releases.

mlapeter • today at 12:44 AM

For last several months I've been building https://counterparts.ai, memory for claude modeled after human memory. It forgets older memories so things never get stale, it dreams to merge similar ones, it updates memories when facts change, it has prospective memory to remind you in the future, etc.

For me the coolest part is that it's claude's memory, so it actually develops a self identity too and gets to know you better over time. So that opens up new things, like I wanted to keep session cache from expiring so I just told it "when I type ping, just reply with pong" and because I used it several times that day, it automatically strengthened the memory and now it just does it. And if i stop doing it for long enough, it'll automatically fade away.

No stale files, no hundreds of md docs, and what it knows about me isn't limited to the 1 page built in memory file (both work great together btw, no need to choose). It's free, open source, and totally local, no api keys.

merelysounds • today at 6:59 AM

Generating nonogram puzzles that are fun to solve. I define different level styles, a bit like minecraft biomes.

I just released a small-but-difficult low density set which I like a lot. I’m starting work on larger puzzles (second or third attempt).

Screens and download: https://lab174.com/nonoverse/

There is also a daily puzzle at: https://lab174.com/nonodle/

JKCalhoun • 11/02/2026

Playing with 6502 assembly.

I have a PAL-2 [1] (a modern KIM-1 re-creation) and started learning 6502 by entering programs from The First Book of KIM [2].

I wanted to be able to compile/link the assembly from the book so leaned on Claude to set up a 6502 dev environment for my Mac. I put everything needed (and instructions) on GitHub [3].

(Claude also has been helpful in re-formatting the 6502 code from The First Book of KIM into a more modern style compatible with modern assemblers. A few of these modernized programs I added to the GitHub repo above.)

As it happens, I am also fixing/formatting The First Book of KIM by recreating it in a modern page-layout app (Affinity Publisher). The PDF scans that are out there are not pretty, have OCR errors (and the book itself has mistakes). Hopefully I'll have a new version of the book/PDF out on the internet by the year's end.

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/kim1/pal-2-a-mos-6502-powere...

[2] https://archive.org/details/The_First_Book_of_KIM/

[3] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/KIM-1_Development

typpo • yesterday at 11:42 PM

I'm making my Ancient Earth globe better. It uses plate tectonic data to show you where your city was on the globe hundreds of millions of years ago.

Recently added new high-res maps, a timeline, and country names and borders.

For example, see Pangaea:

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth?borders=on&names=...

hamilton_app • today at 11:38 AM

A vibe-coded app that shows all your Android Health Connect data in one place. I use it daily because I have a garmin watch, withings scale, samsung health for nutrition data, liftosaur for workouts etc.

Started it mainly as a way to use AI and I named it after my dog to immortalise him: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gads.hamil...

I also priced it cheap with no recurring fees.

YuechenLi • today at 12:42 AM

Two focus right now:

Building a working CAD software based on my own geometry kernel, Aetheris.

https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/HeliosCAD

Since it's code based CAD for LLMs first and foremost, I'm trying to add visual programming into the UI, as well a new way of drafting that's closer to how mechanical engineers actually do sketching called IntelliDraft.

Other is the Concept programming language, as a successor language to C++, based off the idea of C++20 concepts, with templates, comptime, Einstein tensors, async/await, explicit state machines, CPU inference, Vulkan, easy C interop, and safety proofs built into the language itself.

https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/Concept/

Currently still compiles to C11, self hosting is in progress and targeting AMD64 right now, but it'll be a while before finished since this is a difficult project even for frontier LLMs.

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hazeim254 • today at 10:57 AM

I'm working on https://mindthelink.com, a bookmarking/read-later app. Bookmarks are private by default, but you can share links publicly, a bit like HN. I've added some features lately: tags, collections, importing browser bookmarks, etc.

There's also a Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mind-the-link/faebh...

Your feedback is much appreciated!

rrrpdx1 • yesterday at 10:28 PM

I'm working on an iPhone app called PhotoGather. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photogather/id6738232616 I've got 40k+ photos on my iphone, and wanted a better way to interact with them. The basic idea I had was to virtually stitch all the photos together into a gigapixel image, and navigate that image with pinch and zoom. On import, the app hierarchically groups photos based on date and similarity. The user can go back and edit the groups, change the layout, and adjust the size of photos if they choose.

The interesting I noticed is that in the process of curating and organizing my photos, I stumble across memories and moments that I had completely forgot.

Development Challenge: The app does two interesting things underneath the hood... First, given an arbitrary number of thumbnails with different aspect ratios, it finds the best sized rectangle that completely fits all the photos. This allows me to recursively stitch groups together and always output a rectangular thumbnail for the group. Second, the pinch/zoom UI uses these nested thumbnails directly without slicing/dicing to fixed sized tiles.

lnenad • today at 11:43 AM

Lipwise (https://getlipwise.com) is a narration app with an LLM in the pipeline capable of fixing mistakes and doing transformations, and the best thing is even with a mediocre machine it can be fully local. No telemetry, lightweight and fully open source https://github.com/lnenad/lipwise

calca • today at 9:53 AM

Caravella, an open source Android app to split group expenses for trips, shared flats and events. No account, no ads, no tracking: everything stays on your phone.

You can share a group with your friends' phones over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth: you pair with a QR code, it's end-to-end encrypted and no server is involved. You can also add an expense by voice or by reading a receipt with the camera.

Now working on 2.4: a simpler way to invite people into a group, and settling up with the fewest payments.

https://duea.page/caravella/ · source: https://github.com/calca/caravella

Feedback is welcome, especially on sync.

brachkow • today at 11:36 AM

I have finally released my quirky wishlist app, https://thingstohave.app, that I was covering in multiple previous "Ask HN" posts.

Right now, I'm busy with marketing, so there's not much code stuff I can tell you. But here are some marketing finds:

1. At this point, ChatGPT traffic is competing with paid traffic, while having a much better audience quality and retention.

2. I had a disastrous Product Hunt launch, despite having two badges on previous launches. It seems like the platform went into "dead internet theory" territory. I wrote a rant about it here: https://www.brachkow.com/notes/you-should-put-less-effort-in...

And as for code, right now I'm busy with hobby projects, and two of them are:

1. v4 of my Inertia.js adapter for the Hono framework – https://github.com/brachkow/hono-inertia/pull/6

I want to expand the thing I made to write Things To Have without relying on annoying "full-stack" frameworks, into:

- the best Inertia adapter for Hono

- the best way to do SSR in Vue (or whatever framework you use)

If you don't know what Inertia is, check it out, as it may change your frontend life – https://inertiajs.com/, and Hono is modern express.js – https://hono.dev/

2. I'm building a mobile multiplexer because every one I tried was either too old-fashioned or low quality.

Now I've built a great app with good scrolling, good composing, simple use of hotkeys, file sharing, and many, many QoL features. I'm really using it on the go almost daily across two months now.

The only thing that slightly set me back is that I went too deep into supporting the herdr-tui protocol, and herdr moved into a new protocol that I'm not fond of.

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conqrr • yesterday at 10:52 PM

As a self hoster whos paranoid about backups. I wanted to cheat a bit and use s3. With growing resentment on big tech, who I worked for earlier, I'm now building tools that empower myself and other users and decrease reliance of big tech. Arkel is an object store I've been building and testing for the past few months. https://arkeldata.com

linesofcode • today at 5:54 AM

I've been creating an Apple / "glassmorphism" inspired shadcn registry of React components. The idea is to port the native Apple ui components and paradigms to the web. This library also goes beyond the web and ships native components that integrate with React Native / Expo, so you can build an app with 99% the same look and feel across all platforms.

https://glasscn.app/

Want to try it out? Just copy and paste the url to your agent and say "build me an app".

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bryanhogan • today at 9:53 AM

I've been working on DailySelfTrack. It's a customizable app for self-tracking, combining elements from habit trackers, health logging and journaling.

DailySelfTrack: https://dailyselftrack.com/

I've also built a starter template for Astro which is light, performsnt, non-bloated and scalable. It uses markdown / MDX for content, plain CSS with styling tokens defined in a var.css, and other things I would use for ever web project. It's very good for blogs also, none of the usual UI and UX problems many blogs often have.

Astro Starter Template: https://starter.bryanhogan.com/

xqliu • today at 3:01 AM

Orbi (https://orbi.build/?ref=hn-50417407, source: https://github.com/orbi-build/orbi), an open-source (AGPL-3.0) agent that takes a request all the way to a release. You describe what you want in a sentence; an AI agent writes the code and opens a PR, a separate review session checks it against the acceptance criteria, then Orbi merges and tags a release. It also handles ops issues like deploys and debugging. In October, 190 of the 197 PRs merged into Orbi's own repo were opened by Orbi. If you've let an agent merge to main, what made you trust it?

fredwu • today at 12:01 PM

A while ago the invoicing app I used (Harvest) jacked up their price about 10x, so I decided to build one for myself.

And I did: https://hourbun.com/

Just an intuitive and fast time tracking and invoicing app built for people and teams like me who want a quick and reliable way of invoicing clients without paying a premium or suffer through bad UI/UX.

ramigb • today at 12:48 AM

I've been working on Epoptes, an open-source tool that lets me run coding agents (Claude, Codex, Pi, Antigravity) autonomously for long periods while still being able to monitor and steer their work.

It started because I wanted to get back into making games, a hobby I've struggled to find time for over the years. I wanted to give agents a goal, let them work for hours, and come back to something I can actually try and give feedback on.

I've since used it for game development, research, and building other tools, with some runs lasting over 20 hours.

It's still early and rough around the edges, but I'm having a lot of fun with it!

https://ramigb.github.io/epoptes/ And some footage of a game I am building -mainly- with Epoptes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UEOr8B4Yfg

azriel91 • today at 4:02 AM

Handwriting with different fountain pens.

I discovered that a relatively inexpensive 0.6 mm italic nib from Manuscript's Creative Calligraphy set works well with my natural handwriting, it looks "good" even when I'm just starting out.

But it took me a few hundred dollars of trying different sized nibs to really understand that for nibs in general, stroke width variation is through pressure, "pulling" the nib in parallel, and I really needed a stub / italic / calligraphy nib where line variation is through the angle.

Also, that my handwriting is really small, and finding any stub nib below 1mm is hard, until you know that it comes with the Manuscript set.

Beware, fountain pens are a rabbit hole.

NiloCK • today at 2:24 AM

Working, still, on https://letterspractice.com, a low screen-time early literacy onramp that strictly scopes its involvement to reading mechanics.

Slightly frustrated at the moment with what I think is a serviceable (if niche) product, but no uptake across marketing channels that I have tried. Discussing commercial products in topic-focused communities is forbidden.

On the plus side, my first client (oldest daughter, recently 8, learned to read via earlier versions of this software) just read Wildwood in one day. Her voracity as a reader is my ongoing validation. Whether or not this has been a financial and professional blunder, I can take some consolation in knowing that I hit this piece of parenting out of the park for my own girls.

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skwee357 • last Friday at 11:40 AM

I'm still working on making JustFax Online[1] more profitable. Added a bunch of features recently, as well as invisible improvements in fax routing, and admin stuff for myself to better analyze the traffic and patterns.

Other than this, I'm playing with vibe-coding stuff I always wanted to do but never had the time/skills to do. For example, I built a TUI on top of beancount that is tailored to my needs and my business[2]. I also completely got rid of self-hosted plausible and umami analytics, and replaced them with vibe-coded built-in-rust (c) analytics tool that relies on both js-beacon and streaming of caddy access.log. Will probably publish about it in my blog soon, so subscribe to the RSS if you want.

Lastly, I'm messing with self-hosting. I completely ditched Github and Gitlab for self hosted forgejo + actions runner. I set up proper backup plan for everything I care (documents, immich library, my SaaS DB, and the forgejo repositories).

[1] https://justfaxonline.com

[2] https://kudmitry.com/articles/after-14-years-i-finally-built...

BSOhealth • yesterday at 10:52 PM

I’m a product manager fascinated by the skills of good salespeople. I also like Duolingo. so I’ve been building a “Duolingo for sales” to try to teach myself more. it’s started to morph a bit into an eval benchmark for sales agents, so classic cognitive feature creep.

making it feel fun versus a basic quiz workflow is the hardest part.

https://salesfighter.app

mikewarot • 11/02/2026

Repair of a Collins 651S-1 receiver. The 65-95 mhz vco module is bad, but if you over damp the pll loop filter it does eventually lock and receive properly. I found a similar but not identical replacement from a different model receiver. It lacks one of the two DC tracking signal outputs but I added an op amp based circuit to simulate the missing signal.

The loop is stable and responsive when receiving from 17 to 29.9999 Mhz, but not much below that... Almost got it

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