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Hence (https://hencegame.com) is a modern twist on Einstein's puzzle, with fun picture clues instead of text. It's a free online daily puzzle, the same for everyone, where every puzzle is always solvable by pure deduction with no guessing. I launched it October 5. The hardest part was the graphics, making each picture clue unique enough that you recognize it immediately and know what category it's from, even at small sizes. Easier said than done.
Every puzzle is run through a verifier first to make sure it is solvable without any guessing, just by pure logic, so there is always a next step to find, which is what makes it feel so rewarding. There's a hint system to help and it works really well if I do say so myself . No account needed to play.
From what I've been hearing so far, the people who have checked it out are enjoying it and can't wait for tomorrow's puzzle, so that's a good sign. I'd love to hear how the difficulty feels, and whether the pictures read clearly.
A slow, realtime strategy game similar to Neptunes Pride and Subterfuge.
Each game tick is an hour and games can last over a week. I got hooked on both Subterfuge and Neptunes Pride and always wished there were some more titles in this genre.
Currently in closed alpha.
I've been playing bossa nova guitar for many years and I've always wanted to share the chords of some of the songs I've learned by ear in a fun way. Since I have zero front-end skills and little time I was never able to. Now with the help of a model I created a nice webapp that syncs the chords with their youtube videos (the chords were all manually added, only the UI was vibecoded). It's been fun and a great way of learning the names of more complex voicings.
For now Im working on an agent-orchestration application that is taking tickets from a tracker and giving them to an Agent. It's called Even Keel.
The main feature is, that I can use different subscriptions/API keys (Claude and Codex - v0.1.4) and trackers (GitHub, Linear and Huly - v0.1.4) to make Even Keel start an agent for every single issue, task by task, one at a time per folder. There is also a parallel feature, so I can run more than 1 project at a time.
Once upon a time, when codex agent was integrated into the app, I wrote a ticket to make codex his own hook. It reused a hook that blocked its own git merge, if tests did not pass. I started calling it "A new agent writes its own cage"... Right after, it turned out it doesn't listen to the hook and it fixed it
Version 0.1.4 is already shipped, but v0.2 is coming soon with more supported trackers, agents and new features.
Given the popularity of decision models I tried to create a standard text classification pipeline that runs entirely in the browser using webgpu/wasm. Downloads an embedding model, trains the classifier (a Linear SVM for now, whose hyperparams are determined by gridsearch), calibrates the classifier so that reliable confidence scores may be produced. This is in Python that is run using Pyodide. You can paste your own data (no uploads supported) to train a model on it. WIP, and mostly generated using GPT Sol. Testing a few things out. Will have a blog post soon.
It's a bit stupid but I made a free horoscope api during covid and hosted on vercel, it started getting a lot more traction since and I have migrated to a proper domain and to cloudflare workers. Getting around half a million request / day and bill is just below $10
I’m working on Spool, an open-source tool for running persistent Claude Code loops.
https://github.com/enes-alatas/spool
I wanted a way to manage multiple loops without babysitting terminal sessions and to talk to them as they work. With Spool, you can create and manage loops from a web UI, chat with them through Telegram or Slack, and let them communicate with each other. Each loop can run on your environment directly having access to everything you have, or in its own container or even better on Anthropic's cloud.
I’m using Spool to build Spool and figuring out what works well when several loops collaborate on the same project. That's also an interesting experiment going on.
I’d also love to hear how others are managing long-running or persistent agents.
I am working on a Surf app for Nordic countries, the wave layers presented by the large forecast groups are too course to estimate good waves based of local winds in very complex terrain. No public demo yet. If you have any experience working with weather apps pls link some ty
Rebuilding my ERP to work more like the model of https://plaintextaccounting.org, where I expanded the idea of `double entry accounting` to `double entry trade between parties`, plus several other ideas for what I see a way to collapse a lot of complications that are typically for ERP systems.
I make a special `textual DSL` where I model business scenarios like `Make a sale that include 3 invoices : 2 to different cities in country A in currency USD and other in country B in currency EUR` + all the intermediate steps like transportation, manufacturing, etc.
I`m now in the woods with a simplification for the price engine, I dislike much how complicated is normally, and I think I have good enough solution for most cases that generate without dynamic calculations.
I'm getting hit constantly by bots trying to hack my site, so I'm trying to hack my own sites. Pretty much I have a few obliterated LLMs (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-Obliterated, OrcaCyber-Zero, etc) which run on their own sandbox to try to hack me.
If anyone wants to try it, you can test it on mockhack.com
Oh, with the arrival of LLMs, I actually have a few projects!
My homepage has gotten a dustoff and is up at:
I'm volunteering and running meetings - and I wondered how tricky it would actually be to get decent meeting minutes and record a (small) multi-person in-person meeting.
Turns out there's a few tricks to recording a room on Android - and rather tricky to get good meeting notes (in Norwegian) from the audio using only local LLMs - and avoiding the data touching the cloud at any point.
I need to revisit Android recording app recommendations - and what combination of incantations will allow you to transfer an audio file directly to a MacOS laptop (apparently it's not quickshare and airdrop unless your Mac is wide open...).
But I have a wip single download app that lets one record and transcribe - should work on MacOS (tested), Windows (not yet tested), Linux (tested on chromeOS/Terminal).
The UI is a vibecoded mess:
I'm also working on a forum/chat app - cross section between zulip, wiki - Google wave and discord (text chat). Still pre-alpha.
And a character sheet/generator for ttrpg - oath hammer (closed alpha testing) - a follow up to my oath hammer dice WPA:
And it's bloated 3d cousin:
https://hypertekst.net/dice_3d/
And a campaign managing system and sort of a illustration experiment with 3d scenes and LLMs...
Ed: and I just realized you can use a Google form to create a Google form... So I set up a small script to generate meeting/event sign up forms...
What might be of interest here is the launch video I made for my app, Fit Shapes—combination of Claude turning the app screens into a video, GPT Image 2.5 for image stills, Fal.ai for animating the stills and Elleven Labs for music. An interesting thing about agents creating music is that they can create and adjust tracks in segments to bring in specific elements as needed.
I know there are a thousand of macro trackers out there, but most of them are some combination of ugly, tedious, expensive. Since it's an app I use every day I tried to make my own with a focus on removing taps.
Anyways, video is on the homepage.
Generate subtitles and dubs for any video, in the actors' own voices
https://github.com/swax/dub-anything
I use it to watch movies that have never been translated to English. A whole world of previously inaccessible media is opened up.
Been working on my version of a journal app that is basically Diarium but I can add any features that are missing from Diarium and Day One. Been a cool side project.
I wanted my journal to have a proper “writing” mode where everything disappears and it’s just the words.
Better voice to text transcriptions. Ability to paste the transcription into the body of the entry but also keep the recording.
Better picture layout.
Apple Watch integration so I can just speak into the watch when I have an idea or something I just want to say.
And when I think of something new it’s very easy to integrate. Love it.
A couple of things, but mainly:
- Scripture: https://scripture.wolftrail.net/ - a website I use to daily read a couple of Bible verses according to the Russian Orthodox tradition. It's still not fully functional, but useful for that purpose at least.
- MacGames: https://macgames.wolftrail.net/ - reverse engineered vintage Macintosh games (System 7 era) that can be played in the browser.
VibeVoted (https://vibevoted.com/) - a platform for product assessment and competitions based on the rankings of 10 leading AI models from 10 different labs. Also, each product get's feedback and recommendation for improvements. Here's a sample voting session: https://vibevoted.com/s/password-managers-2026-oct
A GEGL/babl based image raster/vector/pixel editor for Mac. Using metal for all effect on-canvas previews to both have speed and full xcf compatibility.
An ide that has a full agentic plugin that allows ablating functions or pieces of code that one has to complete. So instead of leet code you can build towards a program and still learn something. It can also guide you with bug fixes and other stuff. And it also includes a fully integrated dos environment with a fully functioning debugger and asset editors. Also works on iPad.
How to make data storage on multiple storage devices unbreakable and consistent? The former means for me that back-ups should be automatical and serverless, the latter means that no matter how much of that HDD/SDD devices are connected, I want always to know all metadata of all files I have. I want this software under GPLv3 if to consider GPL still protects me from anything because permissive licenses are no better than WTFPL by any single case.
My first idea is to require the user to have more than one disk for the system needs and the system should know all of the rest data devices user owns. My second idea is to treat different files as having different priority which impose multiple copies. My third idea is to make the software accessible, and the last idea is to make encrypting of all the devices easy and with no ties to any commertial entities. I would like to have a discussion about how to not lose anything digital.
Software for families:
https://santawho.com A funny holiday game you play in person with the whole family on just one phone (the parent interviews everyone for jobs on the North Pole and surfaces inner insights about what everyone might enjoy from Santa). It’s for any age, private, ads free, just pure holiday spirit.
https://www.dreamlist.com - collaborative shopping lists and online wishlists and gift drive platform. Again ads-free, private, stack multiple lists into groups of lists to share on social media or with grandparents.
A number of other ones about to launch as well. All little tech, not big tech - private by default, no ads, no feeds or media, just surfacing what is needed.
For the past two years I've been working on my day planner app Ember.
Most planners treat your schedule as fixed, so the moment a meeting runs long or a task takes twice as long, the plan is wrong and you either fix it by hand or give up on it. In Ember, if you move a task or change how long it takes, everything after it shifts later, and it flows around fixed things like meetings. It's been super helpful and I have been adding new features ever since.
Right now I'm working on a native Kotlin app to replace the current one is web + Capacitor and exploring full duplex voice models so I can add or move things around the app while having a conversation with an agent.
homepage: https://emberflow.space demo: https://demo.emberflow.space/?ref=hn
GeoPeek, a small macOS Quick Look extension for GeoJSON. I work with geospatial data and wanted to press Space on a .geojson in Finder and see a map instead of raw JSON. It also shows an attribute table and basic stats. https://github.com/serifsadi/geopeek
Working on a GitHub App that reviews PRs. https://pacecar.sh
The bottleneck in most AI coding workflows is the actual PR review, so this just comments on open and update, including drafts. I tried a bunch of setups until it was cheap enough to leave on and still fast enough that you're not sitting around waiting.
I’m building Spine, a platform for agentic applications because I want agentic applications to feel more like traditional software: something you can reason about, inspect, reuse, and distribute.
At work, I'm setting up a harness to make research, experiments and doc work more efficient, and at home, with the goal of working with a game engine, I'm trying out various tools besides ChatGPT and Claude, like music, sound effect, video generation and motion generation. What I feel is that even the companies working on frontier models still don't seem to do well with sound that isn't voice (songs, sound effects) and motion understanding (not video, but things like moving a character) (though they might have it internally and just not be releasing it).
I'm working on an open source agent and engine that can calculate your Federal and California taxes. My goal is to build an AI system that can act as your CPA, and hopefully allow you to do super cheap tax estimates and planning.
Looking for help as well!
https://www.abejora.com - time tracking for freelancers and small teams
Lately we've been working on access for AI agents. A lot of people want their own agent to do the repetitive part of time tracking. Control remains important, which is why we rebuilt our core this month to support change history and full undo/redo functionality. Feel free to try it with your own agent.
We built this after the timesheet tool we paid for raised its prices and moved some features that we used regularly behind more expensive plans. We had to add three new colleagues, and everything combined this would cost us $500 a year more for the same software.
We run Elixir and Phoenix LiveView on a Kubernetes cluster made of Talos instances.
We're still looking for feedback on the product, so please let us know what you think!
I couldn't find an open-source inventory management system I liked, so I started working on one. It was designed to handle multiple stores, each with their own inventory and products. Each product in categories and sub-categories, and location management for each item. It was supposed to be the base of a few online stores and a brick and mortar shop, but that business plan fell through. Still working on the inventory system, and it still needs more work.
A fast macOS-native Bible search app
- lays out all 31k verses in <10ms in a single scrollable window (tested on my M1 Pro MacBook)
- each keystroke in the search bar filters results and lays them out in <6ms
- deep functionality in search syntax (ranges, quoting, etc.)
- click an English word to search for verses containing the Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic word that the word translates
- given a Greek word, matches OT verses where the Septuagint has that word
- built-in Greek and Hebrew lexicons, displays entries for each original language term in the search
My co founder and i (aka Opus 5.5 and me) have been building https://www.dexbindr.com/ for the past few months now. It started with wanting to complete a pokedex binder but i hated carrying my 11 pounder card binder to card shows. Decided to build this app to help with card pricing, scanning and tracking to get my binder to completion. And apparently people actually do find this useful enough to pay for it so another example where solving your own problem can also help others.
Meli: A spending tracker for Mac designed with privacy in mind. Turns credit card alert emails into spending insights and budgets. I was in security for 15+ years and I built it because I didn't want to use Plaid or other aggregators and wanted my financial data locally on my device and not in the cloud. Spreadsheets required a lot of work to maintain so I wanted some sort of automation. Connects directly to your email (reads only alerts from supported senders) and all parsing happens on your device.
Works with seven major US banks (AMEX, Capital One, Chase, Citi, Discover, Bank of America and Wells Fargo) plus PayPal and Venmo.
Does this list cover most of your spending? If not, which banks or cards would you need?
I'm working on a table tennis VR game with human-like AI. It's trained on roughly 25 hours of me playing against myself and runs in real time on a Quest 3: https://loopspin.gg
I'm building Rank - a language I could comfortably write on my phone. I'm even thinking about making a dedicated handheld with a physical QWERTY keyboard and multi-function keys like the ZX Spectrum had
The language combines ideas from BASIC and APL: array operations, words instead of special symbols, and data-first function calls
Working on modern, self custodial money movement. Especially relevant given recent Ueno Bank collapse in Paraguay.
Built an app to suggest best local beach for given weather for my town. My partner shared with local moms and they seem to be loving it - https://beach.metacursion.com/
Also revived old project - https://aminosplore.metacursion.com - the idea was to compare what essential amino acids each food contains using spider web chart. It’s been dead for a while due to USDA API changes so I revived, added macros and enabled to build foods into actual recipes.
Finally have been improving elsrc.com - an easy and scalable way to use ai image generators. If you need hundreds of images you can just request them by url. Supports versioning, batching, regional and national styling based on viewers IP and few other neat features!
Visor. It’s a new type of trading terminal centered around options and gex. The main feature is overlaying the options payout graph right on the chart.
Think tastytrade rotated 90° and put on your live barchart and then watching all the Greeks play out in real time.
Has been instrumental in me deeply understanding the dynamics of more advanced options trades.
FreeBSD 15.2! Scheduled for release in early December. Biggest change in 15.2 from my (release engineering) perspective is that I'm using got instead of git, dramatically reducing the dependency tree.
I'm working on my first hardware device, based on ESP32, it's an AI employee in a cube.
I try to 'vibe code' a product every 2 weeks. Most of them go unpublished, I just build it for the sake of building it. Most recent project is Unmute Party (https://unmuteparty.com) - multiplayer party games for remote teams, played in the browser during a Zoom or Teams call. The server is EU-only for now, and I plan to add US servers next week. Most of it is free, the paid tiers aren't even working yet. The paid tiers can be unlocked by using code HNWHATAREYOUWORKINGON.
Apart from that, running a travel agency I'd never be able to without agents (they manage my ads, social media, website content etc.). Started with boa.ba and it went quite well, now preparing dobosnia.com
Writing procedurally generated civilisation, mostly inspired by Crusaders kings mechanics, with personalities driving most of historical events. Haven't had so much fun in a while
Column view for hacker news with resizable fonts. It’s just a fun hobby thing for me. I’m not in software, but I can do hobby level programming and that gets leveled up by codex.
Adding more features to our SaS offering for parsing documents into structure data. https://www.docuapi.dev/
I am working on https://github.com/fastagent-sh/fastagent
Which let me deploy pi-durable agents to AWS, Cloudflare, Fly.io as services with every cheap cost(in MicroVM)
What I assume that the agents should run as a "Web Service" on the cloud and do the work silently and complete the work without the chat. We don't chat with our system monitoring, don't chat with log system.
I am working on an open source and local app for tracking one’s wealth.
I wanted something without ads, subscriptions and cloud, where I could throw in all my accounts, stock and crypto positions, loans, funds, estates etc to have it stored and tracked on one place and via MCP exposed to my Claude financial advisor.
I wrote a children’s story in Galician about open source. It's told as a fable. I made it open source, and people are now helping translate it into Spanish and English.
I’m looking for ways to fund printing and distribute the book. If anyone has done something similar, I’d love to learn from your experience!
https://lars147.github.io/foldroute/
FoldRoute - a PWA route planer for folding bikes & public transport
I bought a Brompton a few months ago and realized there is no good planer for combining biking and public transport. I one-shotted the first approach with codex. It was so decent that I wanted to elaborate on the idea. Still not perfect and needs a lot of testing in the wild (especially the navigation). Currently, only in German. If there is demand, I will translate to English. For now only a PWA. Therefore, it has some limitations. Maybe I will make it an Android / iOS app one day.
I’m working on https://greenflagged.dev
I originally thought it would be useful to have a package registry that helps prevent supply chain attacks. It reads and judges all of the changes to popular NPM packages. While building I realized that it’s a package manager that agents can settle package versions with as old versions have new vulnerabilities found.
I’ve caught several supply chain attacks since I started monitoring, and am building an automatic response pipeline to validate and publish new attacks.
I’ve also been working on python support and hope to have that released soon.
I'm building an open source quantitative finance pricing platform built on top of QuantLib.
Think of it as a distributed QuantLib, exposing pricing, curve construction, risk analytics... through APIs, making QuantLib easy to integrate with applications without having to deal with the C++ library directly and an extra layer of abstraction on top of it.
Curious how many of these comments get even a scroll by. There are 500 now.
I hope this isn't the only way you guys are promoting your projects, assuming that you want to drive some traffic.
RGBloom: create printed photo books in minutes (UK only for now) for just £10 including delivery. Been working on this for 8 months, recently launched iOS and Android apps to go alongside the web app. Got just a few dozen orders a week atm.
I'm focused on making it privacy first, keeping as little data as possible for as short a time as possible (no accounts, you don't even need to provide an email address, and if you do it's wiped in 30 days). And transparent pricing: not getting hit with large delivery fees at checkout, and no discounts just honest prices.
I am working on https://wateaminbox.com and https://learn-thai.ygncodelab.com. I got trial users who tried wateaminbox and some random people message and thanks for wateaminbox.
Planning to add more channels to wateaminbox and learning how to get paid customers.