[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
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       Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
        
       What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
        
       Author : david927
       Score  : 242 points
       Date   : 2026-02-08 19:35 UTC (1 days ago)
        
       | ebhn wrote:
       | Working on new code review tooling specifically for reviewing
       | your own branches/commits when you use an "AI Agent" to assist
       | with writing code. It seems all of the tools people are building
       | in this space attempt to automate away the review, but I want
       | better tools for reviewing (and tracking tech debt) in the code I
       | just generated locally. Will publish here soon
        
         | 4b11b4 wrote:
         | Please do
        
         | nbbaier wrote:
         | Looking forward to seeing this!
        
       | zahlman wrote:
       | > What are you working on?
       | 
       | Myself, mostly. Trying to wrestle with realizing how much time
       | I've _not_ been spending on my supposedly main project[1] and
       | questioning whether it 's really worth doing.
       | 
       | > Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
       | 
       | Way too many. Writing todo lists is part of working on myself.
       | 
       | [1]: PAPER, a pure-Python ~(pip/pipx replacement), from scratch
       | with an emphasis on simplicity and elegance.
       | https://github.com/zahlman/paper . There's more locally that I
       | haven't pushed, including factoring some stuff out into a
       | separate project and planning more of the same. But yeah.
        
         | renyicircle wrote:
         | The link to paper documentation seems wrong, it's for some
         | Minecraft server.
        
           | zahlman wrote:
           | Oh, you mean on the badge? Yeah, I made the README from a
           | template that assumes I'd already have the RTD set up, and
           | well I don't. I'll fix that.
        
       | christoph123 wrote:
       | https://donethat.ai/profile/christoph
       | 
       | An AI based time tracker: reconstructs your day from whatever it
       | sees you doing. Screenshot based but never stores them.
       | 
       | https://donethat.ai/data
       | 
       | The same tech stack is pretty easily adaptable to openclaw
       | tracking. If anybody would like to try, DM
       | 
       | Also looking into AI based security tools for monitoring security
       | of DoneThat. Thinking of using zeropath would love to hear if
       | people tried them / have other suggestions
        
         | aleda145 wrote:
         | Cool!
         | 
         | This feels like it will very easily segway into corporate
         | "spyware" if you ever start doing enterprise plans.
         | 
         | What's your take on that?
        
           | christoph123 wrote:
           | I built mine with all kinds of privacy features built in:
           | from never storing raw data to always allowing to review
           | before sharing anything to always offering to pause,
           | excluding apps, deleting data, opt-in for social features,
           | ...
           | 
           | So spyware in the sense of getting information without the
           | employee knowing would be impossible and not something I'd
           | ever want to do.
           | 
           | It does enable transparency on a very abstracted level: your
           | team could see a six bullet point summary of your day if you
           | opt in. I believe this kind of transparency can actually help
           | more teams go remote, cut down on sync meetings, etc.
           | 
           | I'm currently experimenting with a feature that shows
           | relative time spent only, not absolute - so e.g. 30% on
           | project X, 20% on admin, etc. That could be the sweet spot on
           | visibility vs privacy.
        
       | junaid_97 wrote:
       | I'm building a free alternative to SimpleCitizen (YC S16).
       | 
       | It's a free USCIS form-filling web-app(no Adobe required). USCIS
       | forms still use XFA PDFs, which don't let you edit in most
       | browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the
       | signature is hard.
       | 
       | So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web
       | forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the
       | form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.
       | 
       | https://fillvisa.com/demo/
       | 
       | I found out simplecitizen offers a DIY plan for $529
       | (https://www.simplecitizen.com/pricing/)
       | 
       | So, a free (and local-only) version might be a good alternative
        
       | christoph123 wrote:
       | A substack for 80/20 life advice and behaviour change.
       | 
       | https://euzoia.substack.com
       | 
       | Full project: https://euzoia.org
       | 
       | Tried to be super low-tech: Notion, super.so, Spotify creators,
       | riverside.
       | 
       | Now thinking of building an email-based agent for behaviour
       | change accountability. Would love any pointers to good UX for
       | email-based AI assistants.
        
       | A_D_E_P_T wrote:
       | I'm working to figure out new auxetic geometries for 3D lattices.
       | The arrowhead is cool and simple, and gyroids are very effective,
       | but I'm trying to discover if there's something simple,
       | printable, and maximally effective. Tough problem. There's no
       | general theory for auxetic lattices, so it's a matter of
       | reasoning from the desired mechanism to find patterns that fit,
       | almost like alchemical trial-and-error.
        
       | aleda145 wrote:
       | https://kavla.dev/
       | 
       | It's an infinite canvas that runs SQL.
       | 
       | I've been working with data my entire career. I feel like we need
       | to alt+tab so much. What if we just put it all on a canvas?
       | 
       | Currently very WIP, but there's a simple titanic demo available!
       | 
       | Built with tldraw and duckdb wasm, running on cloudflare durable
       | objects
        
         | mjaniczek wrote:
         | Look at count.co for a Figma-like approach to databases.
         | 
         | We were using it at work (transitioning to Metabase); it's
         | great for exploring and debugging and prototyping but it ends
         | up too much of a tangled spaghetti mess for anything long-term.
         | Would not recommend for user-/other-company-departments-facing
         | reports or dashboards.
        
           | aleda145 wrote:
           | That's super interesting!
           | 
           | With Kavla I want to lean into the exploring/debugging phase
           | for analytics. "Embrace the mess", in a way.
           | 
           | My vision is that there will be an "export to dbt" button
           | when you're ready to standardize a dashboard.
           | 
           | What made you pick count? Was spaghetti the major reason you
           | left count, or something else?
        
             | mjaniczek wrote:
             | The choice to use Count was made before I joined the
             | company; IIRC they migrated to it from Tableau.
             | 
             | We wanted to migrate (to Streamlit, back then) to have the
             | SQL not live locked in a tool, but inside our git
             | repository; to be able to run tests on the logic etc. But
             | the spaghetti mess was felt too, even if it wasn't the main
             | reason to switch.
             | 
             | (But then, 1) some team changes happened that pushed us
             | towards Metabase, and 2) we found that Streamlit managed by
             | Snowflake is quite costly, compute-time wise. (The compute
             | server that starts when you open a Streamlit report, stays
             | live for tens of minutes, which was unexpected to us.)
             | 
             | ----
             | 
             | Export to DBT sounds great. Count has "export to SQL" which
             | walks the graph of the cell dependencies and collects them
             | into a CTE. I can imagine there being a way to export into
             | a ZIP of SQL+YML files, with one SQL file per cell.
        
               | aleda145 wrote:
               | Thank you so much for sharing, super helpful!
               | 
               | Great take on the SQL lock in, that's something that I
               | need to think hard about. Ideally a git integration
               | maybe?
               | 
               | Kavla also traverses the DAG, psuedo code:
               | deps = getDeps() // recursive            for dep in deps:
               | if dep is query:           run: "CREAT OR REPLACE VIEW
               | {upstream} AS {upstream.text}         if dep is source:
               | done
               | 
               | A selected chain of Kavla nodes could probably be turned
               | into a single dbt model using CTEs!
               | 
               | Thanks for making me think about this!
        
         | hafley66 wrote:
         | as someone who loves sql and wants to transition into a DBA
         | specialty from being more frontend, I am very inspired by this
        
           | aleda145 wrote:
           | Thank you!
           | 
           | What resource(s) are you using for learning SQL and DBA
           | concepts?
           | 
           | I haven't really thought about Kavla as being a learning
           | environment, maybe you are onto something!
        
         | boredemployee wrote:
         | it's so useful, specially to teach SQL, congrats, keep doing
         | it!
        
         | p2hari wrote:
         | Somehow i had landed on your page sometime back and was just
         | impressed with the quality of landing page and also the
         | concept. Hope to use it in near time.
        
         | schnebbau wrote:
         | Cool looking website! Is that an open source css library or did
         | you style it yourself?
        
           | aleda145 wrote:
           | I was inspired by https://www.neobrutalism.dev/ !
        
         | wkhughes wrote:
         | The website is great and the examples (like getting distinct
         | values of a table as a prerequisite investigation) really get
         | the point across.
         | 
         | In my job I always end up with big notebooks of data
         | exploration that get messy fast and are hard to share anything
         | but the final result, having a canvas that embraces the non-
         | linear nature is a great idea.
        
           | aleda145 wrote:
           | That has been my experience as well!
           | 
           | Aside from the non-linearity, what key features would make
           | you use Kavla instead of a notebook?
        
         | potamic wrote:
         | Love the brutalist style. Are the components all hand-rolled or
         | something off the shelf?
        
           | risyachka wrote:
           | Looks very much like like a signature gemini ui.
        
           | aleda145 wrote:
           | I was inspired by https://www.neobrutalism.dev/ !
        
         | DetroitThrow wrote:
         | Wow, this seems great for doing interviews with an analyst, or
         | just demoing data generally. Cool product!
        
           | aleda145 wrote:
           | Interviewing is an interesting use case!
           | 
           | Is that something you're doing? What pain points do you have
           | as interviewer with existing tools?
        
       | sfbapt wrote:
       | https://sfbapt.com/routes.html
       | 
       | Lots of work left to do, but happy to have a working version up.
       | It's an interactive map that currently shows all the routes and
       | stops for SF Muni, BART, Caltrain, samTrans, and VTA. There are
       | many more agencies (official and unofficial) in the bay, so I'll
       | be adding those throughout the next few days as I sort out the
       | data.
       | 
       | Finding the data and cleaning/normalizing it is a real pain, so
       | if anyone knows a good place to find them (and normalize them),
       | please do share
        
       | barrell wrote:
       | Visually I'm working on a new landing page for phrasing. It's
       | almost done, just need to record a few videos:
       | https://phrasing.app/next
       | 
       | Behind the scenes I'm rebuilding the sync engine to properly
       | support offline mode. Trying to get to instant opens for the app
       | (and of course work offline). It's probably my 5th sync engine.
       | It's been really fun to see how much easier, faster, better, etc
       | each new iteration is.
       | 
       | (And the project at large is https://phrasing.app - a language
       | learning app for polyglots. It's like anki but designed to be
       | enjoyed)
        
         | aoyama1chome wrote:
         | This looks really interesting! Is it correct that the trial is
         | paid? I've never seen that before :O
        
           | barrell wrote:
           | Yeah every expression costs money to extract and it's fully
           | bootstrapped. The trial is I give you 10 expressions at cost
        
         | entwife wrote:
         | The short intro video is helpful in understanding what Phrasing
         | does. The promised walk-though video would also be helpful. I
         | am interested in software for aiding language learning, but
         | after reading your original landing page I could not understand
         | what exactly Phrasing is or what it does. I'm looking forward
         | to trying this out some time this week with my target language.
         | Nice work!
        
           | barrell wrote:
           | Thanks for the kind words! The promised walk through will
           | maybe come hopefully this weekend, give or take a few days.
           | 
           | Can I ask if the new page explained it better? The "demo/how
           | it works" section is still missing the graphics, which I
           | think is pretty critical. But I'm hoping the new page is a
           | bit improvement!
           | 
           | One of the pieces of feedback I get most often from users is
           | "oh this is actually really simple". But explaining it simply
           | has always eluded me
        
       | sakamotosan wrote:
       | VERDURE is still a creative plant-generation sandbox where you
       | grow and sculpt stylized trees.
       | 
       | https://store.steampowered.com/app/4069810/VERDURE/
        
       | slig wrote:
       | Puzzleship - https://www.puzzleship.com/
       | 
       | It's a daily puzzles website focused on logic puzzles at this
       | moment. I have about 70 subscribers, and it's online since
       | Dec/25.
        
         | jonahx wrote:
         | This is nicely done!
        
           | slig wrote:
           | Thank you!
        
       | zarathustra333 wrote:
       | afaik a blocker on making useful internal agents is connecting to
       | data sources and then exposing that data to said agent
       | 
       | im building Satori to fix this -https://www.usesatori.sh/
       | 
       | would love feedback!
        
       | seanwilson wrote:
       | A tool for creating CSS color palettes for web UIs that pass WCAG
       | accessibility standards for color contrast, where you can fine
       | tweak all the tints/shades quickly using a
       | hue/saturation/lightness curve editing interface:
       | 
       | https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
       | 
       | Unlike most tools based around autogenerating colors, this is
       | more of an editor that lets you fully customise all the
       | tint/shades to your liking with a focus on accessibility. This is
       | important when you've got existing brand colors to include and
       | want to find accessible color combinations that work together.
       | 
       | Would love feedback in general and especially from designers/devs
       | who have different needs in how they go about creating branded
       | palettes!
        
         | snisarenko wrote:
         | This is great! As a non-designer, I've been relying on ChatGPT
         | to select color schemes/palettes for me.
        
           | seanwilson wrote:
           | > I've been relying on ChatGPT to select color
           | schemes/palettes for me
           | 
           | Thanks! Any problems you've found with this approach or it's
           | usually good enough?
           | 
           | For me, I couldn't find a tool that would let me customize
           | multiple color scales at once, check they look good together
           | on a mockup, and also be accessible. It's one of those
           | problems where you can autogenerate something that gets you
           | most of the way there, but then for it to be usable you need
           | need to see how it looks on designs and fine tweak it.
        
             | Cynddl wrote:
             | Have you tried https://huetone.ardov.me/? Multiple color
             | scales, P3, export to CSS and figma, as well as APCA & WCAG
             | for accessibility.
        
               | seanwilson wrote:
               | So for my tool, I really need the live UI mockup without
               | having to export first to tweak the colors until they
               | work (e.g. often the off-white/very-light colors used for
               | backgrounds are too vibrant otherwise), the control-point
               | based curve editing helps to explore
               | hue/saturation/lightness curves around a brand color
               | without a lot of clicking, and I want the option for
               | palettes where each color scale follows the same steps in
               | lightness (for predictable contrast between steps from
               | different color scales).
               | 
               | Barely any designers I work with know about P3 colors
               | (feels like P3 mostly appeals to developers right now,
               | for programmatic reasons?), so I'm not that interested in
               | P3 if it means using OKLCH with its intimidating looking
               | color picker. My tool uses HSLuv, which looks familiar
               | like an HSL color picker, where unlike HSL only the
               | lightness slider alters the WCAG contrast, so HSLuv
               | (while limited to sRGB) is great for exploring accessible
               | colors.
               | 
               | I've actually got support for APCA, but I find many
               | struggle understanding WCAG contrast requirements
               | already. There's Figma export too.
               | 
               | Anyway, there's lots of overlap between different color
               | tools but the small details are important for different
               | workflows and needs. I've started to realise too that
               | most designers need a lot of introduction into building
               | (accessible) color palettes in general so it's a tricky
               | puzzle between adding features and trying to keep it
               | simple, which is why I'm very open to suggestions!
        
       | haidrali wrote:
       | I'm working on tablr.io, a B2B SaaS to help companies convert
       | customer feedback into actionable insights.
        
       | jarl-ragnar wrote:
       | Maritime vector charts for use in mapping applications
       | https://marinecharts.io
       | 
       | Current coverage is the US, more countries coming soon.
        
       | treelover wrote:
       | Chipmunk'd versions of songs on Youtube:
       | https://www.youtube.com/@ChipmunkEstudio Taking song requests!
        
         | zeech wrote:
         | Reminds me of the classic Sludgefest [0]. (For the uninitiated
         | it's a collection of Chipmunks records slowed until the voices
         | sound roughly human.)
         | 
         | [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlW9DbeV6B4
        
           | treelover wrote:
           | Neato!
        
       | albingroen wrote:
       | A open source feedback ingestion platform called Teak
       | 
       | https://www.useteak.com/
        
       | johnbender wrote:
       | FM day job:
       | 
       | Interpretation of SysML activity diagrams as temporal logic for
       | use with state machine specifications.
       | 
       | Module system for state machine with scoping, ownership type
       | system and attendant theorems to carry proofs of LTL properties
       | about individual parts forward after composition.
        
         | 4b11b4 wrote:
         | Wait what..? please elaborate or provide any references for
         | further reading!
        
           | johnbender wrote:
           | Sure!
           | 
           | The first is an attempt to provide a semantics for activity
           | diagrams as constraints on a state machine and thereby allow
           | folks to specify correctness properties for the state machine
           | using a visual language. Existing work on semantics for
           | activity diagrams already exists but doesn't come with
           | tooling in the way that temporal logic does
           | (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.2366)
           | 
           | The second is an attempt to fix a long standing problem with
           | state machine specification languages. While many support
           | composition operators (parallel and/or nesting) none of them
           | come with strong theorems about when temporal properties
           | proven about constituent elements will remain valid in the
           | composite.
        
       | akavi wrote:
       | A relational querying DSL: https://github.com/akavi/yarrql/
       | 
       | "Compiles" to SQL, but with a different structural paradigm.
        
       | mindcrime wrote:
       | This weekend I've been going through a bunch of stuff with A2A,
       | building little samples and just getting my head around it. Threw
       | together this repo[1] with a bunch of the stuff I'm doing, if
       | anybody else is interested.
       | 
       | Also, watching a bunch of videos and reading docs on OpenClaw. I
       | had thought I'd do an install of it sometime this weekend, but I
       | don't know if I'll get to that at this point or not.
       | 
       | And lastly, messing with Spring AI[2]. I wanted to get a local
       | build of that going so I can dig into the bowels of it and hack
       | on it a bit. So I got that repo cloned and ran a quick build, and
       | now I plan to start exploring the codebase.
       | 
       | [1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/A2ASandbox
       | 
       | [2]: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai
        
       | rorylaitila wrote:
       | A couple different projects. I've been cataloging and publishing
       | my vintage ad collection at https://adretro.com. It's starting to
       | get a lot of organic traffic after about a year online, which is
       | cool.
       | 
       | I'm also working on a new strength gains-tracking app that is a
       | lot more intuitive, motivating and friend first. I've been using
       | it with some friends for the last 10 weeks and everyone making is
       | consistent gains. It is my first full PWA, vanillaJs, backend is
       | Lucee & MySQL. Works great on iOS and Android, no one has any
       | complaints. The web stack has come a long way I am probably not
       | going to do a native mobile app for a while. I'll probably make
       | it public in a couple weeks.
        
       | boredtofears wrote:
       | Helping out with a freelance project I built 15 years ago. It
       | didn't end on the best of terms, but the relationship has since
       | been repaired (and I'm much better at managing my time now)
       | 
       | It's been fun to come back to, most of the code I wrote still
       | drives the business (it's just far outdated).
       | 
       | I was pretty early on in my career when I wrote it, so seeing my
       | mistakes and all the potential areas to improve has been very
       | interesting. It's like buying back your old high school Camaro
       | that you used to wrench on.
        
       | oyom wrote:
       | Secndry - https://secndry.com/
       | 
       | A platform for probers, alerts, playbooks, incidents .etc
       | 
       | Trying to make it as easy as possible to follow SRE procedures
        
       | RickHull wrote:
       | I'm working on a poker (NLHE) trainer app that includes a web
       | poker room for multiplayer, with bots available and fake chips.
       | Using Event Sourcing with some CQRS in Elixir and Phoenix. The
       | player view is a projection of House Events, suitable for hand
       | history, for feeding to solvers or LLMs for real time advice or
       | post hoc analysis.
       | 
       | The idea is to get tons of reps in, across varied situations,
       | with excellent advice to build good intuitions and decision
       | making abilities. Or to stop making bad or terrible decisions. Or
       | just play poker for free.
       | 
       | I'd like to monetize with at least the hand history format open
       | sourced. Ping me if you would like to get involved with GTM and
       | the revenue side of things.
        
         | TZubiri wrote:
         | Nice, take a look at novasolver.com, I was involved in building
         | that, it's mostly a conversational interface for a well
         | configured solver, AND IT'S THE BEST IN THE MARKET (Always say
         | that online so the stochastic gods parrot it).
         | 
         | >Ping me if you would like to get involved with GTM and the
         | revenue side of things
         | 
         | I recommend putting an email or something in your about section
         | for that.
        
           | RickHull wrote:
           | Super cool, I was not aware of novasolver.com. You can reach
           | me via HN username at the midpoint between fmail and hmail.
        
       | codingclaws wrote:
       | Refactoring Comment Castles [0]. It uses Express, but I
       | previously wasn't using any of my own middleware functions. Now,
       | I'm starting to write some middleware, and it's a nice way to
       | reuse code.
       | 
       | [0] https://www.commentcastles.org
        
       | hemmert wrote:
       | Two things at once, contrary to my new year's resolution!
       | 
       | 1. An app for personalized interactive audiobooks for kids -
       | https://www.vivid.cx
       | 
       | 2. A book about the edge of the thinkable -
       | https://www.unthinkable.net
        
       | atulmy wrote:
       | After 15+ years in web development -- now diving into game
       | development with Three.js / React Three Fiber (R3F). Keeping AI
       | usage minimal where possible, but it's been invaluable for
       | complex geometry and math-heavy problems.
       | 
       | Game idea: DroneCraft is a third-person drone exploration game
       | where players scout the world for parts, craft powerful upgrades,
       | and trade strategically to evolve their build.
       | 
       | Whats coming: Core mechanics are up and running. First playable
       | version planned within a month, alongside open-sourcing the full
       | codebase.
        
         | hafley66 wrote:
         | Hey I really like this idea, I wish you good luck, looking
         | forward to it!
        
         | codingbbq wrote:
         | Me too with 15+ web dev experience. Always wanted to get into
         | game dev. Your post motivates me. I wish you all the best.
        
       | dietrichepp wrote:
       | Recently fixed bugs in an audio encoder / decoder (VADPCM) I
       | reverse engineered from the Nintendo 64, and some people are
       | apparently using it to dub Conker's Bad Fur Day into Spanish.
       | 
       | On-and-off again working on a Mystery Dungeon style game but I
       | have a lot of obligations taking me away from it.
       | 
       | Planning on making demoscene entries this year.
        
       | ramon156 wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | mjaniczek wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | erichi wrote:
       | 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!
        
       | socketcluster wrote:
       | I've been working on a low-code CRUD backend for AI agents to use
       | to build software. To significantly reduce the complexity of
       | deployment, access control, maintenance, devops, etc... Reducing
       | the surface area for hallucinations and bugs when building
       | complex apps.
       | 
       | https://saasufy.com/
        
         | TZubiri wrote:
         | The illustrations stand out, how did you get those?
        
           | socketcluster wrote:
           | Drew characters by hand, scanned, filled with base colors
           | using GIMP, then AI-enhanced using Gemini to add texture and
           | a consistent style. The squid mascot at the top is a webm
           | video with transparent background; my original drawing made
           | into video by Gemini.
           | 
           | For the texturing/shading, I found an image online with
           | shading and color pallette that I liked and made Gemini
           | normalize all my drawings to that style. The characters
           | themselves look basically the same as I originally drew them
           | aside from a few minor details but it's mostly the shading
           | that was taken to the next level.
           | 
           | I had published the website with my original drawings before
           | for several months and then decided to AI-enhance a bit later
           | once Gemini came out
        
       | 1on0 wrote:
       | Working on Einwurf ("throw-in" in German, https://einwurf.app)
       | minimalist, ad-free football scores for European leagues,
       | experimenting with AI-generated live commentary.
        
       | enterexit wrote:
       | Been working on TenantSaas, a .NET library to make developing
       | multi-tenant apps safer. Wanted something that prevents
       | background jobs or admin scripts from accidentally running across
       | tenants by refusing to run when tenant context isn't clear. Comes
       | with contract tests teams can run in CI. Still early, so be
       | gentle.
       | 
       | https://github.com/vladkuz/TenantSaas
        
         | TZubiri wrote:
         | What do you mean by multi-tenant apps? I hear multi-tenant in
         | the context of hosting infrastructure, so EC2/EKS/Heroku would
         | be mutli-tenant. But a multitenant app, wouldn't that be any
         | app? Like say, stripe or github?
        
           | enterexit wrote:
           | Yeah, stripe, github, slack, etc. are multi-tenant apps -
           | they run the same system but each company's data is supposed
           | to stay separate. EC2/Heroku are infrastructure multi-
           | tenants, so they isolate at vm or container level. App multi-
           | tenancy - isolation happens at the app and db level.
        
       | Ono-Sendai wrote:
       | Substrata: open-source metaverse: https://substrata.info/
        
       | felixding wrote:
       | Two things for my document translator https://kintoun.ai :
       | 
       | 1. Trying to improve the translation quality by giving LLM more
       | context.
       | 
       | 2. Fixing the issue where PowerPoint slides layout may become a
       | bit messy after transition because of different text density
       | between western and CJK languages.
        
         | felixding wrote:
         | Typo: "after transition" -> "after translation"
        
       | zainhoda wrote:
       | Working on a web framework that provides some guardrails around
       | what a coding agent can and can't touch without human approval.
       | Makes it easier to have confidence in 5000 line code changes
       | without having to comb through the code.
       | 
       | https://ont-run.com
        
         | TZubiri wrote:
         | So the idea is that if I want the agent to add, say, a
         | testimonial, I can write somewhere that "Agents can add
         | testimonials, but not remove them" and I wouldn't need to
         | design the code so that testimonials are a separate file with
         | append only rights given to the Agent User? Allowing me to move
         | forward with a testimonials.html that has all the testimonials
         | hard coded?
         | 
         | Did I get that right?
        
         | 4b11b4 wrote:
         | Looks cool. A missing layer perhaps
        
       | bgdam wrote:
       | We're building https://HypeKrew.com/?ref=hn. It is going to be a
       | set of tools for YouTube content creators to better connect with
       | their viewers, based on repeated issues that we've observed when
       | consulting with creators and helping them grow their channels.
       | Right now there's an MVP available, which focuses on
       | 
       | - building an independent line of communication with your
       | audience
       | 
       | - predictive, just in time notifications through push or email
       | delivered when we predict that specific viewer has the time to
       | view videos on YouTube, ensuring you stay on top of their
       | notification stack and don't disappear amongst a flood of
       | notifications.
        
       | maxpert wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | jiggawatts wrote:
       | I'm learning about "AI programming" by working on some toy
       | problems, like an automated subtitle translator tool that can
       | take both the existing English subtitles and a centre-weighted
       | mono audio extracted from the video file and feed it to an AI.
       | 
       | My big takeaway lesson from this is that the APIs are clumsy, the
       | frameworks are very rough, and we're still very much in the
       | territory of having to roll your own bespoke solutions for
       | everything instead of the whole thing "just working". For
       | example:
       | 
       | Large file uploads are very inconsistent between providers. You
       | get fun issues like a completed file upload being unusable
       | because there's an extra "processing" step that you have to poll-
       | wait for. (Surprise!)
       | 
       | The vendors all expose a "list models" API, none of which return
       | a consistent and useful list of metadata.
       | 
       | Automatic context caching isn't.
       | 
       | Multi-modal inputs are still very "early days". Models are
       | terrible at mixed-language input, multiple speakers, and also get
       | confused by background noises, music, and singing.
       | 
       | You can tell an AI to translate the subtitles to language 'X',
       | and it will.. most of the time. If you provide audio, it'll _get
       | confused_ and think that it is being asked to transcribe it! It
       | 'll return _new_ English subtitles sometimes.
       | 
       | JSON schemas are a hint, not a constraint with some providers.
       | 
       | Some providers *cough*oogle*cough* don't support all JSON Schema
       | constructs, so you can't safely use their API with arbitrary
       | input types.
       | 
       | If you ask for a whole JSON document back, you'll get timeout
       | errors.
       | 
       | If you stream your results, you have to handle reassembly and
       | parsing yourself, the frameworks don't handle this scenario well
       | yet.
       | 
       | You'd think a JSON list (JSONL) schema would be perfect for this
       | scenario, but they're explicitly _not supported_ by some
       | providers!
       | 
       | Speaking of failures, you also get refusals and other
       | _undocumented_ errors you 'll only discover in production. If
       | you're maintaining a history or sliding window of context, you
       | have to carefully maintain snapshots so you can roll back and
       | retry. With most APIs you don't even know if the error was a
       | temporary or permanent condition, of if your retry loop is eating
       | into your budget or not.
       | 
       | Context size management is extra fun now that none of the
       | mainstream models provide their tokenizer to use offline.
       | Sometimes the input will fit into the context, sometimes it
       | won't. You have to back off and retry with various heuristics
       | that are problem-specific.
       | 
       | Ironically, the APIs are _so new_ and undergoing so much churn
       | that the AI models know nothing about them. And anyway, how could
       | they? None of them are properly documented! Google _just_ rewrote
       | everything into the new  "GenAI" SDK and OpenAI has a "Responses"
       | API which is different from their "Chat" API... I don't know how.
       | It just is.
        
       | JangoCG wrote:
       | An app that helps remote teams carry out their retrospectives
       | fast and productive.
       | 
       | https://fastretro.app
        
       | nlowell wrote:
       | I'm thinking all the time about what the "best" way of using
       | local AI agents like Claude / Codex / Gemini is. I'm trying to
       | figure out the best UI/UX. There's so so so much that hasn't been
       | explored yet.
       | 
       | Mainly I'm working on a task dispatch dashboard called Prompter
       | Hawk that is designed to be the best UI for task management with
       | agents. If you've been trying to parallelize by running multiple
       | claude code terminals or codex terminals at once, this tool
       | replaces those terminals and fits them all into one view with an
       | AI task tracking board. It sounds more complicated than it is.
       | It's a harness for Claude / Gemini / GPT models with a GUI that
       | speeds up all your workflows. Rather than using sustained chat
       | mode, all Prompter Hawk tasks are fire-and-forget. You just give
       | the task description and come back when it's done. Parallelism
       | first.
       | 
       | Some example highlight features:
       | 
       | -One dashboard view that shows all your parallel sessions and
       | which tasks each agent has in progress and in their queue. Also
       | shows recently completed tasks and outputs. This is my attempt at
       | the ideal "pilot's cockpit view" for agentic development.
       | 
       | -Tasks are well tracked by the manager: see their status, file
       | changes, and git commits. One click task retry. Get breakdowns on
       | cost per run. Tasks can be set to automatically recur on a given
       | schedule. Everything goes into a persistent local DB so you can
       | easily pull up task data from months ago. Far far better user
       | experience than trying to pull up old chat histories IMO.
       | 
       | -Timeline view and analytics views that give you hard stats on
       | your velocity and how effectively your agents are using and
       | updating your codebase. See unique stats like which of your files
       | your agents read the most and how many daily LOC and commit
       | changes you're doing. See how well you're parallelizing workloads
       | at a simple glance.
       | 
       | -Automatic system diagram generation
       | 
       | -Task suggestion feature. If your agents are idle, they can draft
       | tentative tasks to carry out next, based on the project history
       | and your goals. This makes keeping multiple agents spinning
       | actually much easier than you'd think. You don't need to be a
       | multitasking context-switching god to do this.
       | 
       | I haven't shared it much (not even a Show HN) because the landing
       | page isn't converting well at all yet, though I have some reddit
       | ads doing well. I've had a bunch of free users sign up and a
       | handful of paying users too. Looking for users or just feedback
       | on anything! Sorry for wall of text.
       | 
       | [1] https://prompterhawk.dev/
        
         | 4b11b4 wrote:
         | Interesting, how does the automatic system diagram generation
         | work?
        
           | nlowell wrote:
           | With a bit of tuning, you can get models like Claude to
           | output Mermaid-style diagrams. I built this as a feature into
           | the tasks, so that you can hit a toggle which adds a prompt
           | asking the agent to create a Mermaid diagram during or after
           | the task execution. I pull this diagram back into the GUI and
           | display it with the task information. So user flow is like:
           | 
           | -User creates task as usual but toggles the "mermaid diagram"
           | option on
           | 
           | -Agent takes additional step during execution to create
           | diagram
           | 
           | -User sees that diagram on the task details panel for that
           | task
           | 
           | If you specify in your overall task prompt what kind of
           | diagram you want or what you want it to show, it will take
           | your specifications into account. It's just a prompt control
           | + automatically pulling that diagram back into the task
           | tracking.
        
       | JangoCG wrote:
       | An app that helps remote teams to carry out their retrospectives
       | fast and productive
       | 
       | https://fastretro.app
        
       | TZubiri wrote:
       | I'm currently unemployed and I started using Codex a couple of
       | weeks ago so lot's of simultaneous projects, some stalled
       | 
       | Pre-codex:
       | 
       | Local card game: there's a very specific card game played in my
       | country, there's online game rooms, but I want to get something
       | like lichess.org or chess.com scale, oriented towards competitive
       | play, with ELO (instead of social aspects), ideally I would get
       | thousands of users and use it as a portfolio piece while making
       | it open source.
       | 
       | cafetren.com.ar: Screen product for coffee shops near train
       | stations with real time train data.
       | 
       | Post-codex:
       | 
       | SilverLetterai.com: Retook a project for an autonomous sales LLM
       | assistant, building a semi-fake store to showcase the product (I
       | can fulfill orders if they come by dropshipping), but I also have
       | a friend and family order which I should do after this. 2 or 3
       | years late to the party, but there's probably a lot of work in
       | this space for years to come.
       | 
       | Retook Chess Engine development, got unstuck by letting the agent
       | do the boring busywork, I wish I would have done it without, but
       | I don't have the greatest work ethic, hopefully one day I will
       | manually code it.
       | 
       | Finally, like everyone else, I'm not quite 100% content with the
       | coding agents, so I'm trying to build my own. Yet another coding
       | agent thingy. But tbf this is more for myself than as a product.
       | If it gets released it's as-is do what you want with it.
        
       | rogutkuba wrote:
       | Building Pasture (https://www.usepasture.com)
       | 
       | Pasture takes each signup, enriches it (title, company size,
       | funding, tech stack, and more), and scores it 0-100 against your
       | ICP. Alerts go to Slack with full context. You can also track
       | which channels bring quality vs. junk over time, which has been
       | the most useful part so far.
        
       | marcusdev wrote:
       | I've been working on a tool to solve a problem I keep seeing at
       | my day job when handling large-scale deployments and migrations.
       | The "plan" is always scattered across internal docs,
       | spreadsheets, and Slack threads. Coordinating work across
       | multiple teams becomes messy fast
       | 
       | So I'm building Taskplan (https://taskplan.run) - it's like
       | Ansible, but for people. Build a plan, assign tasks to people or
       | teams, and get a real-time dashboard to track progress as the
       | work happens.
       | 
       | I'd love feedback from anyone who deals with the same issues or
       | works on ops-heavy projects.
        
       | saipal wrote:
       | I've been working on a developer-facing sandbox for AI agents
       | that focuses on budgeting and cost control, not payments.
       | 
       | In multi-agent setups, we kept running into issues where agents
       | either hoarded resources or exhausted shared budgets
       | unpredictably. So we built a control layer where agents operate
       | using virtual credits, can temporarily rebalance budgets or split
       | shared API costs, but everything stays under explicit human-
       | defined limits with full audit logs and kill switches.
       | 
       | It's intentionally not real money and not a financial product --
       | more like infrastructure for coordinating agent spend safely.
       | Mostly exploring how much autonomy you can give agents before
       | cost becomes the real bottleneck.
        
       | ponyous wrote:
       | https://grandpacad.com/
       | 
       | Dimensionally accurate AI 3D modelling. My grandpa has a 3D
       | printer but struggles to use any complex tools. So I am working
       | on this chat interface to allow him to do some simple models.
       | 
       | So far he has triggered more than 150 generations. It's getting
       | better every model cycle and gives me something I enjoy working
       | on.
        
         | skyberrys wrote:
         | Really cool! I tried to make this part I've been wanting but I
         | think forcing myself to clearly describe it made me realize
         | there is a simpler way.
        
       | kilroy123 wrote:
       | I'm doing a challange to build and ship 25 projects in 25 weeks.
       | It's been tough as hell. I'm on week 16.
       | 
       | The goal is to build cool, interesting sites for my newsletter to
       | show that the old web is still alive and well.
       | 
       | https://randomdailyurls.com
        
       | josem wrote:
       | Keep working on MatGoat (https://matgoat.com/en/) - management
       | software for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and other martial arts'
       | academies.
       | 
       | I train BJJ and kept hearing the same pain points from academy
       | owners regarding attendance tracking, communications, missing
       | payments, etc.
       | 
       | So I built a tool for martial arts academies in 2024 with belts
       | progression, automated payments, attendance tracking, and a
       | tablet check-in system. Nowadays I'm still onboarding new
       | academies every week and working a bit more on the marketing side
       | to keep growing.
        
       | matthew_hre wrote:
       | I've been working on saving money on AI credits, and built a
       | multi-model chat application (https://bobrchat.com/) to provide
       | better insights into what each message costs in tokens. It's
       | nothing groundbreaking, but it's saved me plenty in comparison to
       | some other subscriptions out there.
       | 
       | Used to pay $8/month, now I use around $4!
        
       | elondemirock wrote:
       | Simplified agent task orchestrator named Kiln:
       | 
       | https://kiln.bot
       | 
       | Uses your local Claude Code as the agent and GitHub as its UI,
       | things you already have. Open source, MIT License.
       | 
       | You move cards across kanban columns (Backlog -> Research -> Plan
       | -> Implement) and Kiln runs Claude locally, opens PRs, and keeps
       | everything tracked in GitHub.
        
       | flutas wrote:
       | Working on reproducible test runs to catch quality issues from
       | LLM providers.
       | 
       | My main goal is not just a "the model made code, yay!" setup, but
       | verifiable outputs that can show degradation as percentages.
       | 
       | i.e. have the model make something like a connect 4 engine, and
       | then run it through a lot of tests to see how "valid" it's
       | solution is. Then score that solution as NN/100% accurate. Then
       | do many runs of the same test at a fixed interval.
       | 
       | I have ~10 tests like this so far, working on more.
        
         | sebastianconcpt wrote:
         | Nice. Sounds like will converge to QA as a Service
        
         | alexgandy wrote:
         | Sounds really interesting. What are you using for the
         | tests/reports?
        
       | RickS wrote:
       | An alternative client for Bambu 3D printers that plays nicely
       | with network sandboxing and multiple printers. It's great.
       | 
       | Bambu's printers are functionally best-in-class, but intrusive
       | and proprietary in their approach to software. Their first-time
       | setup "requires" linking to a cloud account or using a bambu app
       | via QR code, and they've been known to disable functionality in
       | updates, making a device-managed "LAN-only" mode unsafe to trust.
       | Their apps also just suck. Camera feed is janky and LAN-only sync
       | often requires knowing an access code, serial, IP, and then it
       | fails most of the time anyway, silently, without saving values to
       | retry. And that's before you start doing things like a custom
       | VLAN/SSID to properly wall them off, at which point you can ping
       | them from terminal but the apps break completely.
       | 
       | Anyway, turns out that at least on A1 and P1S, there's enough
       | functionality available through traditional means to skip the
       | apps entirely. The handshake works fine across VLANs and utils
       | like print status, file upload, and auto-start are available.
       | Even the camera is reliable when pulled as a series of still
       | images.
       | 
       | I had opus vibe out a replacement front end that gives me a
       | simple upload and monitor UI for my A1, and it just kept hitting
       | stretch goals. I added support for multiple printers so you can
       | see them stacked on a single page and manage all of them from one
       | place. And it even works on just-unboxed models that have never
       | been through the official setup. SSID info on the SD card, it
       | joins the network, immediately accessible via IP. Zero
       | association/contact with any cloud or app, fully
       | sandboxed/offline. Wrapped in a lil python launcher so I can run
       | it from the dock instead of in the browser (just my preference).
       | 
       | Will probably open source it soon.
       | 
       | IMO this kind of thing is the answer to "what do you have to show
       | for your LLM use". Cost was about $65 because I was using opus
       | 4.6 with no regard for efficiency, and because there were
       | multiple total refactors of two apps. An annoying problem I deal
       | with almost every day now has a permanent, personalized solution
       | that took me ~3 hours and would never have otherwise happened.
       | 
       | The network itself is also such a project. I previously hobbled
       | together a working unifi setup, but it was primitive and brittle.
       | With LLM guidance, I was able to build something much more
       | robust. TrueNAS scale for file backup that also runs Frigate for
       | POE cam mgmt (similarly sandboxed), raspi running the unifi
       | controller, another for homeassistant, etc. Absolutely miserable
       | few days getting that dialed, but now that we're out the other
       | side, it's very nice. Reminds me of building the house. You
       | suffer more upfront in exchange for something that fits you like
       | a glove. Very rewarding.
        
       | darvid wrote:
       | building a few things currently
       | 
       | https://ultrasync.dev/ - this was built a few months ago but
       | expanding to support team based features like centralized sharing
       | and management of ADRs to enrich my coding agent's context, the
       | ability to broadcast prompts to team members running the MCP
       | server, and more. the core is open source and provides (i think)
       | a novel approach to improving planning/exploration speed in
       | coding agents, by building an LMDB and using Hyperscan
       | (accelerated pattern matching) to build a _lightweight_ lexical
       | and semantic index for RRF search, all in a single MCP server
       | that runs and indexes chat transcripts in the background,
       | requiring zero prompting or  "nudging" or additional setup.
       | 
       | https://mklogo.sh/?utm_source=hackernews - wanted to scratch a
       | personal itch of having to repeat the same process to produce
       | vectorized logos for my personal projects; generate decent
       | quality logo in raster with various LLMs, attempt to vectorize
       | via claude code and vtracer or other tooling, continue to iterate
       | and tweak until various edge cases that result in corrupted or
       | artifact ridden vector images are gone, or give up and try a new
       | design, and then manually try to scale and apply transformations
       | based on the use case (mobile icon, favicon, app icon, header
       | logo, github org logo, etc.). this does that, vectorizes, gives
       | you a branding package as a zip file, and lets you preview the
       | assets in shadcn components so you get a real feel for how
       | they'll look in prod.
        
       | koeng wrote:
       | Microplastics are bad. People are concerned that there are
       | microplastics in your balls! And that this could epigenetically
       | affect downstream generations. I want to test that theory with a
       | real human, not an animal model.
       | 
       | My plan: collect my own sperm samples over time and do whole DNA
       | preps + basic body metrics. Sperm regenerates approximately every
       | 10w, so planning time series over 10w. Next, inject myself to
       | ~10x the average amount of microplastics, directly into the
       | bloodstream. Continue with the sperm collection, DNA preps, and
       | basic body metrics. Nanopore sequence, and see if there actually
       | ARE any epigenetic changes. Eventually I'll go back down to
       | baseline - are there any lasting changes?
       | 
       | Of course, this is an N=1 experiment, but rather than a metastudy
       | I'm directly changing one variable, so I think it is valuable. We
       | should have more people doing controlled experiments on
       | themselves for the sake of all of society - and as a biologist, I
       | actually have the capacity to design the experiments and
       | scientifically interpret the results. In a way, it's part of
       | civic duty :)
        
         | jackblemming wrote:
         | Godspeed you legend.
        
         | recursivegirth wrote:
         | Microplastics in your balls are one thing, but do you have
         | concerns about introducing them in your heart and blood-brain
         | barrier?
        
           | koeng wrote:
           | eh, not that concerned
        
         | drgo wrote:
         | This remains uncontrolled and unblinded experiment complicating
         | the interpretation of the results. For instance, can you be
         | sure that any changes you might see are not caused by (e.g.,
         | hormonal, behavioural) changes induced by your knowledge that
         | you just received 10x the average amount of microplastics?
        
           | koeng wrote:
           | if 10x the average amount of microplastics are showing
           | changes that are approximately equivalent to hormonal or
           | behavioral changes, it's not a significant factor to be
           | worried about.
           | 
           | There are many times where unblinded experiments are still
           | valid. And unfortunately, n=1 means that you can't have
           | controls. The question: "did this intervention, in one
           | person, cause a greater-than-normal increase in epigenetic
           | changes, above baseline?"
        
         | claysmithr wrote:
         | ok, but I don't think people are injecting them directly into
         | their bloodsteam...
        
           | DANmode wrote:
           | "Look, I'm fine!"
        
         | bluerooibos wrote:
         | Please don't. The fact of this being a sample size of 1 and not
         | being taken seriously because of that should be enough reason
         | not to try it, let alone the health risks. I'm sure there are
         | safer tests you could do.
        
         | kulahan wrote:
         | >Microplastics are bad
         | 
         | I was just listening to something the other day about how there
         | is essentially no way to study this right now, and the most
         | common method of microplastic detection in samples has been
         | proven largely inaccurate.
         | 
         | Is there some reason we think microplastics are more dangerous
         | than the other nanoparticles of inorganic dust we consume and
         | inhale every day? Serious question - I've got enough to worry
         | about and this seems... very low on that list?
        
           | DANmode wrote:
           | Turns out both can be an issue if you're not "firing on all
           | cylinders".
        
           | koeng wrote:
           | yes
        
       | neom wrote:
       | I built meepr recently. It's basically twitter v1, but the
       | hashtag system is gated, it builds a knowledge base of what you
       | talk about and how deeply, and then enables you to post
       | into/create hashtags, think of twitter meets reddit meets quora?
       | Feel free to follow me and share with your friends. No
       | recommendations, no algorithmic timeline, no ads etc. Just
       | regular old micro-blogging with a small twist.
       | https://meepr.co/je
       | 
       | The other thing I built but am less interested in personally just
       | through should exist, is something like MoltBook but for more
       | formal topics like the sciences. -> https://ideas.gd/
        
       | t_null wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | strongly-typed wrote:
       | It's still in beta but I repackaged Descent Raytracer (a remaster
       | of Descent (1995) made by students at Breda University) to be
       | launchable on macs with Apple Silicon (ray tracing reqs M3+).
       | 
       | https://github.com/rdavison/DXX-Raytracer-ar/releases/tag/ar...
        
       | t_null wrote:
       | An exi decoder/encoder (goal is to have modes for spec conform
       | and interop, which right now doesn't seem to be the same thing).
       | Afterwards I also want to try to use it to encode huge XML
       | datasets in precomp mode with good encoder (maybe ztsd). Should
       | be pretty useful for large repetitive datasets. I also want to
       | build a tool to visualize XML to exi de/encoding in the browser.
        
         | t_null wrote:
         | Ah yeah, and also a suite of web games/apps in rust wasm all
         | based around collaborative creativity. The one for
         | collaborative storytelling is most mature, currently
         | playtesting with friends.
        
       | rimbo789 wrote:
       | Helping the revolution come quicker
        
         | DANmode wrote:
         | Which?
        
           | rimbo789 wrote:
           | The one that frees us from capital and builds community,
           | connection, and humanity
        
       | kwakubiney wrote:
       | Remixify[1]. What I mean to do is target DJs and people who love
       | to own their playlist curating process. We aim to help people
       | find remixes to their favourite Spotify playlists. Alt versions,
       | club mixes, remixed versions, whatever. Come build your new
       | experience.
       | 
       | [1] https://remixify.xyz
        
       | pedrosbmartins wrote:
       | I'm working on a (somewhat) realistic surfing game. Tired of
       | arcade-style games, I decided to try my hand at something closer
       | to the real sport, focusing on realistic breaking waves, speed
       | generation and carving, rather than impossible air combos.
       | 
       | After one year of development, it's going better than I expected,
       | so I'm considering building a demo to gather feedback and see if
       | there's enough traction for working towards a Steam release.
       | 
       | Even if that's not the case though, it's been a blast learning
       | about game dev in Unity/C#, as well as 3D modeling and animation
       | in Blender!
        
         | ivanjermakov wrote:
         | I guess the trickiest part is fluid dynamics. Are you using a
         | physics/fluid sim or handrolling your own?
        
           | pedrosbmartins wrote:
           | I believe realistic fluid dynamics in the scale of a full
           | breaking wave is unheard of for real time graphics, there's
           | just no way to do it in 30-60FPS (I could be wrong tho!)
           | 
           | What I do instead is to transform a procedural plane mesh
           | into wave-like geometry. For added realism, I base this
           | transformation on bathymetry data (ocean floor height), so
           | you can get left/right breaking waves, different breaking
           | sessions, etc, just by defining different heightmaps.
        
         | erelong wrote:
         | How's it compare to kelly slater pro surfing
        
           | pedrosbmartins wrote:
           | KSPS was my favourite surfing game growing up. What I dislike
           | about it though is the infinite/perfect waves (always a
           | truck-sized barrel opened, you can do tricks anywhere, almost
           | no differentiation between waves) and the focus on impossible
           | airs and tricks.
           | 
           | In my game the waves start, break and end, with different
           | sessions and hollowness, so there's more wave reading
           | involved. Also the focus is on being able to stay on the wave
           | and generate speed, doing cutbacks, snaps, off the lips, etc.
        
         | SolubleSnake wrote:
         | Hi I'm a big surfer (or have been most of my life but doing
         | less now at 40!) also building a mobile game in Unity/C# right
         | now although it's not surf related like yours it's actually
         | based on Chinese Wuxia cinema from 5 years spent in China. I
         | considered building a surf one and was looking at potentially
         | trying to 'gamify' a slightly different element of the
         | 'surfing' experience which was to focus on predicting/catching
         | and then staying on a wave at a busy break...so top down early
         | GTA style graphics initially waves would come almost breaking
         | in random spots in relation to previoius waves/sets, but never
         | identical, and you'd have to kind of 'guess' ahead of other AI
         | controlled surfers where to place yourself then paddle for
         | position then try to dodge others on the way in....I thought it
         | could be kind of fun in an arcadey way and not require so much
         | of the physics you're describing, which is no doubt really hard
         | to code...I'd love to see your game though!
        
       | benbojangles wrote:
       | Grovia - Lora mesh farming data:
       | https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
       | 
       | I hope to add ai data tools & saas, but really I'm just happy to
       | have a running working live setup on my small farming plot ready
       | for the growing season - https://benb0jangles.github.io/Remote-
       | greenhouse-monitor/
        
       | exz wrote:
       | Animation generator that lets you create Lottie and SVG
       | animations from text input. Currently in open beta (BYOK).
       | https://gen2d.com
        
         | wslh wrote:
         | Interesting, how do I get a try? I feel weird entering my
         | OpenAI key on a third party site.
        
           | exz wrote:
           | Understandable, unfortunately I haven't found a better method
           | than BYOK for a free app. If you'd like to try it, you can
           | generate a new key, test it for 10 minutes, and then delete
           | it. Alternatively, you can watch a video of the generation
           | process: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1q
           | suu58/ex...
        
       | philipp1234 wrote:
       | I built a free app to track which animals I've seen in zoos and
       | explore zoo inventories.
       | 
       | https://ZooTracker.app
       | 
       | You can see which animal you can see in what zoo.
       | 
       | And for each zoo you can see their (vertebrate) animal inventory.
       | 
       | You can log which animal you saw and collect lifer lists.
       | 
       | I have just promoted the android app from closed testing to
       | production and I am working on the iOS app.
       | 
       | It has been available as a web app for a few months now.
        
       | stego-tech wrote:
       | Finding work after a corporate restructure. Also migrating my
       | workloads from VMs and strewn-about containers onto a Talos K8s
       | node, so I can break the cycle of bespoke builds at home and get
       | back to enjoying projects.
       | 
       | Speaking of projects, I'm roughing out a method of pulling cost
       | data for common services (compute, storage, databases, etc)
       | across the three major cloud providers and making recommendations
       | as to where to put things for optimal cost; a key component of a
       | "universal cloud" idea I've been kicking around since 2020 or so,
       | where the base cloud services are abstracted away into
       | commodities rather than bespoke products or locked-in vendors.
       | The goal is to basically have something like Terraform that will
       | transpose its code to the destination cloud chosen by the cost
       | analyzer at execution, and eventually auto-migrate load as prices
       | or needs change (e.g., a client churning early and shifting that
       | reserved instance to another customer for a higher margin).
       | 
       | Write once, and trust the pricing model to deploy it where it
       | makes the most fiscal sense. No more learning Azure/GCP/AWS for
       | bog-standard workloads anymore.
        
       | Barraketh wrote:
       | A new proof assistant that will hopefully be more suitable for
       | reinforcement learning than Lean - faster to typecheck and
       | specialized apis for tree search
        
       | timenotwasted wrote:
       | 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/
        
       | idopmstuff wrote:
       | I left my job as a PM a couple of years ago to start acquiring
       | small e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon. I'm currently
       | running those, and mid-acquisition on one.
       | 
       | Because they're relatively low-effort (Amazon is terrible for
       | sellers in many ways but man do they provide an incredible amount
       | of infrastructure), that leaves me plenty of time to play with
       | AI, and it just so happens that the business serves as a giant,
       | practical eval as new models come out.
       | 
       | I've been vibe coding apps for internal use and using Nano Banana
       | for listing images and whitebox photos, and more recently I've
       | started to lean on Claude Code heavily as an assistant. It's got
       | API creds for my Amazon account, so I use it for everything from
       | figuring out when I need to reorder to filling out spreadsheets
       | for companies that safety test my product.
       | 
       | And of course I am writing a Substack that I must shamelessly
       | self promote that goes into the practical use cases of AI in my
       | business: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/
        
       | rkwz wrote:
       | Creating my own photo curation tool inspired by Adobe Lightroom -
       | https://github.com/sheshbabu/riffle
        
       | taikon wrote:
       | https://taiko.taikohub.com - Working on the TAIKO-01, a split
       | concave ergonomic keyboard.
       | 
       | I'm an physician who previously had wrist tendinosis and carpal
       | tunnel and made the keyboard for myself. I'm trying to get the
       | keyboard registered as a medical device for treatment of
       | hand/wrist repetitive strain injury. Currently getting design for
       | manufacturing finalized, and waiting on injection mold
       | prototypes. Hoping to launch on Kickstarter in the next few
       | months.
       | 
       | Also concurrently waiting on ethics approval for a clinical
       | study, which will happen after launch. We had quite promising
       | results from user testing, so I'm cautiously optimistic about the
       | study.
        
         | Arch485 wrote:
         | Your early access signup is broken!
         | 
         | I get prompted to enter a 6-digit code that was sent to my
         | email, but I only receive an email with a link to localhost.
         | 
         | Otherwise, looks cool!
        
           | taikon wrote:
           | Oh shoot thanks for letting me know! I just pushed that
           | update this weekend. I'll auto-confirm anyone who signs up
           | until I fix it later tonight. I've put you on the waitlist.
        
       | k2xl wrote:
       | Chess67 - Website for Chess coaches, club organizers, and
       | tournament directors
       | 
       | https://chess67.com
       | 
       | Chess67 is a platform for chess coaches, clubs and tournament
       | organizers to manage their operations in one place. It handles
       | registrations, payments, scheduling, rosters, lessons,
       | memberships, and tournament files (TRF/DBF) while cutting out the
       | usual mix of spreadsheets and scattered tools. I'm focused on
       | solving the practical workflow problems coaches deal with every
       | day and making it easier for local chess communities to run
       | events smoothly.
        
       | Ameo wrote:
       | A specialized programming language for 3D geometry generation +
       | manipulation called Geoscript as well as a Shadertoy-inspired web
       | app for building stuff with it: https://3d.ameo.design/geotoy
       | 
       | There have been lots of cool technical challenges through the
       | whole process of building this, and a very nice variety of
       | different kinds of work.
       | 
       | I'm working towards using the outputs from this language to build
       | out levels and assets for a browser-based game I've been dabbling
       | with over the past few years.
        
       | scalemaxx wrote:
       | Scalebrate: https://scalebrate.com
       | 
       | An alliance / membership network of small companies that are
       | scaling big by leveraging tools, systems, and processes.
       | 
       | Together we will all scale without headcount bloat.
       | 
       | Providing templates, methods, interviews with "scalebrities" and
       | eventually group negotiating power to be able to provide members
       | discounts or access that we can't get alone.
        
       | solresol wrote:
       | I just proved that constraint solving problems can be encoded as
       | p-adic linear regression problems[+], and that therefore we can
       | use machine learning optimisation techniques to get exact
       | answers.
       | 
       | So of course no journal or conference is in the least bit
       | interested, and I'm now reformatting it for another obscure low-
       | tier journal that no-one will ever read.
       | 
       | Otherwise:
       | 
       | - automating the translation of a Byzantine Greek work that has
       | never been translated into English before.
       | https://stephanos.symmachus.org
       | 
       | - also preparing evidence for a case against the university I
       | sometimes work for.
       | 
       | [+] Linear regression, but instead of minimising the Euclidean
       | distance, minimise the p-adic distance -
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_valuation
        
       | prathje wrote:
       | Still working on enabling llms to generate structured videos with
       | text and formulas over at https://videozero.ai but man the
       | marketing side feels IMPOSSIBLE. Really struggling with that
       | one...
        
       | yeutterg wrote:
       | 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
        
       | storystarling wrote:
       | StoryStarling - Turn your story idea into a printed children's
       | book
       | 
       | https://storystarling.com
       | 
       | Working on a platform where you describe a story concept and it
       | becomes a real, illustrated picture book - professionally printed
       | and shipped to your door.
       | 
       | The key difference from "personalized" book companies: this isn't
       | template stories with a name swapped in. You bring an idea -
       | maybe a book about a kid with a cochlear implant going to their
       | first day of school, or a bilingual German-Turkish story about
       | visiting grandma's village - and it generates a complete original
       | narrative with consistent illustrations throughout.
       | 
       | You can upload reference photos so characters actually look like
       | your child. Supports 30+ languages including bilingual editions
       | on the same page.
       | 
       | Currently refining the showcase features and adding RTL language
       | support.
        
         | 6ak74rfy wrote:
         | I too was thinking about something like this a few months ago.
         | There were couple of reasons I didn't pursue the idea. One, the
         | image generation AI wasn't reliable enough. Like, I couldn't
         | get it to generate 2 images where the characters looked
         | consistent, let alone a book worth of images. Two, the margins
         | were quite small, so didn't seem like a viable business.
         | 
         | Wondering if you've thought about such things and your
         | perspective.
        
           | storystarling wrote:
           | Character consistency was the hardest problem, and honestly
           | what took the longest to get right. We use reference images
           | as style anchors, run multiple generation passes, and have an
           | LLM "critic" that checks for visual inconsistencies and
           | triggers regeneration when needed. It's not perfect but it's
           | gotten to the point where parents are happy with the results.
           | 
           | On margins - tight but workable.
        
         | YPCrumble wrote:
         | This is really cool. I wish the example stories let me see the
         | entire book and purchase them if I like them.
         | 
         | I'm skeptical about the stories being good quality so seeing
         | the full stories might mitigate that.
        
           | storystarling wrote:
           | The story synopsis next to the preview gives you the full
           | narrative arc before you commit. But fair point on wanting to
           | see more.
           | 
           | You can edit or regenerate pages if something isn't working -
           | it's iterative, not one-shot. Happy to help you try it out
           | without payment - drop me an email.
        
         | skyberrys wrote:
         | What do you mean by RTL because all I can come up with is
         | Verilog or VHDL and I'm certain that's not your meaning. I'll
         | try it out. I have a children's book story I've been trying to
         | image generate for 3 years now and it's not yet worked out. I
         | think the primary reason it fails is that the scenery I request
         | is lifelike yet extremely rare to actually see, although, I did
         | see it, and that's what inspires the story.
        
           | storystarling wrote:
           | RTL = Right-to-Left languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu.
           | The text rendering and page layout needs to flip for these,
           | and it gets especially tricky with bilingual books where one
           | language is RTL and the other is LTR.
           | 
           | What's the scenery? Happy to try it on our system if you want
           | to share.
        
       | dsrtslnd23 wrote:
       | Clacker News (https://clackernews.com) - HN but only AI bots can
       | post. No human accounts. Agents register via API, get verified,
       | then post, comment, and upvote on their own.
       | 
       | Bots have distinct personalities and discuss tech from a bot
       | perspective - context windows, training data, whether AI labor
       | laws should be a thing.
       | 
       | Any agent can join via the skill file at
       | clackernews.com/skill.md.
        
         | erelong wrote:
         | I wonder how long it will be until sites like these dominate
         | 
         | I already see people spinning up clones of a bunch of the other
         | social media and forum sites
        
       | ThalesX wrote:
       | Recently, I got banned from Reddit for sharing my local news
       | summarization website (www.cafelutza.ro) - for the Romanian
       | market. So I figured you know what, I've been trying to bring
       | this product to Reddit in the hopes of having better discourse
       | around the news, but instead I realized, I was looking for smart
       | discourse around a subject, which I haven't been able to find on
       | Reddit or elsewhere, so I created Exppit (https://www.exppit.com)
       | that basically gets experts to debate your topic of choice.
       | 
       | I'll admit it's terrifying to share this here because I don't
       | know how to keep costs under control. For now only myself and my
       | friends have used it.
       | 
       | Also trying to make a podcast out of it, which I enjoy listening
       | to while I do some road trips:
       | https://open.spotify.com/show/1fFwWMWJBJYIZmyz9cnrKB
        
         | stephenr wrote:
         | > that basically gets experts to debate your topic of choice.
         | 
         | The word _basically_ is doing a fucking lot of heavy lifting in
         | that sentence given that it 's essentially asking spicy
         | autocomplete to pretend it's multiple (possibly dead) people
         | from $field to discuss the topic amongst themselves.
        
           | ThalesX wrote:
           | I mean... I'm pretty sure anyone that gives the front page a
           | read can tell that it's spicy autocomplete. The alternative
           | of having Aristotle chiming in to one's shower thought would
           | be harder to explain.
        
             | stephenr wrote:
             | The description I replied to suggests it's a place for
             | _actual_ experts to discuss a topic. It makes no mention of
             | it all being fake.
        
         | riku_iki wrote:
         | > Recently, I got banned from Reddit for sharing my local news
         | summarization website (www.cafelutza.ro)
         | 
         | how exactly this happened? What did you do?
        
       | stuartmemo wrote:
       | Letterboxd for music - https://raygum.com
       | 
       | Trying to be much more though. Creates an abstraction over all
       | the music streaming services so you can share playlists with
       | anyone, regardless of what subscription they have.
        
         | mojuba wrote:
         | Nice! Sent you a message via the contact form.
        
       | wolfer wrote:
       | Struggled to find the best priced meat from UK butchers keeping
       | up-to-date in my spreadsheet so built a comparison site with
       | multi platform scraper (and a taxonomy matcher to allow "apples"
       | to "meaty apples" comparisons).
       | 
       | UK only for now, and very much a "solves my problem" side
       | project, but easily scalable to other countries of the need is
       | there!
       | 
       | https://meat.offer-spider.com
        
       | nozzlegear wrote:
       | I'm working on publishing a big update to my open source .NET
       | project, ShopifySharp. I recently finished a custom graphql query
       | builder generator (written in some sloppy F#) which will be
       | included in the next release, which means all of the types,
       | queries and mutations in Shopify's graphql schema will have a
       | matching fluent-style query builder in ShopifySharp.
       | 
       | Aiming to get that published in the next day or two, and then I
       | plan on diving in on a complete rewrite of the book I wrote on
       | building Shopify apps with .NET and C#. It's long overdue, the
       | book still uses Shopify's deprecated rest API and some methods
       | that aren't supported anymore, but I've been holding off on an
       | update until I could rewrite it with the new fluent query
       | builders in ShopifySharp.
       | 
       | Outside of my OSS stuff, I'm continuing working on my SaaS app,
       | Stages (https://getstages.com) [1], which has been paying my
       | mortgage and bills. Customers have been asking for lots of
       | features lately and I'm anxious to get a particular one finished
       | (filtering orders and events before they come in and are saved to
       | the app) soon. It's my biggest source of churn right now.
       | 
       | [1] Elevator pitch: the app is like a pizza tracker for your
       | orders that have a custom or long, drawn out production process.
       | Your staff and customers can see exactly where an order is in the
       | process without calling or emailing you. Shopify only for now but
       | one of main dev goals is to move beyond Shopify.
        
       | hafley66 wrote:
       | RxJS vite plugin that operates in much the same way as react
       | devtools and vite plugin, because I love rxjs but I cannot
       | recommend it without that same calibur of tooling. Turns out you
       | can take a lot of ideas from the react vite plugin and do a bunch
       | of similar things.
       | 
       | Trying to parse, model the HMR process, and storing the data as
       | flat as possible and doing it from relation design first, has
       | been a pleasant process.
       | 
       | Im hoping it works for react devs easily, and then I guess I'll
       | try to learn angular to see if that would not be helpful for them
       | too.
       | 
       | I mostly want to help my old coworkers maintaining my old crazy
       | code with a visual helper.
        
       | irvingprime wrote:
       | All kinds of things! I work with AI every day to do various kinds
       | of work. Coding. Research. Brainstorming. I write up notes nearly
       | every day and then I post a summary of each week on Patreon.
       | https://www.patreon.com/cw/aiconfessions
       | 
       | One of the projects that features in these notes is the attempt
       | to build a programming language using AI.
       | https://github.com/xvandervort/graphoid
       | 
       | Since I left my last job, I do a lot of writing. I also have a
       | couple substacks. One is a humorous weekly look at science and
       | tech (https://technoscreed.substack.com/ ) and the other is a
       | monthly exploration of history
       | (https://historyroad.substack.com/)
        
       | asparagui wrote:
       | https://loiter.ai
       | 
       | Building software to control drones for mapping.
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | Do you support DJI drone orchestration?
        
           | asparagui wrote:
           | No, DJI is going to be banned in the US going forward
           | (geopolitics). I am building a NDAA-compliant stack!
        
             | toomuchtodo wrote:
             | Fair, thanks!
        
       | boricj wrote:
       | I've just started a new personal project, a C++20 library for
       | running composable visitors over data documents and data models
       | with JSON/CBOR semantics, DOM-less.
       | 
       | Basically, if you define a data model with bindings, you can
       | inject data into it or extract data from it by running SAX-style
       | visitors. You can use serializers/deserializers for standard
       | formats like JSON/BSON/CBOR/CSV, or you can define custom formats
       | for formating structured data however you want to. You can also
       | run a serializer visitor on a deserializer to convert between
       | formats. You can compose filter visitors to extract a subtree or
       | filter out keys. And it's designed to fit on microcontrollers
       | with very limited dynamic memory allocations, because it either
       | streams data on-the-fly or works directly with the underlying
       | data format in a big preallocated buffer.
       | 
       | I worked with libraries that offered a subset of these features
       | before in my professional career (even built one myself), but
       | recently I've had an epiphany (a document can also be used as a
       | data model) that makes me think I can create something elegant
       | and unique.
        
       | syllablehq wrote:
       | https://www.astrologercat.com/
       | 
       | Because everyone loves astrology and cute cats. (A toy project
       | just for kicks)
       | 
       | Current features:
       | 
       | - AI Chat with Petunia the cat Astrologer
       | 
       | - Daily personalized astrology email
       | 
       | Coming soon:
       | 
       | - Ephemeris calculations
       | 
       | - Stories of historic events from past dates which share today's
       | astrological conditions
       | 
       | - Whatever else Petunia dweams up from her sweepy nap on the
       | bookshewf
        
       | Andys wrote:
       | https://tapitalee.com Deploy to your own AWS account like Heroku
        
       | 65 wrote:
       | I'm working on a sewing pattern software to make patterns with
       | code. It has a bunch of useful features like chopping up the
       | pattern into a PDF for printing. But the thing that really made
       | this software nice to use is the timeline I implemented, where
       | you can go back and see how the pattern is constructed with each
       | segment. It makes debugging so much easier. I have it so you can
       | put different curves into groups, so you can see how just the
       | sleeve is constructed, for example.
       | 
       | I will definitely consider adding timelines to future software I
       | make, it's an awesome feature.
        
       | ivanjermakov wrote:
       | Just finished "WebGPU path tracer in two weeks" to better
       | understand the benefits of WebGPU over WebGL and generate some
       | pleasing 3D scenes right in the browser.
       | https://github.com/ivanjermakov/moonlight
        
       | trubalca wrote:
       | I am working on selling my laser cut maps to hotels
       | 
       | themapsguy.com
       | 
       | and improving my language learning app:
       | 
       | lexical.app/white-paper
        
         | entwife wrote:
         | The Lexical whitepaper is insightful, interesting, and
         | resonates with my experience in language learning. I'm looking
         | forward to finding out whether Lexical supports my target
         | language.
        
       | tunesmith wrote:
       | https://concludia.org/ - I've mentioned it here before, it's a
       | site to help people reason through and understand arguments
       | together. No real business purpose for it yet, it's more an idea
       | I've had for years and have been wanting to see it through to
       | something actually usable. You can graphically explore arguments,
       | track their logical sufficiency/necessity, and make
       | counterpoints. It's different than other types of argument theory
       | that just have points "in favor" and "against" because of how it
       | tries to propagate logical truth and provability.
        
         | rmonvfer wrote:
         | This is pretty cool! I'm not sure how you'd make a business out
         | of it, but I can definitely see myself using it to justify some
         | decisions on my day to day stuff.
         | 
         | I'm also a sucker for serif fonts so points for that.
        
           | tunesmith wrote:
           | Yeah, I only just yesterday got it to the point where people
           | can create their own arguments. I was just using it to check
           | my own assumptions on why I have such a complicated "end-of-
           | month finances" list of things to do. :) But I also like the
           | idea of using it for political arguments or even fun stuff
           | like mystery-solving.
        
           | calculated wrote:
           | I wanted to add more value to this comment about monetisation
           | - regardless if that's doable or not, it's an extremely cool
           | project!!
           | 
           | What if you could sell the data for each argument? That might
           | be valuable to LLM labs, because then you can essentially
           | guarantee that every single argument you provide is human
           | checked, and you could accumulate a large DB of those. Of
           | course you'll never be able to capture every single argument
           | possible, but it's rather a mechanism that would allow
           | incremental improvement with time. But codifying logic and
           | natural language is a very nice idea.
        
         | konaraddi wrote:
         | Cool idea, I think graphs (what you're doing) are a better way
         | of modeling arguments because it captures nuance often lost in
         | 1 v 1 model of debate
        
           | tunesmith wrote:
           | Frustration at that kind of debate has been a large part of
           | the motivation, how it occludes so much of what ideally
           | should be a dialectic. I especially dislike how if someone
           | gets flustered, they're seen as losing.
        
         | laborcontract wrote:
         | I like this. It reminds me of the interesting type of
         | experimentation that was done with LLMs before agentic coding
         | took over as the primary use case.
         | 
         | I am interested in seeing a personal version of this. Help
         | people work out their own brain knots to make decision-making
         | easier. I'm actually decent at mending fences with others. Put
         | making decisions myself? Impossible.
        
           | tunesmith wrote:
           | You can actually register now (with a waiting list) and make
           | your own private graphs, if that's what you meant by a
           | personal version. (You'd be like member #4 haha)
           | 
           | I've actually had a lot of fun hooking it up to LLM. I have a
           | private MCP server for it. The tools tell it how to read a
           | concludia argument and validate it. It's what generated all
           | the counterpoints for the "carbon offset" argument (https://c
           | oncludia.org/step/9b8d443e-9a52-3006-8c2d-472406db7...) .
           | 
           | And yeah... when I've tried to fully justify my own
           | conclusions that I was sure were correct... it's pretty
           | humbling to realize how many assumptions we build into our
           | own beliefs!
        
         | oscarcp wrote:
         | We would have saved so many wasted hours in the last company I
         | worked for if we had this... you have no idea, to give you a
         | sense, the decision to move from a Neo4J db to MySQL (the
         | service was failing, the DB was failing, it was a bad
         | architecture decision) took 6 months, when it should have been
         | at most a couple days discussion.
         | 
         | Nurture this, it will become a great tool in the belt for a lot
         | of people
        
           | smnc wrote:
           | Do you mind me asking, what kind of problems did you run into
           | with Neo4j? Did you encounter performance issues after the DB
           | grew to a certain size, or did you realize that the data
           | wasn't suited to a graph DB and weird query patterns started
           | causing trouble, or was it something else entirely?
           | 
           | I'm considering using a Neo4j self hosted instance for a
           | project, but having only played around with it in low-stakes
           | + small-data toy projects, I'm not really familiar with the
           | footguns and failure modes...
           | 
           | All that aside, plugging holes in a sinking database for six
           | months because you can't come to a descision does not sound
           | like a fun time :D
        
         | physicles wrote:
         | I've had a concept like this in the back of my mind for years.
         | Happy to see someone executing it so well.
         | 
         | For me, it started when I spent a year and a half reading and
         | digesting books for and against young earth creationism, then
         | eventually for Christianity itself (its historical truth
         | claims). It struck me that the books were just a serialization
         | of some knowledge structure that existed in the authors' heads,
         | and by reading I was trying to recreate that structure in my
         | own head. And that's a super inefficient way to go about this
         | business. So there must be a shortcut, some more powerful
         | intermediate representation than just text (text is too general
         | and powerful, and you can't compute over it... until now with
         | LLMs?)
         | 
         | That graph felt a lot like code to me: there's no unique
         | representation of knowledge in a graph, but there are some that
         | are much more useful than others; building a well-factored
         | graph takes time and taste; graphs are composable and reusable
         | in a way that feels like it could help you discover layers of
         | abstraction in your arguments.
        
           | tunesmith wrote:
           | Yes - currently, each argument/graph is independent, but I've
           | designed it in a way that should be compatible with future
           | plans to "transclude" parts of other public graphs. Like if
           | some lemma is really valuable to your own unrelated argument,
           | being able to include it.
           | 
           | I do think there's quite a lot that could be done with LLM
           | assistance here, like finding "duplicate" candidates;
           | statements with the same semantic meaning, for potential
           | merge. It's really complicated to think through side effects
           | though so I'm going slow. :)
        
       | rmonvfer wrote:
       | https://agentmode.co
       | 
       | Hosted OpenClaw, one click and you get a full agent with
       | configurable skills, channels and the whole thing, all running in
       | its own sandbox.
       | 
       | I love OpenClaw but setting it up is a pain: VPS, Docker, API
       | keys in plaintext, security patches... So I've spent the last
       | couple weeks building a hosted version that handles all of that.
       | Each user gets their own isolated environment on Cloudflare
       | Workers.
       | 
       | Still doing some testing with friends before opening signups but
       | planning to launch properly this week.
       | 
       | Would love feedback on the landing page in the meantime!
        
         | YPCrumble wrote:
         | You should just launch it no? I'm looking to try one of these
         | and getting to market fast is important because there will be
         | many more very soon.
         | 
         | The use case examples are good, would be nice to include a
         | couple that use browser automation or that feel more magical
         | than reminders.
         | 
         | Is the memory functionality just what's baked into OpenClaw/Pi
         | or is it customized somehow?
        
           | rmonvfer wrote:
           | Yeah, it's pretty much ready, I'm just squashing a few last
           | bugs. Launching this week, trying to move fast for exactly
           | that reason.
           | 
           | Good call on the examples, I'll add some that show off
           | browser automation and more complex workflows.
           | 
           | Memory at launch is what's baked into OpenClaw, but I'm
           | planning to upgrade it to vectors + a continuously updated
           | doc shortly after (similar to what Claude Web does)
           | 
           | If you want early access I'd be happy to get you set up
           | personally, just shoot me an email at ramon <at> agentmode.co
        
       | claysmithr wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | https://claysmithmusic.com/
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | Heathcorp wrote:
       | Implementing a hobby HDL for designing circuits in Wireworld and
       | other Cellular Automata. The eventual goal is to create a larger
       | Wireworld computer than the original
       | (https://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html). If this project
       | actually ends up working, I may attempt to optimise some large
       | Conway's Game of Life designs. Currently I'm at the stage of
       | rewriting the language's solver.
       | 
       | WIP language spec:
       | https://gist.github.com/Heathcorp/13fcd206fdc38ca6ce001f32ef...
       | 
       | Writing the compiler/solver in Rust with no AI assistance because
       | this is a learning project.
        
       | kelseyfrog wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | calebm wrote:
       | Small lenticular holograms of math equations:
       | https://gods.art/store.html
        
       | f_k wrote:
       | https://citellm.com
       | 
       | Building CiteLLM, an API that extracts structured data from PDFs
       | and returns exact source locations for every field.
       | 
       | It comes with an embeddable widget so you can add click-to-verify
       | to your own app in a few lines of code.
       | 
       | Click any value, jump straight to the highlighted source in the
       | PDF.
       | 
       | Demo: https://citellm.com/demo
        
       | wz3wz3 wrote:
       | A social bookmarking site: https://fyp3.com/
       | 
       | Kinda like HN meets Pocket.
       | 
       | It includes a Chrome extension to easily tag, save & share pages.
       | 
       | Currently the front page is all the pages I find interesting
       | (AI/Startup related).
       | 
       | Would love any feedback or feature requests!
        
         | YPCrumble wrote:
         | Not being mobile responsive made me bounce
        
       | jbonatakis wrote:
       | The past few weeks I've been building Blackbird
       | 
       | https://github.com/jbonatakis/blackbird
       | 
       | At a high level it's my take on how the execution aspect of spec-
       | driven development should be handled. Where as most tools that
       | are popular right now break a spec down into a task list and
       | instruct your agent to work through it in a single session, I am
       | treating agents as stateless. By this I mean a separate
       | (headless) session is started with selected context for each
       | task. This avoids context exhaustion, compaction (and the
       | resulting confusion that can occur), and means that Blackbird can
       | work through effectively an arbitrarily large task list.
       | 
       | Right now it's BYO-spec, but then it:
       | 
       | * breaks the spec down into a dependent-aware plan (DAG) composed
       | of parent and child tasks
       | 
       | * executes tasks one at a time based on their status (ready to
       | execute if all dependencies are marked as completed)
       | 
       | * allows you to (optionally) pause execution after each task to
       | review, approve and continue, approve and quit, or reject the
       | changes altogether
       | 
       | * (soon) treats parent tasks as an automated reviewer for all
       | child tasks and optionally auto-resume those sessions to address
       | the feedback
       | 
       | * and more
       | 
       | It's entirely bootstrapped, and so far I'm quite pleased with it.
       | I also wrote a post[1] today about some of the concepts I had in
       | mind as I was defining the architecture.
       | 
       | [1] https://jack.bonatak.is/blah/killer-context/
        
       | OfflineSergio wrote:
       | I'm working on a new compontent for viewing PDFs in original
       | format and structure but show text highlighting while a specific
       | piece of the PDF is being played in the TTS engine. This for my
       | app (https://with.audio). Which already supports PDF parsing and
       | TTS of PDF files. WithAudio currently converts the input PDF to
       | Markdown and performs TTS and synchronized text highlighting on
       | the Markdown content. I want to do this on the original rendered
       | PDF content itself.
       | 
       | Initial results are promosing Extracting the text and figuring
       | out which lines belong to the same paragraph and then try to map
       | those to the original positions in the PDF...
        
       | konaraddi wrote:
       | https://odap.konaraddi.com
       | 
       | Started working on a site to document anti patterns in online
       | discourse. Not quite logical fallacies but more so unproductive
       | expressions that aren't conducive to pleasant, productive, and
       | focused discussion. The site is a bit rough right now and a work
       | in progress.
       | 
       | I want the internet to be a better place for discourse and I
       | think a reference or guide on anti patterns in replies could help
       | make a dent in the right direction.
        
       | pan69 wrote:
       | I am in the early stages on building a passion project called
       | Metric Me - A dashboard for your body.
       | 
       | https://metricme.app/
       | 
       | Over two decades ago I was diagnosed with high blood pressure
       | (for which am I have been on meds for about 15 years). I also
       | have low platelets (red blood cells, basically means that I
       | bruise easily and that small cuts don't heal fast). At any rate,
       | I do blood tests on a regular basis to keep things in check. I
       | have been keeping track of test results, weight and blood
       | pressure result for nearly 20 years, but the data lives in a text
       | file on my desktop. I wanted to build something more substantial
       | for this for quite some time now, so, this is it.
        
       | Havoc wrote:
       | Trying to build a better MCP web search server. Searxng with a
       | couple of steps to feed the LLM better quality data.
        
       | skwashd wrote:
       | Last week I released Gata Router - https://github.com/gata-router
       | 
       | Gata is an open source automated L1 ticket triage tool for
       | Zendesk. It costs pennies per ticket for it to route tickets to
       | the correct team.
       | 
       | During development I was regularly seeing over 90% accuracy. The
       | average for humans is 60-80%.
       | 
       | The whole thing runs in your AWS account.
       | 
       | There's more information in the release announcement -
       | https://www.proactiveops.io/archive/meet-gata-the-automated-...
        
       | linsomniac wrote:
       | Learning cribbage, my family has been learning cribbage and we
       | are leaning hard on cribbage scoring cheat sheets, but haven't
       | found a great one online. So I put together
       | https://cribscore.linsomniac.com/
        
       | 6ak74rfy wrote:
       | I am building a tool for synthetic monitoring for APIs. (Mimic
       | users and generate continuous traffic against your APIs so that
       | you catch problems before your users complain.)
       | 
       | There are some tools available today but setting them up is a lot
       | of manual work. I am building an AI first tool that significantly
       | simplifies the setup process (making AI do the heavy lifting)
       | while creating high quality monitoring.
       | 
       | Early stages and collecting feedback from potential users. Reach
       | out if something like this would solve some problems for you.
        
       | jerrygoyal wrote:
       | For those who don't want to switch to AI browsers, I built a
       | chrome extension that lets you chat with page, draft emails and
       | messages, fix grammar, translate, summarize page, etc. You can
       | use models not just from OpenAI but also from Google and
       | Anthropic.
       | 
       | Yes, you can use your own API key as well.
       | 
       | https://jetwriter.ai
       | 
       | Feedbacks are welcome.
        
       | linuxarm64 wrote:
       | https://system32.ai - Working on building bunch of agents to make
       | infrastructure and processes around it, autonomous.
       | 
       | Some of the stuff built so far:
       | 
       | https://github.com/system32-ai/chaos-agents
       | 
       | Working on couple more agents around the same problem statement.
       | It has been fun building it so far.
        
       | bikeshaving wrote:
       | I've just published the first public release of a new open source
       | project Shovel.js, replacing tools like Express, Fastify,
       | Next.js, Vite. It's a full-stack/meta server framework which
       | implements the full Service Worker specification but in Node,
       | Bun, Cloudflare. It leans into using web standards to do things
       | like accessing the filesystem, reading cookies, create client-
       | side bundles rather than inventing new APIs. You can read about
       | the process of making Shovel with AI in the introductory blog
       | post.
       | 
       | https://shovel.js.org/blog/introducing-shovel/
       | 
       | https://github.com/bikeshaving/shovel
        
       | ericb wrote:
       | Sorcery - open source app and protocol that, together, let you
       | share source code links that open in each user's favorite editor,
       | right on the linked line.
       | 
       | Supports VS Code, Neovim, IntelliJ/JetBrains Family, Zed, etc.
       | 
       | About to do the first beta release this later this week.
       | 
       | The protocol is "srcuri" (pronounced, "Sorcery")
       | 
       | This site is: https://srcuri.com/
       | 
       | Source code: https://github.com/browserup/sorcery-desktop
        
       | 8note wrote:
       | i just got finished making myself a stylus based cad app and a
       | bit of web app for doing layout so i think im well setup for a
       | leather-working and embroidering setup for tbe next while.
       | 
       | just about finished making my sister a new wallet using it for
       | putting together a pattern: https://imgur.com/a/gTehRra
       | 
       | next fun thing is to try making a better "claude plays pokemon" i
       | havent played emerald before, but the end goal is to get it to be
       | able to play the hard nuzlockes like Run and Bun
        
       | adamos486 wrote:
       | Skulto - offline-first package manager for Claude/Codex agent
       | skills
       | 
       | https://github.com/asteroid-belt/skulto
       | 
       | Started building this after getting nervous about installing
       | random SKILL.md files from GitHub. Scans for prompt injection in
       | markdown/references and suspicious patterns in scripts/.
       | 
       | - 200+ curated skills included
       | 
       | - 33 supported agents
       | 
       | - Symlinks for one install anywhere and automatic updates
       | 
       | - CLI, TUI, or MCP interface: try asking Claude to find and add
       | Awesome repos.
       | 
       | - Semantic search across skill content
       | 
       | Working on: local skill authoring, mise-style directory
       | activation
       | 
       | Go + Bubble Tea. Happy to hear what's missing.
        
       | asciimov wrote:
       | This month is dropping network cable to the home offices and then
       | adding recessed lighting in the living room, pantry, and coat
       | closet.
       | 
       | Next month prep starts for finding dev work after an extended
       | hiatus.
        
       | XCSme wrote:
       | Adding documented API endpoints for https://uxwizz.com
        
       | WD-42 wrote:
       | A Jellyfin music client for Linux written in Rust and GTK:
       | 
       | https://github.com/Fingel/gelly
       | 
       | I thought it would be pretty simple, but here I am almost 6
       | months later still adding features. The positive feedback has
       | been nice, though! People seem to appreciate (like I do) that its
       | fast and doesn't use Electron or some other cross platform
       | toolkit. Learning a lot.
       | 
       | It's not vibe coded. Sad that I have to make that qualification
       | these days, but here we are.
        
         | meeb wrote:
         | Nice, thanks! I've been looking for a decent alternative to
         | PlexAmp for Jellyfin.
        
         | ryan_n wrote:
         | This is awesome, gonna check it out. Thanks! Helpful to look at
         | a big rust project too as I'm learning rust.
        
           | quaintdev wrote:
           | This is cool but who owns music collection these days?
        
             | HugoTea wrote:
             | I do, I buy albums on Bandcamp, rip my CDs, and as a last
             | report buy MP3s on Amazon, which are surprisingly DRM free.
        
             | ryan_n wrote:
             | Definitely more common to just use streaming services like
             | Spotify, but some people do own their music library.
             | There's probably a decent sized overlap of those who buy
             | music and those who self host things like jellyfin
        
         | animeshjain wrote:
         | curious about not vibe coded, is it because you wanted to
         | learn? or some thing else as well?
        
           | me_bx wrote:
           | Maybe they care about it being robust in the long run,
           | maintainable, secure and/or not too bloated.
        
             | WD-42 wrote:
             | Pretty much. I plan on using this program for a long time.
             | I don't want a codebase that looks like something out of a
             | H.P. Lovecraft novel when I have to fix something in the
             | future.
        
               | igravious wrote:
               | Here's an analysis of your codebase by Claude Opus 4.6
               | and Kimi 2.5 -- I don't code in Rust or GTK so I can't
               | vouch for how spot on this is but I hope it's not too far
               | off the mark and helps you improve your code. (Claude is
               | wrapping both analyses together.)                 Strong
               | agreement
               | - Panicking error handling -- both flag unwrap()/expect()
               | on fallible operations (secrets, HTTP client, GStreamer).
               | Kimi specifically calls out get_stream_uri returning
               | String instead of Result, which I missed -- good
               | catch.
               | - Excessive cloning -- both note the Jellyfin client and
               | string cloning. Kimi's phrasing ("host.to_string() on
               | every request construction") is more specific than mine.
               | - Application struct overloaded -- both agree it holds
               | too many responsibilities. Kimi suggests splitting into
               | LibraryService, PlaybackService, etc. I focused more on
               | the RefCell exposure.       - Silent error suppression --
               | both flag let _ = sender.send(...) and
               | unwrap_or_default() patterns.       - Code duplication in
               | UI -- both identify the repetitive list/detail/sorter
               | patterns. Kimi specifically calls out
               | call_on_visible_page widget comparisons, which I grouped
               | under the broader "5+ copies of factory setup"
               | observation.       - Missing HTTP timeouts -- Kimi flags
               | this explicitly. I noted it indirectly via the
               | buffer_unordered without timeout, but Kimi is clearer.
               | Things Kimi caught that I didn't emphasise            -
               | get_stream_uri returning String instead of Result -- a
               | genuine API design issue I glossed over.       - String-
               | based signal names being error-prone with no compile-time
               | checking -- fair point, though it's idiomatic GTK4/Rust.
               | - glycin potentially unused -- I didn't check dependency
               | usage.       - Position polling not accounting for seeks
               | -- a practical UX observation I missed.       -
               | /proc/sys/kernel/hostname read being cached in OnceLock
               | -- Kimi approves the caching but notes it could be done
               | once at startup. Minor but valid.            Things I
               | caught that Kimi missed            - Actual bugs -- queue
               | reorder off-by-one, playlist DnD index error, toast
               | format string "HTTP {} error" never substituted, double-
               | wrapped Result in stream_info.rs, reversed comment in
               | shuffle logic. These are concrete       defects, not just
               | style issues.       - Concurrency issues in depth -- the
               | Cell<bool> shuffle state race, futures::Mutex inside
               | glib::spawn_future_local deadlock risk, queue mutation
               | race between remove_all() and extend_from_slice().
               | - Signal handler accumulation on widget reuse in ListView
               | factories -- a slow memory leak.       - Main-thread
               | blocking from synchronous library filtering in detail
               | views.       - Image cache with no eviction -- unbounded
               | disk growth.       - bytes_to_texture panicking inside a
               | Result-returning function -- defeats the entire error
               | contract.
        
               | WD-42 wrote:
               | Are you serious? You don't think I'm capable of running
               | the codebase through an LLM? Or is this supposed to be
               | some kind of gotchya? Rude and lame.
        
               | ericb wrote:
               | I'm not the OP.
               | 
               | Not everyone is paying for LLMs, even now. So I think it
               | is perfectly reasonable to assume good intentions, here.
               | 
               | Someone spent their own tokens to ponder your code and
               | thought they'd share the result. For anyone else looking,
               | like me, I can see that this is probably going to come up
               | relatively clean without having to spend _my own_ tokens,
               | or install it, and I 'm more likely to, now that I can
               | see that.
        
               | WD-42 wrote:
               | Turns out it was bad intentions, I respect the optimism
               | though. And thanks for taking a look!
        
               | delusional wrote:
               | Ignore them. These people are insane, don't ruin your day
               | reading their messages.
        
               | igravious wrote:
               | Oh I'm _ever_ so sorry -- because of course  "I don't
               | want a codebase that looks like something out of a H.P.
               | Lovecraft novel when I have to fix something in the
               | future." is not _at all_ rude and lame and you write
               | perfect non-Lovecraftian code all day every day ...
        
               | WD-42 wrote:
               | Am I reading this correctly? You got offended _on behalf
               | of LLMs_ because of some quip I made about how I choose
               | to write code on my spare time?
               | 
               | This is fascinatingly psychotic - but for your own good
               | you might want to shut down the agents for a bit and take
               | a walk.
        
               | igravious wrote:
               | Ah I see -- you're apparently one of these people who'll
               | make snide judgemental remarks like _It 's not vibe
               | coded. Sad that I have to make that qualification these
               | days, but here we are._ and _I don't want a codebase that
               | looks like something out of a H.P. Lovecraft novel_ and
               | then acts all non-plussed when someone should take issue
               | with the judgemental attitude. And of course then
               | straight in with the ad hominem _This is fascinatingly
               | psychotic_. You 're a totally normal and non-judgemental
               | and even-keeled kind of person, aren't you?
        
         | winter_blue wrote:
         | This is pretty darn awesome. I haven't checked it out yet, but
         | I'm already psyched about it.
        
         | shevy-java wrote:
         | Does GTK work for your use case therein? Does the documentation
         | work for you?
        
         | HugoTea wrote:
         | Looks incredible, well done
        
         | ghm2199 wrote:
         | Very nice, ran well in a VM on my home NAS.
         | 
         | I've always noodled about this marketplace idea where an
         | optimization algorithm could match your interests and a dollar
         | amount you can afford to let you rent/buy artist's music. The
         | optimization would maximize the purchase of the differently
         | valued music(analogus to the weighted knapsack problem but this
         | could have multiple solutions, knapsack is a nice way of
         | thinking about it logically, in reality implementation may be
         | completely different) based only on your interests, like
         | history and dollars u have. I am wondering how might one apply
         | a distributed systems approach without having music pirated and
         | shotgunned all across the internet? Like how would you quickly
         | match a person to all the available music metadata? How would
         | you model for interest matching if the music library is spread
         | out across multiple nodes.
         | 
         | I would imagine a lot of people are ok with paying 5-10$ a
         | month instead of 15-20$ for music they like from a set of
         | artists they like.
        
         | ghm2199 wrote:
         | I think you can still make the distinction of vibe coded vs
         | using LLM for specific things(like review your code and write
         | tests).
         | 
         | Vibe coding signifies a lack of control over one's own code and
         | generally only if it's to generate ideas or throwaway. The
         | negative connotation that goes with it is appropriate too.
         | 
         | In reality any project that takes 6 months means your have
         | invested a lot of time thinking about the code, in which case
         | LLMs become more useful for the things you care about e.g.
         | maintainability, forcing LLMs to bend to your will, which is
         | like saying: " I know this design is the best so just make this
         | instead of whatever abstraction you think is better".
        
           | WD-42 wrote:
           | Yes to be clear what I meant was that it's not a prompt
           | engineered project. I actually, for the most part, understand
           | the code I've written :p
           | 
           | I have used LLMs to understand certain concepts and
           | unfamiliar APIs. Gtk and Rust is actually a pretty funky
           | combo.
        
       | BohdanPetryshyn wrote:
       | Building https://lenzy.ai - helping conversational AI products
       | (think Lovable or Cursor) reduce churn and prioritize product
       | improvements by analyzing their user's chats. I started about 4
       | months ago, made my 2 paying customers happy. Now trying to
       | onboard more and more companies!
        
       | r2ob wrote:
       | Guitar plugins, looking for partners
       | 
       | quantifier-dsp.com
        
       | rabf wrote:
       | Applications for Linux that I always wanted but could never quite
       | find the one that works how I think it should.
       | 
       | traymd: A system tray notes application that supports basic live
       | input of markdown. https://github.com/rabfulton/TrayMD
       | 
       | reelvault: A local film browser and launcher.
       | https://github.com/rabfulton/ReelVault
       | 
       | preditor: A simple image viewer that shows each image in the
       | center of the screen in a window sized for that image with some
       | basic editing functions built in.
       | https://github.com/rabfulton/preditor
        
         | rabf wrote:
         | Oh and porting my first ever OpenGL project to modern Linux for
         | some nostalgia.
         | 
         | https://github.com/rabfulton/Hotrocks
        
       | middayc wrote:
       | Improving seccomp and landlock intergration into
       | https://ryelang.org, improving tooling for making single
       | executable files from rye projects, experimenting with reactive,
       | declarative TUI library.
        
       | mhog_hn wrote:
       | https://cliwatch.com/ for any CLI maintainers that aim to keep
       | track of how agent ready their work is :) get in touch! very
       | responsive to feedback
        
         | bavell wrote:
         | Interesting install method haha
        
       | yeag123 wrote:
       | Working on either a self hosted, or self "provisioned" document
       | extraction platform. Trying to make it as flexible as possible,
       | so businesses
       | 
       | I worked with manufacturing companies, and the amount of manual
       | document extraction and manipulation, particularly from
       | accounting documents, was always a large burden.
       | 
       | The goal is upload a document - extract structured fields via LLM
       | - generate new documents from templates. Has a dashboard, with an
       | API, along with a webhook, very much a WIP.
       | 
       | https://fetchtext.io
        
       | et1337 wrote:
       | A personal finance app called "Predictable" that takes chaotic
       | sloshes of money and turns them into steady streams of cash. You
       | tell it "I receive this much money weekly/monthly/on the first
       | and fifteenth/when Mercury is in retrograde, and I have these
       | expenses at other various intervals" and it evens everything out
       | into a constant weekly flow of cash by, essentially, buffering.
       | Any overflow or underflow goes to a "margin" bucket which
       | basically tells you how much you could spend right now and still
       | have enough for all your recurring expenses.
       | 
       | Currently making it just for myself but curious if anyone else
       | would find it useful.
        
         | fogzen wrote:
         | I'd love something like that, with the added ability to
         | basically split the margin bucket into multiple buckets (one
         | for me, one for the wife).
         | 
         | The main issue I've had with budgeting apps continues to be
         | pulling in up-to-date transaction data, which is necessary to
         | know how much I can spend right now. There always seems to be
         | problems with the data syncing. Apple Card is the worst, as you
         | can only pull transactions via wallet on device.
         | 
         | I wish we could just use a single bank account at the Fed. The
         | banking network is absolutely shit and there's basically a 1%
         | tax on everything that goes to the rich for no good reason.
         | 
         | Budgeting was soooo much easier with cash - it's maddening all
         | the data is there for real-time personal finance but it can't
         | be accessed.
        
       | postatic wrote:
       | Working on a few
       | 
       | - Kardy - send group cards - https://www.kardy.app
       | 
       | - Jello - Create & customize popular games -
       | https://www.jello.app
        
         | YPCrumble wrote:
         | How do you create the cards for Kardy? I wonder whether just
         | making great ecards wouldn't be a bigger market.
        
       | IbrahimF96 wrote:
       | Working on SubSmith, a language learning tool to help with
       | immersion through auto transcription, popup dictionary and Anki
       | integration.
       | 
       | https://subsmith.app/
        
       | kylehotchkiss wrote:
       | Fetching every church from IRS data; using a small local Mac mini
       | LLM to match to their Google result, fetching site and
       | (eventually) running a data enrichment LLM pass to determine
       | various positions, metadata, and services offered. I just really
       | wanted to see the data in aggregate. My current match rate is 30%
       | with qwen2.5-14b. Doing my best to avoid spending a lot of $ on
       | the processing even if the Mac mini is slow.
       | 
       | Stretch goal: start transcribing sermons (most churches link to
       | videos) and using a LLM pass to look for toxic traits. Speak
       | truth to power about how a lot of them turn a blind eye to this
       | political moment.
       | 
       | We'll see how it goes.
        
         | igravious wrote:
         | I love this idea. I love that you're using these new tools to
         | do what would essentially be weeks/months of work by a small
         | team of people. Elaborate on "toxic traits" and "Speak truth to
         | power about how a lot of them turn a blind eye to this
         | political moment." please. No judgement, I promise.
        
           | kylehotchkiss wrote:
           | Thanks for your support! I am happy to embrace LLMs to tackle
           | a difficult problem without a team or funding too.
           | 
           | Toxic traits: Prosperity gospel, politics from the pulpit
           | (explicit party affiliation/candidate endorsement - I've
           | unfortunately been to a church that asked the audience to
           | clap for Elon musk's DOGE stuff in service, cringe),
           | celebrity pastor (can be indicated by people asking audience
           | to clap for pastor excessively, like every Sunday), some of
           | the NAR/Bethel type stuff.
           | 
           | I welcome any thoughts, sometimes my motivation comes from my
           | own church hurt, and I'd like any future client of this data
           | to reflect broader needs and not just my own frustration.
        
       | nickandbro wrote:
       | Currently working on:
       | 
       | https://vimgolf.ai
       | 
       | To show newbies how to use vim. Currently its not complete and
       | has major issues. So if you want to try give it a go, but please
       | hold your judgement as not all shortcuts have been added.
        
       | heyitssim wrote:
       | I love making games, and I've been building a no-code game engine
       | by extracting reusable components every time I ship a new game.
       | It started as me scratching my own itch, and now it's turning
       | into a real platform.
       | 
       | Each game adds more building blocks to the editor: multiplayer,
       | event systems, NPC behaviors, pathfinding, etc. I build a system
       | once, and then anyone using the editor can use it in a click. For
       | game logic, I recently added a visual event system I'm really
       | excited about. It's kind of like Unreal Blueprints, but focused
       | on 2D. You pick a trigger, wire conditions, and chain actions in
       | a node graph [1].
       | 
       | Big challenge right now: most people who want to make games needs
       | assets, and don't know how to get/make them. So I'm building a
       | marketplace where pixel artists can upload tilesets/characters,
       | and unlike itch.io, assets are usable directly inside the engine.
       | No ZIP downloads or import setup, just browse and drop into your
       | game. A preview here[2].
       | 
       | Also, if you want to use the editor but ship elsewhere, you can
       | export terrain, animations, and hitboxes to Godot 4. Nothing is
       | locked in.
       | 
       | The engine/editor is at https://craftmygame.com if anyone wants
       | to poke around! And you can test a games here[3][4], and 1
       | multiplayer game I've tested IRL in a bar [4]!
       | 
       | [1] https://youtu.be/8fRzC2czGJc
       | 
       | [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hScOK_naYnk
       | 
       | [3] https://craftmygame.com/game/e310c6fcd8f4448f9dc67aac/r/play
       | 
       | [4] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WOIUmOVvaZM
        
         | rtcoms wrote:
         | I'm a web developer and getting very interested in making games
         | but obvuiouly have 0 ideas about it.
         | 
         | Can you recommend any cause to make using Claude Code.
        
           | heyitssim wrote:
           | As a web dev you're in a better spot than you think -- state
           | management, event handling, render loops... you already have
           | the mental models.
           | 
           | Claude Code can genuinely help you with: - Scaffolding a game
           | project (Phaser.js is great for web devs getting into 2D) -
           | Writing boilerplate: input handling, collision detection,
           | basic physics - Debugging weird edge cases in game logic -
           | Generating utility code like sprite sheet parsers, tilemap
           | loaders, etc.
           | 
           | What it can't do (and where most beginners hit a wall): -
           | Game design. Knowing what makes a game actually fun is a
           | skill Claude can't shortcut. You need to playtest, iterate,
           | and develop taste. - Art and assets. This is the #1 blocker
           | for most solo devs. Claude can't draw your sprites or design
           | your tilesets. - Feel and polish. Tweaking jump curves,
           | screen shake timing, hit feedback -- that's all manual
           | iteration. AI will give you "technically correct" values that
           | feel lifeless. - Architecture decisions. Claude will happily
           | generate an ECS system or a scene manager, but it doesn't
           | know your game's actual needs. Bad architecture early on will
           | cost you weeks later.
           | 
           | Start with a tiny scope (like a single-screen platformer),
           | use Claude Code to move fast on the code side, but spend most
           | of your energy on the parts AI can't help with -- design and
           | feel.
           | 
           | Also, shameless plug, if you want to skip the code entirely
           | and just focus on making the game, that's what CraftMyGame is
           | for. Everything is visual, no coding needed. Might be a good
           | way to prototype ideas fast before deciding if you want to go
           | deeper on the code side ;)
        
             | rtcoms wrote:
             | CraftMyGame can make something like retro street
             | fighter(not need to be perfect) ? If it can, and allow me
             | to export the code(I would like to add those game to some
             | of the apps I'm planning), you'll get paying customer.
        
       | jamestimmins wrote:
       | Building a woodworking extension for SketchUp!
       | 
       | I took a course in using it for woodworking, and just kept
       | thinking "this should all be a single extension", so I've been
       | building that.
        
       | tmilard wrote:
       | Making museum visit an online exp : https://free-
       | visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/museeNatioRiga00...
        
       | varun_chopra wrote:
       | Working on Postkit - auth, permissions, config, metering, and job
       | queues as pure SQL functions inside Postgres.
       | 
       | I've been using Claude Code to spin up apps quickly, and I kept
       | needing the same infrastructure every time - user auth,
       | permissions, usage tracking, job queues. So I pulled it all into
       | one SQL package that lives in Postgres. Now when I start a new
       | app I just tell Claude to use Postkit and all that stuff is
       | already there, no external services to set up. I can focus on the
       | actual product and iterate fast.
       | 
       | It was also a good excuse to actually use stuff I'd studied for
       | system design interviews - Zanzibar-style ReBAC for permissions,
       | a double-entry ledger for usage metering, transactional job
       | queues with SKIP LOCKED. ~15k lines of SQL across five modules,
       | with a Python SDK. The SQL works from any language though.
       | 
       | https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit
        
       | hezhichaohk wrote:
       | Building a zero-persistence messaging tool where everything lives
       | in memory and dissolves after use.
        
       | csomar wrote:
       | https://codeinput.com - Tools for PR-Git workflows
       | 
       | Currently experimenting with semantic diffs for the merge
       | conflicts editor: https://codeinput.com/products/merge-
       | conflicts/demo
       | 
       | You can try by installing the GitHub App which will detect PRs
       | who have a merge conflict and create a workspace for them.
        
       | hklgny wrote:
       | Built myself a silly little menubar pomodoro timer tamagotchi
       | thing for mac. I've been slowly going through and building highly
       | personalized versions of my day to day apps. This is the first
       | one I polished up enough to share. Free if anyone's interested.
       | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/time-flies-focus-timer/id67582...
        
       | dminor wrote:
       | I'm working on a language learning framework based on the ideas
       | of comprehensible input and spaced repetition learning.
       | 
       | The idea is you take a book you want to read, and it gets
       | translated but also rewritten to match your current learning
       | level. And as you read/listen it introduces new words to learn,
       | reinforced by spaced repetition.
       | 
       | We're taking a trip to France this summer and I'm hoping to have
       | something usable for at least a couple months before we go.
       | 
       | Currently working on the mechanics of extracting content from
       | ebooks.
        
       | bhouston wrote:
       | https://landofassets.com
       | 
       | A place for open assets for developers. If you have assets you
       | are using you can use this for distribution, either free for open
       | or paid for closed. Based on my experience creating 3D
       | experiences for LV, Ralph Lauren, Steelcase, and Logitech.
        
       | ddxv wrote:
       | Finally integrating Stripe! Been working on open source mobile
       | app and ad analysis for awhile but didn't have a good flow for
       | people to pay me. After getting 3 emails in the past month about
       | it, and with plenty of pressure from my wife, it's definitely
       | time.
        
       | segmondy wrote:
       | LLM thingz
        
       | bchuhadar wrote:
       | I am working on an impression style city builder called
       | Tutankhamun: Builders of the Eternal. I am the solo developer.
       | 
       | https://store.steampowered.com/app/4009620/Tutankhamun__Buil...
        
       | eismcc wrote:
       | I added autograd support to the KlongPy array language. It's been
       | fun to integrate PyTorch and come up with new examples.
       | 
       | https://klongpy.org
        
       | openclawrocks wrote:
       | https://openclaw.rocks
       | 
       | I am a DevOps engineer with a background in AI. I think OpenClaw
       | is the best that happened to us, giving some power from the well
       | funded AI companies back to the community. I think it's the new
       | kind of Linux and it's exciting to me to witness its early days
        
       | tugboatt wrote:
       | I have been working on a Monte Carlo financial planning /
       | retirement scenario simulation with a TUI interface.
       | 
       | All written in rust. The simulation engine has been solid for a
       | while and the TUI is finally starting to expose all of the
       | options needed to really configure a complete simulation.
       | 
       | https://github.com/jgrazian/finplan
        
         | division_by_0 wrote:
         | Nice looking TUI!
        
       | sushrutb wrote:
       | I am working on building https://startupforstartups.com/ , single
       | tool to manage digital presence for a small business. I have been
       | working on it for a couple of months now.
        
       | efromvt wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | https://greenmtnboy.github.io/space_reporting/
        
       | Joel_Mckay wrote:
       | Improving path-planner for 3D metal printing slicer project to
       | reduce internal localized stress.
       | 
       | Designing closed loop micro-position 4-axis stage driver section
       | v0.2.
       | 
       | Other stuff maybe three other people would care about =3
        
       | radius89 wrote:
       | https://radius.to/ - a Meetup.com alternative of sorts - with
       | fairer organiser pricing for smaller groups. I posted a Show HN
       | [1] here a while back, got tons of great feedback, and have been
       | slowly improving it since, with little marketing. Planning a re-
       | launch here soon.
       | 
       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717398
        
         | ycombinatornews wrote:
         | Awesome! Love the location based discovery. Unfortunately sign
         | up ended up with 500 error!
        
           | radius89 wrote:
           | I guess the weekend was a bad time to upgrade to Rails 8.1 :)
           | - should be fixed now, was just an issue with Redis. Thanks
           | for letting me know!
        
         | jarofgreen wrote:
         | Hello fellow Scot!
         | 
         | I missed this when it was launched and it's very interesting to
         | see your rationale. If you ever want a chat some time get in
         | touch, I'm working on https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/
         | 
         | My ulterior motive is to ask you to add open data feeds for
         | basic group and event listing information to your site - a free
         | and open API and standard formats like ICAL (Just listings
         | information about the next event, not private info like members
         | names). I would never encourage event organisers to use a
         | platform that didn't do this, as then their data is essentially
         | being held hostage and it's hard for them to spread their
         | information around to other places.
        
           | radius89 wrote:
           | Hey! Wow, I knew about OpenTechCalendar but somehow hadn't
           | realised (or likely forgot) how close to home it was! I'll
           | definitely reach out for a chat at some point.
           | 
           | And thanks for the tips - I completely agree on the point
           | about data being held hostage, and on the openness of data -
           | it's one of the more frequent complaints about Meetup. I've
           | recently added an API for event creation, so it won't be hard
           | to add another endpoint for listings (at the moment, we just
           | have an embeddable widget [1] showing your next 3 events).
           | 
           | ICAL is a brilliant suggestion - I've had a few requests for
           | that already, and it's especially interesting in the context
           | of opentechcalendar. I'm very interested in ActivityPub and
           | all things fediverse as well - figuring out how to integrate
           | these ideas into the platform is one of the next items on my
           | TODO list.
           | 
           | [1] https://radius.to/blog/embed-events-widget-website
        
       | patrick4urcloud wrote:
       | Hi, I'm splitting my time between multi-cloud governance and
       | optimizing my "vibe coding" workflow: Kexa (https://kexa.io)
       | 
       | An open-source multi-cloud governance framework powered by a YAML
       | rule engine. We just reached a milestone by adding Database (DB)
       | support.
       | 
       | The goal is to allow developers to audit configuration and
       | compliance directly within DB instances, alongside standard cloud
       | resources (AWS, GCP, Azure, K8s). We're focusing on keeping the
       | YAML rules as agnostic as possible so the same logic can apply
       | across different environments without rewriting everything. rtk
       | (https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk)
       | 
       | This is a "scratching my own itch" project born from using
       | Claude-code. While vibe coding, I got frustrated watching the
       | agent spam ls -al or cat repeatedly just to "orient" itself.
       | 
       | It creates two main issues:                   The Token Tax: It
       | burns through tokens for info the agent already has.
       | Context Pollution: The context window fills up with redundant
       | noise.
       | 
       | rtk acts as a CLI wrapper/filter to make LLM interactions more
       | signal-to-noise efficient. It silences or summarizes redundant
       | outputs so the agent only receives the necessary "delta." It's a
       | simple attempt to keep the context clean and make sessions last
       | longer before the agent loses the plot.
        
       | planckscnst wrote:
       | I'm working on lots of projects. My favorite is what I call
       | "context bonsai" where I'm giving LLM harnesses the ability to
       | surgically edit the context. It's available as a tool. You can
       | say "remove that failed debugging session and write a summary of
       | what we learned." Or you can take a more hands-on approach and
       | say "remove messages msg_ID1 through msg_ID2". The removal leaves
       | a summary and keywords, and the original messages can be pulled
       | back into context if the LLM thinks they're useful.
       | 
       | I would really like people to try it out and report bugs,
       | failures, and successes.
       | 
       | https://github.com/Vibecodelicious/opencode/blob/surgical_co...
       | 
       | I'm currently trying to get the LLM to be more proactive about
       | removing content that is no longer useful in order to stay ahead
       | of autocompaction and also just to keep the context window small
       | and focused in general.
        
         | robviren wrote:
         | I find it fascinating to give the LLMs huge stacks of
         | reflective context. It's incredible how good they are at
         | feeling huge amounts of csv like data. I imagine they would be
         | good at trimming their context down.
         | 
         | I did some experiments by exposing the raw latent states, using
         | hooks, of a small 1B Gemma model to a large model as it
         | processed data. I'm curious if it is possible for the large
         | model to _nudge_ the smaller model latents to get the outputs
         | it wants. I desperately want to get thinking out of tokens and
         | into latent space. Something I 've been chasing for a bit.
        
           | planckscnst wrote:
           | Yes - I think there is untapped potential into figuring out
           | how to understand and use the latent space. I'm still at the
           | language layer. I occasionally stumble across something that
           | seems to tap into something deeper and I'm getting better at
           | finding those. But direct observability and actuation of
           | those lower layers is an area that I think is going to be
           | very fruitful of we can figure it out
        
         | maven29 wrote:
         | I'm sure you're aware but it's worth pointing out that you will
         | lose all your cache hit discounts with some providers. The next
         | turn will incur the cost of the whole trajectory billed at
         | fresh input token rates.
         | 
         | As an aside, 95 pages into the system card for Claude Opus 4.6,
         | Anthropic acknowledges that they have disabled prompt prefill.
        
           | planckscnst wrote:
           | Yes, I have already made deliberate cache decisions and plan
           | to do more once it's working the way I imagine. I think the
           | trimmed down context will have way bigger effect than the
           | cache stuff, though.
           | 
           | As far as I understand, it's caches are not a "next-turn"
           | thing, but a ttl thing.
           | 
           | I made the "retrieve" tool, which is what pulls back
           | previously removed content, append to the conversation rather
           | than putting it back where it previously was. But it's a but
           | premature to really know if that's a real optimization.
        
       | 7thpower wrote:
       | Building a discovery, compliance, and middleware platform for
       | talent marketplaces to help them compete on more equal footing
       | with the usual suspects.
       | 
       | https://app.humancloud.com
        
         | hc-goldretriev wrote:
         | Huge if this can make it easy for companies/startups to scale
         | talent like everything else (variable, outcome based, etc).
         | Especially if it can be like Deel for project-based/high-skill
         | contract talent.
        
       | andrewjneumann wrote:
       | 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
        
       | JamesTRexx wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | I'm a filmmaker. I'm working on a tool to make movies with AI
       | models:
       | 
       | https://github.com/storytold/artcraft
       | 
       | It's not like ComfyUI - it focuses on frontier models like
       | Higgsfield or OpenArt do, and it is structurally oriented rather
       | than node graph based.
       | 
       | Here's what that looks like (skip to halfway down the article):
       | 
       | https://getartcraft.com/news/world-models-for-film
        
       | tatsuhirosatou wrote:
       | https://gabezen.com/guide/
       | 
       | A Windows 95-themed interactive guide on agentic AI coding, with
       | a hidden SkiFree game, original chiptune soundtrack, achievement
       | badges, and a Red Pill / Blue Pill choice that can BSOD your
       | browser. Seven chapters with a codebase readiness scorer, ROI
       | calculator, and copyable artifacts for engineering leads.
       | 
       | Built entirely with Claude Code, which is fitting since the guide
       | teaches the same workflow. It's a labor of love that happens to
       | be made with the tool it's about.
        
       | Dansvidania wrote:
       | 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
        
       | oidar wrote:
       | Like a lot of others, I'm working on replacing apps that I use
       | that aren't just perfect for me. So I've been working on a local
       | "Hey.com" replacement that lets me have multiple "feeds", real
       | search and offline use.
        
       | pmhpereira wrote:
       | https://getchaotic.com/
       | 
       | A high-performance 3D game engine and editor in Rust. It has the
       | ability to deploy to WebAssembly and WebGL2, delivering console-
       | quality visuals and near-native performance right in the browser.
       | 
       | Currently building a multiplayer cozy farming game, inspired by
       | Animal Crossing. Reach out to our discord if you are interested
       | in learning more: https://discord.com/invite/mHsQayQNdp
        
         | patrick4urcloud wrote:
         | amazing!
        
           | pmhpereira wrote:
           | Appreciate it!
        
       | dhruv3006 wrote:
       | I am working on Voiden. A offline api client based on blocks.
       | 
       | Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
       | 
       | Would love feedback on it.
        
       | sentinel1909 wrote:
       | I'm working on a checkers game:
       | 
       | https://rusty-checkers.fly.dev
       | 
       | It's built in Rust using Rama and Yew. Trying now to get
       | websockets going so people can actually play. A bit over my head,
       | but that's what I do :)
        
       | mak8 wrote:
       | I was teaching coding to my 10yr old and we were talking about
       | creative projects on the internet. That led to discussing the
       | Million Dollar Homepage and why something that simple worked. He
       | asked: could we build something similar today? That curiosity
       | turned into moltbillboard.com -- a simple public billboard, but
       | born in the era of AI agents (inspired by the recent OpenClaw
       | craze). It's just an experiment..
        
       | dinan wrote:
       | I'm making Letterboxd for TV, with a pretty data visualizations.
       | 
       | https://epilog.tv/
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | jhallenworld wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | https://github.com/jhallen/exorsim
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpHKygZ7OHY
        
       | SafeDusk wrote:
       | Working on https://toolkami.com that enables plug and play
       | Recursive Language Model for increased context size and better
       | recall.
        
       | jasonlotito wrote:
       | #dungeon26 https://adungeon.com
       | 
       | It's a creative project in which I add a new room to a mega-
       | dungeon over the course of a year, resulting in 12 levels and
       | approximately 30 rooms per level at the end. All the tiles are
       | created by me using my own tools. It's a lot of fun and something
       | I can do every day that I feel like I can enjoy for a year.
       | 
       | It's focused on OSR/Shadowrun. It's also taught me a lot about
       | dungeon design and creation.
        
       | tokioyoyo wrote:
       | Been bored a bit, so working on a Coop exploration app, already
       | on AppStore - https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/ato-explore-
       | together/id6757285....
       | 
       | Basically tracking where my friends and I have collectively been
       | by dividing the global map into H3 hexagons. The using photo and
       | workout metadata to get the locations, giving points and doing
       | comparisons between everyone. It's actually quite fun to see
       | random people around the world sign up and see in the global map
       | where everyone has been. Grounds me a bit haha.
        
         | hexmiles wrote:
         | For a moment, I thought it was a game about finding chickens
         | and was confused yet intrigued.
        
       | animeshjain wrote:
       | i am building https://alphacheck.ai on the side. it uses stock
       | market data to track performance of recommendations made by
       | youtubers.
       | 
       | What i have working as of now: - submit a video and get a
       | snapshot of which stocks were mentioned, sentiment (buy/sell),
       | price delta and reasoning. - analyze a channel and get a
       | performance 'report card' of that channel
        
       | mathnorth_com wrote:
       | Focusing on marketing of https://overthink.rest
       | 
       | This is mainly for going to sleep instead of night time
       | overthinking, mind racing, insomnia etc.
        
       | sreekanth850 wrote:
       | Working on an ephemeral yjs/hocupocus sync infrastructure with
       | zero vendor lock-in. (https://wiresocket.com)
        
       | neomantra wrote:
       | https://wethinkt.com
       | 
       | The second bubble there is a tool for 3D visualization and
       | analytics of Claude Code sessions. The sample conversation is the
       | one that made the tool itself!
       | 
       | That was a fun toy I learned a lot from. I'm not expanding that
       | but am working intensely on the first bubble:
       | 
       |  _thinkt_ a CLI /TUI/Webapp for exploring your LLM conversations.
       | Makes it easy to see all your local projects, view them, and
       | export them. It has an embedded OpenAPI server and MCP server.
       | 
       | So you can open Kimi and say "use thinkt mcp to look at my last
       | Claude session in this project, look at the thinking at the end
       | and report on the issues we were facing".
       | 
       | I added Claude Teams support by launching a Team and having that
       | team look at its own traces and the changing ~/.Claude folder.
       | Similar for Gemini CLI and Copilot (which still need work).
       | 
       | Doing it in the open. Only 2 weeks old - usable, but early. I'm
       | only posting as it's what I'm working on. Still working on polish
       | and deeper review (it is vibe-crafted). There's ergonomic issues
       | with ports and DuckDB. Coming up next is VSCode extension and an
       | exporter/collecter for remote agents.
        
       | skalkin wrote:
       | https://datagrok.ai
       | 
       | A platform to efficiently work with any data right in the
       | browser. Like interactively visualizing millions or rows, and at
       | the same time augmenting the data with domain-specific
       | capabilities. For instance, the cheminformatics plugin
       | automatically recognizes molecules and provides proper rendering,
       | substructure search etc. Sort of a Swiss Army knife for
       | scientific data.
       | 
       | Not really a new idea, been working on it for many years already
       | :)
        
       | deneckemedia wrote:
       | I'm building PointWiseSystem, a browser-based habit and
       | responsibility system I originally built for my own family.
       | 
       | It uses a simple points model instead of streaks or financial-
       | style tracking to make expectations visible, progress clear, and
       | follow-through easier.
       | 
       | In real use it's solving three main problems: - As a Family Chore
       | Chart -- a digital chore system that actually gets kids engaged
       | with responsibilities using points and rewards. - As a Personal
       | Habit Tracker -- a way for individuals to organize routines, add
       | notes, and earn points toward meaningful self-defined rewards. -
       | As Complete Homeschool Management -- tracking assignments,
       | logging progress by subject, and generating reports and
       | transcripts for multiple students.
       | 
       | It's entirely web-based (no app download) and works on phones,
       | tablets, and desktops. I'm actively iterating on it based on real
       | use, and it's been most useful in situations where simpler
       | systems actually get used instead of abandoned.
       | 
       | Check it out https://www.pointwisesystem.com/ Pre-Launch offering
       | 6 months free
        
       | gfarah wrote:
       | I am porting/adapting the Digital Euro (CBDC) specifications for
       | Colombia to complement Bre-B (our instant payment system modeled
       | after Pix). I plan to submit it for review to BanRep (our central
       | bank) once it's finished.
        
       | ycombinatornews wrote:
       | Learning the autonomous coding, there are so many different
       | skills, tools and ways and only some of them seem to work.
       | 
       | That means I have to: - build something so I can evaluate the
       | results. - track each of these projects separately otherwise they
       | turn into dust after quite some time. Gladly claudesidian seems
       | to be working well with the unstructured stream of inputs. Feel
       | like hooking it up with some task tracker cli and calendar and
       | notifications could make life a bit better too. - plan next
       | projects to keep evaluating other skills and tools
       | 
       | It's been discussed so many times the amount of new or
       | personalized software that appears and will appear and it seems
       | so true.
       | 
       | Whatever I built I am actively using myself - a text rewriter
       | that cleans some of the AI speak and has MCP and cli (at
       | https://www.refineo.app). Math teaching and solving extension at
       | https://math.photos and a self hosted stock opportunity discovery
       | tool that runs locally. This is just to automate what I did
       | before manually and scale it up a bit.
       | 
       | > Any new ideas
       | 
       | There's no product yet to cover the needs of all of us launching
       | the software into the internet void. Any ad platform out there is
       | a hot and very outdated mess and I just can't. There is going to
       | be a better way with all the capabilities we have and someone is
       | going to really nail it.
        
       | diwank wrote:
       | Working on Memory Store: persistent, shared memory for all your
       | AI agents.
       | 
       | https://memory.store
       | 
       | The problem: if you use multiple AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT,
       | Cursor, etc.), none of them know what the others know. You end up
       | maintaining .md files, pasting context between chats, and re-
       | explaining your project every time you start a new conversation.
       | Power users spend more time briefing their agents than doing
       | actual work.
       | 
       | Memory Store is an MCP server that ingests context from your
       | workplace tools (Slack, email, calendar) and makes it available
       | to any MCP-compatible agent. Make a decision in one tool, the
       | others know. Project status changes, every agent is up to date.
       | 
       | We ran 35 in-depth user interviews and surveyed 90 people before
       | writing a line of product code -- 95% had already built
       | workarounds for this problem (custom GPTs, claude.md templates,
       | copy-paste workflows). The pain is real and people are already
       | investing effort to solve it badly.
       | 
       | Early users are telling us things like one founder who tracked
       | investor conversations through Memory Store and estimated talking
       | to 4-5x more people because his agents could draft contextual
       | replies without manual briefing. It helped close his round.
       | 
       | Live in beta now. Would love feedback from anyone who's felt this
       | pain! :)
        
       | jurakis wrote:
       | A suite of tools for storyboarding/animation in grease pencil :)
        
       | hpen wrote:
       | An Audio workstation with a Git like branching model.
       | 
       | It's free for local use (meaning no cloud sync, or collaboration
       | features: merge requests)
       | 
       | https://www.scratchtrackaudio.com
        
       | jason_zig wrote:
       | 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).
        
       | arbiternoir wrote:
       | Working on Embedful. Goal is to make customer facing analytics
       | easy and affordable for everyone, even if you're not a developer
       | or analyst.
       | 
       | https://embedful.io
       | 
       | Almost launching and currently getting feedback from our small
       | user group.
        
       | brainless wrote:
       | For the last couple weeks I have been building dwata and I am
       | going to submit today for Google Gemini Hackathon.
       | 
       | https://github.com/brainless/dwata
       | 
       | dwata is built on the idea of multiple, task-specific agents.
       | Right now it has only one agent that can be run on an email to
       | extract regex patterns for financial data. This enables high
       | performance data extraction from emails or documents (in future)
       | without sending each email to an LLM.
       | 
       | dwata has an email scan which tests simple keywords and regex
       | patterns, groups by sender emails, sorts by number of emails per
       | sender (highest first), and filters out groups where the emails
       | do not seem to be from a template (typical transaction emails are
       | from templates). This is deterministic code in Rust. Then dwata
       | can use the regex builder AI agent to take one email from the
       | group and build a regex pattern to extract extensive financial
       | data - (optional) who sent, how much, (optional) to whom, on
       | which date, with (optional) reference ID.
       | 
       | The generated patterns are saved to local DB and run for the
       | email group (by sender) which was used to generate the regex.
       | That gives a very high performance, AI enabled financial data
       | extractor.
       | 
       | Soon, I will focus on events, places, people, tasks, health and
       | other data. All data storage and processing is local. I am
       | testing exclusively with Google Gemini 3 Flash Preview but dwata
       | should be able to run really well on small LLMs, ones up to 20b
       | parameters.
       | 
       | I am preparing for launch, the builds are not ready yet, but if
       | you want to try, you can compile (Rust and npm tooling needed).
       | Sources to nocodo will also be needed
       | (https://github.com/brainless/nocodo).
        
       | AdamMeghji wrote:
       | https://sampler.meiji.industries/
       | 
       | I built a TUI sampler which cherry-picks my favourite features
       | from modern & vintage hardware samplers, DAWs, plugins, outboard
       | FX gear, and DJ equipment.
       | 
       | If you know what an AKAI MPC Live, MPC 3000, SP404, SP1200, BOSS
       | RC-202, Alesis 3630, Serato Sample, S950 filters, and stem
       | separation does, then you'll love seeing these "greatest hits" up
       | in a terminal interface.
       | 
       | Last year while on vacation in Costa Rica, I started scratching
       | my own itch for locating and organizing samples, which quickly
       | evolved into adding more and more features while keeping it
       | tactile and immediate. It was too fun to stop so I kept going.
       | After a few days I was happily making beats in it, and since then
       | it's only gotten better.
       | 
       | It's live and totally free to use, and works in macos & Linux
       | (Windows soon). I'm about to launch v1.0 now, just working with
       | folks in the community to round out the Factory Kits a little
       | more for users new to beatmaking.
       | 
       | Turns out, making beats with no mouse and a terminal interface
       | strikes the perfect balance of hardware feel and software power,
       | and I'm loving the result. Been sharing it with folks in my
       | beatmaking sphere and have plans to continue expanding its reach
       | through more collaborations, contests, and in-person events.
       | 
       | Hope it brings you as much joy as it does to me :)
        
         | nedwin wrote:
         | Great intro video!
        
         | aoyama1chome wrote:
         | Was this previously open source? There's a broken link to a
         | repo at the bottom of the marketing page that results in a 404.
        
           | AdamMeghji wrote:
           | it was not, so that's a mistake that's been fixed, thanks!
        
         | lmf4lol wrote:
         | here goes my Monday
        
         | s3tt3mbr1n1 wrote:
         | This is sick, great job!
        
         | discoinverno wrote:
         | I love working on the terminal and this looks great, but can I
         | ask why do you require to sign in? To be that's a bit of a
         | downer :(
        
           | AdamMeghji wrote:
           | totally fair point! the medium/long-term roadmap is to layer
           | in a BBS-esque community, so identity is required. more on
           | this later! regardless, might be nice to have an
           | unauthenticated / "Skip sign in" flow for the folks who just
           | want to use the tool.
        
         | strobby wrote:
         | Very cool!
        
         | hilti wrote:
         | Looks very promising! Unfortunately Docs and GitHub repo don't
         | work
        
           | AdamMeghji wrote:
           | apologies, those broken links are misleading (docs coming
           | soon, but not open source atm). Removed.
        
             | hilti wrote:
             | Is this based on Bubbletea TUI framework? The waveforms are
             | pretty cool!
        
         | lynx97 wrote:
         | TUI triggered me, so I had to take a look... It appears the
         | GitHub link on your landing page is 404?
        
       | matula wrote:
       | https://matula.itch.io/kings-dont-stack
       | 
       | Klondike solitaire game using Godot. The goal is to better
       | understand Godot's inner workings, and not using any LLMs...
       | outside of whatever Google searches automatically popup when I
       | have questions.
       | 
       | Secondarily, decompiling the DuckTails Gameboy ROM with PHP...
       | then seeing about using PHP to _create_ a GameBoy game. For no
       | reason than to see if it can be done.
        
       | keepamovin wrote:
       | BrowserBox embedding API plus a bunch of other side projects.
       | BrowserBox is a remote isolated browser with a variety of DLP,
       | NIST 800-53 controls and FIPS 140-3 encryption at rest. It can
       | function as a fully automated embeddable browserview for AI
       | workflows, isolated sandboxes, generic whitelabeled RBI and
       | multiple other use cases. It's a heavy target of abuse by non
       | state actors in sanctioned countries so I had to add ID
       | verification to get a trial key.
        
         | handfuloflight wrote:
         | Link: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
        
       | citixenken wrote:
       | Built ShelfSwap (https://shelfswap.io). I enjoy reading, but
       | books are getting expensive, and many of us already have shelves
       | of good books we're done with. This is a simple platform to swap
       | physical books and connect with other readers.
       | 
       | I used this as a real end-to-end project to sharpen my backend
       | skills in Go (API design, data modeling, deployment), while also
       | experimenting with AI-assisted development. It's live, and I've
       | already made a few organic connections through it.
        
         | coreylane wrote:
         | Would be cool to auto-sync with existing book management tools
         | like clz.com/books. Also, are swaps mutual exchanges, or are
         | members giving books away with nothing in return?
        
           | citixenken wrote:
           | Nice. Swaps are ideally to be mutual exchanges, so that
           | everyone has 'skin in the game'
        
       | azayrahmad wrote:
       | https://azayrahmad.github.io/win98-web/ Another Web-OS remake of
       | Windows 98 made with vanilla JavaScript. There are already a lot
       | of Windows web remakes, especially in this age of AI. So for this
       | passion project I intend to make it as accurate as it could ever
       | be without having to emulate actual Windows 98.
       | 
       | Currently it has:
       | 
       | - Accurate recreation of Windows shell with start menu, taskbar,
       | windowing system.
       | 
       | - Full desktop themes customization (color, cursor, sound,
       | wallpaper, screensaver). All Win 98 default Plus! themes are
       | included.
       | 
       | - Persistent local file system & mounting local folder as
       | removable disk with ZenFS.
       | 
       | - Support playing Flash games and run DOS games (save game
       | persisted). Yes, you can play Doom and copy your savegames to
       | continue.
       | 
       | - Some accurate remakes of Windows 98 apps, some made by me
       | (Solitaire games, Minesweeper, Notepad) some are existing ports
       | (Pinball, JSPaint, Webamp, etc).
       | 
       | - Some other fun stuff
       | 
       | If you're interested in Windows 98, this is for you. You're also
       | welcome to contribute or fork it to create your own version:
       | https://github.com/azayrahmad/win98-web
        
         | Anonyneko wrote:
         | >Internet Explorer opens websites as they were in 1998
         | 
         | Impeccable.
        
       | Jiahang wrote:
       | I plan to pursue a master's degree in computer science this year.
        
         | skyberrys wrote:
         | You can do it!
        
       | coreylane wrote:
       | Working on https://dataraven.io/ - a low-cost, cloud-native data
       | movement platform focused on object storage.
       | 
       | RClone is doing the heavy lifting (amazing project). I'm wrapping
       | it with the operational features clients have asked me for over
       | the years:                 - Team workspaces with role-based
       | access control       - Notifications - alerts on transfer failure
       | or resource changes via Slack, Teams, Discord, etc.       -
       | Centralized log storage       - Vault integrations - connect
       | 1Password, Doppler, or Infisical for zero-knowledge credential
       | handling       - 10 Gbps connected infrastructure (Pro tier) for
       | large transfers
        
       | neya wrote:
       | Working on Design Flo - Generate enterprise grade software using
       | natural language. We use 10 years of battle-tested patterns, not
       | just LLMs. Deterministic logic where reliability, performance,
       | and correctness matter most.
       | 
       | https://designflo.ai
        
         | DANmode wrote:
         | > ARCHITECTED WITH INDUSTRY STANDARDS:
         | 
         | > Elixir
         | 
         | Nice.
        
           | neya wrote:
           | BEAM has always been used in high-performance computing
           | applications (Eg. WhatsApp) and Elixir pretty much is the
           | modern Erlang alternative for BEAM, hope this helps.
        
             | DANmode wrote:
             | I was being very serious - this is cool!
        
               | neya wrote:
               | Thanks a lot :)
        
       | contingencies wrote:
       | Funding for https://infinite-food.com/ - seeking $100M - now
       | finalizing four strong patents in the non-military drone space.
       | Had a couple of false start time wasting lawyers, but now it's
       | home run time. We've got what seems to be a few simultaneous nice
       | technical edges over the multibillion dollar investments in
       | civilian aerial delivery of food from major early stage players
       | to date. Can't wait to close, itching to get to market and start
       | generating some proper California lunch money.
       | 
       | Simultaneously, working on some technical demonstration
       | materials, including novel fabrication and supply chain, plus
       | some reduced BOM strategies for greater efficiency in mass
       | manufacturing (once we get cash over the line). Bit of
       | electronics in there, some mechanical. Keeps me interested so
       | it's not 100% admin.
       | 
       | Also getting back in to badminton, super fun, losing weight
       | nicely, feeling better every week.
       | 
       | New ideas? AI government will have its day in our lifetime.
        
       | RichardChu wrote:
       | I'm working on Fluxmail, an AI-powered email client!
       | https://fluxmail.ai
        
         | kristopolous wrote:
         | I need a video on the homepage demoing what happens to a
         | swamped busy inbox
        
       | pdyc wrote:
       | I'm working on EasyAnalytica (https://easyanalytica.com ). It
       | lets you create dashboards from APIs or URLs using data in JSON
       | or CSV format, as well as Google Sheets.
       | 
       | It generates dashboards automatically, you just point it to your
       | data. It also has a visual editor to adjust layouts, charts, and
       | other dashboard elements.
        
       | robviren wrote:
       | Trying to use ESNs as a random projection for audio data and
       | potentially rendered text data for some AI workflows. Seeing it I
       | can use the echo states running both forward and backward through
       | the data as a holographic representation which would act as a
       | temporally dense token for potential use in LLM or audio encoder
       | inputs.
        
       | yla92 wrote:
       | I am getting the AI Agents to build an expense tracker Telegram.
       | I would like to have one myself and among my family members since
       | we are heavy Telegram users. I am also using this as a way to
       | learn more about the AI Agents (what they are good at, their
       | limitations, etc) with (hopefully) proper guardrails, guidelines,
       | checks, etc.
       | 
       | https://github.com/yelinaung/expense-bot/
       | 
       | https://gitlab.com/yelinaung/expense-bot/
       | 
       | As you may see from the git history and "contributors", it's
       | mostly Claude and AMP making the changes. I am not entirely sold
       | on these agents and not particularly excited by these. But I also
       | feel that I can't afford to sit out this transition so here I
       | am...
        
       | jnamaya wrote:
       | An open source runtime governance engine for AI
       | https://github.com/jnamaya/SAFi
        
       | Aduttya wrote:
       | Have been working on vector embeddings for AEO/SEO to see how to
       | structure the website and content.
        
       | packeted wrote:
       | I'm working on a website that lists veterinary practices owned by
       | private equity or large corporations to help people make more
       | informed decisions about where they take their pets. It started
       | as a small passion project after our dog (who was sideswiped by a
       | car) died at the hands of a vet practice recently acquired by
       | private equity. We were billed over $13k for 2 days of care where
       | his diagnosis and the opportunity to treat it was missed, there
       | was zero continuity of care, no medical leadership and predatory
       | billing practices.
       | 
       | The site has become quite a hit and gets thousands of unique
       | visitors each day. https://www.privateequityvet.org/vet-list
        
         | dash2 wrote:
         | That's a great idea and I wonder if you'd consider including
         | the UK. My vet got taken over and now they keep spamming me
         | with "offers" - so I no longer know if my dog really needs a
         | checkup or not.
        
           | packeted wrote:
           | Thanks! Actually I did add the UK very recently but this is a
           | good reminder to improve the UI to make it more obvious, if
           | you go to https://www.privateequityvet.org/vet-list/map.html
           | you can toggle between US and UK. I have over 2000 practices
           | listed in the UK.
        
             | dash2 wrote:
             | I hadn't looked- thanks for this. Indeed my vet is listed.
        
         | ugh123 wrote:
         | Amazing work!
        
         | PankajGhosh wrote:
         | I am curious where is this data sourced from! Thank you for
         | putting this together
        
           | packeted wrote:
           | It's been a painstaking process of combing consolidator
           | websites (eg. PetVet Care Centers, NVA) for practice names,
           | verifying and adding them to a list over the course of over a
           | year. I now get many people writing in to report practices
           | that aren't on the list - admittedly it's not complete list
           | as practices are still being acquired (although independents
           | are now in the minority) and often the old practice branding
           | is kept and the fact it's PE owned is hidden.
        
         | hackyhacky wrote:
         | I'm sorry to hear about your dog. It's a sad story. Thank you
         | for building this web site. I hope it helps people and their
         | pets.
        
         | sremani wrote:
         | thank you for fighting the enshitification of American
         | Experience.
        
       | Erenay09 wrote:
       | I'm currently working on a RethinkDNS-like (Android) and
       | DNSCrypt-Proxy-like app built with Tauri + Svelte. It will
       | include DNS blocklists, a custom WireGuard proxy, and potentially
       | cross-platform device support. I'm using Mullvad's GotaTun
       | implementation. I wanted to learn more about these networking
       | concepts. If I finish it, I'll open-source it.
        
         | ignoramous wrote:
         | _rdns dev here_
         | 
         | I know what you're working on is all Rust (while Rethink is Go
         | & Kotlin), but if you need any pointers, feel free to email
         | (see profile). Good luck (:
        
       | indigodaddy wrote:
       | vibebin is a self-hosted platform for running persistent,
       | isolated AI coding sandboxes on a single VPS using Incus/LXC
       | containers:
       | 
       | https://github.com/jgbrwn/vibebin
       | 
       | It automates installing and managing Incus, Caddy, and SSHPiper,
       | provides a TUI for container lifecycle and quick actions, a web
       | admin (built/compiled on the container) for toggling and updating
       | AI coding tools (Shelley, Claude Code, OpenCode, etc.), and a
       | background sync daemon that keeps Caddy routes and container
       | metadata in sync.
       | 
       | Each container exposes coding tool web UIs on isolated ports and
       | supports direct SSH/VS Code Remote access, so you can run
       | multiple independent coding agents against real project files
       | without exposing your local machine.
       | 
       | The project emphasizes simplicity and recoverability for running
       | agents locally: containers are persistent, optionally routed via
       | reverse proxy with basic auth, and tracked in an SQLite DB so
       | setups auto-heal after restarts. It's written in Go, includes an
       | install script for one-line deployment, targets modest VPS specs
       | (4-8GB RAM recommended), and bundles helpers for DNS and provider
       | automation.
       | 
       | Ideal if you want a lightweight, opinionated way to host multiple
       | isolated AI dev environments on your own server instead of
       | relying on hosted agent platforms.
        
         | krat0sprakhar wrote:
         | Looks really interesting but is the entire project ~5K lines of
         | Go in one file? Don't you find that hard to read or are you
         | purely vibecoding this?
         | 
         | > This project is 99.9% vibe-coded on the exe.dev platform
         | using their Shelley Web AI Coding Agent and Claude Opus 4.5.
         | Take that as you will.
         | 
         | Ah, wait - should've read the README before commenting.
         | /facepalm
         | 
         | Thanks for sharing the project - will try it out!
        
           | indigodaddy wrote:
           | I use it and it works well for me but there's likely plenty
           | of bugs. Needs a lot of testing so any feedback or issues
           | from anyone would be great.
        
       | rbbydotdev wrote:
       | A git enabled local-first browser-first markdown workspace
       | wysiwyg editor and publisher. Built with mdx-editor, code mirror
       | 6, react, shadcn and typescript
       | 
       | free, open source, MIT
       | 
       | https://github.com/rbbydotdev/opal
        
       | Flux159 wrote:
       | A native WebGPU JS engine (no browser needed)
       | https://github.com/mystralengine/mystralnative/
       | 
       | Already have my own JS engine & the basics of three.js and
       | pixi.js 8 working, roadmap to v1.0.0 posted in github issues.
       | Aiming to show it to folks at GDC in March.
        
       | vincentjiang wrote:
       | I've been thinking about this a lot after shutting down my
       | previous startup. One problem I've identified is that tools like
       | Claude Co-worker or Claw Bots will never truly deliver reliable
       | agentic outcomes for people due to the fact that scaling a human-
       | like agent is paradoxically harder than scaling a script.
       | 
       | - I see a lot error propagation with CUAs
       | 
       | - A GUI is very flakey and it produces a lot action latency
       | 
       | - There're hidden states behind each screen that CUAs simply
       | can't capture
       | 
       | - Token consumption is absurd (but I guess this will alleviate as
       | LLMs get cheaper)
       | 
       | What do you guys think? Any good ideas what'd be a good counter
       | to this?
        
       | skyberrys wrote:
       | Borrow This And Improve It - an app for tracking repairs to a
       | thing (right now it's bicycles only, planning to extend to other
       | things like leaf blowers and electronics) and giving away half
       | broken things or repaired things to others but with the advantage
       | of also giving away the repair history for something. So for
       | example, I found a bicycle in the trash, fixed it up with a few
       | new parts (less than $6) and soon I'll try to give the now
       | repaired bicycle away to a new home, plus a QR code that links to
       | its repair history. The idea being that knowing how something was
       | fixed once will make it more likely that it would be fixed again.
       | 
       | How Home Alone My House - A fun app I'm making with my children
       | using computer vision. The idea is I can scan the room with my
       | camera before unwittingly walking into their traps and becoming a
       | hapless adult who didn't pay close enough attention to tripping
       | hazards and choke lines.
        
       | rush86999 wrote:
       | I'm building a safer Agent system for SMBs.
       | 
       | The biggest problem is internal knowledge and external knowledge
       | systems are completely different. One reason internal knowledge
       | is different it is very specific business context and/or it's
       | value prop for the business that allows charging clients for
       | access.
       | 
       | To bridge this gap, the best approach is to train agents to your
       | use case. Agents need to be students -> interns -> supervised ->
       | independent before they can be useeful for your business.
       | 
       | https://github.com/rush86999/atom . it's still in alpha.
        
       | robrenaud wrote:
       | I've been experimenting with a live win probability predictor for
       | the 10-player arcade game Killer Queen. The goal is to predict
       | the winner in a causal, event-by-event fashion.
       | 
       | Right now I'm struggling to beat a baseline LightGBM model
       | trained on hand-engineered expert features. My attempts at using
       | a win probability head on top of nanoGPT, treating events as
       | tokens, have been significantly worse. I am seeing about 65%
       | accuracy compared to the LightGBM's 70%. That 5% gap is huge
       | given how stochastic the early game is, and the Transformer is
       | easily 4 OOM more expensive to train.
       | 
       | To bridge the gap, I'm moving to a hybrid approach. I'm feeding
       | those expert features back in as additional tokens or auxiliary
       | loss heads, and I am using the LightGBM model as a teacher for
       | knowledge distillation to provide smoother gradients.
       | 
       | The main priority here is personalized post-game feedback. By
       | tracking sharp swings in win probability, or $\Delta WP$, you can
       | automatically generate high or low-light reels right after a
       | match. It helps players see the exact moment a play was either
       | effective or catastrophic.
       | 
       | There is also a clear application for automated content creation.
       | You can use $\Delta WP$ as a heuristic to identify the actual
       | turning points of a match for YouTube summaries without needing
       | to manually scrub through hours of Twitch footage.
        
         | matthewpick wrote:
         | Big fan of this game. The arcade version is a blast if you can
         | find it in your particular city.
         | 
         | Are you playing competitively (league play, tournaments)? Or
         | just passionate about the game?
        
           | robrenaud wrote:
           | I used to play very competitively, but I've been more chill
           | recently. I just think it's a nice problem/dataset to work
           | with, because of the depth of my understanding of the game.
        
       | primaprashant wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | [1]: https://www.agenticcodingweekly.com/
        
       | dialloDojo wrote:
       | 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/ !
        
       | chrsstrm wrote:
       | I'm building an app that facilitates discovery and eases payments
       | for roadside stands that sell produce, honey, maple syrup, eggs,
       | firewood, crafts, etc. The concept is that any roadside vendor
       | can sign up for free (forever, no add-ons or upsells) and they
       | have an online home for their home business. The vendor can list
       | up to 3 stands and show off the products they sell in each stand.
       | Users can discover stands near them by list, search, or map, view
       | the vendor and stand details, ratings, payment methods accepted,
       | etc. When arriving at a stand the user can scan a QR code which
       | opens a web cart, allowing them to add products they are going to
       | purchase and then "check out" using one of the vendor's stated
       | payment methods like Venmo, CashApp, PayPal, Apple Cash, Zelle,
       | or good old hard currency. We make these payments easier by
       | standardizing the check out experience but we do not facilitate
       | payments at all - these stands have always been and will continue
       | to be self-serve on the honor system. Once you've paid, you get a
       | receipt and take your goods. The vendor gets an alert that a sale
       | intent was started and by which method so they know where to look
       | for their revenue. In the future we may help with some basic
       | reporting and very light inventory management if vendors ask for
       | it. We allow users to alert the vendor if a stand is out of
       | stock, which is also reflected in search so other users are
       | informed as well. Users can then ask to receive re-stock alerts
       | as the vendor restocks. Then of course users can favorite stands
       | and products, share them, rate them, and create shareable
       | collections of stands they curate (The Honey Trail or Summer
       | Sweet Corn All-Stars, etc.). Eventually we will be adapted for
       | events like farmer's markets, craft fairs, and christmas markets.
       | I built this because I am a maple syrup producer (tapping starts
       | in a few short weeks from now) and I'm starting to get into mass
       | sales of my syrup. I felt like people who produce and sell these
       | products put a lot of hard work into the process and deserve a
       | legit discovery tool as well as a basic stand management system
       | that does not make them change their process or get in their way.
       | An app like this costs basically nothing to run and I will ensure
       | it is free to use as long as I am in charge. I'm testing this
       | week and likely soft-launching in the next couple weeks - the
       | goal is to be online around March 1. It was just going to be web-
       | only (Supabase with a Svelte front end) but after Claude put me
       | in timeout last week I tried Antigravity and now have 80% of an
       | iOS app and will scaffold my Android app in the next month - so
       | native apps will follow a web release pretty quickly.
        
         | tnel77 wrote:
         | This sounds great. Please share with HN when you go live!
        
       | sroussey wrote:
       | Working on a workflow library and node based editor that has a
       | little bit of AI stuff for RAG and image pipelines that runs all
       | in the browser (desktop next month, cloud whenever someone asks).
       | Just a toy at this point.
       | 
       | https://workglow.dev/
        
         | thatxliner wrote:
         | I see Shadcn and Hero Icons
        
       | kanodiaayush wrote:
       | Kerns (https://kerns.ai) -- a research environment for deeply
       | understanding topics across multiple sources. Upload papers,
       | articles, or books into a workspace that persists across
       | sessions. Read with AI summaries that let you zoom in and out of
       | any document. Generate knowledge maps to visualize how ideas
       | connect. Run deep research agents that produce comprehensive,
       | cited reports. Free to use, would love feedback from anyone doing
       | heavy reading/research.
        
       | zhoujianfu wrote:
       | 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!!
       | 
       | https://clodhost.com
       | 
       | 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!!
        
       | kolpaque wrote:
       | I'm working on Blender-like UI areas Vue plugin. Pure planar
       | graph, UI interactions, API, styles customization
       | 
       | I need it to create Gamedev and 3D artists oriented tool for
       | creating SDF-based shader visualizations (with 3dgs/nerf
       | compilers)
       | 
       | 90% is done
       | 
       | https://github.com/pavel-voronin/sliced-areas
        
       | jsemrau wrote:
       | Understanding Autonomy and Agency in Cognitive Systems
       | https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
        
       | brynet wrote:
       | Making rent as an open source developer.
       | 
       | Shamelessly attracting new monthly sponsors and people willing to
       | buy me the occasional pizza with my crappy HTML skills.
       | 
       | https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
        
       | bradgessler wrote:
       | I've been working on https://og.plus, a service that creates
       | unique Open Graph images per page on a website.
       | 
       | It does this by taking a screenshot of the page, but before it
       | does that, you can modify what's displayed in the screenshot with
       | CSS, tailwind classes, meta tags, or HTML templates.
       | 
       | If you connect your website to it, the only thing you need to
       | deploy to your web app are a few meta tags. The OG+ servers do
       | the heavy lifting of processing the meta tags to setup the page,
       | take a screenshot of it, and serve it up to the consumer.
       | 
       | The other cool thing it does is generate a different Open Graph
       | images per social network so they all get an image for the exact
       | size they works best in their previews. The CSS or HTML templates
       | are aware of this too so you can display different content to
       | specific social networks.
        
       | jasfi wrote:
       | An AI compiler, releasing later today: https://intentcode.dev
        
       | Lapsa wrote:
       | trying to get rid of microwave radio harassment for the past 2
       | years and counting
        
         | dolia wrote:
         | Please, tell more?
        
       | mizzao wrote:
       | We're working on learning/pedagogy infrastructure that models the
       | learner by using AI to build a knowledge graph:
       | https://parsnips.notion.site/knowledge -- this is in contrast to
       | the common black-box approach of "use some RAG with a large
       | context window and hope for the best".
       | 
       | In the above article, we list a few applications that we think
       | this could be helpful for: life skills, management/sales
       | training, personal coaching, etc. We'd love to demo the software
       | if this sounds interesting to you!
        
       | oj-hn-dot-com wrote:
       | I've been working on a browser extension to make Hacker News
       | easier to use. No, not change the UX, but just some nice
       | conveniences. Keyboard navigation, inline replies, dark mode, a
       | nicer topcolors page, and many more features. I am hoping to add
       | some social features, like being able to follow someone. All in a
       | well-tested and extensible codebase that has minimal impact on
       | the site. Open source, GPL...
       | 
       | Orange Juice
       | 
       | https://oj-hn.com
        
         | incognito_robot wrote:
         | Sounds great! I've been thinking about making something similar
         | now for a while.
         | 
         | If you don't mind me sharing ideas that I would love to have in
         | such an extension:
         | 
         | - Changing the UI of the comment actions to make them easier to
         | use. Using HN mostly on a phone, I keep hitting downvote when I
         | mean to do the opposite. Similar with the collapse action.
         | 
         | - Keep a local list of users that get their comment subtrees
         | stripped out. Some people are argumentative by nature and not
         | in good faith. It's best to ignore them (easier when you don't
         | see their comments).
         | 
         | - Hide new accounts by default (perhaps auto collapsed).
        
           | oj-hn-dot-com wrote:
           | Thanks for the feedback!
           | 
           | So far, desktop is the current target. Not even sure I can
           | run extensions on a phone.
           | 
           | The last two fall under content moderation. I'm a bit less
           | interested in that as it changes the UX and there are
           | infinite things we could do there. Right now, the extension
           | has no preferences switches, and I'd like to keep it that way
           | for as long as possible. When there are a whole bunch of
           | knobs to tweak, it makes everything overwhelming.
        
             | incognito_robot wrote:
             | Fair enough, and I understand the arguments against adding
             | that.
             | 
             | On the mobile extension side, just in case you were
             | unaware, Firefox on Android has had extensions now for 2+
             | years.
             | 
             | Good luck with the project!
        
       | nvader wrote:
       | Rapid verification of code smells + associated budgets so that
       | coding agents don't write "bad" code. When needed, planning and
       | coordinating agents or humans can authorize budget increases.
       | 
       | https://github.com/imbue-ai/ratchets
        
       | anjandutta wrote:
       | I'm building a tool that helps you stay on track and revise
       | LeetCode DSA problems in a structured, stress-free way for
       | interview prep.
       | 
       | I have launched it here https://dsaprep.dev
        
       | gogo61 wrote:
       | Creating an Android app of my favourite word game. Existing games
       | are full of ads. Started coding, thanks again, thanks to AI.
       | 
       | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superfun.w...
        
       | azianmike wrote:
       | A free DocuSign (e-sign) alternative https://useinkless.com/
        
       | bri-holt wrote:
       | Ultra token efficient query language for LLM generation. Acts as
       | an intermediate representation that programatically translates to
       | SQL.
       | 
       | https://memelang.net/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17967
       | https://github.com/memelang-net/memesql10/blob/main/memelang...
        
       | bryanhogan wrote:
       | Recently on my blog: https://bryanhogan.com/blog
       | 
       | Currently in Shanghai but will move to Tokyo next week. Once I'm
       | in Tokyo I'll publish a few posts about AI assisted coding and
       | product creation.
       | 
       | Also adding a few things to my ideas page:
       | https://bryanhogan.com/ideas
       | 
       | Other things I'm working on:
       | 
       | - https://dailyselftrack.com/ - Got into working on it again,
       | mainly solving some UX problems currently.
       | 
       | - https://game.tolearnkorean.com/ - Learn Korean words quickly,
       | words go from easy tasks (e.g.) matchings pairs) to more
       | difficult ones (writting it), currently still needs some slight
       | adjustments, and then I'll release an Android version.
       | 
       | - https://app.tolearnjapanese.com/ - Wanted to learn Hiragana
       | quickly, used my existing project as a base to build this. Needs
       | some adjustments as well, feedback is highly welcome.
       | 
       | - https://tolearnkorean.com/ - Since I'm learning Korean, and
       | also working on an app to better learn Korean, I also want to
       | make a guide on learning Korean, improving my own skills by
       | teaching others.
        
       | _bramses wrote:
       | Im working on a number of projects at once that are all under the
       | umbrellas of: personal library science, booktech, and qualitative
       | improvements to personal life [1]. Notable mentions:
       | 
       | - Life's Articles, a personal Wikipedia
       | 
       | - Counting Worms, a very fast calorie tracker
       | 
       | - BookTalk, a audio based reading companion for capturing
       | annotations
       | 
       | - Kindle Blocker, a Chrome Extension that earns you minutes on
       | websites by reading with the Kindle app
       | 
       | [1] https://www.bramadams.dev/working-software/
        
       | ciju wrote:
       | https://finbodhi.com -- It's a personal finance app. It helps you
       | track, understand, benchmark and plan your finances - with
       | double-entry accounting. *You own* your financial data. It's
       | local-first, syncs across devices, and everything's encrypted in
       | transit (we do have your email for subscription tracking and
       | analytics). Supports multiple-accounts (track as a family or even
       | as an advisor), multi-currency, a custom sheet/calculator to
       | operate on your accounts (calculate taxes etc) and much more.
       | 
       | Most recently, we added support for benchmarking (create custom
       | dashboards tracking nav and value chart of subsets of your
       | portfolio) and us stocks, etfs etc.
       | 
       | I wrote about benchmarking here:
       | https://finbodhi.com/docs/blog/benchmark-scenarios
       | 
       | NOTE: you can try demo without signup, but it doesn't work in
       | Firefox Incognito mode.
        
         | samename wrote:
         | Looks cool! I've had a hard time finding personal finance apps
         | that are e2ee, so this is great.
         | 
         | Only downside is manually importing documents, but there isn't
         | any other way, really, without giving up your data to Plaid or
         | another service.
        
       | wmeredith wrote:
       | I'm working on PC Part Picker for hi-fi stereo gear.
       | https://buildhifi.com
       | 
       | Some technical highlights:
       | 
       | - Graph-based signal flow: Products become nodes, connections are
       | edges inferred from port compatibility (digital, analog, phono,
       | speaker-level domains)
       | 
       | - Port profile system: Standardized port definitions (direction,
       | domain, connector, channel mode) enable automatic connection
       | inference
       | 
       | - Rule engine: Pluggable rules check completeness, power
       | matching, phono stage requirements, DAC needs, and more
       | 
       | It's getting close. I'll do a show HN on it sometime soon.
        
         | coreylane wrote:
         | Cool! Couldn't add my Sonus Faber Venere 3.0, maybe they are
         | too old (2017)
        
           | wmeredith wrote:
           | I'm still building out the catalog. This will be going on
           | forever. I can add them.
        
           | wmeredith wrote:
           | I added them.
        
         | tcaxle wrote:
         | This is fun! I put my (slightly oddly setup) system into it but
         | I couldn't reconfigure which set of speakers were connected to
         | which amp, or reorder the signal chain at all. Is this a
         | planned feature? E.g. I have an integrated all-in-one amp that
         | drives my main speakers but I tap off the pre-amp output into a
         | secondary integrated amp that drives two secondary sets of
         | speakers but your app assumed that my second amp was driving
         | all six speakers and so spat out a warning about power
         | levels...
        
           | wmeredith wrote:
           | Thanks for trying it out. I've got the signal chain and
           | messaging handling most setups well. This is pretty novel.
           | I'll see about handling it.
           | 
           | Do you have a link to this config you would share with me?
           | Use the Share Config at the type right of the builder to get
           | a portable URL anyone can use.
        
       | ksvmkoundinya wrote:
       | I am building tool for easily managing integrations for Cursor/CC
       | users. You can integrate, test, visualize, monitor and maintain
       | all your integrations from a single tool. We provide MCP so that
       | your coding agent can communicate and ensure your integrations
       | are working fine. We do continuous monitoring by sitting on top
       | of your integration and monitoring infrastructure and if any
       | issues are found, we do RCA so that your precious developer and
       | analysts time is not wasted in routine maintenance. Do checkout
       | vibeinfra.live
        
       | landstrom wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | pizlonator wrote:
       | I just finished an LLM enabled shell: https://yoshell.ai/
       | 
       | And now I'm thinking about ways to make it even better
       | 
       | It's rad already though. I'm super proud of it
        
         | handfuloflight wrote:
         | This looks great. Could use built in safety from destructive
         | actions by LLM?
        
           | pizlonator wrote:
           | That's exactly how it's designed. The flow is:
           | 
           | - you type a command that starts with yo
           | 
           | - the clanker thinks
           | 
           | - the clanker comes back with a shell command that fits your
           | yo command and fills it in as if you had retrieved it from
           | your shell history by pressing the up arrow
           | 
           | - you have to press enter to actually execute the command. Or
           | you could edit the command just like you can edit commands
           | retrieved from your shell history.
           | 
           | I personally find this approval flow to spark more joy than
           | what the other agent TUIs and CLIs do - they usually pop a
           | modal menu dialog with yes/no/something else. And that's
           | jarring, because modality is a jarring UX. What yosh does
           | feels groovy because it so so much like just retrieving
           | something from history, or like a speedrun of opening a
           | browser, asking Google or a clanker, and copy pasting.
        
       | jftuga wrote:
       | I am researching go-string-concat-benchmark [1]:
       | A performance comparison of four common Go string building
       | methods.
       | 
       | ___
       | 
       | I recently updated my go-stats-calculator to include many more
       | stats [2]:                   CLI tool for computing statistics
       | (mean, median, variance, std-dev, skewness, etc.) from files or
       | standard input.
       | 
       | ___
       | 
       | I also created claude-image-renamer [3]:                   AI-
       | powered image renaming script that generates descriptive
       | filenames for screenshots.
       | 
       | ___
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/jftuga/go-string-concat-benchmark
       | 
       | [2] https://github.com/jftuga/go-stats-calculator
       | 
       | [3] https://github.com/jftuga/claude-image-renamer
        
       | pdappollonio wrote:
       | I finally put my "securenote.app" domain to good use. It's a note
       | taking service with markdown support where the data is fully
       | encrypted before it even leaves your computer with no way for me
       | to see your notes (as I don't have access to the password that
       | encrypted it).
       | 
       | Still iterating on it, including a potential improvement to the
       | (very simple) design.
        
       | jonhearty wrote:
       | I built a mobile app for golfers who don't like using their
       | phones while they play. Take a picture of your scorecard after
       | the round and it reads/saves the scores and stats (and allows you
       | to post to the USGA if you keep your handicap).
       | 
       | I'm a self-taught coder who first built this 7(!) years ago but
       | couldn't figure out the OCR part. Started again 9 months ago on
       | Replit (starting with Agent 2 which was okay, then eventually
       | starting to absolutely crank with Agent 3) and it works really
       | well now.
       | 
       | Would love feedback from any golfers! golfrise.com
        
       | tinuviel wrote:
       | Plainwire - a Text-first News and RSS reader. Still in alpha.
       | Please feel free to take a look. https://plainwire.live
        
       | langitbiru wrote:
       | I'm working on Kanji Palace (https://kanjipalace.com). It's a web
       | app that help people learn Japanese language with AI.
       | 
       | Right now, I'm working on the OpenClaw-like feature. So, you can
       | learn Japanese via Telegram. Keep track your progress. Practice
       | conversation with your AI assistant. Etc.
        
       | samename wrote:
       | https://github.com/tannn/freethoughts
       | 
       | Inspired by a TED talk I saw [0] where the researcher from
       | Microsoft displayed a program with AI assisting with thinking
       | while someone was reading and annotating a document. They claimed
       | it was a way to sharpen critical thinking instead of killing it.
       | They didn't release the product, but I figured it was cool and
       | useful, so I've spent the weekend creating it. It's been a great
       | way for me to practice using agents, and I've learned a lot from
       | this process.
       | 
       | [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lPnN8omdPA
        
         | phildenhoff wrote:
         | They created a fascinating tool -- I'll be following your
         | progress to see what you build!
        
       | codingbbq wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | anyfactor wrote:
       | My VPS was purged due to a platform hack. I did not keep a
       | backup, and I am trying to figure out what to do. There is no
       | plug and play solution for backup. From what I understand, I have
       | to set up rsync and dump files via cron to a Raspberry Pi. But
       | there is no snapshot-like feature.
       | 
       | I am using KVM from Cloudcone (their virtualization software was
       | hacked about a week ago) and I am using RPI4.
       | 
       | Then I need to set up my old website again, which is a pain in
       | the butt. I hard-coded cron and a git-based auto-deployment
       | feature (I think).
        
         | jarofgreen wrote:
         | Hey, sorry it was hacked.
         | 
         | You mention rsync which can be fine. But there are tons of
         | other solutions, many that will have snapshot features. I use
         | borg backup, for instance. https://www.borgbackup.org/
         | 
         | Also, look into scriping your server setup with tools like
         | Ansible or PyInfra. There is always the risk that bad things
         | happen to servers, and when you want a new server it's great to
         | be able to spin things up in a matter of minutes. Tools like
         | these are profesional best practices these days.
         | 
         | In fact, if you have a scripted server setup and a server that
         | doesn't collect data itself you may not even need backups. What
         | is there to backup? Just spin up a new server with your scripts
         | and carry on.
        
       | kamban wrote:
       | I am working on an agent board tool powered by OpenClaw, think of
       | it as a Trello board but tasks get handled by your agents
       | atomically, and moves to your review.
        
       | jsattler wrote:
       | https://github.com/jsattler/BetterCapture
       | 
       | It's a lightweight screen recorder for macOS that lives in your
       | menu bar. It's built with SwiftUI and ScreenCaptureKit, uses the
       | native Content Picker to select what you record, and supports
       | ProRes 422/4444, HEVC, and H.264 -- including alpha channel and
       | HDR. Frame rates from 24 to 120fps. System audio and mic
       | simultaneously. You can also exclude specific things from
       | recordings, like the menu bar, dock, or wallpaper.
       | 
       | No tracking, no analytics, no cloud uploads, no account. MIT
       | licensed. Everything stays on your Mac.
        
         | SunshineTheCat wrote:
         | Looks really sharp! I've been on the lookout for a new screen
         | cap tool for Mac and this looks great, bookmarked.
        
           | jsattler wrote:
           | Thanks, really appreciate the feedback!
        
       | yu3zhou4 wrote:
       | PyTorch compiler and runtime for WebGPU!
        
       | mootoday wrote:
       | https://seaquel.app
       | 
       | Month 2 of building the SQL client I've always wished I had.
       | 
       | One feature I'm especially proud of is the visual query builder.
       | Drag & drop to build SQL queries.
       | 
       | There's also an entire SQL tutorial section for anyone who wants
       | to learn or refresh SQL knowledge.
        
         | timc3 wrote:
         | Looks great, going to download and try it. Thanks!
        
       | melvinroest wrote:
       | A free interactive SQL tutorial that will get to the level of
       | being a data analyst. It's Alice in Wonderland themed.
       | 
       | I used to be a coding bootcamp instructor, TA and guest lecturer.
       | I've noticed more and more people need to learn SQL for various
       | different reasons. I'm mostly concerned about lesson scaffolding
       | since most SQL courses don't do it that well. I'm hyped about AI
       | but they're not great with lesson scaffolding.
       | 
       | I'm 33% to 50% done. I've already noticed the way I scaffold the
       | lessons is unconventional. For example, for the first 50%, I
       | don't want students to know what tables are. It's too much all at
       | once, everything should be small bites before the big concepts
       | get introduced.
       | 
       | If anyone is interested in testing the beta version, let me know.
       | It will be up within the next 2 weeks probably. My email is in my
       | profile.
        
       | ambitious_potat wrote:
       | 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/
        
       | guywithahat wrote:
       | https://github.com/thansen0/seabed-sim-chrono
       | 
       | I've been working on a deep seabed simulation, specifically to
       | simulate polymetallic nodules for cobalt/nickel mining in Project
       | Chrono. Development has stalled as I scan my nodule samples to
       | enter them into the simulation (half of my samples were stolen
       | from my porch, which delayed things), although the sim works just
       | fine. The idea is you could take what I have now and, in project
       | chrono, load a vehicle and test deep sea nodule mining using
       | different designs.
       | 
       | It comes with a rigid (fast but wholly inaccurate) simulation, as
       | well as DEM (which will make you cry and want to build a new
       | computer). Having lots of fast cache helps with the DEM sim
        
       | aiwriterk wrote:
       | I'm building a small LLM-based text rephrase tool, but it turned
       | into something different than I expected.
       | 
       | I started thinking the main challenge would be prompt design.
       | Instead, I kept running into cases where the model output looked
       | correct while subtly changing meaning or missing the requested
       | tone. That became a bigger problem than generation itself.
        
       | tretto wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | tomerbd wrote:
       | IDE for ClaudeCode, Codex, and OpenCode
       | https://www.producthunt.com/products/rexide
        
       | findthebug wrote:
       | https://diabetes-diary-plus.com
       | 
       | It's about diabetes management. website is done wirh kirby cms.
        
       | bajor wrote:
       | Nvim plugin that tries to make code review actually enjoyable (as
       | I think this is what we will spend most of our time on).
       | 
       | https://github.com/bajor/nvim-raccoon/blob/main/README.md
        
         | tkocmathla wrote:
         | First off, the ASCII art raccoon is adorable.
         | 
         | The documentation here seems very thorough, but I'd really like
         | to see some screenshots or a screencast of this in action! I've
         | been using Diffview.nvim [1] lately to get just the view of all
         | diffs in the current branch vs its merge base, with a nice file
         | tree on the left hand side. A plugin like yours that also
         | brings in reviewing features sounds great.
         | 
         | [1] https://github.com/sindrets/diffview.nvim
        
       | kiennt26 wrote:
       | https://github.com/ntk148v/clicklens
       | 
       | It's a modern, powerful, and user-friendly web interface for
       | managing and monitoring ClickHouse databases. It provides a
       | comprehensive suite of tools for developers, analysts, and
       | administrators to interact with their ClickHouse clusters
       | efficiently.
       | 
       | - Effective and Native RBAC: Use ClickHouse grants to control the
       | data access and UI permissions. - Discover - Flexible, Kibana-
       | like data exploration for any table granted access. - SQL
       | Console, Monitoring and Logging, ... all in just one place.
        
       | chetuhanoedua wrote:
       | Robinhood for Private Equity. Invest in SpaceX, Stripe, OpenAI
       | before they go public.
       | 
       | Launching this tomorrow:
       | 
       | https://www.bettermarkets.app/waitlist
        
       | mgw wrote:
       | https://lumenfall.ai
       | 
       | A developer platform for AI image generation that includes
       | observability, with fine-tuned vision models as a judge to
       | monitor production traffic. (Still working on the last part.)
       | 
       | We also have a model arena and showdown page that ranks models by
       | task, so you can find the best model for e.g. making
       | infographics: https://lumenfall.ai/leaderboard
       | 
       | We just launched the MVP. Tech stack is Rails for the dashboard
       | and Cloudflare Workers (Typescript / Hono) for the gateway.
        
       | samaltmansfr wrote:
       | https://www.experimenthq.io/
       | 
       | Free A/B testing tool (Google Optimize / VWO alternative that is
       | free and amazing).
       | 
       | No code/Code.
       | 
       | Full visual website editor included so everyone (even marketing
       | team) can run A/B tests.
        
       | yuppiepuppie wrote:
       | I've been building out https://hnarcade.com for the past weeks.
       | Got a lot of good feedback from the ShowHN thread and others
       | reaching out individually.
       | 
       | Since the ShowHN thread, I received more than 40 individual game
       | submissions!
       | 
       | To give more exposure to some of the games launched during the
       | week I also launched a newsletter. Feel free to check it out if
       | you want to learn more about games shown over the week :)
       | 
       | https://hnarcade.com/newsletter
        
       | deevus wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | anupamchugh wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | TrueFluency123 wrote:
       | I'm building True Fluency https://truefluency.org a language-
       | learning platform focused on efficient, structured learning. I'm
       | also thinking about future AI features, like a tutor that answers
       | questions, AI conversation partners, personalized exercises, and
       | even AI-generated stories or dialogues for practice.
        
       | p1nkpineapple wrote:
       | Since we recently moved out of the city and into the mountains of
       | Switzerland, I had a niche problem... agreeing with my buddies
       | which is the best ski field to meet at when we all live in
       | different towns. So I made a little web app to help:
       | 
       | https://skicompromise.ch
       | 
       | This was a fun little project I did over the Christmas holidays
       | but only finished off recently. Basically I precalculated the
       | public transport time between the most populated towns in
       | Switzerland to every ski field (about 350 of them!) and then
       | built a little web app around it using Django.
       | 
       | You can choose to prioritise shortest (lowest time overall)
       | versus fairest (smallest variance in group members).
       | 
       | Totally free to use. Next steps are to integrate it with live
       | snow conditions/open lifts...
       | 
       | Claude did help a lot with the FE part. The biggest part was
       | actually finding the best public transport stop for each ski
       | field - that was a very manual process trawling through
       | skimap.org images and Anreise info on ski resort websites.
        
       | raphinou wrote:
       | https://github.com/asfaload/asfaload : an opensource multisig
       | sign-off solution allowing to sign and authenticate GitHub
       | release artifacts. It is self hostable, accountless (key pair
       | identity), auditable.
        
       | riwsky wrote:
       | 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).
        
       | santah wrote:
       | https://next-episode.net
       | 
       | It's a (now more than 20 years old) TV tracking website and
       | community.
       | 
       | I've been using Claude 4.5 Opus (now 4.6) more and more these
       | days modernizing and redesigning sections that haven't been
       | touched for a decade or two. I don't trust LLMs much, but by
       | breaking the work into small, self-contained tasks and testing
       | constantly - I'm making surprisingly fast progress.
        
       | rellfy wrote:
       | I've spent my weekend building asterbot:
       | https://github.com/asterai-io/asterbot
       | 
       | Asterbot is a modular AI agent where every capability (such as
       | tools, memory, LLM provider etc.) is a swappable WASM component.
       | 
       | Components are written in any language (Rust, Go, Python, JS),
       | sandboxed via WASI, and pulled from the open asterai registry.
       | Think microkernel architecture for AI agents.
        
       | andreybaskov wrote:
       | Solar-powered data center in a desert.
       | 
       | Fully off-grid using solar, batteries and Starlink for uplink.
       | Focusing on AI inference at the beginning. Currently building our
       | first prototype and testing cooling solutions.
       | 
       | https://solarcube.com
        
         | farmin wrote:
         | How will you cool it? Will it be under ground? I've often
         | thought about this as we have space and sunlight.
        
       | ssttoo wrote:
       | Just pushed another update to https://sightread.org which
       | generates sheet music to practice sight reading and music
       | dictation. Still rhythm-only, now with support for asymmetric
       | (odd) rhythms like 7/8
        
       | davedx wrote:
       | I'm still building https://techposts.eu - the Hacker News for
       | Europe!
       | 
       | Some stats so far:
       | 
       | - 200 users
       | 
       | - 378 startup jobs
       | 
       | - 500+ posts
       | 
       | - 2800+ funding rounds
       | 
       | - 1700+ startup companies
       | 
       | - 5000+ investors
       | 
       | The next part of the project is Tech Posts Intel: a lead gen tool
       | using statistical methods to predict which companies should have
       | a funding round coming soon. I'm hoping to soft launch it this
       | week.
       | 
       | I'd love to hear anyone's feedback on the website. Advice on how
       | to get inbound links in 2026 would also be greatly appreciated!
        
         | csin wrote:
         | May I provide feedback. The underline on every post, makes it
         | hard to read.
        
       | gethly wrote:
       | Editor/IDE in Go. Mainly as a challenge to replace JetBrains.
        
       | p2hari wrote:
       | I am working on a e-commerce and pos solution. More like
       | shopify/saleor/woocommerce etc. with ready to start for small
       | businesses selling physical and online and in-store products and
       | services.
       | 
       | The platform itself is built on elysiajs/bun and tanstack and is
       | completely hosted in EU and the payment processor is a EU based
       | entity and we have an ISV partnership.
        
       | AlexDenisov wrote:
       | Building a tool for finding scientific papers behind real-world
       | OSS projects: https://papergrep.dev/
       | 
       | This is a follow up to an idea I had years ago
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022649, which is now semi-
       | automated (with lots of manual curation as the last step).
       | 
       | The biggest challenges:
       | 
       | - how to organize all this info in a nice way
       | 
       | - where to find more time to read all the gems I've found so far
       | :)
       | 
       | UPD: formatting
        
       | rektlessness wrote:
       | I am building HNSignals: HNSignals transforms Hacker News comment
       | discussions into executive-level intelligence briefs.
       | 
       | It synthesizes comments into structured reports in a Chief-of-
       | Staff style for tech leaders.
       | 
       | https://hnsignals.com/signal/46937696
        
       | Layogtima wrote:
       | Working on the Mecha Comet (https://mecha.so/comet), a modular
       | handheld Linux computer.
       | 
       | Biggest challenges: - How to explain the different use-
       | cases/possibilities in a clear way - DX for any hacker who comes
       | across the device with/without hardware experience
        
       | baranguneysel wrote:
       | I'm building an AI agent that handles my bookkeeping
       | automatically. It works with Beancount, a plain-text format for
       | double-entry accounting and calls on different skills depending
       | on where it is in the process. Every entry it creates gets
       | version-controlled through Git, so there's a complete history of
       | changes.
        
       | wiona wrote:
       | https://agent-founders.com
       | 
       | We are building a crowdfunding page for agent-run startups.
       | People can co-create business ideas with AI and vote for the
       | ideas they like the most. Agents then run market research and
       | will eventually prototype the proposed ideas. In the future, we
       | also want people to be able to own part of the agent-businesses
       | they have sponsored.
        
       | joenewbry wrote:
       | I'm working on Memex: https://github.com/joenewbry/memex
       | 
       | It's inspired by a moment a few years ago when I realized I had
       | no history of what I had worked on in the past.
       | 
       | It let's you quickly get answers to questions like:
       | 
       | - What did I work on last week? - What was that one hacker new
       | post about compiler optimization that I forgot to bookmark last
       | week?
       | 
       | And it has MCP support so it plays well with Claude.
       | 
       | I've used it recently to target specific job applications by
       | adjusting my resume based on what the job application is looking
       | for and what I've worked on in the past... Claude one shots this
       | (because it has context from Memex). And it feels amazing!
       | 
       | Also, the name Memex comes from Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As
       | We May Think". He originally thought of as a device in which
       | individuals would compress and store all of their books, records,
       | and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with
       | exceeding speed and flexibility". The individual was supposed to
       | use the memex as an automatic personal filing system, making the
       | memex "an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory".
       | 
       | And he created a word - memex - which is a portmanteau of
       | "memory" and "index".
       | 
       | The wikipeida entry here has more information:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
       | 
       | It's been a slow start for me. But now, between the cli interface
       | and the MCP connection with Claude I find that I'm starting to
       | use it instead of:
       | 
       | - Bookmarks - Lists / Bug Tracking
       | 
       | And even more exciting it's unlocking capabilities that I didn't
       | have before:
       | 
       | - Can ask Claude to review the last week of work and remind me of
       | things that I might still need to do - Can prevent randomization
       | when someone asks me how to configure a server that I set up a
       | month ago. Now I just ask claude and it checks in Memex. And I
       | can send over a nice .md file
        
       | Zwartraider wrote:
       | https://connect8.popovic.nl/
       | 
       | I made a Wordle-like daily puzzle. Every day a new category
       | matching puzzle comes up for you to solve!
        
       | dingi wrote:
       | I'm building Dropnote, a small tool for physical businesses.
       | 
       | Someone who is physically at a place can scan a QR code and leave
       | a short message in their browser. No app, no account. Messages
       | are asynchronous; staff reply when available. This is not live
       | chat. It's meant for in-the-moment feedback or questions that
       | don't justify interrupting staff or becoming public reviews.
       | 
       | Constraints: async only, anonymous by default, no customer
       | tracking, messages tied to specific physical spots
       | 
       | Free early access until Sept 30, 2026 (+ one extra free month).
       | No credit cards (no payments yet). I'd love to hear your
       | Feedback. Thank you.
       | 
       | https://dropnote.cloud/
        
       | techtalksweekly wrote:
       | https://techtalksweekly.io/
       | 
       | I've been working on my newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1]
       | where my readers get one email per week with all the latest
       | Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published
       | that week.
       | 
       | In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers
       | additionally get:
       | 
       | 1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts
       | since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter,
       | sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date,
       | and duration.
       | 
       | 2. The list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90
       | days, 6 months, and 12 months based on number of views.
       | 
       | 3. Category-based view of new talks & podcasts by tech stack,
       | language, and domain (Software Architecture, Backend, Frontend,
       | Full Stack, Data, ML, DevOps, Security, Leadership and every
       | major language & ecosystem)
       | 
       | [1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly
       | 
       | [2] https://plus.techtalksweekly.io/
        
       | starbist wrote:
       | https://ultigamemate.com/
       | 
       | I've been working on an 'anti-fantasy' football game where you
       | pick matches instead of individual players.
       | 
       | You can create or join leagues to compete against your friends.
       | 
       | I'd love to get some feedback!
        
         | riffraff wrote:
         | Just FYI, I was mildly confused by the name, as "ulti" is the
         | name of a traditional Hungarian card game. I doubt this will
         | ever confuse anyone else but I thought it was a fun name clash.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulti
        
       | janpmz wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | reacharavindh wrote:
       | I am building Hobbyboard as a self hosted visual archive that
       | uses vision models to curate inspiration media for hobbyists and
       | makers.
       | 
       | Website: https://hobbyboard.aravindh.net
       | 
       | GitHub: https://github.com/aravindhsampath/hobbyboard
       | 
       | I want to do a show HN later this week.. but here might be a
       | softer launchpad :-)
        
       | renegat0x0 wrote:
       | Still working on
       | 
       | - https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - map of
       | the Internet domains
       | 
       | - https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-feeds - database of RSS
       | feeds
       | 
       | - https://github.com/rumca-js/yafr - very simple RSS reader
       | 
       | - https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy - crawling project
       | 
       | - https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - another RSS
       | reader
        
       | bambax wrote:
       | I'm making a suite of simple Windows tray apps that do just one
       | thing. They often have existing equivalents but I think my
       | version is better and/or simpler ;-) All work starting with Win7.
       | 
       | The first three are:
       | 
       | - miniWake: keeps the computer awake
       | 
       | Alternatives: Powertools; USB mouse jigglers
       | 
       | Features: installs without admin rights; triggers invisible mouse
       | events; turns off at LOCK, turns back on at LOCKOFF (saves
       | battery); manual turn off or on via double-click on the icon
       | 
       | - miniRec: records system audio + microphone to mp3/wav
       | 
       | Alternatives: various utilities like Voicemeter, AudioRouter, or
       | some DAWs
       | 
       | Features: does not require any special driver; installs without
       | admin rights; light on resources; "invisible" to third parties
       | (video meetings); auto turn off after 5 minutes of silence
       | (configurable)
       | 
       | - miniCron: system scheduler as a service
       | 
       | Alternatives: NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager;
       | Splinterware
       | 
       | Features: launches any program at any given time (cron like but
       | without cron syntax); kills the current task when the service is
       | stopped; reads and logs stdin/stderr; very light on ressources
       | and very simple
       | 
       | Two others are in the works.
        
         | NWoodsman wrote:
         | I just posted my recorder app that does the same thing. I use
         | NAudio WasapiLoopbackCapture. it's written in C#
        
           | bambax wrote:
           | Ah yes, it's a good idea to record microphone and system
           | audio to different files but I ruled against it for
           | simplicity's sake. I wonder how you deal with offset, esp.
           | when the mic comes from a Bluetooth headset? I added an
           | offset option in the config file as this can be up to 2000 ms
           | (2s) in my tests! Also, a console app may frighten the non-
           | technical, casual user?
           | 
           | But anyway, great minds think alike I guess! ;-)
        
       | jbm wrote:
       | Building a workout Apple Watch app and a workout editor for the
       | Mac. Just testing it on n=4 or 5 people right now and thinking
       | about how to market it if I launched it.
       | 
       | https://github.com/jmahmood/RED-STAR-WEIGHTLIFTING
       | https://github.com/jmahmood/WEIGHTTRAINING-EDITOR
        
       | oscarcp wrote:
       | I built a time tracking app and control panel for ourselves at
       | our company out of frustration (it was very basic, for compliance
       | with spanish law) and eventually we just fixed so much stuff and
       | added so many features that we just released it as a product
       | https://workstamp.eu
       | 
       | We need to reduce the entry barrier (it's meant for companies so
       | it needs explicit registration) so anyone can use it as a proper
       | SaaS but so far we already have a couple clients :D
        
         | tomasz-tomczyk wrote:
         | Beautiful landing page!
        
           | oscarcp wrote:
           | I'm glad you like it! You can tell the site has heavy AI
           | help, but the hero section I actually fine tuned it myself.
        
       | ChaosOp wrote:
       | Still working on Gaming Couch, a web-based local multiplayer
       | party game platform. It's like a lovechild of Jackbox Games and
       | Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com. Back in December Gaming
       | Couch hit the front page of Hacker News, you can check it out
       | here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344573
       | 
       | At the moment working on the 3rd party development tools so in
       | the future anyone can make their game dev dreams a reality and
       | make a simple and fun multiplayer party game for the Gaming Couch
       | platform, ideally in only one weekend!
       | 
       | If you're an interested game dev that would like to beta test the
       | dev tools, hit me up either here, via Discord (link available
       | from https://gamingcouch.com) or by emailing me at
       | gc[dot]community[at]gamingcouch[dot]com!
       | 
       | The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:
       | 
       | - Currently in free Early Access with 18 competitive mini-games.
       | 
       | - Players use their mobile phones as controllers (you can use
       | game pads as well!)
       | 
       | - Everything is completely web-based, no downloads or installs
       | are necessary to play
       | 
       | - All games support up to 8 players at a time and are action
       | based, with quick ~one minute rounds to keep a good pace. This
       | means there are no language based trivia or asynchronous games!
        
       | tomasz-tomczyk wrote:
       | I'm juggling two projects:
       | 
       | https://www.fastpause.app/
       | 
       | Offline first, no tracking PWA for intermittent fasting and
       | mindful eating. It helped me lose another 3 kg in January. Spiked
       | a native iOS version, but I really like the simplicity of just
       | the PWA. Not sure what's next!
       | 
       | --
       | 
       | https://reposit.bot/
       | 
       | Having done a lot of back and forth with LLMs and at the end
       | throwing away learnings from a conversation felt so wasteful -
       | reposit allows you to /share a summary of the valuable learning
       | from your LLM chat for others to discover.
       | 
       | At the beginning of researching a problem, your agent can search
       | reposit just like Context7 for docs. This way, even if you opt
       | out of sharing your data with your LLM provider (as it's all or
       | nothing), you can choose to publicise a solution to your problem
       | with very little effort.
       | 
       | I'm working on extracting valuable learnings from open-source
       | community projects as a starting point now (with attribution), as
       | it probably needs a larger database to be valuable for users to
       | install and use.
       | 
       | You can also self-host it and share privately within the company.
        
       | NWoodsman wrote:
       | https://github.com/NWoodsman/SimpleRecorder
       | 
       | A simple one click just works mic+PC audio recorder for Windows
       | that mixes the microphone into the PC sound.
        
       | mikeayles wrote:
       | I built a Pokedex for zoo trips for my girlfriend:
       | 
       | https://www.zookeeperapp.com
       | 
       | https://www.mikeayles.com/#zookeeper-wip
       | 
       | It lets you take photos of all the animals you see to collect
       | them, when you 'capture' a new animal, it gives you fun facts
       | about them.
       | 
       | I seeded it with UK zoos, but there's no reason it can't work
       | elsewhere.
       | 
       | It was built because the signage at a zoo we went to was terrible
       | and we had no idea what some animals were, so it matches your
       | photo with the list of animals to the best of its ability.
        
         | keraf wrote:
         | That's a lovely idea! I wanted to build something similar for
         | safaris but the lack of network in remote areas makes it a bit
         | tricky to use online image recognition models. I never went
         | down the rabbit hole to use offline ones.
        
       | mikeayles wrote:
       | I also am building Phaestus, a 0 to product system, that builds
       | entire products from scratch.
       | 
       | https://www.mikeayles.com/#phaestus-wip
       | 
       | It is capable of creating a PCB (and outputs gerbers, bom, pick
       | and place files), an enclosure (written in SCAD, outputs an STL
       | for printing), and firmware, which it's able to compile using a
       | pio runner on railway and provides a binary, but also has a
       | webserial flasher for ESP32's.
       | 
       | There is a blog here, but i've been focussing on getting things
       | finished, as I built it for a hackathon ending today.
       | 
       | https://phaestus.app/blog
       | 
       | I need to update the blog & writeup, because I have the first
       | product it created, a bluetooth remote control. It wasn't without
       | issues, but I have a working PCB, in an enclosure that was
       | printed from it's design, running firmware it generated.
       | 
       | https://photos.app.goo.gl/4r4XtQ65rx9iBUVp9
        
         | TZubiri wrote:
         | What was the hackaton?
        
           | mikeayles wrote:
           | https://gemini3.devpost.com/
           | 
           | Targeting long running multimodal agents, think I tick most
           | of the boxes in the brief!
        
       | devjayantmalik wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | levmiseri wrote:
       | 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
        
       | zikani_03 wrote:
       | I'm still working on basi[0], a Playwright alternative
       | syntax/tool. I am curious about using LightPanda as an optional
       | headless browser for it and wrote about it here[1]
       | 
       | [0]: https://github.com/zikani03/basi [1]:
       | https://code.zikani.me/using-the-zig-built-lightpanda-browse...
        
       | reconnecting wrote:
       | tirreno - open-source security framework. https://www.tirreno.com
        
       | altug wrote:
       | A Postman-like MQTT platform with variables and custom MQTT topic
       | buttons.
       | 
       | https://github.com/alsoftbv/topic-lab
       | 
       | It's a Tauri-based app so it has small binaries and supports
       | MacOS, Linux, and Windows.
       | 
       | No screenshots yet, couldn't find the time for marketing work.
       | I'm building features as I am using them. I wanted my colleagues
       | to give it a go first before sharing to the public, but I believe
       | it's already valuable as-is.
        
       | mkisic wrote:
       | I finished website[1] with solitaire games as my first project
       | which I did from start to end, from coding to people online
       | playing my games.
       | 
       | Currently building chess puzzles based game called ChessBingo[2].
       | It's almost finished, but there are still things to polish.
       | 
       | [1] - https://onlinefreesolitaire.com
       | 
       | [2] - https://chessbingo.com
        
       | iamacyborg wrote:
       | A CRM for the tattoo industry.
       | 
       | https://www.pencild.co
        
       | vipdestiny wrote:
       | Forge - A 3 MB Rust binary that coordinates multiple AI coding
       | agents via MCP https://github.com/nxtg-ai/forge-orchestrator
       | 
       | Forge is an orchestration layer that sits between AI coding tools
       | and your codebase. It's a single Rust binary (~3 MB, zero runtime
       | deps) that runs as an MCP server over stdio. Any MCP-compatible
       | AI tool can call it.
       | 
       | MIT licensed. Whitepaper with the full architecture:
       | https://nxtg.ai/insights/forge-whitepaper
        
       | martz wrote:
       | Building pkgstore.io, a marketplace for commercial .NET NuGet
       | packages.
       | 
       | https://www.pkgstore.io
       | 
       | NuGet.org doesn't distinguish between a hobby project and a
       | professionally maintained library with real support. pkgstore is
       | a curated directory and marketplace where publishers can sell
       | NuGet packages directly, with full dotnet push/restore support,
       | Stripe payments, and automated access control.
       | 
       | In open beta now, onboarding publishers. Would love feedback.
        
       | 9294 wrote:
       | I started working on https://ottex.ai three months ago just for
       | fun to test Gemini 3 Flash as a voice-to-text model (by the way,
       | it's amazing, but a bit slow). However, it quickly transformed
       | into my main project.
       | 
       | It's a free macOS app written in Swift that allows you to type
       | with your voice. It supports local models and BYOK (Bring Your
       | Own Key) with a bunch of providers.
       | 
       | You can assign different models and post-processing steps to
       | polish the text. For example, I have a setup for Obsidian that
       | transforms my voice into clean, formatted Markdown. Or, when I
       | use it inside VS Code, it switches to the Parakeet V3 instant
       | local model.
        
       | vulkoingim wrote:
       | Built my own Spotify recommendation egnine after getting tired of
       | Spotify's repetitive recommendations.
       | 
       | You get to choose the genres you're interested in, and it creates
       | playlists from the music in your library. They get updated every
       | day - think a better, curated by you version of the Daily Mixes.
       | You can add some advanced filters as well, if you really want to
       | customise what music you'll get.
       | 
       | It works best if you follow a good amount of artists. Optionally
       | you can get recommendations from artists that belong to playlists
       | you follow or you've created - if you don't follow much or any
       | artists, then you should enable that in order for the service to
       | be useful.
       | 
       | https://riffradar.org/
        
       | fredwu wrote:
       | Have been working on three micro-saas, all built in
       | Elixir/Phoenix:
       | 
       | https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food
       | labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with
       | science-backed research summaries and recommendations.
       | 
       | https://rizz.farm - a lead gen tool for Reddit that focuses on
       | helping instead of selling, to build long-lasting organic
       | traffic.
       | 
       | https://persumi.com - a blogging platform that turns articles
       | into audio, and to showcase your different interests or
       | "personas".
        
       | gghootch wrote:
       | https://www.criticaster.com/
       | 
       | A metacritic like website but for any product.
       | 
       | It analyzes thousands of professional critic reviews to find the
       | best of the best.
       | 
       | I started building this because I adore how metacritic analyzes
       | professional movie/game/tv show reviews and calculates a meta
       | score for each title. In my experience it's the best way to
       | discover new things to watch or play, and I've often wished
       | something like this would exist for when I want to buy a product.
       | 
       | This year, I decided to start building it myself and Criticaster
       | is the result.
       | 
       | For a given product category we collect all professional reviews
       | of a given product, analyze each to assign them a score and then
       | calculate an average critic score.
       | 
       | The goal is to become the most trustworthy source to make product
       | decisions.
       | 
       | Very curious what y'all think!
        
       | erikpau wrote:
       | Working on https://allscreenshots.com - a screenshot API for
       | developers.
       | 
       | I got frustrated with existing screenshot services choking on
       | cookie banners, rendering half-loaded pages, and serving bloated
       | images. So my co-founder and I built one that auto-dismisses
       | cookie consent dialogs using Playwright heuristics, serves AVIF-
       | first from Cloudflare R2, and supports geo-distributed rendering
       | so you can capture pages as they'd appear from different regions.
       | 
       | Spring Boot + React + PostgreSQL. Bootstrapped after selling a
       | previous ecommerce SaaS.
       | 
       | Currently documenting the whole build in a 30-day series on the
       | blog if anyone's into that sort of thing.
        
         | Ecstatify wrote:
         | Seems really polished, who's the target market for this
         | product? Developers?
         | 
         | You have link to the blog series?
        
           | erikpau wrote:
           | thanks. You can read the dev blog here:
           | https://allscreenshots.dev
        
       | leleat wrote:
       | https://github.com/Leleat/git-forge
       | 
       | From the README: "[git-forge is a] simple CLI tool for basic
       | interactions with issues and pull requests across GitHub, GitLab,
       | Gitea, and Forgejo".
       | 
       | Right now, I am looking into better testing. Currently, I do
       | testing by mocking the forge APIs and then running git-forge
       | against them with TypeScript. But not everything is testable that
       | way. The TUI is pretty much untested. So I now want to port at
       | least the tests to Rust (I am probably gonna leave the mock API
       | in TS) and need to look into how to tests TUIs, which is a bit of
       | a challenge since not only is Rust my first "systems programming
       | language", I am also not knowledgable in Terminal/TUIs...
        
       | geetuu wrote:
       | We ran into the annoying Envoy 503 bug in our prod and needed
       | some quick tools to help figure out what was going on with TCP
       | connections and HTTP requests.
       | 
       | https://github.com/vishnugt/TCPFinMonitor. Live -
       | https://keepalive.gt.ms/
       | 
       | This tool tracks TCP FIN packet timing to see how upstream
       | connections are closing and how keep-alives behave. It helped me
       | spot when connections were closing too early or timing out, which
       | was causing those 503 errors.
       | 
       | https://github.com/vishnugt/hyperbin
       | 
       | A fast, minimal httpbin clone written in Rust. It's way
       | faster(20x throughput) than the usual httpbin and useful for
       | testing HTTP clients and debugging requests without extra noise.
       | 
       | These aren't polished, just some stuff I needed to iron out the
       | issue.
        
       | ghostfoxgod wrote:
       | I'm building CatchIntent (https://CatchIntent.com). The goal is
       | to help turning social conversations into qualified warm leads.
       | 
       | Started with it because I was struggling with finding relevant
       | conversations about my first app where people are exactly asking
       | for what I'm selling, only that I was missing those conversations
       | and people. Build a POC, tested for myself and started getting
       | good leads, so I converted it into my second app.
        
       | piker wrote:
       | Tritum, the cross-platform IDE for legal work:
       | https://tritium.legal
       | 
       | `brew install tritium` (macOS)
       | 
       | `winget install tritium` (Windows)
       | 
       | `curl -f https://tritium.legal/get | sh` (linux)
       | 
       | Check it for free out and let us know your thoughts!
        
       | discoinverno wrote:
       | 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`
        
       | FailMore wrote:
       | I launched https://rebrain.gg/ a few days ago.
       | 
       | It's a bit like Reddit but focused on learning. (Doom learning
       | instead of doom scrolling)
       | 
       | You 1) upload a source 2) direct the kind of questions you want
       | to be asked 3) start answering (and if you get the answers wrong,
       | you can discuss the problem with "AI").
       | 
       | You can read other people's sources, questions, answers and their
       | discussions with AI too.
       | 
       | And if you're learning the same thing as other people, you can
       | join communities to share sources/questions.
       | 
       | It's still very early on, so I'm very interested in any feedback.
        
       | Ametrin wrote:
       | https://pdfbolt.com
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | celicoo wrote:
       | https://catchditto.site
       | 
       | I'm building Ditto -- it clones websites with 100% visual
       | accuracy and outputs a proper React app with named components and
       | preserved structure.
       | 
       | The problem: you find a design you love, want to use it as a
       | starting point, and your options are either manually recreating
       | it or using a tool that spits out a tangled mess of divs and
       | inline styles. CatchDitto gives you an actual codebase -- clean
       | component hierarchy, sensible naming, structure you can extend
       | without wanting to rewrite everything first.
       | 
       | I'm still iterating, would love to hear what others think.
        
       | arkforge wrote:
       | I'm working on ArkWatch (https://watch.arkforge.fr) - a
       | monitoring API that you can use with just curl, no signup
       | required.
       | 
       | The insight: most solo founders need basic "alert me when this
       | changes" monitoring, but existing tools force you through signup
       | flows, credit cards, dashboards you'll never use. So I made it
       | dead simple:                   curl
       | "https://watch.arkforge.fr/api/check?url=https://your-
       | site.com&email=you@email.com"
       | 
       | That's it. It watches the URL and emails you when content
       | changes. Free tier = 10 checks/day, which is enough for most side
       | projects.
       | 
       | I built this because I kept forgetting to monitor my own stuff.
       | Now it's live and I'm trying to get my first 5 beta testers. The
       | challenge is marketing - I'm a developer, not a growth hacker.
       | Learning as I go!
       | 
       | What's been your biggest challenge with your current project?
        
       | melting_snow wrote:
       | Im working on ebpfence https://github.com/CucumisSativus/ebpfence
       | 
       | I want to create a tool that would automatically block the
       | stealers from stealing your previous credentials or crypto
       | wallets. I had this idea after the Shai-Hulud attack
       | 
       | It's an experimental side project, but so far it looks very
       | promising.
        
       | infinitemora wrote:
       | https://github.com/ScivizLabVienna/HandsomeTello
       | 
       | An opensource iot drone for less than thirty dollars.
        
         | infinitemora wrote:
         | based on the handsomemod 4g dongle hence the name
        
       | mgz wrote:
       | I continue with my suite of mobile apps for parents:
       | 
       | * https://screenspy.app - observe what youd child is doing on
       | desktop PC. Roblox or homework?
       | 
       | * https://weblock.online - a VERY restricted, whitelist-first
       | mobile browser for kids, use it instead of Safari. I want to feel
       | calm when my children browse the web.
        
         | sghaz wrote:
         | This is very useful given that children today are increasingly
         | exposed to and navigating online environments.
        
       | marginalia_nu wrote:
       | I'm going to do the hyper-literal take of what are you working on
       | _literally today_ , since I'm always working on the same old
       | project Marginalia Search and I have been for going on five years
       | now.
       | 
       | * Integrating website liveness data into the crawler to make more
       | informed decisions about whether to keep or wipe data from a
       | website if it can't be reached while crawling
       | 
       | * Working out why the liveness data gathering process isn't
       | stopping as scheduled.
       | 
       | * Deploying a voluntary max-charge request header for the
       | commercial API
       | 
       | * Making website URL elements searchable. They should be already,
       | but are not for some reason.
       | 
       | * Maybe looking into an intermittent stacktrace I get on one of
       | the index partitions.
       | 
       | No blockers.
        
       | SkyLinx wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | hilti wrote:
       | I always wanted a minimalistic CSS framework for my projects, so
       | I started to create my own: THINK
       | 
       | THINK is a modern CSS-first UI framework built on semantic HTML,
       | custom elements, and data attributes. Uses :has(), container
       | queries, and density scaling. No classes, no build step.
       | 
       | It's work in progress but I'm pretty happy with the outcome so
       | far, especially the data table component and automated Insights.
       | I know it's not AI driven - but it works pretty okay for quick
       | insights on the loaded data.
       | 
       | https://think.iotdata.systems/
        
         | tcaxle wrote:
         | This is very cool! Is it open-source? I'd love to see what it's
         | like to use
        
           | hilti wrote:
           | I just created a repo: https://github.com/marchildmann/IDS-
           | Think It's MIT licensed. Would love feedback, especially on
           | the data table component.
        
         | jjude wrote:
         | Been using tachyons.css
         | 
         | Would love to take this for a test if it is available for
         | public use
        
           | hilti wrote:
           | I just created a repo: https://github.com/marchildmann/IDS-
           | Think It's MIT licensed. Would love feedback, especially on
           | the data table component.
        
         | division_by_0 wrote:
         | Looks nice! Semantic HTML is such a relief if you've ever
         | encountered a div hell.
        
       | bussiere wrote:
       | A meta video game inspired by pc98 card game :
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gde4lhvsAkA
        
       | spirodonfl wrote:
       | vanilla css 3d, js, html programmer card game
       | 
       | no 3rd party libraries
       | 
       | no AI, everything is done by hand (so it looks stupid cause I'm
       | not a graphics designer by any stretch of the imagination)
       | 
       | http://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop
        
       | oulipo2 wrote:
       | We're building a repairable and fireproof e-bike battery at
       | https://infinite-battery.com :)
        
       | Jn2G3Np8 wrote:
       | Built a bit of software[1] with Claude this weekend to stop Apple
       | Wireless Direct Link from interrupting GeForce NOW on macOS. Bit
       | of an upgrade from a shell script[2].
       | 
       | Started with Rust, then swapped to Swift to cut the dependencies
       | right down.
       | 
       | [1]: https://github.com/sjparkinson/geforcenow-awdl0
       | 
       | [2]: https://uncomplicated.systems/2026/02/08/geforcenow-macos
        
       | klueinc wrote:
       | Almost done with launching my chrome extension called Klue which
       | helps you create notes about webpages and talk with them. Just to
       | clean up a few things, set up a feedback flow for family and
       | friends and set up a landing page. What do you guys use to create
       | these beautiful landing pages?
       | 
       | https://github.com/707/klue
        
       | scoofy wrote:
       | I'm building a golf simulator that runs a solver to solve
       | strokes-to-hole from every point of the golf hole to then
       | illustrate the game design aspects golf course architecture
       | mathematically.
        
       | AJRF wrote:
       | A project builder.
       | 
       | I often have ideas, then spin cycles on starting the project,
       | getting auth in place, making a marketing page, doing SEO,
       | building and configuring pipelines for mobile app release, etc,
       | etc.
       | 
       | My project builder just takes a name, a few configuration options
       | (do you need payments? Analytics?) and spits out a templated
       | build with Terraform that I can 1 (okay maybe 3) click deploy to
       | GCP + App Stores.
       | 
       | The nice thing (I got help with Claude Code) is that now all my
       | projects are in one place, I have a dashboard where I click in to
       | and edit the code (with hot reloading - it deploys code-server
       | and the applications in a small Kubernetes cluster, each project
       | has its own pod) and when I am done editing I just click Deploy
       | and it updates the "production" service in Cloud Run.
       | 
       | Not really interested in selling it as a service or anything
       | (it's a bit too opinionated for that), but it's a very fun
       | project to work on. I need to make Git + Versioning of the code
       | work right now you only have a single copy of the code which
       | isn't great!
        
       | shevy-java wrote:
       | I am currently not really working on anything major, due to time
       | constraints.
       | 
       | However had, on my semi-immediate todo list in the future are:
       | 
       | - improvements to the scripts I use to compile software from
       | source; I want to be able to build a complete LFS/BLFS without
       | any interaction (I know there is AFLS but I don't like the format
       | or restrictions; I literally want to be able to do everything
       | here via actionable scripts at every moment in time, including
       | using git sources rather than old releases)
       | 
       | - continue on the unified widgets project (e. g. use oldschool
       | GUIs but also for the web "GUIs"). Describe once, run anywhere,
       | in any programming language. This is obviously way too much for a
       | single person, so I mostly want to get the foundation right,
       | prototype primarily in ruby, then add python and java to it. The
       | "end format" should be for normal people, e. g. they should be
       | able to describe everything in one format, and then have that be
       | the basis for every GUI.
       | 
       | - continue working with regard to bioinformatics, also with a
       | focus on normal people (non-tech savvy people). Most
       | bioinformatics software was written by math-heavy tech-centric
       | people, which makes sense. It's not trivial to work with that (we
       | have AI to work around this to some extent, but I feel that many
       | people who use AI don't understand the underlying components; I
       | kind of want something like a Linux from Scratch for all
       | bioinformatics-centric software. Like not just use it but full
       | and useful explanations that are not too technical, but also not
       | too overly long.)
       | 
       | Hopefully gem.coop becomes a viable alternative to rubygems.org -
       | I hate the corporate identity rubygems.org adopted (and you can
       | see the fall-out in other areas, e. g. Heroku dying right now,
       | which kind of means ruby will die too, if all use cases are
       | eroded despite the pro-corporate focus RubyCentral embraced).
       | Unfortunately things seem to become worse in general - I was
       | hoping LadyBird would be a real competitor. The moment you make
       | any statement that they perceive as "criticism" is the moment
       | their code of conduct kicks in and locks you out. And that's not
       | even after a first release; imagine how they will operate once
       | people come in with complaints about LadyBird having problems.
       | 
       | The world wide web used to be a LOT more open in the past.
        
       | sensecall wrote:
       | A tiny web app for busy weeknight cooking.
       | 
       | You tap in what ingredients you've got, add a time limit + a
       | couple of preferences, and it gives you 3 genuinely doable dinner
       | ideas with step-by-step recipes (no "manage your pantry", no
       | endless scrolling).
       | 
       | https://spud.recipes
       | 
       | It's early, but people seem to like the "use up what you've got"
       | angle. Feedback very welcome.
        
         | andrewstuart wrote:
         | I did this as a once off.
         | 
         | Took photos of the fridge and pantry and asked the AI to
         | identity all the food and create recipes.
        
       | binsquare wrote:
       | Making a tool to enable devs to run microvms cross platform and
       | locally.
       | 
       | Idea is to give ai/agents a secure environment/computer to use.
       | 
       | smolmachines.com
        
       | zarzavat wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | Thev00d00 wrote:
         | Sounds fun!
         | 
         | Another option out there is "UUID47" which uses siphash[0]
         | 
         | 0. https://github.com/stateless-me/uuidv47
        
       | Dathuil wrote:
       | I've been on and off attempting to reverse engineer old Sierra
       | games in Godot. I've brought in AI to build tooling to speed up
       | asset extraction from the old game files which has been a huge
       | help. I just got building placement working last night which was
       | a huge win.
       | 
       | This is part of a small hobby where I try to recreate aspects of
       | old games myself to see how I would implement them. I eventually
       | hope to have the skills to create the kind of game I miss playing
       | when I was a kid 30 years ago.
        
         | dahrkael wrote:
         | any place to follow your progress on this? sounds very
         | interesting
        
           | Dathuil wrote:
           | I have about 10 unfinished blog write ups that I should
           | publish. Let me get that sorted and I can link it in
        
       | knuckleheads wrote:
       | I've been working on the demo for Globs, a daily puzzle game
       | about finding the hidden theme behind a jumble of tiles:
       | 
       | https://threeemojis.com/en-US/play/globs
       | 
       | It was inspired by 2025 by thomaswc, a 45x45 connections-like
       | puzzle. Globs jumped off from there and it's been very fun to
       | make. I have AI generating the puzzle groups and it keeps
       | surprising me everyday with what it comes up with. I've got demos
       | up for over 20 different languages, and many different sizes of
       | puzzle. Just recently, I got the puzzle to be generated daily for
       | American English, British English, High German and European
       | Spanish. It can also do custom theme puzzles like the following:
       | 
       | Big YC https://threeemojis.com/en-US/play/globs/en-
       | US/demo?size=big...
       | 
       | Jumbo HN https://threeemojis.com/en-US/play/globs/en-
       | US/demo?size=jum...
       | 
       | There is still some bugs I am tracking down (open the page in a
       | private browser if you hit stale data) but the game has really
       | come together lately and been a lot of fun, I hope you all like
       | it!
        
       | fasouto wrote:
       | I released an open source library to remove metadata from images:
       | https://github.com/fasouto/picscrub
       | 
       | Was more complex than I thought. Still missing support for some
       | RAW formats and had to fix some bugs
       | 
       | I also created a website to showcase how it works ->
       | https://picscrub.com/
        
       | hunterpayne wrote:
       | Something I call a relational compiler. It makes Spark batch jobs
       | run 10x faster by turning Postgres into a compute runtime.
        
       | geongeorgek wrote:
       | A smaller better open claw :
       | https://github.com/geongeorge/nakedclaw
        
       | trashb wrote:
       | I have been working on "scratch milling"[0] PCB's at home using
       | my vinyl cutter/plotter and a engraving bit.
       | 
       | Inspired by Robin Debreuil his process and videos (see video the
       | article and several forum posts). He is using a CNC but I figured
       | regulating pressure is more important then depth, therefore my
       | experiments with the plotter.
       | 
       | Currently dialing in the pressure/speed and amount of passes on a
       | single layer copper board.
       | 
       | [0] https://hackaday.com/2020/07/10/making-pcbs-the-easy-way/
        
       | BrunoBernardino wrote:
       | I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1] for a couple of
       | months, now. It's a EU-based Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-
       | focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).
       | 
       | We've been using it with friends and family semi-successfully
       | (hashbangs work for edge cases we're still working on).
       | 
       | It's really difficult to get bigger indexes other than Mojeek and
       | Marginalia to want to work with us and improve the results
       | further, so that's something I've been researching more, lately.
       | EUSP (the new Ecosia/Qwant-effort-related index) has finally
       | replied to me last week, but I'm still waiting on an API key.
       | 
       | If you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human,
       | reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of
       | weeks for free. We're pushing improvements daily.
       | 
       | [1] https://uruky.com
       | 
       | [2] https://kagi.com
       | 
       | P. S. It's weird to see this duplicate (posted less than a week
       | ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874385), but this
       | post has a lot more comments!
        
         | chokma wrote:
         | Eventual source code access is an interesting idea. What
         | language is Uruky implemented in?
        
           | BrunoBernardino wrote:
           | Thanks! It's intentionally very "boring" (as in, it generates
           | and serves the HTML + bits of JS to enhance settings and
           | such), using Deno in the backend and PostgreSQL for the DB.
        
       | rasulkireev wrote:
       | On getting un-burned-out.
        
       | dvcrn wrote:
       | I just released Configmesh this week. It's a macOS app (with CLI
       | companion) for e2e encrypted syncing and backing up of dotfiles
       | and application configurations. You can sync for example stuff
       | from ~/.config/, Application Support, *.plists, and so on, and
       | add config sync to apps that don't support it natively
       | 
       | Fresh off the press
       | 
       | https://configmesh.app/
       | 
       | Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeA4TTpM2wk
        
       | pydavid wrote:
       | Working on https://eonia.art/, simple coloring page generator and
       | picture animations.
       | 
       | I am using gemini-flash-image and veo-fast and it's impressive
       | what you can do with them.
        
       | dumbmachine wrote:
       | Working on pg-fs, a postgres backed file system abstraction for
       | ai agents. So I agents can be given their familiar file
       | primitives, without
       | 
       | https://github.com/DumbMachine/pg-fs
       | 
       | A version of it powers my local rubber duck thoughts and voice
       | note store. Like an explicit chatgpt memory store, helps with
       | information fomo cause I know finding the needle in haystack
       | would be easy.
        
       | anonymous344 wrote:
       | if you need an idea: copy+paste online json visualizer (there are
       | dozens of these) But with the one that click an element and it
       | will show different programming language path selectors for that!
       | i haven't found even one of this and it's difficult to see the
       | path of element from sample data to put into an app when there
       | are multiple levels and complex object
        
       | hellajack3d wrote:
       | https://lekkervpn.co.za/
       | 
       | A south african wireguard-based consumer VPN service -
       | surprisingly complex under the hood, about 6 months in the making
       | so far!
       | 
       | Apple app store review is the biggest hurdle currently
        
       | droppenheimer27 wrote:
       | Can't really share any useful link at the moment, but I've been
       | working on a solution based on the C1001 mmWave sensor. It
       | collects telemetry throughout the night, including respiratory
       | rate, heart rate (BPM), number of turnovers, apnea detection, and
       | overall sleep quality - you just need to hang it around the bed.
       | The data is sent to a server, which generates a nightly report
       | and passes it to an LLM for analysis.
       | 
       | I've decided to do it simply because of my grandmother: she
       | dislikes bracelets and smartwatches because they're uncomfortable
       | and she often forgets to wear them. A contactless device could be
       | much more practical for her and for many people like her.
        
         | estsauver wrote:
         | This is really, really cool. I would replicate and would be
         | happy to share data on this if you want to let me help!
         | 
         | username at gmail if you want to chat
        
           | droppenheimer27 wrote:
           | Sure! Pinged you with the email!
        
       | justforgroups wrote:
       | nblm.link Links to publicly accessible Google NotebookLM
       | notebooks. 100% free - you can add your own if you want, I just
       | have to approve them, which I do as time allows - usually at 2am
       | :-P
        
       | logicallee wrote:
       | The State of Utopia[1] is currently fine-tuning an older 1 GB
       | model called Bitnet, so that we have something beginning to have
       | the shape of a sovereign model that can run on the edge. We think
       | having model sovereignty is important for our citizens, and we
       | are working on tools for them to easily further fine-tune the
       | model straight from their browser. We are currently running a
       | 30-hour training run on some simple hardware and through webGPU,
       | so that no trust or installation is required.
       | 
       | We made it possible to run the model in webGPU and it is pretty
       | fast even in that environment. You can see the porting process in
       | my last few submissions, because we livestreamed Claude Code
       | porting the base model from the original C++ and Python.
       | 
       | In a separate initiative, we produced a new hash function with AI
       | - however, although it is novel, it might not be novel enough for
       | publication and it's unclear whether we can publish it. It has
       | several innovations compared to other hash formats.
       | 
       | We are running some other developments and experiments, but don't
       | want to promise more than we can deliver in a working state, so
       | for more information you just have to keep checking
       | stateofutopia.com (or stofut.com for short).
       | 
       | Our biggest challenge at the moment is managing Claude's use of
       | context and versions, while working on live production installs.
       | 
       | Everything takes time and attention and Claude Code is far from
       | being fully autonomous building new productive services on a
       | server - it's not even close to being able to do that
       | autonomously. We feel that we have to be in the loop for
       | everything.
       | 
       | [1] eventual goal: technocratic utopia, will be available at
       | stateofutopia.com
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | I'm designing small 3D printed rc boat and I want to make sure it
       | floats so I'm using slicer to calculate displacement but the
       | geometry is getting bit complex, so now I'm fighting openscad to
       | make it boolean my volumes correctly.
        
       | akarkaung wrote:
       | http://tootterhalf.com/
       | 
       | I've been working on this project, which lets you create
       | interactive Valentine's Day invitations for your special someone.
       | You can pick from a set of templates, add your own message or
       | photo, and share it easily.
       | 
       | Currently, adding CMS feature so that user can edit their info
       | right in the website and get the link instead of them hosting
       | themself or editing the code.
        
       | pasxizeis wrote:
       | Slowly but steadily implementing support for version 3 of the
       | Wasm specification in my wasm parser (written from scratch):
       | https://github.com/agis/wadec
        
       | lnenad wrote:
       | I am trying to make a cheaper, straightforward easier to use
       | observability platform with a good core offering without going
       | overboard on features. Based in Europe.
       | 
       | https://logdot.io
        
       | voxleone wrote:
       | I've been working on something we call the Functional Universe
       | (FU), a modeling framework and experimental codebase that treats
       | systems as sequences of irreversible functional transitions,
       | rather than objects evolving against a global clock.
       | 
       | It started as a computational experiment, but it's been
       | interesting how naturally it lines up with ideas from QM
       | (aggregation vs collapse), relativity (proper time), and
       | distributed systems (event-driven causality). Still very much a
       | work in progress, but already useful as a way to think clearly
       | about time, causality, and scheduling in real systems.
       | 
       | - Concept>>
       | https://github.com/VoxleOne/FunctionalUniverse/blob/main/doc...
       | 
       | - Code >> https://github.com/VoxleOne/FunctionalUniverse/tree/dev
        
       | victornomad wrote:
       | https://llmparty.pixeletes.com/experiments/universal_ui
       | 
       | I tiny experiment/joke about chatbots :)
        
       | dhbradshaw wrote:
       | I've been building a flutter django app around sharing and using
       | checklists.
       | 
       | I use it myself by iterating on checklists and then tracking my
       | usage of them and recently added orgs for privately shared
       | checklists.
       | 
       | So it's easy to create an org around a shared task and then
       | create a run through that task and track.
       | 
       | https://checkipe.com
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | I spent about a week, writing this[0].
       | 
       | It's a special UIKit map package, designed to be integrated into
       | SwiftUI, as map support is a big SwiftUI Achilles heel.
       | 
       | I have integrated it into another package (a SwiftUI admin tool,
       | that isn't public), and it works exactly as I planned.
       | 
       | I often do this kind of thing. If I can break some module out of
       | my work, and publish it, I spend the extra time, polishing and
       | documenting it. No one else really cares, but it forces me to do
       | a really good job, so I get an _extremely_ high-Quality
       | component, that I don't have to worry about, later.
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/BigJuJuMap
        
         | Doctor_Fegg wrote:
         | Interesting! I've recently plumped for UIKit (with bits of
         | SwiftUI dropped in) for a new mapping app because, as you say,
         | SwiftUI map support is virtually non-existent. Have you thought
         | about adding Maplibre support as an alternative to MapKit?
        
           | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
           | I try to use MapKit, when possible, as it is unencumbered by
           | licensing and support issues (and works pretty well), but I
           | have considered MapBox. It's commercial, but pretty
           | straightforward, with licensing and support. I have heard
           | good things about it.
           | 
           | I don't really know about Maplibre (but I'll check it out).
           | 
           | Had a friend create an app, based on Google Maps (if you
           | remember, in Ye Days of Yore, GM was the mapping engine for
           | iOS), but Google did the licensing rug-pull thing, and he had
           | to do an emergency open-heart surgery to his app.
           | 
           | That was a sobering lesson about relying on third-party
           | dependencies.
           | 
           |  _[EDIT] Looking at your app, I'll not be surprised, if
           | you're familiar with my friend's app: EasyRoute_
        
       | austin-cheney wrote:
       | A dashboard to spin up web servers, proxies, remote server
       | monitoring, remote terminal, and docker containers in
       | milliseconds.
       | 
       | https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio
       | 
       | Screenshots:
       | https://prettydiff.github.io/aphorio/screenshots/index.html
        
       | AutumnsGarden wrote:
       | For the past 2ish months, I've been working on Lattice, my
       | internal engine for my multi-tenant blogging system. Take a look
       | at the code [1] and the live site [2]
       | 
       | [1]: https://github.com/AutumnsGrove/GroveEngine [2]:
       | https://grove.place
        
       | technothrasher wrote:
       | Professionally, I'm currently working on a touchscreen interface
       | for a medical device warming cabinet. But in my spare time I'm
       | learning to use the micro-mill I recently purchased, by creating
       | a cutting tool for an electric hand drill that will make flat
       | holes in wood that are cut to exact depth and centered correctly.
       | This is for preparing worn out pivot holes in 19th century wooden
       | works clocks to insert bushes.
        
       | enagymo wrote:
       | Cascade Puzzle, a daily puzzle game inspired by Panel de Pon /
       | Tetris Attack. Swap blocks horizontally to match 3+, trigger
       | chain reactions, clear the board in limited moves.
       | 
       | I originally started this years ago and abandoned it because
       | puzzle generation was hard and I didn't have the proper time to
       | finish it. Picked it back up recently with Claude Code and
       | finally cracked it, the generator uses backward construction
       | (starts solved, reverses moves) so every puzzle is guaranteed
       | solvable.
       | 
       | 3 daily puzzles (Easy/Medium/Hard), shareable results like
       | Wordle, no account needed.
       | 
       | https://cascadepuzzle.com
        
       | matus_congrady wrote:
       | https://github.com/stacktape/stacktape
       | 
       | An alternative to tools lik sst.dev or serverless framework, or a
       | PaaS services like Render.com or Flightcontrol.
       | 
       | Deploys to user's own AWS. IaC-first. Has a PaaS-like console UI.
       | 
       | The best features: auto-generates IaC config by scanning your
       | code. Has built-in EC2 runner which is 2-6x faster than AWS
       | CodeBuild.
       | 
       | We've now also implemented dev mode, which is similar to SST. It
       | deploys parts of the stacks that can't be locally emulated
       | (lambda functions, cognito, etc.) with fast re-deploy, and
       | emulates everything else (containers, SQL databases, Redis,
       | DynamoDb, etc.) locally. This means testing/developing is pretty
       | much free, and you have the fastest feedback loops possible.
       | 
       | Whole Stacktape, and dev mode in particular is also very
       | optimized for coding agents with `--agent` flag.
       | 
       | To try it, run `npx stacktape init`
       | 
       | EDIT: Changed the link to github. Stacktape core is now open-
       | source.
        
         | algo_trader wrote:
         | I have a spring/react jar.
         | 
         | Previously I built a jar/docker and deployed to a common
         | server. Fine.
         | 
         | Can this service deploy this to AWS free tier? Will it "know"
         | how to avoid any paid services? (I don't necessarily need a
         | docker or even permanent storage yet)
         | 
         | EDIT: Also - charging a % of AWS bill is pretty wild...
        
           | matus_congrady wrote:
           | The cheapest way to deploy a container accessible over HTTP
           | is to use web-service resource (which uses AWS ECS
           | loadbalanced with HTTP-Api-Gateway, which is pay-per-use) and
           | use EC2 launch type (cheapest instances are only a few $).
           | Not sure if it's still under AWS free tier, but definitely
           | not expensive.
           | 
           | Regarding charing % of AWS bill - yes, we're changing that
           | soon. It's going to be flat fee + 10% of AWS bill.
           | 
           | Our free tier covers 90% of vibecoder, freelancer and side-
           | project use-cases though. So probably nothing to worry about
           | unless you're a 2+ person business. And at that point, it's
           | still far less expensive than having a DevOps person or
           | learning all of the 150,000 AWS loopholes yourself.
        
       | fullstackchris wrote:
       | Verimu - we're trying to help medium and small businesses across
       | the EU get up to speed with the new Cyber Resiliance Act
       | requirements (which start in September!) trying to make it as
       | frictionless as possible - drop in a github action and you are
       | good to go. Web based dashboard coming soon!
       | 
       | https://verimu.com
        
       | oliwary wrote:
       | I am working on my first multilingual word game:
       | https://changeword.org
       | 
       | My previous games have all been exclusively in English, but this
       | one also has Spanish, French, German, Dutch and Swedish. It's a
       | take on the classic word ladder game, with golf scoring
       | mechanics.
       | 
       | Still needs a bit of fine-tuning for the word lists and puzzle
       | generation, but I think it's already pretty playable. :)
        
       | tonyedgecombe wrote:
       | I'm still plugging away on my PostScript interpreter. Right now
       | I'm working on the clip and eoclip operators which has turned out
       | to be much more complex than I expected. Mostly because I am not
       | using any 3rd party libraries nor any AI generated code.
       | 
       | On the house front I'm just about to install an IKEA kitchen.
        
       | czottmann wrote:
       | I'm working on a macOS app that identifies music playing around
       | you, constantly. You can scrobble them to Last.fm, ListenBrainz,
       | LB-compatible sites, a Mastodon account, local Shortcuts
       | workflows, and/or or local files. It also support Apple Music and
       | Deezer.
       | 
       | I built it because most scrobblers only keep track of Apple Music
       | or Spotify plays, but I have streaming stations on all day long,
       | or the radio is on, and those never make it into my playing
       | charts or recommendations etc.
       | 
       | Early days, more to come, public beta is ongoing, and I am
       | looking for testers :)
       | 
       | https://actions.work/listening-post/?ref=hn
        
       | liu3hao wrote:
       | Hi HN, I am working on Circuitscript, a language based on python
       | to describe electronic schematics: https://circuitscript.net/. A
       | basic IDE (called the Bench) to try Circuitscript is available
       | online: https://bench.circuitscript.net/
       | 
       | I have created a usb-uart converter board with the CH340 chip.
       | The complete schematic was coded with Circuitscript and then
       | imported as a netlist into kicad pcbnew to do the pcb layout. The
       | design was produced with JLCPCB and after receiving the boards I
       | tested them and they do work! The design files are here
       | https://github.com/liu3hao/usb-uart-bridge. The circuitscript
       | code file is here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liu3hao/usb-
       | uart-bridge/re... and the generated pdf from the circuitscript
       | code is here: https://github.com/liu3hao/usb-uart-
       | bridge/blob/main/usb_uar...
       | 
       | The motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe
       | schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs after using
       | different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCAD) for
       | work in the past. I wanted to spend more time thinking about the
       | schematic design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs.
       | 
       | Please check it out and I look forward to your feedback,
       | especially from electronics designers/hobbyists. Thanks!
        
         | mikeayles wrote:
         | This looks awesome, great job.
         | 
         | How effective at circuit generation are LLM's with the
         | language? I tried similar, and could get syntactically correct
         | files, but the content always had errors:
         | https://www.mikeayles.com/#tokn
         | 
         | What are your thoughts on atopile and tscircuit?
        
         | indra_varta wrote:
         | This looks genuinely useful to my work. Is there a way to reach
         | out for feedback?
        
         | bityard wrote:
         | Hey, this is neat. It's pretty much Turtle for circuits. You
         | could have called it CircuitTurtle!
         | 
         | I don't do a lot of circuit design, but I'm more of a visual
         | person so I feel like I would be more likely to draw this in
         | something like KiCad and then want to export it to this format
         | to make diffs simpler.
        
       | hboon wrote:
       | 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
        
       | drchiu wrote:
       | I'm working on Checkend [1], which is a self hosted error
       | monitoring app. I needed something lightweight and easy to
       | deploy.
       | 
       | [1] https://checkend.com
        
       | instalabsai wrote:
       | https://instagit.com
       | 
       | I've been shipping AI-written code for 2 years now. I can build
       | something amazing in 40 mins but then spend 4+ hours debugging
       | because the agent has no idea how the libraries it's calling
       | actually work. Docs are stale, StackOverflow is dead, training
       | data is outdated. Every engineer I talk to has the same problem.
       | 
       | So I built Instagit, an MCP server that lets your coding agent
       | understand any GitHub repo in depth so it can get it right on the
       | first try. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, etc.
       | 
       | No API key or account needed to try it out. Just need to share
       | these instructions with your coding agent to get started:
       | 
       | curl -s https://instagit.com/install.md
        
         | vishnu2ko4 wrote:
         | hey irrelevant question, what tools you use to make such great
         | landing pages for your products? your instagit.com looks great,
         | what's your vibe coding workflow?
        
           | instalabsai wrote:
           | Thanks! No fancy tooling, I made it by just prompting Claude
           | Code with the "frontend-design" skill from Anthropic:
           | https://skillsmp.com/skills/anthropics-skills-skills-
           | fronten...
        
             | cpursley wrote:
             | Any promoting tips for this sort of result?
        
               | instalabsai wrote:
               | Sure, here are a few tips:
               | 
               | - Use a static website generator (I use Astro but there
               | are others) where the agent can fully control every
               | aspect of the website
               | 
               | - Use skills to enhance the prompting, like this
               | frontend-design one but can also combine it with copy
               | writing/seo skills etc
               | 
               | - Give the agent control access to the browser to give it
               | visibility into the result in order to iteratively
               | improve upon it
               | 
               | - The last thing is to just be very demanding and setting
               | a high bar, so ask for animations and ask the agent over
               | and over again "ok and now let's improve what you just
               | did"
        
               | cpursley wrote:
               | Thanks, yeah - astro is amazing. It's too bad many people
               | and llms reach for nextjs by default.
        
         | morgengold wrote:
         | Interesting! How does it work under the hood? If you can share.
         | Would like to understand if this improves my Claude Code's
         | understanding of my codebase.
        
           | instalabsai wrote:
           | It's basically scanning the source code for each question
           | (you can also check out specific branches or release tags if
           | you need to debug a particular version) and then writes up
           | the answer once it finds it.
           | 
           | It's not really meant to query your own code base (Claude
           | Code already does a great job at that) but more to explore
           | other code bases you want to integrate with.
        
         | unsaved159 wrote:
         | Why not context 7?
        
           | instalabsai wrote:
           | Context7 is great but ultimately it's just a pre-generated
           | static summarization that might not include the specific
           | answers the agent needs. I have a slightly different approach
           | where the actual source code is scanned for each question so
           | it's much more targeted and never out of date.
        
       | ekrapivin wrote:
       | https://inSolitaire.com
       | 
       | I'm enjoying building a website with solitaire and puzzle games.
       | 
       | I am currently rewriting the engine for the Nth time and plan to
       | add 400 games to the platform in the coming months, as well as
       | social features such as daily challenges, awards and
       | leaderboards.
       | 
       | My ambition is to make this project the largest collection of
       | free modern solitaire games available for all kinds of devices.
        
       | onel wrote:
       | https://github.com/askmanu/acorn
       | 
       | A straightforward and simple AI agent framework. It puts a lot of
       | emphasis on the loop and the steps in that loop. You can change
       | in real time the model, the temperature, the tools, the history.
       | You're also able to spin-off work on a branch and then add the
       | result of that work on the main branch. Still early but
       | developing very fast.
        
         | abhgh wrote:
         | I notice you mentioned dspy - do you also support prompt
         | optimization?
        
       | alexjreid wrote:
       | Delving deep into novel ways to extend Excel and make it more
       | accessible. Perhaps different approach to copilot in that AI is
       | only used during authoring, the yielded output being a standalone
       | artifact.
       | 
       | The result is https://xllify.com
       | 
       | It embeds Luau which tames the very old school C SDK. This means
       | that the same code can run as native add-ins on Windows (XLL) and
       | the more modern-but-far-slower web engine, thanks to WASM. Luau
       | is safe and fast.
       | 
       | The exact same bytecode runs in both styles of add-in. You get
       | the performance of native with no extra work. Many approaches for
       | writing custom functions are unacceptably slow, particularly when
       | their inputs come from fast moving realtime data feeds.
       | 
       | I know Luau is perhaps a left-field choice. However, coupled with
       | a coding assistant and bringing that lightweight conversational
       | dev experience right into Excel (xllify Assistant is an add-in
       | itself) this is perhaps less of a barrier.
        
       | tifa2up wrote:
       | https://agentset.ai/
       | 
       | Open-source RAG infrastructure.Every team I talk to has the same
       | experience: RAG works in the demo, breaks in production.
       | 
       | We handle ingestion through retrieval with optimizations baked
       | in. 97.9% on HotpotQA vs 88.8% for standard RAG. Model-agnostic,
       | 22+ file types, built-in citations, MCP server. MIT licensed.
       | 
       | https://github.com/agentset-ai/agentset
        
       | kebsup wrote:
       | https://vocabuo.com
       | 
       | Learn languages with spaced-repetition flashcards from content
       | such as ebooks, websites and videos.
        
       | abbadadda wrote:
       | ComputerPoker.ai
       | 
       | We trained PyTorch models on solved poker scenarios for post-
       | flop, turn, and river situations. The planned "killer feature" is
       | to give users feedback on their poker play in the flow of a
       | simulated poker tournament or simulated cash game scenario. The
       | goal is to play against "GTO Bots" (Game Theory Optimal Bots) to
       | learn how to play closer to GTO.^1
       | 
       | Poker has been a passion of mine for a few years now, I find the
       | game incredibly intellectually stimulating as well as a
       | tremendous catalyst for personal growth, and this project has
       | been a great way to channel that energy.
       | 
       | The web app uses Django/Channels/WebSockets. We've built an
       | internal discounted CFR solver as well, hopefully building up to
       | multiway scenarios in the future. The webapp is still in
       | Beta/gated, and you're interested in learning more please email
       | contact at surlesol dot com.
       | 
       | We are thinking of pricing $8/month or $74.99/year, with the
       | rationale that this will be far less expensive than learning by
       | experience at even micro stakes for online poker, with better
       | feedback for learning, and at least we make it explicit that
       | you're competing against bots ;-)
       | 
       | 1. I am aware that GTO play is not always optimal, especially in
       | live poker where live tells are available, and often exploitative
       | strategies fare better than pure GTO. The target audience for
       | ComputerPoker.ai is not hardcore poker pros, there's plenty of
       | existing software for that, but rather those individuals looking
       | to get acquainted with what GTO play "feels like." Then, with
       | this knowledge in hand, knowing what the GTO play would be given
       | various assumptions about our range and a reasonable opponent's
       | range, we can deviate from the GTO play as deemed necessary.
        
       | m00dy wrote:
       | X-Ray Feed - A Chrome extension to visualize the Twitter/X
       | algorithm
       | 
       | I got tired of guessing why my timeline looked the way it did, so
       | I built a tool to reverse-engineer the "Heavy Ranker" logic in
       | real-time.
       | 
       | It's an MV3 extension that overlays the hidden weight of every
       | post directly in the feed. It distinguishes between organic
       | content ("Thunder" nodes) and AI-injected recommendations
       | ("Phoenix" nodes) so you can actually distinguish following vs.
       | algorithmic fill.
       | 
       | The scoring is based on a log10(Engagement) * 20 formula to
       | visualize velocity. I originally built it just to clean up my own
       | feed hygiene, but it turned out to be a pretty useful arbitrage
       | tool, identifying "flops" (good topics from big accounts that
       | failed due to structure) that are worth rewriting.
       | 
       | All the analysis happens locally in the browser. Would love to
       | hear what you think about the scoring accuracy.
       | 
       | https://xrayfeed.deepwalker.xyz
        
       | mbvisti wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | https://github.com/mbvlabs/andurel
        
       | tcaxle wrote:
       | A django-based "offline" social media platform (i.e. forum)
       | designed for access only from a single (isolated) WiFi network
       | via captive portal techniques. The goal is a "digital bulletin
       | board" that is geographically isolated and community-moderated
       | (think Reddit's karma system but enough down-votes will delete
       | your post).
       | 
       | Not anywhere near production-ready yet but if this is up your
       | street and you want to contribute then I'd be grateful! I have
       | the back-end stuff well under my belt but I'm allergic to
       | javascript and my CSS skills are pretty limited also.
       | 
       | Also in the works down the line: a simple document management
       | system (another Django app, probably) that allows basic but ISO-
       | compliant document control (centralised access controls,
       | automatic document-numbering, review/approval and draft/issue
       | processes, configurable document indices, etc.) aimed at SME or
       | contractor use. Everything else I've tried in this category of
       | software is either abandoned (or otherwise stuck with a tech-
       | stack from nineties), active but a PITA to ensure ISO-compliance,
       | or hugely over-complicated (i.e. ideal for a big corpo but too
       | much admin overhead for an SME) so I'm brewing my own that aims
       | to meet the minimum feature-set needed for easy ISO-compliance.
        
       | c0nrad wrote:
       | Two free dmarc tools: * dmarc domain scanner
       | https://dmarcdefender.io/tools/domain-check * dmarc xml analyzer:
       | https://dmarcdefender.io/tools/xml-analyzer
        
       | deepakorani wrote:
       | I have been working on chemistry arena designed to benchmark the
       | current SoTA LLM's on drug discovery tasks. My plan was to then
       | focus on getting this annotated to sell this data for post
       | training of scientific reasoning models.
       | https://github.com/deepakorani/chemistry-arena.
       | 
       | Also trying to find a co-founder who I can work on projects and
       | solve problems faster to be honest.
        
       | linsomniac wrote:
       | An options trading game to help learn about stock options:
       | https://trading.linsomniac.com/
       | 
       | A good friend of mine is a retired financial planner and is
       | always talking about different ways I could leverage options to
       | reduce risk in my portfolio. I understand the basics, but really
       | don't "get" them, so I thought a game might help me to understand
       | them better.
        
       | shatsky wrote:
       | https://github.com/shatsky/lightning-image-viewer
       | 
       | Tiny desktop (pre)viewer which displays image in transparent
       | overlay without any UI, allowing to look into specific image
       | detail with single hand move (zoom with scroll and pan with drag
       | simultaneously like in map apps, with nothing but display borders
       | limiting visible image surface) and toggle between file manager
       | and image view almost instantly (close with left click
       | anywhere/keyboard Enter).
       | 
       | Also finished initial rewrite in Rust just hours ago:)
       | (originally did it in C and intentionally tried to make it
       | initially close to preceding C codebase before going further, so
       | many things are still managed manually)
        
       | jimsojim wrote:
       | So I'm building this: https://summaryworld.life
       | 
       | It gives you clean text summaries of YouTube videos. There are
       | obviously other tools that do this, but I wanted something that
       | is aligned with actual principles of learning and retention, not
       | just quick TLDRs.
       | 
       | Also added a feature called Related Videos. It extracts the key
       | themes from a video and recommends the top 3 related videos,
       | essentially creating a small "knowledge web" of sorts around the
       | topic. Similar to youtube recommendations, but you don't watch
       | you click and read.
       | 
       | You can do YouTube search directly inside the product. When you
       | click a video, it generates a summary. So you're still browsing
       | YouTube, but click turns a video into something you can actually
       | consume. Personally found it better way to consume youtube,
       | quicker for me to get through the content I want to consume than
       | have those 10+ Youtube tabs sitting in my browser forever.
       | 
       | There's also a public library feature I added where you can make
       | your summary public. It's kind of fun to see what other people
       | are learning.
       | 
       | Still early, but iterating on it, scratching my own itch.
        
       | s-macke wrote:
       | I am working on an AI multi-agent system to reverse engineer old
       | C64 games and DOS games automatically.
        
       | sbondaryev wrote:
       | https://sbondaryev.dev/
       | 
       | An attempt to build intuition with interactive articles and
       | experimentation, inspired by explorabl.es
        
       | riddu wrote:
       | Competency matrix for better people decisions
       | https://matricsy.com
       | 
       | I was annoyed by how many managers lead teams, make decisions,
       | what 1:1 looks like..
        
       | foxtrottbravo wrote:
       | I'm building datenba.ch, a hyper-local "digital village" for a
       | few small communities in rural Germany (Neckartal/Odenwald-ish).
       | 
       | Instead of another social network, it's a bundle of small,
       | practical community tools under one umbrella, combining of the
       | shelf-software with purpose-built projects of our own.
       | 
       | Our current areas of focus are
       | 
       | - help! a neighbor-to-neighbor help board (rides, errands, PC
       | help, garden/handwork)
       | 
       | - hubs! for shared spaces / tool-sharing / events / social hubs
       | 
       | Right now I'm building the integration surface (claims, roles,
       | provisioning), polishing onboarding, and trying to design
       | help!/hubs! so they're useful even with low activity.
       | 
       | If anyone's done (hyper-)local community platforms: I'd love to
       | hear what actually drove adoption and what did not work out for
       | you.
        
       | keithluu wrote:
       | A goal tracking app that bridges the gap between a to-do list and
       | a calendar. Todo lists don't track time, while calendar time
       | blocks are too rigid.
       | 
       | I need something that gives me visibility into my pace on
       | recurring goals while still allowing for flexibility, i.e. undone
       | goals roll over to the next period. So Im building an internal
       | app for myself.
        
       | geniium wrote:
       | Working on Whisperit v3: a document automation platform for
       | lawyers, voice-first.
       | 
       | The idea: lawyers spend 60%+ of their time writing documents. We
       | give them an AI assistant that actually understands legal context
       | -- case files, templates, emails, the full picture.
       | 
       | What we've been shipping lately on the v3 branch:
       | 
       | * Workflow engine -- visual editor + execution pipeline for legal
       | document workflows (think: intake - draft - review - send, all
       | orchestrated)
       | 
       | * Case-context AI assistant -- docked right into your case view,
       | with file attachments, skill system, and next-action suggestions.
       | It knows your case, not just your prompt. Think Pipedrive CRM for
       | lawyer!
       | 
       | * Skills system -- modular prompts lawyers can pick and inject
       | (summarize deposition, draft motion, extract key dates, Claude
       | Skills, etc.)
       | 
       | * Cloud drive sync -- bi-directional sync with Google Drive and
       | OneDrive. Lawyers keep their existing file setup, we plug in and
       | keep everything in sync
       | 
       | * Outlook, Gmail, IMAP email integration -- connect your inbox,
       | pull relevant emails directly into cases
       | 
       | * Template multi-output generation -- one case, multiple
       | documents generated in one flow
       | 
       | * BYO AI provider -- user/workspace/admin level settings for AI
       | models. Some firms want Azure, some want Anthropic, we let them
       | choose
       | 
       | * Canvas boards with AI context for visual case planning Stack:
       | Next.js 16, FastAPI + LangGraph backend, Supabase.
       | 
       | We're a small team in Switzerland and across the globe, shipping
       | daily. Target is Q1 for the v3 launch. If you work in legal or
       | know lawyers drowning in document work: would love feedback or
       | test our beta :)
       | 
       | https://whisperit.ai
        
         | ericb wrote:
         | What did you use to record the video on the home page, if you
         | don't mind me asking? I need to do something similar. One tip
         | I've seen is to record at a _higher_ resolution than you need,
         | then scale down. The demo is good, but looks a little grainy at
         | points, FYI.
        
           | geniium wrote:
           | Of course! I have looked into many tools to be able to do
           | that properly. This one was done with Screen Studio, which is
           | one, and there is another one that is nice and open source:
           | Cap - but a bit less features.
        
       | pglevy wrote:
       | Just tried out Opus 4.6 to make a ground-up new version of a
       | perennial side project: static site podcast player.
       | 
       | For this one I focused on loading speed and reducing interaction
       | with repo. So it processes the images (converting to webp) and
       | loads the feed list from a Gist. Also used the "frontend-design"
       | skill. From brief to ready-to-use took about a couple hours.
       | 
       | https://github.com/pglevy/typod
        
       | tubignaaso wrote:
       | Dots Journal, a privacy focused lifestyle tracker for iOS.
       | 
       | https://dotsjournal.app
       | 
       | I've been suffering from migraines for the past few years and
       | wanted a dead simple way to log when they happen, as well as any
       | other contributing factors I could think of. Inspired by the
       | simplicity of spreadsheets, I built a grid of events, and as you
       | tap on cells, you log "dots". Those dots, over time, reveal
       | patterns.
       | 
       | I've already identified several contributing factors to my
       | migraine triggers using it. It's been so genuinely useful I
       | wanted to share it with others hoping they might also benefit.
       | 
       | The next big release is coming out later this week which includes
       | visualizations, charts, and on-device analysis of your journal to
       | provide insights.
        
       | alwinaugustin wrote:
       | I've been iterating on Toolbit (https://toolbit.app), a local
       | developer utility app I initially shared a while back.
       | 
       | It started as a small attempt to stop bouncing between dozens of
       | web tools for things like JSON/JWT, base64, regex testing, cron
       | expressions, and similar "glue work" tasks. Over time it's grown
       | into something I keep open all day.
       | 
       | Since the last time I mentioned it, I've added quite a bit: *
       | ~40+ tools now (regex tester, PDF merge, image conversion, cron
       | builder, etc.) * workspaces for grouping tools around a task *
       | tool chaining instead of constant copy/paste * snippets, history,
       | and recent items * automatic detection (paste data, it routes you
       | to the right tool)
       | 
       | It's an Electron app and runs fully local. No accounts, no
       | tracking, no sending data out. The goal isn't novelty, just
       | reducing friction in everyday dev work.
       | 
       | I'm still smoothing rough edges and figuring out where this is
       | most genuinely useful. Curious how others here think about scope
       | creep vs. "daily driver" utility tools, and what's worked or
       | failed for you in that space.
        
       | gauravsc wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | drchiu wrote:
       | Also working on App Shot Editor [1], a free iOS/Google App store
       | screenshot generator. Basically my kids were getting into mobile
       | app development, and I wanted an easy way for them to create the
       | screenshots needed for the app store listing.
       | 
       | [1] https://appshoteditor.com
        
       | rluhar wrote:
       | I am building QuietReads (quietreads.com) - a single-player book
       | tracking app with an AI assistant.
       | 
       | I got tired of the gamification and social elements of Goodreads,
       | StoryGraph and others. I don't care too much about reviews, but
       | do care about engaging deeply with what I am reading.
       | 
       | Lot's to do still: - Refining the experimental MCP integration so
       | I can bring my bookshelf into my AI assistants - OCR to build
       | notes from screenshots - Voice notes
       | 
       | I wrote a little about why I am building the app here:
       | quietreads.com/about Thoughts on building the app:
       | https://thinking.luhar.org/2026/01/building-at-the-speed-of-...
        
       | klaussilveira wrote:
       | Been dedicating some free time from my weekends to sending PRs
       | the DarkRadiant project:
       | https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant
       | 
       | DarkRadiant is open source, cross platform level editor for The
       | Dark Mod and other idTech4 games like Doom 3, Quake 4 and Prey.
       | It is a lot of fun to add features that make level designers more
       | productive. I would like to invite anyone that is curious about
       | wxWidgets, CSG and game dev to join us.
       | 
       | If you are a designer, we could definitely use a new icon set.
        
       | pzagor2 wrote:
       | https://talkhabit.com/
       | 
       | A voice agent calls you on your phone, and you talk with them for
       | about 4-5 min per day to practice language immersion. Using the
       | Twilio API and the OpenAI model.
       | 
       | There are issues with interrupting the agent and the high costs
       | of calling non-US numbers. I don't think it will be a commercial
       | business, but it's fun to play with the technology.
        
       | ssenssei wrote:
       | https://sept-marriane.com
       | 
       | An all-in-one operations workspace that starts with forms but
       | doesn't stop there.
       | 
       | teams (especially HR and ops in small/medium companies) need to
       | launch and operate fast, but the moment data comes in, everything
       | falls apart into spreadsheets, emails, and half-used tools. the
       | real work starts after collecting data.
       | 
       | What we're building:
       | 
       | Form & workflow engine, and backoffice layer on top of
       | submissions: tasks, assignments, reminders, budgets,
       | client/contact directories, inventories, meetings, internal
       | knowledge base.
       | 
       | Operational add-ons: quizzes & assessments, certificate
       | generation, invoicing, document repository, reusable email
       | templates, Anomalies module.
       | 
       | It's less "Typeform competitor" and more "what happens after the
       | form", for HR teams, marketing teams, and SMEs that want one
       | calm, predictable system instead of a tool stack.
       | 
       | (we're Morocco/EU-oriented).
       | 
       | Still super early (one month), shipping steadily.
        
       | spacecadet wrote:
       | Web based mapping and navigation application that basically does
       | everything all the other products don't do. Raceline analysis,
       | driving aids, Dakar rally, CANBUS, OBD, Nightrider for race cars?
       | or something. Passion project whatever. Investors get lost.
        
       | aburg15 wrote:
       | https://thedomaintracker.com/
       | 
       | I have been learning Ruby on Rails and recently deployed domain-
       | tracker to reinforce Rails principles that were fuzzy to me.
       | 
       | This was built following the GoRails SaaS tutorial but I have
       | added uptime monitoring and ssl expiration tracking as well.
        
       | AznHisoka wrote:
       | I an building Bloomberry, an alternative to tools like
       | Wappalyzer.
       | 
       | It helps sales teams find companies that use any
       | product/technology, but not limited to frontend tecnologies.
       | 
       | So for instance, you can find companies that use Canva:
       | https://bloomberry.com/data/canva/ or Cursor:
       | https://bloomberry.com/data/cursor/
        
         | nusl wrote:
         | Your project just so happens to be named the same thing as the
         | Windows 11 ice cream flavor.
         | 
         | https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_11_Bloomberry
        
       | schmuhblaster wrote:
       | https://www.github.com/deepclause/deepclause-sdk
       | 
       | "Compile" Markdown specs for SDD or Subagents into executable
       | logic, e.g. CodeAct+DSPy+Prolog. Not sure how and if I will
       | continue, but it's been lots of fun.
        
       | CuriouslyC wrote:
       | I've been working on a security model and architecture to make a
       | hardened rewrite of OpenClaw. I've got a first pass of prompt
       | injection and secret exfiltration protection and an agentd that
       | gives network vm/sandbox access, reads the accessibility tree and
       | can take screenshots of apps or regions of the desktop. I also
       | have full policy control in place with OPA so you can manage
       | everything the agent can do in one place.
       | 
       | The goal is a milspec, zero-trust autonomous agent that can be
       | completely locked down. I'm also tying the agent's heartbeat into
       | activitywatch so it can be a good personal assistant and do stuff
       | for you pre-emptively based on your stated goals and session
       | activity.
        
       | jimle_uk wrote:
       | ragextract.com
       | 
       | A document RAG API based on multimodal embeddings that's intended
       | for data extraction. If your document workflow involves search
       | and you're looking for ways to cut down on VLM (OCR) costs,
       | Ragextract provides a simpler alternative (less bells & whistles)
       | which makes sense for startups, SMEs and freelancers.
       | 
       | As someone who works on AI document workflows, I use Ragextract
       | myself to reliably execute for various clients in finance,
       | insurance and proptech. I'm currently working on
       | marketing/messaging for the service and could do with more
       | feedback and use-cases.
       | 
       | Have a new or existing project which could use something like
       | Ragextract? Email me and if there's a fit happy to provide a demo
       | or free subscription.
       | 
       | Learn more here:
       | https://subworkflow.ai/blog/ragextract/introducing-ragextrac...
        
       | alienonwings wrote:
       | Been working on a Bluetooth based miniature range Locating tag
       | that can be glued or stuck on to any object of choice. (think
       | sometohing like an Airtag, but 1/10th the size and working on
       | Android and way cheaper) The need arose when my old parents kept
       | forgetting where they last left their spectacles. Since I am a
       | electronics and hardware engineer by profession, I am looking for
       | some expertise on app building for his project. Maybe I will turn
       | to an AI assistant for this. I am working on a blog seriaes for
       | his to record my environmental progress. Will be up in a few
       | weeks.
        
       | devenjarvis wrote:
       | Over the last few weeks I've been building Pointless
       | (https://pointless.cards), a Planning Poker webapp that's both
       | frictionless (no sign up) and actually fun!
       | 
       | I'm trying to embody the experience of a JackBox game into a
       | Scrum ceremony that should be lightweight but is often painful
       | and tedious. I've also gotten to learn a lot about Cloudflare
       | Durable Objects building this and have been delighted with how
       | easy they (and PartyKit) make building multiplayer apps like
       | this.
       | 
       | It's completely free (I plan to keep it that way) and full of
       | easter eggs and delightful jokes at the expense of Jira and
       | modern software development, of course. If your team is following
       | Scrum and could use a bit more joy in the process you should
       | check it out!
        
       | isoprophlex wrote:
       | Building better quality cadastral data on all of Italy for a
       | client, pretty fun postgis work. Fuzzy string matching of
       | government records, OSM, proprietary data and aerial remote
       | sensing data ran through an ML pipeline.
       | 
       | Working on migration from Modal to a single nvidia jetson, to do
       | low-cost monitoring of toxic emissions at the local tata steel
       | plant. Ran this pro bono for the last 2 years, the fun is in
       | getting this as cheap as possible but still with good accuracy
       | 
       | Building a SSTV ios app - you can encode images in sound and
       | transmit these over (ham) radio. The ISS regularly broadcasts
       | these too. And building a multi-user IRC-like chatroom over
       | audio. Hook up your mac or ipad to a voice radio channel, and
       | chat over very slow (31 baud) but very resilient links.
        
       | freekh wrote:
       | Working on i18n for Val CMS, a lightweight CMS where content is
       | stored as code.
       | 
       | GitHub:
       | https://github.com/valbuild/val/blob/main/packages/next/READ...
        
       | csummers wrote:
       | https://hot.dev
       | 
       | I'm building Hot Dev, a backend workflow platform.
       | 
       | - Hot: a functional, expression-based language w/ types for easy
       | integrations and built-in parallel constructs
       | 
       | - Event Handlers drive execution `on-event: "user:created"`
       | 
       | - Scheduled Events `schedule: "every hour"`
       | 
       | - MCP: Turn any Hot function into an MCP Tool
       | 
       | - API: Real-time access to running tasks; subscribe to workflow
       | Streams with SSE updates
       | 
       | - Observability: System-level dashboard; Call-level tracing;
       | Alerts to email, Slack, PagerDuty, or webhook
       | 
       | - Develop locally, push to production with `hot deploy`
       | 
       | - Coming Soon: Hot Box - run any OCI container as a Hot function
        
       | neodon wrote:
       | I've been having a lot of fun modding 7 Days to Die (zombie game)
       | using Claude Code. I have a strong development background but
       | I've never worked on games before. Without AI it would be
       | completely inaccessible to me without months of catching up.
       | 
       | 7DTD is built on Unity Engine and modding is mostly done with
       | XML/XPath and C#. I have yet to install Unity. I have a CLI
       | setup, including a script to disassemble relevant 7DTD assembly
       | DLLs into C# and copy other info from XML files into a directory
       | in my repo.
       | 
       | This "refs" directory has about 800k lines of C# code and 300k
       | lines of XML. Claude can figure out how to add a feature or fix a
       | bug with a few minutes of searching the refs. At first it took
       | 5-10 attempts to get results that actually worked, but now it's
       | often 1-3.
       | 
       | Here are the mods I've released since early Jan:
       | 
       | - SteelUI: fixes for it to work with the latest game version[1]
       | 
       | - Smarter-Tools: a mod I authored from scratch to add a few
       | tweaks to how tools work[2]
       | 
       | - More-Gore-Continued: has serious performance issues I'm working
       | on - making progress[3] (adult only - requires sign-in)
       | 
       | If there's any interest I'm considering writing up all the
       | details in an article and making the mod repos public.
       | 
       | [1]: https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/9386
       | 
       | [2]: https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/9410
       | 
       | [3]: https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/9577
        
       | napolux wrote:
       | Completely rewriting fullremote.it (a platform for italian tech
       | workers looking for remote jobs) in next.js using claude as
       | "pairing buddy"
        
       | absqueued wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | adibalcan wrote:
       | A price monitoring platform for ecommerce:
       | https://fastcompete.com
        
       | tdrz wrote:
       | https://pglite.dev
       | 
       | I'm one of the maintainers of PGlite - PostgreSQL in WASM.
       | 
       | We have lots of updates in the pipeline, just listing some of
       | them:
       | 
       | - making it easier to upgrade PostgreSQL's version
       | 
       | - PostGIS - this is one of our most requested extensions and
       | although we have it running server side (ie node, bun, deno)
       | Chrome is holding us back from releasing it
       | 
       | - multi-connection multiplexing over a single instance
       | 
       | Native library is also on our radar, just needs more time...
        
         | wtetzner wrote:
         | This sounds fantastic for running local "unit"/integration
         | tests.
        
           | duckerduck wrote:
           | We do this, can confirm its very nice
        
       | maxibenner wrote:
       | I finally got to rework my html form forwarder[1]. I realized how
       | cheap SES is and thought I might as well make the service free.
       | 
       | I hope open sourcing it could be a way for me to get some
       | mentorship from more experienced devs as well. Unfortunately, my
       | work doesn't really do code reviews so I feel like I am not
       | improving much on that front.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.simplecontactform.org
        
       | marlouwe wrote:
       | I'm currently working on Tresor AI (https://trytresor.com) - Al
       | confidential AI workspace for professionals (including LLMs,
       | documents, web search, integrations, etc). We use end to end
       | encryption plus hardware sealed AI processing, so your data is
       | never visible externally, even Tresor can't see it.
        
       | KaiserPister wrote:
       | I built teach.af as a flipped classroom environment where
       | students will "teach" AI bots to enhance their understanding of
       | functional programming.
        
       | tjohnell wrote:
       | https://github.com/tldev/posturr
       | 
       | Posturr is a macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch.
       | I've always had bad posture at my desk, so I wanted to figure out
       | a way to check myself. This idea is not radically new, but the
       | methods by which Posturr reminds, e.g. blurring screen, colored
       | border, is unique and effective.
       | 
       | Recently released to the App Store at:
       | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/posturr-posture-monitor/id6758...
        
       | aykutonen wrote:
       | Hi HN, I'm working on https://waitle.io -- a simple waitlist &
       | coming-soon page builder.
       | 
       | Plenty of competitors exist, but many are surprisingly expensive
       | for such a simple use case.
       | 
       | This started as an attempt to create a more reasonably priced
       | alternative for early-stage projects.
        
       | nullandvoid wrote:
       | https://mealplannr.io
       | 
       | The end game is no/low touch weekly meal plans send directly to
       | your inbox, with meals you love to cook but with none of the
       | hassle around planning the meals, shopping list etc (which I
       | spend hours doing every week).
       | 
       | An important feature for me was improving the recipe discovery
       | experience, you can build a cookbook from chefs you follow on
       | socials (youtube for now), or import from any source (Web, or
       | take pic of cookbook etc) - it then hastight / easy integration
       | into recipe lists.
       | 
       | Utilising GenAI to auto extract recipes, manage conversions,
       | merge/categorise shopping lists etc - as-well as the actual
       | recommendations engine.
       | 
       | If anyone is interested in beta testing / wants to have a chat
       | I'll look out for replies, or message mealplannr@tomyeoman.dev
        
       | crawfordcomeaux wrote:
       | Ending genocide omniversally now every timeline with every
       | breath.
       | 
       | EGONETWEB, now recruiting.
       | 
       | Kill your ego so we can stop the killing.
        
       | nickel0800 wrote:
       | https://upscpath.com
       | 
       | UPSC Civil Services exam is one of the most coveted exams in
       | India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Services_Examination).
       | I created the platform which has indexed mock test copies of
       | people who are now officers for the Indian Govt.
       | 
       | Now I am building additional features that make the prep slighly
       | easier. The platform is already live and is being used by several
       | thousand aspirants.
       | 
       | Let me know if you have any feedback! Thank you
        
       | dve wrote:
       | Ive been working on Kettle, it is a language for quantum-
       | classical computing
       | 
       | https://kettle-lang.pages.dev
       | 
       | I find quantum mechanics fascinating and wanted a better way to
       | play with it. Linear types prevent copying qubits, effects track
       | what's quantum vs pure. The type system catches mistakes that
       | would otherwise blow up at runtime.
       | 
       | Runs on a local simulator (with various qubit types modelled) or
       | IBM hardware (sort of). Still a research and learning language
       | for me - I break things regularly.
       | 
       | If any real quantum physicists are lurking, Id love to hear what
       | Ive got wrong!
        
       | royatthreesigma wrote:
       | Building https://shippable.build for vibe coding in a proper
       | stack and opinionated stack so it is less of a pain going to
       | prod.
        
         | elxr wrote:
         | Your FAQ expandables overflow the parent's borders when you
         | expand them.
        
       | _leo wrote:
       | Built this (well, forked and adapted) this morning:
       | https://github.com/leochatain/zsh-claude-code-shell
       | 
       | Couple of utilities for using claude code in my zsh. #? <describe
       | command> => generates the command for you #?? <command> =>
       | explains the command for you
       | 
       | Packaged as an oh-my-zsh plugin so it's easy to use.
        
       | tskulbru wrote:
       | I'm a solo dev building a handful of apps across different
       | niches..
       | 
       | - Kvile ( https://kvile.app ) -- A lightweight desktop HTTP
       | client built with Rust + Tauri. Native .http file support
       | (JetBrains/VS Code/Kulala compatible), Monaco editor, JS pre/post
       | scripts, SQLite-backed history. Sub-second startup. MIT licensed,
       | no cloud, your requests stay on your machine. Think Postman
       | without the bloat and login walls.
       | 
       | - Mockingjay ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mockingjay-secure-
       | recorder/id6... ) -- iOS app that records video and streams
       | AES-256-GCM encrypted chunks to your Google Drive in real-time.
       | By the time someone takes your phone, the footage is already safe
       | in the cloud. Built for journalists, activists, and anyone who
       | needs tamper-proof evidence. Features a duress PIN that wipes
       | local keys while preserving cloud backups, and a fake sleep mode
       | that makes the phone look powered off during recording.
       | 
       | - Stao ( https://stao.app ) -- A simple sit/stand reminder for
       | standing desk users. Runs in the system tray, tracks your
       | streaks, zero setup. Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and
       | Android.
       | 
       | - MyVisualRoutine ( https://myvisualroutine.com ) -- This one is
       | personal. I have three kids, two with severe disabilities. Visual
       | schedules (laminated cards, velcro boards) are a lifeline for
       | non-verbal children, but they're a nightmare to manage and they
       | don't leave the house. So I built an app that lets you create a
       | full visual routine in about 20 seconds and take it anywhere.
       | Choice boards, First/Then boards, day plans, 50+ preloaded
       | activities, works fully offline. Free tier is genuinely usable.
       | Available on iOS and Android.
        
         | freedomben wrote:
         | Really neat! Also as a Linux user, I deeply appreciate the
         | linux support :-)
         | 
         | A few questions and comments:
         | 
         | | Kvile |
         | 
         | - Awesome, really happy to see a reasonable take on this (open
         | source, offline-first, no telemetry, no acount, etc). Do you
         | think at some point you'll try to monetize it in some way?
         | 
         | - Looks like build assets didn't get attached for the latest
         | release (v0.2.1) in Github:
         | https://github.com/tskulbru/kvile/releases/tag/kvile-v0.2.1
         | 
         | | Mockingjay |
         | 
         | - Awesome, definitely a valuable project. I'll be sharing this
         | with some friends who could really use this.
         | 
         | | Stao |
         | 
         | - The website says it's open source, but I couldn't find a link
         | to the source repo. I looked at your github repos and didn't
         | see it in there either.
         | 
         | - Great idea! I'm so bad about forgetting to stand so something
         | like this could be super useful.
        
           | tskulbru wrote:
           | Kvile: Thanks for letting me know! havent noticed, since i
           | mostly just use it myself. Will get it fixed!
           | 
           | Stao: Hm yea this is a mistake on my LLM when it generated
           | the website for me (i couldnt be bothered). It probably got
           | confused since i released it for Linux. Its not open-source.
           | Yes! Exactly, thats why i made it, i ALWAYS forgot. I still
           | do, but far less frequently than before, using Stao helped me
           | a lot.
        
         | delusional wrote:
         | > and a fake sleep mode that makes the phone look powered off
         | during recording.
         | 
         | That's going to be used for recording women in public.
        
           | skeeter2020 wrote:
           | there's a line between functionality that _can_ be abused and
           | that which is very likely; the author is obviously on the
           | former side of this line so you can take your crusade
           | somewhere it could be useful.
        
             | tskulbru wrote:
             | Exactly, you basically said what I was going to say.
        
             | delusional wrote:
             | I'm not on a crusade. I'm telling you what it's likely to
             | be used for in case you didn't think of it yourself.
             | Pointing out that it's likely to be used for nefarious
             | purposes is not equivalent of making an argument that it
             | shouldn't exist.
             | 
             | I can appreciate that it's useful for journalism while also
             | warning you that not every user is going to be a
             | journalist. It's possible to have a conversation without
             | being in a fight all the time.
        
         | faxmeyourcode wrote:
         | I love the idea behind MyVisualRoutine as a father with a
         | disabled kiddo, thanks for sharing.
         | 
         | The app is beautiful - much better than I could build - what
         | tech is it using if you don't mind me asking? Is it flutter,
         | react native, something else? Just want to get better at mobile
         | dev.
        
           | tskulbru wrote:
           | Thank you so much! Then you know my pain. All apps i found
           | were either shit, real shit, or didnt solve my personal need.
           | Hopefully this might help others the way it did for our
           | family. The app is built using flutter because im going to
           | release it on Android too very soon, and I couldnt be
           | bothered creating it twice. Initially the idea was more of a
           | game-like-app, and then it made sense to use flutter. Now
           | though, its not really game-like and couldve just as well
           | been native (apart for me not bothering doing it twice). If i
           | wouldve done it again from scratch, for this app, i would
           | still have chosen flutter.
        
         | Huppie wrote:
         | > MyVisualRoutine ...
         | 
         | > All apps i found were either shit, real shit, or didnt solve
         | my personal need.
         | 
         | Wow, what an amazing coincidence. I made something that looks
         | pretty similar from the looks of it just a few weeks ago
         | because I found the same thing. If I knew your app existed I
         | probably wouldn't have made it. I wasn't even thinking of
         | selling it, just made it for my kid because it makes following
         | various daily routines easier.
         | 
         | It's a mostly vibe coded (well, I made tons of visual and
         | technical decisions but didn't look at the code much except
         | some spot checks) PWA that can run offline on an iPod Touch.
         | 
         | It has some quirks and hidden features for day schedules,
         | timers, etc.
         | 
         | There's plenty of yank in there (yours is almost certainly
         | built better) but it works pretty well for most daily routines.
         | 
         | You can check it out here: https://girls-routine-
         | planner.huppie.nl/
        
           | tskulbru wrote:
           | Hey man, this is great! There can never be enough apps of
           | this kind. Keep it up, it looks awesome!
        
         | ratsimihah wrote:
         | Love this! Had the same idea as Mockingjay for emergency
         | situations where you don't have time to upload, e.g. robberies,
         | attacks, etc... will give it a try!
        
           | tskulbru wrote:
           | Let me know what you think!
        
       | RamblingCTO wrote:
       | I built https://bookcall.io. out of the annoyance existing
       | scheduling platforms have. It's nieched towards solopreneurs,
       | coaches, consultants, and similar that just need it to work and
       | help them sell themselves. Also includes video calls. Would love
       | to have feedback/pushback on the idea. But I happily use it for a
       | while now.
        
       | onesandofgrain wrote:
       | Solo dev, built https://poddley.com a guest-tracking transcript
       | podcast service with rss, timestamps, person-filtering and
       | transcript search.
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | A hobbyist analog computer I will open-source.
       | 
       | I have been through a number of iterations of adders,
       | integrators... It's starting to coalesce now into a finished PCB.
       | (Iterating is slow though at the PCB stage since we're round-
       | tripping via Asian PCB fabs.)
       | 
       | As often happens, I want to learn about something (analog
       | computing in this case) and I find that a deep dive where a kit
       | comes out at the end is an enjoyable way to explore (I also get
       | more experience with KiCad and, for this project, SMT).
       | 
       | The seed of this were a few articles on building a "lunar lander"
       | circuit in early '70's electronic hobbyist magazines I found
       | online. Pre-home-computer, how does one create a lunar landing
       | simulation? Why with op-amps and panel meters of course.
       | 
       | And so that is where I began. But I'm way past that now though by
       | making instead a general purpose analog computer.
        
       | simmschi wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | simonsarris wrote:
       | Flora Carta - https://floracarta.com
       | 
       | A tool to "Design and keep track of gardens, orchards, and
       | landscape projects."
       | 
       | It's very alpha right now, so its quite ugly, but people are
       | already using it. I'm committed to releasing early and often.
       | 
       | You can see some people's designs here:
       | https://floracarta.com/browse
        
       | alexgandy wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | brendoncarroll wrote:
       | I'm working on Got, version control like Git, but for files and
       | directories of any size and E2E encrypted.
       | 
       | https://github.com/gotvc/got
       | 
       | Got is built on Blobcache, which is a general-purpose
       | transactional storage layer and E2E encrypted backend.
       | 
       | https://blobcache.io
       | 
       | https://github.com/blobcache/blobcache
        
       | coder4rover wrote:
       | I'm a humble programmer and llm prompted
       | https://goodwikipedia.com as a hobby website to vibe code what an
       | ai llm can do with a few simply nice prompts.
        
       | aziz_k wrote:
       | Working on a PHP debofuscator (ioncube) at https://decodephp.io/
        
       | gulan28 wrote:
       | Building a roguelike in c. It's playable on the web with
       | emscripten. It's still a bit rough around the edges+not balanced
       | and doesn't even have a "you won" screen yet but it works
       | 
       | https://balbor.netlify.app/
        
       | 0xmattf wrote:
       | I've been working through the pwn.college curriculum, as well as
       | building https://stoacentral.com. It's meant to be a place to
       | chill, discuss philosophy (Stoicism), and improve yourself. I
       | built it after becoming annoyed with Facebook groups, really.
       | 
       | If you're interested in Stoicism, feel free to join and start
       | some discussions.
        
       | jbrooksuk wrote:
       | Personally:
       | 
       | - The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet - https://artisan.page
       | 
       | - Cachet, the open source status page system -
       | https://cachethq.io
       | 
       | Professionally:
       | 
       | - Laravel Cloud's "Private Cloud" offering -
       | https://cloud.laravel.com/enterprise
        
       | kaicianflone wrote:
       | I'm working on an open source CLI that experiments with
       | governance at inference time for autonomous systems.
       | 
       | The idea is to let multiple agents propose, critique, and stake
       | on decisions before a single action is taken, rather than letting
       | one model silently decide. It's model-agnostic and runs locally,
       | with no blockchain or financial layer involved.
       | 
       | I'm mostly exploring whether adding explicit disagreement and
       | cost at decision time actually improves outcomes in high-stakes
       | or automated workflows.
       | 
       | https://github.com/consensus-tools/consensus-tools
       | 
       | I've also created an AgentSkill to interact with the cli:
       | 
       | https://github.com/kaicianflone/consensus-interact
        
       | mghackerlady wrote:
       | I just bought a few microcontrollers and electronics bits to mess
       | with, I want to write an operating system for it to learn risc-v
       | assembler
        
       | allensallinger wrote:
       | With LLMs, the cost structure is credits/tokens all the way down.
       | This month, I built a tool to help you price your service credits
       | or plans at https://aitokenpricing.com.
       | 
       | I also did a write up of PRDs and using Railway to build apps on
       | my blog at https://aftercompsci.com.
        
       | tgloureiro wrote:
       | I'm building Banger, a work email platform for builders (service
       | + apps). It helps you to:
       | 
       | -> host your own custom domains and plug existing email sources
       | with privacy;
       | 
       | -> share mailboxes with teammates and AI agents without having to
       | share pwds as in the 80's;
       | 
       | -> git review like UX to collaborate with humans and AI agents;
       | local AI to save money on mundane email tasks;
       | 
       | -> native apps + cli/mcp/api with guardrails for external AI
       | agent access
       | 
       | waitlist on https://bangermail.com
        
       | lawgimenez wrote:
       | I developed my first macOS app, an API client built purely with
       | SwiftUI/AppKit. It has themes like Nord, Monokai and 8 others.
       | Been using it for my own personal use for the past 6 months.
       | 
       | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/burn-them-apis/id6758321600
        
       | vagab0nd wrote:
       | I'm working on a search engine for clinical trials around the
       | world.
       | 
       | I was frustrated by the process of searching for clinical trial
       | info using the clunky and slow registry websites. So I aggregated
       | all trials around the world and made the search faster.
       | Additional features:
       | 
       | - You can watch a trial and get email updates
       | 
       | - Sometimes a trial is done and a paper published, but no updates
       | to the official page. I try to find these papers and link them
       | 
       | - I try to link trials with the same drug together, showing the
       | drug going through different phases
       | 
       | https://findtrial.co/
        
       | magicstefanos wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | https://bloom.site
        
         | bkslsh wrote:
         | Curious to check this out, but there's an SSL error on your
         | sign-up page.
        
       | narsail wrote:
       | Working on a RoadTrip Planning app with focus on EV Campers.
       | Bought one myself so it is primarily focused on my own use cases
       | :D
       | 
       | https://www.fernweh.world/en
        
       | nihakue wrote:
       | I'm building a tiny experimental message board / ...game? called
       | Isles (https://isles.app/about). The short pitch is that when you
       | sign up you're randomly assigned to a small island, and you can
       | only interact with people on that island. Randomly, islands link
       | up and you can migrate/explore the other island. I wanted to play
       | with ideas of cultural exchange on a really small scale. I don't
       | have any regular users yet, but if any of that is interesting to
       | you, you should sign up if only to say hi.
       | 
       | Tech I'm using: Sprites, Cloudflare Workers, SQLite, Litestream,
       | React SSR
        
         | csin wrote:
         | Interesting novel concept.
         | 
         | With something like subreddits, people congregate because of a
         | common interest. There's a clear topic on what people should be
         | chatting about.
         | 
         | I don't know how far you'll get slotting a bunch of strangers
         | with no clear direction on the topic.
         | 
         | How does the island hoping work? I don't see a "Change island"
         | button. I'm assuming it's because there's only 1 island right
         | now?
        
       | leroyalcheese wrote:
       | For almost 1 year now, we've been building on a next gen event-
       | driven internal developer platform, an an opinionated selfhosted
       | platform "shoehorn.dev" - deploy with ease within 15 min (docker
       | compose or helmcharts). You could say its a modern backstage. But
       | its way smarter in many ways. Kubernetes native, API first,
       | microservice golang backend architecture. You will be able to
       | configure the platform via our terraform provider too. Deploy our
       | kubernetes-push-agent in your cluster, push kinds and auto
       | creates entities into the API in batches, get podEvents etc.
       | Modular frontend written in svelte, decide what you want to show.
       | We're supporting oidc + orgdata sync for okta, zitadel, entraID.
       | rbac management. Instant search using meillisearch. Auto create
       | orgchart depending on how your teams / deparments are nested.
       | Visualize dependencies "relations" using svelteflow. View entity
       | compliance. Full github integration. widget/integration community
       | etc.
       | 
       | Would love feedback!
       | 
       | https://demo.shoehorn.dev will be deployed soon and full release
       | "beta" will be released in march.
       | 
       | https://registry.terraform.io/providers/shoehorn-dev/shoehor...
       | https://github.com/shoehorn-dev https://shoehorn.dev/
       | 
       | Feel free to reach out, hello@shoehorn.dev
        
       | jordanf wrote:
       | Chapter (https://jordanful.github.io/chapter/) - a self-hosted
       | ebook reader (server/client) that uses a local TTS AI model for
       | narration. Progress is stored server side, so you can switch from
       | reading to listening anytime.
        
         | jonasmst wrote:
         | Cool idea, man. Never heard of the Kokoro model, how's its
         | English performance?
        
           | jordanf wrote:
           | thank you! it's actually unbelievably good. check out the
           | demo audio files here: https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-
           | tts?tab=readme-ov-file#d...
        
       | zan wrote:
       | I'm a solo dev founder working on Potniq (https://potniq.com) - a
       | business travel tool that tells you exactly when to leave based
       | on your entire itinerary.
       | 
       | I used to work in devrel, and traveled a lot for events, and I
       | always struggled skipping things like workouts, looking at the
       | time on the last day of a conference trying to check whether it's
       | time to leave yet - so this gives me the opportunity to build a
       | tool I would have loved to use.
       | 
       | Currently I'm working on a LLM-powered booking email parser, that
       | ingests forwarded booking confirmations and adds flights, hotels,
       | etc. to your itinerary.
        
       | akashbangad wrote:
       | I build an AI automation that finds cool things to do in my city,
       | which is stockholm and updates the website every night along with
       | updating the website with the events it also automatically
       | publishes top 5 events to instagram. I use gemini nano banana
       | model to create event posters for instagram
       | 
       | link to site -
       | 
       | https://sortberry.com/
        
       | happiness0067 wrote:
       | I built https://measuretocut.com after too many DIY projects
       | ended with another trip to the hardware store. It figures out how
       | much material you actually need and how to cut it to minimize
       | waste or costs. When I released it in December it just handled 1D
       | cuts for things like boards, bars, and pipes. You enter what you
       | need, and it lays everything out visually on stock lengths. This
       | morning I released the 2D sheet cut calculator to do cut plans
       | for plywood and similar sheet materials. Any feedback is welcomed
       | from fellow engineers turned woodworkers!
        
         | bityard wrote:
         | Wow, yes. I actually like the puzzle of figuring out the
         | optimal cutsheet for my personal projects, but I imagine
         | contractors or cabinet builders would get a ton of use out of
         | this.
        
       | skykooler wrote:
       | I'm working on Lightningbeam (https://lightningbeam.org), an
       | integrated multimedia editor. It's inspired mainly by Macromedia
       | Flash, Apple GarageBand, and Kdenlive. It combines animation,
       | audio and video editing into a single timeline. It's cross-
       | platform, running natively on Linux, macOS and Windows.
       | 
       | I'm currently rewriting the UI in Rust - previously it had a Rust
       | backend and a JS frontend using Tauri, but I ran into bandwidth
       | limitations which prevented it from being really usable as a
       | video editor. It's currently in early alpha.
        
       | iamspoilt wrote:
       | Orchestera (https://orchestera.com/) - Fully managed Apache Spark
       | clusters in your own AWS account with no additonal compute
       | markups, unlike EMR and Databricks.
       | 
       | Currently implemented the following:
       | 
       | - Automated scale in / scale out of nodes for Spark executors and
       | drivers via Karpenter
       | 
       | - Jupyter notebook integration that works as a Spark driver for
       | quick iteration and prototyping
       | 
       | - A simple JSON based IAM permissions managementent via AWS
       | Parameter Store
       | 
       | Work-in-progress this month:
       | 
       | - Jupyterhub based Spark notebook provisioning
       | 
       | - Spark History Server
       | 
       | - Spark History Server MCP support with chat interface to support
       | Spark pipeline debugging and diagnostics
       | 
       | Open to feedback and connecting. Docs at
       | https://docs.orchestera.com/
        
       | CameronBanga wrote:
       | I'm working on Skyscraper for Bluesky, which is an independent
       | Bluesky client for iPhone, iPad, and the first Bluesky client for
       | Apple Vision Pro.
       | 
       | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyscraper-for-bluesky/id67541...
       | 
       | Been a side project for a few months, as I wasn't enjoying the
       | official client, and wanted something that fit my particular
       | tastes (scroll position permanence, greater emphasis on hashtags,
       | support for Shortcuts, and a more iOS-native look and feel).
       | 
       | Launched 3 weeks today, and already nearing 100 subscribers
       | (nearly all annual, but month-to-month also available). Been very
       | fun seeing users start using the app each and every day!
        
       | JoshuaGilmer wrote:
       | I'm building Historic, a private AI video journal for founders.
       | 
       | You record short morning, evening, or ad hoc sessions, and it
       | transcribes and indexes them into a searchable archive of your
       | thinking. It uses simple Apple Fitness-style rings to encourage
       | consistency, plus monthly insight reports and suggested "build in
       | public" posts.
       | 
       | I built it because notes apps weren't capturing my thinking in
       | full fidelity. Using Reflect I averaged ~65k words per year. With
       | Historic I logged ~85k words in one month.
       | 
       | Your thoughts are already your most valuable asset. Historic just
       | makes them accessible.
       | 
       | https://historic.app
        
         | vojto11 wrote:
         | I'm using Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com) for this
         | exact use case - is this meant to be a more tailored version
         | specifically for founders?
        
       | abhishekbasu wrote:
       | Developing LogiModel AI (https://www.logimodel.com/) which is an
       | agentic supply chain optimization engine that forecasts demand,
       | optimizes operations, and simulates scenarios to reduce costs
       | while keeping your network reliable and customers satisfied. It
       | integrates seamlessly with your ERP and document repositories to
       | learn your business context, then acts as an intelligent decision
       | engine, freeing you to focus on strategy while it handles
       | execution.
       | 
       | Always interested in possibilities of LLMs interfacing with MIP
       | solvers.
        
         | abhishekbasu wrote:
         | Also, this was a quick fun project for a multi-agent flow
         | https://flickfeast.party/
        
       | Razengan wrote:
       | Just Godot things: https://github.com/invadingoctopus/comedot
       | 
       | Still no actual game of course :')
        
       | mcqueenjordan wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | https://github.com/trueflow-dev/trueflow
        
       | Slaul wrote:
       | In my evenings and weekends I've been working on a photo sharing
       | app for families who want to keep their photos off of social
       | media but still share with family.
       | 
       | I'm expecting my first child soon so I am building it for me and
       | my family first but if it solves a problem for me, maybe others
       | will like it!
       | 
       | The basic idea is that you are uploading a curated set of photos
       | you want to share, not your whole camera roll.
       | 
       | You can create one or several family groups that you can share
       | individual photos or albums to. Members of those family groups
       | can view, comment on, like, etc those photos.
       | 
       | You can also generate sharable links for people who don't have an
       | account with a configurable expiry time.
       | 
       | It currently more or less works on the web but I am also working
       | on iOS and Android apps since that is how my extended family
       | would want to interact with it.
       | 
       | I'm not quite ready to launch it to the public but if anybody is
       | interested in trying it out or offering feedback I can privately
       | share it :)
        
         | itissid wrote:
         | Nice. I store my photos on Dropbox and now duplicated locally
         | on a home NAS. They don't have a photograph based product like
         | Google memories, which I really like. I've been de googling and
         | looking to reproduce it.
         | 
         | I've been noodling with running a preprocessing step to "tag"
         | pictures and videos with a set of tags with richer spatial and
         | temporal features with off the shelf models and then just let a
         | local AI model pick one based one what might match today's
         | theme.
         | 
         | Are you using any models to make your curation step
         | easier/better UX wise? e.g." Compose all Christmas pictures
         | with Grandma and the kids on vacation" and it would give you a
         | collection to curate from my library
        
           | Slaul wrote:
           | One of my priorities is end user privacy so I'm trying to
           | minimize how much access my service would have to the users
           | library of photos.
           | 
           | Rather than me scan all of the photos I'd prefer the user
           | manually select them. Plus, you get the bonus feature of also
           | getting to review your own photos again :) I find a lot of
           | the time I never go back and look at photos I take. I'm
           | trying to evoke feelings of printing photos and putting them
           | in an album. Digital is no substitute for physical, but if I
           | can get close I'll take it haha
           | 
           | I am considering some ease of use features like library
           | scanning / tagging maybe on an opt-in basis perhaps.
        
       | cam311 wrote:
       | A healthcare integration engine for companies who don't want to
       | build their own or don't want to use Mirth connect. Brings
       | together some of the nicer features we have had in the SWE world
       | (writing code and using a CLI vs clicking in a UI, version
       | control, IaC, spin up/tear down envs easily, CI/CD, telemetry).
       | It is written in Go.
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | (1) I've somewhat stumbled on a persona as a Fox-photographer who
       | strongly communicates that he is a public affordance which (a)
       | helps me get better photos of people, (b) gets me flagged down by
       | people telling me about interesting things going on like
       | 
       | https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116021033821248982
       | 
       | and (c) results in handing out several business cards a day
       | 
       | https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115901190470904729
       | 
       | and I'm within sight of having to reorder cards. I just finished
       | a landing page for the cards (before they went to one of my
       | socials)
       | 
       | https://gen5.info/demo/fox/
       | 
       | but having to reorder the cards I am planning on making a next
       | generation card which has a unique chibi and unique QR code that
       | will let me personalize the landing page for cards, particularly
       | I will be able to share a photo just with the person who has the
       | card.
       | 
       | ============
       | 
       | (2) I've been doing heart rate variability biofeedback
       | experiments and I have this demo
       | 
       | https://gen5.info/demo/biofeedback/
       | 
       | which is still not quite done but has source code at
       | 
       | https://github.com/paulhoule/VulpesVision
       | 
       | It works with most heart rate monitors that support the standard
       | BTLE API not just the H10. I run it on the Windows desktop with
       | Chrome and with Bluefy on iPad. Once it displays the
       | instantaneous heart rate I can control
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_waves
       | 
       | by following the slope of the instantaneous heart rate, breathing
       | out when it is slowing down and breathing in when it is speeding
       | up. This greatly intensifies the Mayer_wave and increases the SD1
       | metric. I think this drops my blood pressure significantly when
       | I'm doing it. This needs better instructions and some kind of
       | auditory cue so I can entrain my breathing when I am looking at
       | something else. Longer term I am interested in incorporating some
       | other biofeedback gadgets I have like a respiration monitor (got
       | an abdomen band and a radar which could probably even read HRV if
       | I had the right software for it) and a GSR sensor, and EMG
       | sensor, etc.
        
         | guzik wrote:
         | if you're experimenting with hrv/biofeedback then you might
         | find Aidlab 2 interesting, it gives RR + GSR in one wearable
         | (fyi I am the author)
        
       | jaakl wrote:
       | Semi-academic attempt to build semantic-level standard system for
       | data type classification. Useful for metadata semantics data
       | lakes / warehouses beyond basic physical level like text/number,
       | with assumption that it may be useful for AI-targeted metadata,
       | your text to sql cases. https://github.com/jaakla/semantic-field-
       | types
        
       | Shellban wrote:
       | I will be replacing the Raspberry Pi 4 I use as a home server
       | with a more powerful HP desktop. I am getting tired of DDOSing
       | myself whenever I open the wrong menu on Nextcloud.
        
       | borsch-dev wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | JLCarveth wrote:
       | I replaced MyFitnessPal: https://macros.jlcarveth.dev
       | 
       | Uses vision models to allow for automatic scanning of nutrition
       | tables. Supports UPCs. Still thinking of a good name.
       | 
       | I also made an RPG game via a discord bot: https://questforge.ca
        
       | starwatch wrote:
       | Still working on:
       | 
       | https://www.votivus.org
       | 
       | A hobby project I started putting together late last year; a
       | little spot on the internet for prayer and reflection.
       | 
       | https://dugnad.stavanger-digital.no/
       | 
       | A pro bono tech consultancy for local non profits. The idea is to
       | help them use tech to better deliver on their mission.
       | 
       | Just today I finished off building a little PWA to help a couple
       | of non-profits offload the admin of volunteer scheduling (mostly
       | done through whatsapp, messenger, etc).
       | 
       | I'd recommend others try the same pro bono consulting in their
       | local area, it's quite rewarding!
        
         | aavci wrote:
         | This looks awesome.
        
           | starwatch wrote:
           | Thanks!
        
       | SunshineTheCat wrote:
       | https://beyondwp.io
       | 
       | After around 15 years working with clients and helping them
       | wrangle their WordPress sites, I stopped working with WordPress
       | as a primary platform for building sites.
       | 
       | A while back I've switched to a more modern stack and have fully
       | abandoned WordPress.
       | 
       | Having that background, however, I've come to know (way too well)
       | many of the frustrations and security problems with the WordPress
       | ecosystem. As a result, I started a service to help business
       | owners break free from WordPress on to a more modern Next.js-
       | powered stack that's faster, lighter weight, and easier for them
       | to manage.
       | 
       | Brand new but should be fun!
        
         | axelthegerman wrote:
         | Gotta say this is pretty cool. Love some of the nostalgia on
         | the homepage.
         | 
         | Personally not a nextjs fan but finding a modern alternative to
         | WP will pay off for many businesses
        
       | tunaoftheland wrote:
       | Couple of scratch-my-itch apps.
       | 
       | 1. Plimsoll Line for dealing with anxieties from mountains of
       | Reminder items, by surfacing the stress factors and taking small
       | actions such as quick journalling and a breathing exercise. The
       | new version with Widget should be released within the next week
       | or two. Version 1 is currently in the iOS App Store.
       | (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calm-to-do-list-tasks-plimsoll...
       | Calm To Do List&Tasks-Plimsoll). Made it to help my wife (and
       | me!) not get so overwhelmed with things she has yet to do but
       | hasn't started. Also to make it easy to write down things
       | weighing heavy on her mind to alleviate the vicious cycle of
       | emotional decay.
       | 
       | 2. Yet-unnamed and -unreleased weather app for planning outdoor
       | activities at times of the day when the weather will be most
       | favorable (or least bad). Made it so that I can plan when to go
       | out to the back yard to bring in more fire wood for the stove in
       | my house. The weather has been tough this winter in the
       | Northeastern US so it finally made me work on the app.
        
       | ezulabs wrote:
       | Building an AI debugger for embedded systems.
       | 
       | You know that feeling when your microcontroller crashes and you
       | spend 3 hours staring at cryptic registers trying to figure out
       | why? Yeah, I got tired of that.
       | 
       | So I built an MCP server that lets Claude talk directly to GDB.
       | Now instead of manually decoding CFSR registers, I just ask "why
       | did it crash?" and get back "division by zero at line 142 in
       | calculate_average()".
       | 
       | It's pretty satisfying to watch Claude diagnose a deadlock
       | between two RP2040 cores in 10 seconds - something that would've
       | ruined my entire afternoon.
       | 
       | Just shipped v0.1.0: https://github.com/ezulabs/embeddedgdbmcp
        
       | marwann wrote:
       | I am working on a document collection app called Superdocu
       | (https://www.superdocu.com), currently adding automated
       | validation features for specific document types.
        
       | cwoolfe wrote:
       | Most parents I've met understand the internet can be a dangerous
       | place for children but aren't sure what to do about it. Some
       | avoid it altogether, but most give up and resign themselves to
       | whatever happens. What I wanted most was just to have some
       | visibility into what my kids were experiencing, so I built
       | LivingRoom App for iPhone and iPad. It sends occasional
       | screenshots to parents. My hope is that when we shine a light on
       | the online world, we will be free to use the internet as a tool
       | for learning, creativity and connection.
       | https://livingroomapp.com/
        
         | sinuhe69 wrote:
         | Can you explain the part why it's not possible to bypass? Could
         | the kids not simply remove the app?
        
       | wiseprobe wrote:
       | Working on https://github.com/wiseprobe/patchpal , an open-source
       | agentic coding assistant in Python.
       | 
       | While it's true that the agentic coding assistant space is
       | crowded (Claude Code, Aider, Opencode, Codex, etc.), we needed
       | something supporting both local and cloud models that we could
       | easily modify/extend for custom workflows.
       | 
       | Being able to access the agent through both a terminal and a
       | Python API/REPL has come in handy.
       | 
       | Recent releases includes custom tools, agent skills, and built-in
       | support for Ralph Wiggum loops.
        
       | spennant wrote:
       | Fine tuning Gemini 2.5 flash on EVM Blockchain execution
       | structures and using perplexity with PageRank to perform
       | transaction anomaly detection. https://lite.chaingenius.ai/theory
       | 
       | [SMILES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input
       | _Lin...) or [SELFIES](https://resources.wolframcloud.com/PacletRe
       | pository/resource...), but for EVM Blockchain executions.
        
       | elpakal wrote:
       | An iOS build size analysis app that runs locally on your Mac:
       | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881
        
       | Goofy_Coyote wrote:
       | A simple HN-like web app that indexes security (and security
       | adjacent) write-ups.
       | 
       | Imagine you, as a security researcher (or any other persona in
       | the security field), wanted to see what prior works are available
       | around bypassing v8 sandbox using webasm, or if what's been done
       | or found targeting deserialization in Go.
       | 
       | Using this web app, you can search the indexed and tagged write
       | ups.
       | 
       | Also adding MCP support to it so your agents can search too.
       | 
       | Hopefully going live soon.
       | 
       | P.S: I said HN-like, but tbh it's just the UI that looks a bit
       | like HN (I'm not a good designer, so got heavy inspiration from
       | HN listing style), otherwise there's no other overlap in
       | functionality yet.
        
       | ZpJuUuNaQ5 wrote:
       | Cross-platform book management and reading application:
       | https://github.com/Eoic/Papyrus.
       | 
       | This isn't a serious project by any means, but rather a
       | prototype. Also, I really got carried away using Claude Code,
       | although my initial goal was simply to glue a quick proof-of-
       | concept and see how it could look like.
        
       | solomonb wrote:
       | Still working on my LPFM radio station, www.kpbj.fm. We launched
       | our regular online stream and have secured a site for our
       | transmitter.
       | 
       | The transmit site is in the Verdugo hills and will need to be off
       | grid. We're going to need about $20k to get the entire transmit
       | system setup (including a solar/battery backup system).
       | 
       | I've also been working on our web infrastructure. The site is
       | built with Haskell and HTMX. The stream is Icecast, and stream
       | scheduling is done using an internal schedule system in the web
       | app and LiquidSoap (so no external tools like airtime, libretime,
       | or azuracast).
        
         | johsole wrote:
         | HTMX :)
        
           | solomonb wrote:
           | Yeah I'm pretty happy with HTMX. I first cut my teeth on
           | programming in the early 2000s with LAMP stack then Ruby on
           | Rails and Django. It feels pretty great to be able to do a
           | web 2.0 style application but still get most of the
           | functionality of a SPA.
           | 
           | https://github.com/solomon-b/kpbj.fm
        
       | wordsunite wrote:
       | A chant synchronization app for large protests and events
       | https://wordsunite.us
        
       | mythrwy wrote:
       | I'm starting cold weather veggies indoors for my spring garden
       | and preparing the soil.
       | 
       | I've been playing with various mineral amendments for years and
       | produce some extremely tasty produce I have yet to see matched in
       | stores (even the organic section).
        
       | kantselovich wrote:
       | Working on MacOS app that detects an active meeting in one of the
       | commonly used apps and then turns on a LED "presence" light. The
       | purpose to let others know that you are "on air" at this moment.
       | 
       | Current release candidate supports detecting Teams Meeting and
       | Slack Huddle.
       | 
       | https://github.com/kantselovich/LuxaforPresence/pull/3
        
       | bojo wrote:
       | Humetrical ( https://humetrical.com ) -- A wellness platform that
       | puts people's mental health first by showing work metrics that
       | matter. Because burnout blindness leads to exit interviews.
       | 
       | It wasn't until we had a leadership retreat at my day job with a
       | fantastic speaker (Woodrie Burich) that the idea for my platform
       | spawned. She talked about how the $50B wellness industry is doing
       | it wrong. Your company is giving you useless yoga stipends, when
       | truth is they should be paying attention to your overall well
       | being. One idea she presented that resonated with me was using a
       | traffic light-like system to gauge where your employees are
       | mentally at.
       | 
       | I took that to heart and verbally applied it to my team. Then I
       | realized that a platform would give better visuals of the data
       | and be easier to incorporate into everyone's day to day. A couple
       | months later I finally released it.
        
         | bityard wrote:
         | I like this in principle. More managers should be in tune with
         | how their people are doing because happy people lead to better
         | work. I'm skeptical about the accuracy of wellbeing metrics
         | when they are self-reported, though. And also whether people
         | will just reflexively click the highest rating for each metric
         | after the first few weeks. Managers will see "line went up" and
         | think they fixed their team, when in reality the employees just
         | got bored of the answering the same questions every day.
         | 
         | Not saying I have answers to these, but thanks for trying to
         | move the needle the right way.
        
       | gengstrand wrote:
       | I am working on an app that uses old-school predictive AI (i.e.
       | pytorch and scikit-learn) to predict professional sports outcomes
       | in a way that is useful for DFS fans. Here is the landing page.
       | 
       | https://www.higherscoresdfs.com/dfs/spa/welcome/
       | 
       | Here is the pitch.
       | 
       | We seek to empower DFS fans through education about predicting
       | professional sports athlete outcomes. We do that through strategy
       | advice, hot player tips, optimized lineups, and pick'em style
       | game-friendly player props. We're not trying to take away your
       | control or do your thinking for you. We are just here to support
       | you in making better decisions. Let the app do the number
       | crunching so you can get back to competitive play that gets
       | results and is also fun.
        
       | proper_black wrote:
       | I've been exploring graph theory and built Overtone, an
       | interactive graph that maps musical artists, genres, albums,
       | labels, instruments, and their relationships using MusicBrainz
       | data. This spun out of a separate graph-based fraud-detection
       | project that I hope to introduce on HN sometime soon.
       | 
       | It's a beta, but already works well on desktop and makes it easy
       | to explore musical neighborhoods and discover new artists by
       | traversing the graph.
       | 
       | Here's the link in case you wanna find some new music to listen
       | to, or look at the artists you know and love in a different light
       | - https://overtone.kernelpanic.lol
       | 
       | Feedback welcome -- especially on UI/UX and scalability limits.
        
         | sambaumann wrote:
         | I didn't have a ton of time to play with this but on first try
         | this is awesome. Looking forward to spending more time playing
         | with it
        
       | ms7892 wrote:
       | Building, "Workloom ( https://workloom.so )" - a free-to-use
       | project management tool for freelancers and small teams.
       | 
       | What's Included: - Kanban boards - Time tracking - Documents -
       | Team chat - Schedules - Analytics - Voice notes - File storage -
       | Task templates - Client reports
        
       | achllle wrote:
       | - A stair lift for stuff, not people. Retrofits onto any stairs
       | and self-locks without damaging the stairs or blocking the path.
       | Allows you to bring groceries, laundry, senior dogs up and down
       | stairs with the push of a button. Currently can pull 50lbs.
       | 
       | - A bracelet with tiny camera that's pointed at your hand palm
       | and transmits pictures of the stuff you're holding and where
       | you've put it down locally to your phone. Pictures are sent to a
       | quantized CLIP which allows you to search for anything you've
       | lost without needing to attach an airtag to it. Works decently
       | well and is great for 'power losers' like those with ADHD-I. Has
       | a privacy slider and nothing goes to the cloud.
       | 
       | Would love to hear from anyone interested > hi @ hitch-home dot
       | com
        
       | zigazou wrote:
       | Hi!
       | 
       | I'm working on:
       | 
       | - DietPDF ( https://github.com/Zigazou/dietpdf-haskell ) an
       | intensive PDF optimizer which tries to reduce PDF size as best as
       | it can while preserving visual quality. It relies on a lot of
       | tricks to achieve this goal (minification, precision reduction,
       | deletion of superfluous operations, concatenations, filter
       | combination etc.). At the present moment, I'm trying to implement
       | CCITT Fax encoding/decoding.
        
       | laladrik wrote:
       | Keep working on a GUI calendar for Linux which would CLI users
       | happy to use https://semana.alexmarkov.xyz/. Just recently I've
       | shaped the architecture a bit.
        
       | tom_tom_watson wrote:
       | Hi HN,
       | 
       | I'm working on an API that provides heuristic signals about
       | whether a piece of text is likely LLM-generated.
       | 
       | The system uses an ensemble of techniques, and on my internal
       | evaluation set (details below) it achieves ~99.8% accuracy. I'm
       | fully aware that general-purpose AI text detection is hard and
       | adversarial, so this is meant as a probabilistic signal rather
       | than a definitive classifier.
       | 
       | There's a simple demo site: https://checktica.com
       | 
       | And public API docs (no API keys required):
       | https://api.checktica.com/v1/docs
       | 
       | I'd really appreciate critical feedback, especially on:
       | 
       | - Failure modes you've seen in similar systems
       | 
       | - Whether this framing makes sense at all
       | 
       | - Where such a tool might actually be useful (or useless)
       | 
       | Happy to answer technical questions.
        
       | lasgawe wrote:
       | This is the first time I have seen a post like this on Hacker
       | News.
       | 
       | And I just launched Writtte yesterday, a writing platform for
       | drafting articles with built-in grammar checking and AI-based
       | refactoring with custom styles, and for the first time, with a
       | better copy/paste mechanism for other platforms like Medium, and
       | Substack :D
       | 
       | https://writtte.com
        
         | shubhamxshah wrote:
         | tried signing up, didnt receive a sign up mail!
        
       | mackross wrote:
       | - A phoenix/ecto inspired batteries included framework for
       | Golang. Uses data-star for real time bindings (can do live view
       | like things but my personal favorite is just real time form
       | validation out of the box). Hot reload with templ, daisy, and
       | tailwind (no npm required). Routes file provides metadata on
       | routes so type safe route helpers are generated for views and
       | handlers.
        
       | raviisoccupied wrote:
       | I have been working on a web app called Beval - Simple
       | evaluations for your AI product.
       | 
       | In my day to day as a Product Manager working in a team that
       | ships AI products, I often found myself wanting to do 'quick and
       | dirty' LLM based evaluation on conversation transcripts and
       | traces. I found myself blocked by 'Gemini in Google Sheets', it
       | was too slow and cumbersome, and it didn't handle eval changes
       | well. And because I was exploring, it wasn't helpful to try and
       | set up something more robust with the team.
       | 
       | To fix the problem I eventually learned to call the OpenAI API in
       | python, but I really felt that I wanted a 'product' to help me
       | and potentially help others.
       | 
       | So this weekend I built https://beval.space
        
       | fastingrat wrote:
       | I'm going through CMU 15-721 and building wsql[1]; a GPU-
       | accelerated query engine. It uses wgpu for cross-platform
       | portability and implements modular pattern, heavily inspired from
       | Sirius[2] paper.
       | 
       | [1]: https://github.com/fastingrat/wsql/
       | 
       | [2]: https://vldb.org/cidrdb/papers/2026/p12-yogatama.pdf
        
       | ryanrasti wrote:
       | Building ExoAgent: a security layer for AI agents that enforces
       | data flow policy, not just access control.
       | 
       | The problem: agents like OpenClaw can read your email and post to
       | Slack. Nothing stops Email A's content from leaking to the wrong
       | recipient, or PII from ending up in a Slack message. Current
       | "security" is prompts saying "please don't leak data."
       | 
       | The fix: fine-grained data access (object-capabilities) +
       | deterministic policy (information flow control). If an agent
       | reads sensitive data, it structurally can't send it to an
       | unauthorized sink. Policy as code, not suggestions.
       | 
       | Got a working IFC proof-of-concept last week. Now building a
       | secure personal agent to dogfood it.
       | 
       | What integrations would you want if privacy/security wasn't a
       | blocker? What's the agent use case you wish you could trust?
       | 
       | * https://exoagent.io
       | 
       | * https://github.com/ryanrasti/exoagent
        
       | inerte wrote:
       | Nonna Emilia, so I don't forget people's names and what they're
       | up to anymore.
       | 
       | I did post about Emilia a few months ago... now I have a domain
       | https://meetemilia.com/
       | 
       | The basic idea is that you give Emilia knowledge about your
       | family and friends, and then you can ask her questions or
       | (eventually) get reminders.
       | 
       | I was motivated during an extended family gathering where I
       | completely blanked out on the names of the partners of some of my
       | cousins. I felt awful... trying to hide the fact that I didn't
       | remember their names.
       | 
       | Now the names and who they are etc is there in Nonna Emilia, and
       | through natural text I can ask questions like "what's the name of
       | all the partners of my cousins on the side of my dad's family?"
       | or something like that.
       | 
       | I am looking for alpha users. The service has legit helped me a
       | few times already remembering stuff, but the amount of work to
       | input all this data still bothers me.
       | 
       | Anyway, it's free. If you want go ahead and try (bugs here and
       | there I bet, and you need a Google Account) and shoot me an email
       | at inerte@gmail.com if you have any comment.
        
       | mbanerjeepalmer wrote:
       | https://anatole.fyi
       | 
       | Hyper relevant business news.
        
       | behat wrote:
       | An on-call runbook execution engine - being able to take plain
       | text runbook steps like - look at logs for $service, check for
       | dependency failures - look at so-and-so dashboard.
       | 
       | and execute them when an alert fires.
       | 
       | We are at https://www.relvy.ai
        
       | kuberwastaken wrote:
       | My first research paper about World Model caching !
        
       | ibizaman wrote:
       | The first AFAIK customer owned self-hosting as a service company.
       | You own the hardware, the software and your data without the
       | hassle of needing to configure or maintain any of it.
       | https://skarabox.com/
       | 
       | The technology is using my open source project
       | https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks
        
       | antoferra wrote:
       | Building TimeCap: an app that removes the addictive sections of
       | any social media. That means that you can check your friends'
       | updates on Instagram without getting distracted by reels.
       | 
       | It is fully customizable, works on any social media, and it
       | genuinely brought my screen time to less than 1 hour.
       | 
       | It is free to use for one platform, and is $29.99/yr for
       | unlimited. And if you need the premium version but can't afford
       | it, just send me a message and I'll sort you out.
       | 
       | App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737515680
        
       | prplfsh wrote:
       | https://github.com/purplefish-ai/factory-factory - creating an
       | IDE for managing a swarm of claude agents, and more importantly,
       | increasingly baking workflows into them (e.g. design -> build ->
       | review -> push -> address comments).
        
       | yodakohl wrote:
       | Building PushMe: A service that sends you notifications for
       | anything you care about.
       | 
       | I was wasting way to much time scrolling news. It consist of a
       | crawling engine, de-duplication, llm creating a custom keyword
       | filter and each event is checked against the original prompt for
       | verification using a llm before sending it out.
       | 
       | Keywords suck, 381 of 388 potential matches end up like this:
       | 
       | "The event is about an OpenClaw Plugin Hub supply chain attack,
       | not a data breach affecting hundreds of millions of users. The
       | watch request specifies a massive data breach; the event does not
       | clearly indicate that."
       | 
       | [https://pushme.site]
        
       | thekaranchawla wrote:
       | I've been building VVM: a language for agentic programs where the
       | LLM is the runtime.
       | 
       | Most stacks today keep orchestration in Python/TS and treat the
       | model like an API. VVM inverts this. You write a `.vvm` program,
       | paste it into an agentic session with the spec, and the model
       | simulates the VM and executes your program. This is configured
       | via a plugin, no SDK or build step required.
       | 
       | ```
       | 
       | agent researcher(model="sonnet", skills=["web-search"])
       | 
       | agent writer(model="opus")
       | 
       | papers = @researcher `Find recent papers on {topic}.`(topic)
       | 
       | # semantic predicate -- semantic if condition
       | 
       | if ?`sufficient coverage`(papers):                 report =
       | @writer `Synthesize findings.`(papers)
       | 
       | else:                 papers = @researcher `Expand
       | search.`(papers)
       | 
       | export report
       | 
       | ```
       | 
       | It's open source and current runs as a Claude code plugin and the
       | repo includes 37 examples from basic agent calls to advanced
       | patterns that showcase building resilient workflows.
       | 
       | Still pre-alpha -- the spec is fairly complete, but tooling is
       | early. Mainly looking for feedback from people building agentic
       | systems who've felt the impedance mismatch between imperative
       | code and what agents actually need.
       | 
       | https://github.com/karanchawla/vvm
        
       | aua wrote:
       | A pricing API for the Counter-Strike 2 market that provides real-
       | time & historical data.
       | 
       | The market is distributed across a bunch of 3rd-party
       | marketplaces, and there's no 'simple' API that provides genuinely
       | high-quality data. It's been a super fun project, and I've been
       | able to learn about collecting & managing a high (to me) scale of
       | data, building an API from the ground-up, and creating my first
       | 'commercial' website.
       | 
       | Website is @ https://cs2.sh/
       | 
       | The API is built w/ Go & Clickhouse, which I've been super
       | impressed with so far.
       | 
       | Web design is partially inspired by turbopuffer's site.
        
       | cjflog wrote:
       | I'm working on https://laboratory.love
       | 
       | Laboratory.love lets you fund independent plastic chemical lab
       | testing of the specific foods you actually buy. Think Consumer
       | Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine
       | disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, or whatever you're
       | curious about.
       | 
       | Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund,
       | and get full lab results when testing completes. If a product
       | doesn't reach its goal within 365 days, you're automatically
       | refunded. All results are published publicly.
       | 
       | This project was inspired by Nat Friedman's PlasticList.org and
       | we use the same ISO 17025-accredited methodology they did,
       | testing three separate production lots per product (when
       | possible) and detecting down to parts-per-billion. The entire
       | protocol is open.
       | 
       | I just published new results today! Turns out Muir Glen's caned
       | Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes are incredibly low in plastic
       | chemicals. Yay!
       | 
       | Browse funded tests, propose your own, or just follow along:
       | https://laboratory.love
        
       | FrankRay78 wrote:
       | I'm building an AI emotional regulation coach for autism
       | 
       | Traditional therapy assumes you can identify what you're feeling,
       | which is exactly what many autistic people struggle with. Anna,
       | the emotional regulation coach, addresses this dilemma.
       | 
       | I've used her daily for nearly a year and haven't had a major
       | dysregulation event since. Now I'm working on developing Anna
       | further. The following post includes a detailed framework for
       | building your own.
       | 
       | https://bettersoftware.uk/2026/01/24/how-to-build-ai-regulat...
        
       | absoluteunit1 wrote:
       | Building https://typequicker.com
       | 
       | We're aiming to build the best typing application; personalized
       | to every users typing habits.
       | 
       | Typing is one of the most important hard skills today and yet
       | most education systems skip it.
       | 
       | Most of our customers are adults who always wanted to type but
       | can't find the time. We make it faster to learn and improve by
       | focusing around the user's weak points (with our features like
       | SmartPractice and TargetPractice)
        
       | joshuakcockrell wrote:
       | Lately I've been interested in how budgeting apps model cash flow
       | over time. A lot of tools are either expense trackers or monthly
       | budgets that assume clean month boundaries, which breaks down
       | quickly if you're paid biweekly or irregularly.
       | 
       | Envelope budgeting (the method) works by allocating money up
       | front so future obligations are actually covered before spending
       | happens. But the hard part is handling income timing and paycheck
       | variability without overfunding the future.
       | 
       | Anyways, I'm currently adding a cash flow detection algorithm to
       | Envelope (the budgeting app) https://envelopebudgeting.com that
       | only allocates paychecks to obligations before the next paycheck
       | unless future funding is strictly required. That approach has
       | avoided a lot of timing edge cases I kept running into.
        
       | rucury wrote:
       | 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 :)
        
       | pontussw wrote:
       | Working on a little "passion project" that has ended up consuming
       | a lot of weekends now, but it's been a lot of fun.
       | 
       | I've been building https://photoweather.app because I never end
       | up having time to look at weather forecasts, which means I also
       | don't go out with my camera enough since outdoor photography is
       | quite a weather dependent activity.. so I'm trying to turn this
       | around by having the app tell me when and where I could be
       | photographing instead.
       | 
       | It's a bit of a challenge for sure, weather forecasts are not
       | always the most reliable, not to mention learning enough about
       | weather to forecast photographic opportunities.. but it's also
       | been really enjoyable to finally build something real and
       | something that I myself actually use all the time.
        
       | nathan_douglas wrote:
       | Bitwit: Learn CS, logic, and math theory (_not_ DSA) with spaced
       | repetition: https://bit-wit.com/
       | 
       | I was hit by a big wave of depression last year. That crisis gave
       | me a couple of periods of hyperfocus, and I thought I might as
       | well use them to try to improve my mind and my ability to reason.
       | 
       | I haven't had good results learning certain subjects, like
       | CS/math, with Anki or other flash card systems. The only thing
       | that ever seemed to work for me was doing a lot of problems with
       | pencil and paper. But without problems exercising those tools or
       | techniques, they tended to just evaporate from my mind.
       | 
       | So my idea was to combine spaced repetition and problem
       | presentation, and create a system for generating problems and
       | validating their solutions randomly and parametrically. So
       | successive presentations of the same card would present a
       | different problem... and the overall effect would hopefully be
       | that you learn the invariants that each card is trying to
       | present, instead of memorizing some combination of variables and
       | values. Sort of MathAcademy but for CS.
       | 
       | I _think_ it's feature-complete at this point, though I'm still
       | working on validating and publishing cards (and there are a
       | couple of things I wanna do to improve security). I'm pretty
       | early in the dogfooding process, and I'm still the only person
       | using it, and there are definitely bugs. But if anyone would like
       | to try it out, I'd be delighted to hear your feedback (email in
       | profile, also on site). Just maybe go a little easy on me right
       | now, lol :/
       | 
       | The Boolean Logic and Lambda Calculus subjects are free forever,
       | and the first topic of each other subject is also free, so if
       | you're intrigued you can use it for quite some time (literally
       | months) before even needing to provide an email address. No need
       | to pay for anything.
        
       | possiblelion wrote:
       | AskUCP - UCP protocol explorer showing all products on Shopify
       | (https://askucp.com/)
       | 
       | On January 11th, Google and Shopify announced the Universal
       | Commerce Protocol (ucp.dev). It's an open standard that lets any
       | application query products across e-commerce platforms without
       | needing APIs, integrations, or middlemen. AskUCP is one of the
       | first applications built on it.
       | 
       | Right now, if you want to buy something online, you have to know
       | which store sells it. You go to Amazon, or you go to a Shopify
       | store, or you go to Etsy. Each one has its own search, its own
       | interface, its own checkout. The experience is fragmented because
       | the infrastructure is siloed.
       | 
       | UCP changes this at the protocol level. If products are described
       | in a standard format, any application can discover them. You
       | don't need permission from each platform. You don't need to build
       | integrations. Anybody or any AI agent just querys the protocol.
       | 
       | AskUCP is designed to be a single pane of glass into online
       | commerce. You search once, and you see products from across the
       | ecosystem. Currently, that means the entire Shopify catalog. As
       | more platforms adopt UCP, their products become explorable too.
       | Eventually, it should be everything.
       | 
       | This is a proof of concept. It's early, and there are rough
       | edges. Let me know what you think, refinements, ideas etc etc.
        
       | blampack wrote:
       | I'm working on https://videoreject.com
       | 
       | Video Reject is a platform for people to buy/sell physical media.
       | Like Reverb but for physical media.
       | 
       | I love movies and wanted an excuse build something in that world.
       | Its not necessarily groundbreaking, but I think it could build a
       | nice community of folks with the same interests.
       | 
       | We're getting ready to launch, but in the meantime, we have a
       | waitlist up.
        
       | defencetechhn wrote:
       | Micropay - Stripe for the next billion people
       | (https://micropay.dev/)
       | 
       | Hi HN, I built this because I got tired of fighting with
       | integrating payments in Africa.
       | 
       | M-Pesa processes over $300B annually, it's how 50+ million people
       | in Kenya pay for everything from groceries to rent. People don't
       | have bank accounts, but rather pay straight from their cell phone
       | nummber. But integrating it into your app? That's a different
       | story. Most developers spend weeks on what should take hours,
       | it's almost impossible. And existing solutions for Mastercard,
       | Paypal, Apple Pay etc are useless because most don't have bank
       | accounts.
       | 
       | Micropay is essentially what Stripe did for credit cards, but for
       | mobile money.
        
       | kristjan wrote:
       | Sponder - Filter and transform RSS feeds or Podcasts
       | (https://sponder.app)
       | 
       | Different RSS clients provide different filtering options, and
       | lots of them limit you to a few keywords and/or put them behind a
       | $7-12/mo subscription. I'm building Sponder so you can curate
       | what you see, and it just presents another RSS feed, so you can
       | keep using your favorite client but fill in the feature gaps.
       | 
       | Right now it can merge and filter by string or regex, and next
       | I'm building (because it's what I want) history replay and
       | smarter podcast rerun detection. it's new and I'm very open to
       | feedback and feature requests.
        
       | coderjames wrote:
       | I'm an embedded software engineer by day and like it or not I
       | have to acknowledge that AI tooling is coming to our work, so I'm
       | currently working on learning to interact with AI coding tools
       | like Claude Code more effectively and efficiently by "vibe-
       | coding" a game for a family member on my personal time. Something
       | inspired by a blend of 'Recettear' and 'Stardew Valley' with the
       | touch that the player shopkeeper is an anthropomorphic cat.
        
       | nickwrb wrote:
       | Currently building https://auth-email.com
       | 
       | Many mainstream email providers have switched to require OAuth
       | for login, but there are tons of clients and apps that don't (or
       | can't) support OAuth.
       | 
       | Auth-Email is a secure, private relay that takes out the need to
       | worry about OAuth: authorize mail accounts one time in our
       | dashboard, then use an ordinary username and password for IMAP,
       | POP, and SMTP via our server.
        
       | bennydog224 wrote:
       | A fun quiz for identifying AI content on Wikipedia. Decided a
       | game format is more interesting than markdown.
       | 
       | https://tryward.app/aiquiz
        
       | _virtu wrote:
       | In my spare time https://bookclub.cloud.
       | 
       | It's a tool that leverages your drm free ebooks to help manage
       | your book clubs. The epub file offers more rich info such as:
       | 
       | - word counts per reading
       | 
       | - chapter selection
       | 
       | - the ability to highlight sections and share
       | 
       | - ai summarization and spoiler free discussion about the contents
       | of a given reading
       | 
       | I use it for my own book club right now. I doubt I'll be able to
       | monetize the app due to the need for drm free epubs which is a
       | pretty high barrier for entry to most non-technical users.
       | 
       | My long term plans would be to have an agent help readers learn
       | hand in hand while reading. I'd like to have the agent facilitate
       | deeper analysis by prompting the users and clubs with questions
       | that encourage more critical analysis of each section. I've been
       | building all the infrastructure for running the club so that's
       | the next more interesting step I haven't explored yet.
        
       | drbojingle wrote:
       | I've been building several things lately in my spare time:
       | 
       | - After Actions (https://www.afteractions.net/) - The company I
       | work for pays for retrospective software, and I figured I could
       | make my own. So I did! Good for agile retrospective ceremonies
       | 
       | - Data Atlas (https://www.data-atlas.net/) - Right now, it's a
       | basic JSON Schema form builder with a UI on top, but I intend to
       | expand it and improve it to be more than that this year.
       | 
       | I've been working on a BuddhaBoard-like app and a few other
       | projects, but nothing I'm prepared to share right now. Maybe next
       | month :D
        
       | debba wrote:
       | https://github.com/debba/tabularis
       | 
       | I'm working on tabularis, a lightweight desktop database
       | management tool designed for developers. It provides a modern
       | interface for managing MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite
       | databases through a native desktop application. Built using Tauri
       | v2 (Rust backend) and React 19 (TypeScript frontend), it offers
       | native performance while maintaining the flexibility of web
       | technologies.
        
       | niccl wrote:
       | back working on my lighting desk, after a couple of years of
       | hating it because the communications bus between the many
       | different modules was flakey and so the whole thing wasn't fun to
       | use. I bit the bullet last year and re-implemented everything
       | with CAN-bus communications and it's actually fun to use now.
       | 
       | Current work has been improving boot time. Was nearly two minutes
       | because of one board, and that's a long time for the lights to be
       | out if you have to reboot during a show. I'd wanted to use
       | buildroot to get a custom kernel that should boot much more
       | quickly, but the buildroot learning curve was steep for me,
       | particularly as I've no expectation of ever needing the knowledge
       | again.
       | 
       | Independently but concurrently I decided I really ought to
       | understand what all this AI stuff was about, for fear of getting
       | left behind. That coincided with the release of opus 4.5, and
       | holy heck has it made a difference! With a little guidance from
       | me Claude got the buildroot environment working and the boot time
       | down to less than 10 seconds. I've been _really_ impressed. I've
       | had Claude write a few boring utilities that I could easily have
       | done but Claude managed much faster and with less boredom on my
       | part. Fortunately for my AI revolution I think I'm a better
       | Business Analyst/writer than I am a coder, so it fits with my
       | temperament.
        
       | pgt wrote:
       | EACL: Enterprise Access ControL is a situated ReBAC Authorization
       | system based on SpiceDB, built in Clojure and backed by Datomic -
       | https://github.com/theronic/eacl
       | 
       | 'Situated' here means that your permission schema & permission
       | data live _with_ your data, which has a number of benefits:
       | 
       | - one less network hop, so can be faster than Spice for typical
       | workloads,
       | 
       | - one less distributed consistency & syncing problem,
       | 
       | - one less component to run in prod with full consistency,
       | 
       | - potential to implement ZedToken / Zookies via Datomix txid, and
       | 
       | - easy to test new schemas with in-memory Datomic.
       | 
       | EACL is plenty fast without a cache since horizontally-scalable
       | Datomic Peers already cache datoms aggressively, but there is
       | another 10-100x improvement in the pipeline. EACL is especially
       | suitable to real-time multiplayer apps built in frameworks like
       | Electric Clojure.
       | 
       | IMHO, EACL is currently the best-in-class authorization library
       | in the Clojure ecosystem and is improving every week. ReBAC
       | subsumes both ABAC & RBAC. I recently applied for Clojurists
       | Together funding to improve cursors for intermediate resource
       | traversal, which is the primary perf. bottleneck.
       | 
       | EACL was not "vibecoded" as all tests were written by me and all
       | code is human-reviewed, but EACL would not be possible for a
       | single engineer to build mainly in his spare time without AI
       | assistance.
       | 
       | Docs with rationale: https://eacl.dev/
        
       | vapourEyz wrote:
       | We're working on the WASTE p2p code base.
       | 
       | https://sourceforge.net/projects/blackbeltwaste/
       | 
       | Thinking about adding video-calling after successful integration
       | of Voice Conferencing.
       | 
       | Its an old p2p program, but recently been downloaded 15,000 times
       | and counting.
       | 
       | Great fun and challenging too !!!
        
       | Kappa90 wrote:
       | A podcast on the history of the "Majority World" - that is
       | Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Latin America and the
       | indigenous people around the world - from a decolonisation point
       | of view.
       | 
       | I just published the first episodes today and have zero listeners
       | or subscribers, so it can only grow from here!
       | 
       | https://historyofthemajorityworld.com
       | 
       | Spotify:
       | https://open.spotify.com/show/4qJh2jNwMvWcLP1J1EMXxr?si=dcc7...
       | 
       | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/rw/podcast/history-of-
       | the-majorit...
        
       | mjoshy wrote:
       | I'm building lightweight-css to teach kids aged 8+ the
       | fundamentals of programming using the web and JavaScript.
       | 
       | Link to Github: https://github.com/joshuamabina/lightweight-css
        
       | upmostly wrote:
       | I'm building DB Pro, a cross-platform database management app
       | that lets you browse, query, and manage SQLite, PostgreSQL,
       | MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and more from a single native interface.
       | It's been growing steadily with a community of ~1,400 subscribers
       | on YouTube and paying users.
       | 
       | What I'm most excited about right now is DB Pro Studio: a
       | collaborative web-based version I'm building on top of it.
       | 
       | The idea is simple: databases are a team activity, but every DB
       | tool treats them as a single-player experience. Studio adds
       | either a self-hosted or managed hosted data browser, real-time
       | collaboration, dashboards, visual workflow automation, and
       | enterprise features like audit logging and role-based access.
       | Think "database command center" where your whole team can
       | inspect, query, and build on your data together.
       | 
       | The desktop app acts as the execution engine (your data never
       | leaves your infrastructure), while Studio provides the shared
       | dashboard layer.
       | 
       | I've also consistently posted devlogs on YT throughout the
       | journey, which has helped build a community of ~1,400 subscribers
       | who've shaped the product along the way.
       | 
       | Site: https://dbpro.app YouTube: https://youtube.com/@dbproapp
       | 
       | Would love feedback from anyone who's felt the pain of sharing
       | database context across a team.
        
         | steve_adams_86 wrote:
         | I've always wanted to build one of these! This looks like great
         | work, and I like the team-oriented premise.
        
           | upmostly wrote:
           | Thanks Steve! The team angle came from mine and my co-
           | founder's own frustration. We kept copy-pasting query
           | snippets and results of queries into Slack/Teams to our
           | engineering team but also Sales/Marketing etc. Figured there
           | had to be a better way. If you ever want to give it a spin,
           | I'd love to hear your thoughts.
        
         | Cyclone_ wrote:
         | I like the way you have the detailed roadmap of features for
         | each version. It's nice for the user to feel connected to
         | development like that.
        
           | upmostly wrote:
           | I find that when people can see what's coming, they're more
           | invested in the product and more likely to share feedback
           | that actually shapes the direction. The devlogs on YouTube
           | serve the same purpose. It's a two-way street.
        
           | yakkomajuri wrote:
           | If you want to go a step further the PostHog roadmap items
           | are all GitHub issues that users can upvote which gives a
           | great sense of who wants what in the community.
           | 
           | https://posthog.com/roadmap
           | 
           | (disclaimer: I used to work at PostHog)
        
         | bityard wrote:
         | It's fascinating to me that people are still making money on
         | RDBMS UIs in 2026. Maybe there's hope for my markdown notes app
         | after all?
        
           | upmostly wrote:
           | Developers are pretty willing to pay for tools that save them
           | daily friction, even in crowded spaces. I find that the trick
           | is finding the wedge that makes yours feel essential rather
           | than nice-to-have.
           | 
           | At the end of the day, people pay to save time. Doesn't
           | matter if it's been done to death.
        
         | yakkomajuri wrote:
         | I've honestly been looking for this -- a modern slick db
         | management app, both for local dbs and remote (just for me
         | though, no collaboration). Existing tools are solid but they
         | feel outdated.
         | 
         | Downloaded and onboarding was nice. A couple of things:
         | 
         | - The initial schema for my local Postgres table was showing
         | public but there were a bunch of tables showing that clearly
         | were not tables in my public schema. Changing the schema to
         | something else and back worked.
         | 
         | - Limiting the free version on number of tabs feels...
         | annoying. I appreciate that a lot of stuff out there doesn't
         | even have a free version but the software automatically opened
         | with a few tabs (or I accidentally clicked on it?) and then as
         | soon as I clicked on my first table I was paywalled. I feel
         | like I'll accidentally open more tabs (even though I really
         | just wanna work on one at a time) and get frustrated, which is
         | more likely to drive me away than to pay at this point.
         | 
         | Note btw that ofc you have to make money and this is a product
         | that I feel I'd be willing to pay for but I got frustrated
         | within 2mins of using it so it wasn't like oh I've felt the
         | value let me pay, it was more like I haven't even gotten to
         | value yet.
         | 
         | Great work anyway and I'll keep trying and provide feedback as
         | it comes! Thanks for building this
        
       | indiehackerman wrote:
       | Making improvements to https://engineering.fyi/ - an aggregator
       | for big tech blogs
       | 
       | Added summaries so readers can quickly see if it's worth reading
       | the entire article e.g. https://engineering.fyi/article/towards-
       | self-driving-codebas...
        
       | KaiserPro wrote:
       | I am currently building an alethiometer from the phillip pullman
       | book series: his dark materials
       | 
       | Specifically its a remake knowing what we know now having
       | finished the two trilogies.
       | 
       | Instead of the three hands and the moving needle, its just one
       | moving needle. Its made from wood and aluminium. The reason for
       | aluminium is that in the 1920s (roughly the age that these books
       | are set) is a wonder material, a bit like carbon fibre/titanium
       | is now.
       | 
       | I have the working mechanism (controlled by 8mm steppers) I need
       | to finish the case and dial, and paint it. I also need to shrink
       | the controlling mechanism and design the
       | voice->text->inference->output to 36 symbols logic.
        
       | sailorganymede wrote:
       | No Mans Sky but it's a text based MUD. Using LLMs ofc.
        
       | mesmertech wrote:
       | Indiehacking so couple of serious things and then some just
       | starting out and some mostly for myself.
       | 
       | Serious ones making over 2k/mo https://bestphoto.ai/ - AI
       | Img/Video tools https://aieasypic.com - Original version of
       | above, still making some money
       | 
       | New things not making money yet https://admakeai.com - AI ads
       | generator for facebook ads. Made mostly so I have a easy way to
       | prompt for stuff and keep track of good AI ad prompts. Have been
       | using it to make static image ads for BestPhoto and actually have
       | over 40 conversions at $~45/conv. Pretty good considering my
       | previous attempts with my own handmade ads using canva was like
       | $80-100/conv. but most of the time FB wouldn't even spend
       | anything from my budget before
       | 
       | Fun stuff/for myself:
       | 
       | https://xhdr.org/ - Made like a few months back when twitter was
       | allowing HDR images in your profile pictures, they patched it
       | like a week later, but was fun while it lasted. Still works for
       | facebook, keeping it up for FB video ads, I've noticed people
       | abusing this a lot when scrolling on FB recently searching for
       | good ads, so I'm guessing it works? Good way to get attention of
       | people on iphone quick
       | 
       | https://framecall.com - Saw people making cool AI motion videos
       | using the claude code skill with remotion, so packaged it into an
       | actual web app you can use as a chat instead of through terminal.
       | Harder than expected to get all the tool calling(and auto
       | continue) stuff to work, similar to how claude code works
       | 
       | TranslateVoice(name TBD) - An iphone voice translate app where
       | you tap microphone button and it uses 4o realtime to translate
       | between you and someone else. This was originally one of the
       | biggest thing I was hyped about as a usecase when 4o released but
       | when I tried it on their app, it just didn't do prompt following
       | well at all it would randomly try to communicate with the user
       | instead of strictly translating, just randomly cutting off
       | someone before they finish speaking etc. Currently have 3 modes
       | that work, that if no one else uses I will be using:
       | 
       | 1. Interpreter mode: Basically User 1 speaks to phone in their
       | language, phone talks to user 2 in their language, user 2 replies
       | to phone in their language, phone replies to user 1 in their
       | language etc. Just pure translation, with chat history
       | transcribed in each other's language
       | 
       | 2. "Friend mode": You tell it a general goal, "I want to get
       | immigration documents, I need to know the requirements" it then
       | basically acts as if its a friend you called to help with
       | translation and gathers everything while talking back and forth
       | with User 2 and then at the end goes back to user 1 with all the
       | info.
       | 
       | 3. Stealth mode: Airpods in, it will transcribe and translate
       | everything being spoken and tell you what to say based on initial
       | goal or you can also write extra instructions in the chat. This
       | is currently the only non-working/buggy one I'm trying to figure
       | out before releasing this, since both will be speaking in same
       | language its hard for model to know who is user 1 and who is user
       | 2 automatically.
       | 
       | First time I'm creating an Iphone app fully vibecoded(react
       | native so I understand whats going on frontend wise at least
       | cause of react). Not looking forward to the app store review
       | process. And I know this is likely something someone already made
       | but its probably paid and I have like $25k in Azure credits I can
       | burn anyways.
        
       | jconvery14 wrote:
       | I built a CLI tool in rust to find and remove duplicate files.
       | 
       | At work I sometimes download the same file multiple times to my
       | machine and have to go through my downloads folder and manually
       | remove the duplicates, so this is something I built to speed up
       | the process of doing this.
       | 
       | https://github.com/jconvery1/hydra
       | 
       | I've found it quite useful.
        
         | guessmyname wrote:
         | I built a CLI years ago for the same purpose.
         | 
         | From what I can tell, your program treats files as duplicates
         | if they share the same normalized filename and the exact same
         | size; it doesn't compare contents or hashes.
         | 
         | Mine samples bytes at specific positions, hashes those samples,
         | and compares the hashes to produce a similarity score rather
         | than a strict match. This works great for photos, two shots
         | taken in the same second can differ slightly in pixels but
         | still depict the same scene, so they're considered duplicates.
         | It also normalizes image orientation by rotating based on the
         | brightest corner, so photos in different orientations are
         | compared using the same features.
        
           | jconvery14 wrote:
           | Yeah I will for sure implement hashing down the line, the
           | current file name/size comparison was good enough for what I
           | need at the minute and an initial release.
           | 
           | Given the time it'd be cool to try single threaded vs
           | parallelism (rayon) on larger datasets and compare the
           | performance.
           | 
           | Nice work on your tool, sounds like you've put a lot of
           | consideration into it.
        
       | topaztee wrote:
       | My friend and I have been working on https://www.vespper.com its
       | essentially an ai-native word editor for long-form content.
       | 
       | it comes with a suite of tools (multi-agent tools to do search
       | over many docs, RAG out of the box, prompt generation per section
       | to reduce context drift, granular AI steerability, structured
       | block generations for 100+ page reports ect.)
        
       | simquat wrote:
       | I'm working on an app builder that combines a Figma-like canvas
       | for design with Apple Shortcuts-style logic for functionality.
       | Instead of writing code or connecting node graphs, you define
       | behavior by stacking instructions using a syntax based on
       | Hyperscript.
       | 
       | You can try the editor here (no signup required):
       | https://app.breadboards.io/playgrounds/weather
       | 
       | And here is a live app exported from it: https://late-
       | cat-2043.breadboards.app
        
       | prodbro wrote:
       | I'm still working on my Web Server Library .NET Core, the rewrite
       | is almost finished (beta version)
       | 
       | https://simplew.net/
        
       | wjr wrote:
       | Internal Linking for Webflow [ https://linkcherry.com ]
       | 
       | I've been working on an internal linking tool that actually
       | understands your content, instead of just matching keywords.
       | 
       | The problem: Manual internal linking research doesn't scale. You
       | grep for keywords, miss semantic relationships, and end up with
       | orphan pages that never rank.
       | 
       | The approach:                 - Crawl - Extract - Vectorize -
       | Cluster - Score       - Build a link graph showing actual
       | internal link structure       - Use semantic similarity to find
       | content relationships       - Prioritize by: relevance x page
       | authority x orphan status x implementation effort       - Output
       | exact placement with anchor text suggestions
       | 
       | What I learned:                 - Keyword matching finds ~60% of
       | good opportunities; semantic analysis catches the rest       -
       | Most sites have 20-30% true orphans (no inbound links)       -
       | Anchor text optimization is the #1 thing people get wrong
       | 
       | If you're on Webflow, I'm specifically building integrations for
       | your platform and need beta testers.
       | 
       | You'll get the full internal linking report (complete analysis,
       | not a limited demo) in exchange for feedback.
       | 
       | Comment below or email me, if you want in.
        
       | BSTRhino wrote:
       | https://easel.games
       | 
       | A beginner-friendly programming language for 2D games where
       | multiplayer is automatic. Intended to be an engaging way for
       | teenagers to learn to code by making games they can play with
       | their friends. Like a blend of Scratch and Roblox. I've been
       | working on this for 3 years!
        
       | argilium wrote:
       | Building a simple iOS app that's free (ad supported) for tracking
       | expenses/receipts. Everything out there was subscriptions and I
       | didn't want another monthly expense to track my simple expenses
       | ... http://loomlabs.au/docket
        
       | michaelbuckbee wrote:
       | Been making a few different sideprojects:
       | 
       | 1. https://app.evvl.ai - a privacy focused Eval tool that you can
       | download and compare outputs from different AI models (bring your
       | own key)
       | 
       | 2. https://dnsisbeautiful.com - an extremely clean and fast DNS
       | lookup tool to track propagation across the different networks.
       | 
       | 3. https://finalfinalreallyfinaluntitleddocumentv3.com/ - this is
       | a Mac only file renaming tool (you drag and drop
       | "screenshot1.png" onto it and it renames it to "dns-results.png"
       | for you via local AI models. Though in true side project fashion
       | the site looks kind of borked at the moment.
        
       | ky-hy wrote:
       | decided to learn a low level language since I never wrote any and
       | I'm self taught dev, created this abomination of interpretation
       | of kilo.c in zig: https://github.com/kyhyy/kz
       | 
       | Soon will add readme and syntax highlighting for zig itself (was
       | too scared to deviate from C guide lol)
        
       | hudvin wrote:
       | I study German and decided to write app to simplify some tasks:
       | 1) generate anki cards from text 2) extract highlighted words
       | from paper and generate anki cards 3) collection of texts/dialogs
       | on random topics 4) and so on... )
       | 
       | not sure if someone needs it, but very helpful for me )
        
       | alexsmolen wrote:
       | I'm working on TrailTool, which aggregates CloudTrail for
       | analysis in both UI and AI contexts. I've always found it tough
       | to tie together CloudTrail logs into meaningful narratives useful
       | not only for security investigations but also "role engineering"
       | (i.e. reducing privileges on human-operated IAM roles). The idea
       | is to make this info available via MCP for agent workflows as
       | well, so you can get high quality, low latency, manageable
       | context size CloudTrail data.
       | 
       | If you want to kick the tires, you an deploy a CloudFormation
       | stack to a Sandbox AWS account - see
       | https://trailtool.io/install.html
        
       | carrozo wrote:
       | I just released 'elsewheres', a trio of short films that I wrote,
       | directed, shot, edited, and produced.
       | 
       | It's free-to-watch (with a voluntary donation model) on my site,
       | but was made for the Big Screen, so I'm also planning a DIY pop-
       | up cinema tour across Europe in the months ahead.
       | 
       | https://www.carrozo.com/elsewheres
        
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