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Posted by david927 1 day ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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kn100 18 hours ago|
Recently built https://entrycast.com/ - there are other products kind of like it on the market already but I had some specific use cases I wanted personally, and decided rather than making it just for me, I'd for the first time in my life make it something others could buy too. No customers so far, but I don't really mind, to be honest!
Kinrany 15 hours ago|
You missed a perfectly good opportunity to explain your product :)
glad_you_asked 1 day ago||
Not a developer but have few ideas that I didn't pursue due to professional and personal responsibilities. One of them was a simple protein price comparison tool that allows me to find the value for money protein powder which is tested for label accuracy, heavy metals, amino spiking etc. I used to maintain an excel of my known brands and track which ones offered the best value without breaking my bank. I thought if I am looking for such data then there might be others like me. So I recently subscribed to Claude and was able to create a simple website from scratch. It's great that people can create their hobby projects so easily now.

Link to website:

https://compareproteinprices.com/index.html

peter_retief 1 day ago|
Reminds me of the chicken feed app I saw about 40 years ago, before the internet It would find the best price for protein, carbohydrates etc in chicken feed looking at raw products like bone meal and maize with current prices. Remarkable actually, I wonder what happened to it? Anyone else remember any apps before the internet?
francink 20 hours ago||
I am working on https://baolib.org.

Applications on the public cloud raise strong concerns about data protection. As an architect, I spend a meaningful part of my time ensuring the security of customers’ data in the cloud.

Bao introduces an innovative approach where data remains on local devices while the cloud provides encrypted storage for synchronization and peer exchange. Because cloud providers cannot access the data, the need for due diligence is reduced.

Any feedback is welcome.

bionsystem 20 hours ago|
Any connection with bao or openbao, the fork of hashicorp vault ? I fail to see any reference on the site
scaelere 1 day ago||
I'm currently marketing https://geomapping.qcw.ai

What it does: every location in your article/blog becomes clickable/hoverable and spawns an interactive pop-up map, with zero manual work on the author.

You add it to your articles with a single <script> tag.

Our value proposition is: higher engagement and on-page time, fewer readers wander off to look up places and never come back.

As to the nitty-gritty: place names are disambiguated using wiki and we match coordinates from google places; LLMs are used in multiple spots. The js code is lightweight and framework-free.

Our current target population are bloggers of any extraction, plus we've started exploring the professional publishing world - reach out if interested!

AutoAPI 1 day ago||
PostalAgent - https://PostalAgent.com – direct mail automation for people who've given up on email open rates.

Email averages ~20% open rates on a good day. A postcard sitting on someone's kitchen counter for two weeks is hard to compete with. I've been building out the programmatic side. API, Zapier, and native integrations with Jobber and Zoho so you can trigger physical mail from the same workflows you already use for email.

Shopify integration is almost out the door too, which opens up a lot of interesting abandoned cart and win-back use cases for stores whose customers have opted out of email.

No bulk minimums, no design software needed. If anyone here wants to give it a try, reply or email me and I'll set you up with some free credits to get started.

btylke 1 day ago||
I'm developing a system that uses graph differentials to understand what has changed between library versions and upgrades the target system without breaking things. [0]

Because source isn’t always available, it scans the bytecode of an application and the new library, building a full graph of each component in Neo4j to determine what breaking changes impact the target application. This is then translated into tickets and prompts to drive an LLM to make the appropriate changes.

Handling library upgrades is rarely interesting and just adds to our overall technical debt, so it has been nice to automate it away so that we can focus on features and functionality. It supports Java and .Net currently and we’re actively adding support for other languages.

[0] https://codelogic.com/

wolfsoftware 11 hours ago||
WolfStack and various other things. Mainly because I got fedup with Proxmox. So I built a replacement then because of my Autism I didn't sleep for weeks and added lots of extra features.
z3ugma 1 day ago||
Building a PCB milling software tool that combines converting Gerbers to toolpaths in G-Code and then actually commanding and operating a restored PCB mill from 1998.

Bringing back the hobbyist self-made PCB workflow since it can be a headache to get designs back from PCBWay / JLC between customers, tariffs, shipping..get more quick to close the prototyping loop.

Here's a YouTube playlist of how to make PCBs at home for anyone who wants a deep dive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_JrACrmVs&list=PLWDQgxl-jH...

abetusk 23 hours ago|
A while back I created a fool called gbr2ngc which converts gerbers to gcode [0]. It has some problems but is overall functional.

[0] https://github.com/abetusk/gbr2ngc

RpFLCL 1 day ago||
I've been working on an open source cat-themed virtual pet running on an ESP32: https://github.com/moonbench/catode32

It was inspired by tamagotchis of yesteryear (and my two cats). It uses a small common monochrome SSD1306 display with 128x64 pixels of resolution.

All of the pixel art is my own. And the cat features a bunch of different animated poses and behaviors, as well as different environments. And there are minigames (a chrome dino clone - but with a cat!, a breakout clone, a random maze generator, a tic-tac-toe game, and I plan to add more.)

I'm currently working on tweaking the stats so that they go up and down over time in a realistic way and encourage the player to feed and interact with the pet to keep stats from going too low. Then I plan on adding some wireless features, like having the pet scan WiFi names to determine if its home or traveling, or using ESP-NOW to let pets communicate with each other when they're nearby.

I made a reddit post with a video of it a few weeks ago [1] and have various prototypes of artwork for these little screens on my blog [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1r8i1vx/progress_o...

[2] https://moonbench.xyz/projects/tags/SSD1306/

gerlv 1 day ago|
Building DynoWizard [1] - tool for designing single table DynamoDB tables.

I first used DynamoDB 8 years ago and have been designing single-table schemas heavily since. For me, the best way to create drafts was always pen and paper (and then excel/confluence tables), but in reality it's a process (based on The DynamoDB Book) that can be automated to an extent.

Decided to build an app while on paternity leave. You define entities and access patterns, create (or get suggested) key and GSI design, and generate code for access patterns (TypeScript and Python), infrastructure (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform), and documentation you can share with stakeholders.

There's more I want to build beyond the MVP - things around understanding and validating designs that you can't get from a chatbot - but for now focusing on the core.

If anyone wants to try it out, sign up for the waitlist on the landing page. MVP should be ready in the next few weeks.

[1] https://www.dynowizard.com

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