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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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triwats 19 hours ago|
1. flopper.io - a resource to find AI infrastructure benchmarks and soon - compare providers. Reach out if you're a provider!

2. boulderinglist.com - a catalog of climbing gyms across the world

3. livedsupport.com - AI driven support for colorectal issues

4. radiusing.uk - find where people are willing to do something to improve the social fabric of where they live

5. llmstxt.studio - AI-SEO via sitemaps, llms.txt, and AI search

6. probe.bike - tell stories with your cycling data

need to find a way to get more sleep

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/

dm03514 22 hours ago||
Working on chain of custody for financial transactions!

Our first offering is OrderProof which records Shopify transaction evidence and generates PDF to help merchants streamline chargeback disputes.

https://turboops.io/products/orderproof

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more about the problem here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-losing-shopify-chargeback...

mindcrime 1 day ago||
This weekend I spent a lot of time on an Agent Registry idea I wanted to try out. The basic idea is that you put your Agent code in a Docker image, run the container with a few specific labels, and the system detects the Container coming online, grabs the AgentCard, and stores it in the Registry. The Registry then has (in the current version) a REST interface for searching Agents and performing other operations.

But once all the low level operations are done, my plan is to implement an A2A Agent as the sole Agent listed in the AgentCard at $SERVER_ROOT/.well-known/agent-card.json, which is itself an "AgentListerAgent". So you can send messages to that Agent to receive details about all the registered Agents. Keeps everything pure A2A and works around the point that (at least in the current version) A2A doesn't have any direct support for the notion of putting multiple Agents on the same server (without using different ports). There are proposals out there to modify the spec to support that kind of scenario directly, but for my money, just having an AgentListerAgent as the "root" Agent should work fine.

Next steps will include automatically defining routes in a proxy server (APISIX?) to route traffic to the Agent container. And I think I'll probably add support for Agents beyond just A2A based Agents.

And of course the basic idea could be extended to all sorts of scenarios. Also, right now this is all based on Docker, using the Docker system events mechanism, but I think I'll want to support Kubernetes as well. So plenty of work to do...

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!

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/

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.

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

piinecone 1 day ago||
When I have time between freelance work I make games and tools for myself.

Put One In for Johnny Minn (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo...) - A small soccer game all about scoring nice goals. While I don’t expect it to do well, I’m very happy with how it came out, and it’s the first game I’ve made that I’ll release on Steam! Comes out on Thursday (March 12th).

HeartRoutine (https://www.heartroutine.com/) - I built this a few months ago to help me stay on top of my heart health. I enter my numbers on the (offline) app, and then configure my goals (like “lower Apo B through diet and exercise”), and then the server emails me every morning asking me what I ate yesterday, how I exercised, etc. The goal is to stay on track, and to be able to bring a cardiologist a very detailed report.

chrismatic 1 day ago|
I am working on Grog, the “grug-brained” alternative to Bazel. Bazel has a very steep learning curve and is pretty much overkill for most medium-sized teams. Grog already powers all of our internal mono-repo CI and is a lot more fun to work with.

https://grog.build/why-grog/

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