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Posted by david927 3 days 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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bilsbie 2 days ago|
I use iPhone notes to write down all my thoughts and things I want to track. I want to make an app that turns each one into a heading text, and AI generated image or short video. And then I can scroll through them like tik tok and interact with them by adding more notes, etc.
hawtads 3 days ago||
We are building an agentic ad tech system optimized for real time and scale. The process of making an ad, from ideation to distribution, is traditionally exceptionally labor intensive. We are making it possible to target, design, and distribute ads at scale and in real time.

https://hawtads.com

dzink 3 days ago|
Personalized ads enable personalized lying by advertisers. Politicians in the 2016 election would target voters for party with enraging content while the other got shadow posts that lied to them about their candidate in a way that would not be seen, to discourage them from voting (Source: Careless People book).
symkat 3 days ago||
I've been working on https://blogdb.org/ recently.

I originally made it a couple of years ago as a small proof of concept. A couple of weeks ago I started it over and have been using it as a project to work with Claude and learn approaches to coding with AI.

It's been a lot of fun.

mkozak 2 days ago||
Codeboards https://codeboards.io - Codeboards connects to GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, and HuggingFace to generate a professional developer profile that updates itself. Your commits, contributions, and reputation — finally in one place.
an_am 3 days ago||
Screenleash.com: A personal project that deducts money from my bank if I spend more than the allocated time on specific websites. I have already spent around $60, but it has definitely reduced the time I spend playing Smashkarts and on Instagram.

Yes, I got addicted to playing Smashkarts (over 2 hours/day). Now it is capped at 30 minutes.

englishspot 2 days ago||
I didn't like any of the car maintenance apps I've tried, so I'm building my own. simpler, can be run locally (I run it in a k3s cluster). I don't think I have any stand-out features for it right now, or planned for the near future, but it works well for my purposes.
wolfsoftware 2 days 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.
sponno 3 days ago||
Project, Time, Expenses, Invoicing and Quoting app. https://heygopher.ai

- look for feedback on the Freelance Rates calculator https://heygopher.ai/tools/freelance-rate-calculator

socialproof-dev 3 days ago|
Nice — freelance ops tooling is a real pain point. The rates calculator is a good acquisition hook.

One thing I've noticed building in this space: freelancers are remarkably bad at collecting testimonials from clients (who usually love them!). The workflow ends after the invoice is paid and nobody ever goes back to ask for a written review. Worth thinking about whether that's a hook you could add — "invoice sent, client paid → automated ask for a testimonial."

I'm building something adjacent to that problem: socialproof.dev. Would be curious what your users say when you ask how they handle testimonials.

Asmod4n 2 days ago||
I’ve written a CBOR implementation as a mruby c extension in an afternoon and am about to officially release it soon.

It’s my first project where I’ve worked with claude: https://github.com/Asmod4n/mruby-cbor

DavidPiper 3 days ago|
An automated file system handler, similar to Hazel[1].

I want to treat my Downloads folder (or some other one) like an "Inbox" where I can just dump everything, and then the program knows where exactly in my (Johnny Decimal) file system the file should land.

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

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