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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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storystarling 3 days ago|
StoryStarling. You describe a story idea and it generates a fully illustrated children's book, then we print and ship it.

Not templates with names swapped in. Every story and illustration is made from scratch. You can go from "dinosaurs soccer" or write out a whole storyline. Pick an art style, optionally upload reference photos of your kid, and it builds a 28 page book in a few minutes.

Bilingual in 38 languages. We handle RTL (Arabic, Hebrew), CJK, and less common languages like Estonian, Maltese, Irish where there's not much available for kids.

Tech side for the curious: LangGraph orchestrates the pipeline, Celery workers do image generation and text rendering in parallel, and LLMs critique the illustrations for consistency mistakes and can trigger regenerations automatically.

Printed in Germany, booklet around 20 EUR, hardcover around 40 EUR.

https://storystarling.com

jerrygoyal 3 days ago||
I built a lightweight (<1mb) chrome extension (with over 600,000 downloads) that lets you chat with page, draft emails and messages, fix grammar, translate, summarize page, etc.. You can use models from OpenAl, Google, and Anthropic.

Yes, you can use your own API key as well.

kilroy123 3 days ago||
This week I'm on project #20 of my 25 projects in 25 weeks challenge! One was on the front page of Hacker News this weekend. It was humbling.

https://pulsefeedback.io

exz 2 days ago||
I'm working on an Lottie and SVG animation generator. Currently in open beta (BYOK). https://gen2d.com
imetomi 3 days ago||
I am building a voice interview/survey webapp that helps product teams conduct product research faster. You can try it at https://intervio.app

Any feedback is welcome :)

pain_perdu 3 days ago|
This looks really useful! FYI my day job is at a frontier voice ai lab focused on hyper-realistic low latency TTS (we're a commercial spinoff of Kyutai called Gradium). Happy to hook you up with a bunch of free credits if it's at all useful. Contact me anytime via colin at gradium dot ai.
absoluteunit1 3 days ago||
TypeQuicker (https://typequicker.com) - personalized and engaging typing application.

Anyone can learn to type fast - I think it just takes the right tools to make it interesting enough for the users to use daily

mohsen1 3 days ago||
I really want someone to build this:

Using a webcam, monitor finger movements and find mistakes (using some sort of AI video analysis) to help user figure out how to improve. It's a hard thing to build but if you build it there is going to be paying customers. You can even sell hardware and subscriptions with it. Lots of schools want this!

slig 3 days ago|||
I liked your onboarding on /welcome, but the plan feels weird for me:

- 1 Month instead of "Monthly" as it's a subscription and you're not really purchasing a "one month pass", correct?

- the same for the other plans

absoluteunit1 3 days ago||
Thank!

> 1 Month instead of "Monthly" as it's a subscription and you're not really purchasing a "one month pass", correct?

Goo point - I have monthly/annually below but it might be confusing still. I’ll update to clarify. Thanks

thrance 3 days ago|||
Cool! I found your solution a while ago while searching for something similar, do you plan to support other locales and/or keyboard layouts in the future?
absoluteunit1 3 days ago||
Absolutely!

Focusing on just English for now but hoping to add Spanish, French and a few other locales.

Regarding layouts: we already support;

- QWERTZ (German layout) - Qwerty - Dvorak - Colemak

This includes the visual guide and the hand positioning.

Adding more soon! But these have been the most requested

lpellis 3 days ago||
Really pretty keyboard widget, though it did slightly confuse me that is showing the next key, not what I actually typed.
absoluteunit1 3 days ago||
Thanks!

Good point - yeah, the idea is that it can help users stop looking down at the keyboards. It serves as a visual guide for how to position there hands correctly using the standard “touch typing” positioning.

Thanks for mentioning it was confusing - I’ll add a short Driver.js walkthrough that explains what it’s for

sneilan1 3 days ago||
I'm learning how to train transformer models locally to do useful work instead of having to pay for claude. I regularly update my blog here https://seanneilan.com/posts
conqrr 3 days ago||
I needed a cheap alternative to Cloudwatch etc and didn't want to depend and pay Cloud tax.

Zero ops S3 based log search: https://github.com/amr8t/blobsearch

akoskomuves 3 days ago||
An opensource AI analytics tool with option for teams to track everything on a dashboard. Happy to get feedback or contributions: https://getpromptly.xyz
0xMohan 3 days ago|
I'm building a distributed key-value store as part of my university project.
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