Posted by david927 4 days ago
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
- Named `gg` for grep-ibility and ease of typing.
- However Claude has been inserting most calls for me (and can now read back the client-side results without any dev interaction!)
- Here is how Claude used gg to fix a layout bug in itself (gg ships with an optional dev console): https://github.com/Leftium/gg/blob/main/references/gg-consol...
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# I've been prototyping realtime streaming transcription UX: https://rift-transcription.vercel.app
- Really want to use dictation app in addition to typing on a daily basis, but the current UX of all apps I've tried are insufficient.
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# https://veneer.leftium.com is a thin layer over Google forms + sheets
- If you can use Google forms, you can publish a nice-looking web site with an optional form
- Example: https://www.vivimil.com
- Example: https://veneer.leftium.com/s.1RoVLit_cAJPZBeFYzSwHc7vADV_fYL...
- DEMO (feel free to try the sign up feature): https://veneer.leftium.com/g.chwbD7sLmAoLe65Z8
It is a forum application where each community is invite only. Think a cross between reddit/discord. The invite only architecture reduces trolls, spam, AI slop and promotes more substantive discussions.
Right now invitations are limited to 1 per day for each user in a community. You don't need an invite to join at the global level - but to join any community you must have received an invitation link. Still a major work in progress, right now working on expanding the flexibility of community creation and invitation logic. (allowing bulk invites, adding flexible invitation cool downs, etc).
It's a reference to https://xkcd.com/2883/, which I've always liked and was suprised there was no tool to check when you last had astronauts over for dinner.
Looking up the location of the ISS at a specific time is easy. Looking up the closest passes of the ISS to a specific location for the last 30 years on-demand is more complicated.
https://craft-burgers.openship.org/
Github:
https://github.com/openshiporg/openfront-restaurant
We're actually building an opensource SaaS for every vertical. We shipped our Shopify alternative end of last year and after restaurant, we have hotels, grocery, and gyms next.
On one hand, I regret not having thought it could find a market and I now have to do this and plan a migration.
On the other, I saved a lot of time going to customers instead of building the boring side first... So I don't know what to think of it.
I find that most of the development work is now "ops" instead of user-facing features (either addition, removal, or polish) and am a bit perplex at this.
even with everyone and their mother shipping a workout app (accelerated by the vibecoding surge), nothing quite hit the bar i was looking for. everything seemed to be built in react native, flutter, or another cross-platform framework, meaning it never truly felt at home on the device.
beyond just wanting something fully native, i felt there was a real gap in the prosumer market. i wanted to build something for people who already know what they're doing in the gym, have their program, and just want a solid tool they can actually own (it's a one-time purchase of $12.99) that at the same time gives them all the insights they'd reasonably want (muscle heatmap, 1rm breakdowns with different formulas, working volume, best volume, etc.).
the app is called Plates: Weightlifting Log. if you're interested in checking it out: https://useplates.com