Top
Best
New

Posted by david927 4 days ago

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

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
287 points | 1109 commentspage 69
Leftium 4 days ago|
# My over-engineered console.log replacement is almost API/feature-stable: https://github.com/Leftium/gg

- 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...

---

# 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.

---

# 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

gethly 4 days ago||
A graphical text editor / IDE in Go with SDL3.
spooneybarger 4 days ago||
More stuff for pony than you can shake a stick at.
chrisf13 4 days ago||
I've been ramping up development of https://whodoyouknowhere.io

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).

jonaslanglotz 4 days ago||
I'm working on site that let's you check when a manned space station was last directly over your house.

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.

rimbo789 4 days ago||
Helping the damn revolution come quicker
StanAngeloff 4 days ago||
I've been working on an AI workspace inside Neovim (and using the editor as the TUI). When I started, I asked myself, "Wait, WHAT?! Another one? Who would use this?" However the goal was never about eyes (well, GH stars) on this new thing, it was about learning. I wanted to dig deeper into how modern-day tools work so I can understand the sort of 'magic' I was experiencing using tools like Claude Code. The more I've been working on this side project, the more I understand about AI systems, agent loops, prompt engineering and all the cleverness that goes into making a good, usable, magical AI agent.
theturtletalks 4 days ago||
Opensource Toast alternative for restaurants
p2hari 4 days ago||
Super cool. We are also doing something similar but not open sourced (still thinking about it). We are doing e-commerce, pos, kitchen-screen etc. Both for product and services so from Yoga Studio/Salons to Take-away Restaurants or ecommerce shops. However focussed only in Europe. Since we are working with a Europe payment processor and early users are getting 0% in transaction fees. The live demo is still not working and we are onboarding on a case by case basis. https://storenu.com
kilobaud 4 days ago||
Hey I am super interested in this, got any links to check out?
theturtletalks 4 days ago||
Sure here's the demo:

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.

chantepierre 4 days ago||
Converting an app that started per-client deploy, single-tenant, cloud-ignorant and mono-node to multi-tenant, multi-node, cloud storage and a cluster of a few nodes.

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.

tomburgs 3 days ago|
i've been grinding away to make "Plates" the best it can be. i know building a weightlifting app is a massive cliche, but i felt compelled to make it anyway and honestly have zero regrets. i was fully expecting people to roll their eyes at yet another workout tracker, but to my surprise, the feedback has been incredibly positive.

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

More comments...