Posted by david927 1 day ago
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
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Includes car sales tool, generates all the documents you need for the dmv in your county/state
iPhone all connects to Bluetooth obd2 sensors for check engine lights and live driving data
Setup search alerts for “dream cars”
This one has been a blast to build
In April, the site receievd 3,500 clicks from Google - 7× growth month-on-month. Cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Working as a solo founder, some of the stuff I shipped last month:
⤷ Launched a seasonal gifting vertical - new revenue surface, new content format, reusable template for future occasion launches
⤷ Audited verdicts for all brands and food items, incorporating data from various authentic sources and official accreditation bodies
⤷ Expanded programmatic SEO across ingredient and brand categories
⤷ Turned zero-result dead-ends into a list growth lever
But not sure people will be willing to use it. A commitment is highly generic, maybe I need to narrow as daily exercise or something.
The existing ones were quite expensive, especially when I started out. A friend had the idea to get a cheap/non-functioning lawnmower second hand, and tear out the circuit board. We're in the process of coding up a new ROS2 based stack that will roam the lawn on GPS with RTK in the charging station. My friend does most of the electronics stuff, and I focus on the software.
I'm at the point where I will start testing a simple bounding box soon and just have it drive around until it "hits the edge" and then randomly pick a new direction.
It's fun so see the software I build "in real life" instead of as a web-site, as is the case for my my daily job.
the general idea is to take pictures of birds and mountains, and use a bunch of colour-theory-from-minecraft
to first meanshift a bunch of the image to come up with a lower colour resolution image, then to match that to dmc threads
but then i also want to use tools like the axiom mod to fill in gradients, and to do hue shift/temperature changes to represent shadows, like how bdouble0100 uses purples as a shaded green, rather than a darker green.
ive also been using it to see how the claude code for web setup works, and it feels real poor compared to the cli.
the main problem i think i need to pull to local and do my own code for is the colour sampling from the oklab space. when i try to create gradients from colours already in the list, i ve got a visualization of the line its aiming to follow, but its picking the next colour and placing it out of order vs projecting to the line.
likely my biggest issue is that claude and the like are still bad at thinking in more than 2 dimensions, but i think my vocabulary is also subpar for giving the feedback either in clear linear algebra or colour theory terms.
next idea is for when thats done is to make a mod that turns a survival game into a roguelike - in the style of the hades 2 challenge runs, so i can play a session of the game in a certain biome without having to do all the grind first to get there on a new character.
Its not far along, but I'm trying to expand upon the ideas of Lisp into a new programming language I call Grasp. If Lisp is a list processing language, Grasp is a graph processing language
- Visual tool for building strategies
- Backtest on site or MT5 EA using same json configurations
- Running EA live (or paper mode) in prod automatically feeds the trades back to the site for analysis
- The thing I am most happy with: you can click any trade in backtest result and see exactly which rules were true at the bar that fired
You can try it in action w/o signup using taster page (https://foxtradetools.com/taster)
Solo dev. Open to any feedback.
There's so many games played per week, I want to find the best/most exciting games to watch, without spoilers. I built a little model to classify games and give me control over the level of spoilers shown so I can watch the best games of the week.