Posted by david927 1 day ago
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
We have built a few apps recently and what we observe is that while building the app has gotten dramatically faster with AI, everything around it still takes a surprising amount of human effort - testing, debugging, reviewing, store submissions, releases, monitoring, and keeping things running.
Deckhand is our attempt to make that entire loop faster, while keeping humans in control. Would love to hear how others are shipping and operating mobile apps.
It started as a tool to help me figure out if I need to protect my plants or water them down here in New Orleans since we don't really have freezing season, but also have super hot days or rain issues.
I have had quite a bit of usage: https://smalldocs.org/analytics, which I'm very proud of, with many developers using it week after week.
It's free to use by the way.
Code is open source at: https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs
Today you you can self-host some models, yet this does not mean you can safely browse the web with it, and automate tasks that would interact with your email account, your bank account and your clients.
This is the reason why I left Mozilla, to work full-time on fixing these problems.
Prompt-injection, hallucinations and private information leakage might not be fixable, but they can be identified 100% of the time, deterministically, before any undesirable consequences.
However, asking people to pay first without an established brand nor the ability to audit the code requires a lot of trust. Without any additional judgement about the product, I would never recommend anybody to do that by fear of spyware, phishing or worse …
From the same consideration, I intend to open source my solutions. At the very least offer auditing capabilities to people like me, who are too paranoiac about security and privacy.
On the topic, I do not want to ask the user to always vouch for every usage. My goal is to detect ahead of executing any command, and offer options to re-try automatically, strip the leaking context, abstract the information or accept it. Only asking the user when there is a doubt, while not bothering the user when there is no issue.
A notifier which knows what agent is, allows you to approve certain decisions you'd want to be part of, while still running the agents in autopilot mode.
It periodically notifies you about agent progress & moreover, sends you proof of work artefacts like screenshots, plan.md etc files so you can review on the go.
This is the missing piece of harness, which truly removes baby sitting terminals.
It's one click install & installing ios mobile app. Android is coming soon. curl -fsSL https://notifier.aicrew.in/i | sh
Try it out at https://notifier.aicrew.in
Reach me at getnexaitech [at] gmail [dot] com
Zero-subscriptions google + social media search mcp/api/dashboard/sdk.
Every $10 gets you 15K google searches + 3K Twitter search/lookups + 2K Reddit + 15K Url fetches as markdown for feeding to your llm's.
Your credits never expire, use them whenever you want to, and you can stack them as many as you want.
Already got 40+ paying customers within a month of launch.
Now trying to add more social media.
I use it every day, but had stopped dev on it a few years ago. Fable has gotten me excited to take it off the shelf and add a bunch of features I've been wanting for a while. Working on localization now.
https://github.com/cmicali/vibe
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vibe-music-player/id1582482361