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Posted by david927 1 day ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
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petegordon 1 day ago|
Tandem bike physics game with device motion, controller gyro and multiplayer. Open source.

https://tandemonium.jimandi.love

Steam play test: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4482940/Tandemonium/

Open source: https://github.com/petegordon/tandemonium

marko-krkeljas 1 day ago||
I'm working on a painting of coneflowers and black-eyed susans from near where I live in New York City.

https://imgur.com/a/kP1aKIU

Oil on canvas, about 28 x 22 in.

mrkpdl 1 day ago||
Gorgeous! Keep going
dgellow 1 day ago||
Looks really neat
moinism 1 day ago||
Been building Chat Octopus (like ChatGPT but for media and content: https://chatoctopus.com) since Feb this year. Now it's available on web, ios, and android but I'm finding it hard to market it and find users.

Which is, i think, a common thing about solo devs.How do you guys deal with that?

joefreeman 1 day ago||
I've continued to work on a modal text editor, which has a server-client architecture that supports multiple clients (terminal, native, web) with consistent UI/bindings. I'm not using an editor as I used to, so this is more oriented around viewing/navigating code. I've recently been working on adding a Markdown viewer. The process of being able to use the editor and then get Claude to quickly make changes has been very satisfying.

I've also revived a project to design/implement a programming language. I'm slowing converging on a (keyword-less) syntax and (Beam-like) architecture that's starting to feel good.

dennisy 1 day ago|
Any link yet?
joefreeman 1 day ago||
Aether (the editor):

- https://github.com/joefreeman/aether

Quiver (the language):

- https://github.com/joefreeman/quiver

- https://quiver.run (online REPL)

vunderba 1 day ago||
I'm still working on Hackerman recorder. As a programmer, I really enjoy having live coding videos playing in the background while I work. But it's surprisingly difficult to find hour+ long videos of coding without commentary on Youtube.

What I really wanted was an infinite coding video, so I built one. Pick your IDE/monitor/ambience of choice, hit the Screensaver button, put it on a second monitor or TV, and enjoy infinite coding ASMR.

Recently added a Paper Mode which shows an animated quill that scrawls across a parchment for public domain novels.

https://hackerman.specr.net

pandaman28 1 day ago||
I'm working on a multiplayer stock trading game that was inspired by all my favorite board games. https://www.spellfolio.com/

It's a web-based game for 1-8 players, features a tutorial and bots, plays like a board game, and operates with economy, bluffing, forward-planning, risk-taking, course-correcting mechanics.

Play as an amateur psychic navigating a fictional stock market. Receive premonitions, call in your wizard friend, navigate dividends & earnings releases, and chase the glamorous annual investor awards.

If you try it out, please leave me some feedback :)

nhatcher 1 day ago||
As per usual for the last two years I'm working on an open source spreadsheet engine called IronCalc. It is super exciting. We have a proof of concept at

https://app.ironcalc.com

In the last couple of months my partner and myself quit our jobs to work on that. I am pretty sure that in a year from now the world is going to have a fairly competent spreadsheet alternative.

My capacity is fairly limited but I am trying to build a community around it. Join us!

https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc

iot_devs 1 day ago||
How is ironcalc different from other spreadsheets?
nhatcher 1 day ago||
From Excel/Google sheets because ot is MIT/Apache 2.

From libre office because it is web first and also an engine first

It's written in Rust and has bindings to different languages. It's extremely light and fast

conrs 1 day ago||
The world runs on spreadsheets! How do you plan on sustaining the business?
nhatcher 1 day ago||
I regrettably don't have a good plan for that. We have a grant from the European Union that will pay our salaries for another year or so.
conrs 12 hours ago||
Congrats! That's pretty cool.

I find in software the more constraints I can find the better the innovation ends up being, and business model is an excellent constraint - even just knowing what a responsible amount of effort is versus the value you anticipate.

Admittedly, I originally misunderstood your product as being more like google sheets - where it becomes a cloud drive of sorts with spreadsheets on top. At which point the risk of losing access to the tool would make adoption very unlikely.

snoke308 1 day ago||
These are all really good comments and ideas! I created a tool to help facilitate, track and recover lost revenue from Stripe subscriptions for SaaS companies. Called RertyForge, www.retryforge.com It lets a failed payment be seen from a company owner’s perspective. Why things fail, what works best to recover it, what step of the process is most successful, who is most at risk right now. It’s bootstrapped and just getting it off the ground. Love any feedback or questions
lopatin 1 day ago||
I'm reviving my multi-player Snake game Snaketron. It's written in Rust and probably the most technically interesting thing about it is that it's built for auto scalable Cloud hosting. The websocket isn't tied to the host actually running the game. And it can scale and rebalance in the middle of the a match without disrupting the game.

https://snaketron.io

https://github.com/lopatin/Snaketron

ramijames 1 day ago|
I've been slowly building [MiserablyUnemployed.com](https://miserablyunemployed.com/) for the last four or five months.

It pulls jobs from tens of thousands of company HR pages, and only keeps them for seven days (unless it sees that the job has been filled). No reposts. Only fresh jobs.

Besides that it has a resume builder, matching system, application assistance via an extension, job tracking software, and an interview preparation helper. It turned into some fairly complex software that I ended up learning a lot from!

If any of you try it, let me know what you think.

wingtw 1 day ago|
Love the name! :)
ramijames 1 day ago||
Thanks!
wingtw 1 day ago||
Btw, when coming back from buying the credits, return url is invalid (double domain name - https://miserablyunemployed.com,https//www.miserablyunemploy...)
ramijames 1 day ago||
Thanks for letting me know. Will fix!

edit: found it. What a stupid mistake. Fixed.

wingtw 1 day ago||
What a familiar feeling :D
ramijames 1 day ago||
:)
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