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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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matnosner 1 day ago|
neely (https://neely.app) - club & team management for amateur sports clubs in the DACH region, starting with youth handball. I coach youth handball myself. The incumbent here is SpielerPlus - practically every handball team in Germany uses it, and I've yet to meet a coach who's happy with it. That gap is the whole opportunity.

Most inventions are just better versions of things that already exist - I'm building the Google Workspace for clubs.

ekrapivin 1 day ago||
I am late for the party, I guess, but I’m still developing an ad-free solitaire/puzzle games collection:

https://inSolitaire.com

I’ve just done a major stability & usability release from the comments of a few dozen redditors.

Would love to know if one can find any other issues.

ramoz 1 day ago||
https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator is still very useful for annotating html prototypes and markdown plans (as well as terminal agent messages). Was glad to see codex team pick up the feature requests in the Codex App.

About to release a fun paid version. All contributors get lifetime free access.

Better running agents run longer, they need better plans. (is my bet)

_spl 1 day ago||
I’m working on WatchCat — uptime and cron monitoring.

I’ve always enjoyed solving observability and reliability problems, so eventually I decided to build my own take on the boring-but-important "is it actually working?" part of the stack.

It does uptime checks, cron/heartbeat monitoring, incidents, status pages and notifications. Nothing revolutionary — the goal is to make the familiar stuff simple, reliable, and pleasant to use.

It’s built with Rails and hosted in the EU.

https://watchcat.io

dbmikus 1 day ago||
I'm working on https://www.amika.dev/, which lets you put sandboxed agents on cloud VMs and then message them over the internet.

It's for agent + human devboxes, for chatting with coding agents from the web, or automating them with an API. Thing like Claude Code web, but any agent and you directly control the VM, too.

We're working to make amika.dev work on any computer, homelab, or K8S cluster. For tech folks, I describe it kinda like if Tailscale and Firecracker had a baby.

pistachiosPower 1 day ago||
I'm building a web-based game where players guess a footballer's name based on the list of teams he's played for. The project currently focuses on Italian Serie A

https://athleteguess.pages.dev/demo

wbnns 23 hours ago||
I left my job at the end of June; I'm tired of playing someone else's music and want to write my own songs (build my own apps)

So I'm building an app a week and focusing on solving niche problems I've experienced in my own life to start

I think it's never been easier to build prototypes, but because of all of the slop, building community and finding users around them are harder than ever before

This latter part I think is going to be the hardest part of going out on my own

But going to try

Things I'm working on right now:

https://a2ciple.pt/ - testing prep for a language exam required for residency & citizenship in Portugal

https://basehub.org/ - a docs site for agents to get the latest context on Base, an Ethereum L2

https://playgokab.com/ - a vocab game to learn words in diff languages

https://mru.space/ - a protocol to run software that gracefully degrades across failing hardware

https://shiponeshot.com/ - a framework to help me ship prototypes more quickly

Anyhow, cheers :)

foxtrot8672 1 day ago||
https://pendragon.foxtrotcommunications.net/

A legit attempt at making an AI financial advisor for everyday Americans. Most Americans can't afford a human CFP which can cost thousands of dollars a year. We offer a great AI driven alternative for less than $300/yr.

vlaaad 1 day ago||
I work on 2 things that are the same thing: 1. ghosttyfx — libghostty terminal for JavaFX (https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx/) 2. trying to integrate ghosttyfx into the Defold editor (https://defold.com/)

Turns out integrating into a bigger IDE is much harder than just implementing a JavaFX view using libghostty...

emporas 1 day ago|
I am experimenting with using A.I. to see an image, and generate TinyScheme code to draw it on Gimp. As soon as I got the code for a 2D representation, then I bring out the heavy weaponry, Rust and Freecad, and with some more information added I generate the 3D representation of a building.

A.I. generally shines when the steps are small and incremental. I would add that, when A.I. is used properly, generating code and hopping from one code to another, it should be better than any human already.

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