Posted by david927 1 day ago
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Most inventions are just better versions of things that already exist - I'm building the Google Workspace for clubs.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
Turns out integrating into a bigger IDE is much harder than just implementing a JavaFX view using libghostty...
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.