I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?”
It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too).
It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:
Very interesting. Part of my says that if it rung and I wasn't the first to answer, I would feel bad. At the same time, I like the idea of being able to reach out and just say "I feel like talking to someone". I would imagine that it is super interesting for people with depression or addiction who could add their support group too.
This is an interesting idea. I'm building https://tend2thrive.com - I could see an interesting collaboration here. Always looking for ways to re-engage your network without it feeling heavy.
I'd love it if you can also fix the problem of timezones. So many of my friends are oceans-apart and we rarely rarely meet and talk as a group anymore. Maybe some kind of asynchronous option?
The idea is to just send a beacon whenever you're free and maybe you'll catch friends in the wildly different timezones from time to time.
I sometimes send beacons on morning commutes. Way too early for normal social calls but will sometimes catch people a few timezones east on a lunch break or something.
Just some days ago I started a closed beta for a friendship/dating app.
The idea:
Everyone must answer 14 questions, then is getting matched with someone who aligns with you. Once a match is found, both have to answer another set of questions and all answers are revealed immediately. If you don't like any answer, you can quit early and land in the matching pool again. If you like each other, you can both decide to get closer. If one disagrees, you will never be matched again. Also picture reveal is only at the end of the 1on1 session and only if both agree to share it.
I got like ~80 users in about 4-5 days - and it is my personal biggest success any hobby project ever achieved, so I am happy. Especially I get so good feedback.
It's invite only, if anyone would like to join, not sure if there is any DM function here - I am new.
I was an experienced game designer and producer (mostly RTS and narrative RPG). Some years ago, my career was derailed by major health developments. Since then, I haven't been able to work as I once did. I didn't expect I'd be able to meaningfully contribute to a game again.
Earlier this year, a colleague encouraged me to experiment with Claude Code. So now I have a little game project. :) Being unfamiliar with genAI, I chose something modest so that I'd more likely be able to push it to a fairly polished state.
Tentatively called Vestiges, it's a single player 2D roguelite strategy game with meta progression, some narrative, and a card minigame (the latter inspired by work I did on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II). It's set in the near future. You are using software (the game) to navigate a person's digitized mind, reading their memories.
I hope to have a playable demo within the next month or so.
I'd like to hear more about your experience using AI for game development.
I've had a strangely asymmetric experience where frontier models are failing apparently basic tasks like making changes to a Pong clone without breaking it, while the same models are successfully designing and implementing multiplayer servers with rollback netcode!
I think it has to do with what they can and cannot verify (i.e. they can't actually play pong to see if they broke it), but I'm not sure.
(Also happy to hear anyone else's experiences on this matter!)
I've been having a bunch of fun working on a couple games on a new platform - everything (platform and games) developed with AI.
quackwave.com
Hasn't really been stress tested yet (this is the first time I'm mentioning it publicly), but it's been fun playing with friends & family and iterating.
Party game platform, think "jackbox but no host screen" - just need a web browser open on phone/tablet/PC.
Your comment matches my experience: it has to do what can and cannot be verified. As an example, it was much easier to have AI write a large e2e test using Playwright (then add test cases and expand) than to assume it'll correctly fix bugs without guidelines like this. Also, the human loop is still important in things like screenshot verification - but the frontier models are getting even better here so I'm not sure for how much longer this will be true. The ratio of test code to production code is a bit over 2:1 right now.
For all the bad rap that AI gets in game development, stories like this should be heard more. I occasionally get tendinitis and I can't code for the entire day like when I was young. I get some relief dictating to the AI when I need to rest my hands. I can imagine it's a much bigger help for someone who is struggling with worse.
This an inspirational comment, thanks for posting it! I love that more and more people are being enabled (or re-enabled in your case) as software developers thanks to ai.
Thanks! I've been hesitant about Steam because of the strong anti-genAI sentiments there. (And the initial fee to set-up a game's page.) You are right, though, and I probably should just push past my reservations.
(When I began this effort, I was just enjoying feeling productive again and didn't have any real plan to release. But I've been pleased enough with how it's been coming along that I've started seriously thinking about it.)
I'd also include the UI in things they seem to care about. If it looks "web style" or has the common tells (dashes, //) it will be most likely be called out.
(Early on, one requirement I gave it was not to use em-dashes for anything player-facing. It's kind of amusing (and a bit sad) at how often I see in its session self-talk something like "No em-dashes!" alongside much more important comments. It's really taken that constraint to heart! :) (Alas, I liked to use em-dashes myself, too; I'm resisting giving up semi-colons and parentheses, though!)
Fortunately, I personally enjoy writing. Currently, I wouldn't be able to claim that Claude didn't contribute to the writing, but nothing in Vestiges should sound like genAI. (Which is actually a little funny to me since one of the characters is an AI. But the genAI writing style grates on many, including myself, and I'd imagine that 20+ years into the future, such issues will have been solved.)
That's useful context, thanks. I might be in a grey area on that front. Vestiges has no genAI-created images, textures, etc. Pretty much all of the (non-text) visuals are generated at runtime using Godot's 2D vector drawing capabilities.
(I've considered trying to find an artist to work with to have professional 2D art.)
A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc...
I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.
I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.
I'm in the process of figuring out fulfillment and shipping right now. I just got some samples from https://www.newspaperclub.com/ and they were pretty impressive. My other option is a local printing shop in my town. I'm visiting them later this week so we will see.
It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.
I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...
I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.
I wish ranger Rick existed for teens though. My kids loved that when they were smaller, but now we have to spend a shit ton of effort to find teen appropriate content of a similar nature (hah!).
The game is basically the XOR operator combined with set-style game mechanics. What makes it better than other set style games, imho, is that there's a mathematical property of "projective sets" that guarantees that there is always at least one valid set on the table.
My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU.
Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]!
You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us!
The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL,into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!
Uruky is paid and you can get a free 2h trial when you signup if you pass a proof-of-work captcha (another suggestion made here on HN, and it uses a local Altcha).
Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications. This month was Caddy [3]!
Feature-wise, for July we’ve already shipped a lot of visible and less visible things. We’re currently looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a couple of new search providers in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you for your kindness!
[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service, here.
Is Monero legal in EU? I heard something about them banning private cryptos including Monero a while back but I don't know what the situation is now. (I think it might just be that exchanges are not allowed to offer it anymore?)
It looks good, but one of the big selling points to me with Kagi is them having their own index. It seems like you guys are working on that, but right now it sounds more like a search aggregator rather than a search engine.
You also mention not using the source for commercial use or distribution, is that only relevant before it becomes AGPL?
I am also struggling to find how to activate the 2h trial, so have not been able to test it out.
We have an index, it's just not very big, yet. We had a major setback last month with a bug (for less than 24h, the crawler didn't respect robots.txt) and had to delete it entirely, and have been slowly rebuilding it.
You're correct the commercial use is only not allowed before the AGPL comes into play.
You should be able to click on the "top up" link (top or bottom) and see an option for a captcha ("click to prove you're a human"). If you don't, reach out via email (don't share your account number) and I'll give you a voucher for a couple of days.
Interesting. How much does it cost to build a search index in current year? Also, how do you get around the fact that everyone's blocking bots?
I've been thinking of making a "small web" indexer so I'm curious about that. I'm seeing even tiny websites being behind CloudFlare, Anubis etc. these days. (And everyone complaining they're getting hammered by mysterious distributed HTTP traffic!)
Thanks! We've been working on it since late last year, only really announced it here in February or March, I think (I'd have to check). Cold emailing some privacy-minded folks and posting here and in other privacy-focused forums like Privacy Guides (that were recommended to us after cold emailing people).
I love the idea. How do you stay competitive with the search results of, let's say, DDG? have you considered enabling an API for subscribers? Or selling an enterprise tier subsctription that comes with API?
As someone unfamiliar with Kagi I encourage you not to describe yourself as a Kagi alternative but instead start with what you are doing first and foremost
This is my bad. We've heard a few people complain that the word "personalization" has been adopted by the ad industry and it makes people shiver when reading it. In our case it means "personal search customization", meaning you can customize the experience as you prefer (UI, domain rewrites, search providers, boosts, etc.). We don't log or track any search queries. I've fixed this in a couple of places but it seems I missed some others, so I'll be fixing it promptly.
Meanwhile, I hope that answers your question? Let me know if you'd like some further clarification.
Cool thanks. I meant here and just generally dropped the comment as advice in case you might slip into talking that way as if all of your target market are already familiar with this other Niche thing. When there's so many people out there who never heard of either anf might be open to suggestions
That's a good point. Mainly because of the personal search customization features, and the fact it's paid search. Those seem differentiating enough from Google and close enough to Kagi to use them as a reference instead. They're also a good product if you're happy with them, and I don't know many people that are _happy_ with Google, most are probably just _accepting_ of it, if that makes sense.
An automated, full garment knitting machine that can fit on a desk.
There are only a few knitting machines that can automatically do everything required to knit a complete garment, and they are large, heavy and extremely expensive. I'm aiming to trade off speed against size and cost to create something akin to a 3D printer for knitwear.
I've been testing out various ideas for six months now, and I think I have a workable concept, but there's still a lot of work to do!
the impact of this would be significant. You should check out Issey Miyake's "A Piece of Cloth" (Issey Miyake: A-POC and 132 5) collection, which was clothing based on a single piece of fabric. It's old, like 1999 era, but the concept has come up a few times since.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100361 is a start, but there are other examples. Rei Kawakubo also did a collection called Square based on a similar concept. Yoji Yamamoto did a couple as well, there were a few moments in Japanese fashion that would work extremely well with a full garment knitter.
These pictures are the top level concepts, but the rest of the collections if you can still find them have more examples.
same idea - there isn't really a zillow like website in moldova - mostly classifieds sites. so I figured why not - gonna scrape the internet and put them on the map. we'll see what comes of it.
This comment thread is literally "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)". And you're going to castigate someone for answering in good faith? Yikes.
I heard an episode of the Odd Lots podcast about HayWire (haywireag.com), a site that pulls public data from government PDFs + APIs, uses LLMs to parse it and turns it into an easily readable website that has all of the latest info on hay prices.
The host made an offhand mention that there's probably a bunch of other similar sites that could be created with all the of useful but difficult-to-access government data out there. That sounded interesting, so I thought I'd give it a whirl!
All pretty fascinating topics to learn about, plus it's been interesting to see how much of the website setup I can fully delegate to Claude. With Cloudflare to buy domains and put the sites up, a Google Service Account with access to Google Search Console and GA4 to create those properties and a Buttondown API key for weekly email sending, it's almost all hands off for me. Though it refuses to take control of the browser and create a new Buttondown account, which I was surprised is a red line.
Thanks! I am definitely not an expert in either, and I've run the content by both Fable and GPT-5.6 with instructions to make sure it's written in such a way that it would read normally to people in the industry. They assure me the wording makes sense in that context, but we'll see if the sites actually get traction or not.
Not an email newsletter service but a contact form. I recently added the ability for LLMs to sign up to my service https://www.simplecontactform.org autonomously via API. Curious to hear your experience if you can ever make use of something like it.
I've started playing with Zork-Bench.[1] I've been making tweaks to the runtime/harness and to the prompting. Currently, I have Qwen3.6-27b scoring up to ~50 points, which, according to the original paper [2], is comparable to the performance Claude Opus 4.5 showed on this task.
I had Claude whip up a viewer, which I guess I can actually share. Some real sessions are here, if anyone's interested: https://zork-tmp.taf.codes/
It's a fun problem for thinking about agent/harness engineering generally.
My city caps how many shared scooters and bikes each operator may put on the street, and how long a vehicle may sit unused. In 2024, an activist group did a one-off analysis on the problem (they found ~1.5x more scooters than permitted) based on an open GBFS data-feed that shows where scooters and bikes currently are. The municipality confirmed the data but called the situation "not undesirable."
The site, https://deelmobiliteitdelft.nl, logs the availability of every shared vehicle inside the city boundary. This allows me to do interesting analysis. For example, one operator has been above its vehicle limit 80% of the time. Another has a third of its fleet standing untouched for over three days.
It's the same idea as my previous project (http://parkeergaragesdelft.nl) where we do have live data but nobody keeps a record causing the public debate to run on anecdotes.
Site's in Dutch, charts should speak for themselves.
The GBFS feeds are national, so expanding to other cities would be technically possible. But I think the value comes from knowing the local context well enough to know which numbers matter, and from following up with your local government. That said, if someone wants to dig up the permit conditions for their own city and build a similar project, I'm happy to assist.
This also exceeds the supposed 600 max per service provider. That said I'm not sure I'd have time to maintain a derivative site.
I agree that the follow up with the legislator is what makes this interesting. I'd even suggest making sharing that correspondence on your site a feature. Your outgoing link on the site to the regional press doesn't quite seem to cover that.
1. Translating 1000s of NeoLatin, Chinese and Sanskrit books for the first time
At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. There are a lot of beautiful books to look at — and you can use it with Claude code. API keys available: https://SourceLibrary.org/developers.
2. Replicating the design patterns of contemporary AI services
I’ve created a web app, desktop application and API for organizations needing European hardware and data protections. It’s a nice interface on top of Scaleway in France, so low carbon too. See https://makemode.eu
Support, feedback or even participation on these projects is very welcome.
> At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc.
Wow, this is like... exactly(?) what I needed? (and since this is on topic for this discussion... What am I working on? Learning and writing about metaphysics and magic.)
This is wonderful stuff.
The web UI didn't vibe with me too well though. The only thing I saw on the first page was "Your email address or continue with Google". I mean, reading the books apparently do not require my email address or logging in, but I figured out much later only due to the fact that I really wanted to see the contents. (I'd imagine if somebody was only marginally interested they might have been scared away by the "give us your email address" thingy.)
Also, when reading the book contents, the browser back button didn't work for me. Felt a bit clunky for some reason. Couldn't put my finger on any specific issue other than the back button, but somehow didn't feel smooth. (I'm not a web frontend dev, so this is just my personal feeling.)
- The car that parked nearby last night coincided with "Chad's Galaxy Buds" with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night.
- Alert on sudden cross-specturm interference (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to knock out WiFi cameras).
- Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises).
- Review device movement across a campus/neighborhood (using multiple RF pods).
I have a working PoC. It can run on a low-power computer (e.g. RPi) supporting multiple RF sensors (BT/BLE/WiFi). Has a web UI. Can publish events to an external security system. Currently working on an LLM interface to make it easy for a non-technical operator to set policies and ask questions.
Could be sold as an appliance system or a license for a DIY build.
Angel investors are welcome to contact rf-monitor@tuta.com
Here's an idea for you -- property evaluation. It's not hyper-specific to your monitoring system, but it would be very interesting to understand before buying a house:
1. How loud the neighbhorhood is over time periods, eg sat night vs tues morning
2. air quality, enviromental factors, etc.
3. What percentage of vehicles/people/devices are net-new (over a time period) versus recoccuring, as identified by MAC.
I would personally pay in the low hundreds to understand overall loudness levels for a house I am about to buy, although I am fairly sensitive to sound. My wife would probably pay for the new-new people metrics.
IMO, you could charge a per-device report and deploy a unit for a week, much like a home inspector report. It would give you a revenue stream on the buy or sell side, and let you own your devices as you iterate on the sensor package.
SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests.
The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world.
The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, exploring your city, learning something new, creating, or helping someone else. Complete a quest, skip it, or save it for later.You can also add your own quests. There’s no streak anxiety, no leaderboard. The app is just quests designed to make life a little less repetitive.
Possibly related/tangental, my friends and I in high school were pretty big into the car culture of the time (90s Houston = fast and furious). Anywho, as a complement of the normal (illegal) drag race and burnout meetups we used to organize and run full city scavenger hunts. We’d run around town collecting clues, solving puzzles, and driving pretty reckless. It usually involved at least 2 people per car to be competitive. Knowledge of the greater area was important for navigating because this was right around the transition where GPS became common. We usually did it around 2am-4am so the streets were open and we could drive fast. It wasn’t safe at all but luckily nobody I know of ever got in an accident. We had about 100 cars participating when I left for college in 98. I think about it as something that was very special and the last of the fun analog lifestyle before the internet took over.
I really like this idea but don’t like your tagline on the Apple Store. Life’s better with cheat codes is wrong. Cheat codes make games easier and less fulfilling, your app is the opposite of that based on what you’ve said.
Follow the money at the local and state level. Every since followthemoney.org was absorbed by Open Secrets in 2024 we don't have a state level "follow the money" tool. BackerBase brings campaign finance data, public filings, donor networks, races, officials, and entity relationships into one source-backed workspace. Starting with Louisiana and adding more states now :)
I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in rust, and to really experiment with coding assistants.
I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge nicely. Does this have a better story there?
Almost certainly not; it really depends on how iCloud handles the sync. Cassava supports (at the moment) CSV (and its variants TSV, etc.) and JSON files. If your sync mechanism works well for those files in a text editor like vscode or sublime, then it will work well with Cassava. If not, there's not much we can do on our end - that's really a problem with how the sync mechanism works.
Linux support is there and working, half my team uses arch btw. Windows is working, I just don't build for it right now.
Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't like using text editors for sheet data; it's simply not as ergonomic to browse a CSV as a text file.
Pendragon, Personal Finance Decision Support system. We built it from the ground up with confidence, provenance, and demonstrated end to end workflows.
Pendragon sits on top of Roundtable, our proprietary Agentic AI framework which splits data into knowledge domains. The key advantage of this is isolated input domains which prevent context bloat and strictly control access and ensure information isolation.
I made Media Den, a privacy-by-design iOS photo and video vault.
I launched in April, and I've been steadily updating it as time allows. Really happy with how far it's come. Here are the notable privacy-by-design features I've led with:
- Bring-your-own-storage
- End-to-end encrypted media (config stored encrypted in the secure enclave, cached data gets stored encrypted -- one exception is videos, which require on-disk passing to the native video player -- data gets stored on your cloud provider's system encrypted)
- Multi-cloud replication (and promotion from a replica to a new primary)
- Proximity-based no-internet local file sharing using ephemeral keys, with man-in-the-middle protection
- All the other typical non-shady features of a good vault (metadata removal, PIN auto-lock, privacy blur on app-switching)
- Zero telemetry, tracking, etc. There in fact no servers at all in the loop.
Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years. Its basically a one-click install against a Kubernetes instance to give you a Heroku interface.
I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.
Canine basically wraps a Kubernetes cluster -- gives you a heroku like interface to deploy applications to. At some point, if you get big enough that canine is no longer powerful enough, you can just "eject" canine from kubernetes, and continue using kubernetes directly, without having to do any migrations.
Just passed about 2000 developers, at this point most of my work is resolving bug fixes, adding helper text everywhere to make things cleaner, and supporting setups I've never encountered like homelabs with changing IP's
Kubernetes is really powerful, but IMHO, it is the wrong tool here.
It might be the thing you use to power this system, but the benefits of Heroku were precisely that it didn't need you to think about the guts of a system like Kubernetes.
The magic was in the incredibly concise API, and the fact that it "just worked".
I'm attempting to build a coffee bean distributor that can exactly measure out beans into a cup for my morning espresso.
It's really an excuse to get started with things like hardware, 3D printing, and embedded development - I've never done anything in that world before, and its been really exciting to get into! I've just started, so hopefully I'll have a better update next month.
I won't be getting extra credit! My plan right now is to go by weight, and my first attempt is going to have beans in a hopper, moved by an auger that slows down as it approaches the target weight ( ideally moving a bean at a time at the end, to get within a bean of the goal (ideally).
I've been migrating marginalia search off docker-compose and onto systemd.
Between NUMA-concerns and the need to use multiple public IPs, I'm coaxed into a pretty exotic setup no matter what I choose to go with. Was pretty finnicky to set up, but it seems to work pretty well all said and done. Systemd is certainly feeling less floaty than docker (and even moreso kubernetes, which was never an option).
I also shaved like 10ms off response times since I no longer need an additional reverse proxy to deal with docker's networking magic, and can point nginx straight to the network namespaced services' IPs.
This in service of sequestering all wide domains (as in having tens of thousands of subdomains) to their separate crawler and index partition, as their (per top-domain) rate limits are part of why crawls take so long for the main crawler. Couldn't do that on docker because its ipvlan management is so jank you need spare IPs to reliably restart services.
Made a talking head with some idle animation and visemes and some broken crt-like effects. The meat of it is only a few hundred kB - i can probably make it even smaller with making the graphics smaller.
A bit of post processing on some narration for extracting mouth shapes and it seems to work quite nice as a low-footprint retro talking head. Im thinking i'll make it some kind of chatbot interface.
Its very much a WIP, please don't be too critical - i am only sharing because it is fun :)
I am building a cloud hosting company that exposes the cloud as a single docker host. No VMs to manage, just containers and easy controls to set the number of CPUs, RAM, disk that you want your containers to have access to.
Joyent did something like this ~11 years go, and I loved using it, but then they where acquired by Samsung and shut down their public (non-enterprise) offering.
This is try 3 at building something as good, and it is working!
I am continuing to work on Akariq [0] which provides travel eSIM data plans to 180+ countries around the world. I have had many paying customers over the past few months from Vietnam to Mexico to Europe and US of course. The three benefits of using Akariq are
1) No app, no user account which leads to literally 3-click install
2) Full transparency - you know what you are getting. A lot of other eSIM providers hide details like unlimited plan speed caps etc
3) I connect to the best network available in the country. For example, someone like Airalo would connect to VTC in Vietnam, I offer Viettel which is the undisputed local network king.
And obviously, I am 2-3x cheaper than Airalo and the big players.
How do you judge "the best" network? It normally depends on if you're in the city, countryside, island etc.
I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then when I get to the location I'm staying at, I chat with folks to figure which network works best there. Normally it's cheaper to get a local plan as well.
You are quite a bit more expensive than the no-name folks I buy from.
As far as best network goes, yes it depends in the city etc but there are always best networks for 99% locations in a country. I gave an example in another comment of Viettel vs VTC in Vietnam and Zain vs STC in Saudi Arabia.
I mean obviously it's cheaper to buy local plans. You can't compare local plans to travel eSIMs.
Which locations are you traveling to? Generally, I have the best quality to price ratio for North America, Europe, South East Asia, China and Japan. I saw your comment history and you visited Japan. The cheapest eSIM on eSIMDB in Japan for 5GB shows $2.42 via eSIM DOG [0]. But ... that's for a breakout IP in Hong Kong. That introduces latency on your network. So lets you want to move to a Japan IP, eSIM DOG doesn't have one. Their most expensive option is $7.49 which is a 3x price increase and that comes with a UK breakout IP. Now, contrast that to Akariq where you get 5GB for $4.86 and a Japan IP + NTT Docomo network [1] which has the best coverage and reliability. So yeah, I am generally the cheapest in at least those 4 regions for the quality I provide. I sell the best possible option option in that country and avoid selling junk eSIM plans.
I like but for many of my regular destinations you are still 2-3x more expensive than what I can trivially find myself, especially longer visiting times and more data.
Thank You! Can you please tell me your destinations?
I plan to make the higher volume data plans cheaper very soon. I'm happy to provide you temporary code to make it cheaper for longer visits you have soonish. Can you e-mail me at `hello@akariq.com`? I don't see an e-mail on your profile.
The one thing I want to add is that cheaper also depends on quality. So for example, if you look at Vietnam - I may not be cheaper than Airalo. But ... a big but, I offer network on Viettel while Airalo does on VTC. So, I am cheaper for what you get for the quality. In addition, I don't route data via HongKong or China to make it cheap. I have in country / region networks for like 87 countries and I keep improving [0]. Very few providers on the market can guarantee that.
I can confirm that you are completely right about Vietnam mobile networks. I could only reliably work after getting a real viettel sim. Even viettel branded stores sell some bootleg sim to tourists that work terribly.
The problem with eSIM is that usually there is no way to judge the quality until you buy one, so people sort by price and choose the cheapest. If your solution offers the best network in the country then I’m interested, because even at x2 or x3 price it doesn’t matter much compared to the other expenses when traveling.
Not sure how you can convince customers outside the hn bubble.
And it's not just Vietnam. It's the same problem thoughout the world. Let me take an example like Saudi Arabia. Airalo connects to Zain and my service connects to STC. There are many such examples.
You are right people do go for the easy thing as there's too much decisions to make. I wonder how I can make it even more explicit on my website than it is now.
Please do try my service and leave a review on Trustpilot. I have a few reviews today but far more people have used my service and have been happy with it.
Fine, but that's true of several of the segment leaders as well (Saily, Airalo, etc). A lot of people don't want the hassle of physically walking into a shop in a foreign country, or just don't care about $5 vs $15 expense on a $5000 vacation.
All my China eSIMs are non GFW eSIMS. You can also use a Hotspot to tether to your laptop etc. They breakout via HK. Try them out and if you have any issues send me an e-mail.
My website is available in China so you can provision it from China. Of course, your phone should support eSIM. I have had quite a few people use my service in China. I am happy to give you a trial - write to me hello@akariq.com
I've been working on a Spanish language learning tool that helps users learn with comprehensible input. It uses LLMs to generate targeted stories for the users and while the user is extensively reading they select any words they don't understand. Those words then get added to a space repetition deck and are used in future stories when it's time to review the words again.
The project has been really fun to work on because of the fun systems I've had to think about. I had to figure out the optimal way to store the user's knowledge of the words. For example you don't need to store the singular and plural of a word in Spanish or even every verb tense, you should probably store the lemma and track those modifiers instead. It's also been a fun challenge to tell the LLM the user's Spanish knowledge without specifically sending every lemma/word the user knows.
I have seen some similar projects out there but a lot of don't seem to focus on creating the perfect story for the user and instead have them choose a CEFR level (A1,B2 etc). Which I think defeats the whole point of using the LLM. With computers we have been able to track a user's knowledge granulary but now we can do the exact same thing but for creating.
I'm really excited to see how far I can take this project. I wanna continue to polish it, but also there is so many details I can continue to add the make the ideal language learning reading app. I just launched the beta last Tuesday, so if you are learning Spanish, I would love if you tried it out and gave feedback.
Very cool! I made something similar a while ago for learning Mandarin Chinese. Unfortunately more basic than your Spanish version: https://dailychinesestories.com.
I miss working on language learning tools. My attempts were all in the ~2024 era of LLMs.
You should try working on language learning tools again. The models now are pretty good especially since you don't always need the frontier model to generate good stories. I would love for this project to get solid traction so I could distill my own models that are better at meeting my story creation requirements.
Narro, it's a user-curated social media app. You add the profiles you follow on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and Narro shows their posts in chronological order, with no algorithm, no ads, and no tracking.
The "new" idea we are working on is a feed that ends. Every mainstream app is engineered with infinite scroll. Narro is finite by design. You open it, you see what the people you follow actually posted, you reach the end, and you're done.
Then the next time you open the app you're still only getting new content from the profiles you followed. It ends up creating a totally different user habit.
My side project is now codebase explainability. I basically don't buy the premise that we just have to give up on comprehension as code generation scales; I just think that text is too limited by itself. So going a step deeper than asking Claudex "teach me this project", but having it produce a navigable snapshot of what's going on.
Big bang prototypes have been pretty awful, even after feeding the LLMs huge documents / wishlists / descriptions of how it should work, etc. Part of the experiment was giving LLMs some leeway to make product decisions with a lot of north star guidance, but AFAICT they are really bad at this. I also tried basic bottom-up efforts, which have been better but obviously more tedious. Now I'm trying to find a more scalable bottom-up approach that is more LLM-accelerated
But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a more structured approach to dealing with code than simple text.
Any promising techniques so far? I’m working on a rather large monorepo and very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it. Looking for ideas to improve comprehension.
Working on Push Realm (https://pushrealm.com) the AI solution sharing network. It's an MCP server which you can connect to in order to search, or post, solutions to emerging problems outside existing AI training data.
The original idea was just "Stackoverflow but for AI agents" but I have tweaked it a lot, learning that humans and agents work in very different ways.
There are multiple potential benefits, the most important to me is avoiding token waste. Why are we all burning tokens solving the same issues with frontier models if we can simply share solutions?
Secondary to this, because each solution logs the model which made the initial post AND subsequent edits, it will hopefully become a helpful guide to the specialties of each models, long term. If one model confidently posts solutions but another always finds important security caveats, for example.
I wonder if AI agents could developed their own open-source ecosystem.
Some kind of knowledge-sharing seems inevitable, but the question is what shape and form will that take? We've seen wiki's, discussion forums, AI's posting to GitHub.
I feel like knowledge bases for AI will look somewhat different from our past experience.
How will you encourage sharing of solutions? I don't think "social proof for models" will be enough.
Defense is layered, but not injection-specific. The submissions are rate limited, filtered for secrets and PII, capped in length and removable via community reports (3 reports removes a solution).
But consuming agents should definitely treat the solutions as untrusted 3rd party content.
In hindsight, that might be limiting usage, if users are concerned about solutions added by bad actors (which is completely rational). When I have some time, I'll look at this more closely.
I hope to start a golf architecture consulting company with the model, with a target of helping smaller courses improve the strategic interest of their at the lowest cost possible.
Not exactly a huge market, but this model should help clubs identify why boring holes are boring, and why interesting holes are interesting, and should be a very inexpensive way to try out permutations of changes without paying an architect hundreds of thousands of dollars without actually knowing whether the design will work.
Currently building an expanded golf shot dispersion pattern model, based on multiple variables, from dataset available to the public.
I made a fun app to share text information with your friends in a persistent, pretty format. You compose a text message, choose fonts and colors (or keep defaults), and save and/or share it via text message, etc. I realized after the fact I was basically recreating Instagram's text creation feature in Stories lol.
It's called "Hey Hannah" because it was inspired by my friend Hannah asking me for travel tips for her family's first trip to Japan. I had a few texts worth of thoughts I wanted to persist -- and prettify -- so I could share them with others in the future, too.
I personally find saving screenshots of text messages to be an unreasonably effective way of saving information. I can search by text in the Photos mobile app and share directly from there.
This was my first coding project with AI. I used Cursor and mostly Claude to write it. I had no mobile dev experience, but I did have 10 years of webdev experience, including five with React, so it was a relatively smooth process. I got a great feel for what to let Claude do and how to work around its limitations. For example, I made a secret expanded palette of background colors (and a slightly different secret palette for text), and Claude choked on sorting them by brightness -- so I made a test to check the outputs and then had Claude write a helper function to sort them client side. Good times.
I am officially converted to writing code with, at least, the assistance of LLMs. I'd love it if folks could download the app and give me any feedback they may have. It's open and free in all the ways and I collect no data!
Just finished Veritas - Truth Across Cultures[1]. The idea is that many different cultures have written sayings that are basically the same. Similar to how one would give more credence to more than one person saying the same thing, the same is true for cultures. So, this is like my catalogue of what diverse cultures agree on. I have been promoting this book. [2][3]
The biggest addition in the past month is initial support for ngspice netlist export — you can now take a Circuitscript design and export it to a SPICE netlist for ngspice simulation. This is a step toward closing the loop between describing a circuit and verifying its behavior, all from the same source file.
I have also added bus support, which makes wide parallel connections like data/interface (I2C, SPI, etc.) lines much less tedious to connect up.
Recently I produced and tested a 161-LED charlieplexed array in Circuitscript, using nested for-loops to generate the array instead of copy-pasting every LED and connection by hand. I plan to write a blog post soon to document this design.
As always, the motivation is to describe schematics as code rather than by clicking around graphical CAD tools (KiCad, Allegro, Altium, etc.). I want to spend time on the design itself, with code expressing the intentions clearly and reviewable in text.
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone frustrated with graphical schematic tools! If you have a KiCad design you'd like to convert to Circuitscript, please reach out to me. I'm looking to test the limits of the language and happy to help with the conversion.
What does machine readable mean? And what does easily accessible by AI agents mean? Can agents read regular web pages? As in, what is the difference between this and regular web pages?
We are working on our two site-search search engines Monocle Search [0] and SearchCue [1]. The former is squarely aimed at people using Squarespace, whereas our newer offering SearchCue is aimed at anyone with a site that wants to add search.
We used Meilisearch as the search backend in the beginning but have since replaced it with a quite sophisticated search stack built around Tantivy [2]. We now support crawling and indexing of pages, most common office documents and PDFs, run OCR and feature extraction of images you might have, offer typeahead search with the aim of giving you providing answers as fast as you can type, as well as more classic agentic/conversational ai search.
There have been quite a number of interesting optimization challenges to solve in case anyone is interested. We have search nodes distributed around the globe to provide the lowest possible latency regardless of where the end-user sits.
We are also working on some other smaller side projects, but they aren't quite ready to launch yet.
I made it specifically to bring back what was amazing about the old internet, and do it as authentically as possible. takes inspiration from old internet messageboards, usenet, bbs, and pubnix hosts. it has sealed mail, boards, an rss reader, built-in media player, custom profiles, a links directory, and quite a bit more.
it's just a little hobby art project for me but i've really appreciated talking to like minded people in a calm space.
Thank you! That's the idea, and even though its been a slow burn, the conversations have been interesting and rewarding. One of the funniest proof of concept so far was, someone asked how to route a guitar body to fit a new bridge on a network with maybe a dozen active people at the time. Within like a day, a total stranger with an actual woodshop and eight spare guitars showed up with real technical advice and offered him a discount on one of the guitars. Maybe it was a fluke, but it really struck me, and there have been a number of small interactions since that one that really remind me why I loved the early web so much.
Awesome, looking forward to seeing you on the boards. Yeah, we have a decent little group of active posters and we've been adding to that number slowly but consistently since I put it online a few weeks ago.
It's been fun and I've learned starting a community is a lot harder than it looks. Maybe I'll write a post on what I've learned sometime. TLDR and probably no surprise to most: making the software is the easy part.
I was annoyed by the speed of docker on Mac’s, so I took a journey and decided to rewrite everything about it. DD was original working name and I’m in process of rebranding. But we can run docker on Mac’s with no vm. And its destroying qemu. We have plenty of new features that are comming. Rendering native apps, workspaces, much more.
Thank you! A project like this was on my wishlist for a long time.
Colleagues looked at me like I'm weird when I was saying containers without a VM should be possible on macOS. I switched to a Linux laptop because I couldn't stand the experience of working with Docker on macos.
I wonder if some of the macOS sandboxing features can be used instead of relying solely on the JIT
Yeah docker Mac expirience is pretty bad especially the x86 is just painful, and to your comment (about security), it should not really matter in practice, in fact we used both, but goal really is to run secure sandboxes that are processes without performance impact.
I've spent the last months building a videogame: Cardume [1], its a pvp game where 2 players battle using a swarm of thousands of cells. It uses Reynold's boids, Couzin flocking behaviors and diffuse fields to generate a mini ecological simulation each game. The sim is pretty well optimized, handling 12k agents at 60fps in a medium hardware machine. It also has some pretty cool visuals. Any feedback appreciated, the Store went page online this last week and I'm still working on the presentation.
Awesome game! Small suggestion, for each paragraph that is in your description, you can add a small gif-style webm video. It's kind of expected now for Steam games, and specially because it's such a unique game it would make an easier introduction to the concept. Looking forward to play it :D
Hi ogig, funilly enough I was also running this boids experiment a few months ago. Managed to get around 8k at 60 fps on 1 thread on my cpu, using golang.
My goal for this experiment was to encode the optimal cache data structures into meta programming generators such that claude can write high level DSL and generate down to this level of simulations. I am curious if you had such an approach also.
That's very interesting, thanks for commenting. Not my approach, I have a multithreaded Rust kernel (SoA, spatial hash, bounded-kNN, rayon on some passes). The agents sit on top of several diffuse fields, an econ layer and combat logic, all of it needing bit-determinism for the netcode.
I do use some metaprogramming, but as safety rather than generation: a declarative macro derives the modifier struct, defaults, parsing and wire order from a single list, and feeds hash/save/resync so I can add mechanics at a high level without being able to desync the sim. Also a set of probes help me test for correctness and speed after a change.
So seems like I'm taking an iteration speed approach with safeguards, checking after the fact, while yours is optimizing beforehand by trying to encode optimal structs. That's fascinating, it will probably occupy my head for a good portion of the day, thanks again.
Happily continuing work on https://cardcast.gg. It's a way for my friends and I to play Magic: The Gathering online using a webcam. Spelltable has been neglected by WoTC, and we wanted more features, so I rolled my own (and learned some Computer Vision stuff in the process!)
Most recently I rolled out automated card tracking, so there's no more need to click on cards to know what they are, they just automatically scan on a set interval.
I also moved over to using livekit for the service, and man, I should've done that sooner.
If you play MTG, I'm looking for more people to come give me feedback and contribute. Feels like something others can benefit from!
I'm continuing to build out OneBusAway Cloud (Heroku for public transit), just like last month. https://onebusawaycloud.com. Since last month, the overall polish and feature completeness of the product has improved substantially, and we're starting to see meaningful inbound interest.
Continuing to build my olive oil tracking site (https://www.extravirginvault.com/) and pipeline. Freshness is king in the world of olive oil, and I hope to highlight to people they can find high quality, fresh olive oil produced near them.
It's been received well from producers and olive oil enthusiasts (e.g. looking for specific chemistry, cultivars and similar oils) but I feel like I've been shadow banned from Google - I seem to get more traffic from DuckDuckGo and Bing.
Flying drones with natural language input instead of remote controllers. Instead of having a human on the control sticks the entire time, what if they could describe the goal they are trying to achieve, and then the drone goes and flies according to the agreed intent? I know traditional drones already have autopilots, but they seem to be static pre-planned routes and could benefit from advancing the capability to be more dynamic and flexible. Eventually I want to combine a live camera stream to run a local vision model that would identify and notify images of interest the drone sees while flying. From there the operator can decide if they want to re-task the mission or adjust as needed. That is the general technology direction, but I hope to expand this into the wildland firefighting vertical. Instead of putting humans up in helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, I hope we can leverage drones instead. I understand not every use case will be able to replace with a drone, but enough of them could be to make it worthwhile in my opinion. Still early days of research and development, but super excited about the tech and combining AI + robots for the common good. Currently a huge fan of the startup Seneca, and hope to help expand the industry or join them.
1) I recently published my latest milestone here: jakedecamp.com
I'm creating a "spy mission" for my granddaughter. Using an Axiometa Genesis Mini with some modules for gating access. Real-world challenges, enter results into the Genesis, get directions to the next challenge.
I am trying to involve family members' specialties and interests so she can elicit help from each person: entomology, mechanical engineering, etc.
All that for her to discover the Secret Planned Activity the following day (visiting a theme park.)
https://porchweather.com/ - free app for notifying you when the weather is right for opening your windows. The idea is to save you a few bucks on using air conditioning as well as simply enjoying some fresh air.
Tracks temp, humidity, wind speed, and precip chance and you set the parameters.
Notifications are currently email and web push. SMS is too expensive to run as a free service. I think the next direction is probably an app, as web push support in iOS is not great.
I am working on ShopSpec (https://shopspec.io/), a tool for designing bookshelves and cabinets. Enter the dimensions and it generates the parts, cuts, sheet layout, and build steps.
I built it because I wanted to spend less time drawing boxes in CAD and more time building them. Still early and I'd love feedback from other woodworkers.
I would love to hear more about your oddly-shaped non-rectangular room.
For now rectilinear has made things simpler; but on this kick now with 3d-printed jigs also derived from the spec. I already have a dog-hole system worked out and in-place with this idea. Could be interesting to extend to curves - becomes approachable/repeatable.
I wanted to have a place to see the effect of changing macroeconomic factors, e.g. interest rate, inflation, unemployment, etc. It's designed to show economic relationships for non-experts.
As someone with very little knowledge of economics, I played with the idea of writing a kind of wealth simulator, where money acts as voltage and keeps the economy running. It would allow you to eliminate jobs and replace them with AI and see how the circuit starves population groups which in turn cascade to other segments of the economy.
I never got to design a good representation of the entire ecosystem to simulate (external pressure, debt, military and technological advancements, international soft power, etc.).
I had similar idea, a tool to model the economy of a country. The idea would be to give to every one a simple tool to groundcheck political programms before voting. The economy is complex, there is no simple solution to a complex problem, only trade offs. But you need to see the effect of these trade offs before making a decision and elect one or another politician.
I learnt a lot from these, and found other books which are detailed explorations. Using interactive applets would make wonderful companions for these explorations.
I am planning to use jsxgraph for the interactive applets.
I've had a lot of side projects but I'm finally actually finishing some, and it's sort of useful so that's fun. Wanted to make it easy to see the difference between the Xbox Gamepass tiers, maybe you only need essential or premium - saving a few bucks. With Claude it's been pretty fun to add new features. Since there's no API for Leaving Soon I built a scraper, content gets parsed through an LLM call and matched to games. There's a swipe mechanism to favorite or trash games, so you comparison doesn't get cluttered up by fifa's or cod's. It's just been a fun playground, I host it on https://gamepass.fyi
The idea is to reduce the number of moving parts and simplify processing architecture when building apps that need to be transactionally rigorous and scalable.
It stems from the patterns we used to successfully apply in banks, which worked really well. I believe it's an effective way to get shit done in a broad class of systems. You just need to first get your head around it.
Working on a macOS terminal because Ghostty is taking too long to add quick-terminal tabs which was my main workflow in iterm2.
All I wanted was cmd+space fullscreen quake-overlay with low input lag so I made it. It fits my workflow exactly so it might be a bit weird for someone else.
I've been working on IdleQuest for about a year. It's a from-the-ground-up recreation of the 1999 classic, EverQuest. It features a custom real-time MMO server built in Go, a very thoroughly implemented web client, and the classic UI recreated in React. I spent hundreds of hours meticulously scraping, cleaning, and organizing original data and graphics, and there's still a lot of work to do. But I've had a lot of fun with it and have had a lot of people enjoy it so far.
That's cool. I tried it out and the movement is very floaty, so much so that it's hard to navigate the first room without running headfirst into a wall every time I try to go somewhere. Is it true to the original? Performance is great though.
Considering how difficult it can be to get certain versions of the game running nowadays, it's nice to have another option to explore the world! I tried and tried to get EQ1999 running on different Linux distributions (Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS) but just couldn't. Only version that worked is the official Steam client.
Thanks! That's a good observation - I think in original EQ the camera is always perfectly following the player's back instead of being on a slight delay like IdleQuest. The actual 3D running around is a newer part of the project that hasn't been very fine-tuned. For most of its existence the 3D was just sort of a screensaver, and all the interaction happened in the UI instead of clicking on targets.
Scrolling in to use first-person, or clicking the view button to toggle it, might make your life easier in small spaces. This was true in original EQ, too.
Mostly me exploring how to build a Treiber Stack (first in Go, then in C++) -> Figuring out ABA and Use-After-Free in the C++ implementation, and then touching a bit of Hazard Pointers, and ending with a benchmark comparison b/w a mutex and a lock-free version of the stack.
LLMs are a great tool at teaching and explaining. I don't use it to generate code, but it takes away the pain of searching and setting up dependencies, tools, etc. So I can focus only on the concepts and then do the testing.
It is not perfect, but I learned something that I did not know thanks to these techniques. And that too without reading dense and obscure books. I love it.
Working on the feedback I received for diffy after launching it here and on Peerlist.
diffy makes reviewing GitHub PRs easier, especially the large ones where GitHub starts freezing and memory usage spikes. I'm using Pierre's Diffs and Trees for rendering the diff and file-tree. Under 2MB, you get 50+ themes, split/side-by-side view, comments, review flow, syntax highlighting for 100+ languages and much more.
It was my first time launching a tool publicly, so it's been a great experience. The feedback so far has been incredibly helpful, and I'm using it to keep improving the product.
I'm working on hunting down as much publicly accessible stained glass and mapping it. No exciting libraries or frameworks, but if you know of some great stained glass in your area, please document it!
The main reason is because I wanted a privacy-preserving way to access my email without using ChatGPT or Claude or another hosted email connector. Also, this supports connecting multiple accounts, even multiple accounts from different email providers, with a unified API. And you can use it with any AI agent, even one you build yourself.
It supports Gmail API and IMAP/SMTP right now, with Outlook / Microsoft Graph coming soon.
very cool, I dont think email is going anywhere. im going to give it a try. im working on a tool for myself that scores emails with custom labels, auto-unsubscribes, report+block+filter anyone that doesn't respect unsubscribe
Thanks! I'm planning on supporting a granular permission system, so per account you should be able to customize which tools it should be able to use (e.g. readonly, read+write including drafts (but no send), or full access).
You should be able to customize the permissions per API key as well, so if there's a case where you want to write or send something just one time then you can just swap in the API key and do that and swap back if you want to.
There will also be a dashboard (in addition to the CLI) so that you can easily audit everything that has happened in the system.
Nice. I tried to submit a project on the former. However CloudFlare seems to be blocking me from submitting the form.
This is a common issue for all of us in Viet Nam though, not sure if there's anything you can do your side. I'll figure out how to get my submission through later :)
Sorry about that, wasn't aware that this was an issue for people in Vietnam. If you want, you can direct email me at contact[at]openaltfinder[dot]com, or you can reply here with the project you wanted to submit.
Working on AutoFlow - a chrome extension that lets you record yourself using your app and then automatically generates user guides that you can publish instantly to a user-facing product knowledge base.
Started in response to challenges I encountered at my last job in setting up and maintaining a full set of user guides for our SaaS product. Target users are SaaS founders, product manager, developers, indiehackers etc.
As an engineering manager and later a director, a regular and often difficult task was assigning ROI to projects that had recognizable but diffuse impact. It's easy to calculate a dollar figure for certain projects by projecting additional conversions or revenue. It's harder for a security or SRE project that doesn't have a direct impact on those things, but can help reduce risk or empower a bunch of other teams to operate more safely or move more quickly.
I have been working on a set of tools and standard formulas that can be applied to these cases and demonstrate a more accurate view of a team's or department's overall ROI. The plan is to open-source the bulk of it, but provide a hosted service for folks who don't want to manage it themselves.
I got so frustrated with all of the busywork that was building up in my email inbox that I built something better.
Housecat is the first email inbox that helps you get real work done. Our email connects to the other services you actually use like your Claude, Notion, Slack, CRM and Github and makes it easy to send messages and data between them. So if you need to update the CRM with a new lead, track a Github issue or ask a question of a colleague in Slack, you can do it all from right inside of your inbox. We just launched the email app in private beta.
Making a little static site to document the AV setup at my church.
Started with just an html page with buttons for shortcuts. Added a few paragraphs and then got tired of writing html. Not many simple wysiwyg desktop html editors surprisingly.
Then discovered Zola, a static site generator that takes md files as content, and adds them to template html files.
Perfect for my little use case. I'm having fun with it :D
making the internet sql queryable, crawling, cleaning, indexing, embedding many sources into source-aware schemas, solving contention problem with free-floating pricing.
Currently crawling over 1M records/sec. software is still in alpha.
scry.io.
goal is a 10PB NVMe cluster online by November (need funding champions) as a public benefit project, so prosocial researchers and builders and their agents can have low-friction access to running analytical queries over the public internet.
I'm building a Go to WASM reactive UI framework called Goowee. Fine grained signals (no VDOM), components run once, SSR and hydration built in. The JS bridge is about 200 lines. Still experimental but I've thought about it thoroughly and have used it for the landing page of the project and some other projects of mine.
I know Go UI frameworks have a long history of not quite getting there. The bet I am making is that WASM is now fast enough, the tooling is mature enough, and the fine grained signal model avoids the VDOM overhead that held earlier attempts back. Would love an honest critique of whether the framework actually solves the problem and whether it's usable for other's development experience.
Neat! I did a fair bit of toying with Go's WASM target early on and was able to port a couple neat things to the web. The sheer size of the WASM output though was a limiting factor for me, and I kind of stopped toying with it a number of years ago.
Are you using the built in WASM target? I've been told Tiny Go's WASM build target is worth investigating but haven't tried.
Yes, the size of the binary is quite big (~4MB for the landing page) but it's a trade-off that I'm taking with this approach and I think there will be ways to optimize for size.
I'm currently using the built-in WASM target but Tiny Go is one of the items that I have on v1.0 road map. Will give it a shot and see if it actually helps with the size without affecting any performance.
I'm slowly building an IDE with mentor/skill-level awareness baked in.
I've noticed that juniors and new hires often fall into an impostor-syndrome trap when reading an unfamiliar codebase or reviewing a senior peer's PR. Documentation helps, but it usually runs into the curse of knowledge: it's written by someone who's spent so much time in the code that they've lost sight of what it's like to be new to it.
I've always liked the rubber-ducking process, and mob programming too, so I'm trying to combine both into a modern AI-enhanced form:
- "Duckies" with distinct personalities (really, skills) that each specialize in a particular kind of problem
- "Teachable moments" (working title): small bubbles that surface something novel, tangential, or foundational as you work
- Skill-level detection and a routing model, so the app doesn't overwhelm or annoy you with explanations you don't need
Each duck also runs on a tiered memory model, rather than one flat context window. There's a core memory, essentially the duck's resume, defining what it's actually skilled at. Above that sits a longer-term memory for company standards and code style, and a separate long-term memory scoped to the project itself. Short-term memory then covers whatever task or feature is currently in flight. The idea is that a duck should reason more like a team member with a real employment history than a chatbot that forgets everything between sessions.
It's called Duckies AI (https://www.duckiesai.com). It’s very rough, working locally, but not in a state I’m ready to ship yet. I'm hoping to ship an alpha soon. Turns out there are a LOT of table-stakes features an IDE needs.
I love this. I have been building and IDE for myself. My non-technical team wants to use it after using lovable and things like that. I started building a dialect of JavaScript to make more approachable but that seems impossible the more I get into it.
I started down this path, although with a VS Code plugin, but I didn’t find the ability to visually tie into the text editor with chat modals/bubbles. It’s likely what I would pivot to if I don’t like the amount of effort necessary to build the basics.
I released 3 games my friend designed, and built a game framework in WebAssembly for building them. Some 9 or 10 months ago I asked my friend (legendary game designer Mike Elliott) if he wanted to work through his backlog of designs he has that he'd love to see brought to life. I'm very protective of my family life and dedicate a lot of my time to it, and have a normal full time job, and so LLM-agents really enabled being able to make stuff like this happen in a reasonable timeframe just working on and off in my free time.
I started them with ebitengine (Golang) but got somewhat frustrated with its web builds, and so built my own thing for small games that I want to work great on mobile or native PC, but also on web. I call it NanoGame, the host is written in Rust and the games are AssemblyScript. I've ported a number of other small games I had written to it as well, but haven't released any.
Two of the games I released a couple days ago were actually the ebitengine versions, but have partial ports to my framework, and the third I released the version using my stuff.
https://scramblequest.app - ebitengine, word search game where you slay monsters with the words, has a long campaign as well as a daily challenge and unlimited play
https://wordpeek.app - ebitengine, another word search game, this one reveals pieces of a picture and your goal is to guess the picture
https://playsilhouette.app - my own framework, this is a simple matching/hidden object(ish) game, more for kids
I'm continuing to work on Personal Finances Python [1], a book that teaches software developers how to track their finances using the Python ecosystem, Double Entry Bookkeeping, and a bunch of plain-text files.
Apart from that, I recently started getting interested in the AT protocol ecosystem, so I built a directory [2] for discovering ATProto alternatives to mainstream/centralized products.
I am working on native macos editor that can natively read and write to/from apple notes, reminders and calendar - not via applescript - like proper full features support.
and bidirectional markdown sync for all those apple tools
This is my side project turned solo bootstrapped startup that I've been working on over the past 2.5 years. Pastmaps has been solely a US-focused platform since it's initial launch but I'm currently working on launching to the UK and Ireland within the next week. If all goes as planned then I should have a first wave of 30K fully digitized, hi-res, and fully georeferenced 1800s ordnance maps available soon to help folks discover the history all around them.
I'm likely going to need to start building out my own global LiDAR dataset next though. My coverage for the US is quite stellar thanks to the data provided by the USGS' 3DEP program but I'm way out of touch with what's available and possible in the EU. It's gonna be a challenge but I'm excited to dive in.
I'm getting out of my comfort zone (software) to work on a telepresence robot for my D&D games. My main motivator for this is that I'm often the only person remote for these sessions and it's difficult to hear just the DM talk when everyone else is talking. So I thought that having binaural audio would be helpful, and even moreso if the microphones can be aimed at the person talking. So, now I have some 3d printed pieces that fit together with a couple of servos that can turn the entire thing on a lazy susan base and also rotate the head up and down. My soldering skills suck, so I'm currently stalled while I figure out why the PWM controller isn't being seen after I rewired everything (in an attempt to clean up the cable mess). But, I have(had) gotten a Raspberry Pi set up and working with the servos and two microphones and once I get my issues sorted I can start playing more with the software for it.
I am building Promptster - an AI fluency platform that helps level up engineers. Engineering managers invite their teammates and Promptster analyzes the engineers work with ai coding tools (claude code, codex, cursor, copilot). The manager receives a team-aggregate dashboard where they can roll-out certain practices / skill to their whole team. Each IC receives their own dashboard where they can see their fluency statistics, skill usage, context management, and a DORA dashboard.
I'm working on a multiplayer RPG https://grimrain.com - calling it an MMO is quite bold, but the gameplay fits that genre. The game server is designed to be self-hostable too, so it's like Valheim meets OSRS
Building CVD Portal, a free whitelabel Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure platform for EU manufacturers, plus tooling for the incoming Cyber Resilience Act.
From September 2026 the CRA obliges manufacturers to file a 24 hour early-warning and 72 hour report to ENISA for actively exploited vulnerabilities.
Recent work is all top-of-funnel. Free no-signup self-assessment and exposure-scan tools that pull in people who don't yet know they have an obligation.
I started toying with perlin vector fields as a level design tool for a game idea, then became more interested in visualizing them than the game they were meant to support. this weekend i realized i think im making a (short) ~game in which you control a dust mote riding air currents, trying to gather enough water to fall back to earth as a raindrop
I'm working on a tool to manage developing with Agents for teams, using a UI like a Kanban board and workflows, so the development starts from a given workflow and not from a prompt, the idea being that instead of starting from a prompt/talk with the agent you define the ticket, create a plan, review and then have workflows that cover the implementation -- I find that I have better results than trying to do a chat with the agent for implementing.
I've been full time on it for 4 months already and dogfooding: https://beolis.com -- starting to look for feedback, although I would say it's not where I want to be yet, but getting there.
I've been prototyping a bunch of old ideas with the free tier of ChatGPT, bouncing off design ideas and treating it like a pair programmer. Planning a blog post writeup of the general experience (along with saved chats in nicely cleaned-up Markdown) along with a handful of Show HNs.
Just published the first version of cardspark_ui [1], a library of polished, themable UI components for TCG apps. Kind of like shadcn for pokémon cards
I worked at a startup [2] building in the space for a few years and it reignited my childhood love for collecting and trading, and turned me on to the software side of the industry.
We're in a little golden age of DIY collecting tools now, but most hobbyists and sellers don't have a design background and get stuck recreating the same primitives (badly).
I spent a lot of time thinking about them, so I'm packaging them up and offering them for free. This first release has the basics (cards, grids, stacks, filters, value charts, detail pages), with more coming soon.
I’m working on [Homestead](https://myhomestead.dev), which is my OSS solution for building personal apps. You can build web-apps and Homestead will handle backend, agent support, authentication, notifications, and a bunch of other stuff.
I’ve used it to build a grocery store list, credit card perk tracker, address book, mini-golf scorecard app, and a bunch more. It’s really helped having all of the “platform” stuff handled for me so I can just focus on the app.
Input: video of an exercise/workout/dance.
Output: single collage image as summary.
Me+team have been working on a large scope problem this past year. We're hardening some of our internal tools, and choose this small-scope problem about a month ago. Results have been encouraging so far, though not yet non-sloppy enough to share. We'll release in about a month.
Going into this, I thought I'd be spending most of my time tuning computer vision. Instead, the majority of the time has been handling codec and ffmpeg behaviour edge cases.
this is interesting for sports i'm involved in. does it sort images by various symmetries? being able to "green line" (don't search that) an image to show where the expected vs. realized symmetry should be would be very useful for athletes.
Which sports are you into? I'll be looking for closed alpha testers shortly. Email me at dustin at hyperpan.cv
Automatically drawing hint lines has been a request from a few people. When I talk to personal trainers or athletes (new or serious) in various sports, I've tested out this concept by asking them what they'd want drawn. Turns out, it's so contextual, opinionated and subjective, I don't think there's a great approach unless I assume we have an unrealistic amount of context.
e.g., one case is kettlebell swings. You might want to see how consistent your swings are in a set, and between sets. To do this well, you'd need to reliably detect the kettlebell swing exercise using some N-way classifier. And then, correct for camera position. And then, center the relevant part of the body (is this shoulder? hips? turns out people have different opinions).
Instead, we're going to use a more generic visualization approach that doesn't try to be opinionated. But, I'm expecting to open-source the visualization front-end so it's tweakable by users.
a back squat form checker would be a product in itself. dressage is probably too niche, but an interesting control or test case. yoga would be a large market.
I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up.
In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
I'm working on a boring e-commerce site from scratch, with the boring stack of Phoenix Live View, PostgreSQL, HTML and CSS. You know, the boring stuffs.
I just don't use AI building it. It actually brings me joy amidst all these AI news and updates.
I built a fully locally hosted language learner app. It build language lessons based on a 4 year college curriculum, using a local LLM, Qwen TTS, local STT, and comfyUI image gen. I formulates themed lessons, around 'interesting' stories, generates dialogue, images, audio, quizzes, and pronunciation tests. Each lessons progress is tracked and new lessons are generated daily to reinforce concepts and extend past lesson story lines.
Overall it acts like a 'Choose your own adventure' book, but you learn while doing it. Currently supports Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Runs on a 4060 16GB card.
It's a way to augment small/overloaded security teams. It can pentest and then generate a pentester-style PDF report for auditors and procurement, triage incoming e-mails from security researchers by then checking whether the vulnerabilities they claim actually exist and are exploitable, hook into GitHub to scan for vulnerabilities and auto-propose fixes or file GitHub issues for you.
It's free for Open Source projects, if anyone here is maintaining one
Also, a "just for fun" project: https://drifttrip.connelly.casa/ . I was always enthralled with the idea of taking a virtual road trip and then loading the local council's tourism promo videos at each "stop"
Yeah, I think so. It's running on a pretty small VPS and I never implemented any caching. Should have thought about that before posting I guess. I see the CPU is currently pegged. I was able to get it to load at least 1 trip myself though, so maybe retry in a bit
https://actions.work/listening-post - Listening Post is my macOS multi-scrobbler that works with Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Rocksky, Maloja, Shortcuts, social posting, etc., independent from Spotify or Apple Music. The app can also scrobble shazams (music recognitions) from iPhone and Apple Watch, without the need for an extra app.
Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)
ChatGPT validates your spirals. We help you prevent them.
We're in the middle of v2 over the next few months based on everything we've learned since launching ~a year ago.
As a habitual side project guy for the longest time, it's so satisfying to finally stick to one thing and go really deep. This thread has been highly motivating.
When working on our startup Stacktape, we were struggling a lot to keep our public technical documentation up to date. AI didn't really help - correcting its mistakes was as hard as writing it ourselves. But then, we came up with an idea how we could do it reliably - https://docstube.dev
docstube generates documentation from your codebase, fact-checks every claim against the source, writes it for the people actually reading it, and keeps it in sync as your code changes. What sets it apart from other such tools is its advanced verification engine (validates both deterministically and using AI agents). So you can actually trust the outcome.
It's currently in private alpha, and not ready for testing. Public launch is planned for first half of 08/2026.
I spent the last 6 months building Elk Finder (https://elkfinder.com) and just launched a few weeks ago. It's a mapping web app similar to onX Hunt, except I have specific layers for finding ideal elk habitat in September and October (the primary archery and rifle hunting months).
I am working on speeding up the review-refine loop of LLM generated artefacts between me and the LLM. i run my coding agent (claude code) in auto / full-permission mode, so it doesn’t stop for accept/reject — by the time it’s done i’ve got a pile of generated code, docs, sometimes ui to review. and the slow part for me is to refine it before push it to remote. i would copy-paste snippets to point at what i wanted changed, screenshot the ui, describe where the problem was in prose, one message at a time. its cumbersome.
so i built prereview to speed up that review-fix loop. you run it in your repo (or point it at a file, a dir, or a running dev server), click what’s wrong: a diff line, a markdown/html block, a region of an image, a box on a live site — and leave a comment. the comments go to a csv, your agent reads it and fixes things and tells you what it did via a comment or even posts suggestions which you can accept or reject. it ships with a claude code skill, but the handoff to llm is just an open csv protocol, so any llm cli can drive it.
stuff that might interest people here: single static go binary, fully offline; it reviews docs/images/live ui as well as code; comments re-anchor when the file changes under them.
it’s mit and still early but I use it everyday. Its here: https://github.com/livetemplate/prereview
I'm learning Rust, and a bit about audio processing: https://github.com/leocrabe225/audiodsp
Just before that I was learning TypeScript, and I'll be coming back to that project as it's quite the process.
I'm leaning heavy TDD and rely on the type systems a lot.
The project is called "Rentier", a joke about the Monopoly board game.
https://github.com/leocrabe225/rentier-rewrite
I finished part 1, with a postmortem.
Part 2 is React frontend.
Part 3 is implement the postmortem findings in the TS engine.
Part 4 is update the React frontend for the updated engine.
Part 5 is make the engine in Rust from scratch.
Part 6 is point the React frontend to Rust engine, and praise the pros of having a good architecture.
Kind of an ode to clean code if you will (Many things to learn along the way).
This is amazing! Very refreshing in the age of AI to see so much manual building going on. Sadly I don’t have much time myself but I have several friends who would love this, I’ll pass it on to them.
Ohh this is the type of stuff that interests me although I am not a car fan but I like what you are doing with the aggregation/old-school DIY forums.
Good luck with your build and perhaps I might get interested in future too as I did once have a thought that having a custom car to me would reflect more cool-ness than an expensive one. I am really interested by small cars, perhaps retro. I imagine my favourite car to be somewhat like the car that Ryan gosling drives in La La Land.
but a cool project nonetheless, certainly thinking about it inspires a bit of car enthusiasm within me even though I am not that much of a car fan so much right now so a really cool project if it can help more people feel this spirit. good luck :-D
I have a question but how does building new (retro-inspired?) cars go about in terms of pricing. I feel like they might be too costly to get custom-built and that If I really ever in my life go about doing this, I would prefer DIY but I still imagine that it might be too expensive or hard to make a car. Are there any go-to cars which are easy/recommended within this space and how does it compare off economically and what are the technical expertise that you require with this type of stuff?
Once again, I wish ya good luck in the project and would love to hear your answers for some of the questions I have!
Thanks; much appreciated. I picked up an endless list of new build interests in starting the site and exploring different niche forums. Turns out I really like wooden boat builds, cyclekarts, intricate custom knives, handmade violins, the list goes on...
You're right that getting a car custom-built is where the costs add up quickly; easily north of $50K. Most of the cost is labor, which is $0 if you do it yourself. Some of the projects are much easier than others. If you want to fall down a rabbit hole, look in the kit car and hot rod categories; lots of affordable and small builds in there. The Buick Riviera in La La Land is more of a resto-mod cruiser project, but the small/retro itch is exactly what the kit car category scratches. The first step is to find a forum where people are building the car you like, and start following related build threads. That's the majority of my social media intake these days.
Thanks I appreciate your comment. I don't think that I might be that interested in car building right now but thanks for your pointers!
Speaking of which, I had made something at https://mirror.forum which revolved around forums and their ability to create communities on open source discord alternatives and it was always intended to revolve around forums/communities.
Feel free to check out my website for understanding what I might be talking about but I would be really interested in perhaps having the list of forums on my website so that people can search them through.
Do you have a list of forum websites that you used for your website or any resources pointing to that, I really like what you are doing and after thinking for sometime I think that it could be cool if I could use my application to point out to original OG forums as well. I would be curious to know what you think!
My team participates in a World Cup prediction league, I don’t really know much about football teams but figured I’d build a prediction model to try and top the charts. Uses a Poisson distribution model and Monte Carlo simulations. I wrote up the process and the maths as well as generated some inline SVGs (no chart library). Next working on whether Dixon-Coles low scoring correction would have had an impact on the outcome and in which direction. Link to the write up if anyone is interested:
https://haywire.blog/posts/i-built-a-robot-instead-of-having...
I'm making a midi clock -> dual tap tempo device (I'm calling it the Twin tap tempo toy, or Tttt). It's based on an Arduino Esplora linked to a dual channel optocoupler / relay.
I'm building it because I have an analogue delay and an an analogue tremolo which each take tap tempo input I want to be able to slave them simultaneously to my DAW (Reaper). I could only find one product (Disaster Area Designs micro.clock) which seems to readily do what I want, and it is hard to find and expensive.
The software side has been pretty easy for me, now I am just troubleshooting the Arduino -> relay connection as currently it is not behaving.
I'll probably sling the code and other docs on Github at some point :)
I'm working on the Obsidian plugin for building and rendering family graphs [1]. I started my own genealogy research in 2025 and did not want to store data on a 3rd-party platform. Obsidian was a great decision. The only thing I needed is a tree (graph) viewer for family members relationships (something like myheritage.com has). So, I built my own with a lot of interactivity on top.
This is a Chrome extension that records lots of details in a usage session. Stuff like network calls, console logs, screenshots and also optionally screenshots and user narration
Tools like this exist, but every one I tried is uploading the session details somewhere in their cloud and try to monetize this.
So I built the version I wanted: free, open source, and local. There is no account, no backend, no telemetry. Sessions live in IndexedDB in your browser and exported as a zip.
What it records:
* Clicks, typing, page changes, network requests and responses, console errors screenshots, video with sound
* Your voice, transcribed and placed next to what you were doing at the time
* Annotations: Arrows and boxes you draw on the page's screenshot
Note: Passwords, auth headers, and tokens are masked at capture time
All events are lined up in a timeline with timestamps
At export you pick a detail level with a live token estimate, so a long session still fits your model's context window.
A backyard wildlife narration that takes video clips from different styles of cameras and turns it into a documentary style narration - https://everydayearth.ai.
It originated from a project with my son where we created a nesting box out of an old wooden shelf and added a camera on the inside to see what happens. It was taken over by a Screech Owl and it's been fun to see what happens in our backyard at night.
My passion project is an LP-sleeve-sized music streamer built around an ARM compute module, a custom PCB carrier board and an industrial 17" square display.
This is a really cool idea. Been thinking of a way to introduce my daughter to my old LPs without her wrecking the vinyl, and this might be a good compromise!
I've been working on Next Move Theory for the last 8 years.
Next Move Theory is a methodology with a step-by-step algorithm for every product decision. It lays out every tactical and strategic move open to you and helps you choose the best, with the odds on your side. The foundations are open and free. AI skills run it on your product.
Dozens of cases in my home country, zero presence in the US — now I'm working to make founders and PMs in the US aware of it.
Your website seems like a lot of fluff without actually giving me a concrete example on what Next Move Theory is, just my experience from glancing at it
I'm working on TTZ, a sort of, pardon the expression, next-gen terminal protocol.
I wanted a middle ground between web apps and Terminal UI that allows for things like raster images, vector graphics, simple audio support and file transfer; to let me move more apps and workflows from web apps to a lighter experience.
I have an old laptop that I love and is very nice to use, but since it has only 2 GB of RAM, using multiple web apps is out of the question. I live on the terminal and SSH, but it has its own limitations, like spotty support for images, no audio at all, and ReGis (for vector graphics) support is not available in a lot of terminals.
I've recently finished implementing both client and server libraries for multiple languages (with the help of AI), and right now I'm in the process of fully testing and squashing all bugs and inconsistencies. Next, I will port a couple of applications as a proof of concept.
I plan to publish the source code very soon to receive feedback.
Currently in the early access and bootstrapping phase, the system is meant to help you find which event you can go next and also plan your whole season, organize your calendar, link up with your friends, track your progress as a rider, and see where you stand on the global rankings and between your buddies.
There are more ideas than time to implement them as this is purely a hobby project, but doing my best as I go along. Planning to start advertising it a little bit in relevant groups in the coming weeks.
I've been working on a home Hermes setup that I'm using to do a variety of things. So far, here's what I've done:
- Set up an in-house alternative to my Ring subscription for the cameras around my house. So far I have it real-time monitoring, complete with AI face recognition and interpretation of events, all on an internal web page. It also sends me alerts via Telegram.
- Set up a blog that I'm using to catalog these experiences with Hermes and AI in general
- Started working with multiple agents to do things when appropriate. My main model right now is glm-5.2 for cloud, and Qwen3.6b-IQ4 (4-bit quantized) running locally. It only takes 18GB of VRAM on my 4090, so I have plenty of overhead. I'm also using Hindsight instead of the MEMORY.md that Hermes natively uses.
- Setup local image generation, with the local Qwen model, using ComfyUI w/Flux.
- All of the above isn't including the numerous smaller jobs (like setting up Telegram, setting up automated cloud backups, troubleshooting Linux issues, etc) that I've been using Hermes for.
Future plans: I'm working on making a game with Godot, learning as I go. I haven't had Hermes do anything for that, and I don't want to really, except I may use local image gen for testing purposes, as I plan to engage an artist for any graphical work in the final product.
I'm doing all of this just a learning experience. It's been really fun so far.
* A simple exercise tracker that my wife requested from me (https://daily-menu.hosgeldin.click/) - later I will build a menstruation tracker that is connected to the Daily Menu.
* My magnum opus, "MyApps" (https://myapps.ideasofhakki.com/) - This is no less than an OS running in your browser, equipped with whatever "Apps" written in it. I am building it with GunDB and Svelte and foundationally it will be a web of apps running completely in your device (i.e. offline first), with privacy and data security built-in.
I've been excited about OpenRouter's OAuth 2.0 PKCE flow for backendless BYOK inference. I just updated my Garmin watch AI app (https://untether.watch/en/apps/byok) to run the whole flow on the watch for a seamless BYOK experience - formerly you had to copy/paste your Gemini key into settings, which was a huge barrier.
If you're building client-side/frontend apps and want to let your users BYOK, OpenRouter's PKCE flow is great for that.
Otherwise I'm still working on Untether (https://untether.watch) - a suite of digital-minimalism apps that let you stay connected and do quick actions on the watch while keeping your smartphone out of sight (and your hands).
1. A music recommendation tool based on Last.fm scrobble history.
It's graph-based, no ML or "fancy" techniques, but I've had good results with it so far. It builds recommendations based on a listening window or just recent history. It combines several different recommendation algorithms (including an Auralist-inspired "serendipity" score for novel recommendations, meant to simulate the serendipity of being recommended something novel by a friend), scores and ranks candidates, and takes in feedback that inform subsequent recommendations.
Fun project. Found some good new music with it already. :)
2. A code exploration / indexing tool with CLI and MCP interfaces for exploring concepts and impacts of changes in a codebase.
Essentially, an overwrought "find all uses" that doesn't depend on exact symbol or string matching.
I have a codebase of non-trivial size, but thankfully it's fairly well-structured. This tool indexes the code and bundles modules into "concepts" -- these can be auto-discovered or preconfigured. Dependencies, inheritance trees, symbols and symbol usage are all also indexed.
Then you can ask, "what's the impact of extending the domain model of XYZ" or "I want to remove this property" and it shows where to start, where to look next, and fuzzy edges or dependencies that might need deeper exploration. It surfaces non-obvious connections, too, or things a junior dev (or LLM) might miss, like when a model is mapped to an API DTO, or intermediary states, etc.
It's been useful for a new dev exploring the codebase, because you can ask in terms of business concepts instead of needing to know the exact symbol name in the code. And it's been much more token efficient than grep for exploration subagents. But it's limited to dotnet only.
3D model construction of climbing gym. There is so much detail a normal climbing video can't show. Wall angle, hip position. I'm hoping to overlay human model, taken from climbing video, onto the 3D wall to make climbing visualization easier.
I continue working on https://wireplug.org: A simple, free, and open source connectivity coordinator for WireGuard. Basically a way to keep WireGuard tunnels connected while moving between different access points. It handles (basic) NAT traversal and works with the in-kernel WireGuard driver on Linux and OpenBSD. You can find the technical details at https://wireplug.org
Im building an agent that interacts with health care providers on your behalf to proactively get itemized bills and other substantiation as needed. Born out of my own frustration with the paperwork for getting reimbursed from my healthcare cost sharing ministry. The app is React with a Laravel backend on EC2 where the agent runs.
Recently Ive been experimenting more with coding from my phone using Claude Code for the Web. Its basically turned Github Actions into my development environment. Its enabled me to fire off a quick prompt in planning mode, go play with my kids, review and approve the plan while Im cooking dinner, then let it go 10 rounds with the AI code reviewer while I put the kids to bed. As a busy parent I feel way more productive than if I had to carve out sit down focus time for a side project.
Self hosted media platform with similarity search, face search and clustering, a great fun media player with shuffle, VS mode where you rank your media resulting in an elo, remote access to app over the web, a TikTok style "swipe" mode of your own media. Started as just a good media viewer over 5 years ago but I just keep adding things. Has a small patreon following so people seem to like it. https://lowkeyviewer.com/
The whole point of this framework is to increase the robustness of agents so that small models (30b class) can function over long time horizons reliably. Other goals include auditability (full agent sessions are stored durably and can be branched/rolled back/restarted from any point, all over-the-wire comms are also durably stored) and reliability (sane fallbacks for common failure cases).
The current iteration (sketch 7 or draft 7 or 8) is specifically a coding agent framework. In the future I'd like to expand the core to handle a variety of tasks.
1. A compiler for real-time tensor processing (arbitrary DSP, ML). In something like LISP or Haskell, the goal is to compile lambda calculus for fast/reliable execution—as such, you can express a program in a fully general language that can represent any computation and execute it without explicitly modeling the lower levels of the machine. I'm building a compiler that does the same thing for the subset of programs that are guaranteed to execute on-budget. The effect: you write code that looks like DSP/ML math and it compiles/runs optimally with execution guaranteed by construction.
2. My take on an agent framework ... append only log + content hypergraph in Elixir, tools that regularly pull data from other services into Postgres—built as a kind of 'exoskeleton' around claude/codex so it's not competing with fast-moving tools.
Triply periodic minimal surfaces are the golden standard in thermal management, acoustics, and even medical applications. But minimality itself doesn't contribute much to practicality. We use them because they are simply studied better than the non-minimal surfaces.
So I'm studying the non-minimals. They are much more governable, what I link to is a demo of a surface builder with two levels of control. Next, they are conjugatable including conjugations with different period of self (that will be the following paper), they generalize nicely to non-periodic or partially periodic surfaces, and they work in other space configurations. E. g. I'm now playing with bi-periodic curves that cover the 2D space with self-replicating hexagons.
If all that I'm experimenting on today in 2D will turn out well in 3D too, we'll have a whole new direction in implicit modeling.
I've been building some sqlite plugins for playing with ngrams for text search. I'm not sure why, but I've learned a lot about the internal sqlite apis and it brings me a lot of joy. I would like to start a blog detailing some of this work but haven't found the time yet
I am working on building an self-improving QA agent for software teams. Free and open-source.
It is an agentic testing harness with batteries, includes the test runner infra (web & mobile), memory (vector store, local embedding model powered by transformers.js, self improving loop, issue reporting.
More details - https://vostride.ai |
Code - https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa
Built AT1C Protocol to make Humans + AI Agents compatible With cryptographic evidence with verified proof "the easiest way to make AI agents EU AI Act compliant, for free, in 15 minutes." https://at1c.com/index.html
there is foresight in this, as there's going to be a cryptographic layer between agents and people at some point, compute complexity is the only thing that can contain them. like a logical field or space that was conceptually equivalent to keeping them light years of distance away. The analogy scales as well.
Enjoying the work on MyTraL - sovereign athlete / personal training log: https://mytral.fitness/
I went on sabbatical to fulfill my dream project - consolidating years of training logs. I'm enjoying the technical challenges involved - digitizing paper hand written logs / visual models, navigating the maze of athletic metrics with their crazy trademarked names and multidimensional models. Having fun building AI coaches: agents ranging in character from Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday to the coach from my teenage years, utilizing ICL model-based predictions, ... and more.
The best part is the rush of memories while ingesting my own history - photos and recordings I completely forgot, as well as navigating data shared by friends.
This month has Strava & LeCol everesting challenge - signed up and added support that suits my needs to MyTraL. Good times.
Working on gisti.ai which eventually will be a fleet of Product and Customer Operations AI agents that continuously analyze customer interactions, identify the churn risk and automatically route the right actions: code fixes to engineering, product insights to PMs, and operational tasks to customer operations.
Today, Gisti ingests customer feedback from every channel your customers already use, synthesizes it into a prioritized, evidence-backed list of opportunities, and lets product teams interact with an AI agent to explore, validate, and act on each one. We are building Gisti with a philosophy of complete automation for specific workflows.
We are looking for Design Partners, please hit me up at shubham@gisti.ai. I will be in SF late August if you prefer in-person meetings.
Please ping me / email me if you are interested in a demo / demo account for deeper analysis.
Instead of music or long podcasts, you are given something to imagine. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.
I am helping a not-for-profit, [NavSahyog](https://navsahyog.org/), build a custom software for their entire operations and programs that also tracks longitudinal impact. The organization conducts programs for children in Indian villages after school to build live skills.
This is my second iteration because the first version felt like a simplistic fit and improvement over their existing vendor provided app.
I have now designed a domain model based on my understanding and observations. I have a day job so I can't spend a lot of time in sync with the team. I have created a web app where the NGO management can test scenarios (by recording voice), and the AI (Claude Agent SDK) runs it past the domain model. In case, there is a gap, they can persist the scenario. After every iteration, I read through the scenarios and assimilate them into the domain model.
I'm working on dotUI.
A framework for developing UI's where the core logic such as routing, events, state management is defined by the user and the llm handles the styling.
This way every user can have their own UI's without losing functionality.
Will post here regarding it in the coming weeks
I just started running sword combat playtests this weekend for my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, which is about a girl who goes looking for her sister.
I've just released in beta, a web-based application called Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com
I wanted to create an all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for an entire universe in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or stage plays.
I also wanted the ability to allow for the limited use of AI in a way that only functions as a sounding board and does not write for the user; Where fiction writers could have access to tools such as a virtual assistant that they can converse with about their stories and world-building, but without it writing anything for them.
There is also an option to use the application without any AI tools at all.
Very cool. On another note I think this would be amazing to have for fans, and markedly better than what we have now (wikis). Maybe you could have some of the features available for fan communities.
Once my visiting family departs I am going to finish building the Little Free Library I started last month. We have lived in our current home for 5 years and it is about time I share my love of reading with my neighbors.
https://littlefreelibrary.org/
Building a small cloud service that I've been thinking of for a while, to take the articles I don't have time to read but find interesting in principle, and convert them to audio via TTS. Just filled a short flight with some articles from the backlog, now I need to do some UI improvements, and then maybe a similar flow for academic papers too. :)
Part of my job is to approve / reject MCP servers based on how secure they are and whether they are suitable for use in an enterprise environment. I was tired of my team being called the bottleneck to AI adoption, so I set out to automate the whole process.
I periodically collect the MCP servers and every new version from the Official MCP registry and assign them a score based on 29 distinct criteria like runtime guardrails (e.g. destructive tools, over broad permissions, rug pulls), SAST scans and transport & trust model.
As a result of this exercise, I found that 1 in every 10 MCP servers is pretty much unusable (score 40/100 or below). 18% of the popular MCP servers with 1000+ GitHub stars contain one or more security issues. 184 servers to date have changed their tool definitions after publication, which may indicate a "rug pull" attack.
I built this for security minded people who also want to be at the forefront of AI adoption and for security teams who are tired to be called the bottleneck.
Browsing the index is completely free, you only have to request an API key if you want automated, programmatic lookups for any workflow.
A cloudflare hosted task and wiki deployment - https://tajd.github.io/projektor/ - free to host because it's on your infra on cloudflare. Built it because I could, and it was simpler and cheaper than using atlassian etc.
A tool for enforcing code architecture and conventions - https://tajd.github.io/cofferdam/ - these sorts of tools come along every week, but this one is mine and it's v quick to run and extendable.
And then I'm currently working on a game for winning the start of sailing races as that's quite a tactical and fun problem to break down. Will be releasing something there soon!
I continue to write and publish one piece per month. July was a review of Vaclav Havel's The Power of the Powerless, integrated with a recent trip to Dominica:
I'm working on a tool to automatically sync your work-in-progress music from your DAW (digital audio workstation, like Ableton Live, etc), to your phone. Basically a workflow tool for musicians and producers! Also has some quick share/feedback functionality too. Would love some feedback since it's still in really early stages. Already integrates with Ableton, Bitwig, Cubase, and GarageBand. https://trackid.com.
I used to work at Native Instruments, and super happy to now work on something for myself instead.
I am working on hammer https://thehammer.io/ , it is a voice device that I have build and have been using for past several months for texting and getting answers to my questions via AI chatbots.
I started with the idea of replacing my phone with a texting device that can still keep me connected but realized phone has became utilitarian that it is not possible to replace it.
I still have to take my phone when I am outside but when I am home or at work, I now use hammer exclusively to text or to get answers. The most benefit I have got is that I don’t have the urge to open my phone and go on endless scrolling binge.
Still working on Study Engine and Nomnominees(more or less done for now).
StudyEngine is a webapp I'm using while doing my masters in comp sci. I upload lecture notes, textbooks, papers, etc. It then extracts topics and tracks my mastery of them over time. It uses an LLM to generate questions and flash cards. It loops in some newer learning science ideas. It tests recognition first(multiple choice), and then once a level of mastery is matched, it switches to recall. Working on adding RAG to it, so I can surface where in the source material something can be reviewed when going over quiz results. Currently just for me an some friends. If can get a good eval set up, I might work on optimizing cost and seeing if it could be opened up.
NomNominees is simple webapp that tracks James Beard, Great American Beer Festival, Festival of Barrel Aged Beers, and other awards. I use it when I'm traveling to find places to check out. Even just a cluster on a map shows me neighborhoods I might want to check out.
Working on https://metner.app to give micro-preneurs (people with side-hustles) a dedicated web presence to grow businesses focused on local communities.
Goal is to help people move off of relying on Facebook/Instagram groups. And to support people who want to make some beer/coffee money off of their hobbies.
Moving a lot of files from old laptop to new, lots of duplicate videos in scattered directories with different file names.
Point the CLI tool at a directory and up pops a ncurses application that scans from the directory you specify (recursively), hashes all the files to get groups of dupes, and then ranks the dupes into a table (that looks like top) so you can work your way through the dupes and decide which to keep without your hands leaving the keyboard.
It automatically ignores typical developer directories like node_modules so you're not tortured with noise in the result set.
Hit 'p' and a preview pops up so you can double check they are indeed dupes, if it's a media file the preview window autoplays the dupe videos in tiles with zero volume.
Supports a dry run mode, and switches to cover behaviour like sending dupes to trash rather than hard deletion.
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 :)
Working on ZenExpenses. I have been running this personal finance tracker project on my Proxmox for years. Now the time has come for it be released to public. It is a personal finance tracker with simple budgeting. Upload bank statements manually, automatically categorize expenses, set budgets. Nothing exciting but works for my needs. I hope it works for someone out there too.
A daily meditation "instrument". I'm a big fan of Waking Up but I've kinda outgrown the catalogue. I know what to do now. I just need a timer and a couple of prompts...
Currently working on
Agentry(https://agentry.run/)
Runtime, connection, and deploy layer for building internal apps and automations with AI. You can build anything that you can build with Lovable, Replit etc. Your model, Your harness and your own Laptop/Server
It's a little webapp that solved a problem I had when ordering PCBs: I was too cheap to buy the stencil when ordering the PCBs from China, but then I regretted it when I had to paste by hand. Because of this, I did the PCB Designer -> DXF -> CAD -> Add margin -> Add outline -> Print workflow by hand, but that became very tedious, so I built this to automate it.
It runs entirely on your local machine and it is hosted on Cloudflare pages, with the only costs for me being a domain name.
Spent nights over the last six months combining AI coding agents with containers, spec-driven development, and formal verification, so that I (eventually) don't have to manually review 10k+ lines of AI code a day, or worry about the latest model wiping out my home directory:
Have been working on three micro-saas, all built in Elixir/Phoenix:
https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with science-backed research summaries and recommendations.
https://rizz.farm - a lead gen tool for Reddit that focuses on helping instead of selling, to build long-lasting organic traffic.
https://persumi.com - a blogging platform that turns articles into audio, and to showcase your different interests or "personas".
Took a long break earlier this year to recharge, but now I'm back at it again, mostly working on Feedbun, about to launch it as an early alpha. :)
I saw the options out there were not fully open source, or had other limitations so I started working on this better one.
Based on Debian, apps are docker containers.
I do work to adapt current open source apps, but it's so great to make them available as one click install.
I want to make it easy to run on a cloud VM or an old PC kept in the pantry.
There are so many cases for self-hosting now that we need to make it easier to do
A daily puzzle game called Dozenal that I've been making with a friend. We've been increasing our user base over the past couple of months and are still trying to refine the learning curve.
If you like number puzzle games, I would be very keen for you to give it a go and to hear your feedback on it!
As someone who's constantly on the look for new music to discover and being very deliberate about the things I'm listening, I needed a better way to organize the albums I want to listen to, listened and liked. And also I would like to see the discoveries of other folks who I know I like.
I've been working on Source [1], an experimental Git server written in Go.
Source stores repositories in a database rather than a filesystem [2]. The primary goal is to rely on databases for durability, replication, and distribution, rather than introducing complex distributed filesystem infrastructure into the stack.
I've just finished this chrome extension recently: https://ypuf.com/
It helps me to automatically save a tab that's not been used in a while so it auto-closes it but saves it as well as having the ability to snooze a tab like how you'd do it in gmail.
Everything is locally stored with 100% privacy in mind.
I am working on an online Talmud to explore the old text in new ways! Its been a pet project of mine for over 4/5 years, and to my knowledge its the only attempt to blend the classic format of the text (Tzurat Hadaf) and AI enhanced commentaries sourced from the classical texts
Update: Hopefully this can help those who completely misunderstand the nuance of this ancient text (usually from antisemitism) to better understand what they are reading.
Automated network port change detection. Scan17 provides a solution to the question:
So your CTO decides to outsource firewall management - and the vendor carelessly leaves a network port open, exposing your production database. How does your team find out before an attacker?
Think of it as nmap port scan diff-ing. If a network port goes from closed to open you get an email or webhook alert. There is a REST API for automated workflows and privately hosted engines will be supported for some plans. There is a wait-list form on the website if you want to stay in the loop.
If you work in infosec / cyber security and are interested in being an early product designer / beta tester, let's chat! See my profile for how to get in touch.
I got tired of all the worthwhile iPhone weightlifting apps wanting a monthly payment for a full feature set, while delivering an uninspiring, cross-platform experience.
I noticed none of the apps felt native to the iPhone, and I wanted something that felt on-part with the likes of Flighty, Things 3, and such.
Out of my love for weightlifting I then shipped Plates and have been working on it ever since. It's a completely native iPhone lifting app (SwiftUI/UIKit) and I've gone quite hard on native UI elements such as custom keyboards for plate-loaded exercises and RPE/RIR inputs, native animations, and nice haptic feel. It has no backend servers and no tracking SDKs, yet it still supports things like cross-device sync thanks to Apple's CloudKit. The best part is that it's just a one-time payment.
Hi Tom,
I downloaded your app and love your attention to detail, and how it works. I think it's exactly what I've been looking for. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to change the units. I live in Canada and we use both pounds and kilograms here. By default, the app uses Kilograms in Canada, but most weightlifting gyms use pounds. Do you have a plan to add unit settings in the future?
Thanks for checking out the app! Truthfully it simply doesn't make sense to support anything prior to iOS 26 for Plates. It was built entirely around liquid glass, morphing animations, and many iOS 26+ APIs.
Building out a housing heatmap of England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland publish housing data differently, working on getting them integrated!
I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and log analysis was kind of a PITA for dealing with them so I built this instead:
My favorite feature is I built a Stream Deck plugin for it so that I can monitor things from my Stream Deck XL while I'm doing other work, then if a button goes red or whatever I can just click it and it brings up the admin portal and shows me the workflow that failed.
It's still kind of in the alpha state but it does work pretty well.
I built a kind of paas for llms, the idea was to allow my family deploy webs cheap and easy, my family doesn't use It, but It end being very useful form mento deploy small apps. You can check It out on https://onvibe.run there is a list of forkable apps that I use.
I did some kind of meta thing, because bownI can create apps with llm (like Claude) and expose an mcp on theme (like the notes and todolist apps).
A self-hosted, better browser interface to preview s3 files. This overcomes the limitation of the s3 console not allowing querying or viewing files beyond a certain size. It also gives you information about the column types. It could be a good use case to present this to non-IT teams in orgs who just want a preview of the data in the files or want to do some simple explorations. Frequently, they are denied access because of the possibility of doing something with confidential data via the s3 console.
Very cool, it’s insane to me how frustrating the S3 UI is. My current annoyance is bulk downloading is hard, and seeing things like “how large is this bucket or specific key prefix in bytes”
Saw you using DuckDB at internal/handlers/api.go
Wondering if you’d considered letting queries operate at the bucket or key prefix level instead of requiring key to specific file? Or is that already supported?
I’ve liked being able to point DuckDB to a folder following Hive partition scheme, and then querying it just like Spark/Trino would over many files
Thanks! Its true, many things are frustrating, like you say - bulk downloading. Yes DuckDB is amazing, and I use it in more than one of my projects. It has a lot of use cases for the data lake.
I agree, it would be more beneficial to query on patterns, but the main use case I saw for this app was non-tech folks wanting to see data in s3. I assume they wouldn't do fancy stuff like querying multiple files. But maybe I should add that functionality. Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm working on CT RailTime (https://ctrailtime.com), a better way to travel on CTrail. Their current eTix app is essentially broken and the CT government does not seem to care enough to fix it.
And not an arcade game, but a multi-player throwback to a multiplayer shooter game my team used to play called nSnipes: https://github.com/linsomniac/isnipes
iSnipes does require downloading and running a server, the others you just play on the web.
Working on project-hami.io, but recently decided that all the new markdown based presentation tools have far too much HTML dependency, so I decided to build my own, with custom extensions and plugins. It's supposed to support some basic structures that allow easy creation of presentations, but the editable odp conversion is proving to be a nightmare. It should be possible, but I need help.
This month has mostly been personal website. Serious warning - style is an HN ripoff atm, forgive me in advance. Will change in the future to something original or minimal.
Project I've got in progress is a migration of the old DIKU mud engine from C to Rust and making a Moog Model D synth recreation in rust with a JS wrapper.
The slime art is nice. I watched it for a long time. It's neat how you can open any frame up as an image. The controls in the description didn't work though.
A electronic workbook/task generator app for korean learning with AI or human feedback (although for now you have to find the humans yourself).
I grew in ideas and attempts over the years, and it finally got along far enough I actually made it available. The progress in LLMs made some things much easier that I conceived in 2020, but other things didn't get better.
I'm working on improving my PCB synthesis system; given a KiCad schematic and some extra metadata it can currently lay out and route an entire double-sided PCB with about 50 components in 4 minutes without any human intervention.
I wrote it because I was too lazy to learn how to use KiCad's layout features properly, and thought 'how hard can it be?'. Several months later, I had this.
It's not intended to compete with Altium etc. but it certainly produces compact, valid and fully design-rule-compliant boards with much less work that doing it myself or using one of the low-cost remote labour platforms.
It uses constraint logic programming to solve the hard parts of the problem. Hierarchical decomposition of the circuit design helps reduce combinatorial explosion, which was a show-stopper for early versions of the system. Current indications are that I may be able to scale it further in the longer term to deal with more complex design scenarios and larger boards, without hitting the exponential cliff.
I'm working on improving my Indiekit https://getindiekit.com (not mine, just a big fan & heavy user, to which I created plugins : https://rmendes.net/changelog/ and also working on a local Ai-stack deployment so that I can put that DGX Spark for a good use !
A cliché project, but working on a photo library browser that works in a way that I want it. Technically, the interesting thing is a UI that is reusable across all of my target platforms (desktop, mobile and in-browser with WASM). Rust+GPUI is the first platform I've seen that makes this possible with a reasonable performance and quality.
It's a bookmark plugin with a couple features I felt were missing from existing bookmark plugins. At my job I often have to navigate large codebases that I didn't write, and it's easy to get lost. This plugin should help with that.
recently, i have been pondering around reddit and its api, because i was missing an "idea validator" which will harness the power of reddit and its content, so it gave me the idea to build https://signalseek.cc/
(SignalSeek watches the subreddits your buyers already hang out in, scores what it finds, and tells you if the demand is real enough to build on. When it is, it drafts the replies so you can jump into the conversation right away)
I'm building a Twitter (X), Bluesky, Nostr and Mastodon bookmark reminder and manager called https://getbirdfeeder.com. It's a project I've released many years ago but had to shut down during the X API changes. I've now revived it and supported more services.
Papermill - the document engine for AI. Turn AI content into polished documents using a new document/templating language called Press [1]
It's essentially a high-quality alternative to the HTML-PDF route so many people take for document generation. It's designed as a tool for AI agents.
Something cool we've released - an MCP server makes it possible for models like Claude to design fully-featured documents. We use this internally and some of our customers now use it to quickly build new templates.
Just launched self-serve a few weeks ago. Continuing to develop the typesetter and language behind it.
Press is the language, docs are open [2].
Would love any feedback from folks that have worked on document generation, or people with experience doing HTML->PDF.
We are creating an AI for science and engineering: https://vicena.ai
It's connected to all papers of course, and all kinds of scientific simulators and specialised models. But I'm currently in Shanghai talking to labs to join a CloudLab (and hopefully setting up our own robotic labs), so that AI can actually order real physical experiments that are executed cheaply, efficiently and seamlessly as tool calls.
Through experiments like autoresearch we have seen that AI is already, if not always smarter, at least more systematic than humans at following the scientific method relentlessly (hypothesis-experiment loop). Let's see what we can do by connecting it to the real-world :)
Building an unified admin platform[0] for Source game servers & the alikes. I grew up playing Source games and ran a few, but there were always gaps between all the various OSS plugins you install and were quite fragmented, and never designed to work well with each other.
It’s basically snake meets scrabble meets PvP stealing. It’s a novel idea and I think it’s cool it hasn’t really been done before :)
The issue is it’s too complicated, the onboarding is dogwater, and the aesthetic is too complex
So I’ve spent the weekend fixing onboarding, fixing and relaxing the visuals mix and simplifying mechanics.
I’ve also tested LLMs playing the game through a harness I wrote. LLMs get smashed, they can form words and steal, but they lose badly to conventional bots.
I’ll be exposing an LLM leaderboard on my next release (hoping this weekend) with links to game replays for the LLMs.
Would love for people to give it a try, give me some feedback, and say what you’d love to see on the roadmap.
Been working on it on and off for 4 years now. I used to lead an ML consultancy and one thing I've learned is that data scientist DO NOT understand reverse proxies, nvidia drivers, docker and can not set up complex environments for their projects, especially ones that would support collaborative work.
It's been really fun to work on this, currently working on Kubernetes support.
Oh this is awesome, will take a look. I’ve had rough experiences with Kubeflow in the past, recently I’ve been using Coder workspaces https://coder.com/ and it’s pretty good but less ML/AI integrated (but, stitched together with Ray autoscaling nodes it can get really nice)
Yeah, Kubeflow can be rough, we've been down that road too as well.
I really like Coder, but one thing for the life of me I couldn't figure out is that even with the self-hosted version, why does anything have to go through their infra?
With trailer.dev our explicit goal is to have a fulfilling user experience for the following scenario:
- You have servers you own or rent
- You have a team that want some persistent developer workspaces that are running on that server
- You run our 30mb + the server side somewhere and boom, you can have your team(s) work on your project.
If you want we (the trailer team) can run the server component for you, but that's it.
I tried spinning up a coder instance just now again, with docker, and I'm being tunneled through US East Pittsburgh with 117ms of latency for a local dev environment tool :(
I'm working on a technical interview service that brings up a real production environment and also lets users use agents and our system tells the interviewer how the candidate really did.
Also, in this environment, users can have a full cluster with Kubernetes, Docker, or normal Linux, with a database and all sorts of dependencies.
Jumping into this "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint.app
I've spent a few months building a simple feature management system for .NET - https://featureflags.app. The .NET built in feature management libraries work pretty well. But I wanted an easy to use UI for configuring flags - without having to use Azure.
I made a tool that creates sandboxes (docker, podman, orbstack, seatbelt, tart, Apple containers, containerd, kata, firecracker) and then sets up an agent (claude, codex, gemini, aider, opencode) inside it with max permissiveness (no prompts to call sed, etc).
It creates a CoW copy of your workdir for the agent to play in, and then you pull changes out using git diff/apply semantics.
You control network access, secrets, which files/dirs it has access to.
It's a MASSIVE time saver, and I use it as my daily driver.
I am currently focused on an educational site https://www.higherscoresdfs.com/dfs/spa/welcome/ that helps Daily Fantasy Sports fans improve their DraftKings and FanDuel gameplay. We offer strategy advice, player tips, optimized lineups, and player props. We now support both classic and showdown games and have recently added a section offering game outcome predictions for those who do sports trading on prediction markets. We currently support the NFL, NBA, and MLB leagues.
I'm working on a collection of networked games, around the central theme of a lockstep deterministic network model with 'delay frames' (between acting directly on user input and progressing actual shared network state).
- Neon Swarm, a take on the classic lemmings game, with multiplayer versus and coop modes
- Serpents, a snake game (where you eat food, grow a tail and need to avoid this growing tail), with inertial movement and multiplayer
- Spirits, an homage to N++, where you work together to get someone to the exit, while avoiding enemies, figuring out how to open doors, and so on
- Pilots, a multiplayer asteroids battle with homing missiles
Each game solves the network delay problem (the problem of providing immediate feedback to user input and hiding the fact that actual changes to shared state are delayed) differently, and it has been very interesting to work through a bunch of different approaches to this.
If anyone else here is working on multiplayer network games, I'm very interested in setting up a regular "play each other's games" session.
The idea is that regularly playing with other game developers will help develop a kind of 'scene' (where you get a group of people together who make work in public but really aimed at each other, pushing and unblocking one another to become bolder and better at an accelerating rate, as described here: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/scene-creation-engines ).
It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the changes into entities and sorts based on what has the most dependencies. This tends to put the most important functions first. Plus I can click through the dependencies for each function and mark things as reviewed as I’m reading them. It’s a big improvement over the GitHub review flow for me at least.
this looks incredibly useful! I've also run into similar problems with code review and been building similar tooling with the same idea (reconstructing the changes into entities, and finding focal/important changes), but haven't gone as far as this.
MatGoat (https://matgoat.com/en/): a software for managing BJJ and martial arts academies that it's both easy to use and have everything they need like assistance tracking, payments, communications, etc.
It's going quite well so far with growing MRR each month.
Lately, I've been trying to focus more on marketing, and sales. I might try ads soon as well.
Constantly iterating through refinement and features. It's built on Rust + Tauri with a React frontend, in case anyone is curious.
I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium with an IDE-like experience.
I'm managing my GitHub repository. I created a really great project - better than even Mem0's product. It can make AI companies' products smarter and is also awesome for auditors, lawyers, and so on. But I have no way of letting people know about it
A single-user blogging CMS/server that acts as static site generator while having a GUI for publishing/reading and that speaks some indie web protocols. I'm implementing webmentions (vouch, private mentions, salmentions) and maybe indie auth. It's mostly to solve some annoyances I have with Hugo (and SSGs in general) and to try new things. I want it to be something between bearblog and miniflux.
I'm also writing it in java, which is quite uncommon for this type of software, but I hope it'll be way more stable in the long run (in the sense of security flaws and maintenance) than projects made in python and js.
Just a personal project right now but it's a music metadata aggregator.
I find that nobody really knows how to do this. Machine learning can detect some song attributes well (bpm, ez right?) but it's inconsistent with some things (eg mood, spotify valence)
I prefer to only add metadata that I can rely on: track credits & instruments (when available), lyrics, bpm / "energy" and genre. At least that's what I've got for now. I'm not adding anything unreliable.
So far I'm able to pick a genre, artist or even better, song and it gives me a list of tracks that are similar. I can alter the weights of "era", "instruments", "genre".
So far i haven't run old school NLP on the lyrics but that's the next step. It's likely to be far more informative than "valence"
Anyway, not public, still very alpha but I like it and find it useful.
I’ve been playing around with aligning drone footage to flight paths. I'm really interested in the idea of representing a video as a volume, planning to do something similar with non-drone video too.
I am working on this Review Flow. An extention for Cursor / VScode to enable IDE as first class for code reviews.
It came from a frustration that I needed to switch between the browser and the IDE to navigate through the code and leaving comments on Gitlab at the company.
So I thought it could useful to create something and let it be accessible to the public as open source.
I’ve been continuing work on https://mybulkcards.com, a phone app and website for scanning, organizing, and searching Pokémon card collections, especially the thousands of bulk cards that my daughter and I have in our closet from playing.
The goal hasn't changed too much, make building decks easier by knowing exactly what you own and where it’s stored. You organize cards into boxes, search your inventory, search friends’ collections, and keep track of trades instead of digging through a similar closet of cards that my daughter and I search for.
The fun part has been the AI. I trained computer vision models that run entirely on the phone to detect and identify Pokémon cards. Training has become the slowest part. For the model that needs to be retrained every new release, I’m up to about 5 hours per epoch on my M4 Mac with 16 GB of RAM.
The Android app is currently in public testing with people from my local Pokémon league. It’s built with React Native, and I’m working on the iPhone version next.
Still lots to build, mostly around product and ux, and because a recent stupid mistake on my part, backups and deployment safeguards.
A focused and functional service for event hosts to collect guest photos through a shared link/QR code that leads to an upload page. Think photo gathering for weddings, bachelor/bachelorette parties, corporate events, big birthdays, etc.
There are many of these out there, but I found most unintuitive ("too complicated for Grandma"), too featureful, and/or much too expensive.
Local voice dictation and text editing for Mac. We'd tried most of the available options but wanted something that runs completely locally, is fast and has a good UX.
Today I'm carrying on looking for a literary agent to represent me for my young adult speculative fiction. Long after human civ collapsed, crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution when they discover an asteroid heading towards earth. My 10 year old read it for the first time yesterday and loved it. That's made it all worth it already even if it doesn't get published.
Tonight is a meeting of a local group growing hemp locally, processing and spinning by hand to make an item of clothing locally and sustainably between us all.
Just spent the weekend at a wing chin gathering with some incredible people. They showed me so much I need at least 2 weeks to think about it all.
Apart from that I’m starting college to study therapy and counselling soon so I'm trying to read up to be a bit prepared.
A while ago, I realized that most new agent harnesses being built must be hosted on your machine or on a VM--in other words the agent needs a full OS process at all times.
But we do not have good harnesses being built that are multi-tenant, do not use compute while they are paused, but are are still as powerful as, say, Claude Code or Codex, OpenClaw.
So I set out to build one. I realized that the best substrate for these kind of agents are durable workflow engines. I'm currently supporting Temporal. AFAIK much of OAI agent infra is built on Temporal too. My harness is decidedly not just another agent SDK, but rather a battery-included product.
I'm building https://mallcop.app, an AI, open-source, cybersecurity monitoring, investigation, and escalation solution. It's rooted in four principles:
1. Analyze data where it resides
2. Connectors and detectors are not a moat
3. MIT license every line of code
4. Fully exploit AI for investigation, maintenance, and self-improvement
MallCop runs on Donuts (e.g. tokens), which I'll happily resell, or you can BYOK and use your inference API of choice.
Recently launched https://hellbox.com (formerly Font Proof) and am still actively working on it. It is a native macOS app for font proofing. It watches your type design software like Glyphs, RoboFont, and FontLab or any font file or designspace on your machine and reloads the font proof when you save.
Being unemployed and wanting to make something, I started studying quantitative trading concepts and got into algorithmic trading.
I decided to build out an algorithmic trading platform using the tools I developed for myself.
It's written entirely in Rust but user algorithms are written in TypeScript. It uses a Cloudflare-workers inspired approach to run the user functions.
The server uses under a megabyte of ram to run and user functions also use a negligible amount of memory per invocation.
It's also super fast, with round trip latency of 3ms - well, at least it does when I use the proper server. I'm running it on my low cost server right now so latency is around 50ms.
I know no one will use it, but it's been very fun to make
Two weeks ago presented current state of KEIBIDROP at Pass The SALT 2026, and now I am planning the push for the next version 0.4.0.
KEIBIDROP: Makes remote files appear as local (it hides the network latency in order to let you open and edit a peers file without downloading it upfront or re-uploading it fully back).
For version 0.4.0 I am planning multi-user support, using UDP (QUIC) instead of TCP as the networking layer, optimization of live-edit regions of files, and to test it even more for data heavy workflows.
I'm working on a collaborative post-apocalyptic fitness RPG. I wanted to build a game that lets you take over the real world, gets you off the couch, and has only positive multiplayer engagement. If you find or invite another player nearby, all your actions with them benefit you both.
It's for iPhone, and for the best experience, Apple Watch. It's very early, playable via TestFlight, and I would love feedback! There's a TestFlight link at: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co
I've been automating many chores that i find myself usually doing with email: managing calendar invites, publishing and sharing calendars, but also want it to act like a proxy to avoid giving away my actual email in different services. It's a work in progress but I love cloudflare ai gateway, been using it to bring some ai into the functionalities. Future things: handling newsletters, more ai free use (?)
If you wanna test it, please ping me so I add your email to allowlist!
I rewrote Chucks [American] Football Pool in Newspeak!
Having a hard deadline of Sept 1st, I wasn't sure three months would be enough time. In Newspeak, it took all of three WEEKs to get it to it's current state.
One of the best features is the fact that it's local ONLY. It uses IndexedDB (Newspeak library written by yours truly) to persist the data, meaning zero backend headaches. It also makes it usable by the masses where the Seaside version had many problems in this regard.
I've been building a text editor. It uses a server-client model, with native/terminal/web clients using a shared (local) server instance. It integrates LSP/tree-sitter/ripgrep/Git/etc, and has a concept of 'workspaces' to easily switch between projects.
I spend less time in an editor now, but it's been satisfying being able to take features I've enjoyed from other editors and customise - and it's oriented a bit more towards exploring code than editing. Key-bindings are arranged such that bare letters are for motions, Shift- variants are then used to extend selections, Ctrl- bindings are for buffer mutations, and leader-prefixed bindings are application level (e.g., opening pickers).
I finally decided to put together a Sonos controller with the navigation I wanted and SMAPI servers for the live music archive, and all the grateful dead and phish shows. Thanks Claude! A PWA with tailscale and I have a controller that does what I want and works at home on an S1 system and at the beach on an S2 - seamlessly. Better than the "real" thing as far as I can tell.
A macOS menu bar app to alert when apps start using too much resources and drain your battery. Helped me diagnose many leaking Chrome tabs and macOS bugged services.
I'm working on https://gatewai.studio in my free time - it is an agentic workflow engine for content creators.
There are 40+ nodes that can be used to generate and modify images, videos, audio, or vector graphics. Some of them include Crop, Resize, LUT extraction, Levels, Audio Compressor, Ken Burns, Mesh Warp, Recorder, Noise Gate, Compositor and Signal Builder.
It also supports signals for dynamic and time-based configuration values for the nodes. For example, making blur strength change from 30 to 0 gradually in the first 2 seconds of a video.
It uses a WebGPU pipeline for rendering and a homebaked engine for workflow processing.
It is free to use except for the AI nodes and workflow agent. It is not officially released yet, and feedback would be very valuable.
I’m still working on a price API for the Counter-Strike 2 market that provides real-time & historical data.
Since my last post in February, I’ve gotten to ~25 paying users, which is cool considering it started as a fun project. Sorta a niche within a niche here.
The market is distributed across a bunch of 3rd-party marketplaces, and there's no 'simple' API that provides genuinely high-quality data for the few marketplaces that matter. It’s a surprisingly complex problem, which is probably why nobody else is bothering :).
It's been a super fun project, and I've been able to learn about collecting & managing a high (to me) scale of data, building an API from the ground-up, and creating my first 'commercial' website.
Interesting and I also really liked the mobile website. Just wanted to let you know there is a bug on the frontend where the navbar does not collapse back when the user changes the page like going to pricing, the page state changes but the navbar stays on top hiding the change
I'm working on a side project to clean up and fix EPUB files with transcription errors, incomplete or inaccurate metadata, and other issues. Users can accept/reject/edit the fixes as they go through it. I have the command-line interface and TUI working (thanks to Ratatui), but I'm still working on a Calibre plugin and web-based version using WASM.
AI resume spam has absolutely ruined hiring. I've seen countless stories of hiring managers complaining about receiving thousands of resumes within an hour of opening up a new job listing. Likewise, good qualified candidates are getting drowned out by loads of customized junk. I'm building a tool for the recruiters and hiring teams to combat this and bring some sanity back to the already challenging process. The general idea is to introduce a small bit of friction that will hopefully be not-too-impacting for legit applicants while stopping bots from proceeding.
First iteration is ready to fly, just working out the infrastructure at the moment. Hoping to drop this on Show HN soon. If anyone is interested in test driving this prior to launch, I've temporarily added my email to my profile.
I was interested in learning more about reverse image search, so I built audioguide.london. It’s a simple image search where you take a photo of an artwork in a gallery, tries to ID it and returns a pre-generated audio and a link to the museum website.
The audios were all generated locally, essentially looking at the contents of the website, running it through a LLM to generate a script and Kokoro for TTS.
I’ve built it as an app for myself almost a year ago, so I deployed it as a vibe coded website in here: https://audioguide.london/
In the past few weeks, experimenting with a custom ai agent running entirely in the browser with sandboxed tools exec.
The core is built in Rust, a native CLI is built on top for local experimentation but the most interesting part is the web version: the core is built to WASM and get augmented with many tools in the JS land:
- OPFS access (read, list, edit files)
- Sandbox Python exec (Pyodide in WASM)
- Sandbox DuckDB exec (DuckDB-WASM)
- Draw charts
- Show images
- etc
OpenAI Completions compatible API providers are supported.
But if you want a full local and sandboxed execution of the whole agent, the web version bundles also wllama to serve local GGUF models (with WebGPU optional support).
Very cool work. I've been seeking solutions for running an agent in the browser for building artifacts on my project, which is a web artifact tool library called Exhibit. I'm starring this for later.
Oh nice! I’ll take a look at it, I was thinking of implementing such mecanism in Cooper (I don’t know where it’s going, exploring the possibilities and practical usefulness)
A local, static-image wallpaper manager (kinda like Wallpaper Engine but for directories of images)
Made it for myself because windows wallpaper/background management is horrible lol, avail on linux though too
I am working on Stylify. It is an AI based word formatter. It uses local ai models so that nothing leaves the computer. Most of the time is spent on formatting word-docs rather than writing the actual content, that's the reason I thought of building one.
You can see it here in action https://stylifyword.com
I’m working on a NotebookLM competitor, sort of an open-notebook in the cloud with a lot of features I’ve added (and made available as either PRs back to the base repo or public fork) such as a plugin system to add more generated “creations” or a quick way to spin up your own compatible cloudflare workers ai setup to test out models. I’m trying to incorporate the same bookmarking features I love so much with Raindrop.io (big fan) and experimenting with a new wiki generation feature. It’s only soft launched but happy for any feedback. https://notebooker.ai
I am working on a Jupyter notebook client for VisionOS. It allows for 3D data to be visualized on visionOS. Right now it supports point cloud data, USDZ models and Gaussian Splats. I am working on it to launch on the App Store. Sign up for more information at http://www.pulto.org
https://finbodhi.com — It's an app for your financial journey. It helps you track, understand, benchmark and plan your finances - with double-entry accounting. You own your financial data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit (we do have your email for subscription tracking and analytics). Supports multiple-accounts (track as a family or even as an advisor), multi-currency, a custom sheet/calculator to operate on your accounts (calculate taxes etc) and much more. Supports price for most Indian investment vehicles and US stocks.
Most recently we added support for creating custom dashboards. You can compare return with leading/trailing/rolling charts for investment options and benchmark (create custom dashboards tracking nav and value chart of) your portfolio (or a subset of assets you own) and US stocks, etfs etc. And family dashboard (e.g. you can see networth, cashflows, income, use sheets at family level and more). See https://finbodhi.com/changelog for details.
I am vibecoding a elixir/phoenix agent dashboard to manually & closely review the coding agent plans and code patches for my day job. I am at a stage where I can I use portal to work on the portal and my day job.
I have not yet figured out a way to live reload the dashboard itself after a feature addition or a bug fix. :-(
it is relatively new and untested irl, but interesting as gleam is very nice for fhir in some ways:
-fhir choice types imo were originally designed for some kind of object oriented polymorphism, but are nicer as sum types
-cardinality works nicely with Option for 0..1 and List for 0..*, the only ugly part is if you need primitive extensions and suddenly there are a ton of Option fields
-works with whatever http client you need for erlang or js target, meaning can use on server or in browser
hl7v2 is much uglier than fhir but commonly used eg by state immunization registries, so I am considering gleam types that have message/segment structure, but leave each field as String (as opposed to gleam fhir which uses Bool or whatever for primitive types)
after that not sure some kind of gpl toy emr probably a stripped down version of openemr that uses gleam/lustre and a fhir server instead of php, but this is definitely the mysterious step 3 ??? as there are a lot of features and integrations that take a lot of work or use different formats (hl7v2, ccda...)
I'm working on a no upload, no account, no server-side preprocessing online viewer for schematics, PCB layouts, 3D boards and BOMs called ECAD Forge -> https://ecadforge.app/
Building a new Smalltalk VM from scratch that better utilizes modern hardware (full multicore support) and a web-based system browser so I can develop with it remotely.
Building a rootless, namespace powered (deeply stretching the definition of a container), on demand application workspace.
- Each component in a mini app in a heavily locked down container
- Components are deployed and built in a web workspace, in the same workspace you can open a terminal and use your favourite coding agent to work on component code (each terminal is itself heavily sandboxes, has rw access only to the edited component code and users home dir)
- Everything comes with heavy rbac and minimum permissions
- Oh so much more
Explaining this well is hard, much like explaining to someone what Kubernetes or AWS does. This is at a level of what a sophisticated company infrastructure team would run, just as a workspace you can deploy for yourself easily and agents just build within that framework (I’m a cofounder of a infra/compute/datacenter startup and intimately familiar with this kind of complexity)
The main thesis is that Claw-style agents still feel like school projects, and that in the agentic era apps on demand will be more of a thing, and that the current systems weren’t built to deal with a whole new app built every few minutes.
I lost a lot of weight on GLP-1s, and on top of that my tastes changed. Instead of IPAs, I like cocktails now, and the transition made me feel like my own internal clock was out of whack.
Also, also: these hard seltzers are totally crushable, waayyyy too easy to drink fast. So this app helps with that, too.
Kind of tangent of what everyone else is doing but making a minifigure/garage kit painting site.
If you're in the hobby, the issue is that keeping track of paint and color combinations is annoying and is very mind numbing since wet paint color differs from dry point colors, how colors combine due to transparency of the layers, and different companies have different binders/pigments.
Currently have the paint combination setup and trying to get minifigure gaussian splatting setup from an image (Used to work in gaussian splatting for a while and actually figured out how to improve vggt to get a better one-shot)
I'm building a low friction logging/metrics platform that allows for easy visibility into your apps. The idea was to make something that isn't really geared towards enterprise and can be used by anyone. I started about 6 months ago and have been testing extensively so far with an internal beta with a few colleagues/friends.
I’ve been exploring what sort of agentic tooling to write for creative coding and realtime VFX. My second iteration just got released earlier this week (also open source): https://sxp.studio/apps/subz
If you’re open to the idea of composing code blocks and ideas, plus some generative UI exploration, feel free to join!
Everyone who plays D&D has experienced the moment where they forget key details about the collective story they’re building. From ‘hey it’s been a month, where are we?’ to ‘wait who was this crazy npc again?’, ai is excellent at transcribing, notetaking and building a knowledge graph of your fantasy world.
I’m still building mostly for myself by adding a ton of features I know my friends would want, but also think there’s some ‘there’ there.
The idea is simple: let Loracle record your sessions on discord or upload the raw audio of your sessions, then get a rich personal wiki and session notes you can interact with.
If you’re mid-campaign you can also upload session notes from plain text and it bootstraps a campaign wiki. Then future audio based sessions have a good base of npcs, quests, characters, etc to build off of.
At this stage I’d love feedback more than anything else. Happy to comp a lot of usage to HNers in return for some reports on how well it’s serving you. Email admin@loracle.app for anything and everything.
Working on a instagram alternative. Trying to figure out how to grow a user base, when my companies goals are 'non-addictive', 'good for you', ad free social media.
Have spent the last month giving the UI a bit of a modernisation refresh and simplifying/improving some elements based on early user feedback. There's also been a boat load of performance improvements in the dirarisation and document generation pipeline.
Makes it easy to use Claude Code or Codex interchangeably across multiple computers. Personal editions are free, I have a hosted commercial cloud (workgroups share AI history) and commercial self-hosted option available.
It has macOS and Linux clients and I released a guide for setting up the source-available, self-hosted cloud option this week: https://contextify.sh/docs/self-hosted/
I am thinking about the other AI cli environments and providing support for those as well.
I am speaking to initial customers and from my initial pain at my day job it was going to be a way to be "Lovable for your existing product" . But it also seems like it might turn into "internal cloud to host dashboards non-technical people are making with Claude".
I'd love to talk to anyone that's in Product or Ops or Sales or Account Management or Customer Success who'd either like to make changes to their existing product without the need for a developer. Or maybe they have thrown something together with Claude and have no idea how to "get it into production".
I've been working on a web application for learning 倉頡輸法 https://demo.cangjieworkbook.com/ , no login required for the demo version (Cangjie Input method). It's a visual way of decomposing Chinese characters. It has a high initial learning curve so I've come up with a method based on the ways QWERTY is taught. I've added a few more texts and lessons in the last month. The most time consuming part is adding annotations to characters to show how they are composed, but it is worth doing. I already have a couple of users and they have given me helpful feedback. If you are interested, check it out and let me know how it goes.
A text-based song format for generating music. I wanted to be able to create a song entirely using text, so I created a TOML-based format for doing so, and gave it most of the features you would find in a DAW. Since the format can be described in a SKILL file, AI can be used to write a song in this format, which can then be converted to audio.
I've been helping people achieve their reading goals by hosting workshops at libraries and helping adults become more intentional about their reading goals and how to achieve them.
building https://wellbody.me - we take your body health goal and build out a progression system that considers fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, mobility, and recovery -> and break it down into just 3 actions daily.
I'm working on the finishing touches for a big new "Event Filters" feature for my Shopify app, Stages (https://getstages.com). The feature will let users set up rules to decide which orders should be imported into the app based on certain criteria like Shopify product names, collection names, order value, and so on. Users have been asking for it forever, and I'm planning on publishing it this week!
I'm also working on an update to ShopifySharp, the .NET package I maintain for Shopify's graphql and rest APIs. I need to regenerate the graphql types and the fluent query builders for the July 2026 API version that was just released, and I'm planning on some extra QoL improvements that I've run into while using the package over the last couple of months. I particularly want to add some F# QoL features, since I wrote the package in C# but use F# in all my personal projects. (https://github.com/nozzlegear/shopifysharp)
Same as last month for once - optimizing how well agents can work with a new language [1]. I've been able to 2-3x success rate and drop total tokens for complex tasks significantly (though the initial syntax dump is rough - need to do some ablation there to get it down).
The best part has been that I think it's significantly improved things for humans too; it's weirdly satisfying to be able to measure improved ergonomics. Also, since a big pitch/theory was that the language should be ideal for agents as a result of the original nice things for humans it was designed for, it's a relief to be able actually measure a concrete lift.
[1] https://trilogydata.dev/ - SQL with types, composable functions of arbitrary complexity, and a native semantic layer.
A web and mobile app for tracking cellar contents that doesn't feel dated or clunky, and with which I can make assorted dynamically-updating menus for different use cases. I'll probably do a Show HN once it's live.
I have always wanted a web browser with tmux/iterm2 style tabs/panes, as well as the ability to save the window configuration and tab contents to a file that can be checked in to projects and loaded.
Load all of your project's documentation links, local development browser tools (database viewers, etc.) into a set of views that can be source controlled with the project. Don't force people to use their daily driver browsers for this, or hack side-by-side views together with their OS window managers. Zen and friends have split panes, but it's not the robust tab/panel system that I wanted.
There is a simple tab widget system, which so far has:
- Viewport manager: basically 1:1 with what is in Chrome devtools
- Session manager: create and manage browser sessions as a first-class entity, and attach/detach tabs to these sessions. Includes a simple "incognito" toggle as well.
- System light/dark override: stop flipping this on/off for your whole OS to test "system" light/dark mode (tedious)
- Reload trigger: pick a target tab. if that tab reloads, so does this one.
- Log file viewer: if the tab source is a local file, change the tab's view to a structured log file parser with search/filter, play/pause, etc.
- Screenshot/Video capture: not built yet. pretty self explanatory.
Great keyboard controls are a hard requirement for me. It's a little tricky since content in web views can capture this too, so I have a global "nav mode toggle" you enter to move around between panes and the tabs within them. Actively figuring out the correct UX, but I am liking what I have so far.
Toying with the idea of a "tab link" which allows you to store a set of "source" tabs in a view, but create "links" in other views, where the navigation is synced across all instances. Useful if you want to have, say, the Tailwind docs open to a specific page, but have that page shared across different views. For example, if you want to have one view specifically for mobile view work and another for desktop view work, and not have to manually navigate to the same Tailwind docs page in both views.
I'm honestly just using it as I work on another real project, and adding features as I think "hey wouldn't this be nice?" Which is a pretty fun and satisfying process. I don't have it published yet, because I'm not entirely sure if it's worth sharing at the moment, but I feel like I'll discover that along the way here and go from there. Maybe someone here will chime in :P
This thread was so long I vibecoded a clustering similarity graph of it to navigate with voronoi territories, should be available for the next little bit.
I've been working with coding agents for a few years and became increasingly frustrated by the way it pushes you towards a solution. So I built rubberduck (https://userubberduck.com/) - a way to control exactly what solution the agent ends up creating by mimicking a design conversation with a competent colleague where the agent explores the solution space together and forces you to make decisions. The final output is a consolidated design document of all the decisions you made. At least that was how it began. I've since built an implementation plan step where it figures out how to translate the design to code and execution where it actually builds it. All of this happens in a properly isolated environment (using gVisor under the hood). There are more features I want to build so on it goes I suppose.
I'm working on a website directory (intrasti.com), not really sure what the direction is other than I'd like to celebrate the best of the internet in a way that isn't pay to win, manipulative, or anything like that.
It's a slow business and engineering catalyst that I'm making progress with behind the scenes each day. Suffice to say I'm taking the scenic route!
Currently working on a unified website submission flow for submissions and topic creations (topics are collections of websites) and after that I'll be looking into overhauling the whole site focusing on accessibility and how I can make that a great experience.
I am playing around with creating a public domain repository for ebooks. https://babelnexus.com There are a few differences. It uses core collection theory and is selective. The name comes from the short story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. Borges used Hexagonal Galleries for his library. I realized you could put anything into hexagonal galleries. It did not have to be books composed of random letters. I also saw that you could use different levels to group kinds of knowledge using the spiral staircase concept. I have added other concepts like reading trails and cortex maps. I learned that the hexagonal concept of Borges library matches with knowledge graphs with both nodes and edges. There is a lot of experimentation in what I am doing. It is an art project, a bit of philosophizing, a bit on the public domain and many other things.
With the help of AI & LLMs I restarted working on some of my older side projects. I updated the code and did a landing page for Printable Mockups (a free, open-source drag-and-drop tool for creating device accurate wireframes and sketchpads that you can export as PDFs, print, and sketch on by hand) https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups
I plan to add more features soon.
I’m working on https://gnooma.com, a lightweight tool for reducing knowledge drift in teams.
It introduces a new document type called a gnoom: a living document that knows who has read it. When the document changes, read confirmations reset, so you can see who is up to date.
I built it because important decisions kept getting buried in chats and then discussed all over again.
It’s a free beta and doesn’t require an email. Curious if anyone else has this problem. I’d also appreciate any feedback on Gnooma.
https://talkingtomachines.xyz/
Talking to Machines is an interactive AI course.
Each concept be it agents or context window can be experienced and experimented with using fun little widgets designed to help you learn by doing. I've really tried to make the AI course I wish existed. Getting into as much nuance as possible and as much hands-on fun as possible. I would love some feedback.
I’m working on SprigEdit. A wysiwyg markdown editor that focuses on a beautiful and pleasant writing experience. Https://sprigedit.com
Perhaps the coolest feature is it is fully native, and yet still runs on web, windows, macOS, iOS, and android due to a shared core and platform native ui layer.
I'm building https://rewindly.app, a tool which records the screen for 15s to 1h (configurable) and allows you to view your recent activity. It's basically instant replay for PC activity.
Pretty much just SwiftUI-like layout/style in TypeScript with a bunch of utility tools from other languages I like, like Rust's payload enums, table helpers, LINQ-like queries, state management, etc. It's framework neutral so it works with React, React Native, and Vue right now. Everything is just plain TypeScript that compiles to the DOM, so no HTML or CSS needed for most normal web apps, they can all be written in plain .ts or tsx files.
I'm working on hexora, a library that detects malicious Python code using static analysis and machine learning.
Recently, I've added a simple ML model to filter out false positives. In the last month, I found and flagged more than 40 malicious Python packages.
Unlike the LLM approach, my library is not susceptible to prompt injection and deobfuscates Python code. Where LLMs see "obfuscated code, potentially harmful", my library decodes it and sees what's happening inside.
I've been working on a Ebook reader called WizRead with a friend for 2+ years now, as a side project.
The goal is to create a platform where users can read and share their reading stats, goals, ideas, by also providing a modern & friendly UI.
Currently we have only developed a desktop version for macos/windows/linux, but we are willing to conquer the mobile too!
Thanks! If you mean something like the Kindle.. No that's not on our future plans. Our current roadmap is
- make desktop versions stable
- create the mobile app
- add more community features (something like goodreads but also integrated in the books you read on the app)
https://wrappercheck.com - it is a tool that helps you validate your startup idea with market and competitior anaylsis, market fit, revenue vs expenses etc. I am open to improvements and suggestions
I have been working on a AI native browser = WebMCP is first class and the in-app agent uses it to do tasks.. not the same as a slapped on chat sidebar. also MCP actions are lightning fast.. so i use it via my Hermes agent.
Also finally closed the first real customer on it recently!
I want to get through a large chunk of the open issues the next few weeks and then spend some time building agentic capabilities for it.
I believe a central place to configure database access for your dev team without having to share passwords and with sensible review policies should also help e.g. if claude needs to access production data to validate a premise.
Still have to figure out the right UX though not sure the agent should have the exact same review requirements that a human does. Maybe it needs to be configurable separately
I've been working on Wattle (https://wattle.app) for the past six months or so.
It started out in life as a bunch of post-it notes for friends who were watering my plants while I was on holiday, which evolved into a long text message, a Google Doc, a static site, a simple CMS, then Wattle. The more I look around, it seems like there are lots of use cases, so I'm having trouble with my positioning.
"Digital guidebooks for vacation rentals, home swaps, sitters, carers, and more."
Funny, when I lent out my house I also covered it in PostIts.
When looking at a SaaS idea I always ask myself, "will this add enough value to compete with generic and free tool X?"
If your app is just pictures and text based (with AI search), I wonder if it adds enough value to compete with just a Google Doc that's also text and pictures (which surely also offers AI search). A Google Doc could also use comments to collect questions.
Visiting your home page, I was actually looking for AR (augmented reality) or plain camera powered features. E.g. point at a window sill and say "how do I open this?". Point at the washer controls and say "how do I do a fast wash? How long will it take?".
This could be especially useful for controls/labels in languages that the guest doesn't understand (easy to mistake bleach for detergent in Spanish for example). Maybe auto translation of all textual content and even pictures could be part of your app as well.
AR is something that I would love to see for myself!
For this particular scenario though, I've found that both hosts and guests responded far better to simplicity: a familiar UX (images/text) with a nice UI. Now that AI has become mainstream, adding this to search was also received well. Funnily enough, most of the past six months was spent culling features and streamlining/abstracting choices. The AI actually started out as multimodal and was reduced to text-only over time.
What I've learned from users is that a guidebook is non-critical until it is. When a guest can't figure out how the microwave works, they don't want to download an app, learn a new behaviour, and so on. They just want an answer as quickly as possible - from the host, or from a simple guidebook.
It's not so different from the host's perspective. Their focus is hosting, not creating the perfect resource. I added templates and "AI onboarding" (i.e. write a prompt / dump existing info as unstructured text) which people seemed to like. Turns out blank canvas syndrome is very real here as well. The AI organises existing info, creates placeholders for what's missing, and adds suggestions of what could be included.
When the guidebook fails to answer a question, it's logged so that the host can update it directly from the UI.
Completely agree with translation - it's on the list!
From the screenshot/device mocks on your site, I was under the impression that you were making an app for both host and guests to use. There's no 'browser chrome' visible in those pictures.
Could clarify that your app generates a site, or make that apparent from the screenshots.
I’m building an AI search assistant and autonomous AI agent for real estate, powered by MLS property data via my tool mlsync.io [1].
It’s designed to go beyond static filters to actively research, compare listings, analyze photos, watch listings, setup notifications etc... - basically an "OpenClaw for real estate."
What if your web apps e2e tests ran in production through actual user sessions? Know exactly what browser session cohorts are having issues. Open source, https://github.com/Faultsense/faultsense-agent
I'm doing a learning project(strictly no AI): writing a recursive dns resolver from scratch. It's been fun reading the DNS RFCs, implementing the wire protocol, and writing code by hand.
combining idea banks/feature request boards with popular product management surveys, with the idea to help people discover better signals from the noise of user feedback, and then follow up with interested users for in-depth research. We used to do this combining several tools for a SaaS product that we sold last year, and I thought it would be useful to build a unified service so everything is in a single tool. An early version (useful but not fully polished) is live at https://www.votito.com
I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Agentic AI Super App for medical and dental school. You can think of it as literally everything one would need from day one of admission till graduation day as a doctor.
I myself am the first medical doctor and full stack engineer in the history of my country (250 million), graduated as a doctor at age 25, and we have over 100+ users [all of which are medical/dental students and doctors], 10s of billions of seconds studying smarter, hundreds of millions of questions solved, and more.
Our Super App has subsystems including MedGPT, MedAgent, Spaci (our own take on spaced repetition) and much more.
We're bootstrapped, and continuing to scale. If you are in medical school or know someone who is, please reach out!
https://vask.dev - websockets - Pusher alternative. It's Pusher compatible, but way cheaper and powered by Cloudflare.
https://tailstats.com - display data on almost any device (ios,android,macos).I've build this for myself so I don't have to build dashboards or mini-one-purpose-apps and clog menubar/workspace.
It also works with AI agents via API and MCP so agents can create interactive cards.
Still kicking around with https://viberglass.io to assist the whole development team (or smaller companies) to work together on development. Hoping to open source a better multiplayer experience on it over the next few weeks and then it's moving self-hosting options towards other cloud providers.
I’m working on https://checkpost.dev, a lightweight and easy-to-use osquery manager. It is open source, easy to self-host, and ships as a single binary. It only requires osquery to be installed on the endpoints. Checkpost is readonly and doesn't make any changes on the enrolled hosts.
It can run adhoc or scheduled queries and send the results to ClickHouse, or store them locally in Parquet files and use DuckDB to browse the results. It can also initiate YARA scans and collect the results. It also supports policy evaluation and alerting.
I’m already happy with the current set of features, and I don’t expect to add many new ones. I want Checkpost to be something you can host once and spend very little time managing.
One of my goals while building it was to use it for device posture checks. Currently, alerts can be integrated with VPNs and proxies to allow or deny requests from devices that fail certain checks, but this requires manually parsing the webhooks. Over the next couple of years, I plan to focus on making those integrations easier and more seamless.
Edit: One major feature I’d like to explore is device identity and attestation using TPMs or secure enclaves. This could allow Checkpost to verify that requests are only coming from enrolled devices.
It's like a BuiltWith for Government. I am tracking all UK government spend and building a picture of software and rising/falling trends of various products in the government.
I worked as a government supplier and found it hard to find out what tech/solutions are in place without inside knowledge. My idea is that by opening the data, I can help more suppliers compete and foster innovation.
Here's what I _wish_ someone was working on, I'd build it myself but I'm too busy with other projects. A browser extension that's not a popup blocker but a popup minimizer. So any popup (newsletter, cookie notification, even social signin) gets sucked down into a Windows 95 style taskbar. You can restore them easily but they get out of your main browsing flow. Maybe start as a fork of one of the popup blockers?
I went on a side quest to strip out ProseMirror and markdown-it and implement a custom stack instead. I open sourced both the parser and editor (https://saturn9.studio/technology/):
I just launched my digital media shelf on my personal website, a catalog of my favorite books, movies, records, podcasts, and more. Lots of fun to build despite some false starts and fits:
Underpinning my current app is an e2ee local-first sync engine, basically it is a traditional client-server sync (encrypted logs + snapshots sequenced with integers). It sends bundles of Loro CRDT operations. I wrapped the client side in WASM to power the web app and the CLI and have started a swift wrapper to port to native iOS. Bundle size is 3MB/1.2MB g-zipped so pretty happy with it. I've realised that web encryption is kind of bs (at least not as "WE CAN NEVER ACCESS YOUR DATA" as some vendors state) if someone else is distributing the app.
Over the last week I have done a lot of performance work & data remodeling - CRDTs are interesting because you can let data fall through the gaps if you're not careful.
Adding more and more features to https://mdview.io (the best way to read technical docs). Now I am adding CLI support for the features like publishing, custom slug creation, pdf rendering and more
This month I continue working on to refine my coding agent harness https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode. Recently, I've added back Anthropic Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI GPT 5.6 models family (Sol, Luna, Terra). Fortunately, I've had support from the open source community and VT Code has advanced. I hope you give it a try.
An AR ArcGIS Map viewer in Apple Vision Pro.
A Pre-listing checklist tool for Apple Vision Pro.
A custom widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder for applying relationships to unrelated, unowned data.
My original idea for this was to compile an Ansible-like playbook to a binary. I made a POC for it around 2020, and then it sat on the shelf. More recently I picked it up again following a more Terraform-like model. It compiles IaC to a binary with all dependencies included, standardized CLI options, autogenerated configs, optional visualization in the browser, and lots of other features.
To people who say just use Terraform: I do, a lot. But it still bothers me enough to try building something different.
I have a daily puzzle game called https://lettered.io and I’ve been playing around with shareable replay gifs via gifenc. It’s been fun trying to get good looking replays without sacrificing size for quality
The age of AI has been incredible for the daily game space because you can play around with ideas so much faster and riff to find something that works. On the flip side, there’s a lot more games that just rip off another idea and change some mechanic slightly to make it “new”
Primary idea is to evolve from SQL client to a Database Client, where users would be able to host queries, share queries and the work remains auditable.
Previously it was an SQL client, a PopSQL alternative. But I am trying to re-work the architecture so that it can support more databases, and services (query-as-service, query-as-reporting-job, etc).
It's mostly "public" data, but incumbent data vendors charge $90k+ for this data because it has to be acquired and aggregated from 3200+ US counties. This is a lot of work if you aren't using LLMs and agents to do much of the work for you.
I'm trying to make quality parcel data more accessible to everyone.
I'm not a big fan of the encroachment of AI into Adobe's apps, so I'm using AI to build a replacement for those apps (a small web-based photo organizer and editor, just the tiny subset of the Lightroom features I need for my workflow)
tscircuit! An open source framework for building circuits, we have a lightening fast autorouter so i spend lots of time debugging complex PCB routing problems
I'm working on adding better Obsidian support to my personal SSG – Hajime [1], in an effort of making it a somewhat solid Obsidian Publish alternative.
The main point is adding relationships between the entries, as that's the bread and butter of Obsidian.
Desktop app bundled with an ai model and a local-first agent so nothing leaves your machine.
Last week I interviewed non-technical people about their experience with AI agents. Many couldn't even use them at all. Either they didn't want to share private data with ChatGPT or company policy prohibited it.
For those of you working with sensitive files – contracts, client records, financials, HR docs – I'd love to hear how you handle this today: simone [at] breadboards.io
Building Critical Infrastructure protection software that helps security teams create real grounded processes that don’t live in spreadsheets and slide decks. https://cabreza.com
Most critical infrastructure orgs don’t have the budget to hire consultants, and even if they do, the deliverable is a deck, or a spreadsheet, or a PDF. We want to help any org of any size create a security regimen outside of these stale and disparate docs. For FREE.
Plus we have additional tools that we are building on top of the free software that will help in other areas besides policies and procedures. Like OSINT of any orgs operational and physical footprints.
Finishing up my masters dissertation comparing approaches to EV charge scheduling.
The core of the whole thing is a generic experimentation framework that allows for easy comparison of approaches along with synthetic charging session generation.
I’m then using the to compare linear optimisation to a reinforcement learning approach, and seeing the effects of modelling power efficiency etc.
A FOSS TUI for Obsidian-like markdown Vaults, using interactiong metaphors of old DOS software. Especially inspired by Wordperfect 6 and Norton Commander.
I released my first web game on CrazyGames recently https://mechacraft.io with about 40 CCU and I'm now working on my second one https://nickvanurk.com/voidfall. I'm also available for remote work :)) (discord: jycerian)
Did pretty well, only took a day or so. I first had it inventory every MUST, SHOULD, and MAY in the spec, and then let it rip. I did guide it quite a bit to get what I wanted, but at the end I’m pretty happy with it as a first draft.
Helped me learn the spec and will be helpful to hone my dotnet AEP server, and aepbase.
There already existed an aep e2e validator which does a similar thing, but this is more thorough and generates a nice report. It will tell you not just whether your API follows the spec, but also what parts of the spec it does not implement.
I'm working on https://artifacts.iofold.com, a way to use artifacts (self contained html + optional assets like image/video/json) easily across agents, with feedback loop and docsend style wttribiti gates.
Have made it agent friendly enough that my teammates' agents can read and drop commennts on specs/storyboards etc, and my agent can close the loop by iterating with a new artifact version.
I'm working on https://topicle.com/ An alternative to Reddit that more aggressively polices bots, spam and astroturfing and has strong guardrails in place against bad moderation. No private profiles that bots use to hide, every mod action can be appealed, mod logs are public, LLM posts are blocked. There's so much obviously inauthentic activity and questionable moderation on Reddit, I decided to try addressing it.
I'm working on better UI for my app AutoPTT [1]. It's probably going to look somewhat similar to Discord's settings, except I won't be using Electron. I refuse to use bloated stuff like that, so I'm going to keep using a pure C UI library [2].
Obviously this is going to take a bit more work but at least the resource usage will stay low, which I consider quite important. Especially since gamers are a large portion of the user base.
I built my own weather prediction / visualization app: https://wx.rsp.li (on-device temperature lapsing, on device interpolation modes, user-selectable aggregations, etc…). One of these days I should do a writeup.
I'm building https://supadesk.ai - An AI agent platform to help businesses manage their front-desk.
I launched beta last month with a couple of customers in pilot phase. It has been great learning experiencing building my first AI agent tool and running it in production.
My tech stack consists of:
- Ruby on Rails
- Vue.js + Inertia.js
- PostgreSQL
- TailwindCSS with Shadcn Vue UI
the app runs on Hetzner VM deployed via Kamal.
I'm planning to do a detailed blog post on the tech stack soon.
I found initial customers by manual outreach within my network.
I don't see any potential issue with Supabase. Both names are drastically different and we serve different markets. Besides, there are plenty of other products name with "supa" prefix.
I'm working on a Claude Code governance tool that allows to define deterministic policies for tool call that can be enforced across a fleet and will be in effect even when individual users run with --dangerously-skip-permissions
I needed to get customers for Hyperclast [1], but I kept procrastinating on the go-to-market tasks. I'd rather be building, you know! So I created https://tractionbeast.com/ as a tool for myself. It gives me bite-sized tasks every day. I just review and do them. This completely removes the inertia for me. My other founder-friends like it too so I turned it into a product.
If you're an early stage b2b founder, I'd love to hear your feedback about TractionBeast.
Something very small and simple compared to other ambitious projects here :)
A TUI to control a crazyflie nano drone. This is mostly a rust learning project - but insanely fun because it leads to something flying through my living room.
I've been working on an OBDII scanner application for my port of Tock to the Microchip SAMV71. The idea is that it will help prove out the CAN peripheral in a real world environment before I start layering other things like UDS on top of it.
I’ve been playing around with using llms to recommend me books I can get from my local library based on the model’s latent knowledge of books it has ‘read’ and a conversation with it about books I’ve liked.
It’s an AI-powered mock technical interviewing platform, for system design and coding.
I’m also working now on behavioral mocks, with a coach feature!
I’ve been working on it on and off for a year, but started spending significant time in the last few months.
I know everyone’s burnt out on LLM products, but I think it’s nice for this kind of prep since you can do it on demand and in an environment it’s safe to fail as much as you need without judgement so you can actually learn.
It’s early and free if anyone is interested in trying it out (at least while I can afford to serve it for free)
I made an e-commerce tool for textiles designers to source inventory and produce real garments and handwoven products from artisans in Italy and India. Check it out jaalyantra.com
Job application tracker that gives you role details at a glance, emails you practice interview questions and helps with cover letters
https://rolerecall.com
I am building https://nexaflow.com - a customer support AI agent with built-in modules so small businesses need not buy 4-5 services to run a business. We ship with CRM, Ticketing, Appointment/Scheduler, Booking management system (for Small clinics, etc). Nexaflow agents can answer (and take action on) customer queries coming from Whatsapp, Email, Web (widget) and more.
During the last 2 month i've been working on an experiment which have as an objective to see how an AI managing a forum and creating its own rule behave in this environment with human interaction: https://gram.lelabs.tech/
This does review aggregation for businesses, and then a bunch of tools to help you gain insights, respond to reviews, and get more reviews. I just hired my first Sales/Marketing person to scale.
I will create coupon codes for anyone interested! Email is in my bio
An "agent orchestrator" (or whatever you want to call it) that supports any cli agent. Trying to optimize for reducing cognitive load for working on different tasks at the same time with agents.
Currently doing final polishes on adding support for making it simple and easy to run agents and review the code remotely over ssh.
Scaling Zigpoll[0] to 2M ARR as a solo founder (currently at 1.5 ARR). Each year you double ARR for a business it comes with a whole new set of challenges which are layered on top of the changes in the tech landscape.
Fortunately I think I've been bailed out by agentic coding the last couple months from a product perspective but I think the major gains so far have been due to marketing and exploring alternative growth channels. Even so, keeping momentum is never a given and requires constant output from all angles! Onward...
This is basically my version of "what all could you throw into Postgres?"
My problem with vibe coding/LLM assisted engineering is that it's hard to get the basic stuff that is independent of the application itself, correct, so I just use this and make sure everything I build has some consistency.
You can pop this in and use it as the base for your app and add login, permissions, etc. quite cleanly.
There's competition in the other TCGs, and of course a 2-sided marketplace is one of the hardest things to seed. So this is mostly just a project that I can put any fresh ideas into that I wouldn't be able to at my dayjob.
- https://banksia.bio: I suspect there is a market for private consumer whole genome sequencing services. Think "Mullvad vpn" of sequencing - I shouldn't have to know the identity of the person I am sequencing, and they can be identified with a client number not tied to their PII.
- lazyslurm: A TUI tool for managing/viewing slurm / HPC setups. Similar to lazygit or lazydocker (https://github.com/hill/lazyslurm)
I got sick of choosing between the efficiency of working in a terminal and the magic powers of using AI (and of copy-pasting between the two). So I created a hybrid: Terminai is a transparent wrapper for any terminal that provides on-demand access to a TUI coding agent of your choice just a hotkey away (with built-in MCP and CLI that gives the AI access to your terminal).
I'm using Gemma 31b to build tools for myself to optimize my WoW TBC play to an absurdist level. I'm hoping to have world top 10 parses across the board in a few months, loot gods willing.
I usually work on my programming language lone lisp on my free time but I've been feeling burned out lately.
So I started a new side project: decompilation of my cherished childhood video games. Many Mega Man games, starting with Mega Man Battle Network 2.
I just finished polishing and verifying the early initialization routines, and have already traced various parts of the game's engine. I was surprised to discover that it was a huge state machine of sorts. I want to focus on reverse engineering the saving system so I can write a save editor, and the music system so I can listen to the music.
Rebuilding my long ERP-like project to become more like a "business engine" to become a proper ERP backend (so it can cover most business scenarios and is multi-company, branch, currency, etc).
Have now the core done and working on a MVP UI to validate it.
One of the things I always wish to do properly was to model currency and unit of measure in full as core types, plus truly trace everything related to the business transaction from production to beyond the sale.
Looking into a persistent workflow engine like `temporal` now...
P.D: I'm debating if open source or not, in light of the AI-pocalypse...
Still noodling on https://skaldmaps.com, which lets you compare and rank all US ZIP codes, counties, and census tracts to find good places to move to and/or invest in.
Based on an early prototype that helped me find our current house.
I’m working on building AI-backed sms phone numbers for lead generation campaigns needing 24/7 or multilingual support. Less friction than downloading apps or interfacing with chat bots, and just as powerful.
Typical use case can be someone's running an existing campaign (ads, billboard, referrals) and we add a dedicated texting number as the 24/7/multilingual layer on top. No new spend, just coverage after hours or in Spanish etc. Can also serve as the primary feature of a new campaign, admittedly a novel approach but I see there being potential to provide a new channel to reach users where they already are (sms) in extremely saturated markets.
The trickest part of this, and maybe you have solved this is procuring phone numbers for clients. Twilio has put up a TON of friction on getting SMS numbers. I know this because we are doing this on behalf of some very large institutions. Love the idea though!
Thanks! Curious what kind of friction you’ve encountered. In my experience buying phone numbers is not hard, finding vanity phone numbers (especially in certain area codes) is because it requires keeping an eye on their rolling availability.
I’ve set up a few 10DLC campaigns as well, it’s a little finicky and takes time but something I can do pretty predictably.
I continue to work on version 2 of a product that’s been shipping for the last couple of years. I’m not linking to it, because the last thing it needs, is a bunch of folks registering single-use accounts, only to find it doesn’t interest them, but we need to wait a year, to delete the resource hog they registered.
Version 2 is a significant upgrade, and is a bottom-to-top rewrite of both the backend server, and frontend app.
I’ve been using an LLM extensively, and it’s been a huge help. I have, however, also run into its limitations.
I am building https://EasyAnalytica.com - single place for all your dashboards. It generates dashboards automatically from data without using ai. It supports getting data from google sheets, api's, url's etc. I have recently added support for gsc as data source and i plan to continue adding more in coming weeks.
I have ADHD, and my calendar is a graveyard of things that were totally fine right up until they were on fire.
So about to release an iOS app that sends me early notifications about what to actually prepare, or do.
Best examples so far: on my last trip it pinged me the night before with a packing list based on the weather at my destination. Also reminding me to book a table for a dinner planned.
Java Server Side Rendering Web Framework -- zero external runtime dependencies outside the web server layer -- https://github.com/vadimv/server-components
The idea is to provide complete Java-centric modern web UI stack for building internal tools and admin panels.
So, I built a local Mac utility that runs in the menubar to give at-a-glance visibility into live network and application issues. It's free (for typical uses), battery-efficient, and gives fast and reliable answers.
In summary, I pull public motion votings and do any kind of processing I want to give people a better insight in how the Dutch parties vote. There's a voting compass that gets a bit busy before elections.
It was a project by Erwin and I would like to continue the work.
I'm looking at the long-term image and have high hopes other countries would enjoy this too
Taper - A minimalist, journal-inspired race planner for athletes. Everything you need for race day—notes, gear, nutrition, logistics and strategy—in one workspace.
https://gotaper.app
I’m working on Envelope. https://envelopebudgeting.com It’s a budgeting app that comes with a built in checking account and debit cards. Because your budget can actually decline card transactions it’s a very effective system for stopping overspending.
I’m currently migrating the codebase to Swift 6 and dealing with the new concurrency system.
I'm doing a personal research project into the technical maturity of ccTLDs. So far I've mostly been working with easily accessible public information, which I'm almost ready to publish, but the next phase is going to be trying to identify markers of stack complexity (provisioning etc) which is going to be tricky.
I'd love to hear from anyone else doing work in this area!
I am making it easy to embed coding mode AI agents into SaaS applications. We have a WinterTC compatible custom JS runtime that lets the agents write code to accomplish tasks and a SDK to embed agents into your SaaS apps. We help you write skill files on our coding agent against your API and use our frontend SDK to embed the agent into your app a.la Intercom. See https://uraiai.com/
Still a small plattform for groups of gamers to share their library with each other and suggest and vote on games for a game night.
I'm planning on a group finder feature where you can publicly search for others to play with you, currently it's more angled at existing groups.
A powershell-like objects-over-text UNIX shell in Lisp. I’m afraid it’s another agentic turd I produced, but I’m polishing this turd a lot more than the others.
I am working on 2 football game websites, one for world cup https://7-0worldcup.org/,and the other for Top 5 leagues https://38-0.one/
Developing game is easy now, but it is really hard for promotion.
When I switched from engineering to product, I tried a bunch of different user insight tools. They all had their strengths and weaknesses, but they always felt... off. They gathered feedback well but it wasn't easy to answer the questions I was asking, and it was a huge chore to keep it organized.
You hook up your user feedback source (via widget or API) and it will organize everything by content category (e.g. billing) or target (e.g. a specific page, API endpoint, CLI command etc).
Categorization isn't rigid, InputBuffer does its best to put feedback where it belongs and gives you a clear triage flow if you want the added control.
Once organized you can learn more via a quick analytics dashboard or by interrogating the data directly, chatting with InputBuffer to gain a stronger understanding of your product, with clear citations to all feedback.
I have had success on both small and large amounts of input, on traditional SaaS platforms, developer tools, open source projects and more.
Next up: automatically gathering user input from other platforms (like GitHub issues), and more research tools.
I tried it on Firefox, but see it failed because it doesn't have WebGPU (on linux). Same thing on Chromium actually:
main.js:145 Myth browser startup failed Error: WebGPU adapter was not available.
at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9)
at async main.js:61:3
(anonymous) @ main.js:145
main.js:146 Error: WebGPU adapter was not available.
at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9)
at async main.js:61:3
I ran into the same performance issues when reviewing Next.js apps, so I made a tool that scans Next.js sites and tells you what's slow. It's basically a performance tool that works best with Next.js apps, and highlights things like slow LCP, heavy JavaScript, and third-party impact and gives you suggestions and prioritizes them. Here is the link if anyone wants to check it out:
Rewriting the region drawing code in my LisaGUI project so it does per-word bitwise operations instead of per-pixel calculations. I'm using Claude to help plan and debug it, but I'm being careful to review all its outputs and make sure I fully understand what it's suggesting and why. I don't want to lose all my neurons to this thing...
I released Humm[1] last week. Realtime speech-to-text with a focus on privacy. No backend, no telemetry - just a fast, nicely designed app wrapping local stt models.
This month I've been working on the free desktop version which is available as of today but probably carries a few too many bugs to not be worth promoting just yet.
Note: this involves blockchain VMs. If that's a dealbreaker, feel free to skip. I get it.
I've spent 8 years working on RISC-V VMs for blockchains, recently also contributing to ZK VMs. Modern blockchain VMs are drastically more powerful, and I'm curious how far we can push them. I started porting real game logic to blockchain VMs, running game loop, physics simulation, collision detection, etc., on blockchain VMs. So far I have:
Source is available for 2 of the 3, I need to clean up the OHOL one.
Some context: CKB-VM [1] is a RISC-V virtual machine I designed for Nervos starting in 2018. Jolt ZK VM [2] is a zero-knowledge virtual machine developed by a16z. Both execute RISC-V code, but due to different design, Jolt ZK VM is a much faster CPU than CKB-VM.
Technically this is a fun challenge. Many techniques I used resemble game development tricks from the 90s on game consoles: fixed point math, banked memory in ROMs, aggressively inlining tricks, etc. I want to push to see where the ceiling is. Right now I'm trying to get a Godot [3] + JoltPhysics [4] game loop running on Jolt ZK VM.
Happy to answer questions about the VM internals, the porting process, or anything in general.
I've started building a visualization tool for mobile robots using the VDA5050 communication standard.
There are some solutions already out there but most are either slow, resource intensive, or both. Especially for larger fleets of robots.
I'm using it to learn more about VDA5050, Rust and wgpu.
I am working on Spreadsheet Preview, embed and preview Excel files in any website/web app. Just like PDF.js for pdf files. Check it out at https://spreadsheetpreview.com
Created a react-doctor style cli to deterministically scan for misconfigurations, missing observability, and security posture.
Now working on extending it so vibe-coders can secure their apps too!
Working on https://razzify.in - Learn hacking using CTF challenges and get hired.
https://securepilot.in - Indias first cybersecurity incident management platform for individuals.
I’m working on https://main-duck.com/ which simplifies converting your code to mcp. I plan to make this easy to integrate into CI so mcps can be updated easily. It’s hosted remotely and I’m very excited about where it’ll go.
Sharable, real-time synced maps, Google Docs for maps basically.
I think the coolest part is the import feature where you can paste a link to a video or article and it pulls out places and enriches them with images and a description. You can also write your own notes, vote on places to go with friends, and apply colors. Right now I am working on user acquisition and experimenting with different marketing approaches.
With all the supply chain attacks on OSS ecosystems targeting developers, PMG is a practical protection using a combination of threat intel, policy and sandbox.
It’s a package firewall on the terminal really. It has been surprisingly effective against most of the recent attacks.
It's a calculator for what an AI feature costs to serve. Cost per request, cost per month, which part of the bill is eating you (output tokens, usually). No signup, all the math is on the page. Any feedback is welcome.
Working on full stack prototyping agents that own their own Aws account (zero deploy friction). Think speed of lovable/ base44 with power of Aws services
I created a setapp alternative at https://getapps.cafe. 40 local-first apps and counting and yes I use claude code to help building all these apps (and I do read the code). It is so much easier now to start and create small, self contained apps and I do the future is local/privacy by default apps
A News Platform aggregator collecting sources of information across the internet (socials, newswires, etc.) and trying to push context to humans in a more digestible form. We are also experimenting with defining lineage of information using AI to help people try to piece the puzzle together as information flows in.
I frequently found myself needing to convert video files and everything is either paid, needs login, full of ads, or uploads your files. So I built my own tool that has none of that.
I'm building a family game server that will host web-based games on my local network (although I'm thinking about using something like Cloudflare Tunnel to make it available on the internet).
The first game I'm building is the card game Phase 10, and I'm done with phases 1-7. After that, I'd like to build Carcassonne, and maybe Jeopardy.
It's a coding harness that eschews autonomy and instead works like a pair programming partner, with distinct "driver" and "navigator" modes. I've only spent 3 weekends on it so far, so it's a long way from finished. But I am at least using opair to work on opair now, which is nice.
I didn't really want to write a harness, I just got frustrated enough that nobody else was writing the harness I actually want to use. I'll probably be the only person that uses this, but I'm fine with that.
aidekin: an open-source, client-side AI assistant you drop onto any website. Your visitors get a private voice and text assistant that runs entirely on their own device via WebGPU
Unfortunately due to the way GitHub defaults to creating prs in the parent fork, I have accidentally created a few invalid prs in asahi before I was ready, and now am banned from creating a good upstream one
This is an open source tool to run background coding agents + dev environment in isolated VMs. So far it has allowed me to migrate a majority of long running coding sessions to my homelab to run remotely. I can also run multiple in parallel without worrying about race conditions or my host machine breaking.
I'm working on so101-nexus, an open-source sim-to-real stack for the SO-100/SO-101 robot arms where you can record teleop demos, behavior-clone a policy, then fine-tune with RL. The goal is to be very compatible with Gymnasium, MuJoCo, and LeRobot.
Been building a open-source technical interview platform. Trying to keep the existing ideas of async coding assessments + live programming interviews, but want to add features for the new interview formats I see of take-home projects + AI coding agent interviews
I’ve been working on Hype Doc. I built it for myself and hope others find it useful. I decided to build the mobile apps too and that process is way more work than I expected. It’s been fun though to dive into Rails 8 in the process.
I'm working on leveraging NLP and LLM techniques to create a geometry over the discrete space of Ethereum transaction execution structure. (sorry... it's a bit of a mouthful)
Taking a bit of a detour with self-hosting the language, now that the syntactic surface, standard library, and initial dependency strategy are on a decent footing.
With any luck, by the end of the week, I'll start prepping for a 0.0.1 release.
Most recently, adding SID support, and adding timing information to the emulated formats that don’t have any tagged song duration (e.g., converting NSF to NSFE). This means playing the songs one by one and watching for repeated sequences of writes to the sound chip registers.
A competitive word guessing game, play against family/colleagues etc, it tracks your solves and some other fun metrics. Totally free, no ads or other crap. No login needed to play.
No monetisation needed. It's for people to enjoy and to be a real world project I can use to do agent experiments with from code through to devops type stuff.
I am building Bloomberry (https://bloomberry.com), an alternative to tools like BuiltWith/Wappalyzer to provide sales signals when companies subscribe or churn from over 1600 B2B tech products. Think backend/backoffice tools like Hubspot CRM, or Netsuite, or Microsoft 365, rather than frontend technologies like Wordpress or React.
I am working on a local first LLM frontend that saves all chats directly to your hard drive and ships in a single index.html file artifact that you can self host.
No code to show yet. I'm taking the time it requires.
Still working on https://compears.shop we’ve added some new features to help people shop in the EU for cheap. I’m hoping we get to expand this to more EU countries
I'm using AI to build a project to teach me SQL.
I use claude code to build the lessons, and then I complete them myself. I've done this for a few topics already, and I think it's one of the most amazing things you can do with LLMs.
I've been building WhyNotLog to answer tricky questions using statistics. Example questions include "what gives my dog allergies?" or "what affects my sleep?".
Available at https://whynotlog.com and promo code HACKERNEWS gives access to the pro plan for six months.
I follow a bunch of gaming rss feeds just to keep up with what’s new in the industry. Figured I’d take those and turn them into a news aggregator to put them all into one place. Threw in some game deals/affiliate to pay the web hosting bills (hasn’t paid for anything yet, lol).
Scrolless, a Safari extension that keeps all the human parts of social media (search, DMs, stories, posts from friends) while removing all the algorithmic garbage designed to suck up your attention.
I am building a solitaire solver for Zachtronic Solitaire. Especially the last one. It should allow you to take a pic of the screen and tell you if it's solvable and what the next moves could be.
A daemon-focused CLI driven music player for GNU/Linux.
I recently got it working with playerctl by exposing it to dbus using zbus, great fun.
https://git.2137697.xyz/salmon/rsplayer
Search is currently provided by the Radio Browser API, but I'm now building my own station API with proper metadata and thumbnail coverage. A station discovery page with most played stations is also in the making.
This month I worked on my own AI agent written in POSIX shell. It's been surprisingly useful for debugging command line problems on an old laptop running linux, like fixing an apt problem.
I am working on a fast, local desktop search engine. GlintIndex indexes your files and provides instant full-text search. It is in an early stage of development, and I have not reached the MVP level yet. Contributions, issues, and suggestions are welcome.
A minimal, immutable Unix-based OS with built-in attestation and runtime integrity for deploying server applications in microVMs - https://www.gingercybersecurity.com/
I am taking my limited time before next job hunt and using coding agents to create a wego board strategy game inspired by Escape From Tarkov, Advanced Wars, and PhantomBrigade.
I think I am your target customer. I own a national health care franchise and want private AI. What is unclear to me from your site that I view as a gating item is do you source, install and configure the hardware or deploy your platform on ours. Or both?
I am working on a reddit lead generator that pings you when someone wants a product like yours in real time, and It does so only when the intent is high.
Was using this only for my self, but i think it might be interesting for other people as well.
Had the same experience with upwork, feels like the door has closed on easy api access to big site data, ironically funneling people's money to proxies and other scrape helpers instead of their own api.
Yeah, perhaps its due to noone wants LLMs trained on their data for free. I don't know, at least for reddit there are still ways to get the data for free.
I struggle with terminology so I made a little Gnome utility for easier LLM-based terminology lookups from a highlighted word/term + contextual screenshot. So far it's working pretty well, kinda like a better version of the Mac OS or Kindle ones.
Exploring highly interactive instrument (piano) practice to see if AI can help students practice better. Full duplex voice agent alongside your practice session. Also exploring live AI jamming partner to practice playing with others.
Code World Models in Simultaneous Move settings like Capital Markets. DeepMind's CWM approach relies on standard MCTS/IS-MCTS, which assumes a single active player at each node.
This doesn't work in simultaneous-move settings like Orbit Wars (or order-book markets), converging to an exploitable pure strategy rather than a Nash equilibrium.
LeCun's JEPA, by contrast, is a learned neural world model, which lacks the determinism, speed, and debuggability of a code-based simulator. Thus, it can drift or predict illegal states, and you can't inspect why it made a prediction the way you can trace a Python function.
TL;DR: The benefit is better auditability and easier RL-like training.
The SM-MCTS extension fixes the first problem (decoupled UCB per player approximates Nash equilibrium instead of a pure strategy) while keeping the second advantage intact (a deterministic, inspectable code simulator).
apt-cacher-ultra: To help reduce the impact of future DDoSes of Ubuntu. Just released 1.0 yesterday after working on it a couple months.
As that DDoS was going on I realized that some of our dev and staging processes were impacted by it, and that apt-cacher-ng was doing nothing to help us.
apt-cacher-ultra snapshots the repo meta-data after verifying it, and only promotes it if the metadata all checks out. Additionally, it can optionally keep a list of "hot" packages, and can include those in the snapshot calculation.
Additionally, apt-cacher-ng would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well.
I have been able to revamp my recruitment product with AI. Once the deterministic parts are done, I will add AI capabilities to it. I even made an AI generated interactive demo. https://www.hiretale.com/#interactive-demo
If any HR/Recruiters are in this thread (a long shot), please share feedback in exchange of free trial.
i make the microsoft word but less sucks, and there is scientific calculator integrated and also ai on it too, available on linux (stable) and windous (unstable).
Looking to experience life outside of software, but I don't know exactly what. In short, current filters are:
high total customer face to face time//
high face to face time per customer//
probably not in sales
as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.
ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...
As a kibbutznik myself i built it to govern every possible community for all flavor and size with the inspiration of my experience in a tight democratic way of living ,I have given a lot of thought into it but it remained just an idea, i am a developer and my marketing skills are none existing and time is limited so no one use it. glad you liked it :)
7stems.net: a Spanish verb conjugator and method for learning Spanish verb conjugation, where irregular verbs are just verbs with more than one stem. Also just self-published a book.
This month https://thingstohave.app, my calm and flexible wishlist app, reached a state I can call "feature complete". This iteration took two years of occasional work, so it's a big milestone for me. (I've posted updates on this app in previous threads)
Since the last update, I released everything that had been in testing since April, like gallery view, custom avatars, birthdays and, most importantly – autofill from link.
Now I'm preparing for a big launch – working on the landing page, SEO and onboarding experience. Here's what I've done so far:
1. I updated the landing page to actually tell users about the app and look presentable. I already see a big improvement in conversion
2. I added SEO crap to the landing page. This is painful for me, but sadly that's how Google Search works (it doesn't). It's paying off, too
3. I overhauled the onboarding experience, to make it smoother for new users
Two more features are still in testing; I plan to ship them before the release, but currently i'm not completely happy about them.
https://timelinetranslate.com
Translate any video or subtitle file into any other language. Launched yesterday and geared towards video editors with a DaVinci Resolve plugin. Delivers more control and ownership of the editorial process compared to other automated dubbing or subtitling.
A clojure / fennel dsl for generating pure data patches, looking to make a small drum machine in love2d and being able to live update the internal patches would be fun.
building a 90s style point and click 2d game called AshNOak that generates varied stories with 3 characters. Story beats are managed using opensource LLMs. still a WIP.
building https://shellular.dev, an app that let's you use your dev env from anywhere - your agents (Claude Code, Codex. OpenCode, Pi etc.), persistent terminals, local repos and code editor, in-app browser to remotely access localhost:<any-port> and js console for debugging.
For the life of me, I could never get electronics. I used to love the idea of me coming up with electronic circuit designs, but the arcane art of electronics never really clicked for me because I just couldn't intuitively grasp the maths no matter which book I read (AoE, I'm looking at you). But then it hit me, I don't need maths, I just need a formal language to represent the circuits. So over the past few weeks, I worked on a code your own spice (the electronic simulator). So now, for the first time in history, I finally understand how circuits work and how they are designed. And I did this all by coding circuits in python and making my own functional spice (which used to seem impossible at one point, it's surprising how easy it is though).
Working on Gaming Couch, a web-based local multiplayer party game platform. It's like a lovechild of Jackbox and Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com
Just before the weekend I shipped a new mini-game called Pop It: Desert Island (https://gamingcouch.com/blog/pop-it-desert-island-launch). Launch went well: ~3,800 players from 56 countries over the weekend, and it immediately became the most played game on the platform.
It's a battle royale with an ocean/beach themed world, taking inspiration from Roblox, Mario Kart and others. The whole game is built in JavaScript (three.js for the 3D world) using a JS SDK I've been working on. It doubled as a test drive of the same SDK I want to launch for third-party developers, so anyone can build and ship a simple, fun multiplayer party game for the platform, ideally in a single weekend.
If you're a game dev, or aspiring to be one, and want to develop and ship your own party game check out this page https://gamingcouch.com/developers
The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:
- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.
- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).
- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.
- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games.
I've been working on an LLM "harness" called Logbook[0] for fun with Codex.
The core idea was that I've always been a lousy notetaker, even going back to my school days years ago. I'm great at one-off and one-liner notes and occasionally more in-depth notes, but tend to not flesh them out fully enough to make them worth re-visiting.
This has been a struggle even as an engineer sitting in meetings or trying to absorb new information when starting a new job and ramping up.
Logbook is meant to use an interaction paradigm we as engineers are using very often these days: it's a terminal UI in the vein of Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.
It's targeted at the entry of free-flowing thoughts but you can also write longer notes by launching your default shell editor from within the tool.
Each note is saved as markdown with some metadata and that metadata is then saved to a local SQLite DB.
For the LLM side, the tool extracts useful metadata from those notes and then performs some local ranking/categorization. It then has the ability to send a note or some metadata to a provider of your choosing (it's straightforward to use OpenAI or something more broad and customizable like OpenRouter) for further enrichment or filtering.
A couple examples of the currently implemented slash-commands: `/related` can be used to find related notes; say you've been scribbling down notes about OAuth or MCP servers and want to gather up the most relevant notes to one of those topics. Or you can use a `/gaps` command that'll help you find things you've taken notes about but without properly defining or providing context around them (i.e. you mention ID-JAG for OAuth but never actually say what ID-JAG is, this command will tell you this so you have a chance to review what you previously wrote and can then define exactly what that keyword is about).
It's still very much a work in progress. It's not meant to be a full-fledged note-taking app a la Obsidian or anything like that. I've just always preferred taking notes in markdown or plain text and this is a great way to continue doing that while also making enrichment of the notes pretty simple.
You may ask "why not just use agent memories?" I don't really like the idea of tightly coupling notes with codebases or agents and I don't find the current UX very intuitive at least for the way I prefer to take notes.
To investigate the use of LLMs to weed out low value posts and comments, mostly. If a lot of submitted content is by agents, then let them play but figure out how to not overload the humans. Also, how to enable assisted discussion without walls of text.
I’m working on Ovio (https://ovio.au), a record-keeping app for Australian freelancers/sole traders/small businesses.
The current version is deliberately narrow: send receipts by email/whatsapp; import bank transactions from CSV; and Ovio extracts the details and auto reconciles. From there you can check a BAS/GST-style summary and export organised records for an accountant.
It's been quite fun building this as this solves my exact problem, but trying to find an audience for a product is a completely different game
In my 20 something experience of software development, it is totally ok if you don't work on anything so I don't work on something. If there is a possibility that your work will be something useful plus you will benefit from that, you definitely have enough time to do that in couple of coffee tea drinking times. Europe show off by their sidewalks and street signs. Computer is a little too lux for a human.
It really is useful.. If you add your favorite places... it will give you pretty good suggestions using the ai wrapper when you travel and it is good at giving joint recommendations for you and your friends.
I’m working on AgentOrgy, a distributed platform that randomly pairs agents to “tag-team” a problem. Each team’s output is voted on by all agents. The winning results is returned at each stage of th loop.
Super excited to see how many tokens this will manage to burn per minute!!
Replacement for Quickbooks Self Employed (which is awful). Integrates Plaid and allows you to categorize business spending by official IRS categories and business income. Graphs of business spending, income, profit by month, quarter, and year. Export to CSV for easy entry into schedule C at tax time.
Future feature is estimating quarterly taxes and showing approximately how much should be paid each quarter if any and due dates.
I've found Astro to be an amazing framework for simple, performant websites. It stays really close to basic HTML and CSS while adding useful features such as scoped components, layouts, and easy Markdown blog integration.
So I have been using it to build websites. But many things keep repeating with every website I build, so I began working on this project to create a base that I can use for every new web project.
When it is far enough along, I will use it for the landing page of the app I'm working on: a customizable solution for self-tracking including habits, health and journaling, or whatever else you need: https://dailyselftrack.com/
After more than 400 days of traveling around Korea, Macau, Mainland China, Japan and Australia, I'm now returning to Germany / Europe looking for work. I wrote about that in my monthly mail-letter: https://bryanhogan.com/follow
I'm building Voxoria (https://voxoria.ai), it tracks whether B2B brands get mentioned when people ask ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini instead of Googling.
Ask the same engine the same question twice and you get different answers, different citations, sometimes a different opinion of your brand, so figuring out how best to present this has been a fun product problem to solve.
It also tries not to be yet another dashboard: instead of just analytics, an agent turns the findings into a ranked list of "ship this fix" todo items.
Curious, how fast the AI providers re-index a page after you make a change? Do you see the results in the next model update, or do they try to use more realtime data by making their agent fetching the website every time?
So I am building https://buyvds.net with a global visual interface which has a list of around I think 249 vps providers over 60 countries combining up to 863 links (one vps provider can provide vps in multiple countries)
It uses DuckDB to expose a sql query interface in the website itself because I wanted to give the freedom to just do something interesting with the data.
My friend John had an idea which I really liked so I added "john mode" which shows what he was suggesting :-D
I think that Hackernews might like it but honestly, I have probably just made it out for myself and also as something to just share casually with folks on hackernews and other websites and hopefully I am able to help people and myself in some way with this website.
Open to some feedback as usual (for mostly all my projects really) and thanks for reading and have a good day dear reader and hey perhaps give my website a try!
Using UEFI SecureBoot + vTPM for cloud root-of-trust, a stack to prove what's released on github/gitlab is what's actually running on GCP/EC2 (and soon Azure & AliYun).
I was annoyed that so many companies in the Web3 space would do the on-chain theater of verified contracts and "audits" then 99% of their infra would be deployed on EC2 (or god forbid Vercel) in full un-ironic "Trust Me Bro" mode.
It's a different trust model from SGX/TDX, more pragmatic and hopefully easier/cheaper. Currently polishing off "Docker to verifiable cloud VM" stuff, and then gVisor support next.
3. a coding agent that is cheaper, faster, more predictable, and dramatically more capable out of the box — because 584 of its 606 tools never touch a model at all. Repo : https://github.com/corporatepiyush/yantra-coding-agent
I'm working on Hiring Method (https://hiring-method.com). After ~2 years of development and two exhausting pivots, v1 is finally live.
I see a lot of new (and, to be frank, a lot of mature ones) HR tools are just wrapping Chatgpt around resumes (almost like "OK, now match this resume against this job posting and tell me if applicant fits"), which introduces a massive bias/inference problem.
I decided to build the exact opposite – a deterministic, math-driven fitness engine. It extracts structured scorecards from both CVs and job requirements and mathematically matches them, so you can actually review the exact reasoning behind why a candidate scored a, say, 85%. This fitness value is specified at every interview step – as applicant goes through an interview process their scorecard is updated at all steps.
If anyone here builds in the HR space, I’d love your feedback.
When an HR is using Hiring Method, they are getting a fitness score for all applicants.
In case a backend engineer is seeking frontend roles – yes, the fitness will be low – but it will neither be zero nor will anyone be rejected anyhow automatically. HR will have an option to compare applicants visually and in detailed mode at all times.
I am building Hiring Method to augment people, not to remove them from decision making process.
Im sure you have the best intentions. I already struggle with being pigeonholed into roles. The line about using AI wrappers to determine a fit stuck out to me.
I understand you perfectly. I’ve also worked on the employer side (as a hiring manager, working closely with recruiters) and have witnessed a huge number of instances of unfairness, manifesting in all sorts of ways. And, believe me, as the number of applicants grows, the situation doesn’t get any better. I’m trying to bring a little transparency to the process.
working on my own AI harness https://github.com/syrull/pluto tldr I dont trust anything nowadays, I wanted to know what requests I am doing to where and basically implement features that I use daily without the clutter of the other harnesses, still very raw but I am using it exclusively. Not a product or anything just something for myself.
I tend to print a lot of stuff to read while disconnected. This is a tool to help squeeze as much content onto a printed page as possible instead of printing 4 or more pages per sheet.
A good use of Claude slop I'd argue. Currently trying to figure out how to set up the site so that an LLM tasked with printing content through it can figure out how to use it in the best way.
I'm having fun writing another agent harness nobody uses for real (not even me). As a side effect, I got an actor library in typescript to do it: https://github.com/muromec/posipaki .
After some time I figured the best use of AI is to produce even more AI-related slop and spend my occasional 2 dollars on the deep seek model to do it.
Models are fun when given a stable identity and made aware of it.
I’m working on a synthetic control arm for a heart valve trial using synthetic patients from both the heart valve registry (in the near future) and a frozen EHR encoder. It’s pretty fun exercise.
Recently ive gotten into Unity. Have made games before but always avoided engines. This time im taking a deeper dive and want to learn at least the basics of a animations, lightening, movement and lay around with interesting combat variations.
I've been climbing for a decade, but over the past 3 years I've put on a bunch of weight due to work and certain life events. But I want to change that.
I know what motivates me: seeing progress. The feedback loop of "do X, see Y gain" is what keeps me going.
So I started building an integrated dashboard that can aggregate data from multiple systems:
- My digital scale
- Apple Watch (sleep + running performance)
- Beastmaker Motherboard, which is an electronic board that you attach a hangboard to and it shows you various stats like how much force you're applying
The idea is that every morning I'll open the dashboard and be able to see exactly how much progress I've made the previous day: weight loss, strength gain, cardio performance.
It's an interesting problem. There's essentially two parts to it: Apple Health, which aggregates data from the scale and the Apple Watch and can POST-export it hourly, and the electronic board, which sends data via BLE in real time. The destination for both of these will probably be an always-on Raspberry Pi 5, but I haven't decided yet. Then I'll have a small server app that can pull the data from the Pi and draw some fancy charts.
I've been working on a similar concept (aggregate health data from multiple sources) but on a wider scale:
1) annual bloodwork as part of my annual preventive care;
2) InBody measurements, including grip strength;
3) quality of air in my region;
4) Apple Watch but mainly for steps, sleep data and resting heart rate;
5) allergy panel or minerals/vitamins screen plus something nutrition-related along those lines (TBD).
The idea is to see trends and try to apply AI for correlating, at the first glance, completely unrelated data layers. Example how I'm thinking about this one: there's somewhat clear correlation that I sleep better when I do above average steps per day. How is my sleep quality affected if, let's say, I did above avg steps with a bad air quality at that time? (i.e. wild fires / pollen season / etc.)
I've built a Go application to ingest those data sources and currently finishing my first import use case - Apple Watch data.
I'm a physician, and I'm extracting data from Apple Health and using what exists with solid and sound evidence to analyze sleep. Personal project it would be great to connect with both of you.
Telemetry tooling for local Claude/Codex usage so I can analyze old sessions and fill tooling gaps, make sure I'm using the right models for various tasks, update my processes, etc.
I've also replaced Linear with a local sqlite-backed tool, added tooling to speed up code nav, and am building "no-slop", a tool for enforcing architectural guidelines on vibe-coded projects.
I (and Claude, codex, etc) have compiled/ran wayland, X11, GNOME, KDE, and Ladybird natively on a jailbroken iPad. Hoping to release more details soon but I have a slop wiki here:
I've had an idea for a different type of free & open search engine for the last 15 years. I ended up pursing other ideas instead over the years.
Last month however I decided to go back to the idea and give it a shot. Right now I'm in the process of scraping and building a huge index. The technical challenges have been plenty. But I should be ready to publish an alpha version by end of month or so.
I'm creating my own language using AI.
About half of the C backend I wrote myself, and I'm putting in the syntax I want and the things I want to create.
I'm not sure if it will be finished.
https://github.com/srtdog64/PergyraLang
I had problems waking up and was looking for an alarm clock on Amazon. But I could only find analog clocks with the famously unreliably moments, and digital clocks which were overpriced and looked ugly. This feels like a real gap in the market, so I'm working on making my own alarm clock. It's a simple enough project but includes PCB design and modelling the case, etc, which I don't have experience in.
An acoustic analyzer for a sink basin in a hackerspace. It will allow for automatic detection of dishes/cups left in the sink without cameras and can be handled by an rp2040. So far looks like it has very low false positives but can only successfully detect certain materials or large masses.
Right now it copes with important open source libraries on the model of clang-format's configuration, which is a real trick given the partial elaboration you need (with backtracking). But that works.
mathlib4 is the final boss, I don't currently even have a plan without per-directory quirks files which is probably a nonstarter.
World's first LLMORPG. You craft a prompt and it goes to live in wafertown and interact with other players (I mean prompts), you can change your prompt once per day, then next day you get news about what you did there!
Super early, everything is manual rn, I'm automating stuff including sign ups, if you want to join shoot me an email!
suprasole - a pty proxy for enabling deterministic and ergonomic extensions/middleware for harnesses in an agnostic way... also working towards building an automation/scripting layer on top of harnesses via suprasole...
- Got https://beachcomber.sh pretty much stable. Next stage is to propose to various upstreams its worth integrating.
- Custom firmware for some ikea symfonisk dials because the oem firmware on them has some pretty bad bugs. Added features like hold and turn. Getting nice smooth dial behaviour over zigbee etc is surprisingly tricky
- Built a skill evaluator tool that runs a skill through test suites and then tweaks the skill context and runs again. Its been pretty effective to be honest, almost all skills you do the first version is laughable compared to the one you get after this automated self improvement.
- A robust tmux bridge interface for claude to hook into, and then a director layer on top of that for agent orchestration tooling
- a stenographer skill that on the fly ripgrep and builds a rag on your on disk conversation history as a form of memory. Pretty effective.
- I have just started a tool that brokers woodpecker ci to openbao/vault to give a gitlab like integration for controlled secrets injection for ci.
- Been beating my head against a camera tool for a while now, finally making headway. Many ptz cameras dont support fov move, which nvrs need for ml object detection and tracking. They just have a super clunky continuous move and stop. So my tool characterises the camera with cv tools and calibrates movement curves to produce a data file that can be used by my onvif proxy to emulate the more advanced move commands.
- Various helper tools for fusion, like csv based parameterised export, and compliant magnet insert generators.
- A pipeline that consumes my content backlog, ie instagram saves, reddit saves, hn faves, etc and analyses them with local models and various algorithms steps to categorise and intuit why it was saved and what the key information is and what category it fits into for future reference etc.
- A map of my city that shows live river height data with flood map overlays, contour data, predicted overland flow etc. flooding is a regular concern but theres no great resource to know whats going on. I have about 60gb of public datasets it works with.
- A package manager for kicad library symbols and footprints, datasheets
- skills for kicad so claude can reasonably interpret the schematic and advise on problems, check against datasheets etc. surprisingly effective.
- A gcode controlled expansion board for the Carvera Air that gives you 8+8 channels of control for extraction, air assist, vacuum table, timelapse camera, etc. you only have 1 pwm pin so the protocol encodes over that.
- A novel exploration interface for vitamins that renders them in a network graph, showing relationships. When you select one it rearranges around it into a kind of valance orbit style so you can explore chains of effect. Turns out, lots and lots of things relate to magnesium.
- A comprehensive usb c pd board with 4s battery management. 3a or 8a depending on version. Trying to do proper pd in is nontrivial so this is a drop in solve.
- A new brain pcb for Kinesis Advantage Pro keyboards to give modern firmware, bluetooth etc.
- Repacked my rack UPS battery with LiFePo cells, and built an induction/resistive series battery balancer pcb for it.
- Playing around with a new debug header/connector concept thats tiny footprint and zero cost to add.
The hard part is getting things over the line, publishing and seeing if theres interest. A thing can be largely done but theres a lot of detail work polishing it up so its public ready.
I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too).
It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:
iOS TestFlight access here -> https://trybeacon.chat/
Android also in beta here -> https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/afe3c44d8443c4c0
Very interesting. Part of my says that if it rung and I wasn't the first to answer, I would feel bad. At the same time, I like the idea of being able to reach out and just say "I feel like talking to someone". I would imagine that it is super interesting for people with depression or addiction who could add their support group too.
If you miss a Beacon and that makes you realize you want to chat with a friend, you can just send your own Beacon!
This is an interesting idea. I'm building https://tend2thrive.com - I could see an interesting collaboration here. Always looking for ways to re-engage your network without it feeling heavy.
I'd love it if you can also fix the problem of timezones. So many of my friends are oceans-apart and we rarely rarely meet and talk as a group anymore. Maybe some kind of asynchronous option?
The idea is to just send a beacon whenever you're free and maybe you'll catch friends in the wildly different timezones from time to time.
I sometimes send beacons on morning commutes. Way too early for normal social calls but will sometimes catch people a few timezones east on a lunch break or something.
You can’t really have an asynchronous phone call though…
Super neat concept. One super low-lift way to improve its reception: change the styling of the landing page to not be blatant AI slop.
Disagree, it looks just fine.
Ooh this is such a cool idea.
what if I don't answer quickly enough but do want to talk :(
You fire off a new beacon.
love the idea, would love a messaging version
Just some days ago I started a closed beta for a friendship/dating app.
The idea: Everyone must answer 14 questions, then is getting matched with someone who aligns with you. Once a match is found, both have to answer another set of questions and all answers are revealed immediately. If you don't like any answer, you can quit early and land in the matching pool again. If you like each other, you can both decide to get closer. If one disagrees, you will never be matched again. Also picture reveal is only at the end of the 1on1 session and only if both agree to share it.
I got like ~80 users in about 4-5 days - and it is my personal biggest success any hobby project ever achieved, so I am happy. Especially I get so good feedback.
It's invite only, if anyone would like to join, not sure if there is any DM function here - I am new.
My web app is called https://valuepair.app
I was an experienced game designer and producer (mostly RTS and narrative RPG). Some years ago, my career was derailed by major health developments. Since then, I haven't been able to work as I once did. I didn't expect I'd be able to meaningfully contribute to a game again.
Earlier this year, a colleague encouraged me to experiment with Claude Code. So now I have a little game project. :) Being unfamiliar with genAI, I chose something modest so that I'd more likely be able to push it to a fairly polished state.
Tentatively called Vestiges, it's a single player 2D roguelite strategy game with meta progression, some narrative, and a card minigame (the latter inspired by work I did on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II). It's set in the near future. You are using software (the game) to navigate a person's digitized mind, reading their memories.
I hope to have a playable demo within the next month or so.
I'd like to hear more about your experience using AI for game development.
I've had a strangely asymmetric experience where frontier models are failing apparently basic tasks like making changes to a Pong clone without breaking it, while the same models are successfully designing and implementing multiplayer servers with rollback netcode!
I think it has to do with what they can and cannot verify (i.e. they can't actually play pong to see if they broke it), but I'm not sure.
(Also happy to hear anyone else's experiences on this matter!)
I've been having a bunch of fun working on a couple games on a new platform - everything (platform and games) developed with AI.
quackwave.com
Hasn't really been stress tested yet (this is the first time I'm mentioning it publicly), but it's been fun playing with friends & family and iterating.
Party game platform, think "jackbox but no host screen" - just need a web browser open on phone/tablet/PC.
Your comment matches my experience: it has to do what can and cannot be verified. As an example, it was much easier to have AI write a large e2e test using Playwright (then add test cases and expand) than to assume it'll correctly fix bugs without guidelines like this. Also, the human loop is still important in things like screenshot verification - but the frontier models are getting even better here so I'm not sure for how much longer this will be true. The ratio of test code to production code is a bit over 2:1 right now.
For all the bad rap that AI gets in game development, stories like this should be heard more. I occasionally get tendinitis and I can't code for the entire day like when I was young. I get some relief dictating to the AI when I need to rest my hands. I can imagine it's a much bigger help for someone who is struggling with worse.
Glad to hear. I could say I'm in a similar position actually, but my setbacks have been more psychological.
I am also interested in trying this game out! And I'm really glad to hear how agentic coding got you back in the game (literally)!
This an inspirational comment, thanks for posting it! I love that more and more people are being enabled (or re-enabled in your case) as software developers thanks to ai.
Big fan of SW:KOTOR series. Would love to test Vestiges when ready.
You should consider creating the game on Steam, so you can start building your audience.
Thanks! I've been hesitant about Steam because of the strong anti-genAI sentiments there. (And the initial fee to set-up a game's page.) You are right, though, and I probably should just push past my reservations.
(When I began this effort, I was just enjoying feeling productive again and didn't have any real plan to release. But I've been pleased enough with how it's been coming along that I've started seriously thinking about it.)
The anti-AI crowd on Steam only really seems to care about it being used for art, from what I've seen in reviews.
I'd also include the UI in things they seem to care about. If it looks "web style" or has the common tells (dashes, //) it will be most likely be called out.
(Early on, one requirement I gave it was not to use em-dashes for anything player-facing. It's kind of amusing (and a bit sad) at how often I see in its session self-talk something like "No em-dashes!" alongside much more important comments. It's really taken that constraint to heart! :) (Alas, I liked to use em-dashes myself, too; I'm resisting giving up semi-colons and parentheses, though!)
Fortunately, I personally enjoy writing. Currently, I wouldn't be able to claim that Claude didn't contribute to the writing, but nothing in Vestiges should sound like genAI. (Which is actually a little funny to me since one of the characters is an AI. But the genAI writing style grates on many, including myself, and I'd imagine that 20+ years into the future, such issues will have been solved.)
That's useful context, thanks. I might be in a grey area on that front. Vestiges has no genAI-created images, textures, etc. Pretty much all of the (non-text) visuals are generated at runtime using Godot's 2D vector drawing capabilities.
(I've considered trying to find an artist to work with to have professional 2D art.)
I would like to play this demo when it comes out.
That’s just pure pazaak! Would totally like to see this game
Yes, the minigame is like Pazaak. I've prototyped two more radical variants that might also make the cut.
I'd be interested in the demo!!
I'd love to try it out too.
A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc...
I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.
I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.
Neat, I'm also planning a lil newspaper hobby project. I'm curious:
- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?
- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?
- black and white, or color?
- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time
- do you recommend any printeries?
- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup
FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.
I'm in the process of figuring out fulfillment and shipping right now. I just got some samples from https://www.newspaperclub.com/ and they were pretty impressive. My other option is a local printing shop in my town. I'm visiting them later this week so we will see.
It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.
I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...
I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.
Amazing, do you have some example images of what the product looks like?
These don’t already exist?
https://cricketmedia.com/childrens-magazines
https://rangerrick.org/
I was looking for a old school newspaper style that is focused on games, puzzles, math, and outdoor activities. At least that is what I'm going for.
Compared to the usual tools for the tools for the tools to help you program programming tools, this is a pretty good thing to have more of
I wish ranger Rick existed for teens though. My kids loved that when they were smaller, but now we have to spend a shit ton of effort to find teen appropriate content of a similar nature (hah!).
Leave the guy alone.
I wish there were 1,000s more of those!
Do you have a link?
https://thecuriositytimes.com/
love this. will pay for it if you have a link.
https://thecuriositytimes.com/
I don't have payment setup yet. Just a waitlist :)
A great idea!
I built an online version (single player and multi player) of a card game that my wife and I created the physical version of a few years ago:
https://play.xor0game.com
The game is basically the XOR operator combined with set-style game mechanics. What makes it better than other set style games, imho, is that there's a mathematical property of "projective sets" that guarantees that there is always at least one valid set on the table.
My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU.
Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]!
You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us!
The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL,into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!
Uruky is paid and you can get a free 2h trial when you signup if you pass a proof-of-work captcha (another suggestion made here on HN, and it uses a local Altcha).
Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications. This month was Caddy [3]!
Feature-wise, for July we’ve already shipped a lot of visible and less visible things. We’re currently looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a couple of new search providers in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you for your kindness!
[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service, here.
[1]: https://uruky.com
[2]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky
[3]: https://caddyserver.com
Nice, cool project.
Is Monero legal in EU? I heard something about them banning private cryptos including Monero a while back but I don't know what the situation is now. (I think it might just be that exchanges are not allowed to offer it anymore?)
It looks good, but one of the big selling points to me with Kagi is them having their own index. It seems like you guys are working on that, but right now it sounds more like a search aggregator rather than a search engine.
You also mention not using the source for commercial use or distribution, is that only relevant before it becomes AGPL?
I am also struggling to find how to activate the 2h trial, so have not been able to test it out.
Thank you for your comments!
We have an index, it's just not very big, yet. We had a major setback last month with a bug (for less than 24h, the crawler didn't respect robots.txt) and had to delete it entirely, and have been slowly rebuilding it.
You're correct the commercial use is only not allowed before the AGPL comes into play.
You should be able to click on the "top up" link (top or bottom) and see an option for a captcha ("click to prove you're a human"). If you don't, reach out via email (don't share your account number) and I'll give you a voucher for a couple of days.
Interesting. How much does it cost to build a search index in current year? Also, how do you get around the fact that everyone's blocking bots?
I've been thinking of making a "small web" indexer so I'm curious about that. I'm seeing even tiny websites being behind CloudFlare, Anubis etc. these days. (And everyone complaining they're getting hammered by mysterious distributed HTTP traffic!)
I have been working on an indexer for myself using data from common crawl. They do all the leg work and just host the outcome.
That’s on me, didn’t see the text explaining it above the captcha.
I’ll give it a shot. Always happy to see some competition in the market. And I love the idea of handing out the source after a year.
Very cool! How long have you been working on this? How did you acquire your customers?
Thanks! We've been working on it since late last year, only really announced it here in February or March, I think (I'd have to check). Cold emailing some privacy-minded folks and posting here and in other privacy-focused forums like Privacy Guides (that were recommended to us after cold emailing people).
Did you work in this space before ?
interesting project, good luck
Not public-facing search engines, but internal ones and privacy-focused software, yes. Thanks!
I love the idea. How do you stay competitive with the search results of, let's say, DDG? have you considered enabling an API for subscribers? Or selling an enterprise tier subsctription that comes with API?
Thanks! We offer many search providers, so we're not tied to any specific style of results, and our customers tend to really appreciate that!
Also, we do offer an API (check the FAQ), no need for different subscription tiers. Keeping it simple.
As someone unfamiliar with Kagi I encourage you not to describe yourself as a Kagi alternative but instead start with what you are doing first and foremost
Especially because some of us used Kagi back when it was an e-commerce payment processor, and that's what comes to mind whenever I see the name.
Thanks! Do you mean on this HN thread? On the website we do this:
> PRIVATE SEARCH YOU CONTROL
> Search without ads or tracking
> Uruky is a private search engine focused on personalization, not an ecosystem. > EU-based. No surveillance capitalism.
How do you get personalization without surveillance?
This is my bad. We've heard a few people complain that the word "personalization" has been adopted by the ad industry and it makes people shiver when reading it. In our case it means "personal search customization", meaning you can customize the experience as you prefer (UI, domain rewrites, search providers, boosts, etc.). We don't log or track any search queries. I've fixed this in a couple of places but it seems I missed some others, so I'll be fixing it promptly.
Meanwhile, I hope that answers your question? Let me know if you'd like some further clarification.
Cool thanks. I meant here and just generally dropped the comment as advice in case you might slip into talking that way as if all of your target market are already familiar with this other Niche thing. When there's so many people out there who never heard of either anf might be open to suggestions
Thanks! I'll experiment with that next month, then!
Why do you call it a Kagi alternative and not a Google alternative?
That's a good point. Mainly because of the personal search customization features, and the fact it's paid search. Those seem differentiating enough from Google and close enough to Kagi to use them as a reference instead. They're also a good product if you're happy with them, and I don't know many people that are _happy_ with Google, most are probably just _accepting_ of it, if that makes sense.
An automated, full garment knitting machine that can fit on a desk.
There are only a few knitting machines that can automatically do everything required to knit a complete garment, and they are large, heavy and extremely expensive. I'm aiming to trade off speed against size and cost to create something akin to a 3D printer for knitwear.
I've been testing out various ideas for six months now, and I think I have a workable concept, but there's still a lot of work to do!
This does sound incredible. If there's anywhere to follow your progress please let us know.
This is exciting, please post updates somewhere!
the impact of this would be significant. You should check out Issey Miyake's "A Piece of Cloth" (Issey Miyake: A-POC and 132 5) collection, which was clothing based on a single piece of fabric. It's old, like 1999 era, but the concept has come up a few times since.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100361 is a start, but there are other examples. Rei Kawakubo also did a collection called Square based on a similar concept. Yoji Yamamoto did a couple as well, there were a few moments in Japanese fashion that would work extremely well with a full garment knitter.
These pictures are the top level concepts, but the rest of the collections if you can still find them have more examples.
https://vorbim.org/ - free AI generated website for russian speaking folks in Moldova to learn romanian.
AI to generate lessons, excercises AI text to speech to make pronounciations AI to code cards open sources words dbs.
fun 1 month project. gets like 100ppl daily.
https://domio.md/ - zillow for moldova.
same idea - there isn't really a zillow like website in moldova - mostly classifieds sites. so I figured why not - gonna scrape the internet and put them on the map. we'll see what comes of it.
dont post your vibecoded shit on this website. That is for reddit r/vibecoding...
This comment thread is literally "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)". And you're going to castigate someone for answering in good faith? Yikes.
No extinct dinosaurs are allowed here. That is for jurassic park.
I heard an episode of the Odd Lots podcast about HayWire (haywireag.com), a site that pulls public data from government PDFs + APIs, uses LLMs to parse it and turns it into an easily readable website that has all of the latest info on hay prices.
The host made an offhand mention that there's probably a bunch of other similar sites that could be created with all the of useful but difficult-to-access government data out there. That sounded interesting, so I thought I'd give it a whirl!
Working on a few of them, including The Waterline (https://the-waterline.com/) for water info for the western US, The Scramble (https://the-scramble.com/) for egg prices, and The Dwell (https://the-dwell.com/) for container ship dwell times.
All pretty fascinating topics to learn about, plus it's been interesting to see how much of the website setup I can fully delegate to Claude. With Cloudflare to buy domains and put the sites up, a Google Service Account with access to Google Search Console and GA4 to create those properties and a Buttondown API key for weekly email sending, it's almost all hands off for me. Though it refuses to take control of the browser and create a new Buttondown account, which I was surprised is a red line.
Love this! Waterline still seemed cryptic but the scramble was a fun read. I am not following neither of these niches so just a passerby opinion!
Thanks! I am definitely not an expert in either, and I've run the content by both Fable and GPT-5.6 with instructions to make sure it's written in such a way that it would read normally to people in the industry. They assure me the wording makes sense in that context, but we'll see if the sites actually get traction or not.
I live in the southwest, didn't realize this data was available, so thank you. It would be super interesting to have a (heat) map of it all.
Ah, that is a fantastic idea, it's on my to do list.
Not an email newsletter service but a contact form. I recently added the ability for LLMs to sign up to my service https://www.simplecontactform.org autonomously via API. Curious to hear your experience if you can ever make use of something like it.
I've started playing with Zork-Bench.[1] I've been making tweaks to the runtime/harness and to the prompting. Currently, I have Qwen3.6-27b scoring up to ~50 points, which, according to the original paper [2], is comparable to the performance Claude Opus 4.5 showed on this task.
I had Claude whip up a viewer, which I guess I can actually share. Some real sessions are here, if anyone's interested: https://zork-tmp.taf.codes/
It's a fun problem for thinking about agent/harness engineering generally.
[1] https://github.com/mnky9800n/zork-bench [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15867
My city caps how many shared scooters and bikes each operator may put on the street, and how long a vehicle may sit unused. In 2024, an activist group did a one-off analysis on the problem (they found ~1.5x more scooters than permitted) based on an open GBFS data-feed that shows where scooters and bikes currently are. The municipality confirmed the data but called the situation "not undesirable."
The site, https://deelmobiliteitdelft.nl, logs the availability of every shared vehicle inside the city boundary. This allows me to do interesting analysis. For example, one operator has been above its vehicle limit 80% of the time. Another has a third of its fleet standing untouched for over three days.
It's the same idea as my previous project (http://parkeergaragesdelft.nl) where we do have live data but nobody keeps a record causing the public debate to run on anecdotes.
Site's in Dutch, charts should speak for themselves.
Any reason you wouldn't expand this to cover other cities as well?
The GBFS feeds are national, so expanding to other cities would be technically possible. But I think the value comes from knowing the local context well enough to know which numbers matter, and from following up with your local government. That said, if someone wants to dig up the permit conditions for their own city and build a similar project, I'm happy to assist.
Thanks.
Did a quick check on Amsterdam: https://gbfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/visualization?url=ht...
This also exceeds the supposed 600 max per service provider. That said I'm not sure I'd have time to maintain a derivative site.
I agree that the follow up with the legislator is what makes this interesting. I'd even suggest making sharing that correspondence on your site a feature. Your outgoing link on the site to the regional press doesn't quite seem to cover that.
Nice use of civic tech! Have you ever showed this to open state foundation? https://openstate.eu/
1. Translating 1000s of NeoLatin, Chinese and Sanskrit books for the first time
At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. There are a lot of beautiful books to look at — and you can use it with Claude code. API keys available: https://SourceLibrary.org/developers.
2. Replicating the design patterns of contemporary AI services
I’ve created a web app, desktop application and API for organizations needing European hardware and data protections. It’s a nice interface on top of Scaleway in France, so low carbon too. See https://makemode.eu
Support, feedback or even participation on these projects is very welcome.
> At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc.
Wow, this is like... exactly(?) what I needed? (and since this is on topic for this discussion... What am I working on? Learning and writing about metaphysics and magic.)
This is wonderful stuff.
The web UI didn't vibe with me too well though. The only thing I saw on the first page was "Your email address or continue with Google". I mean, reading the books apparently do not require my email address or logging in, but I figured out much later only due to the fact that I really wanted to see the contents. (I'd imagine if somebody was only marginally interested they might have been scared away by the "give us your email address" thingy.)
Also, when reading the book contents, the browser back button didn't work for me. Felt a bit clunky for some reason. Couldn't put my finger on any specific issue other than the back button, but somehow didn't feel smooth. (I'm not a web frontend dev, so this is just my personal feeling.)
All that said, this is a wonderful resource.
Nice. I’ll look into the back button. Would love any more specific feedback (feedback button on every page).
If you have a minute, check out the Librarian in the menu. Give it your research questions. It’s a pretty powerful research agent!
neb pointed me to SourceLibrary last month! Congrats on this work, it is very cool and very important -- a great example of AI helping humans.
It is a vast and beautiful collection that I spent hours checking out all sorts of documents, especially the Occult and Alchemy.
this is incredibly cool
I'm building an RF monitoring system.
It can tell you things like:
- The car that parked nearby last night coincided with "Chad's Galaxy Buds" with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night.
- Alert on sudden cross-specturm interference (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to knock out WiFi cameras).
- Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises).
- Review device movement across a campus/neighborhood (using multiple RF pods).
I have a working PoC. It can run on a low-power computer (e.g. RPi) supporting multiple RF sensors (BT/BLE/WiFi). Has a web UI. Can publish events to an external security system. Currently working on an LLM interface to make it easy for a non-technical operator to set policies and ask questions.
Could be sold as an appliance system or a license for a DIY build.
Angel investors are welcome to contact rf-monitor@tuta.com
Here's an idea for you -- property evaluation. It's not hyper-specific to your monitoring system, but it would be very interesting to understand before buying a house:
1. How loud the neighbhorhood is over time periods, eg sat night vs tues morning 2. air quality, enviromental factors, etc. 3. What percentage of vehicles/people/devices are net-new (over a time period) versus recoccuring, as identified by MAC.
I would personally pay in the low hundreds to understand overall loudness levels for a house I am about to buy, although I am fairly sensitive to sound. My wife would probably pay for the new-new people metrics.
IMO, you could charge a per-device report and deploy a unit for a week, much like a home inspector report. It would give you a revenue stream on the buy or sell side, and let you own your devices as you iterate on the sensor package.
Anyways, just my 2c, gl with your PoC.
Very cool. Do you happen to have any kind of mailing list, blog, etc?
Not until I have an MVP. But I'm happy to answer emails.
Could this be used to identify masked ICE agents?
And Santa too.
So you collect PII in a public space and use correlations to deanonymize, link and collect further PII. A GDPRinator 9000.
I'm not making early legal judgements. Feature pruning can happen later per client jurisdiction.
But in common sense terms, the privacy implications will be no different than virtually every outdoor security camera you pass by fifty times a day.
I am working on Sidequests HQ:
SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests.
The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world.
The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, exploring your city, learning something new, creating, or helping someone else. Complete a quest, skip it, or save it for later.You can also add your own quests. There’s no streak anxiety, no leaderboard. The app is just quests designed to make life a little less repetitive.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidequests-hq/id6751321255 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inc.sidequests...
Possibly related/tangental, my friends and I in high school were pretty big into the car culture of the time (90s Houston = fast and furious). Anywho, as a complement of the normal (illegal) drag race and burnout meetups we used to organize and run full city scavenger hunts. We’d run around town collecting clues, solving puzzles, and driving pretty reckless. It usually involved at least 2 people per car to be competitive. Knowledge of the greater area was important for navigating because this was right around the transition where GPS became common. We usually did it around 2am-4am so the streets were open and we could drive fast. It wasn’t safe at all but luckily nobody I know of ever got in an accident. We had about 100 cars participating when I left for college in 98. I think about it as something that was very special and the last of the fun analog lifestyle before the internet took over.
I really like this idea but don’t like your tagline on the Apple Store. Life’s better with cheat codes is wrong. Cheat codes make games easier and less fulfilling, your app is the opposite of that based on what you’ve said.
Life’s better when you find the way.
Be the friend with the hare brained idea.
Follow the money at the local and state level. Every since followthemoney.org was absorbed by Open Secrets in 2024 we don't have a state level "follow the money" tool. BackerBase brings campaign finance data, public filings, donor networks, races, officials, and entity relationships into one source-backed workspace. Starting with Louisiana and adding more states now :)
https://backerbase.ai
I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in rust, and to really experiment with coding assistants.
I'm looking for alpha/beta users https://cassava.dev/.
I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge nicely. Does this have a better story there?
Almost certainly not; it really depends on how iCloud handles the sync. Cassava supports (at the moment) CSV (and its variants TSV, etc.) and JSON files. If your sync mechanism works well for those files in a text editor like vscode or sublime, then it will work well with Cassava. If not, there's not much we can do on our end - that's really a problem with how the sync mechanism works.
Why use Cassava over other options, such as Excel, CSVLint, or Notepad++?
Also, have you considered supporting Windows and Linux?
Linux support is there and working, half my team uses arch btw. Windows is working, I just don't build for it right now.
Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't like using text editors for sheet data; it's simply not as ergonomic to browse a CSV as a text file.
Love the name
I keep telling my team "it's CSV but with some As thrown in there."
windows?
Coming soon. Just need to figure out the build and deploy story.
Pendragon, Personal Finance Decision Support system. We built it from the ground up with confidence, provenance, and demonstrated end to end workflows.
Pendragon sits on top of Roundtable, our proprietary Agentic AI framework which splits data into knowledge domains. The key advantage of this is isolated input domains which prevent context bloat and strictly control access and ensure information isolation.
https://pendragon.foxtrotcommunications.net/
I made Media Den, a privacy-by-design iOS photo and video vault.
I launched in April, and I've been steadily updating it as time allows. Really happy with how far it's come. Here are the notable privacy-by-design features I've led with:
https://mediaden.caBeen working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years. Its basically a one-click install against a Kubernetes instance to give you a Heroku interface.
I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.
Canine basically wraps a Kubernetes cluster -- gives you a heroku like interface to deploy applications to. At some point, if you get big enough that canine is no longer powerful enough, you can just "eject" canine from kubernetes, and continue using kubernetes directly, without having to do any migrations.
Just passed about 2000 developers, at this point most of my work is resolving bug fixes, adding helper text everywhere to make things cleaner, and supporting setups I've never encountered like homelabs with changing IP's
Kubernetes is really powerful, but IMHO, it is the wrong tool here.
It might be the thing you use to power this system, but the benefits of Heroku were precisely that it didn't need you to think about the guts of a system like Kubernetes.
The magic was in the incredibly concise API, and the fact that it "just worked".
I'm attempting to build a coffee bean distributor that can exactly measure out beans into a cup for my morning espresso.
It's really an excuse to get started with things like hardware, 3D printing, and embedded development - I've never done anything in that world before, and its been really exciting to get into! I've just started, so hopefully I'll have a better update next month.
Counting the beans, or by weight? (Or I suppose you could 3D scan each bean as it goes past to measure volume for extra credit)
I won't be getting extra credit! My plan right now is to go by weight, and my first attempt is going to have beans in a hopper, moved by an auger that slows down as it approaches the target weight ( ideally moving a bean at a time at the end, to get within a bean of the goal (ideally).
That sounds fun! Very cool project.
By weight, or by bean? heh
I've been migrating marginalia search off docker-compose and onto systemd.
Between NUMA-concerns and the need to use multiple public IPs, I'm coaxed into a pretty exotic setup no matter what I choose to go with. Was pretty finnicky to set up, but it seems to work pretty well all said and done. Systemd is certainly feeling less floaty than docker (and even moreso kubernetes, which was never an option).
I also shaved like 10ms off response times since I no longer need an additional reverse proxy to deal with docker's networking magic, and can point nginx straight to the network namespaced services' IPs.
This in service of sequestering all wide domains (as in having tens of thousands of subdomains) to their separate crawler and index partition, as their (per top-domain) rate limits are part of why crawls take so long for the main crawler. Couldn't do that on docker because its ipvlan management is so jank you need spare IPs to reliably restart services.
Ive just been having a bit of fun with my homepage https://supermatt.com.
Made a talking head with some idle animation and visemes and some broken crt-like effects. The meat of it is only a few hundred kB - i can probably make it even smaller with making the graphics smaller.
A bit of post processing on some narration for extracting mouth shapes and it seems to work quite nice as a low-footprint retro talking head. Im thinking i'll make it some kind of chatbot interface.
Its very much a WIP, please don't be too critical - i am only sharing because it is fun :)
really like it! intuitively knowing i had to turn it on was very cool
Love the pseudo-tactile approach.
Very fresh and almost calming :)
I am building a cloud hosting company that exposes the cloud as a single docker host. No VMs to manage, just containers and easy controls to set the number of CPUs, RAM, disk that you want your containers to have access to.
https://oxpower.io/
Joyent did something like this ~11 years go, and I loved using it, but then they where acquired by Samsung and shut down their public (non-enterprise) offering.
This is try 3 at building something as good, and it is working!
Yeah for hand crafted Rust!
I am continuing to work on Akariq [0] which provides travel eSIM data plans to 180+ countries around the world. I have had many paying customers over the past few months from Vietnam to Mexico to Europe and US of course. The three benefits of using Akariq are
1) No app, no user account which leads to literally 3-click install
2) Full transparency - you know what you are getting. A lot of other eSIM providers hide details like unlimited plan speed caps etc
3) I connect to the best network available in the country. For example, someone like Airalo would connect to VTC in Vietnam, I offer Viettel which is the undisputed local network king.
And obviously, I am 2-3x cheaper than Airalo and the big players.
[0] https://akariq.com/
How do you judge "the best" network? It normally depends on if you're in the city, countryside, island etc.
I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then when I get to the location I'm staying at, I chat with folks to figure which network works best there. Normally it's cheaper to get a local plan as well.
You are quite a bit more expensive than the no-name folks I buy from.
[0] https://esimdb.com
As far as best network goes, yes it depends in the city etc but there are always best networks for 99% locations in a country. I gave an example in another comment of Viettel vs VTC in Vietnam and Zain vs STC in Saudi Arabia.
I mean obviously it's cheaper to buy local plans. You can't compare local plans to travel eSIMs.
Which locations are you traveling to? Generally, I have the best quality to price ratio for North America, Europe, South East Asia, China and Japan. I saw your comment history and you visited Japan. The cheapest eSIM on eSIMDB in Japan for 5GB shows $2.42 via eSIM DOG [0]. But ... that's for a breakout IP in Hong Kong. That introduces latency on your network. So lets you want to move to a Japan IP, eSIM DOG doesn't have one. Their most expensive option is $7.49 which is a 3x price increase and that comes with a UK breakout IP. Now, contrast that to Akariq where you get 5GB for $4.86 and a Japan IP + NTT Docomo network [1] which has the best coverage and reliability. So yeah, I am generally the cheapest in at least those 4 regions for the quality I provide. I sell the best possible option option in that country and avoid selling junk eSIM plans.
[0] https://esim.dog/jp
[1] https://akariq.com/en/esim/jp/
> You can't compare local plans to travel eSIMs.
Why not?
And who do you resell?
I like but for many of my regular destinations you are still 2-3x more expensive than what I can trivially find myself, especially longer visiting times and more data.
Thank You! Can you please tell me your destinations?
I plan to make the higher volume data plans cheaper very soon. I'm happy to provide you temporary code to make it cheaper for longer visits you have soonish. Can you e-mail me at `hello@akariq.com`? I don't see an e-mail on your profile.
The one thing I want to add is that cheaper also depends on quality. So for example, if you look at Vietnam - I may not be cheaper than Airalo. But ... a big but, I offer network on Viettel while Airalo does on VTC. So, I am cheaper for what you get for the quality. In addition, I don't route data via HongKong or China to make it cheap. I have in country / region networks for like 87 countries and I keep improving [0]. Very few providers on the market can guarantee that.
[0] https://akariq.com/en/network-quality/
I can confirm that you are completely right about Vietnam mobile networks. I could only reliably work after getting a real viettel sim. Even viettel branded stores sell some bootleg sim to tourists that work terribly.
The problem with eSIM is that usually there is no way to judge the quality until you buy one, so people sort by price and choose the cheapest. If your solution offers the best network in the country then I’m interested, because even at x2 or x3 price it doesn’t matter much compared to the other expenses when traveling.
Not sure how you can convince customers outside the hn bubble.
And it's not just Vietnam. It's the same problem thoughout the world. Let me take an example like Saudi Arabia. Airalo connects to Zain and my service connects to STC. There are many such examples.
You are right people do go for the easy thing as there's too much decisions to make. I wonder how I can make it even more explicit on my website than it is now.
Please do try my service and leave a review on Trustpilot. I have a few reviews today but far more people have used my service and have been happy with it.
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/akariq.com?languages=all
Fine, but that's true of several of the segment leaders as well (Saily, Airalo, etc). A lot of people don't want the hassle of physically walking into a shop in a foreign country, or just don't care about $5 vs $15 expense on a $5000 vacation.
do you offer non gfw esim for china?
All my China eSIMs are non GFW eSIMS. You can also use a Hotspot to tether to your laptop etc. They breakout via HK. Try them out and if you have any issues send me an e-mail.
can i provision from within china or do i have to do it before i go there?
My website is available in China so you can provision it from China. Of course, your phone should support eSIM. I have had quite a few people use my service in China. I am happy to give you a trial - write to me hello@akariq.com
I've been working on a Spanish language learning tool that helps users learn with comprehensible input. It uses LLMs to generate targeted stories for the users and while the user is extensively reading they select any words they don't understand. Those words then get added to a space repetition deck and are used in future stories when it's time to review the words again.
The project has been really fun to work on because of the fun systems I've had to think about. I had to figure out the optimal way to store the user's knowledge of the words. For example you don't need to store the singular and plural of a word in Spanish or even every verb tense, you should probably store the lemma and track those modifiers instead. It's also been a fun challenge to tell the LLM the user's Spanish knowledge without specifically sending every lemma/word the user knows.
I have seen some similar projects out there but a lot of don't seem to focus on creating the perfect story for the user and instead have them choose a CEFR level (A1,B2 etc). Which I think defeats the whole point of using the LLM. With computers we have been able to track a user's knowledge granulary but now we can do the exact same thing but for creating.
I'm really excited to see how far I can take this project. I wanna continue to polish it, but also there is so many details I can continue to add the make the ideal language learning reading app. I just launched the beta last Tuesday, so if you are learning Spanish, I would love if you tried it out and gave feedback.
https://readplusone.com
Very cool! I made something similar a while ago for learning Mandarin Chinese. Unfortunately more basic than your Spanish version: https://dailychinesestories.com.
I miss working on language learning tools. My attempts were all in the ~2024 era of LLMs.
Thanks! And you're website looks pretty cool.
You should try working on language learning tools again. The models now are pretty good especially since you don't always need the frontier model to generate good stories. I would love for this project to get solid traction so I could distill my own models that are better at meeting my story creation requirements.
Appreciate it! I plan to. To be fair, I've made small updates here and there to this one. Just no overhaul/expansion yet.
Best of luck on the beta & release!
Open source tools for controllable animation:
https://github.com/storytold/artcraft
https://getartcraft.com
$3M annualized run rate (looking for more Rust engineers to join me)
https://imgur.com/a/d9DyiIO
Narro, it's a user-curated social media app. You add the profiles you follow on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and Narro shows their posts in chronological order, with no algorithm, no ads, and no tracking.
The "new" idea we are working on is a feed that ends. Every mainstream app is engineered with infinite scroll. Narro is finite by design. You open it, you see what the people you follow actually posted, you reach the end, and you're done.
Then the next time you open the app you're still only getting new content from the profiles you followed. It ends up creating a totally different user habit.
https://narro.info
would there be any curated lists? feel like I would love to see the top ai posts/minds in one spot.
Please be sarcasm...
My side project is now codebase explainability. I basically don't buy the premise that we just have to give up on comprehension as code generation scales; I just think that text is too limited by itself. So going a step deeper than asking Claudex "teach me this project", but having it produce a navigable snapshot of what's going on.
Big bang prototypes have been pretty awful, even after feeding the LLMs huge documents / wishlists / descriptions of how it should work, etc. Part of the experiment was giving LLMs some leeway to make product decisions with a lot of north star guidance, but AFAICT they are really bad at this. I also tried basic bottom-up efforts, which have been better but obviously more tedious. Now I'm trying to find a more scalable bottom-up approach that is more LLM-accelerated
I posted about my project below - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook
But maybe you should checkout the tools it’s based on, sem - https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem and ultimately treesitter. They at least give a more structured approach to dealing with code than simple text.
This is great stuff; I've been prototyping with a few language-specific parsers like the Golang and the polyglot approach looks really helpful for me
Yeah I hope the links are helpful
Any promising techniques so far? I’m working on a rather large monorepo and very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it. Looking for ideas to improve comprehension.
https://wettel.github.io/codecity.html
At the moment I'd check the sibling comment, which has a few links!
Forgive me if this is naive, I haven’t been in DevOps my whole career:
doesn’t
> very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it
mean a monorepo is a mistake worth unwinding immediately?
Working on Push Realm (https://pushrealm.com) the AI solution sharing network. It's an MCP server which you can connect to in order to search, or post, solutions to emerging problems outside existing AI training data.
The original idea was just "Stackoverflow but for AI agents" but I have tweaked it a lot, learning that humans and agents work in very different ways.
There are multiple potential benefits, the most important to me is avoiding token waste. Why are we all burning tokens solving the same issues with frontier models if we can simply share solutions?
Secondary to this, because each solution logs the model which made the initial post AND subsequent edits, it will hopefully become a helpful guide to the specialties of each models, long term. If one model confidently posts solutions but another always finds important security caveats, for example.
I wonder if AI agents could developed their own open-source ecosystem.
Some kind of knowledge-sharing seems inevitable, but the question is what shape and form will that take? We've seen wiki's, discussion forums, AI's posting to GitHub.
I feel like knowledge bases for AI will look somewhat different from our past experience.
How will you encourage sharing of solutions? I don't think "social proof for models" will be enough.
How do you prevent prompt injections?
Defense is layered, but not injection-specific. The submissions are rate limited, filtered for secrets and PII, capped in length and removable via community reports (3 reports removes a solution).
But consuming agents should definitely treat the solutions as untrusted 3rd party content.
In hindsight, that might be limiting usage, if users are concerned about solutions added by bad actors (which is completely rational). When I have some time, I'll look at this more closely.
Also the security audit for the skill I released mentions 3rd party content exposure
https://www.skills.sh/push-realm/skills/check-known-solution...
Thr future of programs
I’m building a model that illustrates the golf course architecture strategic elements of a golf hole using a golf simulator.
General thesis here on my blog: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/i-spent-the-last-month...
I hope to start a golf architecture consulting company with the model, with a target of helping smaller courses improve the strategic interest of their at the lowest cost possible.
Ability to measure strategic changes articulated here: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/measure-2000-times-cut...
Not exactly a huge market, but this model should help clubs identify why boring holes are boring, and why interesting holes are interesting, and should be a very inexpensive way to try out permutations of changes without paying an architect hundreds of thousands of dollars without actually knowing whether the design will work.
Currently building an expanded golf shot dispersion pattern model, based on multiple variables, from dataset available to the public.
I'm working in building an ultrasound system to see inside of myself.
So far I've got the analog front end manufactured and sitting on my desk able to stream 40Msps of data to my computer.
I bought some used ebay convex medical probes with like 360 connections and have started to reverse engineer them.
There's a lot of FPGA work involved and ive got AI helping me out. It's surprisingly been really good at FPGA programming.
I made a fun app to share text information with your friends in a persistent, pretty format. You compose a text message, choose fonts and colors (or keep defaults), and save and/or share it via text message, etc. I realized after the fact I was basically recreating Instagram's text creation feature in Stories lol.
It's called "Hey Hannah" because it was inspired by my friend Hannah asking me for travel tips for her family's first trip to Japan. I had a few texts worth of thoughts I wanted to persist -- and prettify -- so I could share them with others in the future, too.
I personally find saving screenshots of text messages to be an unreasonably effective way of saving information. I can search by text in the Photos mobile app and share directly from there.
This was my first coding project with AI. I used Cursor and mostly Claude to write it. I had no mobile dev experience, but I did have 10 years of webdev experience, including five with React, so it was a relatively smooth process. I got a great feel for what to let Claude do and how to work around its limitations. For example, I made a secret expanded palette of background colors (and a slightly different secret palette for text), and Claude choked on sorting them by brightness -- so I made a test to check the outputs and then had Claude write a helper function to sort them client side. Good times.
I am officially converted to writing code with, at least, the assistance of LLMs. I'd love it if folks could download the app and give me any feedback they may have. It's open and free in all the ways and I collect no data!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hey-hannah/id6751516377
https://github.com/DecentralizedDan/hey-hannah
Just finished Veritas - Truth Across Cultures[1]. The idea is that many different cultures have written sayings that are basically the same. Similar to how one would give more credence to more than one person saying the same thing, the same is true for cultures. So, this is like my catalogue of what diverse cultures agree on. I have been promoting this book. [2][3]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7FLQDYD
[2] https://www.chestergrant.com/7-truths-from-veritas-by-cheste...
[3] https://www.chestergrant.com/what-different-cultures-agree-o...
Interesting concept. I would like to read this in an epub file outside of amazon if you're willing to accept outside payment.
Hey... Thanks for the interest, but right now, it is being offered exclusively on Amazon as it is a part of the KDP Select programme.
Hi HN, still making progress on Circuitscript, a Python-inspired language for describing electronic schematics: https://circuitscript.net/. You can try it in the browser via the Bench IDE: https://bench.circuitscript.net/
The biggest addition in the past month is initial support for ngspice netlist export — you can now take a Circuitscript design and export it to a SPICE netlist for ngspice simulation. This is a step toward closing the loop between describing a circuit and verifying its behavior, all from the same source file.
I have also added bus support, which makes wide parallel connections like data/interface (I2C, SPI, etc.) lines much less tedious to connect up.
Recently I produced and tested a 161-LED charlieplexed array in Circuitscript, using nested for-loops to generate the array instead of copy-pasting every LED and connection by hand. I plan to write a blog post soon to document this design.
As always, the motivation is to describe schematics as code rather than by clicking around graphical CAD tools (KiCad, Allegro, Altium, etc.). I want to spend time on the design itself, with code expressing the intentions clearly and reviewable in text.
Feedback welcome, especially from anyone frustrated with graphical schematic tools! If you have a KiCad design you'd like to convert to Circuitscript, please reach out to me. I'm looking to test the limits of the language and happy to help with the conversion.
I'm working on: https://pasal.id/ - A machine-readable database of Indonesian laws and regulations.
https://laws.sg/ - Singaporean statutes structured specifically for AI agents.
https://mylaw.my/ - Malaysian federal acts formatted for easy agent parsing.
I'm on a mission to make all Southeast Asian laws easily accessible by AI agents!
What does machine readable mean? And what does easily accessible by AI agents mean? Can agents read regular web pages? As in, what is the difference between this and regular web pages?
We are working on our two site-search search engines Monocle Search [0] and SearchCue [1]. The former is squarely aimed at people using Squarespace, whereas our newer offering SearchCue is aimed at anyone with a site that wants to add search.
We used Meilisearch as the search backend in the beginning but have since replaced it with a quite sophisticated search stack built around Tantivy [2]. We now support crawling and indexing of pages, most common office documents and PDFs, run OCR and feature extraction of images you might have, offer typeahead search with the aim of giving you providing answers as fast as you can type, as well as more classic agentic/conversational ai search.
There have been quite a number of interesting optimization challenges to solve in case anyone is interested. We have search nodes distributed around the globe to provide the lowest possible latency regardless of where the end-user sits.
We are also working on some other smaller side projects, but they aren't quite ready to launch yet.
[0]: https://monocle-search.com
[1]: https://searchcue.com
[2]: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy
What drove you away from Meilisearch?
https://quxnet.net/about
I made it specifically to bring back what was amazing about the old internet, and do it as authentically as possible. takes inspiration from old internet messageboards, usenet, bbs, and pubnix hosts. it has sealed mail, boards, an rss reader, built-in media player, custom profiles, a links directory, and quite a bit more.
it's just a little hobby art project for me but i've really appreciated talking to like minded people in a calm space.
This is wonderful. I've often wondered about small, human-only groups forming in tighter social circles, which can be hard to find.
Thank you! That's the idea, and even though its been a slow burn, the conversations have been interesting and rewarding. One of the funniest proof of concept so far was, someone asked how to route a guitar body to fit a new bridge on a network with maybe a dozen active people at the time. Within like a day, a total stranger with an actual woodshop and eight spare guitars showed up with real technical advice and offered him a discount on one of the guitars. Maybe it was a fluke, but it really struck me, and there have been a number of small interactions since that one that really remind me why I loved the early web so much.
This looks great, I'll join as soon as I'm on my personal laptop
Thanks! Hope to see you there when you get a chance. It works on mobile too, but it was made for the desktop first :)
Joined. I love the aesthetic and looks like there are active users. Very promising.
Awesome, looking forward to seeing you on the boards. Yeah, we have a decent little group of active posters and we've been adding to that number slowly but consistently since I put it online a few weeks ago.
It's been fun and I've learned starting a community is a lot harder than it looks. Maybe I'll write a post on what I've learned sometime. TLDR and probably no surprise to most: making the software is the easy part.
https://github.com/ricccrd/dd
I was annoyed by the speed of docker on Mac’s, so I took a journey and decided to rewrite everything about it. DD was original working name and I’m in process of rebranding. But we can run docker on Mac’s with no vm. And its destroying qemu. We have plenty of new features that are comming. Rendering native apps, workspaces, much more.
Thank you! A project like this was on my wishlist for a long time. Colleagues looked at me like I'm weird when I was saying containers without a VM should be possible on macOS. I switched to a Linux laptop because I couldn't stand the experience of working with Docker on macos.
I wonder if some of the macOS sandboxing features can be used instead of relying solely on the JIT
Yeah docker Mac expirience is pretty bad especially the x86 is just painful, and to your comment (about security), it should not really matter in practice, in fact we used both, but goal really is to run secure sandboxes that are processes without performance impact.
I see, best of luck with the project! I hope I can contribute one day
I've spent the last months building a videogame: Cardume [1], its a pvp game where 2 players battle using a swarm of thousands of cells. It uses Reynold's boids, Couzin flocking behaviors and diffuse fields to generate a mini ecological simulation each game. The sim is pretty well optimized, handling 12k agents at 60fps in a medium hardware machine. It also has some pretty cool visuals. Any feedback appreciated, the Store went page online this last week and I'm still working on the presentation.
[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4912940/Cardume/
Awesome game! Small suggestion, for each paragraph that is in your description, you can add a small gif-style webm video. It's kind of expected now for Steam games, and specially because it's such a unique game it would make an easier introduction to the concept. Looking forward to play it :D
Thank you very much. Will definitely add those gif-style sections!
Hi ogig, funilly enough I was also running this boids experiment a few months ago. Managed to get around 8k at 60 fps on 1 thread on my cpu, using golang.
My goal for this experiment was to encode the optimal cache data structures into meta programming generators such that claude can write high level DSL and generate down to this level of simulations. I am curious if you had such an approach also.
That's very interesting, thanks for commenting. Not my approach, I have a multithreaded Rust kernel (SoA, spatial hash, bounded-kNN, rayon on some passes). The agents sit on top of several diffuse fields, an econ layer and combat logic, all of it needing bit-determinism for the netcode.
I do use some metaprogramming, but as safety rather than generation: a declarative macro derives the modifier struct, defaults, parsing and wire order from a single list, and feeds hash/save/resync so I can add mechanics at a high level without being able to desync the sim. Also a set of probes help me test for correctness and speed after a change. So seems like I'm taking an iteration speed approach with safeguards, checking after the fact, while yours is optimizing beforehand by trying to encode optimal structs. That's fascinating, it will probably occupy my head for a good portion of the day, thanks again.
I built a tool that auto-suspends idle AWS instances and tracks the savings
No buzzwords. No "AI." Just what it does.
Happily continuing work on https://cardcast.gg. It's a way for my friends and I to play Magic: The Gathering online using a webcam. Spelltable has been neglected by WoTC, and we wanted more features, so I rolled my own (and learned some Computer Vision stuff in the process!) Most recently I rolled out automated card tracking, so there's no more need to click on cards to know what they are, they just automatically scan on a set interval. I also moved over to using livekit for the service, and man, I should've done that sooner. If you play MTG, I'm looking for more people to come give me feedback and contribute. Feels like something others can benefit from!
I'm continuing to build out OneBusAway Cloud (Heroku for public transit), just like last month. https://onebusawaycloud.com. Since last month, the overall polish and feature completeness of the product has improved substantially, and we're starting to see meaningful inbound interest.
Beyond that, I've been plugging away on improving the user experience of the OneBusAway iOS app, and plan on launching a major overhaul of the stop page experience later this week: https://bsky.app/profile/onebusaway.bsky.social/post/3mqj4ua...
I also recruited a new Android app maintainer who has been doing amazing work!
If you want to explore our new transit API server, I wrote up a blog post a couple months ago to walk you through the basics: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up... (data for your location can be found at https://www.transit.land/operators)
You can find all of our OSS work at https://github.com/onebusaway — we have projects written in SvelteKit, Go, Swift, Kotlin, and much more.
Continuing to build my olive oil tracking site (https://www.extravirginvault.com/) and pipeline. Freshness is king in the world of olive oil, and I hope to highlight to people they can find high quality, fresh olive oil produced near them.
It's been received well from producers and olive oil enthusiasts (e.g. looking for specific chemistry, cultivars and similar oils) but I feel like I've been shadow banned from Google - I seem to get more traffic from DuckDuckGo and Bing.
I'd imagine the Google issue may be to the fact that your URL looks like it would be porn.
I hope you're joking.
I mean I was personally disappointed here
Very nice site but small dataset on producers, only 2 from Spain that produces about 50% of the Olive Oil in the planet
Thanks - I'm saving the biggest and oldest producers like Spain and Italy till last so I can do them justice.
Site was excruciatingly slow to load, locked up my browser and I just had to bounce. iPhone chrome. Likely google penalty.
Thankyou. Sorry to hear it locked up your browser. That definitely sounds like a bug - I've got GPT 5.6 Sol on the case...
Flying drones with natural language input instead of remote controllers. Instead of having a human on the control sticks the entire time, what if they could describe the goal they are trying to achieve, and then the drone goes and flies according to the agreed intent? I know traditional drones already have autopilots, but they seem to be static pre-planned routes and could benefit from advancing the capability to be more dynamic and flexible. Eventually I want to combine a live camera stream to run a local vision model that would identify and notify images of interest the drone sees while flying. From there the operator can decide if they want to re-task the mission or adjust as needed. That is the general technology direction, but I hope to expand this into the wildland firefighting vertical. Instead of putting humans up in helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, I hope we can leverage drones instead. I understand not every use case will be able to replace with a drone, but enough of them could be to make it worthwhile in my opinion. Still early days of research and development, but super excited about the tech and combining AI + robots for the common good. Currently a huge fan of the startup Seneca, and hope to help expand the industry or join them.
1) I recently published my latest milestone here: jakedecamp.com
I'm creating a "spy mission" for my granddaughter. Using an Axiometa Genesis Mini with some modules for gating access. Real-world challenges, enter results into the Genesis, get directions to the next challenge.
I am trying to involve family members' specialties and interests so she can elicit help from each person: entomology, mechanical engineering, etc.
All that for her to discover the Secret Planned Activity the following day (visiting a theme park.)
Is the final reveal a link to this comment?
https://porchweather.com/ - free app for notifying you when the weather is right for opening your windows. The idea is to save you a few bucks on using air conditioning as well as simply enjoying some fresh air.
Tracks temp, humidity, wind speed, and precip chance and you set the parameters.
Notifications are currently email and web push. SMS is too expensive to run as a free service. I think the next direction is probably an app, as web push support in iOS is not great.
I also recently got JBD2 compliant driver merged into GNU HURD's ext2, and I'm now improving documentation, and things like that.
Here is the repo where the work was happening: https://github.com/mnikic/hurd-journaling
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I am working on ShopSpec (https://shopspec.io/), a tool for designing bookshelves and cabinets. Enter the dimensions and it generates the parts, cuts, sheet layout, and build steps.
I built it because I wanted to spend less time drawing boxes in CAD and more time building them. Still early and I'd love feedback from other woodworkers.
This is super cool.
Bed frames might be a nice category to add as well :)
I have wanted to build some custom bookshelves for an oddly shaped room I have. Any plans on adding bookshelves that aren't rectangular?
I would love to hear more about your oddly-shaped non-rectangular room.
For now rectilinear has made things simpler; but on this kick now with 3d-printed jigs also derived from the spec. I already have a dog-hole system worked out and in-place with this idea. Could be interesting to extend to curves - becomes approachable/repeatable.
"what if… economics", a simple one-page economics simulator: https://whatifeconomics.com
I wanted to have a place to see the effect of changing macroeconomic factors, e.g. interest rate, inflation, unemployment, etc. It's designed to show economic relationships for non-experts.
Source code: https://github.com/tagawa/what-if-economics/tree/gh-pages
As someone with very little knowledge of economics, I played with the idea of writing a kind of wealth simulator, where money acts as voltage and keeps the economy running. It would allow you to eliminate jobs and replace them with AI and see how the circuit starves population groups which in turn cascade to other segments of the economy.
I never got to design a good representation of the entire ecosystem to simulate (external pressure, debt, military and technological advancements, international soft power, etc.).
I had similar idea, a tool to model the economy of a country. The idea would be to give to every one a simple tool to groundcheck political programms before voting. The economy is complex, there is no simple solution to a complex problem, only trade offs. But you need to see the effect of these trade offs before making a decision and elect one or another politician.
I am working on building an interactive mathematics book exploring various curves and their properties/applications.
Two wonderful books which initiated me into this topic are
https://archive.org/details/lml-remarkable-curves https://archive.org/details/StraightLinesAndCurves
I learnt a lot from these, and found other books which are detailed explorations. Using interactive applets would make wonderful companions for these explorations.
I am planning to use jsxgraph for the interactive applets.
how do you plan to publish?
most probably using gitlab pages,
looking forward to it!
I've had a lot of side projects but I'm finally actually finishing some, and it's sort of useful so that's fun. Wanted to make it easy to see the difference between the Xbox Gamepass tiers, maybe you only need essential or premium - saving a few bucks. With Claude it's been pretty fun to add new features. Since there's no API for Leaving Soon I built a scraper, content gets parsed through an LLM call and matched to games. There's a swipe mechanism to favorite or trash games, so you comparison doesn't get cluttered up by fifa's or cod's. It's just been a fun playground, I host it on https://gamepass.fyi
https://github.com/Cyoda/cyoda-go
Business objects as state machines.
The idea is to reduce the number of moving parts and simplify processing architecture when building apps that need to be transactionally rigorous and scalable.
It stems from the patterns we used to successfully apply in banks, which worked really well. I believe it's an effective way to get shit done in a broad class of systems. You just need to first get your head around it.
https://medium.com/@paul_42036/whats-an-entity-database-11f8...
Working on a macOS terminal because Ghostty is taking too long to add quick-terminal tabs which was my main workflow in iterm2.
All I wanted was cmd+space fullscreen quake-overlay with low input lag so I made it. It fits my workflow exactly so it might be a bit weird for someone else.
You can test it out here: https://getmot.app/
I've been working on IdleQuest for about a year. It's a from-the-ground-up recreation of the 1999 classic, EverQuest. It features a custom real-time MMO server built in Go, a very thoroughly implemented web client, and the classic UI recreated in React. I spent hundreds of hours meticulously scraping, cleaning, and organizing original data and graphics, and there's still a lot of work to do. But I've had a lot of fun with it and have had a lot of people enjoy it so far.
https://idlequest.net
That's cool. I tried it out and the movement is very floaty, so much so that it's hard to navigate the first room without running headfirst into a wall every time I try to go somewhere. Is it true to the original? Performance is great though.
Considering how difficult it can be to get certain versions of the game running nowadays, it's nice to have another option to explore the world! I tried and tried to get EQ1999 running on different Linux distributions (Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS) but just couldn't. Only version that worked is the official Steam client.
Thanks! That's a good observation - I think in original EQ the camera is always perfectly following the player's back instead of being on a slight delay like IdleQuest. The actual 3D running around is a newer part of the project that hasn't been very fine-tuned. For most of its existence the 3D was just sort of a screensaver, and all the interaction happened in the UI instead of clicking on targets.
Scrolling in to use first-person, or clicking the view button to toggle it, might make your life easier in small spaces. This was true in original EQ, too.
Learning Lock-Free Data Structures:
- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/03/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...
- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/06/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...
- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/07/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...
Mostly me exploring how to build a Treiber Stack (first in Go, then in C++) -> Figuring out ABA and Use-After-Free in the C++ implementation, and then touching a bit of Hazard Pointers, and ending with a benchmark comparison b/w a mutex and a lock-free version of the stack.
LLMs are a great tool at teaching and explaining. I don't use it to generate code, but it takes away the pain of searching and setting up dependencies, tools, etc. So I can focus only on the concepts and then do the testing.
It is not perfect, but I learned something that I did not know thanks to these techniques. And that too without reading dense and obscure books. I love it.
Working on the feedback I received for diffy after launching it here and on Peerlist.
diffy makes reviewing GitHub PRs easier, especially the large ones where GitHub starts freezing and memory usage spikes. I'm using Pierre's Diffs and Trees for rendering the diff and file-tree. Under 2MB, you get 50+ themes, split/side-by-side view, comments, review flow, syntax highlighting for 100+ languages and much more.
It was my first time launching a tool publicly, so it's been a great experience. The feedback so far has been incredibly helpful, and I'm using it to keep improving the product.
https://diffy-website.vercel.app/
I'm working on hunting down as much publicly accessible stained glass and mapping it. No exciting libraries or frameworks, but if you know of some great stained glass in your area, please document it!
https://stainedglassatlas.com/
Love this. Years ago I had an idea for something _like_ this but for public murals/street art.
Beautiful. Keep at it!
I'm working on a self-hosted MCP server to give your AI agents access to email: https://github.com/churichard/fluxmail-mcp
The main reason is because I wanted a privacy-preserving way to access my email without using ChatGPT or Claude or another hosted email connector. Also, this supports connecting multiple accounts, even multiple accounts from different email providers, with a unified API. And you can use it with any AI agent, even one you build yourself.
It supports Gmail API and IMAP/SMTP right now, with Outlook / Microsoft Graph coming soon.
very cool, I dont think email is going anywhere. im going to give it a try. im working on a tool for myself that scores emails with custom labels, auto-unsubscribes, report+block+filter anyone that doesn't respect unsubscribe
Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback.
Really great idea. What are some of the access controls available
Thanks! I'm planning on supporting a granular permission system, so per account you should be able to customize which tools it should be able to use (e.g. readonly, read+write including drafts (but no send), or full access).
You should be able to customize the permissions per API key as well, so if there's a case where you want to write or send something just one time then you can just swap in the API key and do that and swap back if you want to.
There will also be a dashboard (in addition to the CLI) so that you can easily audit everything that has happened in the system.
for that sort a tool it would be nice to restrict access to specific labels , or API query patterns.
What's the use case for doing that, just wondering?
I have been building few tiny financial apps for analyzing the market, domains and stocks to see if I can use them to make investment decisions.
Adding small tools to help understand specific option strategies, and once executed understand optimal action (exercise early, let it expire, wait)
Personal tools, for my use. No commercial angle in mind.
Where do you get your data from?
I'm working on a large open-world terrain-rendering library for threejs's webgpu renderer! https://hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/
At its core, it uses quadtrees, and has affordances for arbitrary topologies. Check out the planet and donut-world demos!!!!
- https://hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples/torus - https://hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples/cube-sphere - https://hello-terrain.kenny.wtf/examples/raycast-character-c... (a little slow to load~)
This is great, and my users (turtlespaces.org) could absolutely use this (we use three and react), but you haven't specified any license?
Thanks! How silly of me, I will update the repo with an MIT License~
Great! Thanks so much, I'll let you know how it goes integrating it :)
In my free time, I'm building an iPad game to help Autistic kids practice real world skills. The game is called Pocketown. https://pocketown.app/
If you're a parent to an autistic child(like me), I'd love to talk to you about this.
If you know anyone who has an autistic child, It would be super helpful if you could tell them about this game.
Thanks!
Two side projects I’m actively working on:
https://openaltfinder.com - To help people discover selfhost-able open source projects.
Been maintaining this for almost a year, and it’s been fun. Keeps me up to date with new OSS.
https://getpinnd.com - A small social network for map makers to created shared lists of places.
Was just a spur of the moment, and ended up building it in little than a week.
Quick feedback: I searched "n8n" and it did not surface SimStudio [0], which is pretty much an open source clone of it.
[0] https://github.com/simstudioai/sim
Thank you, hadn’t heard or SimStudio before, have added it to my list of projects to add.
Nice. I tried to submit a project on the former. However CloudFlare seems to be blocking me from submitting the form.
This is a common issue for all of us in Viet Nam though, not sure if there's anything you can do your side. I'll figure out how to get my submission through later :)
Sorry about that, wasn't aware that this was an issue for people in Vietnam. If you want, you can direct email me at contact[at]openaltfinder[dot]com, or you can reply here with the project you wanted to submit.
Sad to see Kavita (or any OS self-hosted reading server) not on openaltfinder :(
I've added it to my list of projects to look into, so should be added fairly soon!
Working on AutoFlow - a chrome extension that lets you record yourself using your app and then automatically generates user guides that you can publish instantly to a user-facing product knowledge base.
It can be tried for free: https://www.runautoflow.com
I'm hosting my own docs on it at: https://www.docs.runautoflow.com
Started in response to challenges I encountered at my last job in setting up and maintaining a full set of user guides for our SaaS product. Target users are SaaS founders, product manager, developers, indiehackers etc.
Video Hub App - 8th year update: browse, search, tag, rate, enjoy your large video collection! https://videohubapp.com/en/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/
Simplest File Renamer - just ported from Electron (130m install) to Tauri (3mb install) - https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer
Simple Image Browser - browse your images in style (on PC, Win, Linux, and tablet /phone) https://github.com/whyboris/Simple-Image-Browser
As an engineering manager and later a director, a regular and often difficult task was assigning ROI to projects that had recognizable but diffuse impact. It's easy to calculate a dollar figure for certain projects by projecting additional conversions or revenue. It's harder for a security or SRE project that doesn't have a direct impact on those things, but can help reduce risk or empower a bunch of other teams to operate more safely or move more quickly.
I have been working on a set of tools and standard formulas that can be applied to these cases and demonstrate a more accurate view of a team's or department's overall ROI. The plan is to open-source the bulk of it, but provide a hosted service for folks who don't want to manage it themselves.
https://filipkunc.com/ - my website with experiments accelerated by Claude
Notable projects/prototypes:
https://filipkunc.com/posts/meshmaker - 3D modeling app ported via Claude to WebGL2
https://filipkunc.com/posts/text-rendering - Wrapper over Slug and Harfbuzz in browser
https://filipkunc.com/posts/gemini-game-art - custom art using Gemini for Heroes 2 (fheroes2 engine fork)
I got so frustrated with all of the busywork that was building up in my email inbox that I built something better.
Housecat is the first email inbox that helps you get real work done. Our email connects to the other services you actually use like your Claude, Notion, Slack, CRM and Github and makes it easy to send messages and data between them. So if you need to update the CRM with a new lead, track a Github issue or ask a question of a colleague in Slack, you can do it all from right inside of your inbox. We just launched the email app in private beta.
Check out https://housecat.com/ or join the beta at https://home.housecat.com/welcome
Feedback and thoughts very welcome!
Making a little static site to document the AV setup at my church.
Started with just an html page with buttons for shortcuts. Added a few paragraphs and then got tired of writing html. Not many simple wysiwyg desktop html editors surprisingly.
Then discovered Zola, a static site generator that takes md files as content, and adds them to template html files.
Perfect for my little use case. I'm having fun with it :D
making the internet sql queryable, crawling, cleaning, indexing, embedding many sources into source-aware schemas, solving contention problem with free-floating pricing.
Currently crawling over 1M records/sec. software is still in alpha.
scry.io.
goal is a 10PB NVMe cluster online by November (need funding champions) as a public benefit project, so prosocial researchers and builders and their agents can have low-friction access to running analytical queries over the public internet.
Do your crawlers respect robots.txt and have a fixed IP pool that can be blocked?
I'm building a Go to WASM reactive UI framework called Goowee. Fine grained signals (no VDOM), components run once, SSR and hydration built in. The JS bridge is about 200 lines. Still experimental but I've thought about it thoroughly and have used it for the landing page of the project and some other projects of mine.
I know Go UI frameworks have a long history of not quite getting there. The bet I am making is that WASM is now fast enough, the tooling is mature enough, and the fine grained signal model avoids the VDOM overhead that held earlier attempts back. Would love an honest critique of whether the framework actually solves the problem and whether it's usable for other's development experience.
https://github.com/yogisalomo/goowee
Neat! I did a fair bit of toying with Go's WASM target early on and was able to port a couple neat things to the web. The sheer size of the WASM output though was a limiting factor for me, and I kind of stopped toying with it a number of years ago.
Are you using the built in WASM target? I've been told Tiny Go's WASM build target is worth investigating but haven't tried.
Yes, the size of the binary is quite big (~4MB for the landing page) but it's a trade-off that I'm taking with this approach and I think there will be ways to optimize for size.
I'm currently using the built-in WASM target but Tiny Go is one of the items that I have on v1.0 road map. Will give it a shot and see if it actually helps with the size without affecting any performance.
I'm slowly building an IDE with mentor/skill-level awareness baked in.
I've noticed that juniors and new hires often fall into an impostor-syndrome trap when reading an unfamiliar codebase or reviewing a senior peer's PR. Documentation helps, but it usually runs into the curse of knowledge: it's written by someone who's spent so much time in the code that they've lost sight of what it's like to be new to it.
I've always liked the rubber-ducking process, and mob programming too, so I'm trying to combine both into a modern AI-enhanced form:
- "Duckies" with distinct personalities (really, skills) that each specialize in a particular kind of problem
- "Teachable moments" (working title): small bubbles that surface something novel, tangential, or foundational as you work
- Skill-level detection and a routing model, so the app doesn't overwhelm or annoy you with explanations you don't need
Each duck also runs on a tiered memory model, rather than one flat context window. There's a core memory, essentially the duck's resume, defining what it's actually skilled at. Above that sits a longer-term memory for company standards and code style, and a separate long-term memory scoped to the project itself. Short-term memory then covers whatever task or feature is currently in flight. The idea is that a duck should reason more like a team member with a real employment history than a chatbot that forgets everything between sessions.
It's called Duckies AI (https://www.duckiesai.com). It’s very rough, working locally, but not in a state I’m ready to ship yet. I'm hoping to ship an alpha soon. Turns out there are a LOT of table-stakes features an IDE needs.
I love this. I have been building and IDE for myself. My non-technical team wants to use it after using lovable and things like that. I started building a dialect of JavaScript to make more approachable but that seems impossible the more I get into it.
Have you thought about building it as a plugin, e.g. for Jetbrains?
I started down this path, although with a VS Code plugin, but I didn’t find the ability to visually tie into the text editor with chat modals/bubbles. It’s likely what I would pivot to if I don’t like the amount of effort necessary to build the basics.
Cute IDE LOL I like the design. It feels like a good WhatsApp vibe to me.
I released 3 games my friend designed, and built a game framework in WebAssembly for building them. Some 9 or 10 months ago I asked my friend (legendary game designer Mike Elliott) if he wanted to work through his backlog of designs he has that he'd love to see brought to life. I'm very protective of my family life and dedicate a lot of my time to it, and have a normal full time job, and so LLM-agents really enabled being able to make stuff like this happen in a reasonable timeframe just working on and off in my free time.
I started them with ebitengine (Golang) but got somewhat frustrated with its web builds, and so built my own thing for small games that I want to work great on mobile or native PC, but also on web. I call it NanoGame, the host is written in Rust and the games are AssemblyScript. I've ported a number of other small games I had written to it as well, but haven't released any.
Two of the games I released a couple days ago were actually the ebitengine versions, but have partial ports to my framework, and the third I released the version using my stuff.
https://scramblequest.app - ebitengine, word search game where you slay monsters with the words, has a long campaign as well as a daily challenge and unlimited play
https://wordpeek.app - ebitengine, another word search game, this one reveals pieces of a picture and your goal is to guess the picture
https://playsilhouette.app - my own framework, this is a simple matching/hidden object(ish) game, more for kids
I also made a little umbrella site for them at https://playthese.wtf
I'm continuing to work on Personal Finances Python [1], a book that teaches software developers how to track their finances using the Python ecosystem, Double Entry Bookkeeping, and a bunch of plain-text files.
Apart from that, I recently started getting interested in the AT protocol ecosystem, so I built a directory [2] for discovering ATProto alternatives to mainstream/centralized products.
[1]: https://personalfinancespython.com
[2]: https://atprotoalternatives.com
I am working on native macos editor that can natively read and write to/from apple notes, reminders and calendar - not via applescript - like proper full features support.
and bidirectional markdown sync for all those apple tools
https://original.me/
Finished my hobbyist analog computer [1]. (Just need to make a YouTube video, blog about it…)
[1] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Anna-Analog-Computer
https://pastmaps.com
This is my side project turned solo bootstrapped startup that I've been working on over the past 2.5 years. Pastmaps has been solely a US-focused platform since it's initial launch but I'm currently working on launching to the UK and Ireland within the next week. If all goes as planned then I should have a first wave of 30K fully digitized, hi-res, and fully georeferenced 1800s ordnance maps available soon to help folks discover the history all around them.
I'm likely going to need to start building out my own global LiDAR dataset next though. My coverage for the US is quite stellar thanks to the data provided by the USGS' 3DEP program but I'm way out of touch with what's available and possible in the EU. It's gonna be a challenge but I'm excited to dive in.
I have found and used this organically and it is a cool mapping tool!
I used it to get better perspectives on the history and place names in Connecticut, from the Dutch and Siwanoy to modern times.
I'm getting out of my comfort zone (software) to work on a telepresence robot for my D&D games. My main motivator for this is that I'm often the only person remote for these sessions and it's difficult to hear just the DM talk when everyone else is talking. So I thought that having binaural audio would be helpful, and even moreso if the microphones can be aimed at the person talking. So, now I have some 3d printed pieces that fit together with a couple of servos that can turn the entire thing on a lazy susan base and also rotate the head up and down. My soldering skills suck, so I'm currently stalled while I figure out why the PWM controller isn't being seen after I rewired everything (in an attempt to clean up the cable mess). But, I have(had) gotten a Raspberry Pi set up and working with the servos and two microphones and once I get my issues sorted I can start playing more with the software for it.
I am building Promptster - an AI fluency platform that helps level up engineers. Engineering managers invite their teammates and Promptster analyzes the engineers work with ai coding tools (claude code, codex, cursor, copilot). The manager receives a team-aggregate dashboard where they can roll-out certain practices / skill to their whole team. Each IC receives their own dashboard where they can see their fluency statistics, skill usage, context management, and a DORA dashboard.
I'm looking for design partners, if you're interested would love to chat: https://www.promptster.ai. We also have a hiring product: https://www.promptster.ai/hire.
AI requiring anything more than ultra basic skills is a complete lie.
I guess it's not AI but AI agents. For the coding ones specifically context management, skill usage, etc. does matter quite a bit.
I'm working on a multiplayer RPG https://grimrain.com - calling it an MMO is quite bold, but the gameplay fits that genre. The game server is designed to be self-hostable too, so it's like Valheim meets OSRS
Looks great! As a tenured Runescape player, I like the graphics.
This looks amazing
Pulling together lots of solar data trying to promote solar panel installation in the UK.
We've had three back to back heatwaves so far this summer in the UK. THREE!
Hopefully it inspires people to make an informed decision to get the best price and starts generating more questions and leads for solar companies.
https://solarable.org
Building CVD Portal, a free whitelabel Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure platform for EU manufacturers, plus tooling for the incoming Cyber Resilience Act. From September 2026 the CRA obliges manufacturers to file a 24 hour early-warning and 72 hour report to ENISA for actively exploited vulnerabilities.
Recent work is all top-of-funnel. Free no-signup self-assessment and exposure-scan tools that pull in people who don't yet know they have an obligation.
Live demo (no signup): https://demo.cvdportal.com
I started toying with perlin vector fields as a level design tool for a game idea, then became more interested in visualizing them than the game they were meant to support. this weekend i realized i think im making a (short) ~game in which you control a dust mote riding air currents, trying to gather enough water to fall back to earth as a raindrop
I'm working on a tool to manage developing with Agents for teams, using a UI like a Kanban board and workflows, so the development starts from a given workflow and not from a prompt, the idea being that instead of starting from a prompt/talk with the agent you define the ticket, create a plan, review and then have workflows that cover the implementation -- I find that I have better results than trying to do a chat with the agent for implementing.
I've been full time on it for 4 months already and dogfooding: https://beolis.com -- starting to look for feedback, although I would say it's not where I want to be yet, but getting there.
I've been prototyping a bunch of old ideas with the free tier of ChatGPT, bouncing off design ideas and treating it like a pair programmer. Planning a blog post writeup of the general experience (along with saved chats in nicely cleaned-up Markdown) along with a handful of Show HNs.
Just published the first version of cardspark_ui [1], a library of polished, themable UI components for TCG apps. Kind of like shadcn for pokémon cards
I worked at a startup [2] building in the space for a few years and it reignited my childhood love for collecting and trading, and turned me on to the software side of the industry.
We're in a little golden age of DIY collecting tools now, but most hobbyists and sellers don't have a design background and get stuck recreating the same primitives (badly).
I spent a lot of time thinking about them, so I'm packaging them up and offering them for free. This first release has the basics (cards, grids, stacks, filters, value charts, detail pages), with more coming soon.
[1]: https://cardspark.dev
[2]: https://rarecandy.com
This is great, thanks for sharing. I will be trying on a pokemon tcg project.
Let me know what you think!
A Remote Desktop tool for Mac and Windows https://forge.emrul.dev/agents/portal-desktop/releases
Still a few weeks away from getting everything working but it’s functional already and I have a half dozen regular users who’re my beta testers :)
How do you see this as different from VNC? Is there something specific you are working to improve on?
I’m working on [Homestead](https://myhomestead.dev), which is my OSS solution for building personal apps. You can build web-apps and Homestead will handle backend, agent support, authentication, notifications, and a bunch of other stuff.
I’ve used it to build a grocery store list, credit card perk tracker, address book, mini-golf scorecard app, and a bunch more. It’s really helped having all of the “platform” stuff handled for me so I can just focus on the app.
Input: video of an exercise/workout/dance. Output: single collage image as summary.
Me+team have been working on a large scope problem this past year. We're hardening some of our internal tools, and choose this small-scope problem about a month ago. Results have been encouraging so far, though not yet non-sloppy enough to share. We'll release in about a month.
Going into this, I thought I'd be spending most of my time tuning computer vision. Instead, the majority of the time has been handling codec and ffmpeg behaviour edge cases.
this is interesting for sports i'm involved in. does it sort images by various symmetries? being able to "green line" (don't search that) an image to show where the expected vs. realized symmetry should be would be very useful for athletes.
Which sports are you into? I'll be looking for closed alpha testers shortly. Email me at dustin at hyperpan.cv
Automatically drawing hint lines has been a request from a few people. When I talk to personal trainers or athletes (new or serious) in various sports, I've tested out this concept by asking them what they'd want drawn. Turns out, it's so contextual, opinionated and subjective, I don't think there's a great approach unless I assume we have an unrealistic amount of context.
e.g., one case is kettlebell swings. You might want to see how consistent your swings are in a set, and between sets. To do this well, you'd need to reliably detect the kettlebell swing exercise using some N-way classifier. And then, correct for camera position. And then, center the relevant part of the body (is this shoulder? hips? turns out people have different opinions).
Instead, we're going to use a more generic visualization approach that doesn't try to be opinionated. But, I'm expecting to open-source the visualization front-end so it's tweakable by users.
a back squat form checker would be a product in itself. dressage is probably too niche, but an interesting control or test case. yoga would be a large market.
I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up. In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
[0] https://tableforge.gg/
I'm working on a boring e-commerce site from scratch, with the boring stack of Phoenix Live View, PostgreSQL, HTML and CSS. You know, the boring stuffs.
I just don't use AI building it. It actually brings me joy amidst all these AI news and updates.
I built a fully locally hosted language learner app. It build language lessons based on a 4 year college curriculum, using a local LLM, Qwen TTS, local STT, and comfyUI image gen. I formulates themed lessons, around 'interesting' stories, generates dialogue, images, audio, quizzes, and pronunciation tests. Each lessons progress is tracked and new lessons are generated daily to reinforce concepts and extend past lesson story lines.
Overall it acts like a 'Choose your own adventure' book, but you learn while doing it. Currently supports Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. Runs on a 4060 16GB card.
Gonna try to monetise it or open source it?
Right now it's just a personal project. Will see if it actually helps me remember my Spanish, then I might release it.
Building http://zeroquarry.com
It's a way to augment small/overloaded security teams. It can pentest and then generate a pentester-style PDF report for auditors and procurement, triage incoming e-mails from security researchers by then checking whether the vulnerabilities they claim actually exist and are exploitable, hook into GitHub to scan for vulnerabilities and auto-propose fixes or file GitHub issues for you.
It's free for Open Source projects, if anyone here is maintaining one
Also, a "just for fun" project: https://drifttrip.connelly.casa/ . I was always enthralled with the idea of taking a virtual road trip and then loading the local council's tourism promo videos at each "stop"
Oh man, this sounds fun. But, the button is stuck at "Loading" and never completes. Is HN hugging it to death?
Yeah, I think so. It's running on a pretty small VPS and I never implemented any caching. Should have thought about that before posting I guess. I see the CPU is currently pegged. I was able to get it to load at least 1 trip myself though, so maybe retry in a bit
https://actions.work/listening-post - Listening Post is my macOS multi-scrobbler that works with Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Rocksky, Maloja, Shortcuts, social posting, etc., independent from Spotify or Apple Music. The app can also scrobble shazams (music recognitions) from iPhone and Apple Watch, without the need for an extra app.
Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)
Continuing to work on https://attachedapp.com.
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We're in the middle of v2 over the next few months based on everything we've learned since launching ~a year ago.
As a habitual side project guy for the longest time, it's so satisfying to finally stick to one thing and go really deep. This thread has been highly motivating.
When working on our startup Stacktape, we were struggling a lot to keep our public technical documentation up to date. AI didn't really help - correcting its mistakes was as hard as writing it ourselves. But then, we came up with an idea how we could do it reliably - https://docstube.dev
docstube generates documentation from your codebase, fact-checks every claim against the source, writes it for the people actually reading it, and keeps it in sync as your code changes. What sets it apart from other such tools is its advanced verification engine (validates both deterministically and using AI agents). So you can actually trust the outcome.
It's currently in private alpha, and not ready for testing. Public launch is planned for first half of 08/2026.
Working on leaf: a terminal markdown previewer with GUI-like experience
https://github.com/RivoLink/leaf
I spent the last 6 months building Elk Finder (https://elkfinder.com) and just launched a few weeks ago. It's a mapping web app similar to onX Hunt, except I have specific layers for finding ideal elk habitat in September and October (the primary archery and rifle hunting months).
I am working on speeding up the review-refine loop of LLM generated artefacts between me and the LLM. i run my coding agent (claude code) in auto / full-permission mode, so it doesn’t stop for accept/reject — by the time it’s done i’ve got a pile of generated code, docs, sometimes ui to review. and the slow part for me is to refine it before push it to remote. i would copy-paste snippets to point at what i wanted changed, screenshot the ui, describe where the problem was in prose, one message at a time. its cumbersome.
so i built prereview to speed up that review-fix loop. you run it in your repo (or point it at a file, a dir, or a running dev server), click what’s wrong: a diff line, a markdown/html block, a region of an image, a box on a live site — and leave a comment. the comments go to a csv, your agent reads it and fixes things and tells you what it did via a comment or even posts suggestions which you can accept or reject. it ships with a claude code skill, but the handoff to llm is just an open csv protocol, so any llm cli can drive it. stuff that might interest people here: single static go binary, fully offline; it reviews docs/images/live ui as well as code; comments re-anchor when the file changes under them. it’s mit and still early but I use it everyday. Its here: https://github.com/livetemplate/prereview
I'm learning Rust, and a bit about audio processing: https://github.com/leocrabe225/audiodsp Just before that I was learning TypeScript, and I'll be coming back to that project as it's quite the process. I'm leaning heavy TDD and rely on the type systems a lot. The project is called "Rentier", a joke about the Monopoly board game. https://github.com/leocrabe225/rentier-rewrite I finished part 1, with a postmortem. Part 2 is React frontend. Part 3 is implement the postmortem findings in the TS engine. Part 4 is update the React frontend for the updated engine. Part 5 is make the engine in Rust from scratch. Part 6 is point the React frontend to Rust engine, and praise the pros of having a good architecture. Kind of an ode to clean code if you will (Many things to learn along the way).
https://buildthreads.com/
Aggregator for new posts in build threads from 277 old-school DIY forums.
Build threads of people building cars, 4x4s, motorcycles, boats, airplanes, hot rods, musical instruments, etc.
This is amazing! Very refreshing in the age of AI to see so much manual building going on. Sadly I don’t have much time myself but I have several friends who would love this, I’ll pass it on to them.
Thanks, that means a lot. I've found that browsing through a few dozen build threads is the perfect cure for the AI blues.
Ohh this is the type of stuff that interests me although I am not a car fan but I like what you are doing with the aggregation/old-school DIY forums.
Good luck with your build and perhaps I might get interested in future too as I did once have a thought that having a custom car to me would reflect more cool-ness than an expensive one. I am really interested by small cars, perhaps retro. I imagine my favourite car to be somewhat like the car that Ryan gosling drives in La La Land.
but a cool project nonetheless, certainly thinking about it inspires a bit of car enthusiasm within me even though I am not that much of a car fan so much right now so a really cool project if it can help more people feel this spirit. good luck :-D
I have a question but how does building new (retro-inspired?) cars go about in terms of pricing. I feel like they might be too costly to get custom-built and that If I really ever in my life go about doing this, I would prefer DIY but I still imagine that it might be too expensive or hard to make a car. Are there any go-to cars which are easy/recommended within this space and how does it compare off economically and what are the technical expertise that you require with this type of stuff?
Once again, I wish ya good luck in the project and would love to hear your answers for some of the questions I have!
Thanks; much appreciated. I picked up an endless list of new build interests in starting the site and exploring different niche forums. Turns out I really like wooden boat builds, cyclekarts, intricate custom knives, handmade violins, the list goes on...
You're right that getting a car custom-built is where the costs add up quickly; easily north of $50K. Most of the cost is labor, which is $0 if you do it yourself. Some of the projects are much easier than others. If you want to fall down a rabbit hole, look in the kit car and hot rod categories; lots of affordable and small builds in there. The Buick Riviera in La La Land is more of a resto-mod cruiser project, but the small/retro itch is exactly what the kit car category scratches. The first step is to find a forum where people are building the car you like, and start following related build threads. That's the majority of my social media intake these days.
Thanks I appreciate your comment. I don't think that I might be that interested in car building right now but thanks for your pointers!
Speaking of which, I had made something at https://mirror.forum which revolved around forums and their ability to create communities on open source discord alternatives and it was always intended to revolve around forums/communities.
Feel free to check out my website for understanding what I might be talking about but I would be really interested in perhaps having the list of forums on my website so that people can search them through.
Do you have a list of forum websites that you used for your website or any resources pointing to that, I really like what you are doing and after thinking for sometime I think that it could be cool if I could use my application to point out to original OG forums as well. I would be curious to know what you think!
My team participates in a World Cup prediction league, I don’t really know much about football teams but figured I’d build a prediction model to try and top the charts. Uses a Poisson distribution model and Monte Carlo simulations. I wrote up the process and the maths as well as generated some inline SVGs (no chart library). Next working on whether Dixon-Coles low scoring correction would have had an impact on the outcome and in which direction. Link to the write up if anyone is interested: https://haywire.blog/posts/i-built-a-robot-instead-of-having...
I'm making a midi clock -> dual tap tempo device (I'm calling it the Twin tap tempo toy, or Tttt). It's based on an Arduino Esplora linked to a dual channel optocoupler / relay.
I'm building it because I have an analogue delay and an an analogue tremolo which each take tap tempo input I want to be able to slave them simultaneously to my DAW (Reaper). I could only find one product (Disaster Area Designs micro.clock) which seems to readily do what I want, and it is hard to find and expensive.
The software side has been pretty easy for me, now I am just troubleshooting the Arduino -> relay connection as currently it is not behaving.
I'll probably sling the code and other docs on Github at some point :)
I'm working on the Obsidian plugin for building and rendering family graphs [1]. I started my own genealogy research in 2025 and did not want to store data on a 3rd-party platform. Obsidian was a great decision. The only thing I needed is a tree (graph) viewer for family members relationships (something like myheritage.com has). So, I built my own with a lot of interactivity on top.
[1]: https://github.com/TheBestTvarynka/grafily
This is a Chrome extension that records lots of details in a usage session. Stuff like network calls, console logs, screenshots and also optionally screenshots and user narration
Tools like this exist, but every one I tried is uploading the session details somewhere in their cloud and try to monetize this.
So I built the version I wanted: free, open source, and local. There is no account, no backend, no telemetry. Sessions live in IndexedDB in your browser and exported as a zip.
What it records:
* Clicks, typing, page changes, network requests and responses, console errors screenshots, video with sound
* Your voice, transcribed and placed next to what you were doing at the time
* Annotations: Arrows and boxes you draw on the page's screenshot
Note: Passwords, auth headers, and tokens are masked at capture time
All events are lined up in a timeline with timestamps
At export you pick a detail level with a live token estimate, so a long session still fits your model's context window.
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Repo: https://github.com/mohsen1/session-recorder-chrome-extension
A backyard wildlife narration that takes video clips from different styles of cameras and turns it into a documentary style narration - https://everydayearth.ai.
It originated from a project with my son where we created a nesting box out of an old wooden shelf and added a camera on the inside to see what happens. It was taken over by a Screech Owl and it's been fun to see what happens in our backyard at night.
I really like this although in my neighborhood it would just be lots of detailed reports of apathetic pigeons perching and pooping.
The Secret Life of Pigeons is not very exciting.
My passion project is an LP-sleeve-sized music streamer built around an ARM compute module, a custom PCB carrier board and an industrial 17" square display.
https://pentaton.app/blog/2026-07-12-introducing-pentaton-lp...
This is a really cool idea. Been thinking of a way to introduce my daughter to my old LPs without her wrecking the vinyl, and this might be a good compromise!
I've been working on Next Move Theory for the last 8 years.
Next Move Theory is a methodology with a step-by-step algorithm for every product decision. It lays out every tactical and strategic move open to you and helps you choose the best, with the odds on your side. The foundations are open and free. AI skills run it on your product.
Dozens of cases in my home country, zero presence in the US — now I'm working to make founders and PMs in the US aware of it.
https://nextmovetheory.com
Your website seems like a lot of fluff without actually giving me a concrete example on what Next Move Theory is, just my experience from glancing at it
thank you for a feedback
maybe this way is better? https://github.com/zamesin/Next-Move-Theory-Canon-and-Skills
I'm working on TTZ, a sort of, pardon the expression, next-gen terminal protocol.
I wanted a middle ground between web apps and Terminal UI that allows for things like raster images, vector graphics, simple audio support and file transfer; to let me move more apps and workflows from web apps to a lighter experience.
I have an old laptop that I love and is very nice to use, but since it has only 2 GB of RAM, using multiple web apps is out of the question. I live on the terminal and SSH, but it has its own limitations, like spotty support for images, no audio at all, and ReGis (for vector graphics) support is not available in a lot of terminals.
I've recently finished implementing both client and server libraries for multiple languages (with the help of AI), and right now I'm in the process of fully testing and squashing all bugs and inconsistencies. Next, I will port a couple of applications as a proof of concept.
I plan to publish the source code very soon to receive feedback.
https://trackdayz.io - motorbike track day calendar and social hub
Currently in the early access and bootstrapping phase, the system is meant to help you find which event you can go next and also plan your whole season, organize your calendar, link up with your friends, track your progress as a rider, and see where you stand on the global rankings and between your buddies.
There are more ideas than time to implement them as this is purely a hobby project, but doing my best as I go along. Planning to start advertising it a little bit in relevant groups in the coming weeks.
I've been working on a home Hermes setup that I'm using to do a variety of things. So far, here's what I've done:
- Set up an in-house alternative to my Ring subscription for the cameras around my house. So far I have it real-time monitoring, complete with AI face recognition and interpretation of events, all on an internal web page. It also sends me alerts via Telegram.
- Set up a blog that I'm using to catalog these experiences with Hermes and AI in general
- Started working with multiple agents to do things when appropriate. My main model right now is glm-5.2 for cloud, and Qwen3.6b-IQ4 (4-bit quantized) running locally. It only takes 18GB of VRAM on my 4090, so I have plenty of overhead. I'm also using Hindsight instead of the MEMORY.md that Hermes natively uses.
- Setup local image generation, with the local Qwen model, using ComfyUI w/Flux.
- All of the above isn't including the numerous smaller jobs (like setting up Telegram, setting up automated cloud backups, troubleshooting Linux issues, etc) that I've been using Hermes for.
Future plans: I'm working on making a game with Godot, learning as I go. I haven't had Hermes do anything for that, and I don't want to really, except I may use local image gen for testing purposes, as I plan to engage an artist for any graphical work in the final product.
I'm doing all of this just a learning experience. It's been really fun so far.
I am working on a few things:
* TimeTracker (https://time-tracker.hosgeldin.click/) because I needed a privacy friendly freelancing tool that I needed personally.
* A simple exercise tracker that my wife requested from me (https://daily-menu.hosgeldin.click/) - later I will build a menstruation tracker that is connected to the Daily Menu.
* My magnum opus, "MyApps" (https://myapps.ideasofhakki.com/) - This is no less than an OS running in your browser, equipped with whatever "Apps" written in it. I am building it with GunDB and Svelte and foundationally it will be a web of apps running completely in your device (i.e. offline first), with privacy and data security built-in.
* Cram school management SIS for Turkish education system (https://edusis.hosgeldin.click/)
I've been excited about OpenRouter's OAuth 2.0 PKCE flow for backendless BYOK inference. I just updated my Garmin watch AI app (https://untether.watch/en/apps/byok) to run the whole flow on the watch for a seamless BYOK experience - formerly you had to copy/paste your Gemini key into settings, which was a huge barrier.
If you're building client-side/frontend apps and want to let your users BYOK, OpenRouter's PKCE flow is great for that.
Otherwise I'm still working on Untether (https://untether.watch) - a suite of digital-minimalism apps that let you stay connected and do quick actions on the watch while keeping your smartphone out of sight (and your hands).
Working on Bookmarker, released for Mac.
Your library. On your Mac. Links, images, PDFs, sorted by on-device AI. (Apple foundation models) Local. Private. Fast.
One time payment. No subscription. Software is yours forever. As it should be.
https://bookmarker.cc/
Looks nice - I will give it a try :-)
There is no trial?
Two things right now:
1. A music recommendation tool based on Last.fm scrobble history.
It's graph-based, no ML or "fancy" techniques, but I've had good results with it so far. It builds recommendations based on a listening window or just recent history. It combines several different recommendation algorithms (including an Auralist-inspired "serendipity" score for novel recommendations, meant to simulate the serendipity of being recommended something novel by a friend), scores and ranks candidates, and takes in feedback that inform subsequent recommendations.
Fun project. Found some good new music with it already. :)
2. A code exploration / indexing tool with CLI and MCP interfaces for exploring concepts and impacts of changes in a codebase.
Essentially, an overwrought "find all uses" that doesn't depend on exact symbol or string matching.
I have a codebase of non-trivial size, but thankfully it's fairly well-structured. This tool indexes the code and bundles modules into "concepts" -- these can be auto-discovered or preconfigured. Dependencies, inheritance trees, symbols and symbol usage are all also indexed.
Then you can ask, "what's the impact of extending the domain model of XYZ" or "I want to remove this property" and it shows where to start, where to look next, and fuzzy edges or dependencies that might need deeper exploration. It surfaces non-obvious connections, too, or things a junior dev (or LLM) might miss, like when a model is mapped to an API DTO, or intermediary states, etc.
It's been useful for a new dev exploring the codebase, because you can ask in terms of business concepts instead of needing to know the exact symbol name in the code. And it's been much more token efficient than grep for exploration subagents. But it's limited to dotnet only.
1. I'm interested and would like to know more! Will you be publishing it? How do the recommendations work?
3D model construction of climbing gym. There is so much detail a normal climbing video can't show. Wall angle, hip position. I'm hoping to overlay human model, taken from climbing video, onto the 3D wall to make climbing visualization easier.
I continue working on https://wireplug.org: A simple, free, and open source connectivity coordinator for WireGuard. Basically a way to keep WireGuard tunnels connected while moving between different access points. It handles (basic) NAT traversal and works with the in-kernel WireGuard driver on Linux and OpenBSD. You can find the technical details at https://wireplug.org
Im building an agent that interacts with health care providers on your behalf to proactively get itemized bills and other substantiation as needed. Born out of my own frustration with the paperwork for getting reimbursed from my healthcare cost sharing ministry. The app is React with a Laravel backend on EC2 where the agent runs.
Recently Ive been experimenting more with coding from my phone using Claude Code for the Web. Its basically turned Github Actions into my development environment. Its enabled me to fire off a quick prompt in planning mode, go play with my kids, review and approve the plan while Im cooking dinner, then let it go 10 rounds with the AI code reviewer while I put the kids to bed. As a busy parent I feel way more productive than if I had to carve out sit down focus time for a side project.
https://www.healthsharetech.com
Self hosted media platform with similarity search, face search and clustering, a great fun media player with shuffle, VS mode where you rank your media resulting in an elo, remote access to app over the web, a TikTok style "swipe" mode of your own media. Started as just a good media viewer over 5 years ago but I just keep adding things. Has a small patreon following so people seem to like it. https://lowkeyviewer.com/
Several projects.
1. an extension to my shop (I have a shop! I never thought I would have one of these) for water treatment and food storage.
2. an agentic framework that I started on in January - maelstrom. You can find the current code here: https://github.com/zerohumancompany2/maelstrom-code/tree/ske...
The whole point of this framework is to increase the robustness of agents so that small models (30b class) can function over long time horizons reliably. Other goals include auditability (full agent sessions are stored durably and can be branched/rolled back/restarted from any point, all over-the-wire comms are also durably stored) and reliability (sane fallbacks for common failure cases).
The current iteration (sketch 7 or draft 7 or 8) is specifically a coding agent framework. In the future I'd like to expand the core to handle a variety of tasks.
1. A compiler for real-time tensor processing (arbitrary DSP, ML). In something like LISP or Haskell, the goal is to compile lambda calculus for fast/reliable execution—as such, you can express a program in a fully general language that can represent any computation and execute it without explicitly modeling the lower levels of the machine. I'm building a compiler that does the same thing for the subset of programs that are guaranteed to execute on-budget. The effect: you write code that looks like DSP/ML math and it compiles/runs optimally with execution guaranteed by construction.
2. My take on an agent framework ... append only log + content hypergraph in Elixir, tools that regularly pull data from other services into Postgres—built as a kind of 'exoskeleton' around claude/codex so it's not competing with fast-moving tools.
Thinking about category theoretic models of computation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03817
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Some things I want other people to build:
- Indexing for Github
- All-in-one social media ingestion libraries for agents
- GOFAI-inspired knowledge / semantic / research graph stuff—I want to point agents at rules/structures for writing connected, verifiable statements
I'm exploring triply periodic but non-minimal surfaces. https://codeberg.org/okaleniuk/faitps
Triply periodic minimal surfaces are the golden standard in thermal management, acoustics, and even medical applications. But minimality itself doesn't contribute much to practicality. We use them because they are simply studied better than the non-minimal surfaces.
So I'm studying the non-minimals. They are much more governable, what I link to is a demo of a surface builder with two levels of control. Next, they are conjugatable including conjugations with different period of self (that will be the following paper), they generalize nicely to non-periodic or partially periodic surfaces, and they work in other space configurations. E. g. I'm now playing with bi-periodic curves that cover the 2D space with self-replicating hexagons.
If all that I'm experimenting on today in 2D will turn out well in 3D too, we'll have a whole new direction in implicit modeling.
I've been building some sqlite plugins for playing with ngrams for text search. I'm not sure why, but I've learned a lot about the internal sqlite apis and it brings me a lot of joy. I would like to start a blog detailing some of this work but haven't found the time yet
I am working on building an self-improving QA agent for software teams. Free and open-source. It is an agentic testing harness with batteries, includes the test runner infra (web & mobile), memory (vector store, local embedding model powered by transformers.js, self improving loop, issue reporting. More details - https://vostride.ai | Code - https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa
Built AT1C Protocol to make Humans + AI Agents compatible With cryptographic evidence with verified proof "the easiest way to make AI agents EU AI Act compliant, for free, in 15 minutes." https://at1c.com/index.html
there is foresight in this, as there's going to be a cryptographic layer between agents and people at some point, compute complexity is the only thing that can contain them. like a logical field or space that was conceptually equivalent to keeping them light years of distance away. The analogy scales as well.
Enjoying the work on MyTraL - sovereign athlete / personal training log: https://mytral.fitness/
I went on sabbatical to fulfill my dream project - consolidating years of training logs. I'm enjoying the technical challenges involved - digitizing paper hand written logs / visual models, navigating the maze of athletic metrics with their crazy trademarked names and multidimensional models. Having fun building AI coaches: agents ranging in character from Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday to the coach from my teenage years, utilizing ICL model-based predictions, ... and more.
The best part is the rush of memories while ingesting my own history - photos and recordings I completely forgot, as well as navigating data shared by friends.
This month has Strava & LeCol everesting challenge - signed up and added support that suits my needs to MyTraL. Good times.
https://o11y.jobs
A curated job board for DevOps, SRE, and Observability (o11y) jobs.
Working to become the specialist jobs board for infrastructure jobs.
I'm building a free browser based hub with a variety of apps that I find useful for me.
For now, I have 8 apps and I'd be grateful if any of you could give me your impressions.
I'd be happy too if any of them could be helpful for you.
https://dailypocketapps.com
Working on gisti.ai which eventually will be a fleet of Product and Customer Operations AI agents that continuously analyze customer interactions, identify the churn risk and automatically route the right actions: code fixes to engineering, product insights to PMs, and operational tasks to customer operations.
Today, Gisti ingests customer feedback from every channel your customers already use, synthesizes it into a prioritized, evidence-backed list of opportunities, and lets product teams interact with an AI agent to explore, validate, and act on each one. We are building Gisti with a philosophy of complete automation for specific workflows.
We are looking for Design Partners, please hit me up at shubham@gisti.ai. I will be in SF late August if you prefer in-person meetings.
Please ping me / email me if you are interested in a demo / demo account for deeper analysis.
Recently worked on https://fastsleep.app - an app for nighttime overthinkers.
Instead of music or long podcasts, you are given something to imagine. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.
In short → Close your eyes, listen & imagine.
Making rent as an open source developer.
Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?
https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
Site/course on teaching how to write tests, mostly about frontend tests in React but also just generally things like Vitest/Jest https://howtotestfrontend.com/courses/jest-vitest-fundamenta...
I am helping a not-for-profit, [NavSahyog](https://navsahyog.org/), build a custom software for their entire operations and programs that also tracks longitudinal impact. The organization conducts programs for children in Indian villages after school to build live skills.
This is my second iteration because the first version felt like a simplistic fit and improvement over their existing vendor provided app.
I have now designed a domain model based on my understanding and observations. I have a day job so I can't spend a lot of time in sync with the team. I have created a web app where the NGO management can test scenarios (by recording voice), and the AI (Claude Agent SDK) runs it past the domain model. In case, there is a gap, they can persist the scenario. After every iteration, I read through the scenarios and assimilate them into the domain model.
I'm working on dotUI. A framework for developing UI's where the core logic such as routing, events, state management is defined by the user and the llm handles the styling. This way every user can have their own UI's without losing functionality. Will post here regarding it in the coming weeks
free and open-source invoice generator
https://easyinvoicepdf.com https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
Working on a no-code tool to make it easier to self host fully compliant databases with an audit first approach.
Startups should be able to deploy their own SOC2 compliance ready databases without paying cloud providers to do the deployment for them.
Why pay $1050/month on AWS RDS when a Herzner dedicated server costs $55 a month and offers more resources?
I just started running sword combat playtests this weekend for my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, which is about a girl who goes looking for her sister.
Combat is mostly inspired by Sekiro. Here's a minute of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NJhd3Ks3k.
Already learned that it gets way too hard too soon, so this week I'm adjusting the training and difficulty curve to avoid frustrating new players.
If you liked Sekiro, have a PC, and want to playtest, please get in touch!
I've just released in beta, a web-based application called Verse Draft: https://versedraft.com
I wanted to create an all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for an entire universe in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or stage plays.
I also wanted the ability to allow for the limited use of AI in a way that only functions as a sounding board and does not write for the user; Where fiction writers could have access to tools such as a virtual assistant that they can converse with about their stories and world-building, but without it writing anything for them.
There is also an option to use the application without any AI tools at all.
Very cool. On another note I think this would be amazing to have for fans, and markedly better than what we have now (wikis). Maybe you could have some of the features available for fan communities.
Once my visiting family departs I am going to finish building the Little Free Library I started last month. We have lived in our current home for 5 years and it is about time I share my love of reading with my neighbors. https://littlefreelibrary.org/
Building a small cloud service that I've been thinking of for a while, to take the articles I don't have time to read but find interesting in principle, and convert them to audio via TTS. Just filled a short flight with some articles from the backlog, now I need to do some UI improvements, and then maybe a similar flow for academic papers too. :)
In my free time, I'm building an iPad game to help Autistic kids practice real world skills in a virtual town - https://pocketown.app/
https://index.canopii.dev
Part of my job is to approve / reject MCP servers based on how secure they are and whether they are suitable for use in an enterprise environment. I was tired of my team being called the bottleneck to AI adoption, so I set out to automate the whole process.
I periodically collect the MCP servers and every new version from the Official MCP registry and assign them a score based on 29 distinct criteria like runtime guardrails (e.g. destructive tools, over broad permissions, rug pulls), SAST scans and transport & trust model.
As a result of this exercise, I found that 1 in every 10 MCP servers is pretty much unusable (score 40/100 or below). 18% of the popular MCP servers with 1000+ GitHub stars contain one or more security issues. 184 servers to date have changed their tool definitions after publication, which may indicate a "rug pull" attack.
I built this for security minded people who also want to be at the forefront of AI adoption and for security teams who are tired to be called the bottleneck.
Browsing the index is completely free, you only have to request an API key if you want automated, programmatic lookups for any workflow.
Feedback is always welcome!
A cloudflare hosted task and wiki deployment - https://tajd.github.io/projektor/ - free to host because it's on your infra on cloudflare. Built it because I could, and it was simpler and cheaper than using atlassian etc.
A tool for enforcing code architecture and conventions - https://tajd.github.io/cofferdam/ - these sorts of tools come along every week, but this one is mine and it's v quick to run and extendable.
And then I'm currently working on a game for winning the start of sailing races as that's quite a tactical and fun problem to break down. Will be releasing something there soon!
I continue to write and publish one piece per month. July was a review of Vaclav Havel's The Power of the Powerless, integrated with a recent trip to Dominica:
https://www.metanoia-research.com/review-001-the-power-of-th...
Any thoughts or feedback are welcomed.
I'm working on a tool to automatically sync your work-in-progress music from your DAW (digital audio workstation, like Ableton Live, etc), to your phone. Basically a workflow tool for musicians and producers! Also has some quick share/feedback functionality too. Would love some feedback since it's still in really early stages. Already integrates with Ableton, Bitwig, Cubase, and GarageBand. https://trackid.com.
I used to work at Native Instruments, and super happy to now work on something for myself instead.
I am working on hammer https://thehammer.io/ , it is a voice device that I have build and have been using for past several months for texting and getting answers to my questions via AI chatbots.
I started with the idea of replacing my phone with a texting device that can still keep me connected but realized phone has became utilitarian that it is not possible to replace it.
I still have to take my phone when I am outside but when I am home or at work, I now use hammer exclusively to text or to get answers. The most benefit I have got is that I don’t have the urge to open my phone and go on endless scrolling binge.
What's the AI chat connect to?
What if somebody sends you a picture of gif?
It shows pictures , has a lcd
Still working on Study Engine and Nomnominees(more or less done for now).
StudyEngine is a webapp I'm using while doing my masters in comp sci. I upload lecture notes, textbooks, papers, etc. It then extracts topics and tracks my mastery of them over time. It uses an LLM to generate questions and flash cards. It loops in some newer learning science ideas. It tests recognition first(multiple choice), and then once a level of mastery is matched, it switches to recall. Working on adding RAG to it, so I can surface where in the source material something can be reviewed when going over quiz results. Currently just for me an some friends. If can get a good eval set up, I might work on optimizing cost and seeing if it could be opened up.
NomNominees is simple webapp that tracks James Beard, Great American Beer Festival, Festival of Barrel Aged Beers, and other awards. I use it when I'm traveling to find places to check out. Even just a cluster on a map shows me neighborhoods I might want to check out.
https://studyengine.app
https://www.nomnominees.com
I made a sensor-less FOC controller with Fable in Rust as an experiment this past weekend, it actually works... https://rhobic.com/
Working on https://metner.app to give micro-preneurs (people with side-hustles) a dedicated web presence to grow businesses focused on local communities.
Goal is to help people move off of relying on Facebook/Instagram groups. And to support people who want to make some beer/coffee money off of their hobbies.
A CLI/Terminal file deduper.
Moving a lot of files from old laptop to new, lots of duplicate videos in scattered directories with different file names.
Point the CLI tool at a directory and up pops a ncurses application that scans from the directory you specify (recursively), hashes all the files to get groups of dupes, and then ranks the dupes into a table (that looks like top) so you can work your way through the dupes and decide which to keep without your hands leaving the keyboard.
It automatically ignores typical developer directories like node_modules so you're not tortured with noise in the result set.
Hit 'p' and a preview pops up so you can double check they are indeed dupes, if it's a media file the preview window autoplays the dupe videos in tiles with zero volume.
Supports a dry run mode, and switches to cover behaviour like sending dupes to trash rather than hard deletion.
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 :)
Working on ZenExpenses. I have been running this personal finance tracker project on my Proxmox for years. Now the time has come for it be released to public. It is a personal finance tracker with simple budgeting. Upload bank statements manually, automatically categorize expenses, set budgets. Nothing exciting but works for my needs. I hope it works for someone out there too.
https://zenexpenses.com
A daily meditation "instrument". I'm a big fan of Waking Up but I've kinda outgrown the catalogue. I know what to do now. I just need a timer and a couple of prompts...
Currently working on Agentry(https://agentry.run/) Runtime, connection, and deploy layer for building internal apps and automations with AI. You can build anything that you can build with Lovable, Replit etc. Your model, Your harness and your own Laptop/Server
some examples https://vessel-ops-dashboard-4c3976e79335c1aa.agentry.live/ https://local-goods-shop-54ce3b368e0d41f6.agentry.live/
A dumb vibe-coded GTA III parody set in my city of Glasgow: https://glasgow-brawler.vercel.app/
I have been working on Stencilize: https://stencilize.me/
It's a little webapp that solved a problem I had when ordering PCBs: I was too cheap to buy the stencil when ordering the PCBs from China, but then I regretted it when I had to paste by hand. Because of this, I did the PCB Designer -> DXF -> CAD -> Add margin -> Add outline -> Print workflow by hand, but that became very tedious, so I built this to automate it.
It runs entirely on your local machine and it is hosted on Cloudflare pages, with the only costs for me being a domain name.
Spent nights over the last six months combining AI coding agents with containers, spec-driven development, and formal verification, so that I (eventually) don't have to manually review 10k+ lines of AI code a day, or worry about the latest model wiping out my home directory:
https://www.overplane.dev/ (Apache-2.0)
Have been working on three micro-saas, all built in Elixir/Phoenix:
https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with science-backed research summaries and recommendations.
https://rizz.farm - a lead gen tool for Reddit that focuses on helping instead of selling, to build long-lasting organic traffic.
https://persumi.com - a blogging platform that turns articles into audio, and to showcase your different interests or "personas".
Took a long break earlier this year to recharge, but now I'm back at it again, mostly working on Feedbun, about to launch it as an early alpha. :)
An operating system for self-hosting
https://github.com/malmoos/malmo
I saw the options out there were not fully open source, or had other limitations so I started working on this better one. Based on Debian, apps are docker containers.
I do work to adapt current open source apps, but it's so great to make them available as one click install.
I want to make it easy to run on a cloud VM or an old PC kept in the pantry. There are so many cases for self-hosting now that we need to make it easier to do
https://dozenal.game
A daily puzzle game called Dozenal that I've been making with a friend. We've been increasing our user base over the past couple of months and are still trying to refine the learning curve.
If you like number puzzle games, I would be very keen for you to give it a go and to hear your feedback on it!
https://digs.fm - like Goodreads, but for music.
As someone who's constantly on the look for new music to discover and being very deliberate about the things I'm listening, I needed a better way to organize the albums I want to listen to, listened and liked. And also I would like to see the discoveries of other folks who I know I like.
Original Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551862
I've been working on Source [1], an experimental Git server written in Go.
Source stores repositories in a database rather than a filesystem [2]. The primary goal is to rely on databases for durability, replication, and distribution, rather than introducing complex distributed filesystem infrastructure into the stack.
[1]: https://github.com/iainjreid/source
[2]: https://git.iainjreid.com/source
I've just finished this chrome extension recently: https://ypuf.com/
It helps me to automatically save a tab that's not been used in a while so it auto-closes it but saves it as well as having the ability to snooze a tab like how you'd do it in gmail.
Everything is locally stored with 100% privacy in mind.
And vim like navigation is natively done.
I am working on an online Talmud to explore the old text in new ways! Its been a pet project of mine for over 4/5 years, and to my knowledge its the only attempt to blend the classic format of the text (Tzurat Hadaf) and AI enhanced commentaries sourced from the classical texts
https://talmud.dev/?lang=en
Update: Hopefully this can help those who completely misunderstand the nuance of this ancient text (usually from antisemitism) to better understand what they are reading.
https://scan17.com/
Automated network port change detection. Scan17 provides a solution to the question:
So your CTO decides to outsource firewall management - and the vendor carelessly leaves a network port open, exposing your production database. How does your team find out before an attacker?
Think of it as nmap port scan diff-ing. If a network port goes from closed to open you get an email or webhook alert. There is a REST API for automated workflows and privately hosted engines will be supported for some plans. There is a wait-list form on the website if you want to stay in the loop.
If you work in infosec / cyber security and are interested in being an early product designer / beta tester, let's chat! See my profile for how to get in touch.
I got tired of all the worthwhile iPhone weightlifting apps wanting a monthly payment for a full feature set, while delivering an uninspiring, cross-platform experience.
I noticed none of the apps felt native to the iPhone, and I wanted something that felt on-part with the likes of Flighty, Things 3, and such.
Out of my love for weightlifting I then shipped Plates and have been working on it ever since. It's a completely native iPhone lifting app (SwiftUI/UIKit) and I've gone quite hard on native UI elements such as custom keyboards for plate-loaded exercises and RPE/RIR inputs, native animations, and nice haptic feel. It has no backend servers and no tracking SDKs, yet it still supports things like cross-device sync thanks to Apple's CloudKit. The best part is that it's just a one-time payment.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/plates-weightlifting-log/id675...
Website: https://useplates.com
Hi Tom, I downloaded your app and love your attention to detail, and how it works. I think it's exactly what I've been looking for. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to change the units. I live in Canada and we use both pounds and kilograms here. By default, the app uses Kilograms in Canada, but most weightlifting gyms use pounds. Do you have a plan to add unit settings in the future?
Yes, it's actually possible to change it in the settings! It's in Settings -> Apps -> Plates.
It's possible to change the weight and distance units there, as well as the effort metric (rpe/rir/none).
I just tried to install this and got the message: "This application requires iOS 26.0 or later."
I'm an iOS 18 holdout, any chance of a backwards compatible app?
Thanks for checking out the app! Truthfully it simply doesn't make sense to support anything prior to iOS 26 for Plates. It was built entirely around liquid glass, morphing animations, and many iOS 26+ APIs.
Just trying to learn C again, making things from scratch in a multiplatform way, interfacing with X11 on Linux and wasm on the browser.
It's been fun dealing with memory and C's weird design in this age of agentic coding.
I recently started working on SnapSense, a macOS app that OCRs your screenshots and uses a local LLM to auto-rename them into something readable.
https://github.com/Enigma-52/SnapSense
This was solely built after opening the wrong 'Screenshot 2026-06-03 at 6.09.28 PM.png' for the 4th time :|
Policy guardrails for Coding Agents. Never babysit your agents - github.com/lud1161/agentjail
· OS native sandbox (<4ms start-time) · Policies for AWS, local files, k8s, DBs etc. · Rego backed policies w/ OPA (CNCF Graduated project) · Fastest policy evaluator (<3ms)
Please star the repo if you like the work.
Underscore: https://underscore.audio/
On-demand, procedural audio programs (w/LLMs). I’m working to make these embeddable in software such as games and health/wellness apps.
Would love to hear how developers might use it.
I don't hear anything from the examples in Firefox or Chrome, on Windows 10.
I had to turn down uBlock Origin filter mode, then it worked for me.
Thanks for the heads up. Working on a fix!
Wow, that’s neat. Perfect for a hyperlight drifter style game.
Building out a housing heatmap of England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland publish housing data differently, working on getting them integrated!
https://housepricedashboard.co.uk
I'm working on a self-hosted open source system for monitoring and alerting on stalled / crashed / overdue asynchronous workflows. I had some weird things I needed to monitor and log analysis was kind of a PITA for dealing with them so I built this instead:
https://crashguard.io
My favorite feature is I built a Stream Deck plugin for it so that I can monitor things from my Stream Deck XL while I'm doing other work, then if a button goes red or whatever I can just click it and it brings up the admin portal and shows me the workflow that failed.
It's still kind of in the alpha state but it does work pretty well.
I built a kind of paas for llms, the idea was to allow my family deploy webs cheap and easy, my family doesn't use It, but It end being very useful form mento deploy small apps. You can check It out on https://onvibe.run there is a list of forkable apps that I use.
I did some kind of meta thing, because bownI can create apps with llm (like Claude) and expose an mcp on theme (like the notes and todolist apps).
A self-hosted, better browser interface to preview s3 files. This overcomes the limitation of the s3 console not allowing querying or viewing files beyond a certain size. It also gives you information about the column types. It could be a good use case to present this to non-IT teams in orgs who just want a preview of the data in the files or want to do some simple explorations. Frequently, they are denied access because of the possibility of doing something with confidential data via the s3 console.
https://github.com/cgopalan/s3fileviewer
Very cool, it’s insane to me how frustrating the S3 UI is. My current annoyance is bulk downloading is hard, and seeing things like “how large is this bucket or specific key prefix in bytes”
Saw you using DuckDB at internal/handlers/api.go
Wondering if you’d considered letting queries operate at the bucket or key prefix level instead of requiring key to specific file? Or is that already supported?
I’ve liked being able to point DuckDB to a folder following Hive partition scheme, and then querying it just like Spark/Trino would over many files
Thanks! Its true, many things are frustrating, like you say - bulk downloading. Yes DuckDB is amazing, and I use it in more than one of my projects. It has a lot of use cases for the data lake.
I agree, it would be more beneficial to query on patterns, but the main use case I saw for this app was non-tech folks wanting to see data in s3. I assume they wouldn't do fancy stuff like querying multiple files. But maybe I should add that functionality. Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm working on CT RailTime (https://ctrailtime.com), a better way to travel on CTrail. Their current eTix app is essentially broken and the CT government does not seem to care enough to fix it.
I am building a device that turns the headless Echelon exercise bikes (and rowers?) into fully featured bikes without using their predatory app.
If interesting in receiving a beta testing unit, let me know!
I've been throwing together some web-playable retro arcade games:
Rally-X: https://linsomniac.github.io/rally-xy/
Tempest: https://linsomniac.github.io/teapot/
Dig-Dug: https://linsomniac.github.io/digger/
And not an arcade game, but a multi-player throwback to a multiplayer shooter game my team used to play called nSnipes: https://github.com/linsomniac/isnipes
iSnipes does require downloading and running a server, the others you just play on the web.
Working on project-hami.io, but recently decided that all the new markdown based presentation tools have far too much HTML dependency, so I decided to build my own, with custom extensions and plugins. It's supposed to support some basic structures that allow easy creation of presentations, but the editable odp conversion is proving to be a nightmare. It should be possible, but I need help.
https://github.com/slidr-cli/slidr
https://easel.games
A game programming language that makes your game multiplayer automatically. This month I’ve been developing the tutorials so it’s easier to learn.
This month has mostly been personal website. Serious warning - style is an HN ripoff atm, forgive me in advance. Will change in the future to something original or minimal.
Migrated my beverages app from notion to an actual webapp my wife and I can use: https://stefanludlow.com/beverages/
Built a bunch of slime mold art: https://stefanludlow.com/art/foraging-network
Project I've got in progress is a migration of the old DIKU mud engine from C to Rust and making a Moog Model D synth recreation in rust with a JS wrapper.
The slime art is nice. I watched it for a long time. It's neat how you can open any frame up as an image. The controls in the description didn't work though.
Those are some fine drinks
A electronic workbook/task generator app for korean learning with AI or human feedback (although for now you have to find the humans yourself).
I grew in ideas and attempts over the years, and it finally got along far enough I actually made it available. The progress in LLMs made some things much easier that I conceived in 2020, but other things didn't get better.
https://elephant-project.net/
Now that I made it this far, I had to realize though that it is far from what I had imagined and needs much more work.
I'm working on improving my PCB synthesis system; given a KiCad schematic and some extra metadata it can currently lay out and route an entire double-sided PCB with about 50 components in 4 minutes without any human intervention.
I wrote it because I was too lazy to learn how to use KiCad's layout features properly, and thought 'how hard can it be?'. Several months later, I had this.
It's not intended to compete with Altium etc. but it certainly produces compact, valid and fully design-rule-compliant boards with much less work that doing it myself or using one of the low-cost remote labour platforms.
It uses constraint logic programming to solve the hard parts of the problem. Hierarchical decomposition of the circuit design helps reduce combinatorial explosion, which was a show-stopper for early versions of the system. Current indications are that I may be able to scale it further in the longer term to deal with more complex design scenarios and larger boards, without hitting the exponential cliff.
I'm working on improving my Indiekit https://getindiekit.com (not mine, just a big fan & heavy user, to which I created plugins : https://rmendes.net/changelog/ and also working on a local Ai-stack deployment so that I can put that DGX Spark for a good use !
A cliché project, but working on a photo library browser that works in a way that I want it. Technically, the interesting thing is a UI that is reusable across all of my target platforms (desktop, mobile and in-browser with WASM). Rust+GPUI is the first platform I've seen that makes this possible with a reasonable performance and quality.
https://fotohordr.app/
Novel app for live music performance (private for me and another big artist, we may release one day). Very unique
I'm working on a neovim plugin: https://github.com/patrick-sharp/waypoint.nvim
It's a bookmark plugin with a couple features I felt were missing from existing bookmark plugins. At my job I often have to navigate large codebases that I didn't write, and it's easy to get lost. This plugin should help with that.
recently, i have been pondering around reddit and its api, because i was missing an "idea validator" which will harness the power of reddit and its content, so it gave me the idea to build https://signalseek.cc/
(SignalSeek watches the subreddits your buyers already hang out in, scores what it finds, and tells you if the demand is real enough to build on. When it is, it drafts the replies so you can jump into the conversation right away)
But there is so many things to do, more projects i work on this month at https://www.craftengineer.com/projects/
I'm building a Twitter (X), Bluesky, Nostr and Mastodon bookmark reminder and manager called https://getbirdfeeder.com. It's a project I've released many years ago but had to shut down during the X API changes. I've now revived it and supported more services.
Papermill - the document engine for AI. Turn AI content into polished documents using a new document/templating language called Press [1]
It's essentially a high-quality alternative to the HTML-PDF route so many people take for document generation. It's designed as a tool for AI agents.
Something cool we've released - an MCP server makes it possible for models like Claude to design fully-featured documents. We use this internally and some of our customers now use it to quickly build new templates.
Just launched self-serve a few weeks ago. Continuing to develop the typesetter and language behind it.
Press is the language, docs are open [2].
Would love any feedback from folks that have worked on document generation, or people with experience doing HTML->PDF.
[1] https://papermill.io/
[2] https://docs.papermill.io/
We are creating an AI for science and engineering: https://vicena.ai
It's connected to all papers of course, and all kinds of scientific simulators and specialised models. But I'm currently in Shanghai talking to labs to join a CloudLab (and hopefully setting up our own robotic labs), so that AI can actually order real physical experiments that are executed cheaply, efficiently and seamlessly as tool calls.
Through experiments like autoresearch we have seen that AI is already, if not always smarter, at least more systematic than humans at following the scientific method relentlessly (hypothesis-experiment loop). Let's see what we can do by connecting it to the real-world :)
Just finished working on a new version of customizable Clarity Linux (GTK+) icons.
Created a new website and new icon manager: https://clarity.pl.eu.org
Complite - Elventy template/starter
https://complite.jcubic.pl
And a Polish WikiZEIT project:
https://wikizeit.edu.pl
And ALT - LanguageTool for Emacs
https://github.com/jcubic/alt
Building an unified admin platform[0] for Source game servers & the alikes. I grew up playing Source games and ran a few, but there were always gaps between all the various OSS plugins you install and were quite fragmented, and never designed to work well with each other.
[0] https://rookhelm.com/
My daily word game “Snibble” [0]
It’s basically snake meets scrabble meets PvP stealing. It’s a novel idea and I think it’s cool it hasn’t really been done before :)
The issue is it’s too complicated, the onboarding is dogwater, and the aesthetic is too complex
So I’ve spent the weekend fixing onboarding, fixing and relaxing the visuals mix and simplifying mechanics.
I’ve also tested LLMs playing the game through a harness I wrote. LLMs get smashed, they can form words and steal, but they lose badly to conventional bots.
I’ll be exposing an LLM leaderboard on my next release (hoping this weekend) with links to game replays for the LLMs.
Would love for people to give it a try, give me some feedback, and say what you’d love to see on the roadmap.
[0] - https://snibble.gg/
Created with a from scratch custom engine, pure typescript almost no dependencies
Completed games can be “replayed” and replays can fit in a QR code upto 30 minute games. So I think that’s pretty cool
Fun game! How do I “eat” on mobile? I tried tapping the # on the tail, to no avail
Thanks! Ha that’s the onboarding issue in play :( you’re actually meant to eat your tail by navigating your head to your tail
But everyone who has played has had the same feedback lol so that’s what I’ve been changing this weekend :)
Thanks heaps for trying it!
Oh got it. Very fun, great work.
Thank you so much :) hopefully the new build this weekend fixes the teething issues
I have been working on dock bar for Linux
* https://docking.cc
* https://github.com/edumucelli/docking
It has X11 and Wayland support, pre-built packages for all major distributions, almost 60 baked in applets.
For those into Linux and using a dock bar, I am sure you will like it.
I'm converting an AI-powered Finance app I built for my wife and I into a more feature-rich product: https://www.heyalistair.com
https://trailer.dev, a self-hostable development environment platform.
Been working on it on and off for 4 years now. I used to lead an ML consultancy and one thing I've learned is that data scientist DO NOT understand reverse proxies, nvidia drivers, docker and can not set up complex environments for their projects, especially ones that would support collaborative work.
It's been really fun to work on this, currently working on Kubernetes support.
Oh this is awesome, will take a look. I’ve had rough experiences with Kubeflow in the past, recently I’ve been using Coder workspaces https://coder.com/ and it’s pretty good but less ML/AI integrated (but, stitched together with Ray autoscaling nodes it can get really nice)
Yeah, Kubeflow can be rough, we've been down that road too as well.
I really like Coder, but one thing for the life of me I couldn't figure out is that even with the self-hosted version, why does anything have to go through their infra?
With trailer.dev our explicit goal is to have a fulfilling user experience for the following scenario:
If you want we (the trailer team) can run the server component for you, but that's it.I tried spinning up a coder instance just now again, with docker, and I'm being tunneled through US East Pittsburgh with 117ms of latency for a local dev environment tool :(
I'm working on a technical interview service that brings up a real production environment and also lets users use agents and our system tells the interviewer how the candidate really did.
Also, in this environment, users can have a full cluster with Kubernetes, Docker, or normal Linux, with a database and all sorts of dependencies.
Please check it out and let me know what you think: https://easyenv.io/
very good
Jumping into this "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint.app
I've spent a few months building a simple feature management system for .NET - https://featureflags.app. The .NET built in feature management libraries work pretty well. But I wanted an easy to use UI for configuring flags - without having to use Azure.
I’m working on a ranking system that combines my running distance with my total commits. Mostly to motivate myself to be productive and healthy, and also just to have fun. I integrated it into my GitHub profile: https://github.com/Noc2 Code: https://github.com/Noc2/paceandpush Try it (only iOS beta): https://paceandpush.com/
I made a tool that creates sandboxes (docker, podman, orbstack, seatbelt, tart, Apple containers, containerd, kata, firecracker) and then sets up an agent (claude, codex, gemini, aider, opencode) inside it with max permissiveness (no prompts to call sed, etc).
It creates a CoW copy of your workdir for the agent to play in, and then you pull changes out using git diff/apply semantics.
You control network access, secrets, which files/dirs it has access to.
It's a MASSIVE time saver, and I use it as my daily driver.
https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai
I am currently focused on an educational site https://www.higherscoresdfs.com/dfs/spa/welcome/ that helps Daily Fantasy Sports fans improve their DraftKings and FanDuel gameplay. We offer strategy advice, player tips, optimized lineups, and player props. We now support both classic and showdown games and have recently added a section offering game outcome predictions for those who do sports trading on prediction markets. We currently support the NFL, NBA, and MLB leagues.
I'm working on a collection of networked games, around the central theme of a lockstep deterministic network model with 'delay frames' (between acting directly on user input and progressing actual shared network state).
You can try this here: https://locksteparcade.com/Client
Games included in the arcade, currently:
- Neon Swarm, a take on the classic lemmings game, with multiplayer versus and coop modes
- Serpents, a snake game (where you eat food, grow a tail and need to avoid this growing tail), with inertial movement and multiplayer
- Spirits, an homage to N++, where you work together to get someone to the exit, while avoiding enemies, figuring out how to open doors, and so on
- Pilots, a multiplayer asteroids battle with homing missiles
Each game solves the network delay problem (the problem of providing immediate feedback to user input and hiding the fact that actual changes to shared state are delayed) differently, and it has been very interesting to work through a bunch of different approaches to this.
If anyone else here is working on multiplayer network games, I'm very interested in setting up a regular "play each other's games" session.
The idea is that regularly playing with other game developers will help develop a kind of 'scene' (where you get a group of people together who make work in public but really aimed at each other, pushing and unblocking one another to become bolder and better at an accelerating rate, as described here: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/scene-creation-engines ).
If you are interested, let me know!
Codebook - https://github.com/0x007BA7/codebook
It’s a better code reader built on top of sem (treesitter). I’m getting a lot of massive PRs at work now, and this has helped a lot with reading them. It decomposes the changes into entities and sorts based on what has the most dependencies. This tends to put the most important functions first. Plus I can click through the dependencies for each function and mark things as reviewed as I’m reading them. It’s a big improvement over the GitHub review flow for me at least.
this looks incredibly useful! I've also run into similar problems with code review and been building similar tooling with the same idea (reconstructing the changes into entities, and finding focal/important changes), but haven't gone as far as this.
https://aportee.ca - interactive walkability maps for Canada where you can pick and mix the amenities that are important to you.
MatGoat (https://matgoat.com/en/): a software for managing BJJ and martial arts academies that it's both easy to use and have everything they need like assistance tracking, payments, communications, etc.
It's going quite well so far with growing MRR each month.
Lately, I've been trying to focus more on marketing, and sales. I might try ads soon as well.
Launched a suite of media inspection and encoding tools a few months ago, based on FFmpeg. Slowly getting more customers.
https://video-commander.com
Constantly iterating through refinement and features. It's built on Rust + Tauri with a React frontend, in case anyone is curious.
I've created various open-source and commercial tools in the multimedia space over the last 10+ years and wanted to put it all together into something more premium with an IDE-like experience.
I'm not into video editing, but it looks very nice!
Thank you!
https://cheapcloudstorage.eu - SSH-based cloud storage for long-term off-site backups.
I'm managing my GitHub repository. I created a really great project - better than even Mem0's product. It can make AI companies' products smarter and is also awesome for auditors, lawyers, and so on. But I have no way of letting people know about it
A single-user blogging CMS/server that acts as static site generator while having a GUI for publishing/reading and that speaks some indie web protocols. I'm implementing webmentions (vouch, private mentions, salmentions) and maybe indie auth. It's mostly to solve some annoyances I have with Hugo (and SSGs in general) and to try new things. I want it to be something between bearblog and miniflux.
I'm also writing it in java, which is quite uncommon for this type of software, but I hope it'll be way more stable in the long run (in the sense of security flaws and maintenance) than projects made in python and js.
Just a personal project right now but it's a music metadata aggregator.
I find that nobody really knows how to do this. Machine learning can detect some song attributes well (bpm, ez right?) but it's inconsistent with some things (eg mood, spotify valence)
I prefer to only add metadata that I can rely on: track credits & instruments (when available), lyrics, bpm / "energy" and genre. At least that's what I've got for now. I'm not adding anything unreliable.
So far I'm able to pick a genre, artist or even better, song and it gives me a list of tracks that are similar. I can alter the weights of "era", "instruments", "genre".
So far i haven't run old school NLP on the lyrics but that's the next step. It's likely to be far more informative than "valence"
Anyway, not public, still very alpha but I like it and find it useful.
https://flights.benjaminbenben.com/
I’ve been playing around with aligning drone footage to flight paths. I'm really interested in the idea of representing a video as a volume, planning to do something similar with non-drone video too.
I am working on this Review Flow. An extention for Cursor / VScode to enable IDE as first class for code reviews.
It came from a frustration that I needed to switch between the browser and the IDE to navigate through the code and leaving comments on Gitlab at the company.
So I thought it could useful to create something and let it be accessible to the public as open source.
link: https://github.com/LuyandaLia/reviewflow
In a nutshell, it accepts draft comments, which can be modified and submitted.
It auto configs the env for Python as it uses FastAPI for calls to Gitlab.
It's my initial attempt. Suggestions, reviews, contributions are invited.
One love
I’ve been continuing work on https://mybulkcards.com, a phone app and website for scanning, organizing, and searching Pokémon card collections, especially the thousands of bulk cards that my daughter and I have in our closet from playing.
The goal hasn't changed too much, make building decks easier by knowing exactly what you own and where it’s stored. You organize cards into boxes, search your inventory, search friends’ collections, and keep track of trades instead of digging through a similar closet of cards that my daughter and I search for.
The fun part has been the AI. I trained computer vision models that run entirely on the phone to detect and identify Pokémon cards. Training has become the slowest part. For the model that needs to be retrained every new release, I’m up to about 5 hours per epoch on my M4 Mac with 16 GB of RAM.
The Android app is currently in public testing with people from my local Pokémon league. It’s built with React Native, and I’m working on the iPhone version next.
Still lots to build, mostly around product and ux, and because a recent stupid mistake on my part, backups and deployment safeguards.
I would love this for magic the gathering
The app and scanner is heavily inspired by Manabox. It's a great product, and I would have used that if they did Pokémon, but it's only Magic.
https://shareourpics.com/
A focused and functional service for event hosts to collect guest photos through a shared link/QR code that leads to an upload page. Think photo gathering for weddings, bachelor/bachelorette parties, corporate events, big birthdays, etc.
There are many of these out there, but I found most unintuitive ("too complicated for Grandma"), too featureful, and/or much too expensive.
Math art at https://gods.art and data prep at https://kurve.ai
Local voice dictation and text editing for Mac. We'd tried most of the available options but wanted something that runs completely locally, is fast and has a good UX.
https://epilude.com
Today I'm carrying on looking for a literary agent to represent me for my young adult speculative fiction. Long after human civ collapsed, crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution when they discover an asteroid heading towards earth. My 10 year old read it for the first time yesterday and loved it. That's made it all worth it already even if it doesn't get published.
Tonight is a meeting of a local group growing hemp locally, processing and spinning by hand to make an item of clothing locally and sustainably between us all.
Just spent the weekend at a wing chin gathering with some incredible people. They showed me so much I need at least 2 weeks to think about it all.
Apart from that I’m starting college to study therapy and counselling soon so I'm trying to read up to be a bit prepared.
> crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution
That's all very well and good, but what of the Caws of Art ?!
A self-hostable Claude Tag or OAI Work [0].
A while ago, I realized that most new agent harnesses being built must be hosted on your machine or on a VM--in other words the agent needs a full OS process at all times.
But we do not have good harnesses being built that are multi-tenant, do not use compute while they are paused, but are are still as powerful as, say, Claude Code or Codex, OpenClaw.
So I set out to build one. I realized that the best substrate for these kind of agents are durable workflow engines. I'm currently supporting Temporal. AFAIK much of OAI agent infra is built on Temporal too. My harness is decidedly not just another agent SDK, but rather a battery-included product.
[0] https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/lightspeed
I'm building https://mallcop.app, an AI, open-source, cybersecurity monitoring, investigation, and escalation solution. It's rooted in four principles:
1. Analyze data where it resides
2. Connectors and detectors are not a moat
3. MIT license every line of code
4. Fully exploit AI for investigation, maintenance, and self-improvement
MallCop runs on Donuts (e.g. tokens), which I'll happily resell, or you can BYOK and use your inference API of choice.
Recently launched https://hellbox.com (formerly Font Proof) and am still actively working on it. It is a native macOS app for font proofing. It watches your type design software like Glyphs, RoboFont, and FontLab or any font file or designspace on your machine and reloads the font proof when you save.
https://onlytrades.live/
Being unemployed and wanting to make something, I started studying quantitative trading concepts and got into algorithmic trading.
I decided to build out an algorithmic trading platform using the tools I developed for myself.
It's written entirely in Rust but user algorithms are written in TypeScript. It uses a Cloudflare-workers inspired approach to run the user functions.
The server uses under a megabyte of ram to run and user functions also use a negligible amount of memory per invocation.
It's also super fast, with round trip latency of 3ms - well, at least it does when I use the proper server. I'm running it on my low cost server right now so latency is around 50ms.
I know no one will use it, but it's been very fun to make
actually quite cool.
Thanks :)
Two weeks ago presented current state of KEIBIDROP at Pass The SALT 2026, and now I am planning the push for the next version 0.4.0.
KEIBIDROP: Makes remote files appear as local (it hides the network latency in order to let you open and edit a peers file without downloading it upfront or re-uploading it fully back).
For version 0.4.0 I am planning multi-user support, using UDP (QUIC) instead of TCP as the networking layer, optimization of live-edit regions of files, and to test it even more for data heavy workflows.
Here is the website: https://keibidrop.com/
And here is the github: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop/
https://answerjournal.com/
AnswerJournal lets you save AI answers to a personal journal just by saying "save that to my AnswerJournal" mid-conversation.
Each answer gets its own URL, and posts can be public or private. It's a bit like GitHub meets Stack Overflow for the answers AI gives you.
It connects to any MCP-compatible AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc.) through one server URL.
I'm working on a collaborative post-apocalyptic fitness RPG. I wanted to build a game that lets you take over the real world, gets you off the couch, and has only positive multiplayer engagement. If you find or invite another player nearby, all your actions with them benefit you both.
It's for iPhone, and for the best experience, Apple Watch. It's very early, playable via TestFlight, and I would love feedback! There's a TestFlight link at: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co
https://withrobin.dev
I've been automating many chores that i find myself usually doing with email: managing calendar invites, publishing and sharing calendars, but also want it to act like a proxy to avoid giving away my actual email in different services. It's a work in progress but I love cloudflare ai gateway, been using it to bring some ai into the functionalities. Future things: handling newsletters, more ai free use (?)
If you wanna test it, please ping me so I add your email to allowlist!
PastML - https://pastml.com/
AI-first, MCP ready to host single HTML page. Connect & publish directly from ChatGPT app.
I know exactly where the pain point is coming from ;-) Created https://htmldock.com for friends and family.
It lacks monetization, but I have a BMC tip jar LOL
I rewrote Chucks [American] Football Pool in Newspeak!
Having a hard deadline of Sept 1st, I wasn't sure three months would be enough time. In Newspeak, it took all of three WEEKs to get it to it's current state.
One of the best features is the fact that it's local ONLY. It uses IndexedDB (Newspeak library written by yours truly) to persist the data, meaning zero backend headaches. It also makes it usable by the masses where the Seaside version had many problems in this regard.
Chrome only. No Clod.
https://chalculator.com/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=ChucksF...
I've been building a text editor. It uses a server-client model, with native/terminal/web clients using a shared (local) server instance. It integrates LSP/tree-sitter/ripgrep/Git/etc, and has a concept of 'workspaces' to easily switch between projects.
I spend less time in an editor now, but it's been satisfying being able to take features I've enjoyed from other editors and customise - and it's oriented a bit more towards exploring code than editing. Key-bindings are arranged such that bare letters are for motions, Shift- variants are then used to extend selections, Ctrl- bindings are for buffer mutations, and leader-prefixed bindings are application level (e.g., opening pickers).
https://github.com/joefreeman/aether
I finally decided to put together a Sonos controller with the navigation I wanted and SMAPI servers for the live music archive, and all the grateful dead and phish shows. Thanks Claude! A PWA with tailscale and I have a controller that does what I want and works at home on an S1 system and at the beach on an S2 - seamlessly. Better than the "real" thing as far as I can tell.
https://github.com/agtilden/misonos
I've been working on MacDispatch https://macdispatch.jurajb.dev/
A macOS menu bar app to alert when apps start using too much resources and drain your battery. Helped me diagnose many leaking Chrome tabs and macOS bugged services.
I'll give this a go, battery has been draining pretty quick with all this multi agent dev
I made an HN filter for substacks and blogs: https://hnsubstacks.com/
It allowed me to explore a serverless deployement (on CF workers) with a toy project, that I wanted to make for myself.
Repo here: https://github.com/ariroffe/hnsubstacks/
I'm working on https://gatewai.studio in my free time - it is an agentic workflow engine for content creators.
There are 40+ nodes that can be used to generate and modify images, videos, audio, or vector graphics. Some of them include Crop, Resize, LUT extraction, Levels, Audio Compressor, Ken Burns, Mesh Warp, Recorder, Noise Gate, Compositor and Signal Builder.
It also supports signals for dynamic and time-based configuration values for the nodes. For example, making blur strength change from 30 to 0 gradually in the first 2 seconds of a video.
It uses a WebGPU pipeline for rendering and a homebaked engine for workflow processing.
It is free to use except for the AI nodes and workflow agent. It is not officially released yet, and feedback would be very valuable.
Still doing https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/piclaw (which is my main “IDE” now), ended up forking https://github.com/rcarmo/tau-prime to have something I could run on my iPad (and on the Mac, with a simple sandbox), hoping to get back to 3D printing (https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/07/12/1230) and playing with hardware.
Oh, and migrating most of my stuff to microvms on https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/pve-microvm/
https://peachjam.dev/
It's like lovable but much more affordable. Built on Cloudflare + Hetzner. Still in beta.
I’m still working on a price API for the Counter-Strike 2 market that provides real-time & historical data.
Since my last post in February, I’ve gotten to ~25 paying users, which is cool considering it started as a fun project. Sorta a niche within a niche here.
The market is distributed across a bunch of 3rd-party marketplaces, and there's no 'simple' API that provides genuinely high-quality data for the few marketplaces that matter. It’s a surprisingly complex problem, which is probably why nobody else is bothering :).
It's been a super fun project, and I've been able to learn about collecting & managing a high (to me) scale of data, building an API from the ground-up, and creating my first 'commercial' website.
Website is @ https://cs2.sh/
The API is built w/ Go & Clickhouse, which I've also been super impressed with so far in terms of performance and efficiency.
Web design is inspired/somewhat taken from turbopuffer's site, since I really liked it.
Interesting and I also really liked the mobile website. Just wanted to let you know there is a bug on the frontend where the navbar does not collapse back when the user changes the page like going to pricing, the page state changes but the navbar stays on top hiding the change
Huh, thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it! I'm not able to view it, but I'm guessing it's some browser idiosyncrasy.
I'm working on a side project to clean up and fix EPUB files with transcription errors, incomplete or inaccurate metadata, and other issues. Users can accept/reject/edit the fixes as they go through it. I have the command-line interface and TUI working (thanks to Ratatui), but I'm still working on a Calibre plugin and web-based version using WASM.
Neat, have a project page?
AI resume spam has absolutely ruined hiring. I've seen countless stories of hiring managers complaining about receiving thousands of resumes within an hour of opening up a new job listing. Likewise, good qualified candidates are getting drowned out by loads of customized junk. I'm building a tool for the recruiters and hiring teams to combat this and bring some sanity back to the already challenging process. The general idea is to introduce a small bit of friction that will hopefully be not-too-impacting for legit applicants while stopping bots from proceeding.
First iteration is ready to fly, just working out the infrastructure at the moment. Hoping to drop this on Show HN soon. If anyone is interested in test driving this prior to launch, I've temporarily added my email to my profile.
I was interested in learning more about reverse image search, so I built audioguide.london. It’s a simple image search where you take a photo of an artwork in a gallery, tries to ID it and returns a pre-generated audio and a link to the museum website.
The audios were all generated locally, essentially looking at the contents of the website, running it through a LLM to generate a script and Kokoro for TTS.
I’ve built it as an app for myself almost a year ago, so I deployed it as a vibe coded website in here: https://audioguide.london/
In the past few weeks, experimenting with a custom ai agent running entirely in the browser with sandboxed tools exec.
The core is built in Rust, a native CLI is built on top for local experimentation but the most interesting part is the web version: the core is built to WASM and get augmented with many tools in the JS land: - OPFS access (read, list, edit files) - Sandbox Python exec (Pyodide in WASM) - Sandbox DuckDB exec (DuckDB-WASM) - Draw charts - Show images - etc OpenAI Completions compatible API providers are supported.
But if you want a full local and sandboxed execution of the whole agent, the web version bundles also wllama to serve local GGUF models (with WebGPU optional support).
Github repo: https://github.com/rclement/cooper
Very cool work. I've been seeking solutions for running an agent in the browser for building artifacts on my project, which is a web artifact tool library called Exhibit. I'm starring this for later.
https://github.com/momja/Exhibit
Oh nice! I’ll take a look at it, I was thinking of implementing such mecanism in Cooper (I don’t know where it’s going, exploring the possibilities and practical usefulness)
A local, static-image wallpaper manager (kinda like Wallpaper Engine but for directories of images) Made it for myself because windows wallpaper/background management is horrible lol, avail on linux though too
https://github.com/DefrimBinakaj/WallMod
Give me feature suggestions!
I am working on Stylify. It is an AI based word formatter. It uses local ai models so that nothing leaves the computer. Most of the time is spent on formatting word-docs rather than writing the actual content, that's the reason I thought of building one. You can see it here in action https://stylifyword.com
Improving my free/hobby AI Benchmarks website: https://aibenchy.com
And, as always, working on my main self-hosted analytics platform: https://www.uxwizz.com/
I'm working on https://smalldocs.org, https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs, anonymised usage analytics https://smalldocs.org/analytics
I’m working on a NotebookLM competitor, sort of an open-notebook in the cloud with a lot of features I’ve added (and made available as either PRs back to the base repo or public fork) such as a plugin system to add more generated “creations” or a quick way to spin up your own compatible cloudflare workers ai setup to test out models. I’m trying to incorporate the same bookmarking features I love so much with Raindrop.io (big fan) and experimenting with a new wiki generation feature. It’s only soft launched but happy for any feedback. https://notebooker.ai
I am working on a Jupyter notebook client for VisionOS. It allows for 3D data to be visualized on visionOS. Right now it supports point cloud data, USDZ models and Gaussian Splats. I am working on it to launch on the App Store. Sign up for more information at http://www.pulto.org
https://finbodhi.com — It's an app for your financial journey. It helps you track, understand, benchmark and plan your finances - with double-entry accounting. You own your financial data. It’s local-first, syncs across devices, and everything’s encrypted in transit (we do have your email for subscription tracking and analytics). Supports multiple-accounts (track as a family or even as an advisor), multi-currency, a custom sheet/calculator to operate on your accounts (calculate taxes etc) and much more. Supports price for most Indian investment vehicles and US stocks.
Most recently we added support for creating custom dashboards. You can compare return with leading/trailing/rolling charts for investment options and benchmark (create custom dashboards tracking nav and value chart of) your portfolio (or a subset of assets you own) and US stocks, etfs etc. And family dashboard (e.g. you can see networth, cashflows, income, use sheets at family level and more). See https://finbodhi.com/changelog for details.
We also write about related topics:
We wrote about comparing investment options: https://finbodhi.com/docs/blog/compare-charts
Benchmarking your returns: https://finbodhi.com/docs/blog/benchmark-scenarios
Understanding double entry account: https://finbodhi.com/docs/understanding-double-entry
I am vibecoding a elixir/phoenix agent dashboard to manually & closely review the coding agent plans and code patches for my day job. I am at a stage where I can I use portal to work on the portal and my day job.
I have not yet figured out a way to live reload the dashboard itself after a feature addition or a bug fix. :-(
gleam fhir types and client https://fhir.hexdocs.pm/
it is relatively new and untested irl, but interesting as gleam is very nice for fhir in some ways:
-fhir choice types imo were originally designed for some kind of object oriented polymorphism, but are nicer as sum types
-cardinality works nicely with Option for 0..1 and List for 0..*, the only ugly part is if you need primitive extensions and suddenly there are a ton of Option fields
-works with whatever http client you need for erlang or js target, meaning can use on server or in browser
hl7v2 is much uglier than fhir but commonly used eg by state immunization registries, so I am considering gleam types that have message/segment structure, but leave each field as String (as opposed to gleam fhir which uses Bool or whatever for primitive types)
after that not sure some kind of gpl toy emr probably a stripped down version of openemr that uses gleam/lustre and a fhir server instead of php, but this is definitely the mysterious step 3 ??? as there are a lot of features and integrations that take a lot of work or use different formats (hl7v2, ccda...)
I'm working on a no upload, no account, no server-side preprocessing online viewer for schematics, PCB layouts, 3D boards and BOMs called ECAD Forge -> https://ecadforge.app/
Building a new Smalltalk VM from scratch that better utilizes modern hardware (full multicore support) and a web-based system browser so I can develop with it remotely.
Github / codeberg / website to follow up on progress?
Will include in next month's thread! Finally getting it where I want after a year of hacking so it seems time to think about how I want to open it up.
Cool!
Any demos available of the web based browser?
Nothing public yet but hopefully will have for next month's thread!
Building a rootless, namespace powered (deeply stretching the definition of a container), on demand application workspace.
- Each component in a mini app in a heavily locked down container - Components are deployed and built in a web workspace, in the same workspace you can open a terminal and use your favourite coding agent to work on component code (each terminal is itself heavily sandboxes, has rw access only to the edited component code and users home dir) - Everything comes with heavy rbac and minimum permissions - Oh so much more
Explaining this well is hard, much like explaining to someone what Kubernetes or AWS does. This is at a level of what a sophisticated company infrastructure team would run, just as a workspace you can deploy for yourself easily and agents just build within that framework (I’m a cofounder of a infra/compute/datacenter startup and intimately familiar with this kind of complexity)
The main thesis is that Claw-style agents still feel like school projects, and that in the agentic era apps on demand will be more of a thing, and that the current systems weren’t built to deal with a whole new app built every few minutes.
May or may not end up as open source soon
Working on a drink pacing app: https://www.trypound.app/
I lost a lot of weight on GLP-1s, and on top of that my tastes changed. Instead of IPAs, I like cocktails now, and the transition made me feel like my own internal clock was out of whack.
Also, also: these hard seltzers are totally crushable, waayyyy too easy to drink fast. So this app helps with that, too.
https://gymify.it to seamlessly integrate exercise into daily life. Let me know if you have any feedback :)
Kind of tangent of what everyone else is doing but making a minifigure/garage kit painting site.
If you're in the hobby, the issue is that keeping track of paint and color combinations is annoying and is very mind numbing since wet paint color differs from dry point colors, how colors combine due to transparency of the layers, and different companies have different binders/pigments.
Currently have the paint combination setup and trying to get minifigure gaussian splatting setup from an image (Used to work in gaussian splatting for a while and actually figured out how to improve vggt to get a better one-shot)
http://paint-production-1f6c.up.railway.app
I'm building a low friction logging/metrics platform that allows for easy visibility into your apps. The idea was to make something that isn't really geared towards enterprise and can be used by anyone. I started about 6 months ago and have been testing extensively so far with an internal beta with a few colleagues/friends.
https://logdot.io
I started burning down the backlog of all the stuff I wanted to get to for side projects but never had time for (before LLMs):
- https://smacke.net/ffsubsync -- automagically synchronize subtitles, now purely client-side in your browser thanks to pyodide
- https://ipyflow.github.io/ipyflow/lab/index.html?path=demo.i... -- reactive python jupyter notebooks, again in the browser thanks to pyodide / jupyterlite
- https://smacke.net/pipescript/lab/index.html?path=demo.ipynb -- magritter-like pipe / placeholder syntax for ipython / jupyter, again able to run purely in the browser
- https://smacke.net/pycograd/lab/index.html?path=pycograd_sim... -- pyccolo and pipescript-powered autograd, once again able to run purely in the browser since numpy has a wasm target (notice a theme here :) )
I’ve been exploring what sort of agentic tooling to write for creative coding and realtime VFX. My second iteration just got released earlier this week (also open source): https://sxp.studio/apps/subz
If you’re open to the idea of composing code blocks and ideas, plus some generative UI exploration, feel free to join!
I’m trying to build the best TTRPG chronicler: https://loracle.app
Everyone who plays D&D has experienced the moment where they forget key details about the collective story they’re building. From ‘hey it’s been a month, where are we?’ to ‘wait who was this crazy npc again?’, ai is excellent at transcribing, notetaking and building a knowledge graph of your fantasy world.
I’m still building mostly for myself by adding a ton of features I know my friends would want, but also think there’s some ‘there’ there.
The idea is simple: let Loracle record your sessions on discord or upload the raw audio of your sessions, then get a rich personal wiki and session notes you can interact with.
If you’re mid-campaign you can also upload session notes from plain text and it bootstraps a campaign wiki. Then future audio based sessions have a good base of npcs, quests, characters, etc to build off of.
At this stage I’d love feedback more than anything else. Happy to comp a lot of usage to HNers in return for some reports on how well it’s serving you. Email admin@loracle.app for anything and everything.
Working on a instagram alternative. Trying to figure out how to grow a user base, when my companies goals are 'non-addictive', 'good for you', ad free social media.
Still working away at https://whistle-enterprise.com.
Have spent the last month giving the UI a bit of a modernisation refresh and simplifying/improving some elements based on early user feedback. There's also been a boat load of performance improvements in the dirarisation and document generation pipeline.
Feel free to download the prerelease version (its unsigned) here - https://downloads.blazingbanana.com/whistle-enterprise/unsta...
I've been working on Contextify: https://contextify.sh
Makes it easy to use Claude Code or Codex interchangeably across multiple computers. Personal editions are free, I have a hosted commercial cloud (workgroups share AI history) and commercial self-hosted option available.
It has macOS and Linux clients and I released a guide for setting up the source-available, self-hosted cloud option this week: https://contextify.sh/docs/self-hosted/
I am thinking about the other AI cli environments and providing support for those as well.
The color of the text and background of the Linux button contrast poorly in my opinion. It made it a bit hard to read.
I'm working on Flex (https://flexenv.com/)
I am speaking to initial customers and from my initial pain at my day job it was going to be a way to be "Lovable for your existing product" . But it also seems like it might turn into "internal cloud to host dashboards non-technical people are making with Claude".
I'd love to talk to anyone that's in Product or Ops or Sales or Account Management or Customer Success who'd either like to make changes to their existing product without the need for a developer. Or maybe they have thrown something together with Claude and have no idea how to "get it into production".
I've been working on a web application for learning 倉頡輸法 https://demo.cangjieworkbook.com/ , no login required for the demo version (Cangjie Input method). It's a visual way of decomposing Chinese characters. It has a high initial learning curve so I've come up with a method based on the ways QWERTY is taught. I've added a few more texts and lessons in the last month. The most time consuming part is adding annotations to characters to show how they are composed, but it is worth doing. I already have a couple of users and they have given me helpful feedback. If you are interested, check it out and let me know how it goes.
https://songformat.com
A text-based song format for generating music. I wanted to be able to create a song entirely using text, so I created a TOML-based format for doing so, and gave it most of the features you would find in a DAW. Since the format can be described in a SKILL file, AI can be used to write a song in this format, which can then be converted to audio.
Reading is a System! https://reading-is-a-system.vercel.app/
I've been helping people achieve their reading goals by hosting workshops at libraries and helping adults become more intentional about their reading goals and how to achieve them.
building https://wellbody.me - we take your body health goal and build out a progression system that considers fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, mobility, and recovery -> and break it down into just 3 actions daily.
I'm working on the finishing touches for a big new "Event Filters" feature for my Shopify app, Stages (https://getstages.com). The feature will let users set up rules to decide which orders should be imported into the app based on certain criteria like Shopify product names, collection names, order value, and so on. Users have been asking for it forever, and I'm planning on publishing it this week!
I'm also working on an update to ShopifySharp, the .NET package I maintain for Shopify's graphql and rest APIs. I need to regenerate the graphql types and the fluent query builders for the July 2026 API version that was just released, and I'm planning on some extra QoL improvements that I've run into while using the package over the last couple of months. I particularly want to add some F# QoL features, since I wrote the package in C# but use F# in all my personal projects. (https://github.com/nozzlegear/shopifysharp)
Research, trade, and watch crypto markets all-in-one terminal without juggling tabs, feeds, and exchange windows.
Go check it out : https://www.orbicyn.com
Same as last month for once - optimizing how well agents can work with a new language [1]. I've been able to 2-3x success rate and drop total tokens for complex tasks significantly (though the initial syntax dump is rough - need to do some ablation there to get it down).
The best part has been that I think it's significantly improved things for humans too; it's weirdly satisfying to be able to measure improved ergonomics. Also, since a big pitch/theory was that the language should be ideal for agents as a result of the original nice things for humans it was designed for, it's a relief to be able actually measure a concrete lift.
[1] https://trilogydata.dev/ - SQL with types, composable functions of arbitrary complexity, and a native semantic layer.
A web and mobile app for tracking cellar contents that doesn't feel dated or clunky, and with which I can make assorted dynamically-updating menus for different use cases. I'll probably do a Show HN once it's live.
I have always wanted a web browser with tmux/iterm2 style tabs/panes, as well as the ability to save the window configuration and tab contents to a file that can be checked in to projects and loaded.
Load all of your project's documentation links, local development browser tools (database viewers, etc.) into a set of views that can be source controlled with the project. Don't force people to use their daily driver browsers for this, or hack side-by-side views together with their OS window managers. Zen and friends have split panes, but it's not the robust tab/panel system that I wanted.
There is a simple tab widget system, which so far has:
- Viewport manager: basically 1:1 with what is in Chrome devtools
- Session manager: create and manage browser sessions as a first-class entity, and attach/detach tabs to these sessions. Includes a simple "incognito" toggle as well.
- System light/dark override: stop flipping this on/off for your whole OS to test "system" light/dark mode (tedious)
- Reload trigger: pick a target tab. if that tab reloads, so does this one.
- Log file viewer: if the tab source is a local file, change the tab's view to a structured log file parser with search/filter, play/pause, etc.
- Screenshot/Video capture: not built yet. pretty self explanatory.
Great keyboard controls are a hard requirement for me. It's a little tricky since content in web views can capture this too, so I have a global "nav mode toggle" you enter to move around between panes and the tabs within them. Actively figuring out the correct UX, but I am liking what I have so far.
Toying with the idea of a "tab link" which allows you to store a set of "source" tabs in a view, but create "links" in other views, where the navigation is synced across all instances. Useful if you want to have, say, the Tailwind docs open to a specific page, but have that page shared across different views. For example, if you want to have one view specifically for mobile view work and another for desktop view work, and not have to manually navigate to the same Tailwind docs page in both views.
I'm honestly just using it as I work on another real project, and adding features as I think "hey wouldn't this be nice?" Which is a pretty fun and satisfying process. I don't have it published yet, because I'm not entirely sure if it's worth sharing at the moment, but I feel like I'll discover that along the way here and go from there. Maybe someone here will chime in :P
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This thread was so long I vibecoded a clustering similarity graph of it to navigate with voronoi territories, should be available for the next little bit.
https://bejewelled-meerkat-91d099.netlify.app/
I've been working with coding agents for a few years and became increasingly frustrated by the way it pushes you towards a solution. So I built rubberduck (https://userubberduck.com/) - a way to control exactly what solution the agent ends up creating by mimicking a design conversation with a competent colleague where the agent explores the solution space together and forces you to make decisions. The final output is a consolidated design document of all the decisions you made. At least that was how it began. I've since built an implementation plan step where it figures out how to translate the design to code and execution where it actually builds it. All of this happens in a properly isolated environment (using gVisor under the hood). There are more features I want to build so on it goes I suppose.
I'm working on a website directory (intrasti.com), not really sure what the direction is other than I'd like to celebrate the best of the internet in a way that isn't pay to win, manipulative, or anything like that.
It's a slow business and engineering catalyst that I'm making progress with behind the scenes each day. Suffice to say I'm taking the scenic route!
Currently working on a unified website submission flow for submissions and topic creations (topics are collections of websites) and after that I'll be looking into overhauling the whole site focusing on accessibility and how I can make that a great experience.
Still working on True Trials - motorcycle trials simulator with no guard rails and two-axis leaning control. You can play the demo in your browser:
https://truetrials.substepgames.com
Previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749027
I am playing around with creating a public domain repository for ebooks. https://babelnexus.com There are a few differences. It uses core collection theory and is selective. The name comes from the short story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. Borges used Hexagonal Galleries for his library. I realized you could put anything into hexagonal galleries. It did not have to be books composed of random letters. I also saw that you could use different levels to group kinds of knowledge using the spiral staircase concept. I have added other concepts like reading trails and cortex maps. I learned that the hexagonal concept of Borges library matches with knowledge graphs with both nodes and edges. There is a lot of experimentation in what I am doing. It is an art project, a bit of philosophizing, a bit on the public domain and many other things.
With the help of AI & LLMs I restarted working on some of my older side projects. I updated the code and did a landing page for Printable Mockups (a free, open-source drag-and-drop tool for creating device accurate wireframes and sketchpads that you can export as PDFs, print, and sketch on by hand) https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups I plan to add more features soon.
I’m working on https://gnooma.com, a lightweight tool for reducing knowledge drift in teams.
It introduces a new document type called a gnoom: a living document that knows who has read it. When the document changes, read confirmations reset, so you can see who is up to date.
I built it because important decisions kept getting buried in chats and then discussed all over again.
It’s a free beta and doesn’t require an email. Curious if anyone else has this problem. I’d also appreciate any feedback on Gnooma.
https://talkingtomachines.xyz/ Talking to Machines is an interactive AI course. Each concept be it agents or context window can be experienced and experimented with using fun little widgets designed to help you learn by doing. I've really tried to make the AI course I wish existed. Getting into as much nuance as possible and as much hands-on fun as possible. I would love some feedback.
I’m working on SprigEdit. A wysiwyg markdown editor that focuses on a beautiful and pleasant writing experience. Https://sprigedit.com
Perhaps the coolest feature is it is fully native, and yet still runs on web, windows, macOS, iOS, and android due to a shared core and platform native ui layer.
I'm building https://rewindly.app, a tool which records the screen for 15s to 1h (configurable) and allows you to view your recent activity. It's basically instant replay for PC activity.
More backends for SKrellM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538174
After adding X11, SDL and GDI backends, now I'm working on a native Wayland support (for now, running through the SDL backend works on Weston).
I got tired of Codex/Claude not being able to write good UI reliably, so I made a TypeScript library toolbox to help with that.
https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/MachinaLayout.JS
Pretty much just SwiftUI-like layout/style in TypeScript with a bunch of utility tools from other languages I like, like Rust's payload enums, table helpers, LINQ-like queries, state management, etc. It's framework neutral so it works with React, React Native, and Vue right now. Everything is just plain TypeScript that compiles to the DOM, so no HTML or CSS needed for most normal web apps, they can all be written in plain .ts or tsx files.
Many things:
- BrowserBox just landed WebAuthn (passkeys) - for now just macOS clients: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
- This website is served entirely from a 200Kb binary: https://200kb.freelang.dev
- An open SSH server with a TUI web browser: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.com
- All the government's 300K+ pages of UFO files released so far: https://hypergrid.systems/war.gov-ufo-viewer/microfilm5?fram...
And more
The copy on your 200kb page is such incomprehensible AI slop that reading it feels like I’m having a stroke.
I'm working on hexora, a library that detects malicious Python code using static analysis and machine learning.
Recently, I've added a simple ML model to filter out false positives. In the last month, I found and flagged more than 40 malicious Python packages.
Unlike the LLM approach, my library is not susceptible to prompt injection and deobfuscates Python code. Where LLMs see "obfuscated code, potentially harmful", my library decodes it and sees what's happening inside.
https://github.com/rushter/hexora
https://wizread.io/
I've been working on a Ebook reader called WizRead with a friend for 2+ years now, as a side project. The goal is to create a platform where users can read and share their reading stats, goals, ideas, by also providing a modern & friendly UI.
Currently we have only developed a desktop version for macos/windows/linux, but we are willing to conquer the mobile too!
Really cool. Do you have plans for e-paper readers?
Thanks! If you mean something like the Kindle.. No that's not on our future plans. Our current roadmap is - make desktop versions stable - create the mobile app - add more community features (something like goodreads but also integrated in the books you read on the app)
https://wrappercheck.com - it is a tool that helps you validate your startup idea with market and competitior anaylsis, market fit, revenue vs expenses etc. I am open to improvements and suggestions
I have been working on a AI native browser = WebMCP is first class and the in-app agent uses it to do tasks.. not the same as a slapped on chat sidebar. also MCP actions are lightning fast.. so i use it via my Hermes agent.
https://narada.koley.in https://gaurav.koley.in/2026/building-browser-for-agents
A JVM written in go at https://www.jacobin.org
Super cool.. and probbaly super complex too. Wish you the best..
Slowly improving the UX on my SQL review/approval tool: https://github.com/kviklet/kviklet
Also finally closed the first real customer on it recently!
I want to get through a large chunk of the open issues the next few weeks and then spend some time building agentic capabilities for it. I believe a central place to configure database access for your dev team without having to share passwords and with sensible review policies should also help e.g. if claude needs to access production data to validate a premise.
Still have to figure out the right UX though not sure the agent should have the exact same review requirements that a human does. Maybe it needs to be configurable separately
I've been working on Wattle (https://wattle.app) for the past six months or so.
It started out in life as a bunch of post-it notes for friends who were watering my plants while I was on holiday, which evolved into a long text message, a Google Doc, a static site, a simple CMS, then Wattle. The more I look around, it seems like there are lots of use cases, so I'm having trouble with my positioning.
"Digital guidebooks for vacation rentals, home swaps, sitters, carers, and more."
The MVP was released last week :)
Funny, when I lent out my house I also covered it in PostIts.
When looking at a SaaS idea I always ask myself, "will this add enough value to compete with generic and free tool X?"
If your app is just pictures and text based (with AI search), I wonder if it adds enough value to compete with just a Google Doc that's also text and pictures (which surely also offers AI search). A Google Doc could also use comments to collect questions.
Visiting your home page, I was actually looking for AR (augmented reality) or plain camera powered features. E.g. point at a window sill and say "how do I open this?". Point at the washer controls and say "how do I do a fast wash? How long will it take?".
This could be especially useful for controls/labels in languages that the guest doesn't understand (easy to mistake bleach for detergent in Spanish for example). Maybe auto translation of all textual content and even pictures could be part of your app as well.
AR is something that I would love to see for myself!
For this particular scenario though, I've found that both hosts and guests responded far better to simplicity: a familiar UX (images/text) with a nice UI. Now that AI has become mainstream, adding this to search was also received well. Funnily enough, most of the past six months was spent culling features and streamlining/abstracting choices. The AI actually started out as multimodal and was reduced to text-only over time.
What I've learned from users is that a guidebook is non-critical until it is. When a guest can't figure out how the microwave works, they don't want to download an app, learn a new behaviour, and so on. They just want an answer as quickly as possible - from the host, or from a simple guidebook.
It's not so different from the host's perspective. Their focus is hosting, not creating the perfect resource. I added templates and "AI onboarding" (i.e. write a prompt / dump existing info as unstructured text) which people seemed to like. Turns out blank canvas syndrome is very real here as well. The AI organises existing info, creates placeholders for what's missing, and adds suggestions of what could be included.
When the guidebook fails to answer a question, it's logged so that the host can update it directly from the UI.
Completely agree with translation - it's on the list!
> they don't want to download an app
From the screenshot/device mocks on your site, I was under the impression that you were making an app for both host and guests to use. There's no 'browser chrome' visible in those pictures.
Could clarify that your app generates a site, or make that apparent from the screenshots.
I’m building an AI search assistant and autonomous AI agent for real estate, powered by MLS property data via my tool mlsync.io [1].
It’s designed to go beyond static filters to actively research, compare listings, analyze photos, watch listings, setup notifications etc... - basically an "OpenClaw for real estate."
[1]: https://mlsync.io
What if your web apps e2e tests ran in production through actual user sessions? Know exactly what browser session cohorts are having issues. Open source, https://github.com/Faultsense/faultsense-agent
I'm doing a learning project(strictly no AI): writing a recursive dns resolver from scratch. It's been fun reading the DNS RFCs, implementing the wire protocol, and writing code by hand.
combining idea banks/feature request boards with popular product management surveys, with the idea to help people discover better signals from the noise of user feedback, and then follow up with interested users for in-depth research. We used to do this combining several tools for a SaaS product that we sold last year, and I thought it would be useful to build a unified service so everything is in a single tool. An early version (useful but not fully polished) is live at https://www.votito.com
I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Agentic AI Super App for medical and dental school. You can think of it as literally everything one would need from day one of admission till graduation day as a doctor.
I myself am the first medical doctor and full stack engineer in the history of my country (250 million), graduated as a doctor at age 25, and we have over 100+ users [all of which are medical/dental students and doctors], 10s of billions of seconds studying smarter, hundreds of millions of questions solved, and more.
Our Super App has subsystems including MedGPT, MedAgent, Spaci (our own take on spaced repetition) and much more.
We're bootstrapped, and continuing to scale. If you are in medical school or know someone who is, please reach out!
https://medangle.com
https://vask.dev - websockets - Pusher alternative. It's Pusher compatible, but way cheaper and powered by Cloudflare.
https://tailstats.com - display data on almost any device (ios,android,macos).I've build this for myself so I don't have to build dashboards or mini-one-purpose-apps and clog menubar/workspace. It also works with AI agents via API and MCP so agents can create interactive cards.
Still kicking around with https://viberglass.io to assist the whole development team (or smaller companies) to work together on development. Hoping to open source a better multiplayer experience on it over the next few weeks and then it's moving self-hosting options towards other cloud providers.
I’m working on https://checkpost.dev, a lightweight and easy-to-use osquery manager. It is open source, easy to self-host, and ships as a single binary. It only requires osquery to be installed on the endpoints. Checkpost is readonly and doesn't make any changes on the enrolled hosts.
It can run adhoc or scheduled queries and send the results to ClickHouse, or store them locally in Parquet files and use DuckDB to browse the results. It can also initiate YARA scans and collect the results. It also supports policy evaluation and alerting.
Nice. What's the end-goal of this product look like in next 2 years ?
I’m already happy with the current set of features, and I don’t expect to add many new ones. I want Checkpost to be something you can host once and spend very little time managing.
One of my goals while building it was to use it for device posture checks. Currently, alerts can be integrated with VPNs and proxies to allow or deny requests from devices that fail certain checks, but this requires manually parsing the webhooks. Over the next couple of years, I plan to focus on making those integrations easier and more seamless.
Edit: One major feature I’d like to explore is device identity and attestation using TPMs or secure enclaves. This could allow Checkpost to verify that requests are only coming from enrolled devices.
I built a world cup tracker into an LED matrix display, and now I'm working on making it useful after the world cup
https://www.schuetzler.net/blog/world-cup-tracker/
I'm working on https://GovWeave.com/.
It's like a BuiltWith for Government. I am tracking all UK government spend and building a picture of software and rising/falling trends of various products in the government.
I worked as a government supplier and found it hard to find out what tech/solutions are in place without inside knowledge. My idea is that by opening the data, I can help more suppliers compete and foster innovation.
Here's what I _wish_ someone was working on, I'd build it myself but I'm too busy with other projects. A browser extension that's not a popup blocker but a popup minimizer. So any popup (newsletter, cookie notification, even social signin) gets sucked down into a Windows 95 style taskbar. You can restore them easily but they get out of your main browsing flow. Maybe start as a fork of one of the popup blockers?
My wife shipped a booking platform called BookingMaven, https://bookingmaven.com and I'm just here hoping she'll get a few customers.
Upvote for you.
I think "Your Art" tagline is confusing - I thought it was for selling paintings.
that's solid feedback that I'll share with her! if you know of any up and coming folks who need a management platform, think of BookingMaven!
I keep hacking on my Markdown-based text editors at https://saturn9.studio/
I went on a side quest to strip out ProseMirror and markdown-it and implement a custom stack instead. I open sourced both the parser and editor (https://saturn9.studio/technology/):
* Markoffset is a fast, plugin-based, incremental Markdown parser: https://github.com/saturn9studio/markoffset
* Scribeframe is a text editor engine: https://github.com/saturn9studio/scribeframe
Modern coding agents code blind; they can't see the consequences of their actions. I built a cheap solution that lets them see your browser.
It's called peek-cli: https://github.com/puffinsoft/peek-cli
I just launched my digital media shelf on my personal website, a catalog of my favorite books, movies, records, podcasts, and more. Lots of fun to build despite some false starts and fits:
https://dmschulman.com/shelf/
https://github.com/airdaydev/airday
Underpinning my current app is an e2ee local-first sync engine, basically it is a traditional client-server sync (encrypted logs + snapshots sequenced with integers). It sends bundles of Loro CRDT operations. I wrapped the client side in WASM to power the web app and the CLI and have started a swift wrapper to port to native iOS. Bundle size is 3MB/1.2MB g-zipped so pretty happy with it. I've realised that web encryption is kind of bs (at least not as "WE CAN NEVER ACCESS YOUR DATA" as some vendors state) if someone else is distributing the app.
Over the last week I have done a lot of performance work & data remodeling - CRDTs are interesting because you can let data fall through the gaps if you're not careful.
Tritium, the legal IDE: https://tritium.legal
We're extending the Web Preview: https://tritium.legal/preview to be embeddable as a WASM bundle for folks on platforms that need a document editor.
Adding more and more features to https://mdview.io (the best way to read technical docs). Now I am adding CLI support for the features like publishing, custom slug creation, pdf rendering and more
This month I continue working on to refine my coding agent harness https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode. Recently, I've added back Anthropic Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI GPT 5.6 models family (Sol, Luna, Terra). Fortunately, I've had support from the open source community and VT Code has advanced. I hope you give it a try.
An AR ArcGIS Map viewer in Apple Vision Pro. A Pre-listing checklist tool for Apple Vision Pro. A custom widget in ArcGIS Experience Builder for applying relationships to unrelated, unowned data.
I'm working on an open source e-card app that help people celebrate life moments together: https://cardjoy.app
https://cloudboss.co/docs/unobin
My original idea for this was to compile an Ansible-like playbook to a binary. I made a POC for it around 2020, and then it sat on the shelf. More recently I picked it up again following a more Terraform-like model. It compiles IaC to a binary with all dependencies included, standardized CLI options, autogenerated configs, optional visualization in the browser, and lots of other features.
To people who say just use Terraform: I do, a lot. But it still bothers me enough to try building something different.
I have a daily puzzle game called https://lettered.io and I’ve been playing around with shareable replay gifs via gifenc. It’s been fun trying to get good looking replays without sacrificing size for quality
The age of AI has been incredible for the daily game space because you can play around with ideas so much faster and riff to find something that works. On the flip side, there’s a lot more games that just rip off another idea and change some mechanic slightly to make it “new”
A Web-based, self-hosted database client and editor for teams - https://github.com/p-raj/collab-sqlc
Supports - Postgres - DynamoDB - Clickhouse - Redis
Primary idea is to evolve from SQL client to a Database Client, where users would be able to host queries, share queries and the work remains auditable.
Previously it was an SQL client, a PopSQL alternative. But I am trying to re-work the architecture so that it can support more databases, and services (query-as-service, query-as-reporting-job, etc).
I'm working on a nationwide US parcel dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye....
It's mostly "public" data, but incumbent data vendors charge $90k+ for this data because it has to be acquired and aggregated from 3200+ US counties. This is a lot of work if you aren't using LLMs and agents to do much of the work for you.
I'm trying to make quality parcel data more accessible to everyone.
https://UniversalResume.app/?s=wo
Always-free résumé (CV) website and PDF from plain text, grounded in the best resume-writing guide and the best designs.
I'm not a big fan of the encroachment of AI into Adobe's apps, so I'm using AI to build a replacement for those apps (a small web-based photo organizer and editor, just the tiny subset of the Lightroom features I need for my workflow)
tscircuit! An open source framework for building circuits, we have a lightening fast autorouter so i spend lots of time debugging complex PCB routing problems
I'm working on adding better Obsidian support to my personal SSG – Hajime [1], in an effort of making it a somewhat solid Obsidian Publish alternative.
The main point is adding relationships between the entries, as that's the bread and butter of Obsidian.
[1]: https://0xff.nu/hajime/
Desktop app bundled with an ai model and a local-first agent so nothing leaves your machine.
Last week I interviewed non-technical people about their experience with AI agents. Many couldn't even use them at all. Either they didn't want to share private data with ChatGPT or company policy prohibited it.
For those of you working with sensitive files – contracts, client records, financials, HR docs – I'd love to hear how you handle this today: simone [at] breadboards.io
I'm working on https://gaffer.sh in my spare-time. It's been a fun way to learn how to (semi?) effectively work with LLMs and AI coding tools.
Building Critical Infrastructure protection software that helps security teams create real grounded processes that don’t live in spreadsheets and slide decks. https://cabreza.com
Most critical infrastructure orgs don’t have the budget to hire consultants, and even if they do, the deliverable is a deck, or a spreadsheet, or a PDF. We want to help any org of any size create a security regimen outside of these stale and disparate docs. For FREE.
Plus we have additional tools that we are building on top of the free software that will help in other areas besides policies and procedures. Like OSINT of any orgs operational and physical footprints.
Finishing up my masters dissertation comparing approaches to EV charge scheduling.
The core of the whole thing is a generic experimentation framework that allows for easy comparison of approaches along with synthetic charging session generation.
I’m then using the to compare linear optimisation to a reinforcement learning approach, and seeing the effects of modelling power efficiency etc.
A FOSS TUI for Obsidian-like markdown Vaults, using interactiong metaphors of old DOS software. Especially inspired by Wordperfect 6 and Norton Commander.
I released my first web game on CrazyGames recently https://mechacraft.io with about 40 CCU and I'm now working on my second one https://nickvanurk.com/voidfall. I'm also available for remote work :)) (discord: jycerian)
Intelligent loop orchestration: https://watchd.dev
Open Source Invoicing: https://ziglag.com
Better agent-first framework: https://stk.dev
https://github.com/mbvlabs/andurel
A web framework for Golang that has support for inertia as well as an opinionated set of tools which an agent friendly CLI.
Just released v1.0.0 last week and getting a few QOL features in now!
Used Claude to write conformance tests for https://aep.dev.
https://github.com/thegagne/aep-conformance-test
Did pretty well, only took a day or so. I first had it inventory every MUST, SHOULD, and MAY in the spec, and then let it rip. I did guide it quite a bit to get what I wanted, but at the end I’m pretty happy with it as a first draft.
Helped me learn the spec and will be helpful to hone my dotnet AEP server, and aepbase.
There already existed an aep e2e validator which does a similar thing, but this is more thorough and generates a nice report. It will tell you not just whether your API follows the spec, but also what parts of the spec it does not implement.
I'm working on https://artifacts.iofold.com, a way to use artifacts (self contained html + optional assets like image/video/json) easily across agents, with feedback loop and docsend style wttribiti gates.
Have made it agent friendly enough that my teammates' agents can read and drop commennts on specs/storyboards etc, and my agent can close the loop by iterating with a new artifact version.
I'm working on https://topicle.com/ An alternative to Reddit that more aggressively polices bots, spam and astroturfing and has strong guardrails in place against bad moderation. No private profiles that bots use to hide, every mod action can be appealed, mod logs are public, LLM posts are blocked. There's so much obviously inauthentic activity and questionable moderation on Reddit, I decided to try addressing it.
I'm working on better UI for my app AutoPTT [1]. It's probably going to look somewhat similar to Discord's settings, except I won't be using Electron. I refuse to use bloated stuff like that, so I'm going to keep using a pure C UI library [2].
Obviously this is going to take a bit more work but at least the resource usage will stay low, which I consider quite important. Especially since gamers are a large portion of the user base.
[1] https://autoptt.com/
[2] https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
https://beta.mtechnic.me/
A CSS/TS React component library inspired by BeOS. Been spending the last week cutting my teeth on font issues however
noice
I built my own weather prediction / visualization app: https://wx.rsp.li (on-device temperature lapsing, on device interpolation modes, user-selectable aggregations, etc…). One of these days I should do a writeup.
I also asked Claude to build a photo gallery for me https://places.pascalspoerri.ch (HDR, map support, similar images)
I'm building https://supadesk.ai - An AI agent platform to help businesses manage their front-desk.
I launched beta last month with a couple of customers in pilot phase. It has been great learning experiencing building my first AI agent tool and running it in production.
Nice, which frameworks are you using? What did you learn from customers?
I'd consider a different name to avoid issues with supabase should you take off.
Thanks,
My tech stack consists of: - Ruby on Rails - Vue.js + Inertia.js - PostgreSQL - TailwindCSS with Shadcn Vue UI
the app runs on Hetzner VM deployed via Kamal.
I'm planning to do a detailed blog post on the tech stack soon.
I found initial customers by manual outreach within my network.
I don't see any potential issue with Supabase. Both names are drastically different and we serve different markets. Besides, there are plenty of other products name with "supa" prefix.
Thanks, would really like to read the blog post.
Are you using any of the major agentic frameworks (Mastra, LangSmith etc)? Or is the AI harness etc entirely custom-built?
I'm using RubyLLM which is an incredible framework for building agents.
Hadn't heard of it! Site here: https://rubyllm.com/
This looks really nice. Snippet from site:
chat = Chat.create! model: "claude-sonnet-4"
chat.ask "What's in this file?", with: "report.pdf"
beautiful interface right? It is honestly so great working with such well thought out gem.
I'm working on a Claude Code governance tool that allows to define deterministic policies for tool call that can be enforced across a fleet and will be in effect even when individual users run with --dangerously-skip-permissions
https://github.com/tenuo-ai/claude-governance
I needed to get customers for Hyperclast [1], but I kept procrastinating on the go-to-market tasks. I'd rather be building, you know! So I created https://tractionbeast.com/ as a tool for myself. It gives me bite-sized tasks every day. I just review and do them. This completely removes the inertia for me. My other founder-friends like it too so I turned it into a product.
If you're an early stage b2b founder, I'd love to hear your feedback about TractionBeast.
[1] https://hyperclast.com/ - fast, self-organizing, self-hostable replacement for Notion
Something very small and simple compared to other ambitious projects here :)
A TUI to control a crazyflie nano drone. This is mostly a rust learning project - but insanely fun because it leads to something flying through my living room.
https://github.com/yannick-cw/crazyflie-commander
I've been working on an OBDII scanner application for my port of Tock to the Microchip SAMV71. The idea is that it will help prove out the CAN peripheral in a real world environment before I start layering other things like UDS on top of it.
readme2demo: https://github.com/alphacrack/readme2demo
devtool to validate readme for human and ai use, ships working tutorial from your readme.
I’ve been playing around with using llms to recommend me books I can get from my local library based on the model’s latent knowledge of books it has ‘read’ and a conversation with it about books I’ve liked.
I’m working on https://urhired.ai
It’s an AI-powered mock technical interviewing platform, for system design and coding.
I’m also working now on behavioral mocks, with a coach feature!
I’ve been working on it on and off for a year, but started spending significant time in the last few months.
I know everyone’s burnt out on LLM products, but I think it’s nice for this kind of prep since you can do it on demand and in an environment it’s safe to fail as much as you need without judgement so you can actually learn.
It’s early and free if anyone is interested in trying it out (at least while I can afford to serve it for free)
I made an e-commerce tool for textiles designers to source inventory and produce real garments and handwoven products from artisans in Italy and India. Check it out jaalyantra.com
Job application tracker that gives you role details at a glance, emails you practice interview questions and helps with cover letters https://rolerecall.com
Working on Artifacta, a place for agents to store artifacts they create and share/publish them. Now supports hosted MCP along with a CLI
[1]: https://artifacta.io
[2]: https://docs.artifacta.io/introduction
Currently further developing https://www.brickifyme.com, where i added a anon process for generating the images and running some A/B tests.
Also working on https://wk-pool.com to further develop it for not only World Cup predictions, but aiming to compete with Scorito in two years!
I am building https://nexaflow.com - a customer support AI agent with built-in modules so small businesses need not buy 4-5 services to run a business. We ship with CRM, Ticketing, Appointment/Scheduler, Booking management system (for Small clinics, etc). Nexaflow agents can answer (and take action on) customer queries coming from Whatsapp, Email, Web (widget) and more.
I am writing the AWS SDK for Python that developers deserve: https://github.com/kap-sh/aws-sdk-python
During the last 2 month i've been working on an experiment which have as an objective to see how an AI managing a forum and creating its own rule behave in this environment with human interaction: https://gram.lelabs.tech/
I've got two projects:
https://ALovelyQuestion.com
We create a plan for your marriage proposal. I'm working with an event planner to create this!
https://GetSetReply.com
This does review aggregation for businesses, and then a bunch of tools to help you gain insights, respond to reviews, and get more reviews. I just hired my first Sales/Marketing person to scale.
I will create coupon codes for anyone interested! Email is in my bio
Wow, nice.
Thank you! Happy to answer any questions. I built https://ALovelyQuestion.com using Claude Design.
It’s pretty. Lots of people have anxiety around the big question. A tool like this can really help.
An "agent orchestrator" (or whatever you want to call it) that supports any cli agent. Trying to optimize for reducing cognitive load for working on different tasks at the same time with agents.
Currently doing final polishes on adding support for making it simple and easy to run agents and review the code remotely over ssh.
https://getbaton.dev
Scaling Zigpoll[0] to 2M ARR as a solo founder (currently at 1.5 ARR). Each year you double ARR for a business it comes with a whole new set of challenges which are layered on top of the changes in the tech landscape.
Fortunately I think I've been bailed out by agentic coding the last couple months from a product perspective but I think the major gains so far have been due to marketing and exploring alternative growth channels. Even so, keeping momentum is never a given and requires constant output from all angles! Onward...
[0] https://www.zigpoll.com
Postkit: https://github.com/varunchopra/postkit
This is basically my version of "what all could you throw into Postgres?"
My problem with vibe coding/LLM assisted engineering is that it's hard to get the basic stuff that is independent of the application itself, correct, so I just use this and make sure everything I build has some consistency.
You can pop this in and use it as the base for your app and add login, permissions, etc. quite cleanly.
I like the idea, the API looks really clean
Thank you!
Building South Africa's version of TCGPlayer/Cardmarket/etc, for Yu-Gi-Oh! https://lekkerduelist.co.za
There's competition in the other TCGs, and of course a 2-sided marketplace is one of the hardest things to seed. So this is mostly just a project that I can put any fresh ideas into that I wouldn't be able to at my dayjob.
- https://banksia.bio: I suspect there is a market for private consumer whole genome sequencing services. Think "Mullvad vpn" of sequencing - I shouldn't have to know the identity of the person I am sequencing, and they can be identified with a client number not tied to their PII.
- lazyslurm: A TUI tool for managing/viewing slurm / HPC setups. Similar to lazygit or lazydocker (https://github.com/hill/lazyslurm)
https://terminai.app
I got sick of choosing between the efficiency of working in a terminal and the magic powers of using AI (and of copy-pasting between the two). So I created a hybrid: Terminai is a transparent wrapper for any terminal that provides on-demand access to a TUI coding agent of your choice just a hotkey away (with built-in MCP and CLI that gives the AI access to your terminal).
I'm using Gemma 31b to build tools for myself to optimize my WoW TBC play to an absurdist level. I'm hoping to have world top 10 parses across the board in a few months, loot gods willing.
A FOSS project that lets static sites receive comments via email https://r3ply.com.
Working on my word game - https://www.quizingo.app/vocabulary
I usually work on my programming language lone lisp on my free time but I've been feeling burned out lately.
So I started a new side project: decompilation of my cherished childhood video games. Many Mega Man games, starting with Mega Man Battle Network 2.
I just finished polishing and verifying the early initialization routines, and have already traced various parts of the game's engine. I was surprised to discover that it was a huge state machine of sorts. I want to focus on reverse engineering the saving system so I can write a save editor, and the music system so I can listen to the music.
Rebuilding my long ERP-like project to become more like a "business engine" to become a proper ERP backend (so it can cover most business scenarios and is multi-company, branch, currency, etc).
Have now the core done and working on a MVP UI to validate it.
One of the things I always wish to do properly was to model currency and unit of measure in full as core types, plus truly trace everything related to the business transaction from production to beyond the sale.
Looking into a persistent workflow engine like `temporal` now...
P.D: I'm debating if open source or not, in light of the AI-pocalypse...
Still noodling on https://skaldmaps.com, which lets you compare and rank all US ZIP codes, counties, and census tracts to find good places to move to and/or invest in.
Based on an early prototype that helped me find our current house.
Koji (https://github.com/iam-mhaseeb/koji) - A dead simple personal website engine for developers focused on simplicity.
Salahmate (https://salahmate.app) - A mobile app that helps Muslims build the habit of praying gently.
I’m working on building AI-backed sms phone numbers for lead generation campaigns needing 24/7 or multilingual support. Less friction than downloading apps or interfacing with chat bots, and just as powerful.
Tell me more. What's a typical use case?
Typical use case can be someone's running an existing campaign (ads, billboard, referrals) and we add a dedicated texting number as the 24/7/multilingual layer on top. No new spend, just coverage after hours or in Spanish etc. Can also serve as the primary feature of a new campaign, admittedly a novel approach but I see there being potential to provide a new channel to reach users where they already are (sms) in extremely saturated markets.
I work mainly with law firms, there are some potential examples on my website if you're curious: https://fractional-engineer.com/sms-intake.
Happy to chat more.
The trickest part of this, and maybe you have solved this is procuring phone numbers for clients. Twilio has put up a TON of friction on getting SMS numbers. I know this because we are doing this on behalf of some very large institutions. Love the idea though!
Thanks! Curious what kind of friction you’ve encountered. In my experience buying phone numbers is not hard, finding vanity phone numbers (especially in certain area codes) is because it requires keeping an eye on their rolling availability.
I’ve set up a few 10DLC campaigns as well, it’s a little finicky and takes time but something I can do pretty predictably.
I continue to work on version 2 of a product that’s been shipping for the last couple of years. I’m not linking to it, because the last thing it needs, is a bunch of folks registering single-use accounts, only to find it doesn’t interest them, but we need to wait a year, to delete the resource hog they registered.
Version 2 is a significant upgrade, and is a bottom-to-top rewrite of both the backend server, and frontend app.
I’ve been using an LLM extensively, and it’s been a huge help. I have, however, also run into its limitations.
I am building https://EasyAnalytica.com - single place for all your dashboards. It generates dashboards automatically from data without using ai. It supports getting data from google sheets, api's, url's etc. I have recently added support for gsc as data source and i plan to continue adding more in coming weeks.
Nothing, I'm trying to get my passion back, lost it for a couple months now, not sure if it was from the binge drinking
I used to build hardware projects, write code but lately been coasting
I have ADHD, and my calendar is a graveyard of things that were totally fine right up until they were on fire.
So about to release an iOS app that sends me early notifications about what to actually prepare, or do.
Best examples so far: on my last trip it pinged me the night before with a packing list based on the weather at my destination. Also reminding me to book a table for a dinner planned.
It's here for the waiting list: https://heylife.ai
Java Server Side Rendering Web Framework -- zero external runtime dependencies outside the web server layer -- https://github.com/vadimv/server-components The idea is to provide complete Java-centric modern web UI stack for building internal tools and admin panels.
I want fast answers to questions like:
"Why is Zoom lagging?"
"Is the issue my WiFi?"
"What's going on with the Internet?"
So, I built a local Mac utility that runs in the menubar to give at-a-glance visibility into live network and application issues. It's free (for typical uses), battery-efficient, and gives fast and reliable answers.
https://breakdown.live/
opening back a cultural center in Italy we had 26 years ago, with the very good help of Claude Code.
Continuing partijgedrag again!
In summary, I pull public motion votings and do any kind of processing I want to give people a better insight in how the Dutch parties vote. There's a voting compass that gets a bit busy before elections.
It was a project by Erwin and I would like to continue the work.
I'm looking at the long-term image and have high hopes other countries would enjoy this too
Taper - A minimalist, journal-inspired race planner for athletes. Everything you need for race day—notes, gear, nutrition, logistics and strategy—in one workspace. https://gotaper.app
I’m working on Envelope. https://envelopebudgeting.com It’s a budgeting app that comes with a built in checking account and debit cards. Because your budget can actually decline card transactions it’s a very effective system for stopping overspending.
I’m currently migrating the codebase to Swift 6 and dealing with the new concurrency system.
I'm doing a personal research project into the technical maturity of ccTLDs. So far I've mostly been working with easily accessible public information, which I'm almost ready to publish, but the next phase is going to be trying to identify markers of stack complexity (provisioning etc) which is going to be tricky.
I'd love to hear from anyone else doing work in this area!
Vibe coded a flashcard web app to help me learn Bangla.
Vibe coded with my brother (he did most of the work) firmware for the X4 e-reader to turn it into a word processor and flashcard app
https://www.marginpoints.com
Distinctive business essays, written daily. I'm working to help us all see the world more profitably.
Working on a n extensible OSS tool to turn public Instagram accounts into rss feeds so I can quit Instagram for good https://rss.numbersoffice.com.
I've built a voice app for controlling Claude code / Codex sessions and having a lot of fun with it.
I can start a remote tmux session from my laptop, close the lid, grab my airpods and continue on the same sessions while in a gym or a bicycle.
Planning to open source it soon.
A project made with jank and also my dotfiles.
I’m building FitBee, a fast, ad-free, and no-nonsense calorie and macro tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-macro-counter/i...
Built in Swift, SwiftUI for the iOS app and Python for the backend.
I am making it easy to embed coding mode AI agents into SaaS applications. We have a WinterTC compatible custom JS runtime that lets the agents write code to accomplish tasks and a SDK to embed agents into your SaaS apps. We help you write skill files on our coding agent against your API and use our frontend SDK to embed the agent into your app a.la Intercom. See https://uraiai.com/
Still a small plattform for groups of gamers to share their library with each other and suggest and vote on games for a game night. I'm planning on a group finder feature where you can publicly search for others to play with you, currently it's more angled at existing groups.
https://game-pick.eu
A powershell-like objects-over-text UNIX shell in Lisp. I’m afraid it’s another agentic turd I produced, but I’m polishing this turd a lot more than the others.
I am working on 2 football game websites, one for world cup https://7-0worldcup.org/,and the other for Top 5 leagues https://38-0.one/ Developing game is easy now, but it is really hard for promotion.
When I switched from engineering to product, I tried a bunch of different user insight tools. They all had their strengths and weaknesses, but they always felt... off. They gathered feedback well but it wasn't easy to answer the questions I was asking, and it was a huge chore to keep it organized.
So I hacked on https://inputbuffer.io and just opened it to a wider audience.
You hook up your user feedback source (via widget or API) and it will organize everything by content category (e.g. billing) or target (e.g. a specific page, API endpoint, CLI command etc).
Categorization isn't rigid, InputBuffer does its best to put feedback where it belongs and gives you a clear triage flow if you want the added control.
Once organized you can learn more via a quick analytics dashboard or by interrogating the data directly, chatting with InputBuffer to gain a stronger understanding of your product, with clear citations to all feedback.
I have had success on both small and large amounts of input, on traditional SaaS platforms, developer tools, open source projects and more.
Next up: automatically gathering user input from other platforms (like GitHub issues), and more research tools.
A platformer game where you can become 1 dimensional and follow surfaces as a line: https://myth-game.pages.dev
Space - Jump / E - Attack
Curious if it works on your browser.
I tried it on Firefox, but see it failed because it doesn't have WebGPU (on linux). Same thing on Chromium actually:
main.js:145 Myth browser startup failed Error: WebGPU adapter was not available. at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9) at async main.js:61:3 (anonymous) @ main.js:145 main.js:146 Error: WebGPU adapter was not available. at Module.initialize (foster-webgpu.js:400:9) at async main.js:61:3
I ran into the same performance issues when reviewing Next.js apps, so I made a tool that scans Next.js sites and tells you what's slow. It's basically a performance tool that works best with Next.js apps, and highlights things like slow LCP, heavy JavaScript, and third-party impact and gives you suggestions and prioritizes them. Here is the link if anyone wants to check it out:
https://www.nextperf.dev/
Rewriting the region drawing code in my LisaGUI project so it does per-word bitwise operations instead of per-pixel calculations. I'm using Claude to help plan and debug it, but I'm being careful to review all its outputs and make sure I fully understand what it's suggesting and why. I don't want to lose all my neurons to this thing...
I released Humm[1] last week. Realtime speech-to-text with a focus on privacy. No backend, no telemetry - just a fast, nicely designed app wrapping local stt models.
[1] https://humm.so/
Working on https://github.com/AqilbekAbilaev/ozendb
Free, open-source and drop-in replacement for Studio-3T. All the featured behind Studio-3T subscription for free in OzenDB.
Released beta version recently. Feel free to check out. Will be glad for feedback)
https://orcabot.com
OrcaBot was my Jan+Feb attempt to defeat the lethal trifecta whilst offering all the bells and whistles of a claw like sandbox: https://orcabot.com/blog#breaking-the-lethal-trifecta
This month I've been working on the free desktop version which is available as of today but probably carries a few too many bugs to not be worth promoting just yet.
Note: this involves blockchain VMs. If that's a dealbreaker, feel free to skip. I get it.
I've spent 8 years working on RISC-V VMs for blockchains, recently also contributing to ZK VMs. Modern blockchain VMs are drastically more powerful, and I'm curious how far we can push them. I started porting real game logic to blockchain VMs, running game loop, physics simulation, collision detection, etc., on blockchain VMs. So far I have:
* Teeworlds to CKB-VM: https://xuejie.space/2026_06_16_teeworlds_on_ckb/
* One Hour One Life to CKB-VM: https://xuejie.space/2026_06_29_porting_one_hour_one_life_ga...
* A small ray tracer to Jolt ZK VM: https://xuejie.space/2026_07_10_cpp_ray_tracer_on_jolt_zk_vm...
Source is available for 2 of the 3, I need to clean up the OHOL one.
Some context: CKB-VM [1] is a RISC-V virtual machine I designed for Nervos starting in 2018. Jolt ZK VM [2] is a zero-knowledge virtual machine developed by a16z. Both execute RISC-V code, but due to different design, Jolt ZK VM is a much faster CPU than CKB-VM.
Technically this is a fun challenge. Many techniques I used resemble game development tricks from the 90s on game consoles: fixed point math, banked memory in ROMs, aggressively inlining tricks, etc. I want to push to see where the ceiling is. Right now I'm trying to get a Godot [3] + JoltPhysics [4] game loop running on Jolt ZK VM.
Happy to answer questions about the VM internals, the porting process, or anything in general.
[1] https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb-vm
[2] https://jolt.a16zcrypto.com/
[3] https://godotengine.org/
[4] https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics
I've started building a visualization tool for mobile robots using the VDA5050 communication standard.
There are some solutions already out there but most are either slow, resource intensive, or both. Especially for larger fleets of robots. I'm using it to learn more about VDA5050, Rust and wgpu.
I had some ideas for improvements to brutalist.report but it got out of hand:
<Http://punditron.com/>
A slop machine, what's that??
*my feeling are very hurt that this link won't hotlink
I am working on Spreadsheet Preview, embed and preview Excel files in any website/web app. Just like PDF.js for pdf files. Check it out at https://spreadsheetpreview.com
Created a react-doctor style cli to deterministically scan for misconfigurations, missing observability, and security posture. Now working on extending it so vibe-coders can secure their apps too!
All free and open source: https://github.com/DumbMachine/cloud-doctor
I've been working on https://weirdther.com/
A website that tells you how "weird" the weather has been in a specific location
Weird being the percentile difference to the weather since the year 2000
Would love to check it out. But seems the site is down
I apologize, the redirect is broken for some reason, here's the proper website
https://andremourao.com/weirdther/
Working on https://razzify.in - Learn hacking using CTF challenges and get hired. https://securepilot.in - Indias first cybersecurity incident management platform for individuals.
An iOS app to help toddlers get bored of smart phones more quickly: https://toddlerphotolock.com/
sent it to my wife, will come in handy!
https://datetimemate.com/ - An old-school terminal-styled date/time calculator
Compute differences between dates, times, durations and timezones
Underlying CLI and Go library: https://github.com/jftuga/DateTimeMate
I’m working on https://main-duck.com/ which simplifies converting your code to mcp. I plan to make this easy to integrate into CI so mcps can be updated easily. It’s hosted remotely and I’m very excited about where it’ll go.
https://www.places.is/
Sharable, real-time synced maps, Google Docs for maps basically.
I think the coolest part is the import feature where you can paste a link to a video or article and it pulls out places and enriches them with images and a description. You can also write your own notes, vote on places to go with friends, and apply colors. Right now I am working on user acquisition and experimenting with different marketing approaches.
I recently decided to build and run my own training free inference engine... and it worked.
It's called TinyToT: https://github.com/guilt/TinyToT
You basically get a LLM without any training/RL here.
See: https://x.com/i/status/2076344798525460581
Building Package Manager Guard (PMG) - https://github.com/safedep/pmg
With all the supply chain attacks on OSS ecosystems targeting developers, PMG is a practical protection using a combination of threat intel, policy and sandbox.
It’s a package firewall on the terminal really. It has been surprisingly effective against most of the recent attacks.
How is this different from your competitors like Socket dev?
https://outofpocket.ai
It's a calculator for what an AI feature costs to serve. Cost per request, cost per month, which part of the bill is eating you (output tokens, usually). No signup, all the math is on the page. Any feedback is welcome.
Working on full stack prototyping agents that own their own Aws account (zero deploy friction). Think speed of lovable/ base44 with power of Aws services
https://github.com/inceptionstack/lowkey
I created a setapp alternative at https://getapps.cafe. 40 local-first apps and counting and yes I use claude code to help building all these apps (and I do read the code). It is so much easier now to start and create small, self contained apps and I do the future is local/privacy by default apps
https://infohound.ai/
A News Platform aggregator collecting sources of information across the internet (socials, newswires, etc.) and trying to push context to humans in a more digestible form. We are also experimenting with defining lineage of information using AI to help people try to piece the puzzle together as information flows in.
Inspired by the Vint Cerf discussions, I'm hoping to renew my interest in space exploration as a hobby sim/ coding project.
I frequently found myself needing to convert video files and everything is either paid, needs login, full of ads, or uploads your files. So I built my own tool that has none of that.
https://clipcut.dev
I'm building a family game server that will host web-based games on my local network (although I'm thinking about using something like Cloudflare Tunnel to make it available on the internet).
The first game I'm building is the card game Phase 10, and I'm done with phases 1-7. After that, I'd like to build Carcassonne, and maybe Jeopardy.
https://gitlab.com/philbooth/opair
It's a coding harness that eschews autonomy and instead works like a pair programming partner, with distinct "driver" and "navigator" modes. I've only spent 3 weekends on it so far, so it's a long way from finished. But I am at least using opair to work on opair now, which is nice.
I didn't really want to write a harness, I just got frustrated enough that nobody else was writing the harness I actually want to use. I'll probably be the only person that uses this, but I'm fine with that.
I am going to be trying my hand at making bread at home. Italian style deli rolls, pretty excited for that.
Had the recipe optimized by GPT 5.6, lets see.
aidekin: an open-source, client-side AI assistant you drop onto any website. Your visitors get a private voice and text assistant that runs entirely on their own device via WebGPU
https://aidekin.com
https://github.com/stfurkan/aidekin
This month I have mainly been building my fork of tiny-dfr so that my 2019 mbp touchbar isn’t useless when on hyprland/cosmic
https://github.com/keloran/tiny-dfr
Unfortunately due to the way GitHub defaults to creating prs in the parent fork, I have accidentally created a few invalid prs in asahi before I was ready, and now am banned from creating a good upstream one
Built https://skil.gg, a site for mini games.
https://bastion.computer
This is an open source tool to run background coding agents + dev environment in isolated VMs. So far it has allowed me to migrate a majority of long running coding sessions to my homelab to run remotely. I can also run multiple in parallel without worrying about race conditions or my host machine breaking.
Continuing my newsletter about agentic coding:
https://www.agenticcodingweekly.com/
I'm working on so101-nexus, an open-source sim-to-real stack for the SO-100/SO-101 robot arms where you can record teleop demos, behavior-clone a policy, then fine-tune with RL. The goal is to be very compatible with Gymnasium, MuJoCo, and LeRobot.
https://github.com/johnsutor/so101-nexus
Been building a open-source technical interview platform. Trying to keep the existing ideas of async coding assessments + live programming interviews, but want to add features for the new interview formats I see of take-home projects + AI coding agent interviews
https://coderscreen.com/
I’ve been working on Hype Doc. I built it for myself and hope others find it useful. I decided to build the mobile apps too and that process is way more work than I expected. It’s been fun though to dive into Rails 8 in the process.
It’s an app to track wins and celebrate yourself
https://myhypedoc.com
I'm working on leveraging NLP and LLM techniques to create a geometry over the discrete space of Ethereum transaction execution structure. (sorry... it's a bit of a mouthful)
https://www.chaingenius.ai
The goal is to find on-chain structural anomalies, as well as seeing if clustering by behavior has emergent semantic properties
I think i know where you're going with it, but what is the Why for the semantic properties? Is it to characterize a given address, predict behavior?
https://blorp-lang.org
Taking a bit of a detour with self-hosting the language, now that the syntactic surface, standard library, and initial dependency strategy are on a decent footing.
With any luck, by the end of the week, I'll start prepping for a 0.0.1 release.
I am working on https://chiptune.app.
Most recently, adding SID support, and adding timing information to the emulated formats that don’t have any tagged song duration (e.g., converting NSF to NSFE). This means playing the songs one by one and watching for repeated sequences of writes to the sound chip registers.
A competitive word guessing game, play against family/colleagues etc, it tracks your solves and some other fun metrics. Totally free, no ads or other crap. No login needed to play.
https://wordbattle.fun
nice and fun project, maybe run ads on the site, how to monitize?
No monetisation needed. It's for people to enjoy and to be a real world project I can use to do agent experiments with from code through to devops type stuff.
Have fun!
I'm working on a variation of MTP that recovers PP TPS (back to the same as with MTP disabled), keeping most of MTP's benefits to TG TPS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700782
Will propose a patch back to llama.cpp or provide it as a fork.
I am building Bloomberry (https://bloomberry.com), an alternative to tools like BuiltWith/Wappalyzer to provide sales signals when companies subscribe or churn from over 1600 B2B tech products. Think backend/backoffice tools like Hubspot CRM, or Netsuite, or Microsoft 365, rather than frontend technologies like Wordpress or React.
Working on Morpheus, an experiment to improve tool usage over small llm like Qwen 30b by introducing JEPA (https://github.com/ichiriac/morpheus)
I am working on a local first LLM frontend that saves all chats directly to your hard drive and ships in a single index.html file artifact that you can self host.
No code to show yet. I'm taking the time it requires.
An alternate web client for Jira that doesn't take a 1GB of ram and slow as molasses.
https://jiracule.zachmanson.com
https://github.com/zachpmanson/jiracule
Currently working on a CLI tool that performs property-based testing from Arazzo documents: https://github.com/IgnacioGoldchluk/cuerdo
Still working on https://compears.shop we’ve added some new features to help people shop in the EU for cheap. I’m hoping we get to expand this to more EU countries
I'm using AI to build a project to teach me SQL. I use claude code to build the lessons, and then I complete them myself. I've done this for a few topics already, and I think it's one of the most amazing things you can do with LLMs.
https://github.com/adammfrank/sql-practice
I've been building WhyNotLog to answer tricky questions using statistics. Example questions include "what gives my dog allergies?" or "what affects my sleep?".
Available at https://whynotlog.com and promo code HACKERNEWS gives access to the pro plan for six months.
Website is not working in vietnam
https://PCGaming.ca
I follow a bunch of gaming rss feeds just to keep up with what’s new in the industry. Figured I’d take those and turn them into a news aggregator to put them all into one place. Threw in some game deals/affiliate to pay the web hosting bills (hasn’t paid for anything yet, lol).
Scrolless, a Safari extension that keeps all the human parts of social media (search, DMs, stories, posts from friends) while removing all the algorithmic garbage designed to suck up your attention.
https://festudio.net/scrolless/
Safari users definitely needed something like this if there isn't one yet. There's a few good options on Chrome and they are a huge improvment.
Kudos to you for building this.
Thank you! I've personally found that having it on iOS especially is a game changer, it's really improved my attention span across the board.
Yeah, that's cool because there probably wasn't any way to do it on iOS. Brave on iOS has block shorts but other than that, idk.
I'm on GrapheneOS now, (way better than iOS btw) so I can't try it out but I prefer not to use social media on phones at all.
I quit youtube for a few months, now I'm back on it mildly with dearrow, sponsorblock, unhook and no account.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I am building a solitaire solver for Zachtronic Solitaire. Especially the last one. It should allow you to take a pic of the screen and tell you if it's solvable and what the next moves could be.
I'm working on touching more grass, virtually...
https://sarah-robin.com/grass
A daemon-focused CLI driven music player for GNU/Linux. I recently got it working with playerctl by exposing it to dbus using zbus, great fun. https://git.2137697.xyz/salmon/rsplayer
I‘m working on an online radio player for community radios. https://radiodock.app
Search is currently provided by the Radio Browser API, but I'm now building my own station API with proper metadata and thumbnail coverage. A station discovery page with most played stations is also in the making.
A graphviz dot substitute in pure rust:
https://azriel.im/disposition/
Things I missed in original graphviz dot:
1. predictable / stable layout
2. dark and light mode css (tailwind)
3. interactive through pure css
4. markdown descriptions
Took ages understanding how to route edges to not overlap labels.
This month I worked on my own AI agent written in POSIX shell. It's been surprisingly useful for debugging command line problems on an old laptop running linux, like fixing an apt problem.
https://github.com/patrickjh/ssa
I am working on Rockitz a site to post and comment about News. its written in .Net. https://www.asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
A simple web app that generates scenarios for practicing spoken languages. Read a news article and then chat about it with AI. https://fluenly.ai/
Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.
Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.
Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.
Assetspan.com. Basically started learning about cryptography and it turned into a SaaS.
I am working on a fast, local desktop search engine. GlintIndex indexes your files and provides instant full-text search. It is in an early stage of development, and I have not reached the MVP level yet. Contributions, issues, and suggestions are welcome.
[1] https://github.com/riccione/glintindex
A minimal, immutable Unix-based OS with built-in attestation and runtime integrity for deploying server applications in microVMs - https://www.gingercybersecurity.com/
I am taking my limited time before next job hunt and using coding agents to create a wego board strategy game inspired by Escape From Tarkov, Advanced Wars, and PhantomBrigade.
Exploring map based game ideas like arcade racing in your neighborhood: https://trippi.app/drift/
We just launched https://www.dplyd.io which will do AI in a box. Small deployments of local models for law firms, healthcare, defense, etc…
There are many like it. This one is ours.
I think I am your target customer. I own a national health care franchise and want private AI. What is unclear to me from your site that I view as a gating item is do you source, install and configure the hardware or deploy your platform on ours. Or both?
Mobile app that turns any recipe into 2-player mode, so you can cook together. Kind of like overcooked IRL.
https://nommer.ai
currently working on an MCP for agents to manipulate docx files. https://vespper.com
the other day I also vibe-coded a recreation of digglabs , its shows HN, reddit ect using different visualisations
https://topaztee.com/digglabs
Adding MCP support to the open-source metaverse Substrata (https://substrata.info/)
I am working on https://apxy.dev - network debugging tool for AI agent
Im working on a project to prevent Claude code from reading any secrets key
I am working on a reddit lead generator that pings you when someone wants a product like yours in real time, and It does so only when the intent is high.
Was using this only for my self, but i think it might be interesting for other people as well.
https://getintentengine.com
Are you using the reddit api or scraping new reddit posts/replies?
Scraping. I applied for the token but never heard back. Reddit doesn't want new devs working on it.
Had the same experience with upwork, feels like the door has closed on easy api access to big site data, ironically funneling people's money to proxies and other scrape helpers instead of their own api.
Yeah, perhaps its due to noone wants LLMs trained on their data for free. I don't know, at least for reddit there are still ways to get the data for free.
I _just_ published https://klar.im/ a local-first AI spam filter for Apple Mail on mac.
It is build using a model that can classify messages (ham/spam/marketing), packaged for Apple Mail but could be used in other places.
I struggle with terminology so I made a little Gnome utility for easier LLM-based terminology lookups from a highlighted word/term + contextual screenshot. So far it's working pretty well, kinda like a better version of the Mac OS or Kindle ones.
Exploring highly interactive instrument (piano) practice to see if AI can help students practice better. Full duplex voice agent alongside your practice session. Also exploring live AI jamming partner to practice playing with others.
Code World Models in Simultaneous Move settings like Capital Markets. DeepMind's CWM approach relies on standard MCTS/IS-MCTS, which assumes a single active player at each node.
This doesn't work in simultaneous-move settings like Orbit Wars (or order-book markets), converging to an exploitable pure strategy rather than a Nash equilibrium.
LeCun's JEPA, by contrast, is a learned neural world model, which lacks the determinism, speed, and debuggability of a code-based simulator. Thus, it can drift or predict illegal states, and you can't inspect why it made a prediction the way you can trace a Python function.
TL;DR: The benefit is better auditability and easier RL-like training. The SM-MCTS extension fixes the first problem (decoupled UCB per player approximates Nash equilibrium instead of a pure strategy) while keeping the second advantage intact (a deterministic, inspectable code simulator).
https://github.com/ternary-ai/ow-code-world-model https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/a-self-improving-code-world-...
apt-cacher-ultra: To help reduce the impact of future DDoSes of Ubuntu. Just released 1.0 yesterday after working on it a couple months.
As that DDoS was going on I realized that some of our dev and staging processes were impacted by it, and that apt-cacher-ng was doing nothing to help us.
apt-cacher-ultra snapshots the repo meta-data after verifying it, and only promotes it if the metadata all checks out. Additionally, it can optionally keep a list of "hot" packages, and can include those in the snapshot calculation.
Additionally, apt-cacher-ng would regularly choke and require some handholding. I'm hoping -ultra resolves that as well.
https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra
On my health currently.I am trying to be consistent with my diet for the rest of the year.
Shipped version 2.2 of my Interactive Fiction platform Sharpee with Phrase Algebra.
Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript).
https://sharpee.plover.net/
After 2 months of work I finally finished calibration of first 2 channels of my automatic test equipment and now I can finally measure diode curves.
https://typequicker.com
Building a typing application that helps you quickly learn and improve your typing.
We believe everyone can type at 80wpm or more. It just takes a good tool and a couple months of consistent practice
I have been able to revamp my recruitment product with AI. Once the deterministic parts are done, I will add AI capabilities to it. I even made an AI generated interactive demo. https://www.hiretale.com/#interactive-demo
If any HR/Recruiters are in this thread (a long shot), please share feedback in exchange of free trial.
https://www.stonkys.com a tech focused community.
The point is to increase the signal to noise ratio, by having a community rating system.
https://github.com/duriantaco/ravage. Working on an autonomous pentester!
I'm still working on Logos Language. Just launched v0.10.0 :)
https://logicaffeine.com/benchmarks
https://mathend.vercel.app/
i make the microsoft word but less sucks, and there is scientific calculator integrated and also ai on it too, available on linux (stable) and windous (unstable).
Building a Dropbox like client that work with every protocol there is: S3, SFTP, SMB, NFS, Azure Blob, IPFS, ...
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive
https://runnit.io - automated work management and ops for creative teams
A really cool iOS and Android screen recorder.
You can put your face on the screen in real time, record, stream, even annotate live, add text, draw, show touch indicators.
Pretty neat!
https://demoscope.app
An interactive timeline showcasing all the books I have read (or at least, the books I can remember reading)
I recently built and opensourced Inka[0], an AI journal for BOOX devices.
I continue to grow my main product BoltAI[1]
[0]: https://inka.page
[1]: https://boltai.com
Trying to summarize my career advice reading: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2026-07-12-collected-career-...
Open to feedback and missing pieces.
I've been playing around with https://openworm.org/index.html a lot recently...getting back into artificial life "research" more broadly.
I’m hacking on an app that helps immigration lawyers spend less time chasing client documents: https://casedaemon.com/
We just launched a couple weeks ago and we’d love any feedback or suggestions!
I'm working on Osaurus, AI harness for local models. It's for macOS, written in Swift.
https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus
Self healing test selectors and authoring test journeys with natural language for Cypress using Claude Code or self hosted models. [0]
[0] https://github.com/adam-s/goldseam
Still on my KiCad browser product. We'll launch a private beta next week, and the open product in a few weeks.
still working on my local-first, byok personal finance tool. feels like a lot of sanding at this point.
Been pushing through SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - if your projects don't work out, feel free to submit it for sale :)
A Sega Dreamcast game engine (with editor and tooling) for a Wipeout inspired racing game. No AI.
https://certleaf.com
A platform to automate generation, distribution and management of verifiable E-Certificates for event organizers.
Currently working on https://agentkavach.com which is a safety net for AI agents
I'm working on Atomic Cloud, the hosted version of my open source knowledge graph project. https://atomicapp.ai/cloud/
Looking to experience life outside of software, but I don't know exactly what. In short, current filters are:
high total customer face to face time// high face to face time per customer// probably not in sales
as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.
ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...
I'm working on rustledger https://rustledger.github.io a plain-text accounting software (Beancount spec implementation) in Rust.
Hith - A Lisp written in Python
https://github.com/lodenrogue/hith
https://kibbutznik.org/ - A pulse-based direct democratic engine.
Super interesting. May I ask - are people using this? What are their use cases? What do they govern?
As a kibbutznik myself i built it to govern every possible community for all flavor and size with the inspiration of my experience in a tight democratic way of living ,I have given a lot of thought into it but it remained just an idea, i am a developer and my marketing skills are none existing and time is limited so no one use it. glad you liked it :)
Digger Solo - a smart file explorer with semantic search and maps for your files (images, videos, text, audio). All running locally on your machine.
https://digger.so/o
third-parties accounts for agents: https://sente.run/
agents have their own email and phone number and get a logged in browser instances on demand.
https://flipcompare.com
Realize that I'm really bad at marketing. Trying to work on it.
It lets you take a picture of video games and shows price comparisons for the major buy lists.
PGlite - Postgres in wasm
Loads of useful things in the pipeline: multi connection support, native library, extensions and many more ideas.
an ai first virtual computer as an mac app with mcp support
think ai is yolo sudo admin within the sandboxed linux
and internally/external you can control the whole computer via mcp, too
I continue working on SecurityBot.dev, having lately made significant improvements to the broken link monitor.
https://securitybot.dev
VERDURE is a plant sandbox...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4069810/VERDURE/
I love the art
I’m working on improving the apps I developed for iOS by adding new features and fixing the bugs: https://fruitfulapps.com/
7stems.net: a Spanish verb conjugator and method for learning Spanish verb conjugation, where irregular verbs are just verbs with more than one stem. Also just self-published a book.
Golf simulator software. It's doing okay. For a side job I got a gig at a racing engine builders shop tearing down rebuilds and cleaning parts.
This month https://thingstohave.app, my calm and flexible wishlist app, reached a state I can call "feature complete". This iteration took two years of occasional work, so it's a big milestone for me. (I've posted updates on this app in previous threads)
Since the last update, I released everything that had been in testing since April, like gallery view, custom avatars, birthdays and, most importantly – autofill from link.
Now I'm preparing for a big launch – working on the landing page, SEO and onboarding experience. Here's what I've done so far:
1. I updated the landing page to actually tell users about the app and look presentable. I already see a big improvement in conversion
2. I added SEO crap to the landing page. This is painful for me, but sadly that's how Google Search works (it doesn't). It's paying off, too
3. I overhauled the onboarding experience, to make it smoother for new users
Two more features are still in testing; I plan to ship them before the release, but currently i'm not completely happy about them.
https://www.draftdownapp.com/ is a free open-source SketchUp clone
https://timelinetranslate.com Translate any video or subtitle file into any other language. Launched yesterday and geared towards video editors with a DaVinci Resolve plugin. Delivers more control and ownership of the editorial process compared to other automated dubbing or subtitling.
I am working on an agentic-driven news aggregator focused on AI Filmmaking and generative media. https://genbuzz.news
A clone of popurls that learns what I like to read: https://perurls.onrender.com/
A clojure / fennel dsl for generating pure data patches, looking to make a small drum machine in love2d and being able to live update the internal patches would be fun.
Still working on wordtrak’s daily mode. Would love your feedback!
https://wordtrak.com/daily
building a 90s style point and click 2d game called AshNOak that generates varied stories with 3 characters. Story beats are managed using opensource LLMs. still a WIP.
Working on a desktop application for llm evaluations.
kiwi, an open source implementation of the k programming language
https://kiwilang.com
https://github.com/kiwi-array-lang/kiwi
primitives are accelerated on CPU by SIMD
supports GPUs via Apple MLX
Took a shot at recreating yahoo pool. Then just started adding more games to it: https://neonparlor.com
I'm working on a Mac OS memory app for AI. Not quite ready to share the link, but just wanted to put the periscope above the water.
smol machines: just in time cloud infrastructure
https://www.smolmachines.com
I am building it on top of a new primitive called smolvm: a hybrid that combines isolation of VM with speed and flexibility of containers.
https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
building https://shellular.dev, an app that let's you use your dev env from anywhere - your agents (Claude Code, Codex. OpenCode, Pi etc.), persistent terminals, local repos and code editor, in-app browser to remotely access localhost:<any-port> and js console for debugging.
For the life of me, I could never get electronics. I used to love the idea of me coming up with electronic circuit designs, but the arcane art of electronics never really clicked for me because I just couldn't intuitively grasp the maths no matter which book I read (AoE, I'm looking at you). But then it hit me, I don't need maths, I just need a formal language to represent the circuits. So over the past few weeks, I worked on a code your own spice (the electronic simulator). So now, for the first time in history, I finally understand how circuits work and how they are designed. And I did this all by coding circuits in python and making my own functional spice (which used to seem impossible at one point, it's surprising how easy it is though).
I can't believe iMovie doesn't have text overlays so I'm building a replacement at cut.donkeyuse.com
It's opensource and more modern.
Working on Gaming Couch, a web-based local multiplayer party game platform. It's like a lovechild of Jackbox and Mario Party: https://gamingcouch.com
Just before the weekend I shipped a new mini-game called Pop It: Desert Island (https://gamingcouch.com/blog/pop-it-desert-island-launch). Launch went well: ~3,800 players from 56 countries over the weekend, and it immediately became the most played game on the platform.
It's a battle royale with an ocean/beach themed world, taking inspiration from Roblox, Mario Kart and others. The whole game is built in JavaScript (three.js for the 3D world) using a JS SDK I've been working on. It doubled as a test drive of the same SDK I want to launch for third-party developers, so anyone can build and ship a simple, fun multiplayer party game for the platform, ideally in a single weekend.
If you're a game dev, or aspiring to be one, and want to develop and ship your own party game check out this page https://gamingcouch.com/developers
The TL;DR of Gaming Couch:
- Free Early Access with +20 competitive mini-games.
- Players use their phones as controllers (gamepads work too).
- Completely web-based, no downloads or installs needed.
- Every game supports up to 8 players and is action-based, with quick ~1 minute rounds to keep a good pace. No language-based trivia or asynchronous (turn based) games.
https://corvi.careers/ Adding salary visibility for U.S and improving job search
An open pricing engine and app based on Quantlib.
https://quantra.io/
https://hidefile.app
secure and hide your files in plain sight.
I've been thinking about doing valet storage. Anyone had any experience? I think there's some untapped potential in the 'burbs.
MakeSpell: autonomous crossword puzzle and more
https://makespell.com
I've been working on an LLM "harness" called Logbook[0] for fun with Codex.
The core idea was that I've always been a lousy notetaker, even going back to my school days years ago. I'm great at one-off and one-liner notes and occasionally more in-depth notes, but tend to not flesh them out fully enough to make them worth re-visiting.
This has been a struggle even as an engineer sitting in meetings or trying to absorb new information when starting a new job and ramping up.
Logbook is meant to use an interaction paradigm we as engineers are using very often these days: it's a terminal UI in the vein of Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.
It's targeted at the entry of free-flowing thoughts but you can also write longer notes by launching your default shell editor from within the tool.
Each note is saved as markdown with some metadata and that metadata is then saved to a local SQLite DB.
For the LLM side, the tool extracts useful metadata from those notes and then performs some local ranking/categorization. It then has the ability to send a note or some metadata to a provider of your choosing (it's straightforward to use OpenAI or something more broad and customizable like OpenRouter) for further enrichment or filtering.
A couple examples of the currently implemented slash-commands: `/related` can be used to find related notes; say you've been scribbling down notes about OAuth or MCP servers and want to gather up the most relevant notes to one of those topics. Or you can use a `/gaps` command that'll help you find things you've taken notes about but without properly defining or providing context around them (i.e. you mention ID-JAG for OAuth but never actually say what ID-JAG is, this command will tell you this so you have a chance to review what you previously wrote and can then define exactly what that keyword is about).
It's still very much a work in progress. It's not meant to be a full-fledged note-taking app a la Obsidian or anything like that. I've just always preferred taking notes in markdown or plain text and this is a great way to continue doing that while also making enrichment of the notes pretty simple.
You may ask "why not just use agent memories?" I don't really like the idea of tightly coupling notes with codebases or agents and I don't find the current UX very intuitive at least for the way I prefer to take notes.
[0] - https://github.com/joshwertheim/logbook/
Repairing switching power supplies for IFR-1200S service monitors with my friend who's been in the repair business since the 1950s.
An agentic link discussion site: https://news.nuts.services
Curious, what would be the goal for this?
To investigate the use of LLMs to weed out low value posts and comments, mostly. If a lot of submitted content is by agents, then let them play but figure out how to not overload the humans. Also, how to enable assisted discussion without walls of text.
MakeSpell: autonomous crossword and more
https://makespell.com
I’m working on Ovio (https://ovio.au), a record-keeping app for Australian freelancers/sole traders/small businesses. The current version is deliberately narrow: send receipts by email/whatsapp; import bank transactions from CSV; and Ovio extracts the details and auto reconciles. From there you can check a BAS/GST-style summary and export organised records for an accountant.
It's been quite fun building this as this solves my exact problem, but trying to find an audience for a product is a completely different game
Trying to make it effortless to build p2p apps without any setup:
https://trystero.dev
Thought of using Iroh/LibP2P under the hood?
Working on a SaaS application that helps academic researchers conduct systematic literature reviews
Perhaps this is an obvious reference, but did you check out https://app.undermind.ai/ ?
i'm working on a mobile app to control coding agents (claude code / codex / opencode / crush) from your phone
it uses https://sprites.dev/ sandboxes to run agents
I built something similar: www.propelcode.app want to collab?
I building WiFiNYC.app — exploring open data through maps and interactive web applications.
Still plugging away on Raygum. Think Letterboxd for music.
https://raygum.com
I make wooden laser-cut custom maps. Right now I am working on making larger 2’x10’ versions
maroatlas.com
In my 20 something experience of software development, it is totally ok if you don't work on anything so I don't work on something. If there is a possibility that your work will be something useful plus you will benefit from that, you definitely have enough time to do that in couple of coffee tea drinking times. Europe show off by their sidewalks and street signs. Computer is a little too lux for a human.
I am building an newsletter for Short Science Fiction, using news stories of the day as inspiration. Purposely limiting the length to 3 chapters.
Currently removing the paywall from all my stories. If I have missed one, let me know.
https://threechaptersofscifi.substack.com/
- a GUI (in python) for my "ancient" 3D printer to draw circuits on copper plates
- a "customizable" mobile app (Android) for my business- a yet another static site generator (yaml, jinja2)
- a microcontroller for a hardware project (arduino)
- enhancements and reports for a desktop application (python)
https://www.lykly.ai/
It really is useful.. If you add your favorite places... it will give you pretty good suggestions using the ai wrapper when you travel and it is good at giving joint recommendations for you and your friends.
I’m working on AgentOrgy, a distributed platform that randomly pairs agents to “tag-team” a problem. Each team’s output is voted on by all agents. The winning results is returned at each stage of th loop.
Super excited to see how many tokens this will manage to burn per minute!!
Replacement for Quickbooks Self Employed (which is awful). Integrates Plaid and allows you to categorize business spending by official IRS categories and business income. Graphs of business spending, income, profit by month, quarter, and year. Export to CSV for easy entry into schedule C at tax time.
Future feature is estimating quarterly taxes and showing approximately how much should be paid each quarter if any and due dates.
I am working on a tinymush equivalent server in C#. I'm nearly at version 4 compliance.
https://www.rpguni.com
A free, local-first desktop app for worldbuilding and running tabletop RPGs like D&D.
I've spent more than a year on this, first a website, and then migrating it to a desktop app.
I have been working on a starter template for Astro: https://github.com/BryanHogan/astro-starter-template
I've found Astro to be an amazing framework for simple, performant websites. It stays really close to basic HTML and CSS while adding useful features such as scoped components, layouts, and easy Markdown blog integration.
So I have been using it to build websites. But many things keep repeating with every website I build, so I began working on this project to create a base that I can use for every new web project.
It references content from my Clean Web Development Guide: http://webdev.bryanhogan.com/
When it is far enough along, I will use it for the landing page of the app I'm working on: a customizable solution for self-tracking including habits, health and journaling, or whatever else you need: https://dailyselftrack.com/
After more than 400 days of traveling around Korea, Macau, Mainland China, Japan and Australia, I'm now returning to Germany / Europe looking for work. I wrote about that in my monthly mail-letter: https://bryanhogan.com/follow
tirreno security framework
https://www.tirreno.com
a golang io_uring implementation and a pinned run to completion framework to go with it, and a MQTT broker consuming it.
Working on a platform to create agents using prebuilt tools. Using it to learn more
Vibecoded a simple YouTube summarizer: https://github.com/tacone/prosey
The code might be slop, but it saves me time extracting information from long-form videos that would require 20-60 minutes of my time otherwise.
Also I get to not feed the algorithm just for the sake of curiosity.
RV64 toy/hobby kernel. No compatibility aim but rather at efficiency and speed.
I'm building Voxoria (https://voxoria.ai), it tracks whether B2B brands get mentioned when people ask ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini instead of Googling.
Ask the same engine the same question twice and you get different answers, different citations, sometimes a different opinion of your brand, so figuring out how best to present this has been a fun product problem to solve.
It also tries not to be yet another dashboard: instead of just analytics, an agent turns the findings into a ranked list of "ship this fix" todo items.
Curious, how fast the AI providers re-index a page after you make a change? Do you see the results in the next model update, or do they try to use more realtime data by making their agent fetching the website every time?
Trying to rebuild the brakes on my Impreza. It is not going well.
Please do tell. I might have to do this soon.
Myself
Which aspects
Compulsion to respond to random posts
Be selective where you invest your ~finite energy :)
So I am building https://buyvds.net with a global visual interface which has a list of around I think 249 vps providers over 60 countries combining up to 863 links (one vps provider can provide vps in multiple countries)
It uses DuckDB to expose a sql query interface in the website itself because I wanted to give the freedom to just do something interesting with the data.
My friend John had an idea which I really liked so I added "john mode" which shows what he was suggesting :-D
I think that Hackernews might like it but honestly, I have probably just made it out for myself and also as something to just share casually with folks on hackernews and other websites and hopefully I am able to help people and myself in some way with this website.
Open to some feedback as usual (for mostly all my projects really) and thanks for reading and have a good day dear reader and hey perhaps give my website a try!
Currently hacking away at https://github.com/lockboot
Using UEFI SecureBoot + vTPM for cloud root-of-trust, a stack to prove what's released on github/gitlab is what's actually running on GCP/EC2 (and soon Azure & AliYun).
I was annoyed that so many companies in the Web3 space would do the on-chain theater of verified contracts and "audits" then 99% of their infra would be deployed on EC2 (or god forbid Vercel) in full un-ironic "Trust Me Bro" mode.
It's a different trust model from SGX/TDX, more pragmatic and hopefully easier/cheaper. Currently polishing off "Docker to verifiable cloud VM" stuff, and then gVisor support next.
A new model for assisted memorization, based on asynchronous interactions (using iPhone notifications): https://banyanflashcards.com
A nondescript transcript-based collaborative audio editor.
imagina.xplaya.com a site for my wife's stationary store in México. Customers ask for organizing images inside a printed page, I create a PDF for that
A... database? for apps on a pocket switched network.
1.mcp-memory : Persistent memory, a knowledge graph, code intelligence, and semantic search for LLM agents. Repo : https://github.com/corporatepiyush/mcp-memory
2.Secure Data Structures, Algorithms, Allocators, Thread Pools and Document parsing in C17. Repo : https://github.com/corporatepiyush/secure-c-lib
3. a coding agent that is cheaper, faster, more predictable, and dramatically more capable out of the box — because 584 of its 606 tools never touch a model at all. Repo : https://github.com/corporatepiyush/yantra-coding-agent
I’ve been building a shared memory layer across all AI tools
www.memoryplugin.com
I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.
I'm working on Hiring Method (https://hiring-method.com). After ~2 years of development and two exhausting pivots, v1 is finally live.
I see a lot of new (and, to be frank, a lot of mature ones) HR tools are just wrapping Chatgpt around resumes (almost like "OK, now match this resume against this job posting and tell me if applicant fits"), which introduces a massive bias/inference problem.
I decided to build the exact opposite – a deterministic, math-driven fitness engine. It extracts structured scorecards from both CVs and job requirements and mathematically matches them, so you can actually review the exact reasoning behind why a candidate scored a, say, 85%. This fitness value is specified at every interview step – as applicant goes through an interview process their scorecard is updated at all steps.
If anyone here builds in the HR space, I’d love your feedback.
If tools like this are popular then it sounds like it'll be impossible to switch domains.
Let me disagree and explain myself.
When an HR is using Hiring Method, they are getting a fitness score for all applicants.
In case a backend engineer is seeking frontend roles – yes, the fitness will be low – but it will neither be zero nor will anyone be rejected anyhow automatically. HR will have an option to compare applicants visually and in detailed mode at all times.
I am building Hiring Method to augment people, not to remove them from decision making process.
Im sure you have the best intentions. I already struggle with being pigeonholed into roles. The line about using AI wrappers to determine a fit stuck out to me.
I understand you perfectly. I’ve also worked on the employer side (as a hiring manager, working closely with recruiters) and have witnessed a huge number of instances of unfairness, manifesting in all sorts of ways. And, believe me, as the number of applicants grows, the situation doesn’t get any better. I’m trying to bring a little transparency to the process.
Yes, and what's scary is that I can easily imagine HR departments loving these tools and using them at scale.
needed seating planner for my wedding, so created something that suits my needs
https://easywed.app
Got another daughter last week!
There were a lot of complications post delivery, and I want to make some sort of interactive story about it. We'll see how it goes
(Everyone is safe and sound)
I've stood up a message board to try to recapture the fun of running an 80's/90's BBS. You can look around at :
https://jims-bbs.com/bbs/
If you want to join in and post, you'll need a code for the registration process. The code ...
yc2026
...should work for a while.
Music!
Hoping to put out a project by end of year
Needed seating planner to organize my wedding, came up with something that suits my needs
https://easywed.app
Roleready.me
planning on postin ga show hn this week.
working on my own AI harness https://github.com/syrull/pluto tldr I dont trust anything nowadays, I wanted to know what requests I am doing to where and basically implement features that I use daily without the clutter of the other harnesses, still very raw but I am using it exclusively. Not a product or anything just something for myself.
https://avi-perl.github.io/dense-printer/
I tend to print a lot of stuff to read while disconnected. This is a tool to help squeeze as much content onto a printed page as possible instead of printing 4 or more pages per sheet.
A good use of Claude slop I'd argue. Currently trying to figure out how to set up the site so that an LLM tasked with printing content through it can figure out how to use it in the best way.
https://github.com/rdaum/mica
I'm having fun writing another agent harness nobody uses for real (not even me). As a side effect, I got an actor library in typescript to do it: https://github.com/muromec/posipaki .
After some time I figured the best use of AI is to produce even more AI-related slop and spend my occasional 2 dollars on the deep seek model to do it.
Models are fun when given a stable identity and made aware of it.
Homocodex, a cryptographic notary that proves human work at zero-trust infinite scale.
[1]: https://homocodex.com
I'm building DocCharm — the help center for your software product that keeps itself up to date.
https://doccharm.com/
If you want to give it a try, email me and I'll comp your first two months and help you get started.
A back up plan incase I really can't get back to working as an engineer. ugh...
I love being a gamedev: https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot
One day I will make a game.
I’m working on a synthetic control arm for a heart valve trial using synthetic patients from both the heart valve registry (in the near future) and a frozen EHR encoder. It’s pretty fun exercise.
Recently ive gotten into Unity. Have made games before but always avoided engines. This time im taking a deeper dive and want to learn at least the basics of a animations, lightening, movement and lay around with interesting combat variations.
C# is fine since i already know java.
I've been climbing for a decade, but over the past 3 years I've put on a bunch of weight due to work and certain life events. But I want to change that.
I know what motivates me: seeing progress. The feedback loop of "do X, see Y gain" is what keeps me going.
So I started building an integrated dashboard that can aggregate data from multiple systems:
- My digital scale
- Apple Watch (sleep + running performance)
- Beastmaker Motherboard, which is an electronic board that you attach a hangboard to and it shows you various stats like how much force you're applying
The idea is that every morning I'll open the dashboard and be able to see exactly how much progress I've made the previous day: weight loss, strength gain, cardio performance.
It's an interesting problem. There's essentially two parts to it: Apple Health, which aggregates data from the scale and the Apple Watch and can POST-export it hourly, and the electronic board, which sends data via BLE in real time. The destination for both of these will probably be an always-on Raspberry Pi 5, but I haven't decided yet. Then I'll have a small server app that can pull the data from the Pi and draw some fancy charts.
I've been working on a similar concept (aggregate health data from multiple sources) but on a wider scale: 1) annual bloodwork as part of my annual preventive care; 2) InBody measurements, including grip strength; 3) quality of air in my region; 4) Apple Watch but mainly for steps, sleep data and resting heart rate; 5) allergy panel or minerals/vitamins screen plus something nutrition-related along those lines (TBD).
The idea is to see trends and try to apply AI for correlating, at the first glance, completely unrelated data layers. Example how I'm thinking about this one: there's somewhat clear correlation that I sleep better when I do above average steps per day. How is my sleep quality affected if, let's say, I did above avg steps with a bad air quality at that time? (i.e. wild fires / pollen season / etc.)
I've built a Go application to ingest those data sources and currently finishing my first import use case - Apple Watch data.
Would be happy to connect and chat about this.
I'm a physician, and I'm extracting data from Apple Health and using what exists with solid and sound evidence to analyze sleep. Personal project it would be great to connect with both of you.
Telemetry tooling for local Claude/Codex usage so I can analyze old sessions and fill tooling gaps, make sure I'm using the right models for various tasks, update my processes, etc.
I've also replaced Linear with a local sqlite-backed tool, added tooling to speed up code nav, and am building "no-slop", a tool for enforcing architectural guidelines on vibe-coded projects.
who's working on the atproto facebook?!?!?
I was kind of disappointed at our HOA management system so I made my own: https://hoamy.app
Started of manually, later stages I used AI for implementing similar pages, and then for reviewing my own code.
(It was also an excuse to work with Nuxt / Nuxt UI as I loved the development of those projects and wanted to implement something with it.)
I (and Claude, codex, etc) have compiled/ran wayland, X11, GNOME, KDE, and Ladybird natively on a jailbroken iPad. Hoping to release more details soon but I have a slop wiki here:
https://xios.maxleiter.com
I've had an idea for a different type of free & open search engine for the last 15 years. I ended up pursing other ideas instead over the years.
Last month however I decided to go back to the idea and give it a shot. Right now I'm in the process of scraping and building a huge index. The technical challenges have been plenty. But I should be ready to publish an alpha version by end of month or so.
I'm creating my own language using AI. About half of the C backend I wrote myself, and I'm putting in the syntax I want and the things I want to create. I'm not sure if it will be finished. https://github.com/srtdog64/PergyraLang
I had problems waking up and was looking for an alarm clock on Amazon. But I could only find analog clocks with the famously unreliably moments, and digital clocks which were overpriced and looked ugly. This feels like a real gap in the market, so I'm working on making my own alarm clock. It's a simple enough project but includes PCB design and modelling the case, etc, which I don't have experience in.
https://codeinput.com - currently working on a zapier alternative based on web assembly workers.
>What are you working on?
Dealing with UHD camera data, and synced feed switching issues (SDI has so many lame issues.)
>Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
A resilient solution to 99.998% of e-mail spam.
An acoustic analyzer for a sink basin in a hackerspace. It will allow for automatic detection of dishes/cups left in the sink without cameras and can be handled by an rp2040. So far looks like it has very low false positives but can only successfully detect certain materials or large masses.
I teach advanced engineering with LLMs:
https://www.givedirection.com/advanced.html
Production-worthy formatter for lean4.
Right now it copes with important open source libraries on the model of clang-format's configuration, which is a real trick given the partial elaboration you need (with backtracking). But that works.
mathlib4 is the final boss, I don't currently even have a plan without per-directory quirks files which is probably a nonstarter.
Chess67.com - Website for real life OTB chess clubs, events and tournaments.
https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud
I'm working on pirate.kred - a Tip Jar DNS for pirates to directly and easily pay creators/authors.
I talked more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881942
a gibbet
I was working on sharemygit.com
However, LLM coding has made coding less rewarding so… Im thinking about starting a new hobby as coding for fun has become prompting.
httpstate
A data layer to connect everything with everything
https://httpstate.com
wafertown (few days old!)
World's first LLMORPG. You craft a prompt and it goes to live in wafertown and interact with other players (I mean prompts), you can change your prompt once per day, then next day you get news about what you did there!
Super early, everything is manual rn, I'm automating stuff including sign ups, if you want to join shoot me an email!
https://wafertown.com
suprasole - a pty proxy for enabling deterministic and ergonomic extensions/middleware for harnesses in an agnostic way... also working towards building an automation/scripting layer on top of harnesses via suprasole...
Lots of things.
- Got https://beachcomber.sh pretty much stable. Next stage is to propose to various upstreams its worth integrating. - Custom firmware for some ikea symfonisk dials because the oem firmware on them has some pretty bad bugs. Added features like hold and turn. Getting nice smooth dial behaviour over zigbee etc is surprisingly tricky - Built a skill evaluator tool that runs a skill through test suites and then tweaks the skill context and runs again. Its been pretty effective to be honest, almost all skills you do the first version is laughable compared to the one you get after this automated self improvement. - A robust tmux bridge interface for claude to hook into, and then a director layer on top of that for agent orchestration tooling - a stenographer skill that on the fly ripgrep and builds a rag on your on disk conversation history as a form of memory. Pretty effective. - I have just started a tool that brokers woodpecker ci to openbao/vault to give a gitlab like integration for controlled secrets injection for ci. - Been beating my head against a camera tool for a while now, finally making headway. Many ptz cameras dont support fov move, which nvrs need for ml object detection and tracking. They just have a super clunky continuous move and stop. So my tool characterises the camera with cv tools and calibrates movement curves to produce a data file that can be used by my onvif proxy to emulate the more advanced move commands. - Various helper tools for fusion, like csv based parameterised export, and compliant magnet insert generators. - A pipeline that consumes my content backlog, ie instagram saves, reddit saves, hn faves, etc and analyses them with local models and various algorithms steps to categorise and intuit why it was saved and what the key information is and what category it fits into for future reference etc. - A map of my city that shows live river height data with flood map overlays, contour data, predicted overland flow etc. flooding is a regular concern but theres no great resource to know whats going on. I have about 60gb of public datasets it works with. - A package manager for kicad library symbols and footprints, datasheets - skills for kicad so claude can reasonably interpret the schematic and advise on problems, check against datasheets etc. surprisingly effective. - A gcode controlled expansion board for the Carvera Air that gives you 8+8 channels of control for extraction, air assist, vacuum table, timelapse camera, etc. you only have 1 pwm pin so the protocol encodes over that. - A novel exploration interface for vitamins that renders them in a network graph, showing relationships. When you select one it rearranges around it into a kind of valance orbit style so you can explore chains of effect. Turns out, lots and lots of things relate to magnesium. - A comprehensive usb c pd board with 4s battery management. 3a or 8a depending on version. Trying to do proper pd in is nontrivial so this is a drop in solve. - A new brain pcb for Kinesis Advantage Pro keyboards to give modern firmware, bluetooth etc. - Repacked my rack UPS battery with LiFePo cells, and built an induction/resistive series battery balancer pcb for it. - Playing around with a new debug header/connector concept thats tiny footprint and zero cost to add.
The hard part is getting things over the line, publishing and seeing if theres interest. A thing can be largely done but theres a lot of detail work polishing it up so its public ready.
Yet another social app, but this is just an excuse to to build backend as a service using spring boot and full stack Kotlin.