Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

david927 118 points 365 comments July 12, 2026
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What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

SPascareli13

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.

onesandofgrain

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.

stuartmemo

Still plugging away on Raygum. Think Letterboxd for music. https://raygum.com

asaddhamani

I’ve been building a shared memory layer across all AI tools www.memoryplugin.com

mertbio

I’m working on improving the apps I developed for iOS by adding new features and fixing the bugs: https://fruitfulapps.com/

ttrashh

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.

thegagne

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.

notorandit

RV64 toy/hobby kernel. No compatibility aim but rather at efficiency and speed.

sp1982

https://corvi.careers/ Adding salary visibility for U.S and improving job search

Luyanda

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

primaprashant

Continuing my newsletter about agentic coding: https://www.agenticcodingweekly.com/

Keloran

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

winterbourne

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.

kown7

Trying to summarize my career advice reading: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2026-07-12-collected-career-... Open to feedback and missing pieces.

enraged_camel

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.

drdolitre

needed seating planner for my wedding, so created something that suits my needs https://easywed.app

kirubakaran

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

AznHisoka

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.

drdolitre

Needed seating planner to organize my wedding, came up with something that suits my needs https://easywed.app

k4tsu

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

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