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

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

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cjflog
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://appdistri
zloy88
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
wwalker2112
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.
ksaun
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
BrunoBernardino
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
amotinga
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.
ryanisnan
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
Foffle
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!