Working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer
Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep going, but it does probably need a differentiator to be interesting.
The idea came from me wanting a curated up to date list for myself. I thought the alternatives are/were outdated, poorly maintained and/or pay-to-rank. When ratebeer shut down earlier this year I thought I might as well offer this as a potential replacement for the venue listings.
The data is initially crowd sourced, or researched by me when I'm bored. Keeping things updated is done with various automated (and some manual) alive checks for each venue.
I know you're right about the landing page. Would be nice to show the closest venues or locations there immediately, but I absolutely loathe pages that ask for positional data right off the bat (could do some geoip stuff maybe).
I'm working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted platform for communities to discover and discuss their local area. The plan is for it to be federated.
In the last month or so I've been solely focused on plans and content for my instance for my local town, so there hasn't been any programming for a little while but I'll be jumping back into it in weeks to come.
I love this "local first" focus, which for me translates into "relevant first". My app Plantshare (posted about it in this HN post) is not very useful if you're the only user for 40km around, but I've seen local pockets of signups that gain momentum and are then useful in that locality and the users make local connections.
I think the biggest hurdle for this would be to gain traffic in place of an existing entrenched local Facebook group or similar.
Yeah I think established Facebook groups are probably the biggest hurdle. To me, the benefits of not using Facebook are self evident, but a lot of people don't know about the issues around that or don't care. I think creating features that can't be achieved on Facebook could help. Outside of that, I think it's just a matter of providing meaningful content yourself. For Plantshare, I imagine it would be beneficial to be close to you because you, the developer of the app, presumably have a wide variety of plants because that's your interest. And if it's a success for you and your local community, you've succeeded, and any other pockets of success are a bonus. This is at least the way I'm looking at my project here. I still do intend to continue to work on the open source side of things though of course.
In the past month, I came to the discovery that my BitGrid project couldn't meet it's goal of being more power efficient than TPUs, but it took years to figure that out. It could be a quite efficient FPGA like compute fabric, but that's not something I'm super interested in right now.
I've helped a friend get an IFR/Aeroflex/Marconi 2947A Communications Analyzer working, and am now in the process of using Ghidra to disassemble the firmware that runs on the main CPU. (There are several, including a 68000 based cellular option). I think of it as a million piece jigsaw puzzle.
On the way to Vintage Computer Fest, MidWest, my car became the middle of a 5 car sandwich. We all walked away, thanks to modern crumple zones and restraint systems. So, the car is a total loss, now I'm filing forms, and will be looking for a replacement car.
I'm working on Tech Talks Weekly newsletter (https://www.techtalksweekly.io/) where I send a weekly email that includes all the talk recordings uploaded in the past 7 days from nearly every software engineering conference.
Each issue includes:
- Featured talks of the week highlighting the must-watch talks of the week. It includes a short human-written video summary.
- New talks including the complete list of all the talks that have been uploaded in the past week. These are grouped by conference and ordered by view count.
I'm currently working on Listening Facts[0], a music habits visualization tool based on your top tracks. Inspired by Receiptify and every day nutrition facts labels[1].
It started out as a Spotify oriented project but due to their recent API changes[2] I ended up focusing more on a Last FM integration. This wasn't that bad as their API provides more details such as play count per song. I've also added an Apple Music integration.
I posted about it[3] on Last FM's subreddit and I was pleasantly surprised to see that a lot of people shared their labels on the comments and seemed to like it.
I'm currently working on language detection, I think it'd be cool to get a language breakdown of the songs you listen to and for that to be part of the displayed items within the label. Something along the lines of EN- 80%, ES- 15%, FR - 5%
I've also tried getting Adsense on the website but I keep getting denied on "Low Content Value" grounds. I tried some alternatives but the quality of their ads was ridiculous (stuff like "your device has a virus, click here to clean it up")
I'm working on an iOS app that unlocks the hidden sensors in your AirPods, turning them into a real-time AI posture coach for work and workouts on iOS and macOS.
I'm working on Happy Coder, an open source Codex and Claude Code native mobile app (plus a web app).
Happy lets you spawn and control multiple Codex/Claude Code sessions in parallel. Happy Coder runs on your hardware, works from your phone and desktop, costs nothing, End to End encrypted, and permissive MIT License.
Happy Coder is a unix style "do one thing well" project.
The goal is zero workflow disruption. I want to be able to run CLI coding agents on any internet connected computer, and control them with my phone. Happy has a command line wrapper for Codex and Claude Code that let you start a session in your terminal, and then continue it from your phone with real time sync. So type in your terminal and see it on the phone, type into your phone and see it in your terminal. So you can switch back and forth.
There is an optional voice agent some contributors have been hacking on that lets you talk to the voice agent first, and the voice agent then writes prompts for Codex/Claude Code and answers questions about what the coding agent running on your computer is doing/did. The voice agent feature is pretty neat, but in my opinion needs a bit more iteration, so any ideas or help would be awesome.
A few years ago I've made an appointment finder for the Berlin Bürgeramt. It got blocked by anti bot measures last month so I'm now fixing it. Basically, I'm moving from Python requests to running an actual browser with Playwright. I actually get help from city employees who tell me why it's getting blocked, since my bot follows the rules.
I am going to try vibe coding this one, simply because I know how to do the job but don't feel like doing it.
I've been working on Plantshare, a free app that aims to help gardeners share plants with other local gardeners. If you do gardening, it's likely that your plants are making more plants all by themselves; use this app to share them and see what others near you are sharing. I basically made the app that I couldn't find.
Android and iOS are in a working beta, might do a web front end eventually too.
I'm not a professional at any of this (accounting day job) and there has been a lot of learning but in the end, what a trip, I made a software!
I've had a ton of help to bring it to life from a friend who is an actual professional at the back-end stuff (thanks Balthromaw) and copilot too.
Working on creating open-source stack for developing agents. Started a year ago with playing with CrewAI, Langgraph , Ango and others..
Then realised the learning curve is more than necessary and I do not use most of their fancy things.
So I started building tinyAgent inspired by a post on Huggingface. https://github.com/askbudi/tinyagent
Later on, I find myself switching between Claude, Cursor, Codex and Gemini-cli. (Not much gemini-cli to be honest:D )
And wanted to play with MCP Servers, so I built Roundtable https://askbudi.ai/roundtable , and when I face a bug, or I need to brainstorm, I task it to create subagents from Claude, Codex,...
And task each of them to analyze the issue and then aggregate their opinion. It is fun, and I feel I get more out of what I have already paid for. ( Paid for Cursor 1-year plan, later on switched to Claude Code, and codex is a part of the Plus plan that I have access to)
Working on Overcentric, a toolkit that simplifies growth for startups - especially for solo founders and small teams.
"Overcentric is like Google Analytics + Mixpanel + Hotjar + Intercom, in a single, cohesive, clutter-free package." - as one of the users described it.
Our vision is for Overcentric to work on autopilot: integrate it in minutes and it works around the clock to understand, support and empower your users - so you get the relevant insights on how to grow and retain more users.
Been working on https://phrasing.app for about 18 months now. I wanted a way where I could learn a maintain multiple languages, all in one place.
I wanted the power of spaced repetition, the frictionless experience of social media, and the joy of a beautifully designed application.
It’s built and I’ve been using it daily for about 8 months now, and lately it’s been working remarkably well. I’m learning several languages, and dabbling in even more, all in just an hour a day.
Now I just have to get all the marketing assets up and marketing it. Working on a new landing page at https://phrasing.app/next — not at all ready to be shared but the question is what am I working on!
this sounds kind of cool I just dont understand what your company does right away... i get it but there is a lot of words on the site but love the color scheme and the site !!!
Working on https://donethat.ai - a fully automated work tracker and in the future also AI coach.
The concept is pretty simple: It takes screenshots every few minutes and reconstructs a calendar of what actually happened. On top of that features to set goals for how much time to spend on topics and a social feed.
This is obviously super sensitive data. I built it in a way that it never stores raw data and you can also bring your own Gemini key, plus a lot more privacy features. Tried to make it fully local but found that it takes too much energy and only works on high end machines.
I have a few first users, iterating with them, and right now exploring if it’s possible to make this work in team settings without sacrificing privacy.
I've been building an app to replace a long-suffering Excel sheet I've used for retirement planning. Started off as a calculator, eventually turned into something like ProjectionLab, though with a focus on what-if scenarios (e.g., how many years can I knock off my working life if I downsize to a smaller house or relocate to another state?) and risk evaluation specifically for early retirement. Not super fancy, but it's already flagged some risks that my spreadsheet didn't, and it's fun to have a codebase that's fully owned/controlled by me.
sounds cool! you should build an app that helps you save towards a goal and shows you losses and wins in real time for the future when you add more or remove from savings in an app or even "what if " i make extra 20 dollars on my 7% car note
Working on a Saas project(https://hpyhn.xyz) help me to learn fast on HN.
On this journey I've became a full-stack dev from a c++ back-end dev thanks for LLM making that happen.
By the way the back-end of tech stack of this project is nodejs and python haha-_-'.
Now exploring on extending this to general programming languages. Software is getting increasingly complex, but I don't think we have figured out many ways of navigating large codebases. Would love to hear about your favourite tools in this space and what would you like to see?
Right now, I’m focused on a personal project where I’m building an AI-driven agent platform. I’ve been working with LangGraph for workflow orchestration and MCP for coordinating multiple agents and models. Through this, I’ve gained practical experience integrating LLMs, vector databases, and external APIs into a scalable backend system.
I’m looking for a remote role where I can apply this hands-on experience with Full Stack engineering and AI agent orchestration to real-world production environments.
For the past 5 years, almost every day I'm working on https://folge.me - desktop and offline alternative to scribehow, tango and similar apps for creating step by step guides and SOPs
Working on a web based online radio station player. I wanted just a very simple interface for finding, favouriting and playing online radio stations and figured would be easy enough to build one. Will be launched in the next month or so.
hey!! I am working on rent savy city :) I would love it you guys checked it out www.rentsavycity.com and sent feedback, we are also building a community where renters can easily attend events,find discounts in local markets and agents can purchase leads. follow our journey!! :P
I am adding OAuth and Open ID Connect to Gethly.com ..which is essentially done, in order to add support for "paywall as a service" feature to enable content creators to host their content outside of the platform. I'll be rolling it out next month.
Working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer
Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep going, but it does probably need a differentiator to be interesting.
Great idea! Where it came from?
Consider placing link to the catalog/places right on the main page, otherwise it is not that intuitive to discover where it is!
The idea came from me wanting a curated up to date list for myself. I thought the alternatives are/were outdated, poorly maintained and/or pay-to-rank. When ratebeer shut down earlier this year I thought I might as well offer this as a potential replacement for the venue listings.
The data is initially crowd sourced, or researched by me when I'm bored. Keeping things updated is done with various automated (and some manual) alive checks for each venue.
I know you're right about the landing page. Would be nice to show the closest venues or locations there immediately, but I absolutely loathe pages that ask for positional data right off the bat (could do some geoip stuff maybe).
Unified LLM client written in the Gleam language: https://github.com/Endi1/llmgleam/
I'm working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted platform for communities to discover and discuss their local area. The plan is for it to be federated.
In the last month or so I've been solely focused on plans and content for my instance for my local town, so there hasn't been any programming for a little while but I'll be jumping back into it in weeks to come.
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
I love this "local first" focus, which for me translates into "relevant first". My app Plantshare (posted about it in this HN post) is not very useful if you're the only user for 40km around, but I've seen local pockets of signups that gain momentum and are then useful in that locality and the users make local connections.
I think the biggest hurdle for this would be to gain traffic in place of an existing entrenched local Facebook group or similar.
Yeah I think established Facebook groups are probably the biggest hurdle. To me, the benefits of not using Facebook are self evident, but a lot of people don't know about the issues around that or don't care. I think creating features that can't be achieved on Facebook could help. Outside of that, I think it's just a matter of providing meaningful content yourself. For Plantshare, I imagine it would be beneficial to be close to you because you, the developer of the app, presumably have a wide variety of plants because that's your interest. And if it's a success for you and your local community, you've succeeded, and any other pockets of success are a bonus. This is at least the way I'm looking at my project here. I still do intend to continue to work on the open source side of things though of course.
In the past month, I came to the discovery that my BitGrid project couldn't meet it's goal of being more power efficient than TPUs, but it took years to figure that out. It could be a quite efficient FPGA like compute fabric, but that's not something I'm super interested in right now.
I've helped a friend get an IFR/Aeroflex/Marconi 2947A Communications Analyzer working, and am now in the process of using Ghidra to disassemble the firmware that runs on the main CPU. (There are several, including a 68000 based cellular option). I think of it as a million piece jigsaw puzzle.
On the way to Vintage Computer Fest, MidWest, my car became the middle of a 5 car sandwich. We all walked away, thanks to modern crumple zones and restraint systems. So, the car is a total loss, now I'm filing forms, and will be looking for a replacement car.
I'm working on Tech Talks Weekly newsletter (https://www.techtalksweekly.io/) where I send a weekly email that includes all the talk recordings uploaded in the past 7 days from nearly every software engineering conference.
Each issue includes: - Featured talks of the week highlighting the must-watch talks of the week. It includes a short human-written video summary. - New talks including the complete list of all the talks that have been uploaded in the past week. These are grouped by conference and ordered by view count.
From time to time, I build talk compilations, for example: - https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/50-most-watched-software-en... - https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-e..., which made it to the HN front page.
I'm currently working on Listening Facts[0], a music habits visualization tool based on your top tracks. Inspired by Receiptify and every day nutrition facts labels[1].
It started out as a Spotify oriented project but due to their recent API changes[2] I ended up focusing more on a Last FM integration. This wasn't that bad as their API provides more details such as play count per song. I've also added an Apple Music integration.
I posted about it[3] on Last FM's subreddit and I was pleasantly surprised to see that a lot of people shared their labels on the comments and seemed to like it.
I'm currently working on language detection, I think it'd be cool to get a language breakdown of the songs you listen to and for that to be part of the displayed items within the label. Something along the lines of EN- 80%, ES- 15%, FR - 5%
I've also tried getting Adsense on the website but I keep getting denied on "Low Content Value" grounds. I tried some alternatives but the quality of their ads was ridiculous (stuff like "your device has a virus, click here to clean it up")
[0] - https://listeningfacts.com/
[1] - https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-education-resources-mater...
[2] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Upda...
[3] - https://www.reddit.com/r/lastfm/comments/1mnk5wj/listening_f...
I'm working on an iOS app that unlocks the hidden sensors in your AirPods, turning them into a real-time AI posture coach for work and workouts on iOS and macOS.
Download: https://www.airposture.pro
How many hidden sensors exist in AirPods? Do they exist in all AirPods models? What about AirPods max?
I'm working on Happy Coder, an open source Codex and Claude Code native mobile app (plus a web app).
Happy lets you spawn and control multiple Codex/Claude Code sessions in parallel. Happy Coder runs on your hardware, works from your phone and desktop, costs nothing, End to End encrypted, and permissive MIT License.
https://github.com/slopus/happy
Happy Coder is a unix style "do one thing well" project.
The goal is zero workflow disruption. I want to be able to run CLI coding agents on any internet connected computer, and control them with my phone. Happy has a command line wrapper for Codex and Claude Code that let you start a session in your terminal, and then continue it from your phone with real time sync. So type in your terminal and see it on the phone, type into your phone and see it in your terminal. So you can switch back and forth.
There is an optional voice agent some contributors have been hacking on that lets you talk to the voice agent first, and the voice agent then writes prompts for Codex/Claude Code and answers questions about what the coding agent running on your computer is doing/did. The voice agent feature is pretty neat, but in my opinion needs a bit more iteration, so any ideas or help would be awesome.
A few years ago I've made an appointment finder for the Berlin Bürgeramt. It got blocked by anti bot measures last month so I'm now fixing it. Basically, I'm moving from Python requests to running an actual browser with Playwright. I actually get help from city employees who tell me why it's getting blocked, since my bot follows the rules.
I am going to try vibe coding this one, simply because I know how to do the job but don't feel like doing it.
https://github.com/All-About-Berlin/burgeramt-appointments
https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/appointment-finder
I've been working on Plantshare, a free app that aims to help gardeners share plants with other local gardeners. If you do gardening, it's likely that your plants are making more plants all by themselves; use this app to share them and see what others near you are sharing. I basically made the app that I couldn't find.
Android and iOS are in a working beta, might do a web front end eventually too.
I'm not a professional at any of this (accounting day job) and there has been a lot of learning but in the end, what a trip, I made a software! I've had a ton of help to bring it to life from a friend who is an actual professional at the back-end stuff (thanks Balthromaw) and copilot too.
https://ps-prod.bloodys.cc/links/getplantshare
Working on creating open-source stack for developing agents. Started a year ago with playing with CrewAI, Langgraph , Ango and others.. Then realised the learning curve is more than necessary and I do not use most of their fancy things. So I started building tinyAgent inspired by a post on Huggingface. https://github.com/askbudi/tinyagent
Later on, I find myself switching between Claude, Cursor, Codex and Gemini-cli. (Not much gemini-cli to be honest:D ) And wanted to play with MCP Servers, so I built Roundtable https://askbudi.ai/roundtable , and when I face a bug, or I need to brainstorm, I task it to create subagents from Claude, Codex,... And task each of them to analyze the issue and then aggregate their opinion. It is fun, and I feel I get more out of what I have already paid for. ( Paid for Cursor 1-year plan, later on switched to Claude Code, and codex is a part of the Plus plan that I have access to)
Working on Overcentric, a toolkit that simplifies growth for startups - especially for solo founders and small teams.
"Overcentric is like Google Analytics + Mixpanel + Hotjar + Intercom, in a single, cohesive, clutter-free package." - as one of the users described it.
Our vision is for Overcentric to work on autopilot: integrate it in minutes and it works around the clock to understand, support and empower your users - so you get the relevant insights on how to grow and retain more users.
https://overcentric.com/
Do you have any customers already?
Been working on https://phrasing.app for about 18 months now. I wanted a way where I could learn a maintain multiple languages, all in one place.
I wanted the power of spaced repetition, the frictionless experience of social media, and the joy of a beautifully designed application.
It’s built and I’ve been using it daily for about 8 months now, and lately it’s been working remarkably well. I’m learning several languages, and dabbling in even more, all in just an hour a day.
Now I just have to get all the marketing assets up and marketing it. Working on a new landing page at https://phrasing.app/next — not at all ready to be shared but the question is what am I working on!
this sounds kind of cool I just dont understand what your company does right away... i get it but there is a lot of words on the site but love the color scheme and the site !!!
Working on https://donethat.ai - a fully automated work tracker and in the future also AI coach.
The concept is pretty simple: It takes screenshots every few minutes and reconstructs a calendar of what actually happened. On top of that features to set goals for how much time to spend on topics and a social feed.
This is obviously super sensitive data. I built it in a way that it never stores raw data and you can also bring your own Gemini key, plus a lot more privacy features. Tried to make it fully local but found that it takes too much energy and only works on high end machines.
I have a few first users, iterating with them, and right now exploring if it’s possible to make this work in team settings without sacrificing privacy.
Myself and my partner are working on a new type of STEM kit for people who want to learn electronics!
https://inventronix.club/?utm_source=hn
It stated as a bit of a toy but we've got 200 people signed up to the waiting list, so we're doing a kickstarter in November!
I've been building an app to replace a long-suffering Excel sheet I've used for retirement planning. Started off as a calculator, eventually turned into something like ProjectionLab, though with a focus on what-if scenarios (e.g., how many years can I knock off my working life if I downsize to a smaller house or relocate to another state?) and risk evaluation specifically for early retirement. Not super fancy, but it's already flagged some risks that my spreadsheet didn't, and it's fun to have a codebase that's fully owned/controlled by me.
Sounds cool!
I also had an idea that it would be good to have a "what-if" product that could simulate financial aspects of life.
Do you have a demo?
sounds cool! you should build an app that helps you save towards a goal and shows you losses and wins in real time for the future when you add more or remove from savings in an app or even "what if " i make extra 20 dollars on my 7% car note
Building a shell and text editor for esp32.
Do you have any link/demo ? Is it open-source?
Working on a Saas project(https://hpyhn.xyz) help me to learn fast on HN. On this journey I've became a full-stack dev from a c++ back-end dev thanks for LLM making that happen. By the way the back-end of tech stack of this project is nodejs and python haha-_-'.
Playing around with code visualization. Built a vscode extension to generate architecture diagrams for terraform - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=infragra...
Now exploring on extending this to general programming languages. Software is getting increasingly complex, but I don't think we have figured out many ways of navigating large codebases. Would love to hear about your favourite tools in this space and what would you like to see?
Working on this product:
- Google Form UI customizer https://customgform.com/
My toolset: nextjs, drizzle orm, postgress, shadcn, tailwind.
Host this on VPS on digital ocean, using traefik.
Why one would want to customize Google Forms?
Do you have any use cases?
What was the reason to start this project?
Right now, I’m focused on a personal project where I’m building an AI-driven agent platform. I’ve been working with LangGraph for workflow orchestration and MCP for coordinating multiple agents and models. Through this, I’ve gained practical experience integrating LLMs, vector databases, and external APIs into a scalable backend system.
I’m looking for a remote role where I can apply this hands-on experience with Full Stack engineering and AI agent orchestration to real-world production environments.
I am building a Builtwith alternative (but for all types of SaaS products and backend tech, not just frontend): https://bloomberry.com/
Mostly targeted to sales platforms and tools, but getting some early interest from individual GTM teams and agencies as well.
Making rent as an open source developer.
Attracting new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my poor HTML skills.
https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
For the past 5 years, almost every day I'm working on https://folge.me - desktop and offline alternative to scribehow, tango and similar apps for creating step by step guides and SOPs
Awesome! What keeps you working on this project for 5 years?
Working on a web based online radio station player. I wanted just a very simple interface for finding, favouriting and playing online radio stations and figured would be easy enough to build one. Will be launched in the next month or so.
I have been experimenting with AI for photos a lot and built a linkedin profile generator. - https://thelinkedlens.com/
Looks fance!
Code Input - https://codeinput.com
Currently working on a better CodeOwners for GitHub.
Could you please add short description of the project here in your comment?
I'm building a compliance orchestration platform.
It would help coordinate multiple security detectors and map outputs to frameworks.
How could it be used? Who is your ideal customer? Any use cases?
hey!! I am working on rent savy city :) I would love it you guys checked it out www.rentsavycity.com and sent feedback, we are also building a community where renters can easily attend events,find discounts in local markets and agents can purchase leads. follow our journey!! :P
Could you please add more details here about this project?
Thinking about a general strike for open source.
Please explain more!
I am adding OAuth and Open ID Connect to Gethly.com ..which is essentially done, in order to add support for "paywall as a service" feature to enable content creators to host their content outside of the platform. I'll be rolling it out next month.
What is Gethy.com ?
A bitcoin risk simulation model
Sounds cool! What type of risks do you simulate? How could it be used?