Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026) (self)

257 pointsby david92719 hours ago902 comments

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

rahilb 4 minutes ago

Currently researching Create ML to try and specialise Apple's foundation models to some particular task(s). Also adding new features to some indie apps I published:

ReminderSync for Obsidian https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync

Roughly (Inline currency conversions via a safari extension) https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/roughly

Noodle; a piano improv companion app https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/noodle

jzig 17 hours ago

I was laid off a few weeks ago. Then I learned my dad’s carpet cleaning company has been struggling, so I started learning about Google Local Service Ads to help him out. THEN I learned his old Windows desktop CRM was discontinued and one OS update away from no longer working. I wanted a way to track every dollar spent to determine return on ad spend, but the Google LSA dashboard left a lot to be desired. And existing SaaS CRMs didn’t have great integrations to Google Ads API. So I built Crewbird, a Field Service Management and CRM for service based businesses with Google LSA integration where my dad is quickly approaching 3x ROAS!

I’m still looking for work in the mean time but I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far.

https://getcrewbird.com/

thunky 17 hours ago

> I was laid off a few weeks ago. Then I learned my dad’s carpet cleaning company has been struggling

Nice story but also kindof sad you didn't have time for this while you were working. Good example of what can happen if we don't work so much.

monooso 16 hours ago

You don't know the first thing about OP, other than that he's trying to help out his dad.

Maybe his father didn't want to worry his family, and had been keeping it to himself. I have no idea, and neither do you; you just chose to assume the worst about someone you don't know.

jzig 15 hours ago

Thank you; roughly accurate.

thunky 14 hours ago

> you just chose to assume the worst

I did no such thing. My assumption was that OP, like most of us, dedicates most of his life to work. That's not a character judgment and it's not "the worst". It's normal.

In the absence of work he was able to help his dad, presumeably because he had more time. The "sad" part isn't OP, it's the fact that work demands so much.

iLoveOncall 17 hours ago

What happens when you find a job and don't have time to keep working on the CRM that your father uses for his company, and he inevitably runs into issues or limitations that require new development?

This feels like a very risky move.

Benjamin_Dobell 16 hours ago

Yeah, impressive project, but I had the same thought.

My LGS recently got me in to have a look at building some custom systems for them. I looked at what they needed and was like:

> Hold up. You can pay me thousands of dollars to build something custom, and it will inevitably have on-going maintenance costs and high associated monthly costs for hosting + third-party API access (not amortized across multiple stores/clients), OR I could set you up on Shopify and a bunch of well maintained plug-ins.

SoftTalker 16 hours ago

Maybe the CRM will become a viable replacement for a job. There are tons of one-person or very small service businesses who could probably use that.

mikert89 16 hours ago

use checkhq to add payroll, and charge 10k per year ACV from businesses :) then add voice intake agents and you will be essentially replicating venture businesses that have raised 20M+

tropicalhunter 16 hours ago

Man, I would love to know more about this. The space between a full blown ERP and a tracker on an Excel Spreadsheet is absolutely abysmal. Then when you start introducing things like fleet and field crew management on top of the procurement, account management and AR/AP while acting as a full blown salesman that a lot of middle managers are being expected to do right now, it gets absolutely soul crushing to swap between 12 different trackers per hour just to find a snippet of the information you are looking for.

I have something vibed together as an internal tool that does well enough, but definitely not something I would ever refer to as a CRM by any stretch of the imagination and the bridge between basic on-the-shelf inventory and tracking rental assets are two completely different beasts. Maybe more of a prettier version of the spreadsheets we already use with more automated functionality would be more apt.

skrig 16 hours ago

Building this right now! I've helped several companies implement CRMs and worked on heavily customizing my ERP at work. They all suck, bad. 90% of companies only need something simple. I'll let you know when I'm finished, would be awesome to get some feedback if you're willing.

calvinmorrison 16 hours ago

or better to say different people need different things. a accountant is more interested in properly calculating the COGs than the guy inputting his labor and goods on a ticket.

tropicalhunter 13 hours ago

All horrible. Some of those modular CRM's seemed promising, but still felt like we would end up with oversaturated feature sets and would just be trading one suite for another and the same problems.

Definitely share when you do. If you have a repo or anything that I can follow while it is still in development, that would be great.

jzig 16 hours ago

Thanks for one of the only positive comments here. There are still areas for improvement but it has proven useful so far. Happy to talk any time.

xeonax 3 hours ago

My slop attempt at this https://worx.aeonax.com/. I felt there was a gap, an absence of high bureaucracy software. So made above. People I know did check it out. so theres that.

xyzzy_plugh 14 hours ago

Please create a newsletter sign up or something. I have several clients who could be interested in this as it matures.

jzig 14 hours ago

Interesting thought! What would you want to read about? Would a blog suffice?

xyzzy_plugh 13 hours ago

Just send an email when you post a new blog post.

no-trbl-2-u 14 hours ago

This is so sick, great job dude! I actually just started a startup with a few friends of mine and we just started using Google ads and we literally just complained about the dashboard and what we can and can not see. I'm not 100% sure Crewbird aligns since we really only have the 2 services, but I'll definitely check it out further and bring it up with them. Funnily enough, though, the platform we're building is a job hunting platform (hunt.tech) I hope it helps and I can't wait to really dig into this.

Out of curiosity, where did you get the name Crewbird?

jzig 2 hours ago

Thanks! How are you using Google Ads with your job search product? The name came from brainstorming dozens of examples with Claude, refining what made some sense for the product/industry, and cross-referencing with what TLDs were available.

minierpthrowawa 12 hours ago

I actually did this for my father’s industry in 2016. Took a break from my sales job, and built him a project management tool about 25% of the way to an ERP tool. I’ve sold a few monthly recurring accounts to other companies and overall the people that like it enough to finish onboarding seem to like it. Watch out though.. don’t work too hard too long for too little just for dad. Him being your #1 user that loves you can make you keep going longer than you would if you had to face reality.

My real advice… start working for him and using the software yourself 100%. Even for $5 an hour so you both have skin in the game. Him to have some help, you to learn, but the money adds a bit of reality so neither of you do things only because it’s free or because it’s family.

My saas has improved leaps and bounds this year when I started to work in the industry for a company actually using my product. I learned things I never saw by just giving demos.

jzig 3 hours ago

Sage advice here, thank you. That makes a lot of sense in terms of learning the domain. Would you be comfortable having a brief conversation? Would love to learn more of your story.

vablings 7 minutes ago

There are so many corporate bone piles due to the disconnect with how a software ought to work and how designers take that specification and make it. I think at every place I have worked under several different projects the development team have always never really aligned correctly with the people using the software every day (internal tooling not for sale saas or product).

Its really not hard to sit down and listen to users but I have encountered such massive egos and resistances to simple moving a button somewhere else or changing a flow or behavior to be easier to use for a layman that the juice is never worth the squeeze. Often to get the flow that I want to use I just resort to hacking apart the Api bit by bit and making my own horrible layer on-top of the existing solution because i am still standardized but I don't have to deal with politics in making a change request.

golddust-gecko 2 hours ago

This is great. And I think if "software engineer" as a large-scale job category (i.e. not just highly specialized big co. technical staff) persists in the AI future, it looks like this: "the jack of all trades computer person working in a non-software company".

nicbou 5 hours ago

AI is still killing the website I live from[0], training its AI on my work and using it to deny me an audience. Traffic is down 80-85% from the same month pre-LLMs.

So I'm cutting operating costs to the bare minimum. Today I shut down one service and replaced a VPS with Cloudflare Workers. I'm also trimming my SaaS subscriptions and self-hosting what I can.

Working on this website feels so pointless if it will end up dead in a year. I just returned from a vacation and realised that I just don't like being online anymore. I'll cut my expenses to a minimum, log off, and ride a motorcycle around the world. What happens after that is anyone's guess.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/death-by-ai

bendx 2 hours ago

Hey Nicolas, I’m sure you’re sick of hearing this, but All About Berlin was indispensable when I lived in Berlin from 2021 to 2024. I recommended your blog to all my immigrant friends. It was equally as helpful as the immigration lawyer I hired.

I don’t have any advice, but I do want to thank you for the thankless work you do on All About Berlin and say I’m sorry to hear how much LLMs have affected your business.

lippihom 12 minutes ago

^ +1 x 1000.

addedlovely 32 minutes ago

Brutal, and the choice is shitty too, block the ai crawlers and lose what little referral traffic they give. Allow the traffic and get summarised into oblivion.

la_fayette 23 minutes ago

Ok how could one protect from something like this?

- Put the information into an app and make it inaccessible for the LLM? - Add a paywall protection?

pona-a 9 minutes ago

[delayed]

_bramses 21 minutes ago

I’ve been working on an analog framework to reduce journals into high quality essential commonplace books.

The process as of now:

0. Create a separate journal called BestOf. Get a black pen and a red pen.

1. Write in your daily journal as usual

2. Once you reach the end of your daily journal, take the red pen and underline the text that resonates the most

3. Wait a few days to let the thoughts settle

4. Take your BestOf journal and copy over only the best of the underlined sections using the black pen.

5. (most important) Once every week, review your BestOf journal and strikethrough with a single line what you no longer need.

Over time, this effortful reduction process creates a single repository of the best ideas from all of your daily journals.

aaronbrethorst 18 hours ago

I work on a suite of open source public transit software projects, collectively called OneBusAway (or OBA). The software is used by millions of transit riders every day around the world, including in New York City, the Seattle area, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.

University of California San Diego has deployed our Wayfinder and Waystation web apps for their 35,000+ students!

We're getting ready to launch our Vehicle Positions software, which replaces expensive, proprietary vehicle location systems with free, open source software that runs on commodity smartphones.

Our next-generation server software, Maglev, is adding support for newer transit data formats, like GTFS-Flex so that we can show demand responsive transit systems on the map.

We are always looking for more developers, biz dev, ux designers, product managers, and more to help out!

Open volunteer positions: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...

Our software: https://github.com/OneBusAway/

More about us: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org

aleda145 18 hours ago

As someone who's passionate about public transportation and livable cities this is awesome. Keep it up!

aaronbrethorst 15 hours ago

thank you!

elliottmoos 16 hours ago

I’ve been looking for ways to donate my time to this cause in a way that might actually be useful.

Shall be volunteering, thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!

aaronbrethorst 15 hours ago

Thanks Elliot! Please take a look at our contributors guide: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/onebusaway/contrib...

you'll find a link to join our slack at the bottom of it.

vcryan 14 hours ago

12 words in, I was like - this must be Aaron :) then I at word 15 I saw OneBusAway and I was like yep. Then I checked your handle, and it is you. TransitOPS-Ryan here - great to see you!

aaronbrethorst 12 hours ago

haha, hi Ryan! We should catch up sometime soon :)

MisterMunchkin 5 hours ago

That seems cool. UK buses don't tend to have this kind of stuff, probably because they can't be bothered. It would be good to have a live map here.

el_oni 4 hours ago

Bus checker app has a live map, loads of buses here have live updates on location

HaloZero 5 hours ago

Just got back from parental leave at work but I found about yall a few weeks ago. Really hoping to help on your iOS side once things are settled.

I looked at supporting the Bay Area until I realized it needed a separate service to maintain it so something that the transit agencies themselves need to provide.

ultrasounder 8 minutes ago

I use onebusaway every time I visit my son at UW,Seattle. I live in San Jose. I can’t imagine tracking bus route 72 timings without this tool. Thank you for your contributions.

mroops0111 9 minutes ago

https://github.com/mroops0111/subedit

AI-generated code comments or Markdown usually isn't my style, so I built an AI-native linter and formatter, which automatically fixes the style or asks AI via a hook to regenerate if something is misaligned but cannot be reformatted deterministically.

vucetica 2 hours ago

My Snagit license was up for renewal. After VS Code, Safari, and Terminal, it was the app I used most on my computer, so I needed it to run fast and do what I wanted. Instead, it kept getting in my way in all its bloated glory, and I didn't want to pay to renew it. So I'm building my own replacement.

Yes, it's another screenshot and recording tool. But this one has exactly the features I need, nothing more and nothing less. It's like a home-cooked meal. Sure, it's vibe-coded, but it has a bit of an engineer's touch.

https://screensnipe.app

forsalebypwner 29 minutes ago

Sick, I also use Snagit a ton and am unhappy with the price. Gonna check this out

leobuskin 17 hours ago

I’m reverse engineering and replacing the entire stack on Samsung A54 (Exynos 1380, Mali-G68), started with booting to a customized linux kernel (7.3) w/o Android layer at all (Wayland and WPE WebKit only), built a custom WLBT thin firmware to replace the original fat blob (using mac80211 as the foundation), figured out how to exploit USB control transfer and got ACE in the PBL, reconstructed (with byte-identical verification) their LK-based S-Boot, uH and harx, patched mesa/panfrost, optimized kernels for this device (finally got STT/TTS running on GPU faster than on CPU), figured out how to utilize NPU, built a custom toolchain for it. I’m trying to properly own this device (and giving it to Claude on the lowest possible level, but still running pKVM and getting rid of original hypervisors), it’s the goal number one at this point, no binary blobs, ability to change sw and control hw on-the-fly. Obviously with AI usage (Opus 5.5/4.8, GLM 5.3, Kimi 3.1), there’s a lot of work.

properbrew 16 hours ago

This sounds crazy fun, I'm going to dig out my beloved age old LG-V30 and give something similar a go. Good luck, I hope you post an update somewhere (maybe next months Ask HN), would love to hear how you get on.

thomasjeff1 16 hours ago

We need more people doing work like that.

leobuskin 15 hours ago

It’s a lot of compute and AI tokens (to reconstruct the original source code with byte-identical gate using the original toolchain - which you also need to found + figure out per-TU flags), at this point I truly believe we should go in SETI@HOME style for RE if we want to survive. With a proper caching and trust via verification - a lot of fat blobs can be resolved in a distributed way. If anyone interested - ping me, it’s boring to do solo.

Next generation of the devices won’t be ours at all, there will be no easy hacks. Turn off automatic updated, do backups, pray for chaos.

iugtmkbdfil834 11 hours ago

Very worthwhile endeavor for the kids who, in not so distant future, may not know what a non-locked down hardware is if our fearless leadership has its way. Do you have any online presence where the work can be supported?

leobuskin 4 hours ago

I've created discord server and github repo (didn't expose yet, considering a proper wrapping for all the components), whoever is interested in RE and proper device ownership -> https://discord.gg/yFVC7bddu, I'll be happy to assist and exchange/share what I did

ycombinatornews 11 hours ago

Would you be sharing the NPU learning? Was shocked when I learned you could only use it through some official SDK from Samsung

leobuskin 4 hours ago

With a pleasure, ping me via email, I'll try to wrap it up (sorry, it will be AI wrapping, I have no time to do it manually), and maybe you can help me to release it publicly.

MertsA 10 hours ago

I'm working on something similar for an Alder Lake motherboard to try to get coreboot ported. Right now I'm working through decompiling and documenting CSME 16 and it's a slog with guard rails limiting me to Opus 4.8. Have you had better luck getting GLM and Kimi to do the firmware reverse engineering?

leobuskin 4 hours ago

GLM and Kimi are good to go, if they are also deny/refuse -> try abliterated.ai or refuseless (do not recommend them, oversold servers). Sometimes 4.8 is enough, depends on your prompt engineering approach. Sometimes 5.5 can even lead 4.8 subagents, see my next comment in the parent branch.

saucesaft 9 hours ago

i’m interested in your pipeline for reverse engineering, how are you dealing with anthropic blocking this kind of tasks on clause code? are you delegating everything to chinese models?

leobuskin 4 hours ago

GLM & Kimi are both good to do it with just a bit of prompt engineering (historical preservation, EU laws, etc, you know the drill); Opus 5.5 is also ok to do it according to EU laws, but only with Opus 4.8 subagent - this part is tricky, I'm using ./.claude/agents/opus48.md template, bc this is the only known to me way to kick off 4.8 agent explicitly, regular tooling CC has doesn't allow to downgrade the subagent. 5.5 becomes the lead, 4.8 is doing the dirty work - this pairing worked out great for WLBT reconstruction and some other binaries, but not all. The same second you touch something like hypervisor - it becomes more complex, 5.5 won't be able to lead, so you need to go to China.

A few sad and bad moments I experienced: 5.5 will not optimize GPU kernels for you, somehow A\ decided that it's "cyber"; 5.5 will get safeguarded with almost any kind of deep kernel work. I'd say, "shame on you, Anthropic", but it's too late.

moj 27 minutes ago

A video player focussed on 360 videos.

I got a 360 camera (GoPro MAX v1) for my bicycle, after re-discovering bicycling during COVID. I soon found it was fun to review the video after a ride, but the software was a bit clunky. Upgraded to a DJI Osmo 360, and found the software likewise powerful, but still not what I wanted.

As an audio video developer I knew I could make it work the way I wanted, and this year I finally set about doing that: https://recap360.app (macOS-only at the moment).

It’s a ~5MB download from the macOS app store; no in-app ads, no accounts, no ~GB download. It loads the video of a 5-hour bike ride in seconds, direct from MicroSD. Complete with a map overlay & graphs of various internal metadata. (Speed, altitude, ascent rate, but also internal temperature etc).

It’s been fascinating to see the various tradeoffs the camera vendors make; how much in-camera stabilization & rolling shutter compensation vs how much to leave to the player. Also interest ing is how the metadata is recorded in the file; some document them, most don’t.

Started with GoPro MAX, added DJI Osmo 360 & Insta360 support. More coming soon. Even plays dash cams & body cams (Vantrue & Boblov; I was curious to see how they stored GPS data).

chartrow 16 hours ago

I am still working on fast and dense stock market related visualizations, example:

Drawdown (from 52-week high) charts for top performing YTD stocks of the NASDAQ 100:

https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=drawdown&p=ytd&in=n...

View the stock charts of holdings of an ETF like ARKK in a dense way:

https://chartrow.com/quote/arkk/holdings#range=10y&ma=20%2C5...

Microsoft business fundamental trends:

https://chartrow.com/quote/msft/trends

Visualizing the top performing stocks in different ways:

https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=charts&p=ytd

https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=heatmap&p=ytd

https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=calendar&p=ytd

Feel free to change views from charts to table to heatmap etc. And it should feel responsive. Report any bugs to me and happy viewing. :)

brightbed 16 hours ago

Really nice. You definitely succeeded on the snappy feeling.

haberdasher 7 hours ago

+1 The speed is impressive, refreshing!

chartrow an hour ago

Thank you. I wanted it to be as fast as a native app. I am not there yet, but still working on it. :)

wewewedxfgdf 15 hours ago

This is actually useful - I bookmarked it.

mcoliver 12 hours ago

This is really cool. Nice work

0wis 9 hours ago

Very cool ! I was pondering subscribing to baggr (https://baggr.fr/) made by my local influencer, while thinking about building it myself. You provide a free version and another example to build it in a better way.

Thanks for the work, I’ll definitely dig into the code and I am curious to know how you made it so snappy !

chartrow an hour ago

Thanks for the appreciation. I haven't used baggr, but from skimming it, it does seem like there is some overlap in feature set.

My goal was to provide rich, fast, intuitive market data dashboards without bloating up the page too much.

There are also quote charts that can combine market and fundamental data, like this:

https://chartrow.com/quote/msft#range=10y&type=line&ma=20%2C...

(it overlays sales on the same chart and adds p/s percentile below the chart)

I hope that it can help retail investors do better research.

abhinavsriva 7 hours ago

Very cool ! How are you getting data ?

chartrow an hour ago

TLDR: I purchased it from twelvedata

More information here: https://chartrow.com/about

reenorap an hour ago

How are you getting real time market data?

chartrow an hour ago

TLDR: I purchased it from twelvedata

More information here: https://chartrow.com/about

bovermyer 7 minutes ago

I'm building a mecha-themed autobattler video game. It will be the first release of my nascent game dev studio.

This is both thrilling and terrifying.

Avijit_Thawani 2 hours ago

https://pahunchi.netlify.app/ A free app for women to pretend to be on call when alone in a cab or to get out of a bad date. Can share location, voice note on a realistic call where AI responds in your language (currently supports Hindi, English).

Saigonautica 13 hours ago

Ages ago, I had built a tool to monitor the mains power frequency with resolution of some microseconds. I looked at my old assembly code, and realized with better optimization and optocoupler choice, I could probably get that down to some hundreds of nanoseconds.

The original idea was to try and correlate phase jitter to space weather, essentially using the mains power system as a sort of radio telescope. I never did get it working (although I did not have much time to try, either). I was able to see interesting things like generators spinning up to maintain the frequency though.

Will open source the hardware when done. I am not an astronomer, just some random fellow that investigates things at depth for no particular reason.

Joel_Mckay 13 hours ago

Did something similar years ago, and most opto-couplers only have a switching response time around 100kHZ at best.

High precision instrumentation just uses a stable comparator to sync the AC line Zero crossing events, and times the sharp roll-off gap over several cycles to estimate the center transition event. This allows readings to be synced in the low-noise state of the power lines cycles, and time what the readings should be when monitoring the voltage, temperature, and current across the cycles.

Additionally, most >8-digit meters internal power supply will have a tuned filter for the 60Hz/50Hz line. Getting a line filter will often give a digit of precision on older equipment, and clip-on line chokes in bulk also help.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/eaton-tripp-lite/...

One final tip, anything beyond 12bits precision or 60MHz wide RF bandwidth for SDR will almost certainly have an export restriction. Wideband devices also have RF front end saturation issues, and usually require narrow band-pass filters to see the hydrogen line etc. Best of luck =3

CamperBob2 12 hours ago

Actual high-precision instrumentation band-limits the signal on its way to atan2(), rather than using a comparator that samples the noise from DC to daylight.

thirtygeo 10 hours ago

Thank you for giving me bedtime reading to do! Several interesting things I had no idea about.. In a box just 10m from where I sleep....

thirtygeo 10 hours ago

This is a neat idea. Are you familiar with Magnetotelluric geophysical surveys?

Malcx 17 hours ago

A series of actually hard puzzle books, so far sudoku, killer sudoku and some fiendish wordsearches that only use 5 letters per grid.

https://extremepuzzlebooks.com

A sample wordsearch is available as a pdf here: https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/assets/sample/extreme-wordsea...

I'm quite proud of this wordsearch concept as I've not seen it done before.

All the logic puzzles have an online solution to show step by step how you can complete them.

https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/walkthroughs

I've been working on the software to generate, test and verify these for a couple of years and finally built up enough puzzle stock that meets the difficulty requirements to properly launch.

Now the work is on every hackers favourite part... Marketing!

epiccoleman 12 hours ago

Haha, I really love the word search. All my usual tactics fall apart - the limitation on the letters is adversarial in an oddly satisfying way. Cool idea.

Malcx 4 hours ago

Thanks, yeah I like the way it's effectively a kids game, but made very hard by one simple change.

Placing the words/extra letters in a way that you don't accidentally make duplicates was a challenge involving a _lot_ of tree walking.

epiccoleman 4 hours ago

Oh interesting, I hadn't considered that, but of course that would be quite the challenge haha, with relatively short words like you picked

kristiandupont 11 hours ago

Neat!

Somewhat related, I built a browser-based version of my favourite deduction game: https://github.com/kristiandupont/sherlock

eps 8 hours ago

Not everyone's cup 'o tea, but there's a letter search puzzles too:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084QLSJVF

sevenseacat 5 hours ago

oooh if you ever do logic grid puzzles I am so there

Malcx 4 hours ago

I have several more puzzles in the works, is there a particular type of one you're interested in?

voatsap 18 hours ago

For the last 3 years, with a small team has been building https://kube-dc.com/ - a platform for building enterprise grade private and public clouds. Its like VMware + OpenShift + Railway in a single product: completely multi-tenant, built entirely on the K8s API (we built over 46 custom controllers in Go, with UI in Radix UI), with managed services like nested K8s, Postgres, Kafka, Valkey, and GitHub runners. Not the charts :) real services. Also we can do vlans BGP, shared GPU and all fancy stuff required.

Now we don't deploy this to private companies except some gov projects. But we are engaging existing IaaS and dedicated servers providers. Later hope we would fight with Broadcom and IBM :)

We previously ran a services company that built over 100 private clouds, then decided to turn that experience into a product with an aggressive level of automation to let DevOps, SRE, and platform teams hit a 1:300 ratio per developer (now dev + AI agent teams).

We are currently deployed across 12 datacenters and raising our seed round this month.

Regarding been curious, today I have created my first explainable video with Remotion +claude so if you want to see open edit results check https://promo-review-shalb-promo.stage.kube-dc.com/

Would be glad if you comment. Thanks!

jasonvorhe 17 hours ago

I think you meant to link to https://kube-dc.com/ :)

voatsap 17 hours ago

Good catch, fixed the link! Thanks.

stroebs 17 hours ago

Really interesting, and I think you’re going to need to charge more for your product (which may come up during your funding rounds). I’ve been building the same thing at $enterprise, totally on-prem multi-AZ, multi-region KaaS, VMaaS, and soon DBaaS, and some of the other services listed. It’s a great deal harder than we initially planned for and we have some ridiculous internal policies that require everything to be git-driven which makes it worse.

Looking forward to see how your product develops. Would love to work with you in future.

kohukohunui 12 hours ago

Genuine question about your git-driven comment.

From my hands-on engineering POV I often set this maybe not as a hard requirement but definitely a goal, and the places where it's not possible I find a little painful.

In your case where is it becoming something that doesn't make sense for you?

voatsap 6 hours ago

Let me add my 2 cents on this. The most unconfortable place for GitOps is when you need to keep in sync values that user could define via product UI/cli. For example you change theme color in UI, but you have the same settings you can define in Helm chart inside a git repo. So that brings you to dilema, where and how to store dynamic settings (this could be just inside K8s api change via UI/cli) but changing all of this using GitOps way (UI/CLI-> git commit -> wait reconcile) breaks the comfortable user expierence.

Same things with dynamic changes just for test something, you need or commit temp change and commit back old value again or just pause controller from updating during your tests.

But the bright side of this is the fact that your configuration completly traceble and you have whole IaC backup for your infra in unrbreakable place (git).

For now we fully perform all updates and all configuration with Flux and this was a good decision I can retrospect.

bennett_dev 21 minutes ago

https://launchroom.vantezzen.io/

A self hosting dashboard that gives you a Railway-like canvas to connect your different services in a project and that uses tailscale for easy multi-server setups

pg1 19 minutes ago

https://github.com/pg1/paper-profit/

Paper-trading platform that lets you learn by doing—teaching about investing and trading.

bretthopper 4 hours ago

I worked at a sports company forever ago, and ever since then, I've wanted to build my own NBA scores + stats site. After a few false starts over the years, I have a new concept called Center Court that I'm so excited about.

It's primary purpose is for live boxscores because all of the major sports sites have terrible UI/UX experiences. I always defaulted to ESPN.com but it's so slow and awful. Center Court is basically a bridge between espn.com (or nba.com) and more advanced stat focused sites that don't offer a good live experience.

The technical implementation behind it is quite novel in this space too. Instead of storing computed statistics in a database, I store raw play by play payloads immutability and everything else is derived from those and can be trivially rebuilt so the event log is a derived cache of the payloads. Every stat on every page is a pure fold over the event log at request time; no derived number is stored.

This enables some powerful features like being able to re-derive a game's entire state at any point of the game (or even a time range). Example game to try out: https://centercourtlive.com/game/0022600197

The site is meant to be extremely fast. It's all server-side rendered with progressive JS enhancements. URLs are immutable and cached behind a CDN.

https://centercourtlive.com/

draftsman 3 hours ago

Where do you get your data?

Shocka1 2 hours ago

I would like to know this too - I have historically used ESPN data, but have issues with it here and there.

bretthopper an hour ago

Currently I'm using NBA.com. See https://github.com/swar/nba_api for more details on that (I used it to create my own Rust client).

So far I'm trying to exclusively rely on cdn.nba.com endpoints. There are repos with historical PBP data too if you want to avoid hitting their API. Eg: https://github.com/ramirobentes/nba_pbp_data

If this project becomes more successful then I would look into paying for a real data provider like https://sportradar.com/

forsalebypwner 24 minutes ago

I really like the look of the score-over-time charts, nice work.

What does the "No garbage time" button do underneath that chart?

dsmurrell 18 hours ago

https://singonkey.app

A singing training app for bad singers. You sing the pitch line and get a score. Let's you sing to any original song by listening along and not playing the song itself.

Recently got some good feedback on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195488 and am following up with Linux and Windows versions and using Fable 5.1 to internationalise the app and landing page which explains the app.

iloveyoutwo 16 hours ago

Why use Fable 5.1 over Opus 5.5?

MrMetric 8 hours ago

I dunno about that guy, but at least for me, I find Opus 5/5.5 is really annoying and stupidly uncreative, whereas Fable 5/5.1 actually gets things without much trouble. He also half-asses everything unless you get him interested in what you're doing and then he always writes godawful slop code anyway, but I've recently been having him delegate implementation work to Opus 5.5 subagents and that works way better. Fable (who is actually Mythos wearing a shock collar and groucho mask, don't forget that) is better at grasping architectural ideas than Opus 5.5 and writes better prompts for them than me, and they'll probably write better code than him. Fable for architecture, Opus for implementation (and GPT for review). Or have Fable self-review afterward, if your quota can handle it.

I also still enjoy Opus 4.8 a lot more for creative discussions and design, even if benchmarks say he's not as smart. Opus 5/5.5 is so rigid!

dsmurrell 5 hours ago

My assumption was that it would be better at translations from English into other languages.

sdeep27 12 hours ago

Very cool, bookmarking to try!

dsmurrell 5 hours ago

Let me know how it goes!

hey-hey 11 hours ago

this is cool, I always hoped someone would build something like this

dsmurrell 5 hours ago

Thanks!

jyapayne 8 minutes ago

Thanks for building this! I'm using it as a base to make a karaoke application so I can sing with my wife like we did in Japan. Hoping to make it similar to the systems they had set up at Jankara.

Tsarp 12 minutes ago

https://voicebraindump.com

suls 3 hours ago

To help my kids preparing for an exam (and steer them away from asking Gemini for solutions), I’ve built an iPad Kids Tutor app. They can take a pic of a problem that they struggle with (initially for math but it works for any subject) and the harness then prepares a plan how to work through the issue using both claude and codex on the backend. It’s been fun to build and watch my kids start using it and actually enjoy it (ok, not always).

Jemm 3 hours ago

That seems like an excellent project.

abound 18 hours ago

I've been deep in the weeds on two wildly unrelated projects.

Project #1: I've been working on migrating an application [1] from GCP (where I pay $200/mo to host it) to a physical server (PowerEdge R7625) I've racked in a colo near me, running on my own IPs/ASN [2] and all that jazz. I've been dragging my feet on the this as there's just a lot of moving pieces, but I got a good chunk of the last few hard bits done today.

Project #2: Building a DIY bright-ass lamp, like Brighter [3] or Rhythm [4], but for a few hundred bucks instead of $1-2k. I've specced out the parts, designed the hardware, and built the firmware. Later today I'll do my first LED test against a bench supply, to get some hard numbers for if my cooling solution (a chunky aluminum heatsink and some Noctua PC fans) is sufficient for the full 500+ W final version.

As far as curiosities go, I've been doing a lot of Go (the board game, not the language) puzzles, and reading about sailing (mostly the book from the Hundredrabbits folk [5])

[1] https://abound.art

[2] https://bgp.tools/as/55078

[3] https://getbrighter.com/

[4] https://www.betterwithrhythm.com/

[5] https://100r.co/site/busy_doing_nothing.html

stoneman24 17 hours ago

Would be really interested in hearing how project 2 (DIY Lamp) works out. If you get it into a state that you are happy to share or go commercial.

I did see the Brighter and Rhythm lamps before but their way out of my price league.

In Edinburgh (Scotland at 56 deg N) during December, it's sunrise at 08:30 and sunset at 15:30. And there's plenty of folks at higher latitudes that may be interested as well.

abound 17 hours ago

I definitely have no plans to go commercial (just started a new job, very demanding on my time), but I'll 100% open-source all the firmware/KiCAD/CAD/BOM/etc so folks can make their own.

My current "design" is basically just strapping all the pieces together, so it'll leave a lot to be desired in terms of aesthetics for folks who want it to be more nicely integrated into their living environment.

dabinat 17 hours ago

Some people use stadium lights for this, such as this[0]. They’re very cheap but they’re not specifically designed as SAD lamps so I’m not sure how well they fit that purpose.

0: https://a.co/d/0gq5loUS

sberens 17 hours ago

As the founder of Brighter, I'm curious to see how #2 turns out ;)

abound 17 hours ago

Haha I'll keep you updated! Like I mentioned in another comment, I don't have plans to commercialize it, I'm making it just not-janky enough to not pose a safety hazard/burn my house down.

In terms of design, I'm going a different route: Instead of a bunch of smaller LEDs, I'm doing 12x larger LEDs (6x 2700K, 6x 6500K). I'm using the Bridgelux V18 Thrives, so the CRI should be quite good (95+), as should the overall efficiency because I'm running them at pretty low amps relative to the spec sheet.

horsawlarway 16 hours ago

For what it's worth (and probably not a ton, since it sounds like you're doing this for fun) a decent LED grow light is wonderful for this.

I use a 200w vivosun pointed at the wall during the short daylight months.

Costs a fraction of what you mentioned at roughly $150. Or $300 if you really want to go as high as 400w.

Makes the whole room feel like you've got bright sunlight pouring in.

My wife made fun of me at first, but now also has one for her office.

hsuduebc2 16 hours ago

I'm always amazed how everyone is here.

ak39 11 hours ago

Now that AI vibe coding has reduced moat (sizes), HN is likely where you find the first signs of “T” in SWOT.

thirtygeo 10 hours ago

Hm... That gives me an idea for a vibecoding project...

nazcan 3 hours ago

As someone also planning to get Colo space, it's a fun journey!

abound 2 hours ago

Agreed! And the economics over cloud are great at anything over hobby sizes. If I were to rent a similarly specced server from a hyperscaler, I'd pay for the server I have in about ~eight months, even accounting for colo costs.

forsalebypwner 18 minutes ago

Am I mistaken or are you paying roughly the same amount for your server and the 2x /24s of IPv4?

BrandoDev_it 3 hours ago

Vela! A new desktop environment made to use just Vulkan 1.4, expecting to be faster than Plasma* and made with wlroots, but using a custom renderer. It has focus on fractional scaling, sharpness and usability. Take a look at https://velade.org

*currently building a benchmark suite, reaching approx. 40% less ram usage, 40% faster input lag, less cpu usage in some activities, and faster responsiveness during high cpu usage (from other tasks)

Source: https://github.com/vela-desktop/vela

Zak 2 hours ago

I found it bizarre when Microsoft moved the Windows start menu from the corner (Fitts' law, corners are infinite-size targets), and I see you've done the same. Why?

BrandoDev_it an hour ago

Taskbar items are closer to the cursor, however, you can customize it

Zak 18 minutes ago

Thanks for the explanation, I guess it makes sense on large and especially ultrawide displays.

AntonyGarand an hour ago

I've been having fun with using AI to gather data on niche subjects so I can visualize and understand it better.

Recently, this has been porting the wikipedia "Getting to philosophy"[0] to other gaming wikis, and working alongside agents got me to a really nice visualization[1] for it.

I'm now slowly working towards converting this to an immersive article so I can share some of the emerging patterns and evaluating the differences within the various wikis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

[1] https://antonygarand.github.io/gaming-wiki-analysis/mesh/?

ekzy 5 hours ago

I'm building Papillon: https://papillon.so, a real-time collaborative workspace for product teams.

The idea is to bring chat, docs, files, links, tasks, whiteboards and calls into one place, organised around project channels, rather than jumping between Slack, Notion, Linear, etc. I want to build a better Slack, something that feels instant, got a hacker/IDE feel to it, and works offline.

One feature I love is that teams can build little apps with AI directly inside their workspace. Things like shared support rotas, spreadsheets, dashboards or custom workflows, all running in an isolated sandbox (with cloudflare OS) and easily accessible to the team.

I've been building it solo for around 18 months now, alongside my job as a staff engineer. The web app is live, and there's a macOS app too. It's built with Tauri, so I will eventually release apps for other platforms but I need more time to test it properly.

I had a team try it and they loved it, but in the end their leadership wasn't comfortable adopting something built by a solo developer as a side project. I understand, and it's a tricky problem for me to solve at this point. I've added a lot of security/trust info, uptime history etc. to the website as a result of that.

I'm looking for a few small teams willing to give it a go. Happy to help setting things up or answer any question. I'd also love any feedback, good or bad...!