Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (November 2026)
We're building abejora.com, a time tracking tool for freelancers and small teams. Lately we've been working on access for AI agents, since many people want their own agent to handle the repetitive parts of time tracking. We rebuilt our core this month to support change history and full undo/redo functionality because control remains important. We built this after the timesheet tool we paid for raised its prices and moved features we used regularly behind more expensive plans—adding three new colleagues would have cost us $500 a year more for the same software. We run Elixir and Phoenix LiveView on a Kubernetes cluster made of Talos instances, and we're still looking for feedback on the product.
- efromvt
Late the bandwagon but have been experimenting with agent assisted lean/formalization for the first time; it's been surprisingly high ROI vs previous fuzz coverage and has forced me to think through some interactions of cases that I hadn't yet encountered in the wild. Very useful for flushing out null behavior in my typed SQL engine [1].
On another project to inventory street trees - making progress on training a vision model for aerial tree photo detection in urban environments (original goal was to fill in central park in NYC, which is missing from their public inventory). Haven't gotten NYC to the level of precision I want, but SF has good initial results! [2]
- jzig
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.
- stanislavb
VibeVoted (https://vibevoted.com/) - a platform for product assessment and competitions based on the rankings of 10 leading AI models from 10 different labs. Also, each product get's feedback and recommendation for improvements. Here's a sample voting session: https://vibevoted.com/s/password-managers-2026-oct
- aaronbrethorst
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
- chartrow
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. :)
- charlesabarnes
I am working on https://gangway.sh/
I always wanted to quickly deploy small sites and apps for clients and friends.
While developing this, I realized that this also could be ergonomically similar to Claude artifacts for open source harnesses.
I have a few users that I personally know, but hoping this grows to have more users one day. Not getting abandoned any time soon.
Self hostable and easily forkable with a Apache 2 license.
- joewhale
I've hated all budgeting apps I've used and found them to be always restrictive, expensive, or envelope (YNAB) focused. I don't really need a "budget" app, more of a personal finance app. I just want to be able to review all my family's transactions and look at cash flow and track net worth, so I built my own. A few of my friends were interested, so I gave them access. I'm seeing more and more of these budget apps bring in LLMs which is such a bad idea. The only AI I built is opt-in and uses Jev AI to auto categorize transactions that are stripped of info.
If any one is curious, it's on https://dumplingmoney.com/
- yoz-y
A GEGL/babl based image raster/vector/pixel editor for Mac. Using metal for all effect on-canvas previews to both have speed and full xcf compatibility.
An ide that has a full agentic plugin that allows ablating functions or pieces of code that one has to complete. So instead of leet code you can build towards a program and still learn something. It can also guide you with bug fixes and other stuff. And it also includes a fully integrated dos environment with a fully functioning debugger and asset editors. Also works on iPad.
- wagslane
Just trying to keep https://www.boot.dev alive and kicking amidst this wave of AI doomerism surrounding... The value of being good at things.
Working on an in-browser update of our k8s course, a new C course, as well as terraform and bash courses coming down the pipe.
- Malcx
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!