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Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
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What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?
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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/
Comment on Hacker News · 11 direct repliesI 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
Comment on Hacker News · 7 direct repliesRelic AI: https://app.relic-app.com Three of us in Sarajevo are building it. It started because we kept saving things such as articles, Youtube lectures and podcasts, leaving open tabs as reminders for things to come back to later, but couldn't find those resources when we actually needed them, most of the time ending up redoing the research over again. We have a browser extension for easy saving. It currently supports the page you're on, a PDF tab, all your open tabs, your bookmarks, and Youtube videos (including playlists). Each save gets a summary and tags. Then you can ask it questions, and it answers only from what you saved, with numbered sources. If nothing relevant is saved about what you are asking, it says so. It's free during the beta and we are actively shipping new features based on user feedback. I’d love to hear as much feedback as possible.
Comment on Hacker NewsAI 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
Comment on Hacker News · 10 direct repliesI 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. :)
Comment on Hacker News · 6 direct repliesI’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.
Comment on Hacker News · 6 direct repliesI'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
Comment on Hacker News · 5 direct repliesFor 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!
Comment on Hacker News · 2 direct repliesI am currently on maternity leave with my first baby have just launched to the app store my first app! I'm a product designer by trade and learnt to vibe code on Claude about a month ago now. I was weaning my baby and he developed a rash and haven't been able to work out what the pattern was causing it. So I created an app for weaning parents to log the food, add any reactions so when talking to their GP they can start to see a pattern and all advice, like nutrients, food variety, how to serve food all coming from the NHS and FSA. Currently got 12 mums using the app and would love any feedback to make it even better! <3 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/niblet-weaning-diary/id6822680... https://getniblet.app
Comment on Hacker NewsA 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!
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