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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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)
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 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.
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 !!!
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'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.
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
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'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
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.
Thinking about a general strike for open source.
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
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)
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 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.
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 !!!
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?
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.
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 have been experimenting with AI for photos a lot and built a linkedin profile generator. - https://thelinkedlens.com/
I'm building a compliance orchestration platform.
It would help coordinate multiple security detectors and map outputs to frameworks.
A bitcoin risk simulation model
Code Input - https://codeinput.com
Currently working on a better CodeOwners for GitHub.