Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)
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12 hours ago
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Tell me about your latest non-AI project and I'll check it out
remohexa
1 hour ago
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Just finished building a side project that utilizes Android's captive portals, The main idea was an offline space for strangers who would randomly connect to an open wifi network. From there their device would open the captive portal webview in full screen, and from there they can explore the platform.

I used a unique modern matrix and polished everything with another project I built which's a deterministic picture generator used to let people interact with something interesting, already using it to produce their default profile picture using their id as the seed.

It meant to run on raspberry pi and I already built an img for the first release.

https://github.com/remohexa/rematrix-gallery

And there's also a demo: https://rematrix.remohexa.com/

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junaid_97
10 hours ago
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I'm building free immigration software for DIY applicants [1]

It's a free USCIS form-filling web-app(no Adobe required). USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard.

So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.

I found out SimpleCitizen(YC S16) offers a DIY plan for $529 [2]

So, a free (and local-only) version might be a good alternative

[1] https://fillvisa.com/demo

[2] https://www.simplecitizen.com/pricing/

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cousin_it
9 hours ago
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Wow! I'm not in the target audience, but this is exactly what I love to see :-) Thanks for doing this!
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junaid_97
1 hour ago
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:)
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jmacduff42
10 hours ago
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I’m building DataJelly.com — a visibility layer for AI-built and JS-heavy sites.

A lot of tools like Lovable and Bolt generate apps that look great but don’t expose content well to search or AI crawlers. The impact is lower search ranking, fewer AI citations, and broken social links.

We fix all of that by returning fully rendered HTML to SEO bots and clean Markdown to AI crawlers so they can actually understand the content. We also fix the Social Sharing broken links with custom HTML generated just for sharing your links on social.

Quick setup, no code required.

Free: visibility test: https://datajelly.com/#visibility-test Our Edge Product: https://datajelly.com/products/edge

Happy to answer questions.

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cloudflareapp
12 hours ago
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kriz9
12 hours ago
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I am working on https://spatialsheets.com Think geodata formulas + excel. Mostly for my own use just to quickly debug geodata. Used to heavily use geojson.io for it but it is not very good at handling large datasets and couldn't enrich data so I started working on this thing.
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twooclock
10 hours ago
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https://ShipmentPlanner.com - optimizing shipments to Amazon and 3PL. Got some clients and now I'm on to marketing (mostly emailing and LinkedIn outreach). It's tough.
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cousin_it
11 hours ago
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I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io, a simple live polling and Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version and trying to figure out if there's a market.
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wasimsk
12 hours ago
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I built a zero-backend CDN for hotlinking SVGs. Unlimited bandwidth.

https://svg.inbondz.com

I was tired of copying and pasting SVGs over and over again for my projects and social links. So I built that. Tell me if you need any other SVGs.

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frog437
11 hours ago
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Understand an entire codebase instantly : www.ix-infra.com
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frog437
11 hours ago
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It's a CLI tool. It plays well with AI but it works great without it.
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elmlabs
12 hours ago
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Not me but good friend of mine is building https://onepilotapp.com , genuinely looking for it going live.. me I m testing SEO, unsuccessfuly so far ^^
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wasimsk
12 hours ago
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Mobile first IDE!

I would love to use it, it will certainly help me when I am not able to use my laptop.

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wasimsk
12 hours ago
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Mhm. Great!

Btw. Nice to meet you.

So what did you learn in SEO? I generally don't have much knowledge about it.

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elmlabs
12 hours ago
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Litteraly started 2 days ago ahaha, I spent a lot of time building things but never making them visible, so far I got nice results on the news aggregators feeds. I ll not try so hard in it, I still think bringing genuine interest about a topic is a more respectful way of doing
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wasimsk
11 hours ago
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I got it. Are you a developer? Have GitHub? X or something?
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elmlabs
11 hours ago
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I just created an X account @elmlabs1 we can catch up!
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