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

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)12 points by david927 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 16 commentsWhat are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about? help

[NO-AI]My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU.Last month we launched image search (got out of beta this month), added our own index and crawler (via Uruky Site Search [2]), and reached 100 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 150 now)! You can also see a privacy-focused independent blogger wrote about us [3]!!You can check out the main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you can download a copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!You can also now get a free trial for 2 hours when you signup if you pass a proof-of-work captcha (another suggestion made here on HN, and it uses a local Altcha).Our main challenge continues to be discoverability and outreach because we want to do it ethically. Ideas are welcome! We’ve been sponsoring open source projects, open source maintainers, and indie, small-web, and privacy-related websites and applications.Feature-wise, for June we’ve already added a ton of personalization and privacy-increasing features like URL rewrites, cash-by-mail payments, and anonymous vouchers! Upcoming is partnering with ProxyStore to sell vouchers (we’re currently in talks for this), so you can buy vouchers with XMR/Monero or other cryptocurrencies. Then we’ll be looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web.

Thank you for your kindness![1]: https://uruky.com[2]: https://uruky.com/site-search[3]: https://theprivacydad.com/interview-with-the-engineer-of-uru... Adding agents to my SQL canvas (https://kavla.dev)Here's a live example of it figuring out when to post on HN: https://kavla.dev/hn (spoiler, its noon UTC on Sundays)And here's it generating an interactive map of 20000 earthquakes: https://kavla.dev/quakesI feel like the canvas is actually a great way to interact with an agent, everything it does is visible, so auditing what it did is (relatively) easy.I still got some credits to burn so agent usage is free atm (you still have to sign up to use it though) I’m working on Peak Flow Meter Diary, a simple app to help people with asthma record peak flow readings more easily, then combine those records with environmental data to provide earlier warnings about possible triggers.In the UK alone, around 7.2 million people have asthma. Globally, WHO estimates that asthma affected 363 million people in 2023 and caused 442,000 deaths.Peak Flow Meter Diary is not meant to detect every possible trigger. It will not warn you if someone suddenly sprays perfume nearby, or if a dusty bag is opened in the same room. But it could help with risks that can realistically be monitored ahead of time, such as weather, pollen, pollution, cold air, storms, and similar factors. The aim is to make daily tracking easier, show simple visual warnings and notifications, and make it easier to share useful records with clinicians.I’m also trying to build it in a way that reduces paper, plastic, and electronic waste. If funding allows, I would like to make the project carbon-negative.That is the bigger dream: to make a small example of how even modest start-up can think about environmental impact from the start, and use it as a practical showcase.The pitch and full project explanation are here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/why5/peak-flow-meter-di...Feedback welcome, especially from anyone with asthma, clinicians, carers, or people who have worked on health tracking tools.

By now I know that my kickstarter is not going anywhere, so I would value any input was the idea that bad, or lack of marketing and accessing appropriate groups etc. I think this community has a lot of experience so I would like someone to share what could have I done better. Do not be shy to tell me if you think idea was waste of time. I'm working on Totem (https://totemkb.com), a collaborative knowledge management system built entirely in Rust without any HTML or web-tech. Currently supporting Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu, and iOS (although the iOS build is currently in review).Although the goal is to build an efficient all-in-one-workspace, I wouldn't run a company on it just yet. Right now I'm looking for early adopters who don't mind the rough edges and relatively minimal feature set.You can grab an early build at https://alpha.totemkb.com.New workspaces will be in a 14-day 'trial' mode, email rohit@totemkb.com if you'd like me to upgrade your workspace free of charge. Been working on making it much easier for application deployments to get access to a isolated database/schema. The usual pattern currently is to assume that each app creates a new database, which ignores the backups, monitoring etc required for each database. Implemented support for Postgres and MySQL.Wrote up more details at https://openrun.dev/blog/service-binding/ I've been thinking about and working on a solution to automatically resume a Claude code session in the same terminal when my quota resumes. I hate waking up and typing "please continue" Currently working on HN Alerts — a simple free site I made to alert me (via email) to trending stories on Hacker News.It sends me an email once a story hits a certain number of upvotes per minute, so it's useful for keeping track of breaking news.It'll also soon allow you to get alerted to specific words or phrases in titles. (I have one set up so the monthly hiring threads notify me as soon as they appear.)https://hnalerts.com > It sends me an email once a story hits a certain number of upvotes per minuteSo do you get one email per-story that fits this criteria? Or is it some kind of roll-up? Typically one email per story.

It checks every 5 minutes, and if more than one story happens to meet the criteria during that 5 minute bucket then it'll put them into one email (so the "hiring" checks appear in one email). But in reality because it's rare that 2 stories will trend within the same 5 minute bucket it ends up being one email per story. https://macrocodex.app/A very simple idea: when you eat more than your maintenance calories, you gain weight; when you eat less than your maintenance calories, you lose weight.By using an algorithm, we can accurately figure out your maintenance calories more accurately than traditional regression based formulas like katch mc ardle.It's way more accurate than calorie burn tracking devices like fitness bands and watches. (garmin/apple watch etc...)MacroCodex helps you spot dips in maintenance calories from metabolic adaptation, then auto adjusts your calorie target and macros so your plan stays aligned with your real maintenance calories (TDEE).It's very useful to those who find it hard to gain or lose weight.it's a completely free app, no paywall, no unnecessary data collection.Already reached 13,000+ users