Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2026), community members share their current projects.
The post is an open call for Hacker News users to describe what they are building or tinkering with in July 2026. Responses range from low-level systems work (C with X11 and WASM, an RV64 toy kernel) to consumer web apps (sharemygit.com, raygum, flipcompare.com) and developer tools (reviewflow for IDE-based code reviews, conformance tests for aep.dev). Several commenters mention that LLM-assisted coding has made building less personally rewarding, while others embrace the trend for efficiency.
The thread includes projects for health tracking (a multi-source dashboard for climbing performance), wedding planning (easywed.app), B2B sales signals (bloomberry.com), and a multiplayer RPG (grimrain.com). Several founders note challenges with marketing and motivation.
What commenters are saying
The dominant sentiment is one of enthusiastic sharing mixed with reflections on how AI tools have changed the building experience. Some commenters express that LLM coding has reduced the fun of programming, turning it into prompting rather than crafting. Others are making AI work for them, using it to speed up tasks like writing conformance tests.
A notable sub-thread emerges around health tracking and data aggregation, with one commenter detailing a dashboard that pulls from a digital scale, Apple Watch, and an electronic hangboard. Another user expanded on this with a wider Go-based system that correlates sleep, steps, air quality, and bloodwork. Two separate commenters built wedding seating planners (easywed.app) independently. One builder shared tractionbeast.com as a tool to overcome procrastination on go-to-market tasks. The buildthreads.com project aggregates 277 old-school DIY forums, which one user praised as a cure for "AI blues."