Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Working on a macOS terminal because Ghostty is taking too long to add quick-terminal tabs which was my main workflow in iterm2.

All I wanted was cmd+space fullscreen quake-overlay with low input lag so I made it. It fits my workflow exactly so it might be a bit weird for someone else.

You can test it out here: https://getmot.app/

https://vorbim.org/ - free AI generated website for russian speaking folks in Moldova to learn romanian.

AI to generate lessons, excercises AI text to speech to make pronounciations AI to code cards open sources words dbs.

fun 1 month project. gets like 100ppl daily.

https://domio.md/ - zillow for moldova.

same idea - there isn't really a zillow like website in moldova - mostly classifieds sites. so I figured why not - gonna scrape the internet and put them on the map. we'll see what comes of it.

I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too).

It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:

iOS TestFlight access here -> https://trybeacon.chat/

Android also in beta here -> https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/afe3c44d8443c4c0

I'd love it if you can also fix the problem of timezones. So many of my friends are oceans-apart and we rarely rarely meet and talk as a group anymore. Maybe some kind of asynchronous option?

Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years. Its basically a one-click install against a Kubernetes instance to give you a Heroku interface.

I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.

Canine basically wraps a Kubernetes cluster -- gives you a heroku like interface to deploy applications to. At some point, if you get big enough that canine is no longer powerful enough, you can just "eject" canine from kubernetes, and continue using kubernetes directly, without having to do any migrations.

Just passed about 2000 developers, at this point most of my work is resolving bug fixes, adding helper text everywhere to make things cleaner, and supporting setups I've never encountered like homelabs with changing IP's

A newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc...

I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.

I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.

Neat, I'm also planning a lil newspaper hobby project. I'm curious:

- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?

- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?

- black and white, or color?

- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time

- do you recommend any printeries?

- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup

FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.

I'm in the process of figuring out fulfillment and shipping right now. I just got some samples from https://www.newspaperclub.com/ and they were pretty impressive. My other option is a local printing shop in my town. I'm visiting them later this week so we will see.

It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.

I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...

I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.

I was looking for a old school newspaper style that is focused on games, puzzles, math, and outdoor activities. At least that is what I'm going for.

I wish ranger Rick existed for teens though. My kids loved that when they were smaller, but now we have to spend a shit ton of effort to find teen appropriate content of a similar nature (hah!).

https://porchweather.com/ - free app for notifying you when the weather is right for opening your windows. The idea is to save you a few bucks on using air conditioning as well as simply enjoying some fresh air.

Tracks temp, humidity, wind speed, and precip chance and you set the parameters.

Notifications are currently email and web push. SMS is too expensive to run as a free service. I think the next direction is probably an app, as web push support in iOS is not great.

I have been building few tiny financial apps for analyzing the market, domains and stocks to see if I can use them to make investment decisions.

Adding small tools to help understand specific option strategies, and once executed understand optimal action (exercise early, let it expire, wait)

Personal tools, for my use. No commercial angle in mind.

I was an experienced game designer and producer (mostly RTS and narrative RPG). Some years ago, my career was derailed by major health developments. Since then, I haven't been able to work as I once did. I didn't expect I'd be able to meaningfully contribute to a game again.

Earlier this year, a colleague encouraged me to experiment with Claude Code. So now I have a little game project. :) Being unfamiliar with genAI, I chose something modest so that I'd more likely be able to push it to a fairly polished state.

Tentatively called Vestiges, it's a single player 2D roguelite strategy game with meta progression, some narrative, and a card minigame (the latter inspired by work I did on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II). It's set in the near future. You are using software (the game) to navigate a person's digitized mind, reading their memories.

I hope to have a playable demo within the next month or so.

For all the bad rap that AI gets in game development, stories like this should be heard more. I occasionally get tendinitis and I can't code for the entire day like when I was young. I get some relief dictating to the AI when I need to rest my hands. I can imagine it's a much bigger help for someone who is struggling with worse.

I am also interested in trying this game out! And I'm really glad to hear how agentic coding got you back in the game (literally)!

Big fan of SW:KOTOR series. Would love to test Vestiges when ready.

You should consider creating the game on Steam, so you can start building your audience.

Thanks! I've been hesitant about Steam because of the strong anti-genAI sentiments there. (And the initial fee to set-up a game's page.) You are right, though, and I probably should just push past my reservations.

(When I began this effort, I was just enjoying feeling productive again and didn't have any real plan to release. But I've been pleased enough with how it's been coming along that I've started seriously thinking about it.)

The anti-AI crowd on Steam only really seems to care about it being used for art, from what I've seen in reviews.

I'd also include the UI in things they seem to care about. If it looks "web style" or has the common tells (dashes, //) it will be most likely be called out.

(Early on, one requirement I gave it was not to use em-dashes for anything player-facing. It's kind of amusing (and a bit sad) at how often I see in its session self-talk something like "No em-dashes!" alongside much more important comments. It's really taken that constraint to heart! :) (Alas, I liked to use em-dashes myself, too; I'm resisting giving up semi-colons and parentheses, though!)

Fortunately, I personally enjoy writing. Currently, I wouldn't be able to claim that Claude didn't contribute to the writing, but nothing in Vestiges should sound like genAI. (Which is actually a little funny to me since one of the characters is an AI. But the genAI writing style grates on many, including myself, and I'd imagine that 20+ years into the future, such issues will have been solved.)

That's useful context, thanks. I might be in a grey area on that front. Vestiges has no genAI-created images, textures, etc. Pretty much all of the (non-text) visuals are generated at runtime using Godot's 2D vector drawing capabilities.

(I've considered trying to find an artist to work with to have professional 2D art.)

This an inspirational comment, thanks for posting it! I love that more and more people are being enabled (or re-enabled in your case) as software developers thanks to ai.

Yes, the minigame is like Pazaak. I've prototyped two more radical variants that might also make the cut.

An automated, full garment knitting machine that can fit on a desk.

There are only a few knitting machines that can automatically do everything required to knit a complete garment, and they are large, heavy and extremely expensive. I'm aiming to trade off speed against size and cost to create something akin to a 3D printer for knitwear.

I've been testing out various ideas for six months now, and I think I have a workable concept, but there's still a lot of work to do!

My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU.

Last month we reached 200 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 250 now), and last week we launched support for XMR/Monero payments via ProxyStore [2]!

You can also see in our homepage that more independent bloggers and privacy-minded people have written about us!

The main differences between Uruky and Kagi, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, etc. are visible in the footer (right side), but one huge difference is that with Uruky, after being a paying customer for 12 months, you get copy of the source code (licensed as BUSL,into AGPLv3 in 2 years — a suggestion made here in HN)!

Uruky is paid and you can get a free 2h trial 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. This month was Caddy [3]!

Feature-wise, for July we’ve already shipped a lot of visible and less visible things. We’re currently looking into increasing our own index, focused on indie/small web, and plan to add a couple of new search providers in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you for your kindness!

[NO-AI]: There is no generative AI product or service, here.

[1]: https://uruky.com

[2]: https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/en/brand/uruky

[3]: https://caddyserver.com

It looks good, but one of the big selling points to me with Kagi is them having their own index. It seems like you guys are working on that, but right now it sounds more like a search aggregator rather than a search engine.

You also mention not using the source for commercial use or distribution, is that only relevant before it becomes AGPL?

I am also struggling to find how to activate the 2h trial, so have not been able to test it out.

Thank you for your comments!

We have an index, it's just not very big, yet. We had a major setback last month with a bug (for less than 24h, the crawler didn't respect robots.txt) and had to delete it entirely, and have been slowly rebuilding it.

You're correct the commercial use is only not allowed before the AGPL comes into play.

You should be able to click on the "top up" link (top or bottom) and see an option for a captcha ("click to prove you're a human"). If you don't, reach out via email (don't share your account number) and I'll give you a voucher for a couple of days.

As someone unfamiliar with Kagi I encourage you not to describe yourself as a Kagi alternative but instead start with what you are doing first and foremost

Especially because some of us used Kagi back when it was an e-commerce payment processor, and that's what comes to mind whenever I see the name.

Thanks! Do you mean on this HN thread? On the website we do this:

> PRIVATE SEARCH YOU CONTROL

> Search without ads or tracking

> Uruky is a private search engine focused on personalization, not an ecosystem. > EU-based. No surveillance capitalism.

This is my bad. We've heard a few people complain that the word "personalization" has been adopted by the ad industry and it makes people shiver when reading it. In our case it means "personal search customization", meaning you can customize the experience as you prefer (UI, domain rewrites, search providers, boosts, etc.). We don't log or track any search queries. I've fixed this in a couple of places but it seems I missed some others, so I'll be fixing it promptly.

Meanwhile, I hope that answers your question? Let me know if you'd like some further clarification.

Cool thanks. I meant here and just generally dropped the comment as advice in case you might slip into talking that way as if all of your target market are already familiar with this other Niche thing. When there's so many people out there who never heard of either anf might be open to suggestions

Thanks! We've been working on it since late last year, only really announced it here in February or March, I think (I'd have to check). Cold emailing some privacy-minded folks and posting here and in other privacy-focused forums like Privacy Guides (that were recommended to us after cold emailing people).

I love the idea. How do you stay competitive with the search results of, let's say, DDG? have you considered enabling an API for subscribers? Or selling an enterprise tier subsctription that comes with API?

Thanks! We offer many search providers, so we're not tied to any specific style of results, and our customers tend to really appreciate that!

Also, we do offer an API (check the FAQ), no need for different subscription tiers. Keeping it simple.

That's a good point. Mainly because of the personal search customization features, and the fact it's paid search. Those seem differentiating enough from Google and close enough to Kagi to use them as a reference instead. They're also a good product if you're happy with them, and I don't know many people that are _happy_ with Google, most are probably just _accepting_ of it, if that makes sense.

I’m building a model that illustrates the golf course architecture strategic elements of a golf hole using a golf simulator.

General thesis here on my blog: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/i-spent-the-last-month...

I hope to start a golf architecture consulting company with the model, with a target of helping smaller courses improve the strategic interest of their at the lowest cost possible.

Ability to measure strategic changes articulated here: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/measure-2000-times-cut...

Not exactly a huge market, but this model should help clubs identify why boring holes are boring, and why interesting holes are interesting, and should be a very inexpensive way to try out permutations of changes without paying an architect hundreds of thousands of dollars without actually knowing whether the design will work.

Currently building an expanded golf shot dispersion pattern model, based on multiple variables, from dataset available to the public.

My city caps how many shared scooters and bikes each operator may put on the street, and how long a vehicle may sit unused. In 2024, an activist group did a one-off analysis on the problem (they found ~1.5x more scooters than permitted) based on an open GBFS data-feed that shows where scooters and bikes currently are. The municipality confirmed the data but called the situation "not undesirable."

The site, https://deelmobiliteitdelft.nl, logs the availability of every shared vehicle inside the city boundary. This allows me to do interesting analysis. For example, one operator has been above its vehicle limit 80% of the time. Another has a third of its fleet standing untouched for over three days.

It's the same idea as my previous project (http://parkeergaragesdelft.nl) where we do have live data but nobody keeps a record causing the public debate to run on anecdotes.

Site's in Dutch, charts should speak for themselves.

The GBFS feeds are national, so expanding to other cities would be technically possible. But I think the value comes from knowing the local context well enough to know which numbers matter, and from following up with your local government. That said, if someone wants to dig up the permit conditions for their own city and build a similar project, I'm happy to assist.

Thanks.

Did a quick check on Amsterdam: https://gbfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/visualization?url=ht...

This also exceeds the supposed 600 max per service provider. That said I'm not sure I'd have time to maintain a derivative site.

I agree that the follow up with the legislator is what makes this interesting. I'd even suggest making sharing that correspondence on your site a feature. Your outgoing link on the site to the regional press doesn't quite seem to cover that.

I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been a great opportunity to explore building GUIs in rust, and to really experiment with coding assistants.

I'm looking for alpha/beta users https://cassava.dev/.

I like working in native apps on my Mac for spreadsheets, so I've used Numbers a little bit, but if you have the same iCloud file open on two machines they conflict and don't merge nicely. Does this have a better story there?

Almost certainly not; it really depends on how iCloud handles the sync. Cassava supports (at the moment) CSV (and its variants TSV, etc.) and JSON files. If your sync mechanism works well for those files in a text editor like vscode or sublime, then it will work well with Cassava. If not, there's not much we can do on our end - that's really a problem with how the sync mechanism works.

Why use Cassava over other options, such as Excel, CSVLint, or Notepad++?

Also, have you considered supporting Windows and Linux?

Linux support is there and working, half my team uses arch btw. Windows is working, I just don't build for it right now.

Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't like using text editors for sheet data; it's simply not as ergonomic to browse a CSV as a text file.

I'm building an RF monitoring system.

It can tell you things like:

- The car that parked nearby last night coincided with "Chad's Galaxy Buds" with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night.

- Alert on sudden cross-specturm interference (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to knock out WiFi cameras).

- Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises).

- Review device movement across a campus/neighborhood (using multiple RF pods).

I have a working PoC. It can run on a low-power computer (e.g. RPi) supporting multiple RF sensors (BT/BLE/WiFi). Has a web UI. Can publish events to an external security system. Currently working on an LLM interface to make it easy for a non-technical operator to set policies and ask questions.

Could be sold as an appliance system or a license for a DIY build.

Angel investors are welcome to contact [email protected]

Here's an idea for you -- property evaluation. It's not hyper-specific to your monitoring system, but it would be very interesting to understand before buying a house:

1. How loud the neighbhorhood is over time periods, eg sat night vs tues morning 2. air quality, enviromental factors, etc. 3. What percentage of vehicles/people/devices are net-new (over a time period) versus recoccuring, as identified by MAC.

I would personally pay in the low hundreds to understand overall loudness levels for a house I am about to buy, although I am fairly sensitive to sound. My wife would probably pay for the new-new people metrics.

IMO, you could charge a per-device report and deploy a unit for a week, much like a home inspector report. It would give you a revenue stream on the buy or sell side, and let you own your devices as you iterate on the sensor package.

Anyways, just my 2c, gl with your PoC.

Follow the money at the local and state level. Every since followthemoney.org was absorbed by Open Secrets in 2024 we don't have a state level "follow the money" tool. BackerBase brings campaign finance data, public filings, donor networks, races, officials, and entity relationships into one source-backed workspace. Starting with Louisiana and adding more states now :)

https://backerbase.ai

I'm attempting to build a coffee bean distributor that can exactly measure out beans into a cup for my morning espresso.

It's really an excuse to get started with things like hardware, 3D printing, and embedded development - I've never done anything in that world before, and its been really exciting to get into! I've just started, so hopefully I'll have a better update next month.

Counting the beans, or by weight? (Or I suppose you could 3D scan each bean as it goes past to measure volume for extra credit)

I won't be getting extra credit! My plan right now is to go by weight, and my first attempt is going to have beans in a hopper, moved by an auger that slows down as it approaches the target weight ( ideally moving a bean at a time at the end, to get within a bean of the goal (ideally).

I heard an episode of the Odd Lots podcast about HayWire (haywireag.com), a site that pulls public data from government PDFs + APIs, uses LLMs to parse it and turns it into an easily readable website that has all of the latest info on hay prices.

The host made an offhand mention that there's probably a bunch of other similar sites that could be created with all the of useful but difficult-to-access government data out there. That sounded interesting, so I thought I'd give it a whirl!

Working on a few of them, including The Waterline (https://the-waterline.com/) for water info for the western US, The Scramble (https://the-scramble.com/) for egg prices, and The Dwell (https://the-dwell.com/) for container ship dwell times.

All pretty fascinating topics to learn about, plus it's been interesting to see how much of the website setup I can fully delegate to Claude. With Cloudflare to buy domains and put the sites up, a Google Service Account with access to Google Search Console and GA4 to create those properties and a Buttondown API key for weekly email sending, it's almost all hands off for me. Though it refuses to take control of the browser and create a new Buttondown account, which I was surprised is a red line.

Love this! Waterline still seemed cryptic but the scramble was a fun read. I am not following neither of these niches so just a passerby opinion!

Thanks! I am definitely not an expert in either, and I've run the content by both Fable and GPT-5.6 with instructions to make sure it's written in such a way that it would read normally to people in the industry. They assure me the wording makes sense in that context, but we'll see if the sites actually get traction or not.

I live in the southwest, didn't realize this data was available, so thank you. It would be super interesting to have a (heat) map of it all.

I spent the last 6 months building Elk Finder (https://elkfinder.com) and just launched a few weeks ago. It's a mapping web app similar to onX Hunt, except I have specific layers for finding ideal elk habitat in September and October (the primary archery and rifle hunting months).

I am working on Sidequests HQ:

SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests.

The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world.

The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, exploring your city, learning something new, creating, or helping someone else. Complete a quest, skip it, or save it for later.You can also add your own quests. There’s no streak anxiety, no leaderboard. The app is just quests designed to make life a little less repetitive.

Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidequests-hq/id6751321255 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inc.sidequests...

I really like this idea but don’t like your tagline on the Apple Store. Life’s better with cheat codes is wrong. Cheat codes make games easier and less fulfilling, your app is the opposite of that based on what you’ve said.

Life’s better when you find the way.

Be the friend with the hare brained idea.

I am building a cloud hosting company that exposes the cloud as a single docker host. No VMs to manage, just containers and easy controls to set the number of CPUs, RAM, disk that you want your containers to have access to.

https://oxpower.io/

Joyent did something like this ~11 years go, and I loved using it, but then they where acquired by Samsung and shut down their public (non-enterprise) offering.

This is try 3 at building something as good, and it is working!

Yeah for hand crafted Rust!

I've been working on a Spanish language learning tool that helps users learn with comprehensible input. It uses LLMs to generate targeted stories for the users and while the user is extensively reading they select any words they don't understand. Those words then get added to a space repetition deck and are used in future stories when it's time to review the words again.

The project has been really fun to work on because of the fun systems I've had to think about. I had to figure out the optimal way to store the user's knowledge of the words. For example you don't need to store the singular and plural of a word in Spanish or even every verb tense, you should probably store the lemma and track those modifiers instead. It's also been a fun challenge to tell the LLM the user's Spanish knowledge without specifically sending every lemma/word the user knows.

I have seen some similar projects out there but a lot of don't seem to focus on creating the perfect story for the user and instead have them choose a CEFR level (A1,B2 etc). Which I think defeats the whole point of using the LLM. With computers we have been able to track a user's knowledge granulary but now we can do the exact same thing but for creating.

I'm really excited to see how far I can take this project. I wanna continue to polish it, but also there is so many details I can continue to add the make the ideal language learning reading app. I just launched the beta last Tuesday, so if you are learning Spanish, I would love if you tried it out and gave feedback.

https://readplusone.com

Thanks! And you're website looks pretty cool.

You should try working on language learning tools again. The models now are pretty good especially since you don't always need the frontier model to generate good stories. I would love for this project to get solid traction so I could distill my own models that are better at meeting my story creation requirements.

Ive just been having a bit of fun with my homepage https://supermatt.com.

Made a talking head with some idle animation and visemes and some broken crt-like effects. The meat of it is only a few hundred kB - i can probably make it even smaller with making the graphics smaller.

A bit of post processing on some narration for extracting mouth shapes and it seems to work quite nice as a low-footprint retro talking head. Im thinking i'll make it some kind of chatbot interface.

Its very much a WIP, please don't be too critical - i am only sharing because it is fun :)

I am continuing to work on Akariq [0] which provides travel eSIM data plans to 180+ countries around the world. I have had many paying customers over the past few months from Vietnam to Mexico to Europe and US of course. The three benefits of using Akariq are

1) No app, no user account which leads to literally 3-click install

2) Full transparency - you know what you are getting. A lot of other eSIM providers hide details like unlimited plan speed caps etc

3) I connect to the best network available in the country. For example, someone like Airalo would connect to VTC in Vietnam, I offer Viettel which is the undisputed local network king.

And obviously, I am 2-3x cheaper than Airalo and the big players.

[0] https://akariq.com/

How do you judge "the best" network? It normally depends on if you're in the city, countryside, island etc.

I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then when I get to the location I'm staying at, I chat with folks to figure which network works best there. Normally it's cheaper to get a local plan as well.

You are quite a bit more expensive than the no-name folks I buy from.

[0] https://esimdb.com

As far as best network goes, yes it depends in the city etc but there are always best networks for 99% locations in a country. I gave an example in another comment of Viettel vs VTC in Vietnam and Zain vs STC in Saudi Arabia.

I mean obviously it's cheaper to buy local plans. You can't compare local plans to travel eSIMs.

Which locations are you traveling to? Generally, I have the best quality to price ratio for North America, Europe, South East Asia, China and Japan. I saw your comment history and you visited Japan. The cheapest eSIM on eSIMDB in Japan for 5GB shows $2.42 via eSIM DOG [0]. But ... that's for a breakout IP in Hong Kong. That introduces latency on your network. So lets you want to move to a Japan IP, eSIM DOG doesn't have one. Their most expensive option is $7.49 which is a 3x price increase and that comes with a UK breakout IP. Now, contrast that to Akariq where you get 5GB for $4.86 and a Japan IP + NTT Docomo network [1] which has the best coverage and reliability. So yeah, I am generally the cheapest in at least those 4 regions for the quality I provide. I sell the best possible option option in that country and avoid selling junk eSIM plans.

[0] https://esim.dog/jp

[1] https://akariq.com/en/esim/jp/

I like but for many of my regular destinations you are still 2-3x more expensive than what I can trivially find myself, especially longer visiting times and more data.

Thank You! Can you please tell me your destinations?

I plan to make the higher volume data plans cheaper very soon. I'm happy to provide you temporary code to make it cheaper for longer visits you have soonish. Can you e-mail me at `[email protected]`? I don't see an e-mail on your profile.

The one thing I want to add is that cheaper also depends on quality. So for example, if you look at Vietnam - I may not be cheaper than Airalo. But ... a big but, I offer network on Viettel while Airalo does on VTC. So, I am cheaper for what you get for the quality. In addition, I don't route data via HongKong or China to make it cheap. I have in country / region networks for like 87 countries and I keep improving [0]. Very few providers on the market can guarantee that.

[0] https://akariq.com/en/network-quality/

I can confirm that you are completely right about Vietnam mobile networks. I could only reliably work after getting a real viettel sim. Even viettel branded stores sell some bootleg sim to tourists that work terribly.

The problem with eSIM is that usually there is no way to judge the quality until you buy one, so people sort by price and choose the cheapest. If your solution offers the best network in the country then I’m interested, because even at x2 or x3 price it doesn’t matter much compared to the other expenses when traveling.

Not sure how you can convince customers outside the hn bubble.

And it's not just Vietnam. It's the same problem thoughout the world. Let me take an example like Saudi Arabia. Airalo connects to Zain and my service connects to STC. There are many such examples.

You are right people do go for the easy thing as there's too much decisions to make. I wonder how I can make it even more explicit on my website than it is now.

Please do try my service and leave a review on Trustpilot. I have a few reviews today but far more people have used my service and have been happy with it.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/akariq.com?languages=all

Fine, but that's true of several of the segment leaders as well (Saily, Airalo, etc). A lot of people don't want the hassle of physically walking into a shop in a foreign country, or just don't care about $5 vs $15 expense on a $5000 vacation.

All my China eSIMs are non GFW eSIMS. You can also use a Hotspot to tether to your laptop etc. They breakout via HK. Try them out and if you have any issues send me an e-mail.

My website is available in China so you can provision it from China. Of course, your phone should support eSIM. I have had quite a few people use my service in China. I am happy to give you a trial - write to me [email protected]

I've spent a few months building a simple feature management system for .NET - https://featureflags.app. The .NET built in feature management libraries work pretty well. But I wanted an easy to use UI for configuring flags - without having to use Azure.

I've been migrating marginalia search off docker-compose and onto systemd.

Between NUMA-concerns and the need to use multiple public IPs, I'm coaxed into a pretty exotic setup no matter what I choose to go with. Was pretty finnicky to set up, but it seems to work pretty well all said and done. Systemd is certainly feeling less floaty than docker (and even moreso kubernetes, which was never an option).

I also shaved like 10ms off response times since I no longer need an additional reverse proxy to deal with docker's networking magic, and can point nginx straight to the network namespaced services' IPs.

This in service of sequestering all wide domains (as in having tens of thousands of subdomains) to their separate crawler and index partition, as their (per top-domain) rate limits are part of why crawls take so long for the main crawler. Couldn't do that on docker because its ipvlan management is so jank you need spare IPs to reliably restart services.

1. Translating 1000s of NeoLatin, Chinese and Sanskrit books for the first time

At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. There are a lot of beautiful books to look at — and you can use it with Claude code. API keys available: https://SourceLibrary.org/developers.

2. Replicating the design patterns of contemporary AI services

I’ve created a web app, desktop application and API for organizations needing European hardware and data protections. It’s a nice interface on top of Scaleway in France, so low carbon too. See https://makemode.eu

Support, feedback or even participation on these projects is very welcome.

> At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc.

Wow, this is like... exactly(?) what I needed? (and since this is on topic for this discussion... What am I working on? Learning and writing about metaphysics and magic.)

This is wonderful stuff.

The web UI didn't vibe with me too well though. The only thing I saw on the first page was "Your email address or continue with Google". I mean, reading the books apparently do not require my email address or logging in, but I figured out much later only due to the fact that I really wanted to see the contents. (I'd imagine if somebody was only marginally interested they might have been scared away by the "give us your email address" thingy.)

Also, when reading the book contents, the browser back button didn't work for me. Felt a bit clunky for some reason. Couldn't put my finger on any specific issue other than the back button, but somehow didn't feel smooth. (I'm not a web frontend dev, so this is just my personal feeling.)

All that said, this is a wonderful resource.

Nice. I’ll look into the back button. Would love any more specific feedback (feedback button on every page).

If you have a minute, check out the Librarian in the menu. Give it your research questions. It’s a pretty powerful research agent!

Narro, it's a user-curated social media app. You add the Read the original source

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