Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)
3 pointsby cousin_it2 hours ago9 comments
  • junaid_9739 minutes ago
    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/

  • jmacduff42an hour ago
    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.

  • twooclockan hour ago
    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.
  • kriz92 hours ago
    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.
  • cousin_it2 hours ago
    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.
  • wasimsk2 hours ago
    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.

  • elmlabs2 hours ago
    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 ^^
    • wasimsk2 hours ago
      Mobile first IDE!

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

    • wasimsk2 hours ago
      Mhm. Great!

      Btw. Nice to meet you.

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

      • elmlabs2 hours ago
        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
        • wasimsk2 hours ago
          I got it. Are you a developer? Have GitHub? X or something?
          • elmlabsan hour ago
            I just created an X account @elmlabs1 we can catch up!
  • frog4372 hours ago
    Understand an entire codebase instantly : www.ix-infra.com
    • frog4372 hours ago
      It's a CLI tool. It plays well with AI but it works great without it.