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spaceships··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
https://gist.github.com/ryanlanciaux/895ce19d94db765be4ebf53...
spaceships··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Too many to enumerate but a couple highlights (and many of these I've turned into apps):

- https://blunders.ai : Chess improvement app

- https://fretwork.ai : Freelancer management app (CRM/Billing/etc)

- https://validity.ai : Provide agents the ability to check the UI code it made (w/out needing to run through your full app)

- Save money on groceries + meal planning. This has probably saved hundreds if not $1k+ for our household at this point (some details here: https://x.com/ryanlanciaux/status/2063604299590939042)

- Orchestration / Starter Kit / Chat : Tool to help me manage multiple agent sessions at once. Some details on this one here https://x.com/ryanlanciaux/status/2063976049537417408

spaceships··on Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game
It's webrtc and a super light signaling setup
spaceships··on Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game
Ahh - sorry that it didn't get to the leaderboard. I pushed an update recently that should make the game significantly more challenging as time progresses.
spaceships··on Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game
Nice - and yea, it definitely slowly ramps up in the beginning. I'd love any thoughts on how to make that better w/ out just dropping people into a scenario where they're like "Yea, this is too hard - I'm out"
spaceships··on Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game
Awesome! Thanks for checking it out and glad you enjoyed it!
spaceships··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Cool - would love to know what you think.

Coupon code HNCHESS26

spaceships··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Validity is currently free to use

If anyone wants to try blunders, I can send a coupon code along.

spaceships··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://validity.ai - A tool to help validate that generated code is complete

https://blunders.ai - Chess improvement platform

spaceships··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I'm working on https://blunders.ai, a chess improvement app. It uses a chess engine + AI to analyze your games, generate commentary, improvement plans, and targeted puzzles. Still in beta but I'd love any feedback!

Coupon code HNAPRIL26 if you want to give it a try.

spaceships··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
Right now I'm having people paste their PGNs - I had sync working but took it out as I'm waiting for some clarification on the API use https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/readme-1
spaceships··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I'm working on a Chess improvement app https://blunders.ai.

The main goal is letting people analyze their games and improve by studying their blunders. It uses stockfish and AI for analysis. You can chat with your games like "Why would I do ___ instead of this?"

Also, there are the standard puzzles and openings type learning with improvement plans.

spaceships··on GitHub Skylines is back as a CLI
"Bring your GitHub contributions to life with the new GitHub Skyline CLI extension – visualize, customize, and 3D print your journey in open source, all from the command line!"
spaceships··on Trellis – 3D mesh generative model
This isn't anything parametric but I 3d printed a model from Trellis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375951
spaceships··on Trellis – 3D mesh generative model
I was able to use this to go from an AI generated image to 3d print. Steps documented here: https://x.com/ryanlanciaux/status/1866163343788007619
spaceships··on Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?
Self employed here. Mostly React / React Native specialist. I've been working in React since it was relatively new but try to stay up on latest updates in the ecosystem.

Backstory: Not entirely planned, but I was talking with a company about potentially being a frontend architect or something along that line. As the conversations progressed, they said they couldn't hire me fulltime since I wasn't able to come in to the office daily but they could give me a long-term contract. I've been consulting ever since.

spaceships··on JSX email is an open-source library for developing email templates
This library makes building email templates feel like modern development rather than writing HTML from the 1990s.
spaceships··on Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to election fraud charges
Not a statement on any claims of influence but the amount seems about right. "The couple [Zuckerberg and Chan] awarded $400 million to nonprofits for election assistance"

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-f...

spaceships··on Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B
A2 and the tech scene in the area is great. Glad to see this!
spaceships··on Ask HN: What weekend projects have you created?
A conference tracker that shows conferences in a map (simpler view on mobile). Built with React and some other things in the ecosystem.

conferenceradar.com (it's open source and the list is maintained/ updated through PRs on github)

spaceships··on Show HN: Conferenceradar.com – Open source conference list
Sorry this didn't have up-to-date info for the conferences you were looking for. As suggested would love any PRs. The intent with this release is to get others in the community involved and make the process of creating an event that's managed through github as effortless as possible.