What Is Hacker News Working On?
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I tagged all comments from "What Are You Working On?" (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561428) posts and built a simple SvelteKit website, hope it's helpful to find people with similar projects. I'm also thinking of adding some analysis of project types over time to see changes in tech
HN · launched Nov 6, 2025 · 229 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: developer and open source resource directories · 165 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 165 launches in developer and open source resource directories →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward SvelteKit app displaying pre-scraped, tagged Hacker News comments, easily built with standard web scraping and UI code.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Nthesis API with RAG and UMAP visualizations, Community Notes voting system (X/Twitter), Modern BBS with TUI over SSH
Concerns raised: Tags could quickly become spam/slop, LLM-based tagging consistency and standardization issues, Static website with UI bugs and manual update process, Difficulty achieving good recall with tag prediction models
Feature requests: Filter comments by specific 'What Are You Working On' posts, Randomize home page results and link to random site, Add comment count column for sorting by popularity, Infinite scroll on mobile instead of pagination, Moderator tools to nuke posts with high downvote ratios
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 215 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 216 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 6 days after the earliest competitor.
- A Hacker News–style site focused on European tech · hn · 2026-02-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Search tool for "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" · hn · 2025-11-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- HNswered · hn · 2026-04-24 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-03 · 475 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Trader News · hn · 2026-09-24 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about · hn · 2026-11-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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