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Ask HN: What are you building on the side in 2026?

5 points by italicmew ↗ HN
Curious what people are building this year.

What side projects are you working on in 2026? Could be software, hardware, research, learning projects, businesses, or just experiments.

Links welcome.

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vunderba
I’ve been putting together a rather silly slide-puzzle game for MENSA-level players: things like arranging the tiles by chemical element name according to atomic number, arranging countries by surface area, etc.

It’s absurd and will probably appeal only to descendants of Ken Jennings. Feedback welcome.

https://slide-puzzles.specr.net

stephanschulz
Trailward — micro-learning in 90-second sessions.

Built it to guide another career-related transformation. I'm a self-taught software dev with 20+ years of experience. It started with structured learning plans, but friends said they felt too rigid. So I added "Topics" for free exploration. Shortly after, I implemented a feature called "Bites", which are those 90-second micro-learning sessions that extract the most important facts from topics and learning plans into a bite-sized format.

Interesting for curious and gradient-loving people ;)

https://trailward.ai