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Posted by u/bayeslaw 2 months ago
Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
Is it an idea you had for a long time? Is it something totally random and weird?
raptorraver · 2 months ago
I started developing a SaaS for pasture poultry producers like me. We have laying hens and on summer we raise broilers and keeping records and organizing work was painful last season. We used Google Sheets but it’s easy to forget to update those. I’ve vibe coded it few evenings and gotten much further than I anticipated.

My goal is to get some revenue from this during next year. But if I don’t I still have one very happy daily user: me!

App can be found from www.pasturegg.com

bilsbie · 2 months ago
Tangentially relevant, is there any way to buy pasture eggs from hens that have a natural omnivore diet? I just heard about major pasture brands having 20% pufa.
bayeslaw · 2 months ago
Wow! Vertical Saas for poultry producers is not something I was expecting to see :) awesome, best of luck!
rmonvfer · 2 months ago
I’m slowly working on rigel.sh, a next generation Remote Desktop solution. Not AI related, but I got tired of janky desktop streaming / remote management solutions (I use the windows app on my Mac and Raspberry Pi Connect online) so I decided to build my own.

You install a client on the system you want to manage and enroll it with a single command, just like Tailscale. I’ve built a nice web application were users can manage and access their devices, setup monitoring and configure alerts (for now it only tracks basic stuff like CPU/RAM…)

The whole thing uses WebRTC for p2p connections and it’s very snappy because all the graphics pipeline is fully custom (all the enconding/decoding is platform-specific too) and I’ve managed to get latency and quality on par with Parsec in many scenarios (I still have some work to do here because it’s not my thing)

I plan on making the whole thing open source with a permissive license and also offer a paid SaaS early in 2026 (I think early February?). I plan on offering a hobby free tier and then paid business/pro features but time will tell!

I haven’t event built a landing page yet but if you are interested write me to ramon@rigel.sh

bayeslaw · 2 months ago
Who's the target audience? How would you market it, or get it in front of ppl? Sounds like a really solid product ..
rmonvfer · 2 months ago
Hey thanks for the comment! Not sure about that right now, I plan on making a Show HN and maybe some content on Reddit and Product Hunt (I’ve built a startup before but in the B2B space and sales are very different)

I’ll gladly accept any suggestions!

OfflineSergio · 2 months ago
https://with.audio/

One time payment text to speech reader application for Mac and Windows. Not a subscription because it runs 100% on your device!

I've been doing this in most of 2025 in my free time. It went way way better than I thought in 2025 and I'm gonna focus more on this in 2026 as well. I've actually sold licenses and I'm gonna try to find out new ways to promote it. It recently had a moment on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1pseqsy/thank_you_...

GhostMentor · 2 months ago
I’m building a beginner-focused freelancing system.

Not another “get rich” thing, but something calm and structured. I noticed most beginners don’t fail because of lack of skill, but because of too much noise.

Too many tools, platforms, AI hype, shortcuts. I struggled with that myself early on.

So I broke everything down into fundamentals: how freelancing actually works, where beginners realistically fit, and how to learn tools without overwhelm.

Still validating and improving it step by step.

GhostMentor · 2 months ago
If anyone here has struggled with freelancing overwhelm before, I’d be curious what confused you most at the start.
bayeslaw · 2 months ago
Cool, what country are you focusing on?
rasmus1610 · 2 months ago
https://pdfling.com

A service to send pdfs to your kindle device through a chrome extension or web app.

labarilem · 2 months ago
Side project for fun, without profit. I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by the HN community:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

ekrapivin · 2 months ago
Nice one, digging into it now! Could you add mine: https://inSolitaire.com
labarilem · 2 months ago
Sorry I didn't catch your comment earlier! I can add it to the catalog if you submit it to HN. Check this page: https://hackernews.games/submit
techtalksweekly · 2 months ago
https://techtalksweekly.io/

I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my subscribers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1].

I originally built it for myself because I was subscribed to too many conference channels on YouTube and things started getting messy, so I wrote a script to fetch the new talks automatically and send myself an email once a week. Eventually, I turned it into a newsletter.

I currently have over 7,600 subscribers with email open rate consistently between 32%-35%, although I plan to trim the list soon to get into the 40-50% range.

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/what-is-tech-talks-weekly

bayeslaw · 2 months ago
How did you get to this many subscribers? Where and how do you promote? Or is it all organic?
techtalksweekly · 2 months ago
I've posted a few viral compilations, like this one[1], which have driven hundreds of new subscribers to the list. The rest is mainly coming through the word of mouth.

[1] https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-e...

XCSme · 2 months ago
I will spend most of my time on building/growing my main product: https://www.uxwizz.com

I am also planning to "vibe-code" a piano-learning game: https://ultimidi.com (placeholder landing page for now), mostly because I need it for myself. It won't be 100% vibe-coding, because I like optimizing the code, but I want to iterate quickly and make it free for everyone.