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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) by bendtb on Sunday January 11, 2026 @01:58PM (#46578611)
I am building an analytics calculator/toy that slowly turned into something useful.

It started as curiosity. I wanted to see if I could express business logic as simple choices and let the numbers fall out on their own.

The app is built interactively in Streamlit. I do not sit down with a spec or a backlog. I add one small idea at a time, refresh the page, react to what looks wrong, then adjust. It feels closer to sketching than programming. The interface tells me what the logic should be next.

Underneath there is a growing pile of rules about the business I am in.

I do not write code in the traditional sense.

I have never coded before and are solving my own problem done by one, this sure feels like magic!!

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