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For work I have lost all joy. For personal I'm having the most fun I've ever had "programming".

I really always just wanted the tool. I wanted to automate the hard stuff in my life and most of the time I wouldn't take the time to do it. Now I can iterate until I solve the problems. It's really rewarding

I use Claude Design Artifacts a lot for new features I'm building. Its really helpful for nailing a flow and look. Besides that my apps usually have a component library built so it doesn't repeat code.

Opus 5.5 has made it pretty effortless to get right the first time tbh. Usually it even lays things out better than I was thinking originally

Yea I've been using a fork of T3 Code https://t3.codes/ Its just an ADE and one of the internal tools is a visualize feature. Just basically renders HTML and puts it in the chat for you. Its good for quick visualization when mocking up a ui

For the past two years I've been working on my day planner app Ember.

Most planners treat your schedule as fixed, so the moment a meeting runs long or a task takes twice as long, the plan is wrong and you either fix it by hand or give up on it. In Ember, if you move a task or change how long it takes, everything after it shifts later, and it flows around fixed things like meetings. It's been super helpful and I have been adding new features ever since.

Right now I'm working on a native Kotlin app to replace the current one is web + Capacitor and exploring full duplex voice models so I can add or move things around the app while having a conversation with an agent.

homepage: https://emberflow.space demo: https://demo.emberflow.space/?ref=hn

I've been working a planner for the past 2 years for people whose day never goes the way they planned it.

I was trying to solve the problem I had with time-blocking, where your day ends up derailed and you give up on it because it takes too long to replan. I have solved with the idea of a cascading calendar. If I move a task down or change its duration it pushes other tasks later in the day.

Since then its kinda grown into my full productivity system for logging my thoughts and planning and documenting my life

https://emberflow.space

You can demo here for free https://demo.emberflow.space/?ref=hn

This just sent me down a rabbit hole of this kind of tech. So cool

For professional work I do. For my side projects I don't really no. I haven't been for quite a while. I typically will spend time working with claude design or t3's visualize to get the idea fleshed out and then I just have it build and tweak from there. Opus 5.5 has really gotten to the point where I feel like it just gets it with little direction

Hi HN!

I'm Neil, the creator of Ember. I built Ember because I always wanted an app where I could plan out my whole day from a task list, taking into account other commitments and recurring tasks. The problem is that once I built it, I realized no matter how much you plan your day, the reality is always different. Tasks take longer than I thought, something else comes up in between, a meeting gets moved or runs long. When you block your day in something like Google Calendar and this happens, you have to manually move each block down. Within a day or two of that I'd give up on the system.

So for Ember I built a cascade engine. When I drag a task to start later or change its duration, it pushes any tasks it would overlap down with it. If a task below is locked to a certain time, the tasks that would overlap it split around it and join back together as they move past it. I think it's really cool and unique so give it a try!

The way I use it day to day: I dump thoughts into captures from wherever I am, turn the ones that matter into tasks, plan them across my week, plan the day, and then replan the day when it inevitably falls apart. Android, iOS and desktop apps are coming soon, so you'll be able to capture from anywhere.

There's also an AI chat built in where you can say things like "I'm running 30 minutes behind" and it moves things for you, and an MCP server so you can connect Claude or ChatGPT to your schedule.

It's in beta, but a pretty polished one. I've used it every day for a long time and spent a lot of time honing the decisions in it. There are still bugs though, and I'm still building and learning as I go.

The demo runs in your browser with no signup to test the core flow minus AI. The first 200 people from HN can sign up through the demo and get 30 days of the full app with AI. After the 30 days you drop to the free tier and keep all your stuff. If you want to keep using AI you can connect Claude or ChatGPT over MCP, bring your own API key, or become a supporter for $10/month.

I'd love feedback, especially on the cascade engine and if it behaves how you would expect. Let me know any other bugs you run into. I hope you enjoy it!