Ask HN: What are you building that you're excited by

I’ve been working on Beacon, which just got approved on the App Store! It’s a mobile app to instantly answer “which friend is free to talk right now?” and summon them in a single tap.

Send your beacon to a group, and everyone gets a gentle ping. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. It does not log any missed calls so there’s neither pressure to answer nor pressure to return calls.

Overall it works really well! It’s best if you're able to join with 4+ friends/family you’d like to chat with more. I have dozens of connections in the app now and it feels like absolute magic to me. I tap the button to send my beacon to everyone and get a random friend on the line.

https://trybeacon.chat/

1. Refresh of my personal website (almost done)

2. Refresh of my e2e CUE based developer experience, and in particular my personal harness (next)

Updating the online help for my magnum opus for the first time in maybe 10 years