Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

I've decided to take a break from working on Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) until next year and focus on some side projects instead:

1. Shifu (https://github.com/emvi/shifu) - a code-based CMS with admin UI. It's really easy to set up, written in Go, free and open-source, and I already sold a few websites using it. It can be used as kind of a framework to build more specialized features into a website and takes away the maintenance hell from managing a WordPress installation or a similiar CMS with tons of plugins that break with every update.

2. Zenko (working title, repo is private for now) - a very simple and no-bullshit project management software. It will be free and open-source, but I might offer a hosted option for a few bucks (like $20/year for all users of a team). I mainly build this for ourself to replace Linear, because we don't really make use of it. Don't get me wrong, Linear is awesome, but we basically only need an advanced Todo list. Main goals:

* Pull updates on the dashboard by yourself, instead of receiving notifications all the time via email

* Keep it simple stupid - no unnecessary features, no AI, just the bare minimum

* Cheap (for the hosted version, free if self-hosted) and easy to host (again written in Go)

* No feature-creep

3. Last but not least, I'm working on a "game engine" written in Go and SDL2. I do this for fun, but it is coming along nicely and teached me a few new concepts already (like ECS in Go).

I’m still working on MLSync.io, an ETL platform designed to remove the technical friction of synchronizing MLS data using RESO protocol and provide simple access to the MLS data via SQL and REST API.

And as everyone now, I'm experimenting with LLMs to bring some new AI-related features to the service.

On another project, we've now beta testing (in ordination) Asus GX10 processing power running on-device LLMs for _local_ processing of patient medical data for 'differential diagnoses, implant plans and risk profiles in real time while the patient is in still in the chair'.

[1] https://MLSync.io

https://lab.enverge.ai/b200-challenge/ - making high-end compute available to a few researchers, who are conscious about the impact of data centers on climate and local communities.

Super cute! Might try it out soon (my partner and I are both working from home most of the time).

Working on a browser extension that let's you take notes right on youtube.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-notes/phgnkid...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-notes-f...

Demo here: https://youtu.be/rOi7xQ8DLpo?si=M6pFoHqyrSGKuyIt