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59 field notes about self-hosting. Quick, practical, no fluff.
A hidden speed switch inside gaming graphics cards
Someone found a way to make a gaming graphics card run AI math much faster. The real gains are smaller, and the risks are real.
Oct 31github№ 259WhatsApp API for Business: Official vs Open Source
Meta now charges for replies past 1,000 a month. Free gateways like WAHA and OpenWA break WhatsApp's terms. Which route fits which job, with prices.
Oct 22original№ 252openGym: Your Workout History, On Your Own Server
A self-hosted workout tracker that brings your years of Strong, Hevy and FitNotes logs with you, so leaving an app no longer means starting over.
Oct 15github№ 248Aurelio: a money tracker that asks before acting
A free net-worth tracker that keeps your money records on your own computer, with an optional AI advisor that never changes anything without your OK.
Oct 11github№ 240Your AI Coworker, Without the Landlord
OpenDots gives you always-on AI coworkers with their own browser and files — open-source, any AI model, running on your own server.
Oct 3github№ 237Your Own Daily Briefing, Curated by AI
AIHOT is an open-source framework that reads the web, filters the noise, and publishes a daily digest for your industry — without any subscription fee.
Sep 30github№ 235One Pipeline Engine, Every AI Provider
RocketRide lets you build AI workflows that work with any model or database — without being tied to a single vendor or cloud platform.
Sep 28github№ 232The $0 Stack That Rewrites AI Text
StealthHumanizer rewrites AI-generated text to sound human — and runs entirely for free, with no subscription, no login, and no middleman.
Sep 25github№ 231Your Office Suite, With AI as a Coworker
Univer Workspace is a free, self-hosted office suite built from the ground up so AI agents can draft, edit, and review documents alongside your team.
Sep 24github№ 228A Free Bloomberg for the Rest of Us
OpenStock gives you real-time stock data, price alerts, and company research across 30+ global exchanges — free, forever, no subscription required.
Sep 21github№ 216The AI That Gets Cheaper the More You Use It
Experiential watches how your AI tools work, then quietly trains a smaller model that handles your routine tasks — cutting costs by up to 97%.
Sep 7github№ 214The Company Brain That Never Forgets
Utopia keeps a living record of everything your company knows — and remembers what you used to believe, even after the facts changed.
Sep 5github№ 213Voice Cloning on Your Own Machine, Free
VoiceStudio lets you clone voices, dub videos, and transcribe audio in 646 languages — all on your computer, with no monthly fees and no data leaving your device.
Sep 4github№ 202Your Mouse, No Account Required
OpenLogi lets you control your Logitech mouse or keyboard without installing bloated software or handing over your email to anyone.
Aug 24github№ 198Macro: One App Instead of Five Subscriptions
Macro is a free, self-hostable app that replaces Slack, Notion, Linear, and HubSpot — with AI that remembers everything your team knows.
Aug 21github№ 192AI Agents That Log Into Apps Without Seeing
Open Connector lets AI agents connect to Gmail, Slack, Stripe and 1,000+ services — without ever touching your actual credentials.
Aug 16github№ 189Brigade: Your AI Team, Running on Your Machine
Brigade puts a crew of AI agents on your computer — they browse, write emails, attend meetings, and message you like a colleague would.
Aug 13github№ 187AI That Can Explain Itself, Months Later
Semantica gives AI agents a memory of why they did what they did — a full decision trail any auditor or regulator can follow.
Aug 11github№ 172Buzz: Free Slack + GitHub Where AI Is a Teammate
Jack Dorsey just shipped a free, self-hosted workspace that replaces Slack and GitHub — and lets AI agents join your team like real colleagues.
Jul 29github№ 168The Biggest Open AI Model Is Now Free to Keep
Moonshot AI just released the world's largest open AI model — and unlike GPT or Claude, you can run it yourself, fine-tune it, and use it commercially.
Jul 25github№ 166See Your Servers Without the Chaos
DockLog gives small teams a live window into their running apps — no expensive tooling, no tech debt, just one tidy dashboard you host yourself.
Jul 23github№ 156A 744B AI Model on a Laptop With No GPU
A tiny engine called Colibri runs giant AI models on everyday computers by reading only the parts it needs from disk, one moment at a time.
Jul 13github№ 155A Guard Dog for Your AI's Shopping Cart
Refuse watches every software package your AI installs and quietly blocks the ones with known security holes — before they touch your system.
Jul 12github№ 154A Safety Net for Every Package You Install
A free, one-click tool that checks every code package for threats before it reaches your computer — built for the era of AI that installs things on its own.
Jul 11github№ 149Your Meetings, Never Leaving Your Laptop
Meetily transcribes and summarises every meeting in real time — no subscription, no cloud, no one else reading your conversations.
Jul 6github№ 148T3MP3ST: AI That Tries to Break Your AI
A self-hosted platform that sends swarms of AI agents to attack your AI product — so you find the weak spots before your users or competitors do.
Jul 5github№ 133Your Own Heroku, for $6 a Month
Coolify v4 lets you run your whole web stack on a cheap server you control — apps, databases, and AI tools included — for a fraction of managed-platform prices.
Jun 20github№ 126Apple's Free On-Device AI Just Got a Lot More Real
Apple quietly shipped a way to run AI privately on any Mac — no cloud bills, no data leaving the device. Here's what that means for small builders.
Jun 13original№ 121Your AI Search Engine, But 8× Smaller
A new open-source tool shrinks the memory your AI search needs by 87% — without losing quality. Big news for anyone running AI on their own servers.
Jun 8github№ 117A Frontier AI Model That Anyone Can Host
MiniMax M3 matches the best closed AI models on coding tasks — and costs twelve times less. Soon, you'll be able to run it yourself.
Jun 4github№ 114Your Own AI Workspace, On Your Own Machine
Odysseus is a free, open-source workspace that runs AI assistants, email triage, and research agents entirely on your own computer — no subscriptions, no data sharing.
Jun 1github№ 113A Voice for Your AI That Costs Nothing
A tiny open-source model that gives your AI a human-sounding voice — no expensive cloud subscription, no special hardware, just your laptop.
May 31github№ 112A Voice for Your App — No Internet Required
Supertonic 3 turns written text into studio-quality speech on your own computer — no subscriptions, no cloud, 31 languages out of the box.
May 30github№ 103~1 Billion Free AI Tokens a Month, No Card
FreeLLMAPI gathers the free tiers of dozens of AI providers behind one address, and quietly switches to another when one runs out.
May 21github№ 100OpenWA Review: Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway
A free, open-source way to connect WhatsApp to your own tools and bots, run on your own server, with one honest warning worth reading first.
May 19github№ 96Your AI assistant finally remembers you
A small open-source tool gives your AI coding assistant a long-term memory — so it stops forgetting everything between sessions.
May 15github№ 95The AI that actually knows your week
OpenHuman quietly reads all your tools every 20 minutes and builds a private memory of your work — so it never starts from scratch.
May 14github№ 94Your codebase, searchable by AI, sent to no one
Sourcebot lets you run a private, searchable brain over all your code repositories — so your AI tools stop guessing and start knowing.
May 13github№ 93A backend built for AI, not for you
InsForge is a database and infrastructure platform designed to be operated by AI agents, not by humans clicking through dashboards.
May 12github№ 90A 284-Billion-Parameter AI That Lives on Your MacBook
The creator of Redis just released a tiny engine that runs one of the world's most capable AI models entirely on a high-end MacBook — no cloud, no subscription, no data leaving your desk.
May 9github№ 87Design without asking permission
A free, open-source tool just appeared that does what Anthropic's shiny new design product does — except you own it, host it yourself, and it works with whichever AI you already use.
May 6github№ 85When One AI Agent Isn't Enough
Ruflo turns Claude into a self-organizing team of AI specialists that split the work between them, and it's free to run yourself.
May 5github№ 86OpenClaw: one AI assistant in every chat app you use
Self-hosted AI gateway that puts the same assistant into WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and more. Open source, MIT-licensed, runs on your own machine.
May 5github№ 76The AI that breaks into your systems before attackers do
PentAGI is an open-source AI agent that runs full security tests on your systems autonomously — no specialist required to set it in motion.
Apr 28github№ 57A Tiny Download Manager That Respects Your Machine
The best download manager around went quiet in 2023 — someone just rebuilt it from scratch, and it's smaller, faster, and free.
Apr 10github№ 56Your AI Finally Remembers You
A free tool that gives AI assistants a real memory — so they stop forgetting everything the moment you close the chat.
Apr 9github№ 51Drop a receipt. Get tidy accounts.
TaxHacker is a free, self-hosted app that reads any receipt or invoice — in any language — and turns it into clean accounting data, automatically.
Apr 5github№ 50A powerful AI that fits in your pocket — literally
Google just released a family of AI models you can run on your own devices, own completely, and use commercially — no subscriptions, no restrictions.
Apr 4original№ 45Plan a trip together — without handing your data to anyone
TREK is a free, self-hosted trip planner your whole team can use in real time — maps, budgets, weather, packing lists — and it lives on your own server.
Mar 30github№ 40Reading PDFs Without Sending Them Anywhere
A new PDF parser runs entirely on your own machine, handles messy real-world documents surprisingly well, and doesn't need an internet connection or an API account.
Mar 26github№ 35An AI That Works When the Internet Doesn't
Project N.O.M.A.D. bundles an AI assistant, offline Wikipedia, maps, and medical references into a self-contained computer that runs anywhere — no Wi-Fi, no cloud, no tracking.
Mar 22github№ 33Your documents, your server, your rules
OpenRAG lets you build a private search brain for all your business documents — PDFs, audio recordings, spreadsheets — without sending a single file to anyone else's cloud.
Mar 21github№ 30Crucix: a free, self-hosted OSINT intelligence terminal
Crucix gathers fires, flights, markets and sanctions lists from 27 open feeds into one dashboard on your computer, and can ping you when things change.
Mar 18github№ 26The AI Panel That Argues Before It Answers
A 20-year-old student built a self-hosted brand monitoring tool where AI agents argue with each other before writing your report — and the internet noticed.
Mar 14github№ 24The AI Agent That Remembers What It Learned
Hermes Agent remembers past conversations, learns from mistakes, and connects to Slack, Discord and Telegram. Free, self-hosted, built by Nous Research.
Mar 12github№ 20AI agents that can't leak your passwords — even if tricked
IronClaw is an open-source runtime that lets AI agents do real work without ever seeing — or accidentally exposing — your API keys and secrets.
Mar 8github№ 19What if your whole company was run by AI agents?
Paperclip lets you build a fully staffed AI organisation — with a real org chart, budgets, and accountability — that actually runs itself.
Mar 7github№ 15The invisible wall that keeps AI agents from breaking things
Alibaba just open-sourced the safety layer that lets AI agents actually do things — without putting your real systems at risk.
Mar 3github№ 10The Web Scraper That Fixes Itself
Scrapling watches websites change and quietly updates itself — so your data pipelines don't break every time a competitor redesigns their homepage.
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