Local-First
Privacy-preserving local AI systems
16 practitioners working with Local-First:
Ariya Hidayat's Anti-Framework Approach to LLM Development
The creator of PhantomJS and Esprima argues against LLM frameworks, showing how to build AI tools with simple API calls instead
Artur Piszek's WordPress Personal OS
How a software engineer turned WordPress into a self-hosted personal operating system with AI-ready architecture
Clawlet
AI agent with built-in semantic memory, one binary
Debanjum Singh's Open Personal AI
How the Khoj founder builds trustworthy AI assistants that search your documents locally
Ettore Di Giacinto's LocalAI Platform
How an Italian open-source veteran built a drop-in OpenAI replacement that runs on consumer hardware with no GPU required
file over app: why ai should work with files, not databases
steph ango's principle says apps are temporary, files are forever. ai tools ignore this. they shouldn't.
Georgi Gerganov's Local LLM Revolution
How a Bulgarian physicist built llama.cpp and made large language models run on laptops, phones, and Raspberry Pis
Jason McGhee's WebMCP: Turning Websites Into AI Tool Servers
How a former Cursor co-founder built WebMCP to let any website expose tools to AI agents without sharing API keys, now being standardized by W3C.
Linus Lee's Custom AI Tools
How a tools-for-thought researcher builds personal AI systems from scratch to expand what's possible to think
Louis Beaumont
Founder of Mediar AI and creator of screenpipe — 24/7 local screen and audio capture for AI memory. Building the open-source Rewind alternative.
Personal Search Tools
Build semantic search over your notes with embeddings, vector stores, and local-first tools. Complete tooling comparison.
Steph Ango's File Over App Philosophy
How the Obsidian CEO builds personal systems around plain text files, local-first tools, and deliberate friction with AI.
the recursion is shipping
claude writes 70-90% of its own training code. function calling is a trap. browser agents skip the UI. 425K agent trajectories in 9B params. vibe-coded repos implode. SOTA TTS goes local.
when the grid dies, your AI should still work
the best stress test for personal AI is infrastructure failure. someone in Ukraine just ran it.
you are hosting now
the shift from consuming software to hosting infrastructure — how personal AI is turning your home into a data center
you are hosting now
the shift from consuming software to hosting infrastructure — BrainRotGuard, claude-code-telegram, Gaia, clawsec, Simon's Beats, ggml.ai, and Karpathy's Mac Mini