i’m a solo dev and locally uncensored is my app. about half a year ago i got annoyed that running ai on my own machine meant a pile of separate tools, a terminal and a whole evening of wiring nodes before i saw a single picture. so i started building one desktop app for all of it. here’s where it is now: -chat with local models. one installer, and it suggests a first model that fits your machine, so you never open a terminal. if you already use ollama or lm studio, it works with those too -images and video on your own gpu. it installs and runs comfyui in the background, you pick a model and type a prompt instead of wiring nodes -train a character on your own card and reuse it in your pictures -voice mode, where you talk to the model and it answers out loud, all on your machine (english only, beta) -runs on windows, linux and, since last week, macs with apple silicon (beta) it’s free and open source (agpl), you don’t need an account for anything local, and it’s at 180,000 downloads now. then i noticed how many of those people don’t have the hardware. an 8 gb card handles images and small video models but not the big ones, and a laptop without a gpu runs very little. so i built a hosted mode where the same kind of open, uncensored models run on our gpus, the ones the big chat apps won’t give you. in the desktop app it’s one switch between local and cloud, and the same account works in a browser on machines without the app. that part is paid with credit packs, no subscription, and it’s what keeps the project going. everything local stays free. some things i learned along the way: most support questions were never bugs, they were people asking why their card is too small. so the app now tells you what fits your machine before you download 20 gb. people also care a lot more about it working on the first try than about having the newest model. and saying the limits plainly (“beta”, “tested on one mac”) earned me more trust than any new feature. if you want to know anything about building it, the stack (tauri, rust, react) or running models on a weak card, ask away.   submitted by   /u/GroundbreakingMall54 [link]   [comments]