The author found reading non-fiction with a tree-structured AI agent effective but inaccessible for many users. To solve this, they built pi-books, an open-source, local-first reading companion that transforms books into navigable, tree-like conversations, addressing the limitations of linear AI chat threads.
Oh My PPT is a local-first AI slide deck generator and editor that allows users to create presentations from a single prompt or existing documents. It offers features like importing PPTX, image-based style extraction, and chat-based or visual editing, all while running securely on the user's machine.
The author developed Knovex, a local-first, AI-powered desktop knowledge base that prioritizes data privacy. This article explores the architectural decisions and technical challenges encountered while building this tool that avoids uploading documents to the cloud.
The author faced the challenge of enabling AI agents to communicate across different repositories and sessions without high costs or complex infrastructure. Inspired by Linus Torvalds' Git playbook, they proposed a solution using per-writer append-only logs, prioritizing simplicity and low cost.
Claude Observatory is a local-first dashboard that transforms the ~/.claude directory into a searchable, visual command center. It indexes data from Claude sessions, tokens, and commands, exposing 16 modules for usage analysis.
FirstCall v0.1.0 has been released, a new Rust-based desktop and CLI tool designed to transform various API request sources into verified, agent-ready API recipe packages. It emphasizes a local-first approach, offering both a graphical interface for interactive review and a command-line interface for automation in agent workflows.