Self-Host Your Own AI Code Assistant With Continue and Ollama
Ditch GitHub Copilot's $19/month subscription. Set up Continue.dev with Ollama for private, local AI code completion in VS Code — zero data leaves your machine.
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Self-Host Your Own AI Code Completion With Continue and Ollama
Ditch GitHub Copilot's $10/month subscription. Set up free, private AI code completion in VS Code using Continue.dev and Ollama — runs entirely on your hardware.
Self-Host Your Own AI Image Generator With ComfyUI and FLUX
Stop paying Midjourney $30 a month. Set up FLUX on your own hardware with ComfyUI and generate unlimited images with zero content filters and full privacy.
How to Build a Private RAG Chatbot With Open WebUI and Ollama
Chat with your own documents locally — no cloud, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine. Step-by-step setup guide.
Stop sending your voice to the cloud: self-host speech-to-text with Whisper in under 20 minutes
A practical guide to running fully local audio transcription with whisper.cpp and faster-whisper — no API keys, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine.
Ditch GitHub Copilot: build your own AI coding assistant with Continue, Ollama, and Qwen Coder
A step-by-step guide to running a fully local, private AI code completion setup in VS Code that costs nothing and sends zero data to the cloud.
Self-host Vane (formerly Perplexica) to replace Perplexity with a private AI search engine
After the Perplexity class-action over leaked chats to Meta and Google, here's how to run a citation-grounded AI answer engine on your own hardware with Ollama and SearXNG.
Self-Host Whisper: Replace Otter.ai and Rev With Private Speech-to-Text That Never Leaves Your Machine
Step-by-step guide to running OpenAI's Whisper locally for transcription — three approaches from command-line to full web UI, all free and completely private.
Self-Host Immich: Replace Google Photos With a Private Photo Library That Actually Respects Your Privacy
Step-by-step guide to setting up Immich, the open-source Google Photos alternative with AI face recognition and smart search — all running on your own hardware.
Self-Host AI Video Generation: Replace Runway and Sora With Your Own GPU
Runway charges $15/month minimum. Sora is shutting down. Open-source models like Wan 2.2 and LTX-2.3 now generate broadcast-quality video on a single consumer GPU — for free.
Self-Host Kokoro TTS: Drop-In Replacement for ElevenLabs and OpenAI Text-to-Speech
An 82-million parameter model that runs on a CPU, sounds nearly as good as ElevenLabs, and costs nothing. Here's how to set it up.
Self-Host MolmoWeb: The Open-Source Browser Agent That Beats GPT-4o
AI2's MolmoWeb lets you automate any browser task locally. It outperforms proprietary agents and costs nothing to run.
Self-Host Tabby: Run Your Own AI Coding Assistant and Ditch GitHub Copilot
Step-by-step guide to deploying Tabby, the open-source AI coding assistant that keeps your code private and costs nothing after setup.
Self-Host ACE-Step 1.5: Replace Suno With Free Local AI Music
Run commercial-grade AI music generation on your own hardware. ACE-Step 1.5 needs just 4GB VRAM and produces songs in under 10 seconds.
Self-Host LTX-Video: Free AI Video Generation That Replaces Runway and Sora
Generate 4K AI videos locally with LTX-Video 2.3. No subscriptions, no cloud uploads, no per-generation fees. Works on GPUs from 12GB to 24GB VRAM.
Self-Host Voicebox: A Desktop Voice Cloning Studio That Runs Offline
Voicebox is a free, open-source desktop app for voice cloning. Five TTS engines, 23 languages, timeline editor. All offline, zero cloud uploads.
Self-Host AnythingLLM: Your Private Document Chat That Replaces ChatGPT Plus
Build a completely private AI assistant that can chat with your documents. No cloud uploads, no subscriptions, no data leaks.
Self-Host Paperless-ngx: Replace Google Drive With Private AI-Powered Document Management
Set up Paperless-ngx with local AI to automatically OCR, tag, and organize all your documents without sending a byte to the cloud
Self-Host Scriberr: Replace Otter.ai With Private AI Transcription
Stop paying $100/year for cloud transcription. Run Scriberr on your own hardware for free, private meeting notes with speaker identification.
Self-Host Fooocus: Replace Midjourney and DALL-E With Free, Private AI Image Generation
Set up Fooocus on your own computer for unlimited AI image generation with no subscriptions, no data collection, and Midjourney-quality results.
Self-Host LibreTranslate: Replace Google Translate and DeepL for Free
Set up your own private translation server in minutes. Keep your text off corporate servers while getting quality translations in 50+ languages.
Self-host Stable Diffusion locally (replace Midjourney/Runway)
Run Stable Diffusion on your own GPU for private, cheaper image generation without subscriptions.
How to Self-Host Whisper: Replace Otter.ai with Free Local Transcription
Step-by-step guide to running Whisper locally for speech-to-text. No monthly fees, no data leaving your machine, better accuracy than most paid services.
How to Self-Host Tabby: Replace GitHub Copilot with Your Own AI Code Assistant
Step-by-step guide to running Tabby, an open-source AI coding assistant, on your own hardware. Full privacy, no subscription fees.