How to Build an AI Stack for a Side Project Without Spending a Dime
Build a complete AI stack for side projects without spending a dime. A curated guide to free APIs, open weights, and local inference tools.
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Build a complete AI stack for side projects without spending a dime. A curated guide to free APIs, open weights, and local inference tools.
Zilla gateway unifies Kafka, MQTT, and AI agents via a single declarative config. Learn its key features, architecture, and quick start guide.
Bonsai is a lightweight Rust library for behavior trees that brings order to complex game and robotics AI logic, with Python bindings included.
LingChat combines visual novel dialogue mechanics, a desktop pet system, and modern language models—all built in Rust for low resource consumption.
Freehire parses job listings directly from ATS systems, bypassing aggregators. With 3.3M vacancies and a full open-source stack, it's a complete candidate workspace.
ai-memory solves the context loss problem when switching between terminal AI agents like Claude Code and Codex. It uses Git-based wiki memory instead of vector databases.
A practical guide to setting up Arch Linux for desktop use, covering hybrid graphics, gaming, virtualization, and automation scripts for everyday tasks.
A hands-on guide to building a GPT model from scratch on your laptop. No abstractions, just pure PyTorch and clear math.
NPatch lets you run Xposed modules without root by embedding LSPosed runtime directly into APK files. Here's how it works and when to use it.
The Bitaxe project and ESP-Miner repository bring back garage DIY vibes with an open-source Bitcoin mining firmware for ESP32.
Turn a cheap Chinese IP camera into a full Linux computer with OpenIPC firmware. SSH access, RTSP streams, and no cloud dependency.
A look at how the BetterGI community organizes hundreds of farming routes, combat rotations, and JS macros through GitHub PRs without a backend.
Zero is a Go-based terminal AI coding agent that runs locally with your choice of models—no vendor lock-in, strict sandboxing, and full session control.
When managing multiple neural network models, chaos is inevitable. CPA Manager Plus provides a self-hosted control panel and observability system to track requests, costs, and account quotas without cloud dependencies.
A quirky desktop app wraps console AI agents in a pixel Office-inspired interface, letting Claude Code, Codex, and local models collaborate through a file-based mailbox system.
A developer built a tool to extract chat history from Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and other AI coding assistants into a unified JSONL format for backup or model fine-tuning.
A lightweight local dashboard that turns Claude Code tasks into a visual Kanban board and Gantt timeline, with real-time updates and desktop notifications.
Open-source 25 kg quadcopter with Python-generated parts, ArduPilot stack, and full build documentation under CERN-OHL-S license.
A curated guide to modern terminal emulators, shells, and CLI tools that can transform your command-line workflow from basic to professional.
Day.js weighs just 2 KB gzipped while maintaining near-100% API compatibility with Moment.js. Learn how to trim your date bundle without the pain.
Modern social media recommendation algorithms stopped working for users. OpenBiliClaw is a local AI agent that gathers interests from multiple platforms, builds a psychological profile, and searches for content independently.
Shanghai AI Lab built a framework that extracts a person's expertise from code, comments, and work chats, then packages it as a reusable AI agent skill.
SGLang-Omni provides a specialized runtime for multi-stage inference of voice and multimodal models, handling the complex pipeline from audio encoding to speech synthesis.
A practical guide to fine-tuning 8B models on consumer hardware using Soup—a CLI tool that brings layer streaming and automated pipelines to small GPUs.