CraftBot: A Self-Hosted AI Assistant That Doesn't Phone Home
CraftBot launched on Product Hunt April 18, finishing #3 with 216 upvotes. Self-hosted proactive AI assistant that lives entirely on your machine. No cloud, no telemetry, no calls home. Hooks into your local files, your calendar, your notes, and acts before you ask.
The proactive part is what separates it. Most local AI projects are just a Llama wrapper with a chat box. CraftBot watches what you're doing and suggests actions. Spotting a meeting tomorrow without an agenda, drafting one. Noticing a recurring task in your todo list, blocking time. The privacy story is the whole pitch β none of this leaves your laptop.
The market wants this badly. Every enterprise security team is now in the loop on AI tool approvals. Telling them "the model runs on the employee's M-series Mac" is a much shorter conversation than "we send your emails to a third-party API". Local AI used to mean worse AI. With Qwen, Llama, and the new sub-7B reasoning models, it's now good enough for personal assistant work.
Product: search "CraftBot" on Product Hunt.
The center of gravity in agent products is shifting toward local. Cloudflare-hosted MCP, OpenAI-hosted agents, Claude-hosted skills are still where the headline news lives. But there's a quiet undercurrent of people who don't want any of that and just want their stuff to run on their own machine. CraftBot is one of the cleaner stabs at that shape.
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The proactive part is what separates it. Most local AI projects are just a Llama wrapper with a chat box. CraftBot watches what you're doing and suggests actions. Spotting a meeting tomorrow without an agenda, drafting one. Noticing a recurring task in your todo list, blocking time. The privacy story is the whole pitch β none of this leaves your laptop.
The market wants this badly. Every enterprise security team is now in the loop on AI tool approvals. Telling them "the model runs on the employee's M-series Mac" is a much shorter conversation than "we send your emails to a third-party API". Local AI used to mean worse AI. With Qwen, Llama, and the new sub-7B reasoning models, it's now good enough for personal assistant work.
Product: search "CraftBot" on Product Hunt.
The center of gravity in agent products is shifting toward local. Cloudflare-hosted MCP, OpenAI-hosted agents, Claude-hosted skills are still where the headline news lives. But there's a quiet undercurrent of people who don't want any of that and just want their stuff to run on their own machine. CraftBot is one of the cleaner stabs at that shape.
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