Sageling
a local AI agent for Mac, Qwen 3.5 9B in-process via MLX
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A lot of my non-developer friends still think that AI is basically just Google or something you ask to write something and then copy paste it around... if they use it at all. When I ask them why they don't use the good stuff like Claude Cowork or its competitors, they tell me a few things: 1. Well, I don't wanna pay a bunch of money for it, and the $20 plans run out real fast. 2. I'm dealing with sensitive info (student grades, therapy notes, legal work, etc) and I don't wanna give it to anyone.So I built Sageling to give them a first taste of what a good coworking experience feels like. It's admittedly not going to be as powerful given it's running Qwen 3.5 9B, but with all of the harness' tricks, it a good first experience that can handle some impressive things for its size (see all the website videos).If you've heard similar things from your friends, send the link onto them =)
HN · launched Sep 4, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop ai assistants · 274 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Building a standard desktop UI is easy, but integrating Apple Silicon MLX C++/Swift bindings to run local 9B models and audio models in-process without memory crashes requires deep native systems optimization.
What it would actually take: Requires a native Swift/macOS app that directly interfaces with Apple MLX or llama.cpp via C/Obj-C bridges, alongside local Whisper models for speech-to-text. The hard part is memory budgeting to run a quantized 9B LLM and transcriptions simultaneously within 16GB of unified memory without UI stalls or thermal throttling, plus handling local tool-calling loops. Requires native Apple platform engineering and local machine learning inference expertise.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 372 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #212 of 373 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
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