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taskdistill

Distil an expensive LLM API call on a narrow task into a small local model: capture traffic, curate, LoRA fine-tune with MLX on Apple Silicon, evaluate against the teacher, and serve an OpenAI-compatible cascade that escalates low-confidence requests.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 74%) · 0 views

Niche: llm optimization tools · 127 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • apple-silicon
  • calibration
  • cost-optimization
  • fine-tuning
  • information-extraction
  • knowledge-distillation
  • +9 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The UI and CLI orchestration can be vibe-coded, but setting up a reliable distillation pipeline with Apple Silicon MLX LoRA training, confidence calibration, and fallback cascading requires ML engineering expertise.

What it would actually take: The stack involves Python, MLX/LoRA on Apple Silicon, and an OpenAI-compatible FastAPI gateway. The hard parts are automated dataset curation/filtering from logged traffic, tuning hyperparameter schedules for small student models, and calibrating logit probabilities or confidence thresholds to safely trigger cascade escalations.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 336 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #265 of 337 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.

  • local-llms-with-mlx · github · 2026-09-13 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • stuntd · github · 2026-09-23 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Rapid-MLX · hn · 2026-04-18 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • omarchy-cluster · github · 2026-10-06 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • llm-openai-decisions · github · 2026-10-06 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Local AI · hn · 2026-02-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • IronMule · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • xhub · github · 2026-10-19 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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