Build Emma
A coding app with an AI agent that runs on your own models
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Details
- External ID
- 1247927
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Build Emma
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
Description
Build Emma is a desktop coding workspace with EMMA, a resident AI agent that runs on your own models via Ollama. She reads the project, makes the change, runs the tests against it, then stops. You review the diff change by change, and nothing lands until you approve it. It's a real editor with a terminal and language support, and two laptops on the same wifi can code together with no server in the middle. No account, no telemetry, works offline.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ai coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai coding agent that runs on self-hosted models for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a desktop code workspace (such as Monaco editor in Electron or Tauri) that interfaces with a local Ollama REST API, executes test CLI commands, and visualizes git diffs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 251 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #56 of 252 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
- ChatOSS · hn · 2026-08-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- BuildWe AI · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Worktree · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ML.ai · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Chloe · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Open-source AI app builder you can embed into your own SaaS · hn · 2026-07-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- W flow · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- VECTA · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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