GhostOS
Featherweight, 100% Offline Desktop AI Copilot (<35MB RAM)
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Most desktop AI apps are bloated Electron wrappers consuming 1GB+ RAM. GhostOS is a featherweight, 100% offline desktop companion: • <35MB RAM idle (95% lighter than Electron) • 100% Private & Local (zero telemetry) • Dynamic VRAM Juggler & Zero-DB RAG • Terminal Sandbox Lens (safety checks) • Floating Casper HUD with RPG progression & skins Open source (MIT). Built for low-spec laptops & privacy lovers. pip install ghostos-ai
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PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Partial The chat UI and local model wrapping are doable, but achieving sub-35MB idle memory with dynamic VRAM management and a sandboxed terminal requires native systems programming and inference optimization.
What it would actually take: Build a native app (C++, Rust, or Swift/Zig) on top of an inference runtime like llama.cpp or Ollama, with quantized models and an embedded vector index for retrieval. The memory target requires lazy model loading and careful allocator work. Sandboxing terminal commands needs OS-level isolation and policy design, so systems and local-ML performance expertise is required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
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