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OpenSakura

OpenSakura: MekaHime's first AI companion, open source. 3D VRoid avatar, real-time voice, emotion state, OpenRouter or Ollama brain.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 65 upvotes (top 20%) · 1 view

Niche: ai companion apps · 190 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -48% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • B2C
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • ai-companion
  • gpt-sovits
  • mekahime
  • ollama
  • openrouter
  • speech-recognition
  • +3 more

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a companion app that combines a VRM avatar in three.js, LLM calls to OpenRouter or Ollama, and voice via standard speech APIs, all of which are well-trodden integrations for a vibe-coded build.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 215 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #41 of 216 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.

  • OpenAmika · github · 2026-11-03 · 488 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • Kuku: open source · ph · 2026-05-08 · 241 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • OpenHachimi · github · 2026-10-31 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • AVTR-1 Real-Time Open Weights Model · ph · 2026-05-26 · 197 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Open-Design-AI · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • openaok · github · 2026-10-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • AstralCodex · github · 2026-11-10 · 96 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • Yvette · github · 2026-09-20 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.39

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