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Hob

Open-source, on device alternative to Claude and ChatGPT

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Hob is a free, open-source AI app for Mac, Windows and Linux that works with your files the way ChatGPT and Claude do, except the AI runs on your own computer. It picks the best open model your computer can run and sets it up for you. Hob can read and edit files in folders you choose, turn spreadsheets into charts, fill in PDFs, look at photos and search the web. Your chats and files stay on your computer, and it works offline.

PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 101 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views

Niche: local ai model runners and clients · 110 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Open Source
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a desktop app wrapping existing open-source local model runtimes, with file access and a chat UI. The main work is integration and hardware detection, which AI-assisted coding handles well.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 154 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #10 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Hob · hn · 2026-10-26 · 175 upvotes · similarity 0.79
  • Nabsun · ph · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • wanna.sh · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Outlier · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • OpenDaemon · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Bodhi App · hn · 2026-01-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Riducta · ph · 2026-10-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • iBoomto Local Chat · ph · 2026-10-31 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.40

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