nowfound

Alternatives

Products that do what Ajah does

Self-hostable LLM safety layer with RAG verification

  1. 1AL

    We built any-llm because we needed a lightweight router for LLM providers with minimal overhead. Switching between models is just a string change : update "openai/gpt-4" to "anthropic/claude-3" and you're done. It uses official provider SDKs when available, which helps since providers handle their own compatibility updates. No proxy or gateway service needed either, so getting started is pretty straightforward - just pip install and import. Currently supports 20+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and AWS Bedrock. Would love to hear what you think!

    2025 · github.com

  2. 2AS

    WASM sandbox for running LLM-generated code safely. Agents get a bash-like shell and can only call tools you provide, with constraints you define. No Docker, no subprocess, no SaaS — just pip install amla-sandbox

    Jan 2026 · github.com

  3. 3RP

    Hey hacker news, We’re the cofounders at Psychic.dev (http://psychic.dev) where we help companies connect LLMs to private data. With the launch of Llama 2, we think it’s finally viable to self-host an internal application that’s on-par with ChatGPT, so we did exactly that and made it an open source project. We also included a vector DB and API server so you can upload files and connect Llama 2 to your own data. The RAG in RAGstack stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation, a technique where the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) are augmented by retrieving information…

    2023 · github.com

  4. 4UL

    Hi Hacker News! We’re Vadim and Chris from Highlight.io [1]. We do web app monitoring and are working on using LLMs/embeddings to add new functionality to our error monitoring product. Given that there’s a lot of founders/engineers using LLMs in their products, we figured we’d share how we built the new functionality, their impact on our workflows, and how you can try it out. Our goal was to build two features: (1) tagging errors (e.g. deeming an error as “authentication error” or a “database error”); and (2) grouping similar errors together (e.g. two errors that have a different…

    2023 · github.com

  5. 5OS

    Hi all! This morning, we released a new Apache 2.0 licensed model on HuggingFace for detecting hallucinations in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. What we've found is that even when given a "simple" instruction like "summarize the following news article," every LLM that's available hallucinates to some extent, making up details that never existed in the source article -- and some of them quite a bit. As a RAG provider and proponents of ethical AI, we want to see LLMs get better at this. We've published an open source model, a blog more thoroughly describing our methodology (and…

    2023 · vectara.com

  6. 6
    Heym83

    Self-hosted AI workflow automation with agents, RAG, and MCP

    Apr 2026 · heym.run

  7. 7
    Agihalo68

    LLM Router for A.I Agent & Saas with x402

    Jan 2026

  8. 8AO

    I've built an airgapped Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for question-answering on documents, running entirely offline with local inference. Using Llama 3, Mistral, and Gemini, this setup allows secure, private NLP on your own machine. Perfect for researchers, data scientists, and developers who need to process sensitive data without cloud dependencies. Built with Llama C++, LangChain, and Streamlit, it supports quantized models and provides a sleek UI for document processing. Check it out, contribute, or suggest new features!

    2024 · github.com

  9. 9ML
  10. 10HY

    Hey HN, we're Justin and Cole, the founders of Helicone (https://helicone.ai). Helicone is an open-source platform that helps teams build better LLM applications through a complete development lifecycle of logging, evaluation, experimentation, and release. You can try our free demo by signing up (https://helicone.ai/signup) or self-deploy with our new fully open-source helm chart (https://helicone.ai/selfhost). When we first launched 22 months ago, we focused on providing visibility into LLM applications. With just a single line of code, teams could…

    2025 · github.com

  11. 11OS

    Hello everyone I wanted to share a project I've been working on that I think you'll find really interesting. It's called Beelzebub, an open-source honeypot framework that uses LLMs to create incredibly realistic and dynamic deception environments. By integrating LLMs, it can mimic entire operating systems and interact with attackers in a super convincing way. Imagine an SSH honeypot where the LLM provides plausible responses to commands, even though nothing is actually executed on a real system. The goal is to keep attackers engaged for as long as possible, diverting them from your real…

    2025

  12. 12FA
  13. 13SH
  14. 14JS

    Hey HN, I’m Julia, my team and I are building Rag-in-a-Box (https://www.joinable.ai/rag-in-a-box), hosted RAG service that let’s builders of any skill level launch their own RAG app loaded with their own data in minutes. [ What can you do ] 1. Load your documents (PDFs, CSV, PPTs, Word Docs, etc) and make them searchable instantly. All your data stays private and encrypted. 2. Choose latest open source LLM (Llama 4, Deepseek, GPT-oss, etc) to interact with your docs 3. Access your hosted RAG via API - build your own custom front end or integrate with your existing product…

    2025 · joinable.ai

  15. 15

    Smarter RAG with Agentic Retrieval & Context-Aware MCP

    Sep 2025

  16. 16

    100% offline RAG for engineers who can't use cloud AI

    19d ago · philyeh.gumroad.com

  17. 17CA

    Hi HN, I've been working with LLMs in production for a while both as a solo dev building apps for clients and working at an AI startup. The one thing that always was a pain was to pay OpenAI/Gemini/Anthropic a few dollars a month just for me to say "test" or have a CI runner validate some UI code. So I built this server called ChunkBack, that mocks the popular llm provider's functionality but allows you to type in a deterministic language: `SAY "cheese"` or `TOOLCALL "tool_name" {} "tool response"` I've had to work in some test environments and give good results for experimenting…

    Nov 2025 · github.com

  18. 18MI

    Hi HN! I lead product at Vectara and we've just released a new LLM in our platform that outperforms GPT4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro on RAG tasks. Vectara is a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) platform primarily deployed as a SaaS service which includes a generous free tier so you can try it for free. The way we've been able to offer a "better but cheaper" is that we focus a lot of our attention on taking smaller models (which can be hosted in a cost efficient way) and fine tuning them to specific tasks: in this case RAG. This ends up with a model that is less capable of arbitrary tasks like…

    2024 · vectara.com

  19. 19RA
  20. 20AG

    Hi HN, we’re building AxonFlow for teams running LLMs or agents in real production systems. Once agent workflows move past demos, failures are rarely model issues. They tend to show up as execution problems during real runs. Short 2-minute technical demo showing execution control and auditability in practice: https://youtu.be/FNgnESo9RtI AxonFlow is a self-hosted, source-available (BSL 1.1) control plane that sits inline in the execution path and governs LLM calls, tool calls, retries, approvals, and policy enforcement step by step. It does not replace your orchestrator and…

    Jan 2026

  21. 21IM

    As a handsome local AI enjoyer™ you’ve probably noticed one of the big flaws with LLMs: It lies. Confidently. ALL THE TIME. I’m autistic and extremely allergic to vibes-based tooling, so … I built a thing. Maybe it’s useful to you too. The thing: llama-conductor llama-conductor is a router that sits between your frontend (eg: OWUI) & backend (llama.cpp + llama-swap). Local-first but it should talk to anything OpenAI-compatible if you point it there (note: experimental so YMMV). LC is a glass-box that makes the stack behave like a deterministic system, instead of a drunk telling a story about…

    Jan 2026

  22. 22

    Dev tool that worries about your LLM API failures.

    Aug 2026 · llmrouter.dpdns.org

  23. 23AB
  24. 24MR

    Hey HN, With the news of OpenRouter possibly being acquired and proliferation of hosted LLM routers (i.e. Ramp Router, Vercel’s AI Gateway), I saw the need for a self hosted solution focused on cost savings, transparency, and performance. So, I built an open sourced router with a simple CLI interface that can easily sit between coding agents and GenAI workloads. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, Millwright has the tools for, - Providers: OpenAI-compatible APIs, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock - Routing: policy-controlled model roles (cheap, mid, frontier), cheapest healthy route selection -…

    Jul 2026 · github.com

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Refine with a description →