AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Lilo – a self-hosted, open-source intelligent personal OS
Hey everyone, I’ve been working on Lilo for the last few months. In short, it’s an intelligent personal OS. Lilo = your apps + your AI assistant + your files + your memories. For a visual intro, here’s a YouTube video demonstrating the features and use cases: https://youtu.be/Jz0l_izoA1w I started this project because I wanted a few small AI-powered apps for myself — a bookmarks tool, a calorie tracker, a TODO list — but deploying N separate apps with N deployments, URLs, and auth configs is too much effort for a single-user use case. So I built one container that holds all…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable. - HeyPuter/puter
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zo Computer▲202Build powerful personal software on an intelligent server
Nov 2025 · zo.computer · its alternatives →
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XBeast▲228A few weeks ago I realized i was spending way too much time trying to write quality posts for Twitter. So I decided to look into scheduling tools which could help me automate my writing. I tried a few, but none of them satisfied me. Either the interface was way too complicated or the features i wanted were just not there. Finally, after some time I gave up… and instead I decided to just do it! I hacked up a quick prototype in a weekend. Tried it out - it worked!! Mostly.. I fixed some bugs, made a nice UI, and now (3 weeks later) I think I built one of the nicest scheduling tools out there.
2024 · xbeast.io · its alternatives →
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Lilo▲155Your sidekick for home-grown greens (Pre-launch)
2015 · pretapousser.com · its alternatives →
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Thinglo▲100Save anything from any app — AI-organized, private, instant
Feb 2026 · thinglo.app · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! The day has finally come to stop adding features and start sharing what I've been building the last 5-6 months. It's a bit of CrewAI, OpenDevon, LangFuse/Cloud all in one, providing devs who prefer TypeScript an integrated framework thats provides a lot out of the box to start experimenting and building agents with. It started after peeking at the LangChain docs a few times and never liking the example code. I began experimenting with automating a simple Jira request from the engineering team to add an index to one of our Google Spanner databases (for context I'm the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Livinity▲90Open-source homeserver OS with a built-in AI agent
Jul 2026 · livinity.io · its alternatives →
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I kept seeing people making macOS apps for their one-off use cases and automations. I thought surely the hassle of paying for an Apple dev account and fighting with code signing and notarization would be a deterrent for most people. Viberunner is a container environment that lets you build macOS apps with simple prompts. You can run the apps in a new tab, a new window, or even as a system menu bar app. You can create things like: - a clipboard manager - an image redactor - a note-taking tool that saves a daily note to a folder on your desktop - a desktop organizer that cleans up your…
2025 · viberunner.me · its alternatives →
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Hi there, I've created this side project to make it easier to find interesting repositories using AI. There's still a lot of work to be done to improve it, so any suggestions for enhancements would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
2024 · awesome-repositories.com · its alternatives →
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Momo▲13Personal AI assistant for founders - run in the background
2025 · usemomo.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I have been building Minimado (spelled mini-meadow) over the past few days It's got a minimalist theme inspired by Project IDX from Google, a command mode where you would use terminal-navigation and shortcuts to use the tool, and it could also be downloaded as a native app for any platform. Best part? It requires no sign-ups and is completely free. I might add sign-ups and make it optional for account sync purposes. Play with it and let me know what you think. It's got a "Feedback" link in the bottom left where you can upvote upcoming features and suggest new ones you might think…
2025 · minimado.com · its alternatives →
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Imagine you have to make a little change in all your microservices, like changing a line in Dockerfile, but you have 50 microservices, ouch right! The PRs, pipelines, reviews... I have created a dashboard with a chatbot where you can simply ask "Update all repositories with alpine base image version X to Y", and then click next a bunch of time and see a list of PRs with their pipeline status. Hi friends I'm Daniel, the creator of Infra as AI. I was laid off from my SRE role a couple of months ago, and decided to build something that could always help me at work. My job was to keep the lights…
2025 · infrastructureas.ai · its alternatives →
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PAI▲9Hi HN! I've been spending the past month on PAI, a Linux-esque harness for a personal assistant AI for your Mac. Instead of giving a chatbot a bunch of tools, I wanted to just drop the LLM into a terminal and see how it'd fare. I've been using it to manage my calendar, 5+ email accounts, and engaging with / responding to people in a timely manner (casus belli for this entire project). After seeing how other always-on assistants were designed, I thought the Unix / Linux philosophy of system design could be applied to AI harnesses, and I wanted to experiment with how it'd hold up…
Jul 2026 · whitematterlabs.ai · its alternatives →
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I built an open source desktop AI assistant after getting frustrated with how brittle most tools feel once questions go beyond basic Q and A. The goal was to explore whether an assistant could reliably handle interview style interactions such as system design discussions, multi step coding problems, and deeper follow up questioning without hiding behavior behind a closed SaaS. The assistant supports both cloud and local LLMs, uses a bring your own API key model, and is intentionally opinionated so behavior stays predictable under pressure. Most of the work went into managing context, follow…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Your personal AI assistant - built for privacy & control.
Nov 2025 · shmmsra.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi there! I've been working with data in one form or another, professionally, for about 5 years. I've been thinking about my own personal data and how it's used for at least twice that long. I've been sort of building something in my head for a while that solves my own problem and, in the beginning of this year, I found the opportunity to spend some time building it out. I'll leave the detailed explanation to the blog post but, in short, I built what amounts to an API crawler combined with a data processor to help you download your personal data from 3rd party services and work with it using…
2024 · joshcanhelp.com · its alternatives →
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Aikoa▲7I build Aikoa for myself to replace paper lists and todos. There is gaziljion different todo apps. Why not use one of them? Every todo app I tried just confused my brain and I wanted something really simple that makes me want to mark tasks as done. And as a nerd, I wanted the power to stay in the background. I’m currently building Aikoa in my free time, but I keep releasing new features regularly. As a fun bonus for all early birds, I’m sending out a limited custom sticker. Delivered anywhere in the world. Would love to get feedback from you and hope this little web app helps you as much it…
2025 · aikoa.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN community, I'm Sebastian, a Product Manager/Designer/Maker. I'd like for anyone with an idea to build and validate something quickly. I got into the #nocode thing earlier last year and wanted to see what's possible with the tools out there today. Over the last few months, I spent a lot of late nights and weekends on my side project. I'm very proud to present the result today. Meet Memoly (https://memoly.app). It's built entirely without code. To achieve my goal, I used this tech stack: Adalo, Zapier, Airtable, and Carrd. Memoly is available for iOS and Android. I…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I'm Yuval. I run a tiny startup called Glitter AI. It's just me full-time here, with a couple of freelances to help here and there. A couple of months ago, I went from managing zero requests to hundreds -- overnight (won Product of the day on Product Hunt). As someone who gets VERY easily distracted (maybe you relate), I had to find some sort of way of handling all the chaos if I didn't want to burn out. I came up with a pretty cool automation flow that I thought folks on HN here may be interested in reading about :) So here goes: Most of my interactions come through Intercom.…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News! For the past few months I've been developing Superego: an open-source _personal_ database where you can store everything you want about your life. Literally. Whatever data you have, you can put it in the app. On top of the database, Superego gives you: 1. An AI assistant that you can use to collect and explore your data. 2. A platform to build small personal applications that use that data. -- Try it https://demo.superego.dev/ No login required; runs entirely in your browser¹. Same deal when you download the app (macOS-only for now): everything is local, no…
Oct 2025 · superego.dev · its alternatives →
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