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AI · April 18, 2026

I can't write Python. It works anyway

Read an article about analyzing Garmin data with AI. Sounded great — except I didn't want to send my health data to any cloud service. So I asked Claude to write me 2-3 scripts and a dashboard. This escalated a bit. 30 days and 20$ later I have this: A local-first Garmin archive with interactive HTML dashboards, Excel exports, weather and pollen context, AES-256 encrypted token storage, and a self-healing data pipeline with 515 automated tests. Windows desktop app, no terminal needed. Nothing leaves your machine. I never wrote a line of Python. I understood the problems and made the…

I can't write Python. It works anyway launched on April 18, 2026 with 9 votes, #1,315 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Secure, local-first archive for Garmin Connect health data. Preserve your data before Garmin's historical data decay. Private & offline. Windows desktop app, no setup needed. Built for long-term local analysis, dashboards ,local AI and MCP-Server.. - Wewoc/Garmin_Local_Archive

Home · Files · Settings · Ollama-Chat · MCP Server — click any tab to view full size. No install, no terminal. Download, unzip, run. Standard version: install dependencies first — pip install -r requirements.txt . GNU General Public License v3.0 — provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Scope & limitations: Local-first, personal use, no enterprise ambitions. This project is built for my own use. If it happens to be useful to others, feel free to use it — but evaluate it like any other unverified open-source tool. What this is not: Garmin Connect is still required — the app pulls data from there via API. A note on cloud folders: the archive itself is stored as…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Read an article about analyzing Garmin data with AI. Sounded great — except I didn't want to send my health data to any cloud service. So I asked Claude to write me 2-3 scripts and a dashboard. This escalated a bit. 30 days and 20$ later I have this: A local-first Garmin archive with interactive HTML dashboards…

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