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AI · April 24, 2026

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…

Lilo – a self-hosted, open-source intelligent personal OS launched on April 24, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,538 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

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Telegram is the easiest way to use Lilo, but it also works wherever you do: WhatsApp, web, desktop, mobile, or email. There's a companion mobile and desktop app for when you want to work more visually, like move things around on your TODO list. Alpha software. Expect breaking changes, rough setup, and bugs. Back up your workspace via git sync, and read Security before running it on a public host. git clone https://github.com/abi/lilo.git cd lilo pnpm install 2. Configure Create a .env.local at the repo root: # Required LILO_WORKSPACE_DIR=./workspace # where the agent's files live LILO_SESSIONS_DIR=./.lilo-sessions # persistent chat session storage # Optional API-backed chat routes and…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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