Every AI chat we use is rented. I built one you own – looking for contributors.
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Your conversations live on someone else's server. Your memory is their asset. The thing forgets you when that's cheaper, changes under you, and you can't look inside it. I got tired of that and built an alternative. minima is a local, bring-your-own-key agentic chat. It runs on your machine, works your real files, and – the part I actually care about – it remembers honestly. Facts carry time: a deadline that passes gets struck through instead of sitting there as a stale claim. You can drag a timeline and see exactly what it believed an hour ago. Everything lives in one SQLite file you can open with any tool. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry. The reason it can do this is a temporal store I built first pysince – it's why the memory can age and carry receipts back to where each fact came from. That was the hard part, and it's done. What's left is everything else, and that's the ask. It's Windows-only right now (the server is PowerShell – a Python port would open it to Mac and Linux, and it's the highest-impact thing anyone could do). There are a hundred rough edges. And honestly, I think the interesting question is open: what does a personal AI look like when nobody's optimizing it for engagement? I don't think one person gets to answer that. If you've ever wanted to own the thing you think with, come build it. submitted by /u/Enough-Piano-2362 |
