🧠Jan
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
⭐ Very popular: 44k stars, gaining about 86 a week
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momentum
durability
bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.
since we covered it
why it's a big deal
- Privacy-First Design: All data and interactions remain local, ensuring complete user privacy.
- Versatile Model Support: Seamlessly switch between local models and cloud-based providers.
- Custom Assistants: Create specialized AI assistants tailored to your specific tasks.
under the hood
- Built using technologies like Tauri and Rust for a lightweight, efficient desktop application.
- Utilizes llama.cpp for running LLMs locally with GPU acceleration support.
- Provides a user-friendly interface for managing models and settings.
our take from PR#11, 2025-06-25
star history
- PR#11 33k 2025-06-25
- now 44k + 11k since first covered
curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.
understory
Quietly building: more output than attention, for now.
- output, commits & releases
- clout, star velocity
output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →
covered in
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Local-First AI Assistant with Full Offline Capability
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