{"slug": "looking-for-help-building-an-offline-local-ai-desktop-app", "title": "Looking for help building an offline, local AI desktop app", "summary": "A developer is seeking paid help to build a privacy-focused desktop app for Windows and Mac that runs an open-source AI model fully offline, with no cloud, account, or telemetry, and requires a custom, plug-and-play solution rather than wrapping existing runtimes like llama.cpp or Ollama. The engagement will be delivered as open source with code handed over on completion.", "body_md": "Hi all,\n\nI’m working on a privacy-focused AI project and could use a hand from someone who knows the local-inference space well.\n\nThe idea is simple: a desktop application (Windows and Mac) that runs a capable open-source model fully offline on the user’s own machine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. The key thing is that it has to be genuinely plug and play, the user opens it and it just works, with nothing to install, configure, or choose.\n\nIdeally we’d build our own custom solution rather than just wrapping an existing runtime like llama.cpp or Ollama. We want something that’s genuinely ours, purpose-built and self-contained, so we’re open to the right person helping us design it from the ground up rather than assembling off-the-shelf parts.\n\nWhere I’d love input or help:\n\nIt’s a paid engagement, delivered as open source with the code handed over on completion. Happy to sort out terms properly.\n\nIf you’ve built something like this, or have strong opinions on how you’d approach it, I’d really like to hear from you. Drop a comment or send me a message.\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/looking-for-help-building-an-offline-local-ai-desktop-app", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/looking-for-help-building-an-offline-local-ai-desktop-app/178680#post_1", "published_at": "2026-08-14 21:52:49+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 22:26:54.685797+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["llama.cpp", "Ollama"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/looking-for-help-building-an-offline-local-ai-desktop-app", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/looking-for-help-building-an-offline-local-ai-desktop-app.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/looking-for-help-building-an-offline-local-ai-desktop-app.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/looking-for-help-building-an-offline-local-ai-desktop-app.jsonld"}}