Two years ago today I started building Scira. So today I'm shipping miniscira, the small self-hostable version of it. Scira already does a lot of this. What kept coming up was that people wanted the good parts for themselves: to run them, change them, point them at their own stuff. That's what this is. You ask something big, and instead of a spinner you watch it work. Every search it runs, every page it opens, every sub-agent it hands work off to, live while it's happening. If it works out that two of your "independent" sources trace back to the same press release, you watch it work that out. And you host it. It runs on your own Vercel AI Gateway key, so there are no credits or tiers, and nothing telling you you've got 3 deep research runs left this month. The usage goes on your Vercel bill and nobody sits in between taking a cut. That does mean there's no hosted demo. Running one openly would mean paying for everyone else's research, so miniscira.com is just a landing page and the real app is the thing you clone. Built with: → @eve runs the agent, and is the reason a research run survives a reload → @vercel for the AI Gateway, Blob, Sandbox and Streamdown → @nextjs 16 and React 19 → @shadcn /ui on top of @base_ui → @better_auth for sign-in → @neondatabase and @DrizzleORM → @ExaAILabs and @firecrawl for search → @spacexai grok as the default model, @cohere for reranking → @resend for the scheduled research emails → Fumadocs by @fuma_nama for the docs → @biomejs and @bunjavascript for the toolchain MIT, and it deploys to Vercel, Docker, or a plain VPS. → git.new/miniscira