Your favorite AI assistant can't do this: show up on top of whatever you're working on, even a fullscreen app, already holding the text you highlighted for context. Thuki can. Highlight text, double-tap Control, ask, gone. This is how an AI assistant should work 👇

Thuki used to need Ollama running in the background. Not anymore. Sinve v0.15, Thuki ships its own built-in engine: browse curated picks or all of Hugging Face, see what fits your Mac, and download one. Thuki runs it, manages the engine, no terminal, no second app. Pick a model, ask 👇

So I built a little context-aware floating assistant called Thuki (thư kí - Vietnamese for secretary) Double-tap Control and it pops up right on top of whatever you're working on, even fullscreen apps. Yeah, your favorite AI chat apps can't do that lol Once Thuki's up, ask a question, get an answer, toss the convo, back to work. All in one Space. Free & fully local. Runs on Ollama with Gemma 4, Google's latest open source model. No API keys, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine. Still a WIP, but it works. And lots more awaiting in the roadmap. Repo: github.com/quiet-node/thuki

Shipped a fun little update: minimizing. Thuki can now be minimized into its funny little mascot to avoid taking up screen space, while still holding the conversation throughout. github.com/quiet-node/thuki/…

Introducing Thuki's landing page 🚀 Was bored over the weekend so I decided to vibecode it! Really happy with how the scroll-based design turned out! Probably my go-to approach for landing pages now. URLs 👇

Now done with YC Voice Agents Hackathon. ~200 builders in one room, and I loved it. Teamed up with @vikang_official on a voice AI agent for pharmacy calls. Picked it because it's a problem I have, medication names are genuinely hard to pronounce. Victoria brought the other half: elderly patients, stroke survivors, anyone a normal phone call leaves behind. 9 hours later we shipped it. Call it on a real number, or hop on a video call where it reads objects you hold up, like a pill bottle. Verifies your identity, handles refills, English or Spanish. The part I'm proud of: it improves itself. Cekura evals score the agent, a coding agent fixes what fails, opens a PR, redeploys, and Cekura reruns to confirm. Finds its own weak spots and closes them. Real highlight though was watching Victoria work. 3 Claude sessions had me maxed out. She had 9 going, Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 firing everywhere, never dropping a thread. Couldn't have shipped without her. We didn't win. Don't mind at all. Walked away with a product I'm proud of, a new friend who's a phenomenal builder, a stack of new connections, and a reminder to just keep walking up to strangers until something clicks. Here's to many more hackathons. URLs bellow

Absolutly clean work! 🤯🔥🚀 Thanks much @edytwithme what a legend!

Was bored so I started building the landing page for Thuki Just finished the hero and demo components. Did I cook? 🔥 I think scrolling-based is the future of webs

I shipped Thuki 0.7.0 this week, a fully local AI overlay for macOS. Double tap Control from any app, including fullscreen, to ask questions and dismiss them. No tab switching. No API keys. No cloud. Data stays on the machine. Here is what is new: - Agentic web search, fully local. Thuki can now search the web for up to date information it cannot answer from its own knowledge. It uses a SearXNG and Trafilatura pipeline to fetch and distill live results, with a real time trace stream. No API key required and fully self hosted. - In app model picker. Switch between any Ollama models without editing config files. Thuki detects installed models automatically. - New settings panel. Context window size, Ollama URL, system prompt, UI display - all tunable in-app. - /think command makes the model thinks harder before answering - Cross model continuity. Switch models mid session and keep conversation history, adapted to the new model. - Additional slash commands like /tldr, /todos, /translate, /rewrite, etc. The hardest part was building the web search pipeline and making it truly agentic. The system has to decide when a query needs live data or when to do more search rounds and then synthesize multiple sources without hallucinating citations. It was worth the effort. What would you want a local AI overlay to do that it cannot do today? #localAI #ollama #vibecoding #opensource #thuki

Thank you strangers on @Peerlist 🚀😂

Added onboarding screens and a Settings panel to Thuki today Tried @garrytan's design-shotgun from GStack for the UI mockups. Really like how close they get to what I need (colors, fonts, layout) Think I found my go-to for UI work

Thuki can now search the web.. "agentically"! 🌐 Same concept - full local & self-hosted Below is how it works under the hood 🧵

Thuki can now "think" 🧠 Powered by Gemma4:e4b Coming soon 🚀

Thuki now crosses 300 stars 🌟🚀 The gains are still slowly growing.

Launch stats - PH was humbling only 5 upvotes 😂 - X post was only ~500 views. meh - Reddit was the most surprising. So much support from the r/sideproject community - 170 upvotes and 29k views 🔥 - Also the GitHub repo crossed 100 stars 🌟 🚀 Guess not so bad for a fun project

Oh wow almost another 100 stars after a night

Finally updated GitHub profile after 3 years. Followed legend @steipete 's profile page. Simple and focused. github.com/quiet-node