Ollama
How vibe coders and indie builders use Ollama: 295 projects built with it and 20 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
295
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
2.0%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-3%
Add-ons built for it
20
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- OpenAI API 111
- Claude API 107
- Gemini API 70
- Python 48
- OpenRouter 48
- LM Studio 48
- DeepSeek 26
- Claude Code 25
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Ollama
- Freekit — Connects VS Code to existing web AI chat accounts through browser automation, or to a local Ollama model, to generate and apply code changes.“I built Freekit, a free AI coding agent for VS Code that uses your existing web AI accounts (no API keys, no costs)”
- Hide The Annoying — Uses a fast classification model to collapse X/Twitter posts matching unwanted topics into summary bars that can be expanded or allowlisted per author.“I got tired of broken keyword muting on X/Twitter, so I built an open-source extension powered by fast decision models (Jev & Cloudflare Clef)”
- snipmd — Recognizes equations, paragraphs, and tables in a selected screen region locally and copies them to the clipboard as Markdown, LaTeX, plain text, or CSV.“I made a local Mac tool that copies equations and tables from screenshots”
- Deskly — Lets users manage AI coding agents as employees in a 3D office, assigning them tasks in a project folder with approval before commands run.“I built a first-person 3D office where your AI agents are your employees (open source)”
- DevTools Full Spectrum Audit — Audits a web page for form, accessibility, and runtime/network errors, applies safe fixes to the live DOM, and verifies the results with a before/after rescan.“I built a DevTools panel that audits a page and then proves its fixes worked”
- OpenNotch — Turns the MacBook notch into an AI assistant that can run tools on the Mac, asking for approval before risky actions.“I spent my evenings making the MacBook notch useful: an open-source AI assistant + a jelly blob named Puff" + video.”
- sugabots — Hosts shared group chats where team members and AI agents work together, with agents running on schedules, webhooks, and MCP tools.“Built a group chat where you and your AI agents work together, now open source”
- SayWrite — Turns speech into text typed at the cursor on a Mac, with optional local AI cleanup of the dictated text.“I built a Mac dictation app with local speech recognition and local AI cleanup”
- cardsmith — Generates spaced-repetition flashcards from PDFs, slides, or text files using a local LLM and verifies each card's quote against the source.“I built an offline flashcard generator that checks its own cards against your source text”
- Wappy — Runs a self-hosted AI agent on WhatsApp with local memory, tool calling and a choice of language models.“Wappy - I wanted a WhatsApp AI agent I could run locally, so I built one”
- Nabsun — Runs an AI assistant in a browser side panel that reads open tabs and clicks, types, and fills forms with user approval for state-changing actions.“Nabsun - an open-source Chromium browser with a built-in AI assistant that can click, type, and fill in forms for you (local model included, MIT licensed)”
- Fogar — Replaces the Chrome new tab page with saved tab sessions, tab search, widgets, and an ask box answered by a local or user-chosen language model.“I built a new tab page that saves your tabs, finds them as you type, and answers questions with an AI that runs on your computer”
- ProjectPulse — Stores project decisions and their reasoning in persistent memory and recalls them later alongside newer project context.“Hindsight AI project”
- OmniNotch — Puts a multi-tool dashboard in the Mac notch with sales stats, AI usage tracking, a teleprompter, clipboard history, a file shelf, and music, weather, calendar and note widgets.“I know there are a hundred notch apps already. Here's why I built another one.”
- Viewpoint Arena — Hosts shared 3D model review sessions with pointing, presenter following, and video calls, and turns meeting transcripts into action cards.“I built a self-hosted app for reviewing 3D models together”
Latest add-ons built for Ollama
- Local LLM Cleaner — Scans disks for AI model files across local AI apps, finds identical copies, and merges them via symlinks.“I built a free Windows tool that finds the AI models eating your disk and merges the duplicates”
- agent-security-research — Validates agent JSON tool calls against a strict schema and re-syncs stale shared agent state in a LangGraph pipeline using Ollama.“I built an open-source self-healing security pipeline for LangGraph + Ollama to stop agent injection attacks and state desync”
- OrionGMV — Stores encrypted memory of goals, decisions and context that persists across AI chat sessions and model switches.“A couple of us built OrionGMV, a private memory layer so your AI keeps continuity across thousands of turns”
- Lucid — Keeps a Mac awake only while AI coding agents or local models are actively running, and releases sleep when they wait for input or the laptop overheats or runs low on battery.“I made Lucid: an open-source Mac app that keeps your laptop awake only while AI agents & local LLMs are running”
- ModelUplink — Relays a local AI model server running on a home PC to remote apps through an encrypted URL and key, without a full VPN.“My GPU is now reachable from anywhere with ModelUplink”
- Sakura — Benchmarks local Ollama coding models on 27 tasks in a Docker sandbox and reports accuracy, latency, and throughput with optional public leaderboard submission.“I built a reproducible benchmark for local coding models (Ollama, 27 tasks, live leaderboard) ran it on my 8GB card, here's what I found”
- Sonder — Wraps local Ollama models with memory, context management, and tool integrations for Claude and Codex.“I made a harness for Ollama”
- ChatLocal — Chats with locally running Ollama models from Chrome's side panel and translates or summarizes selected webpage text.“I built a Chrome extension that lets you run local AI (via Ollama) directly in your browser's side panel”
- local-llmup — Installs and switches local LLM models across runtimes such as Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, and LM Studio.“Local-llmup : package to manage localllm , install or switch in any runtime : ollama , llama.cpp , mlx , lm studio”
- ULM Engine — Stores conversation-derived facts in a local vector-searchable database and syncs synthesized memory into IDE assistant rule files.“[Project] ULM Engine v1.0.0 – I built a local-first memory pipeline that stops AI co-pilots from getting context amnesia (Zero VRAM waste, auto-syncs across Copilot Chat, Cline & Gemini)”
- AgentHost — Moves a laptop's AI agent setup to a small server in the user's own cloud account so the agents keep running while the laptop sleeps.“AgentHost - I built a box that keeps my AI agents alive when my laptop sleeps. 774 commits in 17 days, and the agents reviewed each other's code the whole way.”
- ViberCard — Scans local AI coding tool history and turns prompting patterns into a shareable FUT-style stat card with a radar chart.“Built a tool that scans your Claude Code/Ollama/Codex history and turns it into a FUT-style stat card — looking for honest testers”
- NoiosoAI — Provides a native Windows desktop chat interface for talking to locally hosted LLMs through Ollama.“I wanted a private, lightweight Windows app for Ollama, so I built NoiosoAI with Flutter (Material 3) and Open Source! Feedback welcome!”
- Local LLM Matrix — Benchmarks and compares locally run Ollama models, with optional model-based judge reviews and report exports.“Open-source local Ollama model testing tool — feedback welcome”
- RigMatch.AI — Benchmarks locally installed Ollama models on a user's hardware and scores them on answer quality, speed, and hardware fit to recommend which to use.“I made a “dating game” for local AI models”
Pitched as alternatives to Ollama
- local-llmup — Installs and switches local LLM models across runtimes such as Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, and LM Studio.“Local-llmup : package to manage localllm , install or switch in any runtime : ollama , llama.cpp , mlx , lm studio”
- CaptainLocalAI — Runs local LLMs offline on a Mac to organize files by content, transcribe voice into meeting minutes, and recommend models based on RAM.“CaptainLocalAI v1.0.2 is here 🚀 – A 100% offline, privacy-first AI utility for Mac (Now with improved Smart File sorting!)”
- I’m 14 and just shot my shot by… — Scans a computer's hardware and automatically installs and runs an offline local LLM tuned to that machine with a one-click setup.“I’m 14 and just shot my shot by applying to Y Combinator S26 with an offline AI startup. Decisions drop June 5th.”