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mybutler: A Local-First AI Assistant That Remembers Without a Cloud AccountAug 20 · 6 minI had a hundred open chats across ChatGPT and Claude and no idea what was in half of them. So I built mybutler, a menu bar app that answers privately through a local Ollama model and remembers what matters outside of any single chat.Markr: Mark the Moment While You Record, Not AfterJun 09 · 5 minI always wanted to do YouTube. I just hated the part where you rewatch a 30-minute recording twice to find your mistakes and pull clips out of it. Markr is a small open-source app that lets you drop timestamp markers while you record, so you stop rewatching everything later.Open Source Growth Strategy: How Developers Use GitHub to Build Profitable BusinessesMar 31 · 13 minOpen source is quietly becoming the best free marketing channel for bootstrapped founders. Your GitHub repo is a landing page, trust signal, and distribution engine rolled into one. Here is the playbook for turning open source contributions into paying customers, based on what is actually working in 2026.