# Articles tagged "Open Source"

Alex Cloudstar, senior full-stack developer (https://alexcloudstar.com/)

3 articles.

- [mybutler: A Local-First AI Assistant That Remembers Without a Cloud Account](https://alexcloudstar.com/blog/mybutler-local-first-ai-assistant/): I 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 After](https://alexcloudstar.com/blog/markr-mark-the-moment-while-recording/): I 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 Businesses](https://alexcloudstar.com/blog/open-source-growth-strategy-developers-2026/): Open 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.