Show HN: Melete – an open-source alternative to OpenAI's Dots

Category: ai-ml

Tags: ai-agent, personal-assistant, self-hosted, browser-automation, mcp

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Melete is an open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own hardware, connecting to your email, calendars, files, browser sessions, and MCP servers to proactively manage tasks. It combines a sandboxed agent, device companion for browser automation, and privacy-preserving local execution, aiming to be a self-hosted alternative to OpenAI's Dots.

Target audience: privacy-conscious users, developers wanting self-hosted AI assistants, power users

Repository: https://github.com/ychampion/melete · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · 19 stars

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