Open-source assistant that lives in your iMessage thread
openinstinct.shOne published test per category, scored 1–10 after real use. Blanks are untested, not zero.
17 public quotes, each linked to its source. Nothing paraphrased.
Agents im testing: Instinct Poke Pally Caddy OpenInstinct Town Buoy Joshu Shuffle Orchid Vellum Catch Boba HireAlpha Asmi Grok Bot Slashy Tomo Ollie Wajo / Fo szn Lucas Soar Mana personal/local
I’m going to test all the ai text assistants and break down my thoughts Poke, Instinct, Pally, Caddy, OpenInstinct, personal/local Who else am I missing?
I found this really good AI artist on TikTok. Their art is a perfect phone background IMO. The creator has downloads turned off, and everyone in the comments has been begging for the HD images. I gave the link to OpenInstinct and ChatGPT. ChatGPT got blocked, and OpenInstinct
We just pushed a ton of improvements to OpenInstinct. My favorite: The Vercel one-click deploy button sets up your project and connects Linq, Kernel, Neon, etc automatically. All on free tiers. This was simply not possible a few months ago.
@shloked wheres openinstinct bro
I just setup and it ordered me lunch, running on my own infra. I'm not sure why I would use Instinct tbh. Why not own my own app? (Obviously normies wont but still)
OpenInstinct is a self-hosted personal assistant operated through iMessage that uses a cloud browser for bookings, shopping, and other site interactions. Passwords and payment details stay in encrypted storage outside the model's view, while Gmail, Google Calendar, and read-only
Vercel AI Gateway is the managed inference gateway used by OpenInstinct. It routes requests across model providers, centralizes API keys, and adds observability, caching, rate limiting, and access controls.
https:// zap.wzrd.tech/openintuition self-hosted sovereign agentic commerce - Plan and set an spend budget for you agent - BYOK and run it yourself - Built on top @merit_systems OpenInstinct
Gmail is the email service connected to OpenInstinct and other local-first workflows. It provides web, POP, and IMAP access alongside spam filtering and Google-service integrations.
OpenInstinct can do it
Self hostable Open Instinct
Introducing OpenInstinct: an open-source alternative to Instinct, the viral AI assistant now valued at $2.5B. Text it or call it to search the live web, use a real browser, run tools, work with files, remember context, and stay online 24/7 on your VM. https:// github.com/samagra14/open instinct …
We're excited to release OpenInstinct Instinct but self-hostable, open source and supports every model. You control the code, data and passwords Deploy on Vercel and never use the internet with your fingers again
VCs who wired $350M to Instinct: Sam Ragsdale built OpenInstinct in a cave! With a box of scrap!
Over/under 36 hours before someone shares a repo for “openinstinct” and gets 10k stars?
"yesterday at 8:28pm" https:// github.com/Merit-Systems/ OpenInstinct …
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