An open source AI harness built with the human in mind
90% of people who try AI agents give up. Three reasons: memory that resets every session, your data sitting in someone else's cloud and a terminal just to get started. Real blockers. OpenHuman fixes all of it. Local-first, privacy-first. It remembers everything about you and actually gets smarter the more you use it. Every feature lives in one simple interface. Fully open source. One-click setup. P.S. The product is in beta, so expect bugs, but we're building and shipping fast.
A few months ago I tried to set up an open-source AI agent for my dad. Three hours later and after wrestling with API keys, YAML and a terminal he had never opened in his life, we both gave up.
That's when I realised that every powerful AI agent today is built for the 0.01% who can spin up their own runtime. The other 99.99% are watching the agent revolution from the sidelines.
So we built OpenHuman.
OpenHuman is a super-intelligent AI agent that anyone can use. Two-minute setup. No config files. A simple GUI you'd hand to your parents and they'd actually figure out. Connect Gmail, Slack, Telegram, Notion, and GitHub in one click and it just works.
A few things I'm proud of:
* It runs locally. Encrypted vault. We never sell your data.
* It never forgets. Real memory across sessions, not session-only.
* It's open-source under GNU.
* It's free to start: no engineer, no GPU, no $6k setup bill.
Early signal has been wild: 8000+ GitHub stars, 5000+ users in the first 7 days, and 150% week-over-week growth.
Today, we're opening it up to all of you. Note that it is still in beta, so you're super early if you find bugs. Feel free to report them to me over at the Discord.
I'll be in the comments all day. You can break it, roast it, tell me what's missing, ask anything. We ship fixes live.
Would love your feedback!
About OpenHuman on Product Hunt
“An open source AI harness built with the human in mind”
OpenHuman launched on Product Hunt on May 15th, 2026 and earned 331 upvotes and 46 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. 90% of people who try AI agents give up. Three reasons: memory that resets every session, your data sitting in someone else's cloud and a terminal just to get started. Real blockers. OpenHuman fixes all of it. Local-first, privacy-first. It remembers everything about you and actually gets smarter the more you use it. Every feature lives in one simple interface. Fully open source. One-click setup. P.S. The product is in beta, so expect bugs, but we're building and shipping fast.
On the analytics side, OpenHuman competes within Productivity, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how OpenHuman performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted OpenHuman?
OpenHuman was hunted by Ben Lang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of OpenHuman including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Ben Lang
Heya! I'm Steven, founder of TinyHumans.
A few months ago I tried to set up an open-source AI agent for my dad. Three hours later and after wrestling with API keys, YAML and a terminal he had never opened in his life, we both gave up.
That's when I realised that every powerful AI agent today is built for the 0.01% who can spin up their own runtime. The other 99.99% are watching the agent revolution from the sidelines.
So we built OpenHuman.
OpenHuman is a super-intelligent AI agent that anyone can use. Two-minute setup. No config files. A simple GUI you'd hand to your parents and they'd actually figure out. Connect Gmail, Slack, Telegram, Notion, and GitHub in one click and it just works.
A few things I'm proud of:
* It runs locally. Encrypted vault. We never sell your data.
* It never forgets. Real memory across sessions, not session-only.
* It's open-source under GNU.
* It's free to start: no engineer, no GPU, no $6k setup bill.
Early signal has been wild: 8000+ GitHub stars, 5000+ users in the first 7 days, and 150% week-over-week growth.
Today, we're opening it up to all of you. Note that it is still in beta, so you're super early if you find bugs. Feel free to report them to me over at the Discord.
I'll be in the comments all day. You can break it, roast it, tell me what's missing, ask anything. We ship fixes live.
Would love your feedback!