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Open Source Instinct - a personal AI agent you text to get things done. Book the table. Buy the tickets. Cancel the subscription. Watch for the drop. Nell works across your messages, your browser, and your accounts - and asks before it does anything it can't take back. Source-available · self-hostable · your keys, your data · it asks first.
Why I built this: I wanted a personal agent that actually does things - book the table, buy the ticket, watch for the drop - without handing a company my passwords, my inbox, and my card. Every hosted option asks for exactly that. Nell inverts it: self-hosted, your keys stay on your machine, and anything that spends money, sends a message, or touches a credential waits for your explicit yes. That gate is enforced in code, not by hoping the model behaves.
License: source-available (FSL). Free forever to self-host at any scale, every version converts to Apache-2.0 two years after release. The one restriction is reselling it as a competing hosted service.
Repo: https://github.com/iabdulwasey/Nell
If you self-host it, the most useful thing you can send back is where it breaks. Open an issue with the ugliest failure you can produce - that list is the roadmap to stable.
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About Nell (Open Source Instinct) on Product Hunt
“A personal AI agent you text to get things done”
Nell (Open Source Instinct) was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #47 on the daily leaderboard. Open Source Instinct - a personal AI agent you text to get things done. Book the table. Buy the tickets. Cancel the subscription. Watch for the drop. Nell works across your messages, your browser, and your accounts - and asks before it does anything it can't take back. Source-available · self-hostable · your keys, your data · it asks first.
Nell (Open Source Instinct) was featured in Open Source (68.8k followers), Artificial Intelligence (478.1k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers) and Virtual Assistants (16.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 165.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Nell (Open Source Instinct)?
Nell (Open Source Instinct) was hunted by Abdul Wasey. 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.
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