# FrigadeHQ/hob

> A free, open-source desktop app that runs open-weight models (Gemma, gpt-oss) locally on Mac, Windows and Linux — a private, offline alternative to Claude and ChatGPT.

- Magnitude: 3.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 70 total · +47 stars measured 2026-10-26, 20:57–22:29 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-14 · Last push: 2026-10-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/hob · Homepage: https://hob.chat · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/FrigadeHQ/hob

## Useful for

- Run a local LLM on a laptop without sending data to the cloud
- Fill out a PDF form or work through a document with a local model

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-26 (UTC), 20:57–22:29: 23 → 70 stars (+47). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 12 days old and already has 70 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT” — 66 points, 6 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 9
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 7 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 18
- Latest release: v0.2.1 (2026-10-26)

## Stars per day, last 13 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-14 … 2026-10-26: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 47

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT — 66 points, 17 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246238

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-26 22:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.