PhreshOS/system
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An open-source system for apps built with web technology. You and your AI agents use them from one desktop in the browser.
About the project
PhreshOS is an open-source system for running web-technology apps (Programs) on your own machine, accessed through a browser Desktop. It provides one sign-in, storage, permissions, and communication, and lets AI agents use the same Programs via CLI and SDKs.
Useful for
- Install the System as a user service and open the Desktop in a browser
- Create a new Program with phresh create and run it in dev mode
- Let an AI agent use the same Programs via the phresh CLI and SDKs
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 2, 2026, 23:08 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- 18 stars today. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 19× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 45 days old and already has 47 stars.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps” — 8 points, 1 day ago.
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 47
- Today
- 18
- Forks
- 4
- Issues and pull requests
- 2
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v0.1.111 · October 2, 2026
- Created
- August 18, 2026
- Last push
- October 2, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Show HN: PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps8 points, October 1, 2026
Spotted in
- October 2, 2026Spotted on Hacker News