Lumichats - A Claude Code alternative for people who avoid the terminal
70,000 people use LumiChats in a browser and kept asking for the one thing a browser cannot do: touch their files. So we built the desktop one. It runs commands on your machine, writes real documents, and you pay only for the work you run.
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"100% free" and "open source" while also shipping your own fine-tuned models raises an interesting question about sustainability. What's the actual business model or motivation behind maintaining this, is it a community project, a loss leader for a paid product, or something else? Knowing that matters for users deciding whether to build workflows around it, since "free forever" from a solo maintainer and "free tier of a company" have very different longevity profiles.
The permission and rollback answers above are thorough. One thing I didn't see: before a task actually runs, does the user get any kind of cost estimate, even a rough one, or do they find out what it cost only after it's done? Pay-per-use only feels safe to explore if you can tell roughly what a big task will cost before committing to it, otherwise the first surprising bill teaches the same rationing lesson Asad described, just from the other direction.
Local AI advice usually assumes you have a decent card sitting around, which rules out exactly the students who need it most. Congrats on shipping!