Make (formerly Integromat) is a cloud-based visual automation platform — similar to Zapier but with more powerful data transformation capabilities and a better visual workflow builder. While Make runs in the cloud and its scenarios execute on Make’s servers, it can call local services via webhooks, and with a bit of network configuration it can … Read more
AnythingLLM is one of the most polished all-in-one local AI applications available. Unlike Flowise or Dify, which require configuration and technical knowledge to set up properly, AnythingLLM is designed to work well out of the box: install it, connect it to Ollama, upload some documents, and you have a working private AI assistant with document … Read more
If you live in Neovim or Emacs, you probably don’t want to leave your editor to use an AI assistant. Both editors have mature plugin ecosystems with multiple Ollama-backed AI options — some simple chat interfaces, some more ambitious coding assistants with inline completion and code actions. This guide covers the best options for each … Read more
Flowise and Dify are two of the most capable no-code platforms for building AI applications with local models. Both connect to Ollama, both let you build RAG pipelines and chatbots visually, and both run self-hosted with no data leaving your infrastructure. But they have meaningfully different approaches and strengths — this guide covers what each … Read more
n8n is an open-source workflow automation tool — think Zapier or Make, but self-hosted, and with first-class support for AI nodes that can call local LLMs. Connecting it to Ollama gives you a powerful combination: visual workflow automation with local AI processing, running entirely on your own infrastructure. You can build pipelines that classify emails, … Read more
The Ollama library contains a lot more than the models that get written about most. While everyone knows Llama 3.1, Mistral, and Qwen 2.5, there’s a tier of excellent models that rarely comes up in conversations — models that either launched quietly, serve a niche particularly well, or have been overshadowed by newer releases despite … Read more
Zed is a fast, GPU-accelerated code editor built in Rust that’s been gaining serious traction among developers who want VS Code’s capabilities without its memory overhead. Its AI assistant feature — Zed Assistant — supports custom AI backends including Ollama, which means you can get AI-assisted coding in one of the fastest editors available, backed … Read more
Not every image analysis task needs a 7B+ model. Moondream and BakLLaVA are small, fast vision models that run on hardware where larger vision models struggle — including CPU-only machines and machines with 4–6GB RAM. If you need local image understanding without the overhead of Gemma 3 or LLaVA 7B, these are worth knowing about. … Read more
Ollama’s model library has more coding-specific models than most people realise, and choosing the right one for your hardware and workflow makes a bigger difference than it might seem. General-purpose models like Llama 3.1 or Mistral handle code adequately, but dedicated coding models — trained on much larger and more diverse code corpora — produce … Read more
Qwen 2.5 72B is Alibaba’s largest open-weight model and one of the most capable you can run locally. At 72 billion parameters it’s in the same tier as Llama 3.1 70B and Mixtral 8x22B, but it benchmarks ahead of both on several tasks — particularly coding, mathematics, and multilingual work. If your hardware can handle … Read more
