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Posted by franze 4 days ago

Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac(apfel.franzai.com)
Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
733 points | 153 commentspage 6
rgbrgb 3 days ago|
love the simple website and typography. AI design or you? tasteful and fast animations. nice work and thanks for sharing!
furyofantares 3 days ago||
Looks like a nice wrapper around the APIs. Extremely oversold landing page, very marketing heavy for what it is. You can actually make nice looking landing pages that are about 10% the size of this and more straightforward, rather than some mimicry of a SaaS that's trying desperately to sell you something. Makes it easier for you to review the content for factuality too, and heck you couldn't even take ownership of some of the voice.

Hard to know what to do with this. I'm interested in the project and know others who would be, but I feel like shit after being slopped on by a landing page and I don't wish to slop on my friends by sharing it with them. I suppose the github link is indeed significantly better, I'll share that.

xandrius 3 days ago||
It's absolutely free and open source, no need to bash it like this.
furyofantares 3 days ago||
I certainly don't feel entitled to anybody's effort, and I appreciate the project itself!

It's just these flashy LLM-generated webpages are really misleading.

It's filled with attention-grabbing LLM-filler. It presents itself as high-effort content, but in reality is unclear if it's accurate, unclear how much the author even put into READING the content they're asking me to read, and overall just really unclear what parts of the page are important to the author and what are just stuff the LLM inserted into a marketing card to make it look like a SaaS sales pitch.

wrxd 3 days ago||
If you dislike the slop on the website so much you might also not like GitHub that much. It shows this software has been heavily co-written by Claude code
furyofantares 3 days ago||
I'm aware of that! That's fine with me.
yalogin 3 days ago||
This is great. A few questions come to mind, I need to go look up. Is the model an OpenAI one or home grown for Apple. And can I still use it if Siri is disabled?
deadfox 3 days ago||
This is cool!
walthamstow 3 days ago||
You have to enable Apple Intelligence so that's a hard no from me. I'll stick to LM Studio and gpt-oss/qwen. Very cool project though.
witnessme 3 days ago||
Interesting. How does this foundational model compares with other LLMs?
alwinaugustin 3 days ago||
Read Austria as Australia and thought this as an April fool
sys_64738 3 days ago||
Tahoe+ only
andy_xor_andrew 3 days ago|
I find the branding to be a little odd. Like, it should be a github page with a README that says "here's how to use this." Like, the full explanation of this project is right there in the HN title: "The free AI already on your Mac."

I guess LLMs have made it too simple to instantly build startup landing page slop, which causes this? Like, do we need to see the github star count chart? Do we need all the buzzwords and stuff? You'd think this was a startup trying to get a billion dollar evaluation. It feels disingenuous.

Maybe I'm just being a hater.

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