Is there any interest in a self hosted open source version of manus/perplexity?

I have been working on a project for about 3 months because I found Vane to be awful and I wanted something like Manus for myself. I have a pretty solid app that's probably about ready to release, but I'm not sure if there is any desire there. It does research at different depths, exports to good looking PDFs, makes PowerPoints, and can build full Next sites. I have an agent option too with mcp capability. My hesitation is coming from the fact that unsloth has released their desktop app, that's in the same ballpark. I put a lot of work into this and honestly I am wondering if I should just let it die because the ecosystem is getting flooded. I really wanted to release it for this community, but do you feel that there's any value there? At bare minimum, I'll likely release the testing data sets. I made models build about ~4000 websites for testing to make the build loop reliable. I think that might be more helpful than anything. Potentially a write-up too, about how to make agentic loops more reliable which is where I learned the most. If there's interest, I'll gladly release it. I very much so do not want to be the guy self promoting as this sub suffers from it. It would be apache 2.0 from the start. Legitimately I have zero interest in benefiting from it financially. It was always meant to be a project to give back to this community. submitted by /u/Public_Umpire_1099 [link] [comments]

Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-08-21