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Whelk: Private AI Platform
Your hardware. Your models.
Existing local-AI tools are developer utilities or web wrappers. Whelk is a native iPhone, iPad, and Mac client for AI you run yourself, on-device with Apple Silicon or on your own servers over VPN. What stands out: any chat can be armed into a full agent work session in place, with live tools and approvals. Your models. Your agents. Your network. The trust model is the architecture, not a policy: no accounts, no telemetry, no cloud. Nothing leaves hardware you own. Free for individuals.
More people than ever run AI on their own hardware, for privacy, for control, for cost. The apps for actually using those models have been an afterthought. Whelk is the company I am building to fix that.
Whelk is a native client for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that talks to your own models, on-device with Apple Silicon or on your own servers over a VPN (like Tailscale). Any chat can be armed into a full agent work session in place, with live tools and approvals. Your models. Your agents. Your network. The trust model is the architecture, not a promise: no servers of mine, no accounts, no telemetry. Nothing leaves hardware you own.
Background: I was CTO at Weedmaps through its IPO and ShopKeep through its $550M acquisition, and most recently at BuildOps. Private inference is the next platform. Whelk is the app I am building to win it.
Free for individuals, with a Teams tier for organizations. I am here all day, including for the hard questions. Yes, it is closed source, and I am happy to explain why the trust model still holds without it.
About Whelk: Private AI Platform on Product Hunt
“Your hardware. Your models.”
Whelk: Private AI Platform was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #140 on the daily leaderboard. Existing local-AI tools are developer utilities or web wrappers. Whelk is a native iPhone, iPad, and Mac client for AI you run yourself, on-device with Apple Silicon or on your own servers over VPN. What stands out: any chat can be armed into a full agent work session in place, with live tools and approvals. Your models. Your agents. Your network. The trust model is the architecture, not a policy: no accounts, no telemetry, no cloud. Nothing leaves hardware you own. Free for individuals.
On the analytics side, Whelk: Private AI Platform competes within Android, iOS and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 645.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Whelk: Private AI Platform performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Whelk: Private AI Platform?
Whelk: Private AI Platform was hunted by Duncan Grazier. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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