SAMIDA
ActiveA local-first AI assistant that runs Ollama, GPT, and Claude side by side in one interface — with real file tools it can only use after I've approved the exact change.
Stefan Semb — building local-first
SAMIDA is the name
for how I build.
A local-first AI assistant is the flagship — but the same instinct runs through everything below it: keep it private, keep it self-hosted, keep it running on hardware I actually control.
What I'm building
03 activePirate Survival
In developmentAn open-world pirate survival game — procedural river systems, an archipelago built in World Partition, and a slow, deliberate build.
PinguHub
LiveThe self-hosted server everything else runs on — media, automation, and a handful of always-on services I maintain myself.
About
Who's building this
I'm Stefan. I build software that runs on hardware I actually own — usually late in the evening, with more terminal tabs open than I'd like to admit.
Local-first isn't really a philosophy for me so much as a preference: I'd rather host something myself and understand exactly how it works than hand it to someone else's server. SAMIDA is where that preference gets applied most literally — everything else on this page shares the same instinct.
Right now
- Running SAMIDA on an always-on Ubuntu box, reachable only over Tailscale
- Building Pirate Survival's archipelago in Unreal Engine
- Keeping PinguHub's dozen-odd services alive