August 8th, 2024

Show HN: Nyro – Open-source AI assistant for your OS

Nyro is an open-source AI productivity tool for desktops, featuring seamless integration, screenshot capture, and organized workspaces. Installation requires cloning the repository and setting up Supabase. Contributions are welcome.

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Show HN: Nyro – Open-source AI assistant for your OS

Nyro is an open-source AI-powered desktop productivity tool designed to enhance user efficiency by integrating AI capabilities into the desktop environment. It allows users to perform various tasks such as writing, research, and problem-solving through direct interaction with AI. Key features include seamless OS integration, screenshot capture for image analysis, organized workspaces for chat management, multi-task assistance, cross-application functionality, and a design that promotes natural interaction with existing work habits. To install Nyro, users need to clone the repository, install dependencies, set up Supabase, configure environment variables, and run the application. Contributions to the project are encouraged, and users can reach out for support via email or through their Discord community. Nyro is licensed under a modified MIT license, and further details can be found on its GitHub repository.

- Nyro is an AI-powered productivity tool for desktop environments.

- It features seamless integration, screenshot capture, and organized workspaces.

- Installation involves cloning the repository and setting up Supabase.

- Contributions are welcome, and support is available via email and Discord.

- Nyro is released under a modified MIT license.

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By @namanyayg - 6 months
Don't understand why you're calling it "for your OS". It just looks like an electron app? Why is it better than a web UI or native mac apps offered by OpenAI etc?

Btw I made something similar a while ago, https://progpt.nmn.gl/. One interface to chat with multiple models. I'm going to open source it soon.

By @malux85 - 6 months
The video shows an electron app starting and the window being resized, and that’s it? Other than docking and a 1% Ui change how does this compare to just having a browser tab open?

I think it needs to focus on its audience better - you’re expected to be technical enough to use npm to get it working, but the feature lists are vague headlines with no technical details.

If you’re targeting end users then you need to be distributing binaries for all platforms, if you’re targeting technical power users/devs we want details and comparisons!

By @ssddanbrown - 6 months
This wouldn't be widely considered open source since your license puts limitations on use & distribution [1].

[1] https://github.com/trynyro/nyro-app/blob/5a5884126d83ecab89c...

By @tencentshill - 6 months
That's a lot of work to get it running. I need to see more examples of how it's useful before I go to the trouble.
By @samstave - 6 months
not sure I need this, however if, as others mentioned you've bolted a few things together (No shade! thats Great) -- Why not bolt-also 'Everything' [0] search / WinDirStat [1] type capability into [thing].

Everythign is fantastic search indexer agent for local that has preview, https://i.imgur.com/hr3V5x7.png

https://www.voidtools.com/License.txt

https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/

https://windirstat.net/permalink.html

By @yungporko - 6 months
i don't want to knock your work or the effort you put in but is this just an alternative web frontend for chatgpt running in an electron app or am i missing something? if not, can it really be called an open-source ai assistant for your OS?
By @sigmonsays - 6 months
are there any examples of this actually doing something?