Silicon Valley figured out the perfect business model: charge everyone, forever, for software that used to be a one-time purchase. Your notes app? $10/month. Your email? $6/month. Your calendar, your docs, your music, your storage — all subscriptions. All extracting rent from your daily life.
They call it SaaS. We call it what it is: a tax on participation in modern life, enforced by vendor lock-in and designed to make you dependent.
Big Tech wants AI to replace you. We think it should replace them.
Free, open-source models — especially the Chinese coding models — have gotten good enough that one person with a local model and a weekend can build what used to take a team of 20 engineers and $2M in runway. The means of production are no longer locked behind venture capital. They run on your laptop.
We're not waiting for permission. We're building the alternatives ourselves.
"If one person with open-source AI can build what a funded startup builds, then the entire subscription economy is a choice — not a necessity. The factory is giving the workers the keys."
Every tool we make follows the same rules:
Your hardware. Your data. No cloud dependency.
You pay once or you pay nothing. We don't meter your usage.
Open-source models running on your own machine. The same tools Big Tech uses to extract rent can be used to build your own factory.
Zero telemetry. Zero analytics. We literally cannot see what you do.
AI is the tool. You are the workforce. One builder with the right factory can outrun a department.
Everything below is pinned on github.com/WOODSEE-DIGI and ships under the FUSV model: local-first, no subscription, no telemetry.
Native macOS system monitor — Swift 6 / SwiftUI replacement for btop with Thunderbolt, USB, MIDI and OSC monitoring.
Dual-display NDI screen capture for macOS — send two displays as separate NDI sources over your network.
Personal AI-agent context framework. Persistent memory, project awareness, and local tool access for any MCP-capable agent.
Recover original publish dates for Facebook photos/videos via Graph API fingerprinting.
Stream Deck plugin for tagging and culling photos in Lightroom Classic. One press per action.
This isn't anti-technology. This is pro-ownership. The same AI that Big Tech uses to entrench their subscription moats can be used to tear them down. The marginal cost of software production is approaching zero — so why are you still paying $10/month for a notes app?
We build in the open. We build with AI. We build for people who are tired of being products.
The tools are here. The models are open. The only question is whether you keep paying rent — or start building.
We're building in the open. Follow along, contribute, or just hang out with people who are tired of paying rent for software.