Here Lies: A Local AI App Writes Obituaries for Broken Household Items

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A developer has built Here Lies, a small web app that runs entirely on a personal laptop and produces mock newspaper obituaries for dead household objects. Users photograph a broken item, such as a cracked phone or burnt toast, and the Gemma 4 model, served through Ollama, generates a card with a name, cause of death, and epitaph. The app is designed so the model may invent a name but not invent physical damage, with plain code verifying that every described detail traces back to features the model identified in the photo. Living things such as people, animals, and healthy plants are refused with a notice. The project is open source and was submitted to a Hacktoberfest AI challenge, with setup requiring Ollama, Go 1.26, and Node 20 or newer.

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