Show HN: Dumbar, a not so smart menubar app

[jerrysievert]

https://jerrysv.xyz/blog/dumbar.html

I created this to fill a need, accessing those silly LLMs from the menu bar instead of a web browser or command line.

It relies 100% on Ollama, but gives you an easy way to make queries against multiple models, and provides a few sample modelfiles for you.

open source, of course.

https://github.com/JerrySievert/Dumbar to skip the blog post and go straight to the code and release.

[KingMob]

Hey, you say "you need an Apple Silicon mac. Hey, don't blame me! It's all Ollama runs out at the time of this post", but according to the Ollama PRs/issues, Intel support was added a few weeks ago.

[jerrysievert → KingMob]

oh, that's fantastic! I was going off the website, I can amend the post and I already have an x64 release I can upload to the releases.

thanks for the update!

edited to add, it's all updated!

[stevage]

For everyone else confused, "menubar" here I think refers to the system menu bar in MacOS.

[swyx]

niiice - i also worked on an llm menubar app until i added enough that I found myself using it as a secondary browser

https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode

more approaches the better! i considered adding ollama but no ui and i have a ui centric approach

[darkteflon → swyx]

This is great, thanks!

Ollama support would be amazing, especially with the recent integration of codellama and phind-codellama. I’m sure you’re aware, but for the benefit of anyone else: there is a third party Ollama web ui[1] linked to from the ollama project homepage. It’s barebones, but does the trick.

[1]: https://github.com/ollama-ui/ollama-ui

[mchiang]

I'll have to download this and try. This is super cool, and thank you for sharing!

Ollama does currently support both Apple silicon macs and Intel macs as well.

[jerrysievert → mchiang]

thank you for the correction! I've updated both the readme and the blog post, and uploaded an x64 release as well.

[askiiart]

By the way, your site is a tad broken on Firefox on Android.

Screenshot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D1sTRNZqZArTMAbSA

[tanbog5 → askiiart]

On my device it doesn't seem to detect it's a mobile and flows way off the screen.

[zcbenz]

Shameless to insert my app here, also open source and provides quick access from menu bar.

https://chie.app/posts/minimalist-approach-to-using-chatgpt/

[jmorgan → zcbenz]

Super cool. I just realized who you were from your handle and wanted say that your work on electron over the years has been absolutely amazing. Thank you for all you've done & built.

[darkteflon → zcbenz]

This looks really nice. I couldn't tell from the repo or website whether it supports the ollama api?