I really like Jan, especially the organization's principles: https://jan.ai/

Main deal breaker for me when I tried it was I couldn't talk to multiple models at once, even if they were remote models on OpenRouter. If I ask a question in one chat, then switch to another chat and ask a question, it will block until the first one is done.

Also Tauri apps feel pretty clunky on Linux for me.

> Also Tauri apps feel pretty clunky on Linux for me.

All of them, or this one specifically? I've developed a bunch of tiny apps for my own usage (on Linux) with Tauri (maybe largest is just 5-6K LoC) and always felt snappy to me, mostly doing all the data processing with Rust then the UI part with ClojureScript+Reagent.

> especially the organization's principles

I met the team late last year. They’re based out of Singapore and Vietnam. They ghosted me after promising to have two follow-up meetings, and were unresponsive to any emails, like they just dropped dead.

Principles and manifestos are a dime a dozen. It matters if you live by them or just have them as PR pieces. These folks are the latter.

Yep. I really see them as an architecture blueprint with a reference implementation and not so much as a one size fits all app.

I stumbled upon Jan.ai a couple of months ago when I was considering a similar app approach. I was curious because Jan.ai went way beyond what I considered to be limitations.

I haven’t tried Jan.ai yet, I see it as an implementation not a solution.

> Main deal breaker for me when I tried it was I couldn't talk to multiple models at once […]

… which seems particularly strange considering the size of the cloned GitHub repository to be 1.8GiB which swells up to 4.8GiB after running «make build» – I tried to build it locally (which failed anyway).

It is startling that a relatively simple UI frontend can add 3Gb+ of build artefacts alone – that is the scale of a Linux kernel build.

Yeah, webkit2gtk is a bit of a drag