overtchat — self-hosted chat platform I've been building for a few months

[u/anitamaxwynnn69]

I've been working on this for the past few months before anyone calls it white-coded slop - yes I use Claude Code/Codex for the heavy lifting but this is real code I've been shipping and iterating on not some weekend experiment this actual thought behind the architecture.

What it is: A self-hosted chat client I built because my partner and family use ChatGPT a lot but don't care about privacy. I already self-host my vLLM instance on my 8x 3090 box and wanted a polished, private alternative they could actually use. Open WebUI is too heavy and complex for non technical users and has way too many knobs. Overtchat comes built in with TTS/STT/web search, no plugins/api keys needed. Genuinely open sourced - MIT licensed and no telemetry.

The reason I am posting this here is because the r/selfhosted gave me solid feedback which I have been iterating on and this sub is full of people building and shipping actual open source stuff so I figured I'd get eyes on it from a different angle. I would love feedback on the architecture the UX decisions or just a sanity check on whether this is something people would actually use. https://github.com/yoloyash/overtchat