Thanks for the support! Trade-off: be potentially helpful if OP can’t find a turnkey solution, or stay upvoted, hmm…

Ah sweet you didn’t have to make something yourself

Haha, yeah. Thanks for taking the time to read the downvoted suggestion! I had been reading Hacker News and was feeling daring.

Both not a likely problem with any recent model and absolutely mitigated by using it in a VM with snapshots, which, besides being good practice, is a technology that I expect selfhosters to be familiar with anyway.

If there are objections to major models, (economic, resource, moral, etc), this application is achievable with a self-hosted Qwen or similar, although it will take additional nudging. That’s harder to get started with, though, which is why I didn’t suggest it. Self-hosted Gemma 4 I would absolutely recommend using in a VM, it really likes to erase projects and start over, in my experience.

I hope that helps!

I’m going to voice an incredibly contentious opinion here and suggest that this is a perfect situation for buying a month of Claude and vibe coding a piece of bespoke software for yourself with it.