build local.
ship everything.
- bangalore
- 6 builders
- 6 hours
- no prizes
- date tba
Software that runs on your machine belongs to you. Not to a company’s uptime. Not to a subscription. To you.
your software runs on the machine
in front of you.
no API calls out. no cloud. no phone home.
local. completely.
six hours. one room.
everything ships at the end — whatever state it’s in.
the one rule
your software must run entirely on the machine in front of you.
no cloud dependency. no “requires internet to function.”
the day
a bungalow in bangalore — address shared on rsvp.
- 01arrivesettle in, chai, get models downloaded
- 02build4 hours uninterrupted — heads down
- 03demos10 minutes each. finished or not
- 04launcheverything goes live together, in the room
- 05afterafterparty. dinner. stay as long as you want
faq
the questions
Builders who reach for local models because they don't want to send their data somewhere else. You don't need to have shipped a local-first product — you need to want to build one for six hours.
No. There's no winner, no judges, no tracks. You leave with something that actually runs locally and the people who built it with you. The launch moment is the reward.
Anything that runs locally and solves a real problem — tools that don't phone home, private note tools, offline transcription, everyday offline-first utilities. Six hours is short. Build the small thing well.
Six. That's the whole thing — it's small on purpose.
Come with your models already downloaded. Pulling a 4GB file on the day burns an hour nobody has.
Write to hello@localfirst.space and tell us what you're thinking of building.