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Thank you. Yes, we support any endpoint that supports the completions API. And yes, Ollama might be the easiest to setup. The images should also work with qwen3-vl. But if you run into any issues, please feel free to submit a bug report https://github.com/deta/surf/issues Edit: fixed github issues link

Kudos on the launch. Love the local-ai approach. Regarding open models: what is the go-to way for me to make Surf run with qwen3-vl? Ollama? As far as I understand any endpoint that supports the completions API will work? https://github.com/deta/surf/blob/main/docs/AI_MODELS.md If I attach image context will it be provided to qwen3-vl? Or does this only work with the "main" models like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and so on?

Thanks for the input. We took inspiration from analog notebooks as a tool for thought, but wanted something for multi-media. We also see NotebookLM as the closest mainstream product to Surf. Related -- some people who have seen Surf's Applets feature have also called Surf "Jupyter for normies". More on Surflets: https://github.com/deta/surf/blob/main/docs/SURFLETS.md

Thanks for the link, super interesting! We have a super early form of runnable code, called "Surflets". More info here: https://github.com/deta/surf/blob/main/docs/SURFLETS.md Basically you can supply input context and a runnable file will generate & run in your document. Useful for creating interactive charts or small applets. Our philosophy is that if you want to update it, you should be able use your local code editor, not be stuck in Surf! (we have work to do to make this solid)

Hi HN! We got frustrated with the fragmented experience of exploring & creating across our file manager, the web and document apps. Lots of manual searching, opening windows & tabs, scrolling, and ultimately copying & pasting into a document editor. Surf is a desktop app meant for simultaneous research and thinking to minimize the grunt work. It’s made of two parts: 1) A multi-media library where you can save and organize files and webpages into collections called Notebooks. 2) A LLM-powered smart document which you can auto-generate using the context from any stored page, tab or entire notebook. This document contains deep links back to the source material — like a page of a PDF or timestamp in a YouTube video. Unlike Deep Research products (or NotebookLMs chat) the entire thing is editable. The user also stays in the loop. With a techn

Yet another alternative AI browser based on Electron, but this one is based on notebooks. https://github.com/deta/surf > Deta Surf is an AI notebook that brings all your files and the web directly into your stream of thought. > It’s meant for simultaneous research and thinking that minimizes the grunt work: manually searching, opening windows & tabs, scrolling, copying and pasting into a document editor. > Surf is primarily built in Svelte, TypeScript and Rust, runs on MacOS, Windows & Linux, stores data locally in open formats, and is open source.