How I’m keeping my open-source local AI app alive (and hardcoding my supporters into the UI)

Let’s be honest about side projects: they usually end up in a GitHub graveyard. A few months ago, I was completely burning out. Between my dyslexia and the intense cognitive load of writing C# and untangling SQL all day, my working memory by PM was entirely shot. Trying to remember what I actually did just to write my daily stand-up updates felt like an impossible wall of executive dysfunction. So, I built SheepCat a 100% offline, local-first work tracker that uses Ollama to gently turn my messy, typo-filled brain dumps into clean corporate updates without leaking my company's.