[USA] I built the anti-Zapier-N8N that runs entirely on your laptop (Browser automation, OCR, local RAG, now with one-click Docker)

I got tired of paying $50–500/month for cloud automation tools that phone home with every click, so I spent the last year building Pedantic2.

It’s a visual workflow engine that runs 100% locally:

• Drag-and-drop nodes (Playwright browser automation with stealth + persistent sessions, OCR, Python/TS code, HTTP, SQLite + sqlite-vec vector DB, embeddings, LLM, etc.)
• LLM → workflow generation: give Claude/GPT a prompt, get a fully wired JSON workflow in seconds and click “Import”
• Zero subscriptions, zero telemetry
• Just shipped one-command Docker (docker-compose up and you’re live, no Python/Node env hell)

Use case that made me build this:
Scrape invoices → OCR → extract with LLM → upsert to local DB → summarize monthly spend → email report. All on my laptop, zero cloud cost.

GitHub (very early, very rough, very fast):
https://github.com/williamrhancock/Pedantic2

Looking for feedback, war stories, and people who want to break it in creative ways.
If someone builds a “scrape HN → local RAG → ask trending questions” demo with it I’ll personally star your repo twice.

(Commercial use/SaaS requires a license after 2029 or today if you want to resell – BUSL 1.1, details in repo)

Ask me anything!