MUGGS OF DREAMS
ai-data center free. locally grown.
Building web presence for people and organizations that need to spend their money on what they do......not SquarePress.
muggsof.netcome see the neighborhoods
June 4, 2027
thinking you might want a page? check one out, fill out an interest form. i'll be building as many pages as my hardware, and me, can handle, starting summer of '27.
Building web presence for people and organizations that need to spend their money on what they do......not SquarePress.
7th ward, new orleans
my own page. i use the platform the same way you would.
mugg.muggsof.netOne shared address for every page. When a neighbor reaches out through your page, it lands in your inbox, and you can see it came through MuggsOf.
Each neighborhood gets its own events page, and muggsof.net shows which neighborhoods have something coming up. The only thing you need to post an event is a MuggsOf page.
TODO(Sean): why we use Carey font
AI doesn't have to live in a warehouse. Some AI models are released openly: you can download their files and run them on an ordinary, if powerful, home computer. That's called running a model locally.
MuggsOfDreams runs its AI locally. The pages are built at home, and the art is made at home.
The finished pages are hosted on Cloudflare, ordinary web hosting, not AI. That's what keeps them fast for everyone. The AI work is data-center free.
Where cloud AI still fits, and how it's leaving, is explained below in what is ai-data center free?.
The main machine is a desktop with an NVIDIA RTX 4090 graphics card. Graphics cards are good at the kind of math AI needs, and the 4090 is one of the strongest you can put in a home computer.
On it runs Qwen, an open model family released for anyone to download and use. The version I use has 27 billion parameters, the learned settings that make up the model's knowledge. Small next to the giant models in data centers, but big enough to write clean, working web pages.
Its job: read your form, start from the shared MuggsOfDreams template, and write the code for your page. By launch, it offers a few options for each part of the page, and I pick the one that fits you best. Then the finished page is compared against an already-approved page, so every page feels like part of the same neighborhood without looking generic.
The second machine, with an NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti, has one job: making images. I call it the art shop.
It runs ComfyUI, an open-source tool for image-generating models, and FLUX, an open image model. When the builder needs art for a page, it sends a request to the art shop over a cable that connects the two machines directly. The art shop makes the image and sends it back.
Its job: your page doubloon, a Mardi Gras-style coin that represents you, plus any supporting images. There's one firm rule: art that goes on a live page only comes from models whose licenses allow commercial use.
A model on its own just answers questions. To actually build something, it needs a workbench: a place where it can open files, write code, test it, and keep track of what's done. That's OpenCode.
OpenCode is a free, open-source AI coding agent. Unlike most coding tools, it isn't locked to one AI company. You can point it at any model you choose, including one running on your own machine. Here, it connects to Qwen on the 4090.
Its job: organize the build. It breaks each page into a to-do list, works through it one task at a time, and leaves notes for the next step, the way a careful builder works through a punch list.
I'm Sean, a computer science teacher in New Orleans. The machines do the typing, but I'm responsible for what goes live.
Every page is checked against the house rules before it ships. By launch, I'll be reading every form myself, choosing among the options the model offers, and keeping a record of those decisions. When something needs a human touch, it gets one. I'm not a graphic designer, and I'll tell you when it matters.
The best support is a new page on the map. Send me what you do, where you are, and how to find you.
Know a thriving and/or striving entrepreneur? A cousin who's a popup caterer, a friend who paints, the barber down the street. Send them the link.
Optional and small. It goes straight to keeping this running.
buy me a coffeeMuggsOfDreams pages are built with AI that runs on computers in my house, with the assistance of cloud AI platforms that are run from data centers. Below is the honest version of how I plan to be able to build 100% AI-Data Center Free by launch day.
I am not a formally trained programmer or coder. If I was, this platform wouldn't be free.
I can map out complex projects, and research and discover the tools and resources to realize those projects. But I can't write code and handle super complex syntax.
So how does the codebase for the platform get created? Primarily and mostly with local models downloaded to and run from my personal hardware, powered by my own electricity bill.
Qwen 27B, the model I run on my 4090, can write Python. Where it falls short is the complex stuff: the tools and skills that have to work across lots of files at once. Those are just beyond what it can build reliably on its own. That's where I bring in cloud AI.
Specifically, Claude Opus 5.5, created by Anthropic and accessed through Claude Code. But I don't use Claude to write disposable, throwaway code. I use it to create durable tools and skills that the local models I use to build the platform need but cannot write on their own. Once they are created and working correctly, they can be used over and over again. And each time, I've inched closer to MuggsOfDreams becoming truly cloud AI independent.
That is how I intend to become AI-Data Center Free by official launch day. Every time I use it moves me closer to using it less.
Early neighbors, friends, and family letting me build them pages so I can build out the platform do so knowing that cloud AI is still involved in the building, so their data is exposed to AI data centers. But they also know that their page builds move the entire building process away from needing cloud AI.
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I want a space where anyone in New Orleans can start building their presence on the internet. Young entrepreneurs, artists, small business owners, writers, musicians. The established and the unestablished. Those with great websites, and those whose website is the rock in their shoe: it's built, it's there, and they try not to think about it.
Don't need a muggsof.net page? Great. I hope you get one anyway. So many people in this city are building their dreams from scratch, and I don't want to ask them to help me build this platform from scratch too.
What I want is a platform already full of pages when they arrive. A vibrant community that already exists, waiting for them to join.
tear a slip off and i'll take it from there.
know a bulletin board? print the flyer
