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Guides to running a household on your own apps: what an AI plan can replace, what to run on a computer that stays on, and how to do it safely.
Personal software is an app made for one person or one household, not a market. What the terms mean, who coined them, why AI agents made it practical, and the hard parts.
Prompts that get a good calorie estimate from ChatGPT or Claude, how to keep a daily total in a chat, where that breaks, and the apps that keep the log.
Copy-paste prompts for a week of dinners and an aisle-sorted grocery list in ChatGPT or Claude, what chat forgets, and the planners and self-hosted apps that fix it.
Category by category: which app subscriptions a ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro plan can replace, which to keep because chat doesn't keep your data, and why.
The risks of running an agent like OpenClaw on your own machine, and five patterns that shrink them, from scoped permissions to an egress allowlist.
You bought a Mac mini to keep an agent running. It's also a home server. Here is what's worth running next to OpenClaw: backups, Home Assistant, media, remote access, and apps that hold your own data.
