I built a lantern for memories that never leave your device
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine . What I Built Legacy Lantern is a private remembrance studio. You give it a name, a relationship, a few favorite things, and one moment you still carry. It turns those details into a short keepsake—but the memory never leaves your browser. I interpreted “Ghost in the Machine” less as a haunted…
Legacy Lantern is a private, in-browser remembrance studio created for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge. Users provide a name, relationship, favorite things, and a cherished memory to create a personalized keepsake. The memory remains on the user's browser, never leaving the device or being sent to an inference API. Legacy Lantern uses an open-weight Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct model, quantized and optimized for local inference with Transformers.js.
The app supports offline use and can be run directly from a local web server. The project emphasizes privacy and openness, allowing users to inspect, replace, or preserve the model.
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