Help build open-source local AI.
HiveBear is a passion project, not a company. There's no funding round coming, no "enterprise tier," no secret roadmap. The whole thing exists because neighbors keep showing up. Here's how you can be one of them.
Run a peer
The simplest way to help: install HiveBear and let your machine join the hive. Your spare compute helps a neighbor run a model they couldn't otherwise. That's the whole thing — more of us showing up makes the hive better for everyone.
Share a benchmark
Every benchmark you submit helps someone with similar hardware figure out which local LLM will actually run well on their rig. Anonymized, opt-in, privacy-first. The community benchmark browser is how we turn individual data points into collective wisdom.
Write some Rust (or TypeScript)
The core engine is in Rust (hivebear-core, mesh, inference). The coordinator is Axum. The marketing site and desktop app are React/Tauri. Good-first-issues on GitHub are labeled and friendly — pick one and ping us in Discord if you get stuck.
Answer a question
The Discord gets a few questions every day. If you've run into something and figured it out, someone else is about to hit the same thing. Hanging around and being friendly is one of the most valuable things you can do.
Write a neighbor's guide
Ran a model on an unusual setup? Built a tiny home hive out of old laptops? Pulled off something weird and wonderful? We'd love to publish your story on the HiveBear blog. The best docs come from people who just did the thing.
Tell a friend
Seriously. The reason HiveBear works at all is that enough people show up to make the hive useful. Telling one friend about it, pointing a Reddit thread at it, or sharing a hive link with your study group all count. Word of mouth is the whole growth strategy.
A note on "contribution"
Everything on this page is equally valuable. Running a peer is not "less" than writing Rust — the hive literally cannot do its job without peers. Telling one friend is not "less" than filing a PR — word of mouth is what got you here. If you show up, you're part of it. That's the whole deal.
