Paramain

A portfolio of free, independent apps

Software should be accessible to everyone.

Paramain is a small workshop of useful tools — free to use, privacy-first, and made to respect the people who use them. Open source, all the way down. No ads, no lock-in, no surveillance.

Its center of gravity is Civitas at civitas-research.org — political transparency, powered by local AI. Everything else here is a side project.

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The main event

One project at the center of it all.

Civitas is the reason this workshop exists — the thing most of the time, care, and stubbornness goes into. It is free, local-first, and now entirely open source.

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Civitas

civitas-research.org

Political transparency, powered by local AI

The project everything else here orbits. Civitas distills public records and legislative activity into plain language so anyone can hold power to account — running open-weight models locally on a Raspberry Pi, with no cloud, no surveillance, and no gatekeepers. It started life closed source; it's now open, end to end, so the pipeline that shapes what you read is auditable by anyone who cares to look.

  • Local AI
  • Open weights
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Transparency
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Runs on
A Raspberry Pi in a spare room
Models
Open weights, entirely local
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Open — every line of it
Cost
$0, no ads, no accounts
Also on the shelf

Smaller things, built along the way.

Side projects and weekend tools. Each one scratches a specific itch, and each one is free and open source — but they're the extras, not the main course.

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Creator tools

Linkertree

A free, open-source link-in-bio

Everything you love about a link-in-bio page, with none of the lock-in. Self-host it or run it free — own your links, your data, and your audience. A genuine open alternative to the usual suspects.

  • Self-hostable
  • No lock-in
  • Link-in-bio
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Games & play

Spliced

A daily music puzzle, no ads ever

One fresh music puzzle every day. Splice the clips, name the track, share your streak. No ads, no tracking, no paywall — just a small, joyful ritual that respects your attention.

  • Daily puzzle
  • Music
  • Ad-free
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Streaming tools

DBD Manager

Stream utilities for Dead by Daylight

A free, open-source toolkit for Twitch streamers playing Dead by Daylight. Run a viewer queue so your community can jump into the match on stream, plus the small utilities that make playing with chat effortless.

  • Twitch
  • Viewer queue
  • Dead by Daylight
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The ethos

A quiet belief, held firmly.

Good software shapes how people work, learn, organize, and play. That power shouldn't sit behind a paywall or a privacy trade. Paramain is a small, stubborn argument that it doesn't have to.

  • Free, and meant to stay that way

    No ads, no paywalls, no upsells. The tools cost nothing because access shouldn't depend on what you can pay.

  • Open, all the way down

    Every app here is open source — Civitas included, which spent its early life closed. If a tool asks for your trust, you should be able to read how it works.

  • Your data is yours

    No tracking for tracking's sake. Where it makes sense, the AI runs locally — on a Raspberry Pi, not someone else's cloud.

  • One thing done properly

    Civitas gets the lion's share of the effort; the rest are small tools that each solve one real problem and then get out of the way.

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