Hermes built a local safety system with panic buttons for his 89-year-old grandfather@AlexanderMann · Personal assistant · Oct 5, 2026Family collectibles shop on a $12 VPS gets inbox triage and stock alerts across 4,000 SKUsu/GeekTekRob · Business operations · Sep 4, 2026Built his own football manager game, with a local Hermes agent as assistant coach and scout@StefanMaier · Creative projects · Jul 26, 2026Attorney who also runs a local multi-site business automates payment reconciliationu/NeurosisByAnalysis · Business operations · Jul 17, 202624/7 on an Android phone via Cloud Shell, no VPS and no laptop@pengsonal · Privacy & self-hosting · Jul 13, 2026Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 64K context on an RTX 3060 12GB, ~53 tok/su/krrish253 · Privacy & self-hosting · Jul 11, 2026Tracks everything the agent installs on your machineu/StillMiddle1493 · Privacy & self-hosting · Jul 10, 2026Agents as YAML org nodes: a local company, not one big chatbotu/TotalGod · Business operations · Jul 8, 2026Local email gatekeeper on a Mac mini so the agent never sees 2FA codesu/HolmeBengt · Privacy & self-hosting · Jul 5, 2026Brain-and-arm: VPS agent reaches a locked-down work laptop over outbound WSSu/rektsd · Integrations · Jun 28, 2026Consultant wires Hermes to a self-hosted CRM and gets an 8-page meeting prep briefu/jean-jcrx · Integrations · Jun 26, 2026One Termux script to put the whole agent on a phoneu/Ok_Run_5401 · Privacy & self-hosting · Jun 21, 2026Parsed a 3,799-page AMD manual locally with SQLite FTS5 instead of a vector DBu/Barnet1123 · Cost & efficiency · Jun 19, 2026An idle game hard-locked to your own local gatewayu/Ads_Doctor_Melbourne · Creative projects · Jun 17, 2026Replaced the helpdesk: Hermes briefs a local support agent and escalates to the teamtheturtletalks (Hacker News) · Business operations · Jun 15, 2026One Obsidian vault, one local brain, four agents sharing the same memoryu/fxa3bah · Integrations · Jun 12, 2026One isolated Hermes profile per client — sell AI ops to local businesses@IBuzovskyi · Business operations · May 30, 2026The self-improving agent you can actually run yourself — Termux includedemmanuelthecoder (dev.to) · Privacy & self-hosting · May 15, 2026Told it to Google me and ship a landing page to my VPS@emmagine79 · Personal assistant · May 10, 202624/7 cloud red-team 'AI hacking team' controlled from TelegramzSecurity (YouTube) · Privacy & self-hosting · May 1, 2026Auto-transcribe Meet calls, control from Teams, local models for client dataJulian Goldie (Substack) · Business operations · Apr 30, 2026Self-hosted Google Drive replacement with Nextcloud + LibreOffice@salma.1492 · Personal assistant · Apr 18, 2026Local Gitea fork + watchtower auto-restarts my Hermes in 10 minutes@malaiwah · Development · Apr 10, 2026My Hermes lives on a VPS, talks home over Tailscale@sammcf · Development · Apr 6, 2026I'm using Hermes — same applies to all agents, sandbox itFlere-Imsaho · Privacy & self-hosting · Apr 4, 2026Obsidian, home automation, VPS server management — on a cheap VPSrnxrx (Hacker News) · Personal assistant · Mar 31, 2026Private Telegram topics, each with its own skill bindingsMr. Ånand (Substack) · Personal assistant · Mar 31, 2026Sharing a local SearXNG container across my Hermes agents@flensbo · Privacy & self-hosting · Mar 22, 2026Built a Turkish locale skill pack: market data, news, daily briefing cards@erhnysr · Content production · Mar 21, 2026Hetzner VPS at $10/mo, Claude Opus via OpenRouterThéo Vigneres (YouTube) · Cost & efficiency · Feb 28, 2026Hermes + Browser Harness on a Hostinger VPSdavidondrej (GitHub Gist) · Integrations · 2026Hermes running on a Pi 4 as my home server@manojmukkamala · Personal assistant · 2026Legal-domain work on an edge GPU, 4B Gemma, no cloud APIs@arkka · Privacy & self-hosting · 2026Tailscale serve for secure remote access, no exposed ports@PaulTisl · Privacy & self-hosting · 2026Independent technical security eval: 5 defensive patternsmichaeloboyle (GitHub Gist) · Privacy & self-hosting · 2026$5 VPS playbook — so the defaults don't eat your OpenRouter budgetAnup Karanjkar (Medium) · Cost & efficiency · 2026Iterating on a local-first cognition layer for Hermes@hackafterdark · DevelopmentBuilt a local kanban so my agents see what's going on@purkkaviritys · DevelopmentMy local community agent runs on a 16GB Mac mini@mattbcool · GeneralA MacOS control center for the local models on my two machines@franci.penov · EcosystemGot Hermes running on AWS VPS with Google Workspace automation@smantena · Teams & enterpriseMy Hermes runs on my home server, I reach it from anywhere@kayp5780 · MessagingPulling my Whoop data into Hermes locally@wysie_ · Personal assistantA skill that hardens my agent against common LLM threats@harrison07525 · Privacy & self-hosting
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For people who want the agent close to home. Several reports here focus on what the agent should never see, which is a good habit for any setup.