Nise Chat

Nise Chat is a single Binary AI Chat Application for self-hosting. Features image and document uploads, web search, resumable message streams with markdown and syntax highlighting, and more. It is designed to be easy to deploy and use, with a focus on privacy and security. Nise Chat is built with Go and React, and uses PocketBase for data storage. Initially built in 10 days for the T3 Cloneathon/Hackathon

Own all your data and pay only for what you use, with minimal 3rd party dependencies (only OpenRouter for inference) and easy deployment.

Offers features like branching chats, text search, resumable streams, file uploads, and more.

See more at https://zaeem.dev/things/nise-chat

Installation

Clone the repository and change into the project directory:

git clone https://github.com/JasirZaeem/nise-chat.git
cd nise-chat

Build the project and start the server:

make
./nise serve

This starts the server on port 8090 by default.

First Run

Follow the link in the terminal output on the first run to create the PocketBase super-user account.

Or you can run the following command to create the super-user account manually. (Replace EMAIL and PASS with your desired email and password.)

`./nise superuser upsert EMAIL PASS`

Configuration

Authentication

By default, user registrations are disabled. You can visit the PocketBase admin dashboar at http://localhost:8090/_/, login, and then create user accounts as needed. Make sure to mark them as verified to allow them to login.

If you want to enable user registrations, edit the api rules for the users collection to allow creation operations.

And setup email credentials to allow PocketBase to send verification emails.

After which people can visit /register to create an account, and login once their email is verified.

Data

When you run ./nise serve it will use ./pb_data to store the data for you app (database and uploaded files), and it will create tables present in the database snapshot migration file in ./pb_migrations (part of the repository). If you want to use another location, pass the --dir flag for the data directory, and --migrationsDir for the migrations directory.

e.g.:

./nise serve --dir /path/to/data --migrationsDir /path/to/migrations

If using another location, place the ./pb_migrations from the repository at that location first so PocketBase can run initial migrations.

Deploying

If not running locally and instead deploying to a server, follow the instructions at https://pocketbase.io/docs/going-to-production/ to manage a public facing instance.