I built a self-hosted AI chat app that connects 7 providers in one UI

Over the past few months, I've been juggling Ollama for local stuff, Claude for tricky reasoning, and OpenAI when I need vision or specific models. Having three or four chat tabs open at all times drove me a little crazy, so I figured — why not just build one app that talks to all of them? That's how Helix AI Studio happened. The itch I was trying to scratch My daily workflow looked something like this: Open Ollama's web UI for quick local queries Switch to Claude's console for complex coding tasks Fire up another tab for OpenAI when I needed GPT-4 Completely forget which conversation had the context I needed I wanted something dead simple — one dark-themed UI, one chat window, and a dropdown to switch models on the fly. No accounts, no cloud dependency (unless I want cloud), runs on my machine. What it actually does It turned into more than just a multi-provider chat. Here's what ended up in there: 7 providers, one dropdown — Ollama, Claude API, OpenAI API, OpenAI-compatible servers (