I Posted My Patent Search AI to Reddit r/LocalLLaMA and Got 65 Upvotes and Over 20 Questions

The Time I Posted a Patent Search Engine to Reddit r/LocalLLaMA and Received 65 Upvotes and Over 20 Technical Questions in 2 Hours Introduction On the night of March 8, 2026, I posted my free custom patent search engine, patentllm.org ( https://patentllm.org ), to Reddit's r/LocalLLaMA (a local LLM community with 995,000 members). The title was "I classified 3.5M US patents with Nemotron 9B on a single RTX 5090 — then built a free search engine on top". reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ro52cu/comment/o9bfwnh ( https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ro52cu/comment/o9bfwnh ) Two hours after posting, I got 65 upvotes and over 20 comments. Furthermore, the quality of those comments was exceptionally high. Below, based on actual exchanges, I record the questions I received from the international engineer community and the design philosophy drawn out from them. What I Posted Acquired 3.54 million US patent records from USPTO PatentsView Built an index with FTS5 in a 74GB SQLite file