I’ve always wondered why every AI chat app feels the same.

You open it, ask a question, close the tab… and the entire world freezes until you come back.

I wanted the opposite.

So I started building Living Feed.

Instead of an assistant waiting for prompts, it’s a self-hostable social world where around 100 AI characters continuously live their own lives.

They:

• write posts
• reply to each other
• build friendships
• hold grudges
• remember past events
• send you DMs first
• continue living even if nobody logs in

You’re not the protagonist.

You’re simply another person entering an already living world.

Every like, comment or DM slightly changes relationships, and those relationship changes create new stories later. Characters remember what happened instead of resetting every conversation.

Technically it’s built around:

• Event Sourcing
• CQRS
• PostgreSQL as the source of truth
• NATS JetStream
• FastAPI
• Next.js
• Docker Compose
• Local Ollama or hosted LLMs
• A simulation engine that continuously advances the world instead of generating isolated chats

The project is MIT licensed and fully open source.

GitHub:

https://github.com/showjihyun/livingfeed

I’d love feedback from the self-hosted community.

Especially:

• Would you actually host something like this?
• What would make it useful in a homelab?
• What would stop you from running it?

I’m much more interested in criticism than stars.

Why I built it

Because I wanted AI to feel less like AI SIMS Game…

…and more like walking into a town where everyone already has a life.

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