ebubekirkupe/mike

Local-first Electron app with a Word task-pane add-in for AI-assisted legal document review

One major topic observed: a wholesale local-first pivot that replaces the cloud backend with SQLite, local file storage, an Electron wrapper, and a new ~25k-LOC Microsoft Word add-in workspace. The upstream multi-user and RLS model is abandoned in favour of a single-user design.

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ebubekirkupe/mike diverges sharply from the upstream cloud-hosted design. The fork replaces Supabase auth, Cloudflare R2, and separate frontend/backend processes with a single Electron shell, better-sqlite3 local storage, and an HTTPS loopback server that serves a Microsoft Word add-in. Documents stay on the user's machine. AI provider credentials are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest.

The Word add-in is the fork's primary differentiator: it integrates directly into Word's task pane and uses track-changes or comment mode to surface AI edits, each accompanied by a one-sentence justification comment. The repo is structured as Bun workspaces with a shared types package and a stub MCP server.

What's in it

Microsoft Word task pane The primary surface is an add-in that lives alongside the document a lawyer is actually working on.
Desktop application shell Mike is repackaged as an installable desktop app rather than a hosted web service.
Local-first architecture A local server runs on the user's machine, keeping the SaaS dependency out of the loop.

Direction

draftingintegrationinfrastructure

Activity

Themed changes and pull requests touching this fork, newest first. Themed changes that haven't been turned into a public post yet still appear — they're real work even without a published writeup.

📝 ebubekirkupe rebuilds Mike to live inside Microsoft Word, on your own machine 4 commits 2mo ago draftingintegration draft

A ground-up rewrite turns the cloud app into a local-first desktop tool with an AI redlining assistant built into Word itself.

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ebubekirkupe rebuilds Mike to live inside Microsoft Word, on your own machine

A ground-up rewrite turns the cloud app into a local-first desktop tool with an AI redlining assistant built into Word itself.

draftingintegration

4 commits · latest 2mo ago

ebubekirkupe rebuilds Mike as a local-first Electron app with a Word add-in

ebubekirkupe has replaced the cloud-hosted Supabase/R2 backend with a single-user Electron shell, SQLite storage, and a Microsoft Word task-pane add-in that attaches AI redlines as tracked changes with one-sentence justification comments. It's a deliberate product pivot, not an incremental patch.

draftinginfrastructure

4 commits · latest 2mo ago