elitan makes Mike runnable on a laptop in one command
The fork now stands up its full backend - database, file storage, and a local AI model - with a single docker command.
elitan has been steadily turning Mike into something a solo developer or small team can host themselves, without renting infrastructure from anyone. This change is the keystone: a single configuration file that spins up a Postgres database, a MinIO object store (an open-source clone of Amazon S3 for storing files), and wires them together with the previously added local AI engine. Clone the fork, run one command, and the whole legal-AI stack is running on your own machine.
It completes a thread that started with swapping out the hosted database and hosted AI for local equivalents. The compose recipe ships on non-default ports to avoid clashing with anything else you already have running, which is a small but telling sign that this is meant to be used, not just demoed.
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