SurfSense on a Mac
Self-hosted NotebookLM/Perplexity alternative · Knowledge & Memory
SurfSense is an open-source AI research assistant (a self-hosted NotebookLM/Perplexity) that connects an LLM to web sources — Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Google — and your own knowledge, reachable by web UI, REST API or an MCP server. Self-host with Docker Compose (a one-line installer or the full stack): frontend on :3000, backend API on :8000 (Postgres :5432). Apache-2.0, with one BSL-1.1 backend subdirectory. Cloud option available.
Run SurfSense with FrontierStack
FrontierStack lists SurfSense in its Knowledge & Memory catalog. Install or connect it from one place, then monitor its status, ports and certificate, secure it with the firewall and Malware Audit, and back it up.
Run it all from one Mac app.
FrontierStack installs, monitors and secures the whole stack — locally and across your fleet — from a single native macOS app.
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