r/SelfHostedAI rules, stats, and what to post

Rule summary

No subreddit-specific rules were displayed on the public rules page when Rankhog verified it on 2026-10-20.

Works well

• A build writeup of your own local AI setup, listing the hardware you chose, what it cost, and how it performs.
• A cost breakdown comparing different hardware options for running private AI, since the description specifically asks for hardware that minimizes cost while maximizing performance.
• A practical walkthrough of how you tag, link, or query your own private documents offline, with the honest gaps and problems you hit.
• A question post asking how others handle local search over private files, which invites the exact conversation this community exists for.
• An honest lesson-learned post about a mistake you made setting up your own offline AI stack, with what you would do differently.

Avoid

• Posting about cloud-based AI services or anything that needs an internet connection to work, since the community is about offline, self-hosted systems.
• Dropping a link with no context and no effort to help anyone, because the moderator one-liner asks for posts relevant to building and hosting private AI.
• Writing a post that is really an ad wearing a costume, like a fake question that only exists to name-drop your product.
• Ignoring the hardware and software focus and writing about general AI news, chatbots, or prompt tricks that have nothing to do with self-hosting.
• Assuming anything goes just because there is no rules page, when the moderator one-liner still asks for relevance to private, offline AI systems.