{"author":"shivnathtathe","children":[{"author":"shivnathtathe","children":[],"created_at":"2026-05-08T14:15:15.000Z","created_at_i":1778249715,"id":48063536,"options":[],"parent_id":48063206,"points":null,"story_id":48063206,"text":"Hey HN. I built this because LangSmith needs a cloud account to see my own traces.<p>The full stack is:\n\u2192 @trace decorator on any Python function\n\u2192 autopatch() for OpenAI, Anthropic, LiteLLM,\n  Qdrant, ChromaDB, Pinecone\n\u2192 SQLite at ~&#x2F;.opensmith&#x2F;traces.db\n\u2192 Dashboard at localhost:7823<p>800+ downloads in 2 days.<p>I have not done any marketing.<p>Its early in development. I am happy to hear what is missing.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-05-08T13:56:49.000Z","created_at_i":1778248609,"id":48063206,"options":[],"parent_id":null,"points":6,"story_id":48063206,"text":"Hey HN. Built this because LangSmith needs a cloud account just to see my own traces.<p>pip install opensmith \u2014 everything shows up at localhost:7823. SQLite. No accounts.<p>No config. Fully offline.<p>800+ downloads in 2 days. Surprised me.<p>Would love honest feedback from this community.","title":"Show HN: I built an open-source, local-first  alternative to LangSmith","type":"story","url":"https://pypi.org/project/opensmith/"}