Zzz

nice web things for the tired 💤

⚠️ early pre-release, does not persist your chats, prompts, or workspaces yet

zzz.software

Zzz, pronounced "zees" like bees, is a software garage for power users and devs. The idea is to make an integrated cross-platform environment that adapts to your needs and intent while remaining fully open, aligned, and designed for your autonomy. It's both a customizable web UI and local-first backend for power users, and a flexible tool for crafting UX-maximizing websites with a streamlined developer experience, eventually accessible to non-coders (hence all the AI).

More at zzz.software/about.

This is an early stage project and the ideas are still developing - see the issues and discussions.

Setup

This project is in its early stages, and installing it currently requires some basic technical skills. Eventually there will be a desktop app but for now you'll need Node (>=24.14), a Rust toolchain (for the backend), PostgreSQL, and Git to clone the repo.

Running Zzz locally — in development with cargo xtask dev, or self-hosted through the zzz CLI (see docs/development.md) — is the supported way to use it right now. It deploys via SvelteKit's static adapter with diminished capabilities (zzz.software), and the full app is served by the Rust zzz_server backend.

The Rust backend depends on sibling crates from the fuz workspace via path dependencies (including the native fuz_pty terminal crate). They must be checked out alongside this repo for cargo build to succeed; until they're published, building from a bare clone isn't yet reproducible.

Developing on Windows requires something like WSL.

After cloning, from the project root:

# 1. Create the PostgreSQL database the backend connects to
createdb zzz

# 2. Generate .env.development (idempotent — safe to re-run)
cargo xtask dev-setup

# 3. Install Node dependencies
npm install

# 4. Build the Rust backend and start everything (backend + Vite frontend)
cargo xtask dev

You can edit .env.development with your API keys (restart cargo xtask dev to pick them up).

Browse to the location it says, probably localhost:5173.

On first run Zzz has no account yet, so it shows a bootstrap form. Copy the one-time token it points to (cat .zzz/bootstrap_token), paste it in, and pick a username and password to create your admin account — then you're logged in and ready.

Roadmap

• #7 integrate database
• #8 undo/history system
• publish to npm
• input welcome

Credits 🐢_🐢🐢

Zzz builds on a great deal of software.

• see the deps in package.json
• I started using Claude in late 2024 after making the initial prototype, and in late 2025 I started doing much of the coding with Claude Code, Opus 4.5 being the first over some threshold for me for this project
  • see the // @slop markers on LLM-generated code

Contributing

fuz.dev/contributing

License 🐦

MIT