
Open source · AI music
ACE-Step UI
4.7k stars, 15k people using it, a million in reach. The open-source studio.
Open the story👋, I'm Vali and I do




Open source · AI music
4.7k stars, 15k people using it, a million in reach. The open-source studio.
Open the storyShipped, not slides
Two open-source music studios, a Mac app on the App Store, a news comparison site, two marketplaces and a London web studio. Each one has a URL you can open and a repo or a store listing behind it.
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01 — Work
Open-source music tools first. Then the products, the failure, and the studio. Public proof only.
02 — Why this

Suno charges a subscription, burns credits, then caps downloads. Google dropped Lyria 3 with no paper, no weights, no API. Closed labs get absorbed. The pattern is not subtle.

ACE-Step, HeartMuLa, MiniMax Music 3 — the weights are out. What was missing was software a musician can actually run: a studio UI, memory that fits a 3060, one-click install. That is the work I publish.

Local inference is the product. If it only works on a cluster, it is a demo. If it runs on one card you already own, it is infrastructure. I want the second thing in every bedroom studio.
03 — Now
MiniMax Music 3 on a single 3060. More of this — smaller VRAM, faster RTF, same quality.
ACE-Step UI and HeartMuLa Studio. Features the community files issues for. Pinokio, Docker, Windows one-click.
The Mac agent. Voice, vision, cron, skills. Named after the cat. Shipping in public.
Web Design Studio London. Next.js for businesses that need to rank and convert, not collect Dribbble shots.
Open to
Local inference, music, agents. I take the product and the infra, not only the model wrapper.
What actually runs on a consumer card, what the open community adopts, what is worth open-sourcing.
Weights in the open, software a musician can run, no credit meter. I have the tools and the audience.
Short cycles, public releases, real users. London or remote.
04 — About
I shipped InstantArt to a million users and shut it down. Then I went into open-source AI music and stayed there — because the closed stack is a rent-seek, and the open stack still needs someone to make it usable.
I also run a London web studio, a microjob marketplace, and a VA marketplace. Engineering, product, support, ads. If you want someone who has only written model wrappers, I am the wrong hire.
I live in London. I post the work on X as I do it. The cat is real. The llama looks left and right because I built that too.
05 — Contact