pathmap.org - a universal local-first AI bioinformatics engine / JS app

Hi HN!

# Intro/ About Me (yea yea always about me...) My name is Joshua Dungan and I am a solo developer from Grand Rapids, MI. I am also an unpaid full time caregiver for and with the woman I love, and in my extra time I made a JS powered fully client side 100% privacy (why would I spy on myself?) app that has 0 external dependencies aside from the API calls required to run the app. I am going to be releasing the software soon and you can view it at https://demo.pathmap.org/HN.php

#Promo For my launch on HN, I decided to offer my base product for free for the month of July. You can access the free offer at https://demo.pathmap.org (the big yellow button that starts with "HN Promo!" at the to of the page.

The goal of my HN launch is to have you test the software and critique/point out potential issues. I did my best to lock it down but I need the pros (you) to look at it before I push for adoption of the software. To say thanks and help you see what the software can do, I am offering this promo and will be live-streaming later today (July 1, 2026).

# About the Software Long story short, I started researching ALS and published some AI research and shortly thereafter realized how many hallucinations and issues it had. So, I made a bioinformatics workbench that gates semantic drift and uses veridical enforcement measures. Viola!, now I can make actual literature based discoveries consistently and confidently. So can you! It is truly as "universal" as I could make it, including on the fly interface translation. I even added localhost for e.g., ollama or other for those who are skeptical about these things... so you can run it offline if you want. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be useful - the plain code is at https://demo.pathmap.org/ - I will warn you now, there are some minor glitches in the display as I recently reskinned the app to look more professional.

Links and schedule for July 1, 2026:

website: https://pathmap.org

twitch stream (starts at noon EST, runs at least until midnight): https://twitch.tv/pathmap

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-dungan-392b7a407

promo url: https://pathmap.org/hnpromo.php

software reveal: https://demo.pathmap.org/