ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica — reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a privacy first AI answering app I can run on my own machine, basically a self hosted search assistant that looks up info on the web and gives clear answers with source links. I want it to work with local models through Ollama and also let me plug in cloud providers like OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or Groq from a simple setup screen.

Make it feel like a polished search product, with speed, balanced, and quality modes, source filters for web, discussions, and academic papers, image and video results, smart suggestions while typing, and little helpful widgets for things like weather, math, or stocks when relevant. It should also let me upload files like PDFs, text, and images and ask questions about them, search only within specific sites, show a discover page for interesting content, and save my search history locally.

Please make the easiest path a Docker based setup with private web search built in, and keep the whole experience clean and beginner friendly. Look up current docs online if you need to.