Building a Local AI SaaS with Gemma 4 + Ollama 🚀

Ian Akiles — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:48:21 +0000

I’ve started building a mini SaaS powered entirely by local AI using Gemma 4 and Ollama.

The idea is simple:Create a financial dashboard capable of analyzing expenses, generating intelligent insights, and helping users make better financial decisions — all running locally.

Current stack

HTML / CSS / JavaScript

Node.js + Express

Ollama

Gemma 4

Local AI inference

Features planned

✅ Expense & income tracking✅ Smart financial summaries✅ AI-generated savings suggestions✅ Spending pattern analysis✅ Local-first AI architecture✅ SaaS-ready structure

One of the main goals is proving that useful SaaS products can run with local AI instead of relying entirely on cloud APIs.

This project is also my entry for the Gemma 4 Challenge.

I’ll be sharing updates, architecture decisions, UI improvements, and lessons learned during development.

Would love to hear suggestions from the community 👀

DEV Community: Ian Akiles

Building a Local AI SaaS with Gemma 4 + Ollama 🚀