Show HN: Web app to build ML models in the browser (free, runs locally)

Just like people don't have to learn Python and Pandas to build a simple spreadsheet, they shouldn't have to wrestle with complex libraries / cloud tools to train a simple ML model.

This app allows you to drag-and-drop a CSV, pick columns to use as inputs or the target, click a button and boom, a model is trained. More advanced users can customize modeling details (optimizer, hyperparameters, etc.).

This might surprise some, but this 100% running in the browser, with no backend whatsoever. Even the machine learning bits are in Javascript (using tensorflow.js + other libs).

For JS skeptics, yes there's a performance cost vs cloud-based services, but try to use any of the ML tools advertised as "beginner friendly", and you'll realize that this cost (~30s) is much lower than the time sunk into setting-up a cloud account, adding billing info, reading lengthy tutorials... just to train a linear regression model.

This also makes it:

1) 100% private: Your data never leaves your computer, everything runs locally.

2) Free: Hosting bills are cheap, so I will keep offering this service for free, and will only charge for more advanced features.

3) Fast & available offline: No need to wait for cloud jobs to schedule, and it all runs in your browser so you don't even need to be connected to the internet.

Feedback appreciated!

contact@mlconsole.com

This is still very much WIP, and I am now working on a UI to export models and use them on new data.

Cool idea! Is the code open sourced?