User ditches Whoop subscription, runs the band fully locally with AI on open-source zhoop fork
SumitGup · x · 2026-09-29
After 18 months, user hackyguru cancelled his Whoop subscription but kept the hardware: he forked the open-source noop project into zhoop, running everything fully local with AI on his phone — no fluff metrics, data never leaves the device. His takeaway: "AI killed vendor lock-in," a vivid case of on-device local AI replacing SaaS subscription models.
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