A home ChatGPT with Ollama + Open WebUI

Sample entry showing the structure of a play page. Delete it and add your own.

Setup

1. Install Ollama and pull a model:

ollama pull qwen3:8b
ollama run qwen3:8b "Introduce yourself in one sentence"

2. Start Open WebUI with Docker:

docker run -d -p 3000:8080 \
  --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
  -v open-webui:/app/backend/data \
  --name open-webui ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

Open http://localhost:3000. The first account you register becomes the admin.

Going further

• Create accounts for family members and reach it on your LAN at http://<your-ip>:3000
• Turn on Documents, upload PDFs and do simple knowledge-base Q&A
• Load two models side by side and compare their answers to the same prompt