Show HN: Weightlift – the missing package manager for downloading model weights (weightlift.dev)

If you’re building an on-device web-based AI app, you’ve probably built this 50 times already:

Something that tells your users which models are available to download or already cached, then shows progress as they’re being downloaded.

While building Rescript (see https://github.com/wassgha/rescript ), I had to build this exact same pattern.

So I built it into a tiny library that streamlines that across transformers.js, onnx, prakeet and pretty much any model provider.

Give it a try :)