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I built a site that tells you if your machine can run a Hugging Face model (opens in new tab)

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I kept seeing the same question over and over: "Can my laptop run this model?" Not "is this model good?" Not "how do I fine-tune it?" Just: can I run it without setting my machine on fire? So I built this: canirunaimodel.vercel.app It checks your hardware in the browser, pulls model info from Hugging Face, estimates memory needs, and gives you a simple answer: looks good, maybe tight, or probably not happening. That was the idea anyway. The problem A lot of model pages tell you parameter coun...

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