liashchynskyi/ggufer

Ggufer is a convenience wrapper around the well-established llama.cpp conversion and quantization scripts. With only 2 stars and a lack of recent activity (age ~2 years), it serves more as a personal automation script than a sustainable project. Its defensibility is near zero because the primary value resides in the underlying llama.cpp library, which is the industry standard for GGUF. Furthermore, Hugging Face has since introduced built-in GGUF conversion services (e.g., HF GGUF My Repo) and better CLI integration via the 'huggingface-cli' and specialized 'llama.cpp' utilities, rendering this specific tool obsolete. Any frontier lab or major platform (like Hugging Face or Ollama) has already integrated this functionality directly into their product workflows, leaving no room for a thin wrapper to capture market share or technical depth. The platform domination risk is high because Hugging Face effectively controls the source models and has every incentive to provide the 'convert to GGUF' button directly on their model cards, which they have already begun doing.