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Congrats with the launch! I think you’re tackling a core problem space - many people seem to go to v0 and just copy, paste from there. The drag and drop is really great. Curious - why did you go with Electron instead of Tauri? I imagine that would’ve significantly decreased your bundle size. Congrats again!

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We considered Tauri but went with Electron because we needed the "frame" (the part inside the user window) to behave consistently across OS. This is not something that Tauri guarantees, so we went with Electron for Chromium instead. I

n hindsight, it still would not have helped with the other desktop app based issue like friction of setting up so I think we made the right call.

A large percentage of the bundle comes with shipping Bun as a fallback runtime for users who didn't have node installed. This could've been done better as well but it would still be 300MB+ bundle size.

Does wails not achieve this using webview2? Go is surely better than electron here..

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