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Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI waku.sh

jpgvm10 days ago

I built my first "real" GUI app recently with the help of Codex, as in actually looks and feels good.

I used GPUI and the one-dark theme from Zed and it's super smooth, the code is super easy to understand and I love the way it looks.

Not quite as simple as the VB6 and forms apps of my youth but as a Rust dude I definitely grokked it easily and was surprised how much of it I was able to do myself once the agent had helped with wiring up the scaffold.

shubham_sinha10 days ago

GPUI is going to be react for Rust ecosystem. Everyone seems to be on Rust & GPUI bandwagon these days. I've built something similar using Expo. That's the stack that I'm most familiar with and surprisingly the performance of the app is pretty good. Still ironing our few edge cases, but would like to benchmark again Waku. https://github.com/pounce-ai/pounce

mintflow10 days ago

So this is basically a wrapper over the existing agents from differnt vendors?

Just poke it a bit and find for codex it use app server protocol too

> Not backed by Y Combinator

This is humor, isn't it?

0x142857op10 days ago

yeah it's basically an alternative GUI for Codex CLI and other clis, I built this because I got frustrated with those Electron Apps performance

d4rkp4ttern10 days ago

Which electron apps?

0x142857op10 days ago

the official ChatGPT and Claude app

catlifeonmars10 days ago

The lack of commas in the title yields some ambiguity:

- is it an app for creating custom agents?

- do the agents use Rust and GPUI?

0x142857op10 days ago

unfortunately cannot edit now, but it's pretty easy to find out on the website

jdright10 days ago

I use https://zedra.dev/ which supports a lot of agents, also uses GPUI but has mobile clients.

0x142857op10 days ago

that is cool, but it seems like a terminal wrapper, quite different here

vekntksijdhric10 days ago

I don't understand what is the value of this tool, can you elaborate?

0x142857op10 days ago

1. better performance than those electron apps 2. a unified app for all the coding agents meaning I don't need to constantly switch between multiple apps 3. I like Codex's computer use so I want to bring it to other agents too (although this feature is not fully implemented yet)

abhishek031138 days ago

would love it also pulled historical transcripts as well, going through old transcript on claude code is a painful process

abhishek031138 days ago

no worries, forking and doing it myself, will raise PR once done

rohannn10 days ago

Love GPUI. Will give this a try later!

tough10 days ago

This looks great! will try it out

useslop10 days ago

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deadcatfound10 days ago

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BonanKou8 days ago

+1 to the timeline request, with a warning from having built one: it looks like a logging feature but it's actually a data model decision.

keepupnow10 days ago

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shawn190510 days ago

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