I Rewrote My Electron App in Tauri — and Claude Did 100% of the Work in Under 24 Hours 🚀

TL;DR 📌 🕰️ Then: I built google-chat-electron by hand , over months , reading tutorial after tutorial. ⚡ Now: I rebuilt the whole thing as google-chat-tauri in less than 24 hours — and I did not write the code. Claude did. 🦀 Plot twist: I don't know Rust. Not a little — at all . The AI wrote every line of it. 📦 Result: a ~ 3 MB Linux installer instead of a bundled Chromium. 🧪 Status: pre-release. Fun project. Stable version coming after real-world testing. Let's dive in. 👇 The Electron Era: Months of Honest, Manual Labour 😅 A few years ago I wanted Google Chat in a real window — with a tray icon, an unread badge and native notifications — instead of a browser tab that disappears among thirty other browser tabs. So I built it. In Electron. By hand. And it took months . Not because Electron is bad, but because every single thing was a tutorial: How do I make a tray icon that actually behaves? How do I keep the app alive when the window closes? How do I intercept a link and open it in the real browser? How do I package a .deb ? A .dmg ? An installer for Windows? Why does this work on my machine and nowhere else? 🙃 Every answer was a blog post, a GitHub issue thread, or a Stack Overflow reply from 2017 that almost applied. It shipped, people used it, and I was genuinely proud of it. The Tauri Rewrite: One Evening, One Prompt Loop 🤖 Last week I opened Claude Code and asked it to port the app to Tauri v2 . I did not open the Rust book. I did not read the Tauri docs. I described what the app should do, reviewed what came back, ran it on my actual laptop, and reported what broke. Timeline: Time What happened 15:42 git init 17:01 Full Electron → Tauri v2 port committed 17:25 Desktop notifications working < 24h later v0.0.1 tagged and released 🎉 38 commits. ~3,600 lines of Rust and JavaScript. Zero lines typed by me. This is what people mean by vibe coding — and honestly, it felt less like programming and more like directing . My job became: describe the behaviour, test it on