# Tauri Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Tauri builds tiny, secure, and blazingly fast cross-platform binaries using a Rust core and any web frontend (HTML, JS, CSS).

Tauri is an open-source application toolkit: it delivers lightweight, secure desktop and mobile apps across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Unlike frameworks that bundle a browser engine, Tauri leverages the host OS's native webview (e.g., WebView2, WKWebView), resulting in minimal app sizes—a minimal binary is often less than 600KB. The architecture pairs a flexible web frontend with a high-performance, security-focused backend written in Rust, utilizing Rust's memory and type-safety features. It includes essential tooling: a built-in bundler, a secure self-updater, and a tree-shakeable JavaScript API for controlled system access.

- Official technology site: https://tauri.app/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 8
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Prairie Engine and the Frontier of Simulation](https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_OG4-D-AvZ7g)

I built a general simulation engine. Once a user puts in an API key, they can type something in and the engine will generate a full simulation complete with metrics, visuals, and a cohesive storyline. The central mechanism is having an LLM rewrite an entire .html page to render each "turn," as opposed to static text-only replies.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Atlanta: 2-Year Anniversary & Best Demos of the Year — 2026-07-30 — Atlanta
- Public talk page: https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_OG4-D-AvZ7g

### [Postal - AI Chief of Staff that keeps me organized and updates itself](https://austin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_lQCh4jkzo7o)

Postal is the OpenClaw for people that don't want to buy a Macbook. I love the power of AI for coding and information discovery, and I wanted the same for my day-to-day tasks, like writing emails, updating calendar, keep track of notes, and memories about people and places. Postal offers all of that in one, convenient interface, available on my desktop and my phone. Web site is Supabase realtime, desktop Tauri runs completely offline with its own filesystem. Local models can be plugged in to stay off grid. The sync between environments is still janky, but I am working on it. The agents do research, reminders, rewrite my own notes, triage emails... the board is slowly eating its own dogfood and improving itself. Currently the app managing 900 different "memories" for me.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Austin: April 2026 Demo Night — 2026-04-16 — Austin
- Public talk page: https://austin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_lQCh4jkzo7o

### [An RTS-Style Interface for AI Agents and Codebases](https://berlin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_n4kJ2vGsbwA)

A desktop app that renders your codebase as a 3D city -- files become buildings, directories become districts. It picks up Claude Code, Codex and Opencode telemetries locally and animates agents flying through the scene as they read, write, and edit files. All local-first -- no data leaves your machine.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Berlin Meetup - March 11, 2026 — 2026-03-11 — Berlin
- Public talk page: https://berlin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_n4kJ2vGsbwA

### [Tambourine: Your personal voice interface for any app](https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_GcrcHQwpqik)

Tambourine is an AI-powered voice dictation tool that can be used with any text box. A fully open source alternative to Wispr Flow. It allows users to fully own the AI pipeline by swapping models and defining custom formatting logic. I will demo how to use it and talk about what situations AI voice dictation does particularly well in. I will also go into the technical details of how this was built on top of other open source frameworks, Tauri and Pipecat, as well as the infrastructure powering real-time voice AI like WebRTC.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - The Age of AI & Infrastructure (Singapore) — 2026-02-11 — Singapore
- Public talk page: https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_GcrcHQwpqik

### [Why Context Management Matters](https://poland.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_osx2ngU7ESU)

I'll be talking about one of the most important skills of today - context management. It's single handedly the biggest thing that separates getting results with AI from vibe coded slop. Also would love to talk about Conare - the app I build to solve the problem. This is my first AITinkerers, so if it goes against the spirit - no problem. But it really solves this problem nicely!

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Poland #6 - Meetup in Warsaw (26th November) — 2025-11-26 — Poland
- Public talk page: https://poland.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_osx2ngU7ESU

### [Helpful Computer](https://minneapolis-saint-paul.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ffp2q3fb2kI)

Voice Agent that can interact with Excalidraw and Lexical for Drawing and Writing.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers – Minneapolis–Saint Paul Inaugural Meetup · 16 July 2025 — 2025-07-16 — Minneapolis Saint Paul
- Public talk page: https://minneapolis-saint-paul.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ffp2q3fb2kI

### [Debugging impossible problems with LLMs](https://la.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_5xUO4Kpzjtk)

I've been prototyping an app which integrates LLMs with code debuggers (like pdb or lldb). These are tools developers use to step through complicated programs line-by-line. The integration makes interactive debugging with an agent in the loop possible.

- Event context: June 9th - LA AI Tinkerers Meetup & Demos — 2025-06-10 — Los Angeles
- Public talk page: https://la.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_5xUO4Kpzjtk

### [PowBlocs - Creating personal desktop software with AI](https://bogota.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_CeLKllT4i10)

PowBlocs is an open-source desktop app that lets you create your own software tools (mini-apps) with AI. These tools have desktop capabilities such as file access and can import packages from npm, JSR, or other external sources. It uses Tauri as the desktop framework and the Deno Runtime for running the backend tasks of the tools in a sandbox. This is a demo of the Tauri/Deno integration I published: https://github.com/carloslfu/tauri-deno-example. The AI part uses Claude and the Vercel AI SDK. I used my knowledge of AI code gen for backends, tex2sql, UI generation, and what I learned from open work such as Aider and articles that reverse engineer V0 and Claude Artifacts to inform the building of PowBlocs. The project is still a work in progress, and I will make the repository public during the presentation.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Bogotá - January Meetup — 2025-01-30 — Bogotá
- Public talk page: https://bogota.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_CeLKllT4i10

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