Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
waku.shI 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.
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
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?
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
Which electron apps?
the official ChatGPT and Claude app
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?
unfortunately cannot edit now, but it's pretty easy to find out on the website
I use https://zedra.dev/ which supports a lot of agents, also uses GPUI but has mobile clients.
that is cool, but it seems like a terminal wrapper, quite different here
I don't understand what is the value of this tool, can you elaborate?
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)
would love it also pulled historical transcripts as well, going through old transcript on claude code is a painful process
no worries, forking and doing it myself, will raise PR once done
Love GPUI. Will give this a try later!
This looks great! will try it out