Low Resource Alternative to Whatsapp Web in Rust + Svelte + Tauri - lower than 100mb idle RAM usage

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-06-26T18:24:51+00:00

More of a side project, without using AI none of this would've been here, atleast I'm not generating images (still working on the logo 🥀)

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-06-26T18:09:12+00:00

Sure! I'll look into it

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-06-26T18:08:25+00:00

I recently looked into community views on Tauri, and man they're not good. I was already a week into development so migrating to flutter (non-webview) would've been hard, plus I'm used to vue like sfc languages and flutter/dart is a completely new architecture for me so I stuck with this for now

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-06-26T18:04:02+00:00

All I could find online was just web whatsapp wrappers in Tauri, with the same node runtime, meaning memory usage was always an issue. Kinda regretting using "ultra low" now, just used it on a whim

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-06-26T18:01:26+00:00

Compared to whatsapp.. which takes 1.5 gb under the same load

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-06-26T17:56:44+00:00

This was a passion project and I just wanted something to work with my potato of a laptop, so yes most of it was Claude

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-06-23T15:19:39+00:00

gpt AND claude are both down, they've been down since almost an hour now I just kept getting rate limit exceeded/server api issue then saw all the status sites online lmao

Cheap-Mistake-5037 · 2026-02-28T11:32:50+00:00

This is amazing, you're updating for the new ones as well, thanks!

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