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How I Built a 3.3MB Native Windows AI Desktop App with DeepSeek & Tailwind (Goodbye 150MB Electron Bloat)

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Every time I want to build a desktop utility in 2026, the modern web ecosystem gives me the same repetitive answer: "Just bundle it with Electron!" Don't get me wrong: Electron is an impressive engineering feat. But packaging an entire Chromium browser and Node.js runtime just to display a local da…

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  1. 2026-09-10 11:14 · DEV Community — AI
    How I Built a 3.3MB Native Windows AI Desktop App with DeepSeek & Tailwind (Goodbye 150MB Electron Bloat)

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