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title: Building the native desktop MVP
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date: 2026-07-17
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author: Christopher Chambers
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summary: The workspace became a Tauri desktop application with a React interface, Rust service layer, local persistence, provenance, exports, and recovery behavior.
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tags: Tauri, React, Rust, MVP
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source_commit: b5e6eafa1c4e9b787250c15e6453c2d61dc8830c
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The first desktop MVP moved Thinkloom from the workspace framework into a Tauri
2 application. React and TypeScript provided the interaction surface, while the
Rust service layer took responsibility for local persistence and native
operations.

This milestone connected the main workflow end to end: project state, idea
curation, drafting, version history, provider boundaries, exports, backups, and
an inspectable provenance trail. SQLite held live state while canonical files
and hidden Git checkpoints provided durable, reviewable recovery points.

The goal was not merely to wrap a web interface in a desktop shell. The native
boundary made local files, operating-system credentials, atomic writes, and
offline ownership part of the product itself.

[View the MVP commit](https://git.labyricorn.com/Labyricorn/thinkloom-openai-hackathon/commit/b5e6eafa1c4e9b787250c15e6453c2d61dc8830c)