I left Google earlier this year and created Dyad, a local, open-source AI app builder made with Electron.
The motivation: I tried one of the popular cloud-based AI app builders, but when I pulled down the app to run locally and debug in Cursor, it just didn’t work. So I created Dyad, an app builder that runs fully on your computer, making it easy to switch between Dyad and coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code.
Source code: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/
Download (free, no sign-up): https://www.dyad.sh/
I've gotten questions about how it works under the hood so I wrote an architecture doc explaining how it does tool calling using XML tags, etc: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/blob/main/docs/architecture....
Let me know what you think and happy to answer questions about building an Electron app, etc!
