Thinkloom · Devlog
Building and preparing the Thinkloom desktop MVP
On one build day, Thinkloom became a native desktop MVP, clarified its local-first boundary, made prompts configurable, and was prepared for Build Week review.
The July 17 build brought together the milestones that turned Thinkloom from a writing-workspace framework into a reviewable native product.
First, Thinkloom became a Tauri 2 desktop application. React and TypeScript provided the interaction surface while the Rust service layer took responsibility for local persistence and native operations. The main workflow connected 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 product boundary was then narrowed deliberately. Hosted and browser-facing scaffolding were removed so Tauri became the sole application target. That made the local-first promise concrete: manuscripts, project state, and credentials belong on the writer's machine.
Model prompts also moved into documented, user-editable JSON templates. The application creates user-owned copies and reloads them before each request, with validation that leaves writing unchanged when configuration is invalid. That keeps model behavior inspectable rather than hidden in the application.
Finally, the project was prepared for Build Week with its demo, judging guide, license, collaboration record, and release-oriented documentation. The submission materials separate completed functionality from distribution work that still needs external assets or owner decisions.
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