15:I[981,["658","static/chunks/658-a698693f56d0116a.js","183","static/chunks/183-6beeeb801c274aaa.js","474","static/chunks/app/%5Btype%5D/layout-631c4730b83c8223.js"],"Posts"] 16:T48a,Hi HN,

I originally built macmon (now OmniMon) as a macOS-only process monitor using Bash and AppKit. It worked, but I wanted to bring it to Windows and Linux without relying on Electron's massive overhead.

For v4.0, I rewrote the entire core in Rust and the UI in Svelte + Tauri. The results:

The UI compiled payload is just ~54 KB of vanilla JS.

Total RAM usage sits around 35MB.

The Rust core reads memory metrics in ~7 nanoseconds (using sysinfo and native syscalls) and implements strict RAII to prevent handle leaks.

Implemented Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) natively in Rust to introspect and manage individual browser tabs cross-platform without needing companion extensions.

We also added a "Smart Optimize" feature that connects to LLMs (OpenAI/Anthropic) using native OS keychains for secure API key storage, plus strict OS-level blocklists to prevent killing critical daemons.

Repo: https://github.com/chochy2001/macmon

Would love to hear your thoughts on the Rust + Tauri + Svelte stack for system tools!17:T433,I recently noticed that some easy tickets I get during my day job can be solved with a single prompt, so I built a simple open-code orchestration system between Jiran, Coding agents (cursor/claude), and github.

The goal is to automate the easy tickets that every decent engineer will solve in roughly the same way, and let us just accept a ready PR.

Now I'm stuck on a different problem: how do you get the first real startups to actually try an open source tool like this?

I have posted about my tool in X, reddit, and here. I have received stars and even some positive comments so it does seem like there is some interest in the idea, but AFAIK there isn't a startup that

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