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Electrobun + Dash blog
Company blog · blackboard.sh/blogprogrammingstartups
Electrobun + Dash blog is the company blog at blackboard.sh, writing about programming and startups. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link to the author's posts and docs for Electrobun, a Bun/TypeScript alternative to Electron and Tauri that uses the system WebView. The comments mostly quote its docs or cite its bundle size.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We build products and the tools behind them. Explore Dash, Electrobun, and the open-source foundations of the Blackboard startup lab.
Most-linked posts?
- Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-08
- Electrobun3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-19
What Hacker News says?
I’ve created a startup lab [1]. I’m currently building an Electron/Tauri alternative that uses Bun called Electrobun [2]. As well as a hybrid code editor + browser which is built on Electrobun called co(lab) [3]. I’m also going to be open sourcing some other stuff that powers Electrobun and co(lab) including an optimized bsdiff implementation I wrote in zig, and a NoSql database designed for rapid prototyping. Meanw…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> Instead of distributing Chromium, By default Electrobun uses your system's native WebView (WebKit on macOS, Edge WebView2 on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux). still: > Optional CEF: bundle CEF (Chromium) when cross-platform consistency matters most. from: https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/guides/what-is-electro...
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on “Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript”Submitted Electrobun – cross-platform desktop apps, ships at about a megabyte as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTitle should maybe specify that this is a blogpost from the author reflecting over the project. There’s better link to showcase the actual project https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs
Comment linking /electrobun/docs
on “Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript”Submitted Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis page says bundle size is 14MB: https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/
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on “Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript”Submitted Cottontail, Electrobun 2.0, and Why I Decided to Jian-Yang Anthropic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNeat! Here's the project main page for those interested in more than the release announcement: https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/ It certainly looks clean enough, and I'm more familiar with zig than rust, so I might give it a shot.
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on “Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript”Submitted Electrobun and WGPU: Tiny, cross-platform games and ML with Bun as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electrobun as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electrobun v1 – Blackboard Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build tiny, fast desktop apps with Bun as a story · 1 points
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