Show HN: Dyad, local, open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app)

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Found: September 18, 2025
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Show HN: Dyad, local, open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) Hi HN!

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!

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