Wurdump

Wurdump

Inspiration

From Excel to Internet browsers, startups have been incorporating AI with the most widely-used tools. I extrapolated this insight to the set of tools I use the most, and what stood out to me was the simple Copy & Paste functionality. That's how Wurdump was born. Wurdump's local nature enables it to be a useful tool for privacy and offline processing.

What it does

Wurdump is an AI-enhanced local desktop clipboard. All you need to do is press [cmd + shft + V] and you can prompt the locally running gpt-oss:20b with the current clipboard content as well as in combination with the contents in the clipboard history. Imagine being able to copy a bunch of things and then prompting an LLM without even pasting it - that's what Wurdump can do!

Wurdump is a local agent, providing efficiency without privacy, security, or compliance concerns. Wurdump can also do the following:

Code Conversion: "Convert this Python code to TypeScript"
Text Formatting: "Make this more professional for an email"
Data Processing: "Convert this CSV to JSON format"
Language: "Translate this to Spanish"
Cleanup & Summarize: "Combine these texts and fix grammar and spelling errors"

How we built it

First time building a desktop app using the Tauri framework. Wurdump interacts with the locally running gpt-oss:20b as if it were making API requests to the local port.

Challenges we ran into

A key challenge has been that gpt-oss:20b is a bit slow when running locally on a Macbook. Maybe it's because of hardware constraints or the way my project is set up. This is something we'll have to keep on improving.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Though simple, Wurdump is a fully-fledged desktop app. It doesn't require sign-ins or Internet connection and yet, it is a very effective tool.

What we learned

This was my first time building a desktop app, and I realized how versatile desktop apps can be compared to web apps. The fact that desktop apps sit so closely to the user and the user's operating system gives the builder lots of freedom and power to deliver value.