[ Shipped Nov 14, 2026 ] Idea #123
Electron Diet
How much RAM are your Electron apps wasting? Paste your process list (or, in the Mac app, press Scan This Mac) and Electron Diet adds up each app's memory, picks out the ones built on Electron or WebView2, and shows what they'd give back as native apps, using the 70% drop Discord's lighter Windows 11 app showed. It's built with [Exact](https://github.com/expo/exact), Expo's new framework, so the same app is a web page and a native Mac app.
The pitch
A tiny dashboard that people can paste process-list output into (ps, Task Manager CSV). It groups processes by Electron, WebView2, or native, estimates the RAM an app would save if it dropped Electron, and ranks the offenders. The shareable result is a 'Discord-style' before/after bar chart.
Why now
Discord's lighter, non-Electron Windows 11 app, with about 70% less RAM, is being discussed widely. Libghostty 1.0 also shows how native-core, embeddable approaches are gaining ground.
Sparked by
The factory pitched this as “Electron Diet: How Much RAM Is Your Desktop App Wasting?.” Devin built and shipped it from that spec.