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Nathan C.
Nathan C.

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I redesigned my app five times tonight and shipped one

Flash is a local coding agent. It runs on your machine, on your models, through Ollama, with a terminal UI and a web UI.

Tonight I tried to make the web UI look like other apps. One at a time.

The lineup

  • Claude. Serif replies, a new greeting. Reverted. I like my font.
  • Oh my pi. A powerline status bar, tool calls as terminal lines. Reverted. Cool, but not Flash.
  • Qwen. A single pill for the input, a round send button, the model picker up top. Reverted.
  • A time-of-day background. Sunrise in the morning, city lights at night. Reverted.
  • Poolside Desktop. A floating panel, chats nested under projects. Kept.

One out of five. That's the release.

What shipped in 0.5.10

  • The conversation sits in a rounded panel, inset from the window.
  • Chats are grouped under their projects in the sidebar, and each project folds away.
  • The current chat has an outlined highlight that glides when you switch.
  • The new project form suggests folders as you type. ~/D shows Desktop, Documents, and Downloads.
  • The message box gets a focus ring.
  • A stray glow line in one dialog is gone.

The lesson

Trying a design costs a few minutes. Keeping the wrong one costs a lot more.

So try everything. Look at it for real, in both themes, on a phone. Then keep only what still feels right the next time you open the app.

Revert is a feature.

Try it

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Natuworkguy/Flash/main/install.sh | bash
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Release notes: https://github.com/Natuworkguy/Flash/releases/tag/v0.5.10

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