Tech Stack and Libraries

MakerTime is largely based on an Apache2 licensed open source project called Screentap, by the same author.

• Rust and Swift wrappers for the OSX native libraries used for screen capturing and OCR are based on the Screentap vision_swift.swift code.

Tech stack overview:

• Written in rust
• Based on the Tauri 1.x desktop app framework.
• Ollama is used for running llama3.
• The data is stored in a sqlite database, and rusqlite is used as the rust driver.
• The reqwest library is used to connect to the OpenAI API.
• The hnsw_rs is used for embedding search to avoid re-analyzing nearly identical screen captures. (currently only used when configuring to use the OpenAI API)
• The UI was created in Vue.js.
• The CSS styling leverages Tailwind CSS.
• The website was created with Astrowind.
• The documentation was created with Starlight.