Building a Harper Desktop App

Harper is a grammar checker that makes sure that your writing is exactly that: yours. Today, we will be starting some new and hopefully awesome work towards that mission.

Harper has long been available in Chrome, Firefox, Obsidian, and a gazillion other places. Knowing what extensions to install and how has been a source of confusion for too many of you. Harper is supposed to get out of your way so you can write your best work, and the configuration has been getting in the way of that. You’ve been asking for it, and we’re finally delivering.

We're going to be working in public as much as we can. As I said last week: We're in this together. That means you'll be seeing more posts on this blog and in other places. I hope to share fun bits about our implementation and announce requests for feedback.

You might be wondering, why is he using the pronoun "we"? It is because the wonderful Jason Adams has volunteered a significant amount of time over the next month towards this effort. He's an incredible engineer and I can't wait to start solving hard problems with him.

If you'd like to have a say in what the app looks like or does, feel free to leave a comment here or on this discussion.

I imagine we'll be using Tauri and Svelte for configuration and setup screens, as well as for an in-app editor. Beyond that, I don't have much more to say now. Stay tuned!