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A developer in China named tw93 got tired of his laptop dying. His desktop was full of apps that were essentially websites bundled with their own browser engine. Slack. Discord. Notion. Each bringing extra weight. So he built Pake, a tool that turns webpages into lightweight desktop apps using Rust and Tauri. Instead of bundling Chromium with every app, it uses the system’s webview. The examples show the difference in package size: - Slack: 524 MB → 8 MB - Discord: 265 MB → 9 MB - ChatGPT for Windows: 260 MB → 9 MB Those are download sizes, not RAM measurements. But avoiding a bundled browser makes a substantial difference to the package. You can use pre-built wrappers or turn a URL into an app with one command. A small, focused tool for keeping the websites you use in their own desktop windows. Free and open-source under MIT.