· 4 days ago· Dev.to
Launching a Windows tray AI hotkey on .NET 8 and WPF
I spent 4 months of nights and weekends building CapyBro — a Windows tray app that runs AI on any selected text via a global hotkey. Native .NET 8 + WPF (not Electron), MIT-licensed, ~49 MB installer. Two backends: cloud (OpenRouter) or fully local (Ollama). The hardest technical problem turned out
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