Sunder – A 15MB Rust/Tauri music player for YouTube without the bloat

Name: Sunder – A 15MB Rust/Tauri music player for YouTube without the bloat
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Author: FrogSnot

by FrogSnot·Feb 23, 2026·1 point·1 comment

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15MB YouTube music player with native audio threading beats Electron bloat entirely.

Strengths

•Genuinely lean binary (15MB vs 500MB Electron alternatives) with thoughtful Rust audio architecture.
•Handcrafted animations with spring physics and 60fps state-sync show craft beyond typical music apps.
•17-year-old author demonstrates rare taste for performance—philosophy extends to prior 709k/sec crawler.

Weaknesses

•Requires yt-dlp and ffmpeg external dependencies, increasing friction vs all-in-one alternatives.
•YouTube streaming legality uncertain; RIAA takedowns could make app unmaintainable overnight.

Post Description

I built Sunder because I was tired of heavy, telemetry-bloated music clients that take 500MB of RAM just to play a song. Sunder runs with a 15MB binary and a tiny memory footprint. The Tech Stack: • Tauri v2 + Svelte 5. • Dedicated Rust audio thread (rodio/symphonia) to prevent UI-stutter. • 16ms state-sync between Rust and the UI for a 60fps feel. • Local SQLite FTS5 cache for instant search. I'm a 17-year-old developer. I’m obsessed with 'Speed as a Luxury'. My other project, HardBore, achieves 709k items/sec directory crawls because I believe desktop software should be instant. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the audio sync implementation or how I can push the binary size even lower! https://github.com/FrogSnot/Sunder