Because other apps were too slow. Piaf was built in Rust. The immediate result is that it is much much faster than other desktop apps. Our second reason is that the founder loves to run in the mountains. Why waiting in front of a screen for Claude Code or other AI to compile code while we could be running in beautiful landscapes? We needed a mobile app to send precious time in our lives. So we created Piaf in order to solve this problem once and for all.
The idea was simple: what if you could launch your AI agents, go for a run, and come back to find your code ready? No more staring at loading bars. No more waiting for compilation. Just pure, uninterrupted flow.
We tested dozens of approaches before landing on our current architecture. Rust gave us the speed. A native UI gave us the smoothness. And a mobile-first mindset gave us the freedom we were looking for.