How Conductor Doubled App Speed With a Local-First React Rewrite

Conductor's founders rebuilt their local-first desktop application to double its speed while keeping the same fundamental React-and-Tauri architecture. By using SQLite as the on-disk source of truth, they removed network latency entirely, then profiled aggressively--even working around WKWebView's lack of React DevTools--to find UI-level bottlenecks. The rewrite demonstrates how dogfooding and local-first design can shift the performance focus from remote servers to render cycles and frame drops.