Vibe coded an AWS ECS Desktop Client in 8 Hours

Recently, I was working on a project that used AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service).

I wanted a way to quickly look at the containers without having to go through the AWS console. Something similar to the “Lens” desktop client for Kubernetes.

I couldn’t find anything except for a TUI (terminal user interface) called e1s, which is the k9s equivalent. It worked well, but I thought it would be interesting if a decent GUI existed.

Turned out I couldn’t find one, so I decided to create it. Figured with AI, it wouldn’t take longer than a weekend to throw together some type of MVP.

In 8.37 hours, I launched the first version of Renzu, a simple desktop client for AWS ECS. The initial feature set includes the ability to view your clusters, services, tasks, and container logs.

Prior to this project, I have never shipped a desktop app with electron before. However, with GitHub copilot and Claude Sonnet 4.5, I managed to cobble something together in just over a day of work.

The app is open source:

https://travisluong.github.io/renzu

Thanks for reading.