Introducing: Threadbear, my take on the perfect app for agentic work. I have tried a lot of these, Cursor, Codex, Claude Desktop, T3 Code and none quite hit the spot so I made my own thats powered by Convex Theres too many cool new ideas to fit in a... post, checkout: 🧵show more

Or if you want to see it in 4k: • Get to your next decision fast • Auto-files threads into projects • Native Mac + iPhone apps, synced live (with @convex ) • Add your own panels and buttons • Threads stay out of the way until they need you • Hibernate threads until X happens • Fork it, change anything, still get my updates Its free and open source, check it out:

@convex Building your own tool because none of the five fit is the most honest product research there is. What's the one thing Threadbear does that Cursor still doesn't?

@convex To be perfectly honest I havent used Cursor for some time now but my understanding is that Cursor cant use your Claude or Codex subscription right?

@talesbytim @convex Cant use codex, can use claude at separate consumption meter

@talesbytim @convex Okay good to know thanks. Opus is the best model by a long way at the moment IMO, it would feel like a big step backwards if I couldnt use it. I want a tool that lets me stay flexible with the provider as Opus will surely not be the best forever.

@convex lets goo convex is about to dominate the market

@convex I think you have a demo for the future of SaaS. Best of the two words. Support and full customisation for user needs. What else we may need? )

@convex Curious to watch this unfold

@convex Mike, is it released yet? :)

@convex yep yep :)

@convex oh my God this is just perfect Mike

@convex Fantastic :)

@convex Love the ui/ux man!

@convex Thanks! But it’s mostly “borrowed” from others :)

@convex Hahaha dont we all :)

@convex Congrats, Mike! Amazing work! Loved the UI/UX.

@convex This seems really cool, I tried to use t3code a few times but so many small things that makes it unpleasant to use really but this seems to fix some of it and self hosted on my own convex I like the idea :)

@convex Very excited to check this out today! Just from the video, love the design!

@convex Finally had time to watch the full video. This looks incredible Mike. Like actually incredible! Deserves much more attention (maybe X needs more screenshots + short vids showing off each feature?) Threads/projects & no misc is a superior pattern and everything else is just wow

@convex Yep! I have a whole bunch of posts scheduled daily showing off the features :) thanks for the kind words!

@convex I’m testing a lot of ADEs lately, and the one that you’ve build really stands out!

@convex this is awesome - going to give this a look!

@convex Let me know what you think, honest constructive feedback welcome :)

@convex Looks interesting, I'll check it out.

@convex Let me know how you get on, always keen for constructive feedback

@convex Will do 🫡

@convex I use t3code right now and I can totally resonate with the decisions you made to build this. Looks really sleek and well built! The patch system is quite innovative.

@convex I really like this!

@convex Really enjoyed the thought process and intent behind the build. Curious if you’ve looked into or ultimate by @DanielGri

@convex @DanielGri Oh wow, no never heard of that I’ll take a look thanks!

@convex This is just incredible work!

@convex This is the way Good stuff

@convex Looks cool, except I’m on Linux.

@convex Ill see what I can do ;)

@convex What made you leave Claude Desktop for it?

I want to have a single unified experience for OpenAI and Anthropic and Google and whatever providers. I tried T3 Code for a while because it lets you get that unified experience but there were a number of things that fustrated me with T3 code. Thats not to say T3 isnt good, Threadbear has borred a lot of great ideas from T3 code such as the "snooze"

@convex One harness for every provider would be nice

@convex Great job @mikeysee super cool!

@convex MacOS? Useless

@convex curious what cursor and claude desktop were missing that made you build your own

I want to have a single unified experience for OpenAI and Anthropic and Google and whatever providers. I wanted to be able to use my own subscriptions and support multiple subscriptions in "pools". I tried T3 Code for a while because it lets you get that unified experience but there were a number of things that fustrated me with T3 code. Thats not to say T3 isnt good, Threadbear has borred a lot of great ideas from T3 code such as the "snooze" I spend most my day in an ADE so why not spend time making it yours. With threadbear you can just ask it to change itself to however you want.

@convex pooling your own subscriptions across providers is a cool idea. where did t3 code fall short

@convex This feels like you stole the ideas from my head and built this, nice to some with token doing this. Cant wait to test this. Thank you.

@convex Looks awesome, I'll give it a today!

@convex I have 20 ish threads sitting on my T3 that I have been too lazy to organize. Ofc could pass that down to my agent but I love how with this its not a thought anymore

@convex Congrats! I will try it out. How do you benchmark your harness against others?

@convex I havent yet, open to suggestions

@convex This is so cool. Wondering of there is a file explorer window like the vs code. Thanks

@convex This looks lovely

@convex Completely agree, moving state validation to schema definitions cuts out so much runtime headache.

@convex Threadbear looks like a no-nonsense solution. @convex integration = smart move. Focusing on solving a specific pain point rocks.

I like the way you think sir. the path is very solid and I agree with most parts. few questions: - Is everyone forced to use convex for sync? I have my own VPS and many users may prefer their own solutions to sync. - Getting inspirations from T3, I expected to go more in a direction to have a clean UX. but I find the UX pretty texty! So did you find any challenges to show most relevant data to the users and hide non-critical ones when not needed or it was intentional? - Why not forking T3 or even contributing to it? was it only for having native apps or you had other challenges with T3?

@convex Incredible