We build tools
developers
love
to use.
Open source at the core. A commercial product that funds the mission. No VC circus. No growth hacks. Just good software, shipped by a small remote team that gives a damn.
1
Founder
∞
Coffees
2023
Founded
100%
Remote
Started annoyed.
Built something real.
tl;dr
Side project → open source community → company. Revenue from Workspace funds the OSS. Tools stay free forever.
It started the way most good things do — someone was annoyed. Annoyed by bloated project management tools, annoyed by "developer experience" products that clearly weren't built by developers, annoyed by the feeling that every tool in the stack wanted to upsell you before it actually helped you. So someone opened a terminal and started writing code.
"We didn't set out to build a company. We set out to build tools we wished existed."
— Asyncat, Founder
One side project became two, then six. Stash for bookmarks and RSS, Bean for personal finance, Tempo for focus sessions, Palette for color design systems, Index for spaced repetition, Paperforge for PDF work. All desktop apps. All local-first. All MIT licensed.
Before long, what started as a collection of side projects had a community around it — contributors filing issues, PRs landing weekly, developers building real products on top of the tools. That's when Asyncat became a company.
The model is simple
Asyncat Workspace is our commercial product — an AI-native workspace built on our open source foundation. The revenue funds the OSS. No ads, no data selling. The tools stay free. The code stays open.
Six tools. All free. All yours.
Stash
Local-first bookmarks, read-later & RSS reader. One-click browser extension, distraction-free reader mode.
Bean
Personal finance tracker. Multiple accounts, monthly budgets, spending charts — fully offline.
Tempo
Pomodoro focus timer with task tracking, session analytics, streaks, and a built-in ambient sound mixer.
Palette
Color & design-system workbench. Generate perceptual scales, check WCAG contrast, export to Tailwind or CSS.
Index
Spaced repetition notebook. Write Markdown notes, create flashcards inline, review with SM-2 algorithm.
Paperforge
PDF toolkit. Merge, split, compress, reorder, convert images — entirely offline, no cloud.
The humans behind the code.
One founder. A rubber duck. An unreasonable amount of open tabs.
The Founder
Founder
Started with a side project, ended up building a company. Believes the best tools disappear into your workflow.
The CI Bot
Quality Assurance
Has rejected 847 PRs. No regrets. Will reject yours too if the linter is unhappy.
The Rubber Duck
Senior Debug Lead
Listens to every problem. Never judges. Never actually helps. But somehow the bug is always gone after.
Morning Coffee
Head of Productivity
Responsible for ~73% of all commits. Correlation confirmed. Causation suspected.
That One Bug
Legacy Infrastructure
In production since day one. No one can reproduce it on their machine. No one dares remove it.
The README
Documentation
Updated once. Describes a version that no longer exists. Still the first thing everyone reads.
We don't have a mission statement. We have opinions.
"Open source is not a marketing strategy"
We don't open-source code to get clout. We do it because shared tools make the entire ecosystem better.
"Charge for value, not access"
Our open source tools are free — no 'community edition' limitations. Workspace charges for AI, integrations, and team features.
"Ship small, ship often"
We'd rather release something small and useful today than something perfect next year. Real feedback over roadmap theater.
"Privacy is non-negotiable"
Your data is yours. We don't sell it, we don't train AI models on it, and we don't play games with privacy policies.
Two sides of the same coin.
Developer Tools
Focused, dependency-light tools for developers who care about speed, simplicity, and freedom. All MIT licensed.
Asyncat Workspace
An AI-native workspace layered on our open source foundation. Tasks, notes, calendar, and projects — one intelligent surface.
Built with tools we love.
TypeScript
Core platform
Rust
Performance paths
React
Workspace UI
Node.js
API layer
PostgreSQL
Primary store
Redis
Cache & real-time
Astro
This website
Tailwind
All styling