Why I built this.

I was drowning in tabs and apps. At any given moment I had Postman, a DB client, a Redis tool, Git client, Docker Desktop, and an editor all running at once. My RAM was always full. Every single one of those tools was its own Electron app bundling its own Chromium instance. Context-switching between them was killing my focus.

That frustration is what pushed me to start building takerest.dev. The idea was simple: consolidate all those dev tools into one lightweight native app. One window, everything in it.

While building it, I noticed something about my own habits. I almost always had the terminal open. And I was opening VS Code less and less. The terminal was where I actually lived.

That made me think about where coding is heading. There may be a future where developers don't write code line by line anymore. Where the AI writes and the human reviews. If that's the direction, then the terminal is the center of that workflow, not the editor.

So I went back to the core question of why I started this. Why not build the terminal directly into the app? I knew a Tauri + Rust build would be far more performant than any Electron alternative. So I did it. Anide starts in under a second and ships as a tiny binary. No bundled Chromium. No bloat.

Since then I've basically only had two things open: Anide and a browser. I'm building Anide using Anide. The terminal, Git, Docker, and the docs and env tools carry my entire daily workflow. It already has everything I need.

I was already planning to build an API client, DB client, cache client, S3 client, Git client, and Docker client. Then it clicked: why not expose them as MCP servers too? The better the context your AI has about your actual stack, your schema, your endpoints, your cache, your containers, the better it performs. The tools stop being things you operate manually and become context providers for the AI.

That's what Anide is. Not another editor. Not a chat interface bolted onto VS Code. A terminal-first environment where the AI writes, you review the diff, and you ship what you trust.

It's early. There's a lot left to build. But if you're a developer who thinks this is where things are going too, I'd love to have you along.