Launch day for Tesslate...

A few months ago, we posted an open-source UI code generation model on Reddit and Hugging Face. Went to sleep. Woke up to thousands of downloads.

We hadn't even planned to build a company.

But the signal was loud: developers want AI dev tools they can actually own and control — not black boxes they're renting.

So we built Tesslate. Studio, Agent Builder, Designer, Forge. Open source, runs locally, you own the code.

Honest lesson: open source gives you distribution, not revenue. I should have been talking to customers 3 months earlier.

Launching today. Free, no credit card: https://tesslate.com

What are we missing?