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steipete/README.md

Hi, I'm Peter 👋

📍 Vienna ↔ London | 🤖 Polyagentmorous builder | 🚀 Ex-PSPDFKit Founder

Swift TypeScript JavaScript Node.js Codex Claude CLI macOS SwiftUI Web

Deep in vibe-coding mode – building AI-powered developer tools at ludicrous speed. After 13+ years shipping native iOS, modern web feels like a breath of fresh air.

🍭 sweetistics.com (closed source) – AI-powered Twitter platform with analytics/ops stack.

Current Projects

  • 🚦 RepoBar - CI, PRs, releases—at a glance
  • 📡 warelay - Send, receive, and auto-reply on WhatsApp
  • 🚀 Peekaboo - Lightning-fast macOS screenshots & GUI automation (MCP + CLI)
  • 👻 Poltergeist - The ghost that keeps your builds fresh—universal hot reload & file watcher
  • 🚇 VibeTunnel - Turn any browser into your terminal; command agents from the road (vt.sh)
  • 🤖 macOS Automator MCP - Your Friendly Neighborhood RoboScripter™
  • 🧑‍💻 Claude Code MCP - One-shot MCP server for Claude Code (an agent inside your agent)
  • 🧙‍♂️ AXorcist - The power of Swift compels your UI to obey!
  • 🕸️ Tachikoma - Modern Swift AI SDK
  • 🎚️ CodexBar - May your tokens never run out—keep agent limits in view.
  • ✂️ Trimmy - “Paste once, run once” — flattens multi-line shell snippets so they execute
  • 🖥️ TauTUI - Swift-native TUI that won’t tear
  • 🎛️ Commander - Swift-first parsing, zero forks
  • 🧳 mcporter - Call MCPs from TypeScript or package them as a CLI
  • 🍭 sweetlink - Playwright vibes in your current tab; close the agent loop
  • 🧿 oracle - Whispering your tokens to the silicon sage
  • 👀 tmuxwatch - Lightweight TUI to watch tmux sessions
  • 📜 agent-rules - Shared rules/knowledge for coding with agents
  • 🎨 Markdansi - Wraps, colors, links—no baggage.
  • 📖 llm.codes - Transform developer documentation for AI agents
  • 📊 Stats Store - Fast, privacy-first analytics for Sparkle (stats.store)
  • 🧽 Demark - Mark My Words, HTML to Markdown!
  • 🍺 homebrew-tap - Brew tap for shipping my CLI tools fast

Legacy Work

  • 🔄 CodeLooper - macOS menubar app for Cursor workflow monitoring and automation
  • 🧩 InterposeKit - Modern Swift method swizzling
  • 🪝 Aspects - AOP for Objective-C (10k+ stars)
  • 📄 PSPDFKit - Industry-leading PDF SDK (exited 2021)
  • 🛑 Terminator MCP - I'll be back... with your terminal output!
  • 🪢 Conduit MCP - Purr-fect MCP server for feline-fast file ops, web prowling, and data hunting
  • 🛡️ XC Sentinel - Intelligent Xcode automation with incremental builds and AI-friendly output
  • 🍵 Matcha - Swift port of Bubble Tea TUI framework
  • 🌡️ VibeMeter - Archived: AI cost tracker for Cursor/OpenAI (vibemeter.ai)

GitHub Activity

GitHub Contribution Graph

What I'm Doing

  • Living in the future - Learning and building tools to make agentic engineering faster for everyone
  • Writing about AI workflows - Sharing my learnings on steipete.me
  • Rapid prototyping - Full apps in days, not months
  • Speaking at conferences - On vibe coding vs agentic engineering and the future of development

Latest Blog Posts

Connect

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Recognition

  • Featured in The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter
  • International speaker (See my talks)
  • 15k+ GitHub stars across projects
  • Bootstrapped PSPDFKit to millions in ARR before exit

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Philosophy

"Ship beats perfect" - I build tools to solve my own problems, then share them with the world. Currently exploring how AI changes everything about software development.

Random Facts
  • Treat AI agents as "slot machines for programmers"
  • Run 3-6 Claude instances concurrently
  • Powered by Vienna coffee culture
  • Gym enthusiast (when not coding)
  • Coaches LGBTQ+ folks at Out In Tech

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  1. speaking speaking Public

    Upcoming and past speaking engagements for Peter Steinberger @steipete

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  2. Peekaboo Peekaboo Public

    Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI…

    Swift 800 40

  3. mcporter mcporter Public

    Call MCPs via TypeScript, masquerading as simple TypeScript API. Or package them as cli.

    TypeScript 415 25

  4. oracle oracle Public

    Ask the oracle when you're stuck. Invoke GPT-5 Pro with a custom context and files.

    TypeScript 417 28

  5. Trimmy Trimmy Public

    "Paste once, run once." — Trimmy flattens those multi-line shell snippets you copy so they actually paste and run.

    Swift 183 6

  6. CodexBar CodexBar Public

    Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex.

    Swift 151 12